01 Nov '12, 6pm

It's Search Marketing, not Search Listing,

I gave a talk this week at SEO Day in Cologne, Germany, about optimizing for clicks, not just rankings. The premise of my talk was: SEOs tend to think their job is done when they’ve got their top 3 / top 5 listing, when in fact you’re only half way when you’ve reached that. For those interested, you can see my slides here: It annoys me that we talk about rich snippets this much, and 90% of the implementations of rich snippets are reviews and ratings, and most of them are, excusez le mot, shit, at best. You’ve probably seen your own share of listings where there are 5 or 6 ratings in a search result, all 4 or 5 stars and all nonsense. There’s more to rich snippets! There’s more to “standing out” in the SERPs. This is why I built my Video SEO plugin : Video is a really cool way to stand out in the search results. That’s why I love rel=author: it allows you to choose your own...

Full article: http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/its-search-marketing-not-search...

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