David Leonhardt’s SEO Marketing Express

In addition to being a great website for networking and reputation management, LinkedIn can also serve as a valuable SEO asset. Your profile allows 3 links to your websites. Use them. A few tips for making your profile rank better within LinkedIn, and most likely with external search engines, too.

• Complete your profile to 100%
• Join some groups
• Build a large contact list
• Recommend your contacts
• Ask your friends to recommend you
• When commenting on blogs, make your LinkedIn profile sometimes the URL for your comment

This is also a great way to create a very credible page that will rank well for your name, including great positive recommendations in your favor. See more about this in my post on SEO tactics for reputation management.

You can view my profile at LinkedIn: David Leonhardt. Note, I am only connecting to people I actually know and have worked with.

Andy Mitchell wonders why so many social networks leave him feeling a little cold, and he suggests some ways to improve things. 

I would like to add perhaps the most important one.  Whenadding friends to one’s network, they should be added to a group, such as my friends from university, former colleagues at CAA, parents of my kids’ friends, etc.  That way, messages, photos, ideas, etc. can be share with like-minded people who share more of a common history, and their input or replies can be read by and only by people who are interested.  It also would also us to be more intimate in what we say.

I just discovered TagWorld  . It’s been called a MySpace clone, and perhaps it is, but it looks like somebody has put a lot of thought into how to make it unique, and presumably better. 

 I’ll be making friends, joining groups, and poking around…and hopefully I’ll have some great tips and ideas for you on how this csocial network can help you do whatever you are on the Web to do.

If you have experience with TagWolrd, please email me or leave a comment.  I am looking for your ideas.

Always on the lookout for cool and useful new social networks, I signed up for a MyBlogLog acount, recommended by several people at WebProWorld.  If you join up, please make me a contact of yours and we can follow each other around, share information and be successful together.

David Utter writes in Dreaming Of Search In 1994 :

Instant messaging and VoIP have begun to supplant email for regular communications anyway, a change we will lament. The best part of email is its asynchronous nature. A message sent at 9 could be answered at 10 without either party feeling intruded upon or ignored.

I agree.  A discussion requires instant communications, best by telephone of one sort or another.  But for most communication, which requires a simple one-way transfer of information, email is at least as useful, much less disruptive and far more efficient.  Plus it leaves a trail to refer back to, especially when you want to refer back to commitments you, your supplier or your customer have made.  Plus email allows you to forward information, even months later, to new players who get involved. 

Unless a discussion is required, email is by far the most effective tool we have right now.