Comments on: my thank you email to @aaronwall for the free SEO advice: great SEO, great guy! http://calacanis.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:11:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: SEOBook Mahalo and Google — Explicitly Me - Rishi Lakhani's Home on the Web http://calacanis.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5594 SEOBook Mahalo and Google — Explicitly Me - Rishi Lakhani's Home on the Web Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:36:06 +0000 http://calacanis.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5594 [...] you should also see this post by Jason Calacanis. Share and [...] [...] you should also see this post by Jason Calacanis. Share and [...]

]]> By: Jason Calacanis responds to Aaron from SEO Book http://calacanis.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5593 Jason Calacanis responds to Aaron from SEO Book Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:25:45 +0000 http://calacanis.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5593 [...] full post on Hacker News If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it! Tagged with: Aaron • [...] [...] full post on Hacker News If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it! Tagged with: Aaron • [...]

]]> By: Michael VanDeMar http://calacanis.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5592 Michael VanDeMar Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:08:05 +0000 http://calacanis.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5592 PS. Your comment box is a little messed up in Firefox. Slides under the right sidebar when typing. Also, did you mean that you rank for specific video game names + walkthrough? Just realized you might not mean "video game" as a literal part of the search phrase. If so, then yes, one I checked you did, 2 more you do not. Wasn't clear exactly what you were meaning, but I really now that all caps might have been your way of saying [insert video game name here]. PPS. Someone just pointed out to me that you might not actually be meaning any of you said in praise to Aaron as sarcastic. If that is so, then nevermind. :) PS. Your comment box is a little messed up in Firefox. Slides under the right sidebar when typing.

Also, did you mean that you rank for specific video game names + walkthrough? Just realized you might not mean “video game” as a literal part of the search phrase. If so, then yes, one I checked you did, 2 more you do not. Wasn’t clear exactly what you were meaning, but I really now that all caps might have been your way of saying [insert video game name here].

PPS. Someone just pointed out to me that you might not actually be meaning any of you said in praise to Aaron as sarcastic. If that is so, then nevermind. :)

]]> By: Michael VanDeMar http://calacanis.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5591 Michael VanDeMar Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:54:10 +0000 http://calacanis.wordpress.com/2010/01/25/my-thank-you-email-to-aaronwall-for-the-free-seo-advice-great-seo-great-guy/#comment-5591 Huh, when I search for [video game walkthrough], I see you at #10: http://www.google.com/search?q=video+game+walkthrough&num=10 I see no ads at all for that phrase. And when I look at Google Trends, I see that phrase got slightly less traffic than [pizza seattle]: http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+game+walkthrough%2C+pizza+seattle So, that means that in 30 months you just barely made first page for a phrase that no one is bidding on, and that gets less traffic than a single city's search for pizza. Seriously, I wouldn't be boasting your accomplishments until you can learn a little more about the concept of "keyword difficulty". Anybody can rank... the trick is in learning to rank what everyone else is trying to rank for. In case you didn't realize it, you're arguing seo with a guy who is actually *in* the top 10 [seo]. Which has ads. And gets way more searches than either yours or [pizza seattle]: http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+game+walkthrough%2C+pizza+seattle%2C+seo&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 Huh, when I search for [video game walkthrough], I see you at #10:

http://www.google.com/search?q=video+game+walkthrough&num=10

I see no ads at all for that phrase. And when I look at Google Trends, I see that phrase got slightly less traffic than [pizza seattle]:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+game+walkthrough%2C+pizza+seattle

So, that means that in 30 months you just barely made first page for a phrase that no one is bidding on, and that gets less traffic than a single city’s search for pizza.

Seriously, I wouldn’t be boasting your accomplishments until you can learn a little more about the concept of “keyword difficulty”. Anybody can rank… the trick is in learning to rank what everyone else is trying to rank for. In case you didn’t realize it, you’re arguing seo with a guy who is actually *in* the top 10 [seo]. Which has ads. And gets way more searches than either yours or [pizza seattle]:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=video+game+walkthrough%2C+pizza+seattle%2C+seo&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

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