Do you know how to get extra SEO juice when you sign up for Knol, Squidoo, Zimbio, and other content syndication sites, or create a social media persona?
If you use your usual email, your real name, or even your online nickname when you sign up, you are missing out on some serious SEO benefits. For best SEO action just follow the guidelines below.
- Sign up for a new gmail account using your business name or keywords.For example, if you’re a Realtor, make your first name “Phoenix Homes” and your last name “For Sale.” If you’re selling blue striped widgets, make your first name “Blue Striped” and your last name “Widgets.” If you want your business name to be used for branding purposes, the same technique applies.
When you sign up for Knol, your gmail ID is what is used as your name. So every time you write an article about your area of expertise, the credit will go to the author, whose name will be Phoenix Homes for Sale or Blue Striped Widgets.
Tip: Use this gmail account for all your social media accounts - you’ll have it all in one place and won’t clutter up your personal inbox. This advice comes from the experience of one who currently has 3,000 unread emails in her inbox!
- When you sign up for Squidoo and Zimbio, you’re asked for your desired username. This is when you don’t use your usual nickname of “amysgrandma2007″ but instead either a “keyword name” or business name.
- The same advice above applies to your username for social media sites. Since they are more “social” you may want to use a somewhat friendlier appellation, like “phoenix realtor” or “blue widget” as your username.
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How will you get extra SEO juice by doing this?? Will the link on the name point to my home page??
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@Em Posts - no, but the link to your article will have your keywords in it, and your article should have keyword links to your site within the content.
Nice tip here - It’s something I had never considered before.
I guess the more instances you can have your keywords in important places - such as links, the better value keyworded links within the article become?
Nice work
Whoa! Great idea!
Why didn’t I think of that?!
Thanks for sharing…
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first of all good theme .. and thx for sharing ..ill do it now ..
Great idea and I am using it now.
Subscribed to your blog and with tips like this you will reach your goal of 150 very fast.
It is amazing how I never manage to think of things like this. I always use my normal name, but am going to start trying this with new accounts. Hopefully it will add some extra benefits.
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I think this tips may be beneficial, I will try it. Thanks for sharing nice tips.
Fortunately I haven’t signed up for many social media sites, so thank you very much for this tip, will try to use it as much as I can, as I need all the google juice I can muster
Paul
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I had “accidentally” done something similar to your recommendation on my Active Rain blog many months ago, and the SEO benefits were very much visible afterwards. Your recommendation here firms up that practice for me.
Good advice. I actually haven’t even verified my blog with Technorati… lol.
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Heh, this is a great little trick. now i am on to creating knol pages. Thank you.
This is a great tip but you have to be careful cuz you can be banned for spam using your keyword as your nickname jeje and must site have spam protection and yo cant use the same world that is in your link as name
I think this is a good tip - I often (but not always) do it myself.
GREAT ADVICE!!! I’ve been using my silly “business” name for years - what a WASTE! I’ll start using an SEO optimized name from now on!
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Thanks for the tips, SEO takes so much time and work…
So…. something was telling me to wait to sign up for Knol. And wait I did. Gads, i am so glad I listened to that little voice. I just now got a gmail acct and will use that for Knol. LakePowellRealEstate. Thank you ever so much.
A very good idea for SEO ))) And it’s so simple to do. This would be the next step I’ll do to promote my site!
Really good SEO advice!
You make some great points here. I’m going to give this a try for one of my clients and see how it works out.
I’m a have to go back and create all new profiles now.. That might take a couple days
Hi!
good point and advice, as this is probably one of the most interesting things many people heard in June at the SMX.
The thing is, just don’t overdo it. You don’t want to have 100s of “keyworded” profiles pointing to your site, as that would look highly unnatural.
Also, developing personas for SEO is a lot more than just signin up and populating a profile (that has no link juice) with your links. The clue is to develop those personas - just like real actors need popularity, so do these online actors.
kind regards from Vienna
Christoph C. Cemper
could take long to create new profiles , good post anyway!
@All - wow, this has been a huge response to this post - I think because it is a very valuable tip. Pay attention to Christoph’s comments, too, because he’s the King of this. My technique has been to create just 1 persona per client, using a top keyword phrase, and use it judiciously. No going crazy!
@Christoph - thanks so much for your comments. Your pointers are well taken.
Smart thing to do since readers want to know more about who is behind that keyboard.
Very good idea thanks for sharing this and I love the flower theme very unusual for a business blog
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@techie - very true.
@Sherri-Anne - thanks! I love this theme. It expresses my personality, and (hopefully) doesn’t take away from the SEO advice I give.
Doing this has never crossed my mind - thanks for a unique tip!
Thanks for the tip! I’m already on squidoo but haven’t yet signed up for knol…so I’ll use this tip there.
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Thank you
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I tried some social bookmarking but still can get juice from them, maybe I’m doing something wrong. I also heard about Squidoo dropping a lot of in Google…
Hey, thanks for the tip. “Kingston Real Estate” has a nicer ring than plain old Alan Barn :0)
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Thanks for the idea. It’s pretty nice and not hard to do.
I’d better start thinking on changing my name to “Forever”
Nice tip,It’s something I had never considered before.
i thank you for submitting this article..i agree with your tips and i had bookmarked this page.you know iam going to try with the tools you had submitted here and going to give feedback in future.thanks a lot my friend.
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@Forever - I would use “Forever Fashion” since that has the keyword you want in it.
@seosoeasy - thanks for bookmarking this blog - let me know if these tips help you.