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Writing for the Web: The Human Algorithm and Zero-Sum SEO

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I sometimes fear that search-engine optimization (SEO) is the only aspect of new media that people have really cottoned to. The moment you achieve that precious optimization, Google changes its algorithm and reverses all your gains. Do you write for the Penguin, or the human? It is something they simply accept.

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The Best Formats Are Invisible

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MUD day 18: It’s a new dawn and I’ve awakened with my usual optimism and generosity of spirit restored. Today I see things a bit differently. Magazines aren’t dying , they’re simply transmigrating. You see, the soul of a magazine is not to be found in its format.

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Embrace Your Errors

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Far from being a moral flaw, it is inextricable from some of our most humane and honorable qualities: empathy, optimism, imagination, conviction, and courage. And far from being a mark of indifference or tolerance, wrongness is a vital part of how we learn and change. Related posts: Innocent and Malignant Typos and the Case of Filloux v.

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Signals of Quality vs. Good SEO

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What that means, he said, is that “if all you do is rewrite the 87th page about how to fix your toilet,&# no matter how great your search engine optimization, you shouldn’t rise up in the search results. In the clip from the episode below, Jeff Jarvis speculates that Google will “try to get more links to original content.

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This Might Be Big: IDG Enters Content Marketing

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Exactly what IDG’s “content development and content optimization services” will consist of is obscured by the typical press release jargon. In a press release last Tuesday, IDG explained that it’s new project, called “Strategic Content Services,” will “support the growing ‘vendor-as-publisher’ model” (publisher-speak for content marketing ).

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Like It or Not, Mobile Connectivity Is the New Imperative

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Some of the implications are obvious: For one, your website needs to be optimized for mobile apps. Whether we like it or not, mobile connectivity is the new imperative. If you don’t understand and adapt to it, you will lose your audience.

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The Coming Content Marketing-Publishing Continuum

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Although the grounds for his optimism might be questioned, I’ll leave that to prophet of print doom Private Frazer and others. Writing on Foliomag.com earlier this month, blogger Josh Gordon spun a comment heard at the Folio: show into a bullish prediction for print magazines.