People soshalize. They don't care how it's spelled. They just do it.
First things first, when I make this claim, I’m assuming that you have your own website, and that you’re operating an “onsite” blog. All this means is that your blog is part of your website. The posts that you write are indexed as part of your website content.
There are still many in the search engine optimization industry that are fighting the concept that Google (and Bing) is taking social signals into account at a high level when determining search rankings.
As you may have noticed, the Internet’s a crowded place. All it takes is a simple Google search to discover that you’re a small fish in a big pond. So how do you gain relevance in this type of environment?
Go ahead and mark this down as the unpopular answer to the common question of the day. When people ask me what the secret sauce is in any truly successful search marketing program, whether through search engine optimization or PPC, my answer is never greeted with enthusiasm. The answer: manual effort.
Perhaps it’s the sports fan in me that simply won’t go away that made me look at this infographic and compare it to a starting lineup in baseball. I no longer watch baseball, but as an avid former fan (I lost interest after the strike in 1994, if you would like to to put a date to it), I can appreciate the importance of having the right players in the right position and coming to bat in the proper order.
