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There's a lot of paid content on those two sites. Is that what you're referring to? If it is that's fine; just want to know whether it's worth paying for or not

There's a lot of paid content on those two sites. Is that what you're referring to? If it is that's fine; just want to know whether it's worth paying for or not.

patio11 16y ago
I used to pay for SEOBook and think their training stuff has value (though most of the value for the subscription is in the forums). That said, you can do pretty well just with the freebies -- I learned basic SEO from them just by reading their blogs obsessively back in 2006 or so. You'll eventually reach a point where it is not worthwhile for someone to tell you for the 47th time "You need a scalable method of attracting links to your website." and instead need to actually be able to plan and execute one.
- jackowayed 16y ago
  What is your scalable method of attracting links to BCC (and AR)?
  - paraschopra 16y ago
    For BCC, Patrick does something really smart. He automagically generates bingo cards for different terms such as: * army bingo cards * pizza bingo cards * harry potter bingo cards Generating such bingo cards and thus relevant pages is easy so even if no body ever searches for 'angry birds bingo cards' it hardly costs him anything to generate and host. But if someone does such a search, Patrick gets a free visit (which normally costs $1 or so in AdWords). Don't forget that a majority of search queries are unique and have never been done before so generating content automagically is a great way to do SEO.
    - patio11 16y ago
      Scalable content creation has resulted in a few links but not nearly as many as I was expecting prior to doing it. Most of my cards are worthy of consumption but not worthy of telling your friends about, and getting a link out of a teacher takes real work. The exceptions are the Dolch sight word pages. Who knew, right? I have a client project which blends linkable content and consumable content in an interesting fashion. I'll show you after it launches.
      - paraschopra 16y ago
        Yep, that's true. Though I was not talking in context of link juice but just catching the occasional long tail query visit (irrespective of if it ever gets a back link). I would be very interested to learn once your client project launches. Good luck with that.
  - patio11 16y ago
    Publishing A/Bingo (best ROI ever on that score), being (tongue very much in cheek here) "Internet famous", etc.

There's a lot of paid content on those two sites. Is that what you're referring to? If it is that's fine; just want to know whether it's worth paying for or not.

patio11 16y ago

I used to pay for SEOBook and think their training stuff has value (though most of the value for the subscription is in the forums). That said, you can do pretty well just with the freebies -- I learned basic SEO from them just by reading their blogs obsessively back in 2006 or so. You'll eventually reach a point where it is not worthwhile for someone to tell you for the 47th time "You need a scalable method of attracting links to your website." and instead need to actually be able to plan and execute one.

jackowayed 16y ago
What is your scalable method of attracting links to BCC (and AR)?
- paraschopra 16y ago
  For BCC, Patrick does something really smart. He automagically generates bingo cards for different terms such as: * army bingo cards * pizza bingo cards * harry potter bingo cards Generating such bingo cards and thus relevant pages is easy so even if no body ever searches for 'angry birds bingo cards' it hardly costs him anything to generate and host. But if someone does such a search, Patrick gets a free visit (which normally costs $1 or so in AdWords). Don't forget that a majority of search queries are unique and have never been done before so generating content automagically is a great way to do SEO.
  - patio11 16y ago
    Scalable content creation has resulted in a few links but not nearly as many as I was expecting prior to doing it. Most of my cards are worthy of consumption but not worthy of telling your friends about, and getting a link out of a teacher takes real work. The exceptions are the Dolch sight word pages. Who knew, right? I have a client project which blends linkable content and consumable content in an interesting fashion. I'll show you after it launches.
    - paraschopra 16y ago
      Yep, that's true. Though I was not talking in context of link juice but just catching the occasional long tail query visit (irrespective of if it ever gets a back link). I would be very interested to learn once your client project launches. Good luck with that.
- patio11 16y ago
  Publishing A/Bingo (best ROI ever on that score), being (tongue very much in cheek here) "Internet famous", etc.