Minnesota SEO Services | Brent Rangen

Everywhere I look someone is saying “Content is King” on every SEO forum some kudos-craving kid is looking for enough post juice to get his signature links. Over and over on seo thread this is all they can add. If you find yourself saying this, Quit it! The buzzword is dead my friend.

Let’s break it down, first off it doesn’t make sense.

“Content is King”
The definition of king:
a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom, a competitor who holds a preeminent position,
baron: a very wealthy or powerful businessman; “an oil baron”
(chess) the weakest but the most important piece

So everyone is saying content is a ruler of a kingdom, or, perhaps a baron? Content rules the Search Engine Kingdom? I disagree with that. The real ruler of the SE kingdom is Google. Google decided your fate, let’s you live or wither away and die, and can even place you in a special little place where you won’t rank at all.

Let’s say Dave has the domain IamArealtor.net and just like you Dave is desperatley trying to obtain Google ranking bliss. Dave doesn’t know everything. What he doesn’t knows is that without content your site can’t achieve good rankings. My thoughts were if Dave wants to have a listing feed pointed to his domain then he will have more content for the Search Engines to index. The content is from a feed and is probable posted somewhere else too. Now we are back to the question, Does Google Penalize for Duplicate Content? From what I have seen.. duplicate content is not penalized, and at worst is simply ignored.

Did anyone see that Google has started advertising in metropolitan areas? They are advertising web apps/services on billboards. This new (to google) marketing strategy makes me wonder if they are actually nervous about Bing.I don’t think they have ever had to do that kind of advertising to get their message to the users maybe it has something to with Google users being more active and loyal than bing or Yahoo users. Perhaps that is changing though..

Internet data firm StatCounter said Microsoft’s new Bing search engine had 9.41 percent of the U.S. market in July, up from 8.23 percent in June. Google’s share slipped to 77.54 percent from 78.48 percent. With Bing’s large advertising campaign and ever-so-slowly increasing search % increases, it will be interesting to see how it unwravels. I’m going to keep a sharp eye on these numbers. Unless I am mistaken this is the first time that the numbers have gone against Google. If that is the case you can believe that they aren’t sitting back idly.

Sergio Brins expert panel has even tweaked their algorithm and some SEO forums even suggest that the result is more like Bing.

Related articles on other sites:

• Did Bing’s Growth Spurt Come to a Halt in September? (readwriteweb.com)
• Google Recovers Search Share From Bing (techie-buzz.com)
• Microsoft Gains Slightly in Search Wars (marketingvox.com)
• Modest Share Gains for Bing Continue (battellemedia.com)

A super long list of FREE RSS Submit links and Places to Submit Your Blog!

That’s right, I took out all the ones that make you pay.
After a few finger-bleedin’ hours I present to you.. A list! Just like the other ones but this one doesn’t have 1/4 dead links. Plus, I added a few extra from a few other places. I went through all the lists I could find and took out the paid links, the free one’s that have switched to payment only, the broken links, and the one’s that just don’t work anymore, plus a few I found on my own.

The List:
Aspin
Submit Videocasts – RSS directory
BlogBurst
BlogBunch
Blo.gs
Chordata
2RSS
4GuysFromRolla
Syndic8
the Feed Directory
Itsmynews
Fyber Search
Feed24 – Temporarily Unavailable
Feedage
Feedbase
FeedBees
Feedbomb
Feedplex
Feedboy
FeedCat
FeedFury
Feedmailer
Feedmap
Feedmil
FeedNuts
FeedPlex
Feeds2Read – No longer maintained.
Feeds4all
Feedsee -
FeedShark
Flookie
Feedgy
Jordo Media
LeighRSS Dir
Millionrss
News-Feeds
News Gator
News Mob
NewsNow
NewsXS
Postami
Ping-O-Matic
Pingoat
Plazoo
PressRadar
RDF-Ticker
RedTram
Realty Feeds
RocketInfo
RSSbuffet - Submit function wasn’t working for me – /submit.php
RSS Clipping
RSSFees4you
RSSfeeds
rssHugger
Rss Mad
Rssmicro
RSSMountain
RSSMotron
Read A Blog
RSS-Specifications
Search // RSS //
SolarWarp
SourceForge
Twingly
Feed Burner
Golden Feed
Blog Digger
Bloogz Add Your Blog
EatonWeb
9Rules
Eponym
- User Land
WeBlog ALot
Wingee
Yahoo RSS Submit
Xmeta
Zimbio
[B>[I>
Blog Submits:[/I>[/B>
BiggerBlogger
BlawgRepublic - Blogs regarding industry laws and legislation
DMOZ
Blloggs
Blogarama
Super Blog Directory
Blog Catalog
BlogBunch
Blogoriffic
Blog Collector
Blogs-Collection
Blog-Directory
Blog-Folders
Blog Explosion
Blogged
Bloggernity
Blog Hints
Blogintro
5 Star Blogs
Bigger Blogger
Blawg Repub - Blog Must be Law Related
Blloggs
Blog Burst -
Super Blog Directory -
Bloggapedia
Blogger's Choice Awards
Blog Flux
Blog Hop
Bloglines
BlogListing
Seattle Weblogs
Bloggernow
BloGobbler
Blogotion
Blogs.com
Google BlogSearch
Blog-Search
Blogville
Blogz.in
Blogz
Blurt it
Boing Boing
Best Directory
Blog Pulse
FindingBlog
Grokodile
Gozoof
Genwi
Get Blogs
Globe of Blogs
Mozdex
MV Blogs
MyBlog2u
MyBlogDirectory
NItle
Outpost-Earth
Quick Blog Dir
RateitAll
Regator
SmallBusiness
SpicyPage
Strategic Board
Submitblognow
SuperBlogDirectory
The Blog Resource
SEO King
Small Business Blogs
Truth Laid Bear
Weblogs
Weblog Dir - No New Submissions At this Time -
Webloogle Blog Dir

Let me know if you find any dead links or any that have since switched to payment only.