I agree that its the best way to promote your blog/site, a wordpress theme!
Bad neighborhoods, face it when you release a theme, you not only get good links but you also get the bad ones without asking, in my case, porno links…i mean they are still blogs and they do need themes, and are kind enough to leave a link so i can’t blame them, but this is kind of a let-down while building up a site..
**First of all sorry about the last 2 posts in my feed**
Now lets get on with it, people care alot about se-friendly on their blog and they do want to rank high on serps too and wand to make the right choice, to be honest the following is the most effective and relevant url structure for a blog:
/Category/Post-Name.html
Now if you cover alot of topics on your blog and want to get maximum SERPs then you will need to go with the following structure
/Post-Name/
I’m not saying that this url structure will help you alot but it sure will give you the nudge/push you need to get that extra edge in serps, along the keyworded url/title/meta tags you are good to go to nail a keyword!
As for feeds, most people add feedburner yet leave links to domain.com/feed/ live on their site, i know that theres a redirection up on domain,com/feed/ but for whatever time it may take them to redirect to the feedburner url, you might lose 1 subscriber for that.
Personally feed advertising (spread) is the best part of making a blog in my opinion, only the most relevant people will subscribe to your blog, if they have an interest in SEO/Marketing/MMO they will subscribe to mine, and whenever i post something they’ll be actually interested in reading whatever it is that i have to say or post about.
The best trick ever to get more subscribers is linking to your feed or leading people TO your feed from as many places as possible, either that or viral content/link bait works good too, if you are losing subscribers then that only means that you lost the people that weren’t interested in what you have to say anyway and you can’t make money off of them any=dang-way.
If they don’t want to read it why would they wanna participate? Think about it
I’ve been subscribed to Matt’s blog for a week now i wanted him to take another shot at explaining just why it is that he doesn’t like paid links besides the fact that they game/manipulate serps, its pretty obvious what you tell the newbie webmasters is:
If you don’t have links - You WON’T get a pr!
If you don’t have “keyworded” links - You WON’T get into serps!
For all my customers i tend to promote relevancy at first then anything else, but the thing is that people ask for PR and good SERPs not just authority and a good reader-base now-adays so the only way that can be done is link bait ( i like it better because thats cheaper ) all you need is a good idea and you get tons of natural “keyworded” links to your inner or homepage - good thing huh? well apparently not, with all the paid links flying around here some natural links might even get the hit, and thats where all the good hard work goes down the drain…
The only reason they hate paid links is there is a definite 60%+ chance that the reviewer or the seller is probably being so irrelevant and misguiding to the whole topic that it may spread bad/wrong info and that would ruin google’s credibility as a search engine and producing useful results.
Matt pointed out a link building guide of a sort.. as it notes out “Bad neighborhoods” i think every new blog or just a blog with alot of blogroll links are considered bad here as well, and that gets on my nerves because the only reason Google is being manipulated by paid links is because its letting that happen and everyone right this instant is making a ton of money doing that, in my opinion Google took the cheaper way out of the whole “Gaming SERPs” issue to keep its authority..
How i wish i knew SEO while starting out in the MMO world, affiliate marketing would’ve been a piece of cake…ah well..lets get on with the post then shall we?
** Note : While working with affiliates i suggest any affiliate company out there EXCEPT CJ.com, this is due to personal bad experiences many sales that were never recorded and i just don’t tolerate that **
This article is targetted at telling you the best ways to go about with Affiliates without spending a dime, because..lets face it..while starting out you won’t have much cash to work with anyway and whatever cash you do have must be invested towards the backend (server..scripts..domains..etc). Now these are my tried and tested methods that i have used and had alot of success with as well.
SEO, is the best approach towards Affiliate Marketing, now a good pitch towards your customers would do good too but this is easier and cheaper, lets say you are an affiliate of a Hardware Supplier and you are selling products on your site or in other words leading them to the suppliers site, the best way to get POTENTIAL BUYERS is to search for them, don’t go around spending money on PPC yet, heres what you should do:
1- Google for terms like
“Forum -Where do i buy hardware online?“
Now, if you skim through the results you will find alot of forums “hopefully” and you need to post your links there, register as a member and say something like..
“Hey there! I buy my hardware and blahblah.com and they have great prices! You should go there too!”
This will get you targeted visitors only, the only people who will click the links will be potential customers, quality over quantity.
You can try the same technique with other sites as well, this is the best kind of marketing tactic that i have ever used because i don’t have to spend much money this way and that makes me really happy, you can pull in some really good customers as well as get a-LOT of link love to your inner pages and slowly you can add more interactivity to your affiliate site and have even more users coming in for more then just hardware..maybe hardware reveiws..etc?
Now google is not the only place you can do this try google search and technorati or even Yahoo Answers which in my opinion is THE best place to promote these products, here are screenshots of those queries, blogs/forums are good place to promote your products/site because they let you post on the same page as the question whereas most sites do-not have a user-based commenting system or a thread system.
Thought i should update where my blog stands in serps, keep in mind i’ve done little or no link building this month all the incoming links are from previously done link bait and/or natural links.
I am kinda happy about the current serps, with no work they look great, i think its time to get to the top for “daily seo” now ill get to work on it then..hehe.
Now this part is rather odd because according to my awstats im receiving my daily dosage of 500-600 uniques per day but these stats show that the traffic is dropping, I’m gonna wait 2-3 days before i start a traffic campaign or something..
And as always I’m gonna finish this post on a happy note, i got a Pagestrength of 5, woo!
This was an idea for an e-book something like mubin’s imagehosting ebook maybe?
But i thought “what the hell..lets post it up..” , these are really some simple tricks and tips you can do to have a good proxy network up and running…
First of all you need domains, new ones, if you buy pr domains that would just screw you over since they might be de-indexed already or might have a niche history (which ends up in less indexed pages for you) a new domain means a new start a new history for google to archive..
Now, proxies do-not get de-indexed easily i know that for a fact i have proxies with 30k+ pages indexed at google for over 3 months now and they are still doing their job like they are supposed to..
I am gonna go ahead and use one of my proxies as an example..
I have Myspace Temp as a proxy and it has 30,000+ indexed pages:
If you look closely at the screenshot below you will see that the links at the top are linked to proxified pages of those sites, this maybe considered blackhat but it sure as hell beats the 4hr/day job of getting traffic to your proxies..
If you leave those links up there, google will pickup the pages from it as you get more links to the home page. The more indexed pages you have the better and as you get more authority or strength your pages will rank better which means more traffic!
And the bottom part is something i called “network wide port” i add a php function to the front page that fetches info/content from a file hosted remotely so that i can add/sell/trade links as well as try out new adnetworks whenever i want without going through the incredibly annoying task of editting the proxies one by one, its perfect if you want to run a proxy network.
I already know it as a fact that Links to a homepage of a site gets you more indexed pages, but what about pr passed on to the pages below it?
Its always interesting to see webmasters buying “deep links” on forums and directories, i consider this as an unwritten rule that i follow while link building for a site, unless you know that your site will never get deep links on its own you should only do linkbuilding for the homepage, and have all the links that ARE available on the site “site pages..etc” on the front page, so that whatever link love you get for the front page eventually passes on to inner pages and links as well, the more pr/strong pages you have the better your site will be structured.
You can usually check the pr of each link on a page using iwebtool’s visual page rank, here is mine:
As you can see that the most inner pages on my blog have low or no pr at all, thats because all the links are leading to the homepage and they are yet to be passed down to the innerpages, getting a pr on your inner pages can be quite difficult its like a sign of mid-high authority (having pr on inner pages) so as far as i can see i’ll have a healthy number of inner pages with pr on the next update not to mention my pr5 homepage.
IF you are doing link building, make sure you stay on your niche with it, either let it be the title of the page, the name of your site or the keyword you are aiming for. You have 3 choices to make. Do-not go off topic.
