Robert Scoble and Dave Taylor at the Blog Business Summit
- Being the first to link to something is powerful, you can become "the source" for that information
- Tell friends if you find something first
- #joiito chatroom is a great place to seed stuff - full of A-list tech bloggers
- If you read a blogger, know what they're interested about and write something that might be of interest to them - email them.
- Never act entitled to a link, because you're not
- Long tail: millions of markets of dozens are just as important as the the head of A-List anything
- Staying on topic helps readers and other bloggers find you and make sense of what themes are your beat
- Recommended Wordtracker for picking keywords
- Being on the top of the first page for keyword results on Google is powerful (Google heatmap)
- Correct semantic markup helps for SEO, most blog tools output such code by default
- Good titles for posts helps you be searchable and findable
- Dave uses Google News to find fodder for his blog
- Design may make me subscribe in the first place, but once the user is getting the info via RSS it doesn't matter anymore
- [pointless side conversation about partial vs. full RSS feeds. I'm with Scoble, go full feed or I lose interest]
- Attending geek dinners and other social events, meeting other bloggers and telling them what you do is a good way to get links from them
- I'd also add that submitting how-to kinds of posts to places like Lifehacker and posts about business to the Carnival of the Capitalists can be good traffic builders.