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So my buddy Loren Feldman over at 1938 media has been having grand old time giving a parody of Shel Israel lately. While it’s all been pretty funny I think there are a few points to learn from this. Are You More Entertaining than a Sock Puppet »

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Sure I go and write yesterday that I’m not going to be posting and somebody puts something up that makes me laugh. Popcrunch puts out a video today where Sugarrae, Matt Cutts and I get a mention, hang through till the last 30 seconds

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There’s nothing in this video or this video that will make much sense unless you follow me compulsively, but we’re doing some testing, remind me in a week if you want to know how it turned out.

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Real Life News + Internet meme + Pop Culture = Link Bait Genius

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I was chatting with Lee Odden and Bryan Eisenberg yesterday in the speaker ready room. Lee pulled out his video camera for bit of an impromtu on the spot video interview.

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So say you’re a traditional SEO consultant and your looking ways to make some of the user generated content work for you and clients. I always suggest YouTube as an option and the response is usually less than enthusiastic. For most people when they think of YouTube they think of crappy lip-sync, America’s Funniest Video rejects and illegal copies of Daily Show and Colbert Report. However did you know that CareerBuilder.com teamed up with DisneyWorld for Dream Job Contest, and they used YouTube videos as submissions. Here are two of the videos below or you can see all of the winners on the CareerBuilder page.

How to Make YouTube work for Your Company »

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BigBrownBox.com I’m giving you the shirt off my back!

BigBrownBox.com I’m giving you the shirt off my back! »

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When I first started experimenting with video one of the things I was extremely concerned about was the lack of text on the page. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the results so far.

SEO Bloggers Step Away From the Keyboard 47 comments

Make Wordpress Search Engine Friendly 47 comments

I’ve also gotten a quite a few backlinks as a result and from many new websites that previously were not linking to me. Sure the controversial angle was bound to draw some attention, but the informational/educational angle worked also. So don’t be afraid to try new things and step out of your comfort zone a little bit.

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Loren Feldman of 1938 Media on A List Bloggers, listen up you might learn something

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So my wordpress video made the top 15 most linked to videos in the DIY section, and #30 in the most viewed DIY section

YouTube Videos is it Working? »

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Here are some tips for setting up wordpress and making it more search engine friendly, please feel free to rate the video if you like it

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Not exactly sure how I managed to use video to make an issue more complicated, but my post on how to optimize for youtube thumbnails actually did, so go figure. A Picture Creates a 1000 words »

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Have you ever wondered “How can I control the thumbnail image on YouTube” here’s a quick and easy example

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Update
Check out Barry’s response

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I’m starting to video blog over the next few week, it’s going to take some time to get the bugs worked out so please give me your feedback Graywolf Video Blogging »

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