Published on Search Engine Journal

My piece for Search Engine Journal’s guest blogging competition got published today, which was a nice surprise (particularly as I didn’t notice until I saw that it had been submitted to Sphinn!). I’m hoping that it’ll get a good response.

I notice that SEJ is not adding the linkback byline to the competition entries that they’d suggested they would. While the additional traffic back from a link on a PageRank 7 site would be good, it’s not a major issue. More important to me is the wider benefit to reputation and exposure - and hopefully a longer term trickle of traffic to Fog of Eternity that develops from that.

The article ‘Is Google Trumping The URL?‘ is on the Search Engine Journal site now.

Filed under: Blogging, SEO by Robin Cannon

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2 Responses to “Published on Search Engine Journal”

James Duthie Says:
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:58 am
Awesome stuff Robin. I thought of entering, but didn’t bother because I didn’t think I’d stand a chance… :)

Kudos to you.
Robin Cannon Says:
May 2nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Yeah, was a nice surprise and good exposure (particularly once I got SEJ’s comments to work so that I could respond in person to some of the comments!)

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