Comments on: 7 SEO blogs and 21 useful articles

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:44:15 +0000

Yep, a little nudge from the guys at Smashing will certainly help.

I hope your weekend’s a good one, Doug.

By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:38:02 +0000

We are having a bit of a limerick free for all over at Swiss Miss:

http://www.swiss-miss.com/2009/11/design-limericks-for-your-amusement.html

Enjoy!

By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:35:33 +0000

When I wrote those, I thought “what hit’s a nerve” with my audience? The limericks do encapsulate several familiar and well-worn sentiments of designers of all persuasions. I found in visiting some of the pingbacks that people copied out the first one, which perhaps is the most “iconic” of them all (and the first one I wrote in the series – it went downhill from there :) )

The point is that good content, even in the form of a limerick for Pete’s sake, can do well.

It also helps if Smashing Magazine puts it’s on their homepage in the Tweet list :), but it wouldn’t have gotten there to begin with if it didn’t resonate well.

So, content content content! That’s where I’m working hard and learning the most right now.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:28:16 +0000

Hi Doug, congrats on the number of retweets you got with that post! Nicely done.

By: Douglas Bonneville

Douglas Bonneville — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:42:25 +0000

I have a contribution to this thread, in the form of “poetry”:

There once was a blogging designer
Who said “I will sooner retire!
I’ll write blogs all day,
And sip my latte.”
But soon found his finances goner.

I have a few more at http://bonfx.com/15-top-graphic-design-limericks-for-your-amusement/ if you are brave enough to read them :)

By: lawrence

lawrence — Mon, 04 May 2009 11:28:49 +0000

Thanks for providing such a nice seo resource. Great information indeed.

By: lorraine anderson

lorraine anderson — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:29:25 +0000

Thanks David. As always, you provide very helpful information and links. You have so many avid readers all over… Hats off to ya.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:29:05 +0000

Josh,

You’re very welcome.

Douglas,

The term ‘logo design’ is incredibly competitive, and I believe a lot of under-handed tactics take place to rank highly for it. There’ll be many more searches for the phrase when compared with ‘freelance graphic designer’.

Domain age is a factor, as far as I’m aware, but of more importance is the number of inbound links, with relevant anchor text. Good work on your success, and thanks very much for visiting my blogs.

Marianne,

Glad to be of help.

By: Marianne McDougall

Marianne McDougall — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 12:27:28 +0000

Hi David,

We are all very impressed with this post, it is often difficult to find a good resource for SEO because so much of the information is just rewritten in so many different ways.

Thanks again for sharing and all us at G3 Creative look forward to future posts.

By: dbonneville

dbonneville — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:25:20 +0000

Here is an interesting problem: I just searched for “logo design” and found that your site is listed, oh, around 35 (counting unique domains down the google results). I see all the SEO you’ve done, the great content you have, zillions of followers, etc.

Now, I did a search for “freelance graphic designer”. My own site comes up pretty much the same – about 35. But here is the question:

My site up until recently had no real SEO optimization to speak of. It was standards compliant to a fault (something I thought very important in 2005 when I redesigned it). I had utterly no content on the site. I had 3 pages, one of which was “about us” that was just a hello kind of note. Then I had a link to a blogger blog, and the blog itself was just like “hey, here’s a logo I did”. But I did have “freelance graphic design studio” at the top of the page.

I did redesign the site last month. It’s one pager, but is slightly keyword optimized for “freelance graphic designer”. So even less pages, but re-indexed by Google, and I’m still way up there. Some variations on that search have me number one in Google.

My site has been freelance graphic designer oriented since 2001. Would you say, then, that simply being 8 years old, and however poorly optimized for keywords, has trumped all the other factors that should have me at position 1 million, and not 35? I do have a blog in the plans, for a niche, but that is forthcoming.

So, does age and site subject history count for more than we realize? Is patience really the golden virtue of SEO?

Thanks for any insight! Great site BTW…have been following it and LogoDesignLove for some time! Keep up the great work!