A question to all Wizzley authors - new quiz!

I agree with not needing points/rewards, for what it is worth!

The other thing that will be helpful is typically in forums, people might make up titles that don't clarify what their potentially great questions are. Help please titles might look like "I'm hitting my head against the wall!" or "What the??!!" - no one would know that perhaps it was an excellent post about how to use Adwords for your benefit, etc...

Clean titles about the topic will be such a user friendly way to find answers you are looking for, in one place.

I love the idea, personally. Forums are a place to seek answers and give advice, but so many good threads die over time, getting buried and rarely found by others. This will keep great help alive, all of the time.

Having a word limit, (just saw your post that you removed the 100 word guideline but will leave it in my post) at least initially, promotes others to join in. However, that might be remedied in the future simply by making sure questions are very specific - and requiring responders to stay on the specific topic.

What a difference between a question like:

Tell me everything, start to finish, on how to do keyword research versus How do you use the Adwords keyword tool to find good keywords

Ok...back to work!

Good points Frugalrvers! I especially agree with the titles of posts. If there should be any rule it's that your post title will be moderated as well to insure quality assurance- (I believe chef is going to be picking posts with good concise information from one thread (the dynamic one open to us all) and be putting it into another "protected" thread so one is concise the other can be anything i.e. hashing out an idea until a good point and even agreement is made on a point... that's a great way to grab topics- at the end of a discussion!)

Titles are so people can figure out what somethings about inside... I too can't stand when people write a good post but title it something I'd pass on for lack of detail or interest but inside is a powerful tip... the other thing that sucks is when a post inside a thread of posts gets lost and buried at sea (WizSea?) because the post itself is buried...

When I first joined Super Apprentice they had a huge forum of data, a lot of great data embedded inside a bunch of fluff posts, and finding that post again later was a nightmare- their search feature was useless- and many don't look that deep into a post before listing it in search results (forum search).

To remedy this I simply started a folder in my bookmarks toolbar and every time I saw a powerful post I'd link to it (using permalink if available, which is a link not only to the thread but the exact post inside)

Simon, is there any chance we could use permalinks in the forum posts for bookmarking exact posts inside a topic/thread? (see hubpages forum any post to see how they set this up- it's just a link next to edit quote reply that says "permalink". 

I later garnished a bunch of the great answers and started to create consolidated posts to repost/bump up (leaving the post in tact less any useless/fluff data), they eventually did something like Chef is doing here, creating a forum thread specifically to consolidate good posts/explanations then I went to my gazillion bookmarks (my own personal forum of data less fluff hehe) and posted it there.

One reason I see this working is I've seen it work already in a similar environment- the only other forum I've ever seen with this much democracy between the staff, site, and users is SA's. 

ok, two posts before coffee- I hope I didn't ramble...

Jerrico

p.s. I think point systems are great motivators I definitely want to see one happen

NEW QUESTION

Do you submit url to Google (Bing, Yahoo, etc) for each new article you write?

Posted. Thanks, Robin.

Posted. Thanks, Sue.

New question:

How do you divide your writing time?   Focus solely on one site or flit between more than one?

(You might need to word that better.  I'm still going on advice given once by a really successful writer on Suite101.  She said that its better to focus on one site for the first year, get some authority, then build a portfolio of many sites.  I'm aiming at whether that was sound advice or not!)

I'm focusing on both HubPages and Wizzley. (Now that I have a paypal account I can use the features of both sites to the max.)

Google is making it very dangerous to focus on just one site these days. You never know when they are going to hit a large content site or even our own sites. But I think it's hard to build a lot of content at more than just a few.

I have a question about the pictures we use in each text module.

I'm always a bit confused as to how to label them.  Should the text relate to what I am writing or more to what the picture is?  I know that they should be similar and I am thinking the former.

Dustytoes: 08/15/2012 - 11:06 AM

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I have a question about the pictures we use in each text module.

I'm always a bit confused as to how to label them.  Should the text relate to what I am writing or more to what the picture is?  I know that they should be similar and I am thinking the former.

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The short answer is:

For Bots (google, search engines etc..):  You want it to be keyword/LSI rich but coherent, descriptive, succinct, potent, 20 words or less (and only 1 image per article optimized for SEO) for a 400-600 word article (pref 4-5 words)

Descriptive of the images part in the overall article or section- not about the image but the imagery that's describing the point if anything. Using a 3-5 word keyword is good.

For readers:  descriptive, succinct, potent, 4-5 words or less

About your article AND the images part in the play specifically  (if your going for SEO value) the image is not the focus it's job is to describe the focus!

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The slightly longer answer:

You know how you do a Google images search (images. Google.com)? The image title appears in the images name and possibly even the caption data of the image in search results. So the image name itself (the file on your computer?) is likely irrelevant as these sites generally reassign/rename them upon uploading to avoid any name conflicts in the system, but you can still get ranked in Google images (and Bing's version too) the same way content is ranked, by name and description/caption.

There is even a way to embed keywords in the images tag scripting, images have headers and the headers contain tags, I believe part of those tags is the image name when saved under a new name so I believe this information is still present to Google/SE bots through the tag.

The text is also a popup tooltip on your published wizzle. When the visitor rest the mouse over the image for half a second the tool tip pops up with the image title as the caption.

I believe if your "show titles" is unchecked in the image module, the tool tip will still show the image title if hovered over it (I think that's also what bots read).

Thanks, Pam. I posted your question in our new members' FAQ.

Jerrico, Jerrico....have you forgotten?  

yes, yes I did... bed time, I'm on 38 hours without rest. 

I just finished a page and included the map module, but I am wondering how to correctly use it.  Just as a map - blah - here is the place I'm talking about.

Or is there a better use.  I really don't think I know all the in's and out's of it.  At one point I clicked on it and had a street view - up close and personal!  But now it's just a map.

Is it up to the viewer or can we as the poster choose how we want the map to look?

Just curious how and if you guys use the map to enhance your pages.

I'll post your question in our FAQ, Pam. It's a good one.

I have a couple of questions:

1,   How are people using the insert sidebar links module?   Have you developed a strategy that's best for a) your readers and/or b) yourself  and/or c) Wizzley?  

2,  How do you determine the best authors to emulate?   This is mostly a question for those new to this, as the veterans already have their knowledge.  For example, if you wanted to write sales articles, but you'd never done one before, how would you work out which author's sales format is the most effective?