Like any business person would do, I spent a few hours last night researching my competition’s SEO techniques to see who I felt would get and keep the viable lead. I got a few great ones, and a few poor ones, but all of them could be improved (myself especially). Now today, I read a comment from Forest on SiteFlipU.com and decided that in the spirit of helping everyone learn a little more, I’d post my results here for you guys and gals to read. Question? Ask away!

Act High Brow

http://acthighbrow.com

Title Tag: acthighbrow.com = Lacks Common search terminology. Try something like “High Society News“.

Description: 993 characters = This is too many characters for what would be considered a ‘robot friendly’ web page. Reduce the number of characters by 50%.

Keyword Accuracy: 36% = Try reducing the number of keywords to bring your average up higher. Remove “fluff” words or “stop” words like: your, and, of, is, to, the, in, how, i, why‘ as they are stop words and ignored by the most search engines while diluting actual relevancy.

Robots Meta: No Robots tag found. = Consider adding them to help entice “crawl” frequency. For example, adding a “revisit” tag, would help control the speed in which your content will be indexed… in this case quicker.

Content Rank: The top ranking term is “2008″ = Consider adjusting your blogs output of date and time stamps.

Anchor Text Rank: The top ranking term is “read the rest” = Consider editing your theme files to output search relevant text. For example: “More news from high society…”

Travel Tips Digest

http://traveltipsdigest.com

Title Tag: frugal zeitgeist = 100% relevant to your content so well done!. If you’re looking to improve, I’d Consider “adding” long tail search terms for example: “location”, “type of travel” “summer travel tips” or “seasons”

Description: 498 characters = Great job! No changes needed.

Keyword Accuracy: Good = Try removing “fluff” words or “stop” words like: your, and, of, is, to, the, in, how, i, why‘ as they are ignored by the most search engines while diluting actual relevancy.

Robots Meta: No Robots tag found. = Consider adding them to help entice “crawl” frequency. For example, adding a “revisit” tag, would help control the speed in which your content will be indexed… in this case deeper.

Content Rank: The top ranking term is “luggage” = Consider adjusting your content to contain more of your “Long Tail” search terms.

Anchor Text Rank: The top ranking term is “WordPress” = By adjusting your own link’s anchor text, this can be quickly and easily fixed.

Frugal Zeitgeist

http://frugalzeitgeist.com

Title Tag: frugal zeitgeist = Lacks Common search terminology. Try something like “Your Resource for Coupons, Discounts, and Freebies!“.

Description: None found. = Almost every search engine uses description tags. Add a description tag immediately!

Keyword Accuracy: 2101 characters found and are 56% content relevant = Try removing “fluff” words or “stop” words like: your, and, of, is, to, the, in, how, i, why‘ as they are ignored by the most search engines while diluting actual relevancy as well as removing all but about 20 terms.

Poisonous Words: “Forum” = Remove this word from your keyword tag.

Death Words: “Free”, “Best”, and “Great”. = Remove these words from your keyword tag

Robots Meta: No Robots tag found. = Consider adding them to help entice “crawl” frequency. For example, adding a “revisit” tag, would help control the speed in which your content will be indexed… in this case quicker.

Content Rank: The top ranking term is “frugal” = Consider adjusting your content to contain more of your “Long Tail” search terms.

Anchor Text Rank: The top ranking term is “General Articles” = By adjusting your own link’s anchor text, as well as changing your theme’s output text, this issue can be quickly and easily fixed.

So what about the rest of the contestants?

Well the top three optimized blogs are listed below. They are ranked in order of accuracy and completion. The hands down best was by a mile! So good going Blogger Search! However, what would a top contender list be without the worst contender as well. It wouldn’t… so the hands down worst, is my own “Blog Fluff“. Blog Fluff has had a really rough start, and now that I’, weeks behind, I’m not sure that I have a shot in hell. That said, when it launches, Blog Fluff will be a totally awesome resource for bloggers of every niche with almost any goal. Just stay tuned… it’s gonna be good!

• http://bloggerssearch.com
• http://reggae-artists.com
• http://gogreenlifestyle.net

I hope that you all learned a little something about your blogs. I’m trying once again to share a little knowledge with you all to see every one of you succeed. No body can ever say I’m not a team player! I appreciate comments, even if they are in a question form, so please feed the need and show me a little comment love… things have been a little bleak in that department over the past few days. This goes for Non-Contestants as well.

Okay guys and girls… I’m in a bind here and need a little help! Yeh, it’s one of those posts that we all dread but I’ve just got to ask. As some of you might know, Bryan Clark’s Site Flipping contest is well on it’s way… I’m in it to win it… but my problem… I have NO CLUE what my new blog should be about, and the clock is ticking. My heart is here at PB… and anything that REALLY inspires me, I want written for this blog, not one I’ve got to sell in 27 days!

The original idea

As most of you all know by now, I work some pretty hectic hours at my day job so finding not only the time, but the inspiration to make a salable blog in under thirty days is a tough nut to crack. None-the-less, I’m going to get in there and do it… or at least I hope so!

My original idea was to create something that I would not have to personally update everyday so that I can focus my attention here at PB, work, and on all my new premium themes I’ve been working on. Did I mention that I’m working on acquiring a new online business too? Yep, I’m nuts. But the goal behind Blog Fluff was to be fun… fun and profitable. I’ve gone from classified ads for bloggers, to private blog messaging, to ope source link building, to satirical cartoons and other random bits. Have a look… it’s a picture of “Vic” with his hand in a goat’s ass for God’s sake!

I’m swamped and feeling a bit dizzy.

With so much going on and so many hands in the cookie jar, I’m finding it hard to keep a focus on my goals. PB is growing at a staggering pace for being so new… I get nearly 10 new inquiries ever day about custom WordPress themes… and my nerves are shot! I really need some help!

Here are the competitors!

In no particular order, here are some of the competitors for the contest. Some folks like AP are already on a roll talking about Reggae… and still some others are about as far along as I am. Bryan has confirmed the following so take a look at some of the great ideas and themes…everyone is being creative! Everyone but me! LOL…

http://blogfluff.com

http://acthighbrow.com

http://traveltipsdigest.com

http://gogreenlifestyle.net/

http://reggae-artists.com

http://bloggerssearch.com

http://frugalzeitgeist.com/

http://www.professorprosperity.com/

What do you think?

So there they are in all their glory! What on earth am I going to do? Blog Fluff… I thought it was a cute little name… and I really thought my concept would work… but at this point I’m realizing it needs an immediate overhaul. Suggestion… comments… anything is welcome and greatly appreciated so let’s here ‘em!

Well people today was the day! I ran a bit behind from a meeting that wouldn’t end, but never the less, I’m finally here with the winners of my very first premium theme giveaway. Over all, it was a great success and if you guys and gals are open to it… I’d be willing to do it again very soon. Interested? Let me know, and I’ll set up another contest!

Just so that you all know what I did, I went to the random.org and had the generator pick numbers. I wanted to video it, nut I’ve got upload issues and I don’t have the patience to figure out why. That said… let the games begin!

Random Linkback / Trackback Winner

Well the winner is number… one! Number one according to my linkbacks is “The Affiliate Post“.

Random Feedburner Subscriber Winner!

So who is it? And the winner is… number seven! mirzania@gmail.com

Congratulations claim your prizes!

Okay winners… head on over to my premium theme section of the site, and dig around a bit. Look for the theme that you want and send me an e-mail letting me know what theme you want! You don’t have much time so, go… go… go!

I need your answers by noon central standard time tomorrow (Friday) so I can get them ordered before leaving town for my conference! Thanks to everyone who participated and don’t forget to let me know if you all are interested in doing it again!