LOL, is there such a radio station? And btw, the google alerts seems like quite a nice trick, Altough I havnt used alerts before google would just "alert" you when your link building comment on a blog has been approved or when some1 else has just linked to your site right?
It is short term SEO in most cases, however, link popularity still is an important factor. Getting people to link to you, like Google did in the very beginning by providing a search box to place on people's website, could also be considdered a form of link building. However, in that case users are refering to you naturally, and it will most likely be because the quality content or services you offer. It is SEO because you provide a way to tell Google and the world that the information on your website is of high value. It is White Hat SEO because you let people decide to place the link, you just make it easy to do so.
You know you are an SEO if you go to a toy store as an adult, buy a cool new toy as an exercise to relive your childhood, get home, the toy doesn't work, the store gets stroppy about a refund, and you just smile to them while you think, "right I'm going to rank a scam report post for your franchise name". (true story).
...you guarantee to rank any website the #1 position in Google for any keyword, e.g. "miserable failure". ...you succeeded in creating an excellent piece of linkbait that reached mainstream news channels.
you use Google alerts for link building. I don't understand what do you mean. How do you useing alerts for link building ?
Its a waste of time and energy as a simple link report will do the same thing. However you can build an alert and use the site name / domain name to notify you whenever Google finds news such as new links about your site. Only thing is I have seen alerts come in 8 months after the link was built. It is not very accurate, and who really needs more e-mails to work through each day???
I guess I saw this on one of Jill Whalen's post on her blog. Well for me, You know you're on SEO if... ..you Google every question that you have in mind... lol
Has Jill ever had a front page ranking on Google? For years she was seen as meritless as she could not rank any sites on Googles front page. Also researching every question on google makes one a researcher,....not an SEO.
I was just having fun with the post, using Google Alerts for link building is not a recommended strategy, but you can find some links on relevant pages. Basically, go to Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts), type in your target keyword for alerting -- use comprehensive. Also remember to use operator tags when creating your alert if you want more targeted results (i.e. "target keyword1" OR "target keyword2" + "target keyword3" site:domain.com intitle:~"target keyword")--you get my point. When your target keyword appears somewhere on the web which Google has crawled you will receive an alert (email) with a link to that page -- normally the page is relevant, especially if you used the operator tags properly. Go to the page and look for a way you can place a link on the page. Many of the pages are blog sites some with nofollow links, so that's useless, but once in a while you'll find good pages without nofollow -- even authority sites. Also many of the pages will have zero or no page rank since these are fresh pages to Google index, but the hope is that the page will gain value eventually. Lastly, this type of link building cannot be used for all websites, but niche specific sites usually can achieve some link building this way. In any event, I would never recommend this practice as your primary strategy -- but at least you know Google has crawled the page, so if you can get a link without the nofollow attribute on that page then you have one more link out there.
I wouldn't call nofollow links useless... They may not pass any PR juice, but they can bring traffic.
You know you're an SEO if you read this thread up at least this point or further.. You know you're an SEO