Good post…..

What if I told you that most folks in today’s complex marketplace are doing it wrong? As a result they’re taking months to accomplish what could be done successfully in a matter of days. To do right by your job search success you need to be guided by three golden rules. Master these and you virtually guarantee your job search success!

I think you should never underestimate number 2, quality. Doesnt matter who you are, if your post quality is outstanding (not just good) anyone will publish it. After all the point of them allowing guest post is to get outstanding free content.

I looks like agree with you. My 2nd golden rule is to write a quality guest post.

Whether using Dewey or other classification systems, or categories/tags on websites or blogs, every one of those systems is intended to assist presentation and retrieval of RELEVANT information.

You contend that your Golden Rules will “build your reputation, brand, and credibility” and my point is you are building those on a foundation of sand UNLESS the content has value.

Creating a post that is “similar” to the previous posts, no matter if the quality if good or bad, is fine if you want to preach t the converted. That is why TechCrunch is both valued highly but also fairly boring. Many blogs do not stay tightly focussed and therefore tend to bore after a short time – no matter their “ranking”.

You can see the worst outcomes of poor blogs and poor posts in the dozens or even hundreds of comments on many “high rank” blogs, all dissecting tiny points of view. The content is too often fuzzy or biased and so that encourages all the comments and links. But none of that adds to dissemination of quality knowledge or quality opinion.

So you may end up with a great “reputation, brand, and credibility” in a blog space that has little long-term value. Look what happened to AOL and all the other fenced communities that were based on quantity rather than quality.

PageRank isn’t everything, of course. That’s why I gave the other statistics, 1800 subs and 80,000 monthly visitors. If you read my post on getting stats from the SEO Toolbar, you’ll see that I take into account a couple different stats when evaluating a site.

What do you mean by “Content within Context”? And could you explain how it relates to guest posting? Thanks.

Am finding it increasingly difficult to believe SEO statistics have much relevance any more. But let me quickly explain.

To of the most significant and rank-worthy sites seem very low – Deviant Art has a page rank of 7 and Interview magazine is only 6. They come from very different backgrounds and with very significant and focussed content.

I would say they had the Content within Context perfect to receive high ranking.

Meanwhile Wired has a page rank of 9. This is not to say Wired is wrong but the other two sites I mention should be up at 9 too. (IMHO)

My concern is that SEO and page rank are so skewed in favor of tech content and tech tricks that they don’t mean anything for ordinary people.

We manage a site for an art gallery and that has a page rank of 2. But (and we think it’s a big BUT), this site appears in position 1, 2 and 4 in Google search results for art galleries in the county (out of 15,6000 results).

Therefore my suggestion is Context is far more important than the three “Golden Rules” you suggest.

- Bron