Infographics: You’re Doing It Right + (Free Data Sheet)

Filed under: SEO — Tags: , , , , — David Boyd @ Monday, July 5th, 2010

We’ve been keeping tabs on infographics ever since the linkbuilding tactic came about in 2008, blogged on it a few times and its something we encourage clients to do.

So, after reading David Scoville’s post on SEO.com I decided it was time to share my research on infographics. Over the last few months I’ve compiled over 60 infographics, categorised them by topic, recorded the amount of external links they’ve earned and noted how many times it got retweeted. Is it a fad? I think not. Does it work? It can be an exceptionally good linkbuilding tactic … as you will see in the data we’ve put together.
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Viral Videos and The SEO Payoff

Filed under: SEO, YouTube — Tags: , , , , , — David Boyd @ Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The internet is coming down with video content. To give you some idea of the scale, in January 2009 YouTube alone had six billion videos viewed.

Of those six billions views you might have already seen the home grown videos such as the “Charlie bit my finger” 109 million views, “Battle at Kruger” 45 million views, “David After Dentist” 25 million views , “Star Wars Kid” 13.5 million views, “Beached as” nearly 5 millions views. And, who could forget the entertaining Sparta the Mean Kitty who’s video has been viewed 25 million views and counting. (more…)