This morning I got a little early morning reading in and stumbled on a post from BlueGlass about them acquiring 3 Dog. This intrigued me for a couple reasons. First ... while I generally know about Blue Glass, I was not getting their feed - so I subscribed. Second ... I thought wow, I've not really seen the RSS feed from 3 Dog in a while.
While I would love to say that every idea I have ever thought of regarding SEO are my own, I must confess that the majority are amalgamations of great ideas I find all over the net. Surely I don't spend my days hunting out grand SEO ideas by surfing the net. If I did, I would never get to client work. I have subscribed to pretty much every SEO related RSS feed I can find over time.
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Ok - boring post this is. Wait a minute. It is boring to some, but others will get the point in a second. This process triggered an amazing house cleaning on my part.
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By the time I finished, I had deleted all but a couple handfuls of SEO related RSS feeds. These are the feeds I always seemed to read anyway, so my actual reading ideas are going to be about the same. Hopefully though I will get rid of this RSS feed blindness.
SEOMoz - kind of the current gold standard
David Naylor - a humorous take many times
Blue Glass - can't leave this out since they put me on my path to less cluttered SEO reading
So which feeds are left? That's the ingredient in the secret sauce so I won't reveal all. But a few must-reads are:
Sounds easy enough doesn't it. Subscribe to everyone, fire up my RSS reader of choice every day,
BruceClay - Search Engine Optimization Training and SEO Services, Ranking, Placement, Tools, Tips, Advice, cherry pick the good ideas, skip the crap ideas. Easy enough? Not really. I bet I have subscribed to hundreds of these feeds on top of the feeds for other topics that interest me (PPC,
Redfly Online Marketing, SEO, Web Design & Internet Marketing Company, Dublin, Ireland., affiliate marketing,
SEO Hong Kong Company - SEO Services, PHP, baseball to name a few). The problem is that over time I get overloaded with new posts, the bulk of which are repeats of themes from the better blogs. So, I have become RSS feed blind.
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How much so? Completely. For a while I would not even start up the reader, as I just did not want to see the alerts pop up for new content all of the time. It has probably been a good month or so since I really paid attention to the RSS feed alerts. You know something? That sucks.
If you have an active, original content, SEO related blog ... pass me your URL. I might end up adding back in to my reader!
I went down my list of RSS feeds to the SEO category and noticed several feeds had no new posts (for a long time). The delete key called my name (). WHAM!!! Old RSS feed gone. I was empowered to find more dormant feeds and delete. I was on a roll - even feeds with just a few posts of no interest were in my sights now. Regurgitating SEO ideas from other blogs ? Gone,
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SEO Housecleaning - Cleaning Out The RSS Reader