Real People, Real SEO – Welcome to MySEOCommunity
Nestled deep in the World Wide Web is a place where Internet Marketers converge to share the stories, news, and memos pertinent to their industry. The content is user-submitted, but unlike other Digg clones, the community has very little control over what makes it to the front page.
Only after the article is poured over by a very qualified team can it even be seen on the site. Moderators scour each new article and rank its content for quality, usability, ease of reading, and value. Then, it is put through the WuzzRank filter, and voila, you have MySEOCommunity.
What in Tarnation is WuzzRank?
In their own words: “The WuzzRank is a special rank that measures the popularity of a particular page or article on the various Social Medias and it uses a logarithmic scale from 0-10. The word Wuzz comes from the words Web + Buzz. The WuzzRank is the PageRank equivalent for Social Media Reputation.”
In plain English, it is a specific algorithm to rate an article from 1-10 based on how popular they are on social media outlets. The real question is why is this important?Simply put, the reasons why WuzzRank is a genius way to rank submitted content is twofold.
First, it takes the power out of the hands of the users and moderators, and puts it back in the hands of the masses. Unlike Digg and Reddit, whose communities are famous for having a “formula” and a group of power users that can influence the ranking system greatly, MySEOCommunity has little control of how the stories rank. This means that the truly popular content will rein supreme.
Second, MySEOCommunity is filled with Internet Marketers, and moderators approve articles about the Internet Marketing world. In a small way, you get to see the validity of the articles you are reading even before you read them. For example, lets say you wanted to read an article about how to best optimize your social media outlets for better readership.
If WuzzRank is a measure of the social indicators for an article, logic would determine that the person who was able to achieve a better score has a better-optimized account, more followers, and has built better relationships to syndicate and promote his or her article. Doesn’t that sound exactly what you wanted to learn? You can qualify articles of a certain type without reading a single word.
Simply put, MySEOCommunity is a collaborative effort of Internet Marketers to deliver useful information about Internet Marketing. It is a collection of experts, doing what they do best, how can you not love it?
Is This Community Serious?
Full disclosure; I am a moderator, team member, and contributor to MySEOCommunity. However, to assume that just because I am a part of the team gives me any special treatment is patently absurd.
For example, take a look at this Skype conversation between Gerald Weber, one of the people behind MySEOCommunity and myself:
You read that correctly, one of my own articles was rejected! Granted, I fully admit that it was a mediocre article, and something I spat out an hour behind the deadline, but thats the beauty of MySEOCommunity. The author of the article is hidden, and each article is moderated on its own merit. If a Moderator writes a bad article, they get the same treatment as everyone else.
This allows for a level of interaction and immersion that is completely impossible on similar sites. For example, the power users of Digg and Twitter can be found with a simple search, and there are plenty of examples of companies paying these people to help vote their content; this is completely impossible on MySEOCommunity, because WuzzRank levels the playing field.
I can join in on the conversion, post my articles to the site, and interact in the comment threads as much as I want, because unless I somehow learn to control ALL social media, I’m no different than other users. Granted, there are some of our users that have more social clout than others, but unless they work their ass off to promote their own article, they’re in the same boat as the rest of us!
Take a look at the Team over on the MySEOCommunity website. You’ll see Ann Smarty, creator of My Blog Guest; Gerald Weber, creator of SEM-Group.net; Ana Hoffman of Traffic Generation Café; Julie Joyce of Link Fish Media; Hesham Zebida of Thesisawesome.com fame, and many more.
The more you find out about the team, the more you realize that the people that work to make this site possible are down in the same SEO trenches you are. Find me a professional SEO that has never heard of SEM-Group’s blog contests, the Thesis WordPress Theme, Traffic Generation Cafe, My Blog Guest, and Soshable. If you can, you have also found a poorly read SEO. Combine all of this experience with the fact that we can all freely engage and compete just like the rest of the users with no advantage; and you create an environment where the people that live and breathe SEO are able to compete over SEO! You’ll have a hard time finding a more dedicated group of community leaders.
Speaking of blogging contests. . .
The Mad SEO Scientist Blogging Contest:
To kick off the launch of MySEOCommunity, of course there is a blogging contest!
Don’t be mistaken by that caricature, this blogging contest is the real deal. Remember that awesome team described before? They will be judging the blog posts on usefulness, value, and overall greatness; and the winner will be given $1000 dollars.
That’s nothing to scoff at, and all you need to do is write an interesting blog post, put up a promotional post on your own blog pointing to the sponsors, (the people who make the cash prize possible) and promoting it socially.
There’s no catch, no risk, and no gimmicks. The playing field is completely level, and if any number of our Team gets involved in the contest, you have the opportunity to test yourself against the best in the business.
So get to MySEOCommunity now, enter the contest, and get involved in the discussion threads on each article. The excitement is infectious, trust me on that, and I hope to see you there!
Author Bio:
Pete Wise is a Content Creation Factory and a Team Member and Moderator of MySEOCommunity. When he isn’t approving articles and writing blog posts, he works closely with the Magento Developers at Customer Paradigm. Check out The Mad SEO Scientist Guest Blogging Contest over at MySEOCommunity.com and get involved!
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Yet one more crowd-sourced article finding and rating site in our industry? really? So like all the others out there never get beyond a certain narrow success, and that means another one has to be created?
All of a sudden its like “let’s keep throwing spit-balls at the wall and hope that over a course of a decade, at least one sticks as well as Sphinn used to”.
Pete Wise Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Alan,
Hopefully this spitball is the stickiest of all!
-Pete
Gerald Weber Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 6:25 pm
Alan,
Using the same logic we could also say. OMG just another “SEO blog”, or just another” SEO company”. etc.
But I don’t use that logic. You are probably aware that I spent about a year running a different “SEO voting community”
I did see some flaws in that model and what was going on there, which is why I decided to build a new mousetrap. And thus MySEOComnunity was born.
A few unique things we have that really make us different. First we have a awesome team behind the site. I’m sure you probably know some of us.
Secondly we are incorporating “social buzz” metrics to determine what moves to the home page. I think this make much more sense than just seeing how many times someone can get their friends to click on a voting button.
Thirdly we are not a “content free for all” model. Our team does not just filter for spam but we are curating content. Our focus is on quality.
While I can understand some initial skepticism from people..
As long as I am in the SEO industry (going on ten years now) you can count on the fact that I”m going to keep on blogging and keep on SEOing, engaging in social communities. and I’m going to keep on doing what I do. And MySEOCommunity is a reflection of that.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts.
Alan Bleiweiss Reply:
February 1st, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Sorry Gerald, I wasn’t aware of the jump, only that another new one came along. That’s my fault for not putting in the footwork to understand that aspect. I think you’re one of the best advocates our industry has, so that does count a lot to me.
I suppose the biggest issue I have is the burn-out I got this past year with the loss of Sphinn, first as an open community switched to editor-only, then their complete change to MarketingLand, only to then see (not provided ) your last attempt, not do so great, and then here, yet another.
I’ll keep my eyes on the new venture and wish you the best with it. Not willing to pour my soul into participating yet though…
Gerald Weber Reply:
February 2nd, 2012 at 12:15 am
I can understand where you’re coming from…
I’ve spent probably more time than is healthy participating in different social communities and several of them have changed quite drastically or went away over the years.
Mixx was changed to chime.in.
StumbleUpon changed to a new look and feel to which I’m not wild about.
Digg.com a site I have several years invested in as a power user changed to a kind of an odd hybrid site which really sucks.
But none of this prevents me from participating in social communities or creating new ones.
As you know I’m a professional SEO and social media type of guy so MySEOCommunity is just a natural extension of what me and the other team members are already doing day in and day out anyhow.
As far as the previous venture. although there were some fundamentals flaws in the model I did learn a lot from that and some of these things could only be learned from the experience of running such a site/community. So I’m grateful for that experience. So taking what I learned from that to make this a stronger community.
David Leonhardt Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Alan, I thought Sphin was awesome. It was very successful. But it’s gone and now MySEOcommunity fills the void. Why so bitter?
Gerald Weber Reply:
January 31st, 2012 at 10:41 pm
I concur David. I too really liked Sphinn.
Nice article ! I’m already in the contest and I can say that I already got familiarized with the community. It’s simple to navigate on the website and is one of the most active communities that I use at this moment…
I think what I find most interesting about MySEOCommunity – and why I took Gerald up on joining as a moderator – is that it takes the hard work out of finding valid opinions and viewpoints on SEO at the moment – we do it for you!
It’s an information aggregate, and one that is moderated by people in the SEO industry – so the information that you’re getting are things that you may chat over at your next conference, not something that you dismiss out of hand because you don’t recognize the source.
Sweet! Can never go wrong with more sources, especially if it is quality-controlled.
As a former Sphinn moderator and current curator for Marketing Land, I decided to become involved with this new effort because of Gerald’s nonstop passion for the industry. When I found out Ann Smarty was involved, that nailed it. You have two of the most prolific people in SEO who are also consistently some of the most pleasant people to interact with, so I’m very excited to be a part of this, and I hope that people will give us a chance and not just be turned off because of previous efforts.
You are too kind Julie.
We are absolutely thrilled to have you on the team as well!