The Big Word Project
April 15, 2008
Possibly a bit more meaningful than the million dollar home page, The Big Word Project is redefining words in the English language. The new definitions? Sites who buy the words. Over 291,000 words from the Oxford English Dictionary.
I know this kind of thing has to be taken with a grain of salt, but they just showed up in WIRED magazine this month and are getting a lot of buzz. And I just couldn’t let some of my words be owned by someone else. Which is probably why this type of thing works so darned well.
Below are some words I bought for $1 per letter. As of this post, most of the words are still available. You can find words yet to be snapped up by clicking on the “Inactive” link on any page.
Behind the Big Word Project
As usual, this great idea was born out of student poverty. Two grad students from University of Ulster, Belfast, Paddy Donnelly and Lee Monroe dreamed up this dictionary-style site.
They have sold 2300 words so far. They’ll sell a helluva lot more once they hit critical mass (critical buzz). Consider it a donation for higher education. Or advertising. Either way its a tax write off.
Tags: big word project, buy keywords, keyword advertising, million dollar homepage
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How-To Information is Great Linkbait
April 11, 2008
I teach people about linkbaiting in SPL and ASC on a fairly regular basis. Commonly people will try to stump me and throw out what they think is the most boring, un-linkbait-able niche in the hopes that I will give up preaching that just about everything is linkbait-worthy if there are people online who want to know more about something.
Well, I think I can put an end to the linkbait debate today. If the how-to video below doesn’t prove that you can create how-to information on any conceivable topic of interest to someone, then maybe I will have to give up.
How to Tip A Cow
Tags: funny linkbait, how to linkbait, linkbait tips, linkbaiting
Simple Trick For Building Your Social Network’s Authority
April 1, 2008
I just wrote up a link building tip in Social Marketing Central, the Friday Traffic Report’s community, that you should check out if you want a cool way to help your satellite pages do better in the engines.
Hint: 90% of the people who comment here at FTR are doing it wrong! I show you why in my latest blog post at Social Marketing Central.
Read: Simple trick for getting link juice to your satellite pages
Tags: link building, link juice, satellite pages, social marketing, social marketing central
Stephen Pierce Uncovers Traffic and Link Building Tactic on YouTube
March 24, 2008
Link Building with YouTube
I hate it when someone figures out something I should have figured out! The fact that it’s Stephen Pierce helps a little. But I’m still mad. 
There’s a simple little trick Stephen teaches on today’s DTAlpha Blog which makes it easy to find high traffic sites to get links and traffic from. Stephen shows you how in his podcast “YouTube’s Amazing Overlooked Traffic Secret” REVEALED!” -Podcast, 10 min
Here are a couple more recent posts I found related to YouTube and video marketing:
Tags: blog marketing, link building, stephen pierce, video markeing, youtube promotion
Getting Links: Here’s how the Pros do it…
March 12, 2008
I found some great resources for getting more links in my travels through social space today and I thought I’d better share them with you.
17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You: One of the best ways to get links and generate buzz is to get bloggers to write about what you’re doing. Boing Boing co-author Cory Doctorow provides some tips on making it easy for bloggers to point to you.
10 Good Links You Can Get in the Next 50 Minutes: This week we thought we’d give you ten quick ways to get some links so that you can take a breather from the strenuous stuff and still feel good about adding real link value to your site.
Matt Cutts on Getting Links: Okay, here are some ways to get high-quality links without emailing, paying, or even paying attention to search engines. (Note: This was written in 2005 and is still a quality source of link-getting!)
When I wrote Power Linking first edition in 2002, I said that the most important factor for marketing online was, is, and always will be getting links. Since then the tactics have changed and trends have come and gone, yet links still remain the fabric (or the threads) of the web.
I am confident that I will be able to write the same thing in 2010 and 2025.
Tags: getting links, link building, link building tips, matt cutts
Michelle MacPhearson’s 30 Minute Backlinks
February 28, 2008
Michelle has released a new case study showing the effectiveness of her new 30 Minute Backlinks system. She got a static page on a brand new domain to #5 in Google in around 3 days.
We sometimes do that in minutes with blogs, but the telling part about the effectiveness of her method is that she did it on a static page on a brand new domain. Basically she came from out of nowhere and went to #5 in Google for her top term.
Suggest you go take a look at her video…
Check out 30 Minute Backlinks!
Tags: 30 minute backlinks, link building, michelle macphearson
Top 5 Search Engine Marketing Trends in 2008
January 19, 2008
William Flaiz over at Search Engine Watch has a great post on search engine marketing trends for 2008.
Highlights:
“With 2008 in full swing, the game is already starting to change for the SEO (define) community. After the recent hailstorm of New Year’s predictions and resolutions, agencies and in-house SEOs are buzzing with new ideas and strategies for the next big search thing.” -William Flaiz, SEW
I Love Validation!
Did you really think reciprocal linking could be dead? It’s not. Not at all. Chris Boggs backs me up and explains why claims of reciprocal linking’s demise were greatly and, I believe, intentionally exaggerated.
Tags: chris boggs, reciprocal linking, search engine marketing, search engine marketing trends, william flaiz
TwitterFeed Puts Your Blog On Twitter
December 17, 2007
Finally a use for Twitter!
There’s a neat little beta service out called TwitterFeed.com that allows you to Twitter your RSS feed (any number of feeds really) with your current Twitter account.
Setup was funky because you have to learn about OpenID if you’ve never done that before (I hadn’t and I have over 900 logins stored in my RoboForm!) but once you get logged in, it takes about a nanosecond to get setup with your blog feed going directly to your Twitter account.
Yes, Twitter uses “TinyURL” instead of direct URLS, but people are reporting direct traffic from this. Might be worth a look.
I set mine up for a 12 hour check, meaning it only bothers my feed once every 12 hours and posts up to 5 of the latest posts on the blog each time.
Some people might call this spam, but Twitter is spam anyway. Permission-based spam among friends to bore you to death with their every twitch throughout the day, so don’t feel bad! You will be “bugging” your friends with information that’s actually useful.
Make a completely useless tool useful! Post your RSS feed to Twitter!
Here’s my pathetic little Twitter account. According to TwitterFeed.com, it will soon be a treasure trove of information!
Tags: post rss to twitter, rss feed twitter, twitter feed, twitterfeed
Fantastic Web 2.0 Sites Directory
October 16, 2007
If you are done with the list of places to submit your RSS feed and you’ve submitted to all the blog directories provided here at FTR (AND every web 2.0 site in my Authority Black Book) I have found a few months of work for you with this web 2.0 sites directory.
Don’t forget that you have the top video sites you can syndicate your videos on as well.
Oh, and there’s our new report called “Bending the Web” which will need to be read and applied ASAP.
I’m actually being gentle. There’s a lot more out there!
Tags: web 2.0 directories, web 2.0 marketing
Link Building: Make The Links Come To You!
October 11, 2007
When, and I do mean when, you get burnt out on getting links to your site, take a break and make the links come to you for awhile.
How?
Use all the time you’d spend chasing down links, blog commenting, web 2.0 social marketing and the like to create a masterful piece of linkbait.
Watch how many people link to you and thank your lucky stars you didn’t have to go beating on their door to get them.
You got new content for your site that will impress readers, increase RSS subscribers, get editorial links from all over the place, higher search engine rankings just from slowing down, wrting a great piece (or having one written) and posting it.
Too Simple?
Really, compared to all other forms of link building, this is by far the easiest way to get new links despite making your brain sweat a little over a good linkbait piece.
You might strike out a couple times and not get a huge response. But you still have good new content up on the site at the end of the day. And that’s more than you have at the end of some days when not a single person responds to your offer to write for their blog!
Example: Top 50 Video Sharing Sites
I have a phrase at #3 in Google for a video-related term that has 1.8 BILLION competing pages. The payoff for a little work on even a simple list can be massive. That page gets over 600 uniques a day from video-related terms it scored for!
Example: Use video! How to do a trackback…
Tags: link building
