Comments on: Ch-Ch-Changes… For The Better? http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better Frustrated by the often-confusing and conflicting SEO advice you find on the web? The best SEO book is free - stop searching and download it today! Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:21:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Dan Thies http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-760 Dan Thies Fri, 17 Aug 2007 04:08:41 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-760 <p>AMember can create user logins for your CMS, with whatever role you specify. So the way you control the content they get to access is by limiting some content to members with a certain access level. You can also do two installs - one in the root for public access, and another inside a folder for members. But it's not going to be ideal for everyone.</p> AMember can create user logins for your CMS, with whatever role you specify. So the way you control the content they get to access is by limiting some content to members with a certain access level. You can also do two installs – one in the root for public access, and another inside a folder for members. But it's not going to be ideal for everyone.

]]> By: Jeff Knize http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-758 Jeff Knize Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:56:16 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-758 <p>Heather, I heard a few good things about http://joomlaequipment.com/ Joomla is robust with various plug-ins and I believe can be used with PayPal or 1 Shopping Cart. Also, I am told from reliable sources (membership site owners) that aMember is folder based and will limit your flexibility. Membergate is a turnkey solution but is expensive and has a few SEO issues.</p> <p>Jeff</p> Heather, I heard a few good things about http://joomlaequipment.com/ Joomla is robust with various plug-ins and I believe can be used with PayPal or 1 Shopping Cart. Also, I am told from reliable sources (membership site owners) that aMember is folder based and will limit your flexibility. Membergate is a turnkey solution but is expensive and has a few SEO issues.

Jeff

]]> By: Dan Thies http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-660 Dan Thies Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:34:41 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-660 <p>Heather, I hate to give you a "weenie answer," but it what you use will totally depend on your requirements. The first thing to do is decide what the web site should do, in detail. Then you decide how to make that happen.</p> <p>I have a few friends who are working through the "membership site boot camp" material right now. One decided to go with Expression Engine (http://www.expressionengine.com/). Another is doing Visiongate (a hosted solution). The guy I am working with most closely is going to build with Wordpress and AMember.</p> <p>Personally, I wouldn't ever go with a hosted solution unless I had no choice - I like to be able to modify or extend code sometimes.</p> <p>Joomla's perfectly capable for SEO, but I don't know what you'd do for a shopping cart. Depends on how capable the cart needs to be I guess. :D</p> Heather, I hate to give you a "weenie answer," but it what you use will totally depend on your requirements. The first thing to do is decide what the web site should do, in detail. Then you decide how to make that happen.

I have a few friends who are working through the "membership site boot camp" material right now. One decided to go with Expression Engine (http://www.expressionengine.com/). Another is doing Visiongate (a hosted solution). The guy I am working with most closely is going to build with WordPress and AMember.

Personally, I wouldn't ever go with a hosted solution unless I had no choice – I like to be able to modify or extend code sometimes.

Joomla's perfectly capable for SEO, but I don't know what you'd do for a shopping cart. Depends on how capable the cart needs to be I guess. :D

]]> By: Heather http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-654 Heather Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:38:37 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-654 <p>Ok resist the urge and don't flame me even though I might deserve it lol but I have a question for the wise one!</p> <p>If you were building a site right now for a company that has the true potential to skyrocket - but they are newbies on the web ... would you build the site in asp.net, php, joomla, ? what shopping cart? and YES it will be a membership site. Their old site is in asp classic. They want the web 2.0 look but need room for growth. They like the idea of joomla but I'm worried there are not enough plugins/modules for their long term needs. ? And overall what is your opinion of Joomla sites and seo?</p> <p>THANKS!</p> Ok resist the urge and don't flame me even though I might deserve it lol but I have a question for the wise one!

If you were building a site right now for a company that has the true potential to skyrocket – but they are newbies on the web … would you build the site in asp.net, php, joomla, ? what shopping cart? and YES it will be a membership site. Their old site is in asp classic. They want the web 2.0 look but need room for growth. They like the idea of joomla but I'm worried there are not enough plugins/modules for their long term needs. ? And overall what is your opinion of Joomla sites and seo?

THANKS!

]]> By: Dan Thies http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-625 Dan Thies Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:04:56 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-625 <p>Thanks Gary, let me clear that up... this is only about the structure.</p> <p>1) The "cloud" simply represents the WWW and the dotted lines show what content can be found and crawled. "SEOFS Portal" is the blog and other "open content" pages (such as the Testimonials page).</p> <p>2) As we reorganize the content in version 2.0, we will have public pages outlining the overall process, and the Q&A pages will have more content as well. The Q&A will eventually get broken down further - dividing each step into the 4 stages, with a discussion page for each.</p> <p>3) The current videos are backup recordings from live classes. We're getting transcripts done now, so that we can record new audio.</p> Thanks Gary, let me clear that up… this is only about the structure.

1) The "cloud" simply represents the WWW and the dotted lines show what content can be found and crawled. "SEOFS Portal" is the blog and other "open content" pages (such as the Testimonials page).

2) As we reorganize the content in version 2.0, we will have public pages outlining the overall process, and the Q&A pages will have more content as well. The Q&A will eventually get broken down further – dividing each step into the 4 stages, with a discussion page for each.

3) The current videos are backup recordings from live classes. We're getting transcripts done now, so that we can record new audio.

]]> By: Gary Phillips http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-624 Gary Phillips Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:20:23 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-624 <p>Dan, I find it hard to evaluate your planed change without more detail. The blog search results from the cloud do not specify which keywords you hope to rank for for the two indicated ranking pages. I guess your keyword ranking plan is more complex than the two incoming arrows indicate. I do not know if you consider it secret or just dint want to overload us with details. It would be an interesting case study to know your keyword strategy and how yu are implementing it. May that would be overly helpful to your competitors. But it would provide the context for a real analysis of the planed changes.</p> <p>I do think it would be good to publish a teaser version of your excellent fast start book with out registration and encourage people to disseminate it freely across the word. A couple of sample chapters with the full table of contents would lead a lot of people to come looking for the full text. Also, teaser versions of the chapters would make excellent content rich and publicly viewable (indexable) pages to get ranked for the various specific targets with in SEO that form the long tail of SEO searches, like link building and keyword strategy. Seems like you would want to use that fine material to create pages that ranked high for each chapter topic but reserved a lot of material for sign up only and contained the pitch and link to sign up tpo get the rest. Similarly it would be good to have either shortened or selected of the videos publicly available with a pitch to sign up for full versions and the book. Why not put teaser versions on You Tube? I also recommend you do at least a minimal edit of the audio tracks to cut out dogs barking, sneezes etc. This could be done with free audio editors very quickly (example Audacity). Just my thoughts. Gary</p> Dan, I find it hard to evaluate your planed change without more detail. The blog search results from the cloud do not specify which keywords you hope to rank for for the two indicated ranking pages. I guess your keyword ranking plan is more complex than the two incoming arrows indicate. I do not know if you consider it secret or just dint want to overload us with details. It would be an interesting case study to know your keyword strategy and how yu are implementing it. May that would be overly helpful to your competitors. But it would provide the context for a real analysis of the planed changes.

I do think it would be good to publish a teaser version of your excellent fast start book with out registration and encourage people to disseminate it freely across the word. A couple of sample chapters with the full table of contents would lead a lot of people to come looking for the full text. Also, teaser versions of the chapters would make excellent content rich and publicly viewable (indexable) pages to get ranked for the various specific targets with in SEO that form the long tail of SEO searches, like link building and keyword strategy. Seems like you would want to use that fine material to create pages that ranked high for each chapter topic but reserved a lot of material for sign up only and contained the pitch and link to sign up tpo get the rest. Similarly it would be good to have either shortened or selected of the videos publicly available with a pitch to sign up for full versions and the book. Why not put teaser versions on You Tube? I also recommend you do at least a minimal edit of the audio tracks to cut out dogs barking, sneezes etc. This could be done with free audio editors very quickly (example Audacity). Just my thoughts. Gary

]]> By: Craig http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-619 Craig Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:48:05 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-619 <p>Dan,</p> <p>All the changes that you are looking to do look fine by me. The information being shared here is great and will just continue to grow. Anyone who kicks the tires at the portal shouldn't have an issue registering to download the book.</p> <p>Craig</p> Dan,

All the changes that you are looking to do look fine by me. The information being shared here is great and will just continue to grow. Anyone who kicks the tires at the portal shouldn't have an issue registering to download the book.

Craig

]]> By: Dan Thies http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-618 Dan Thies Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:11:14 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-618 <p>Yep... right now, people are linking directly to the download page, and everywhere else. :D</p> Yep… right now, people are linking directly to the download page, and everywhere else. :D

]]> By: Maninder http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-609 Maninder Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:41:41 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-609 <p>Dan I think currently someone can directly go to http://www.seofaststart.com/portal and can download SEO FAST START. Say someone just sends this link to his friend. I think better you force people to register first before downloading SEO fast start.</p> Dan I think currently someone can directly go to http://www.seofaststart.com/portal and can download SEO FAST START. Say someone just sends this link to his friend. I think better you force people to register first before downloading SEO fast start.

]]> By: Ant http://www.seofaststart.com/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-605 Ant Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:23:21 +0000 http://www.seofaststart.com/portal/blog/ch-ch-changes-for-the-better#comment-605 <p>Hey Dan,</p> <p>I think that asking folks to register for SEO Fast Start is a extreemly small price for them to pay for the high value information contained withing SEOFS.</p> <p>When I first got a hold of SEOFS over a year ago I was amazed that you were actually giving away that information for free.</p> Hey Dan,

I think that asking folks to register for SEO Fast Start is a extreemly small price for them to pay for the high value information contained withing SEOFS.

When I first got a hold of SEOFS over a year ago I was amazed that you were actually giving away that information for free.

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