Comments on: User Generated Comments Are King! What happened to content being the king?

By: Adam Smith

Adam Smith — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:04:37 +0000

Yes comments can give you a lot. User who generate content are power of these days.

By: Andy Roberts

Andy Roberts — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:59:54 +0000

So the art of SEO is ultimately going to depend upon developing skills at community facilitation? Cheers.

By: Mark Laymon

Mark Laymon — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 22:02:47 +0000

@Meg
Thank you for the name recognition in your post Comments are King - Unfortunately

I love to see the comments grow on my blogs. It tells me that the topic is of interest, if it is of interest people are searching for it, and the pages with comments will get indexed and rank for those keyword phrases.

By: Comments are King - Unfortunately | Dipping into the Blogpond

Comments are King - Unfortunately | Dipping into the Blogpond — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:42:46 +0000

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By: Mark Laymon

Mark Laymon — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:26:01 +0000

Something I like about user generated content is that the user may see a totally new perspective than I see. With this new perspective I often find some really good semantic terms that I would never have thought of.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:18:47 +0000

Content is still King. What’s changing is where and how you can generate and create good content. I don’t think that user generated content will ever necessarily be better than owner generated content, other than it being free / low cost.

By: Mark Laymon

Mark Laymon — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:13:26 +0000

This is a topic I am going to dig deeper into with many follow up posts. As I write each one I would like to have solid information that we can all use to build on our own personal niches.

Most SEO's and their peers are very active in the blogging community already and comment on a larger percentage of what they read, but I am seeing many niches that are totally open to, I hate to say "exploit" but that is about the most focused term I can use. These niches are not using all of the community building options available, such as Pligg or WordPress and I would like to explore how different SEO's are using them in their niches.

By: Gotan Raider

Gotan Raider — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:43:21 +0000

Sweet – Let me have the honor then, of contributing with the first comment on this interesting post.

I would like to note, you hit the nail on the head. But you didn’t get into the nuts and bolts on how to actually achieve this.

I would go a few steps further and say this: engaging with readers is just the number one step on turning your Blog into a Community, which is what some succesful Bloggers such as Quadszilla, Randfish and Shoemoney have done, the final and ulterior step being leveraging that community to achieve much greater results than a Blog alone could ever dream of.