SEO BLOG

We interrupt our broadcast to celebrate reaching 50 members with our SEO 2.0 group at Mixx. Not only our SEO 2.0 group at Mixx has 50 participants we also reached 150 (by now over 160) submissions on the 26th of February.

Of course SEO 2.0 is not only about numbers and metrics, it’s rather about the soft factors you can’t easily measure but you certainly will notice.

So it’s rather the quality of the submissions along with the activity of the current members that is our greatest success. The success is even greater than you might imagine as we are in the traditionally more selfish realm of SEO as well as in the usually rather hostile (in the sense of anti-SEO sense) environment of social news communities.

Mixx and Mixx groups do not offer instant gratification via huge traffic bursts so you might wonder why high profile SEO, social media and other bloggers contribute on a regular basis.

It’s partly about community, yes, there already seems to be a nascent community of SEO 2.0 enthusiasts banding together. On the other hand I noticed 7 other benefits of this SEO 2.0 community within Mixx:

1. Acceptance of SEO 2.0 within Mixx: Mixxers grasp the concept of SEO 2.0 as being a beneficial one to the overall community. There is no anti-SEO hate among established users.
2. A post being submitted to the SEO 2.0 group is already a quality seal and allows to determine whether a submission is spammy SEO or really useful contribution.
3. Social media savvy membership to mingle with. You either get invited to join or you have to apply. Thus the 50 members are proven social media, blogging and SEO specialists or at least have displayed characteristics of valuable Mixx users in the past.
4. Currently only a few really well chosen posts get highlighted within the SEO 2.0 community. If you have a limited time budget like most of us, you get the most important SEO 2.0 related topics of the day served.
5. Your peers will most probably notice you, stumble and sphinn you too.
6. Your SEO 2.0 peers are more likely to link to you.
7. SEO 2.0 are not SEOs only so the group is not strictly about the SEO industry unlike at Sphinn.

How do we enforce the above mentioned high quality standards? It’s quite easy.

There is only one rule: No self-submission to the group.

This ensures peer review and a good stand in the overall Mixx community. While many new SEO 2.0 members fail to abide by this rule at the beginning, most of them come back later and play by the rules with even greater success.

In fact the SEO 2.0 group members do not only provide the most important SEO 2.0 content they also tend to submit each others post without the artificial stigma of voting each other up or vote swapping. Only the best content is highlighted regardless of the source.

This made SEO 2.0 the largest SEO group at Mixx, there are two others which also perform well but to a lesser extent.

What are my plans for the SEO 2.0 group:

• We will compete with Sphinn.
• We will further enhance user communications via the new Mixx tools like forum, messaging system etc.
• We will foster more corporations among members.
• We will establish more cross social media ties on different networks.
• We will make SEO 2.0 group member badges for bloggers and website owners.
• We will take action on behalf of members as an industry pressure group.
• We will conquer the world.

Apply now for a membership in the SEO 2.0 group at Mixx.

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