Webside Chat with Neil Patel

Wiz kid, statistics software design pro, SEO consultant with million dollar contracts, pro blogger…all at age 23. I hate this kid! Neil Patel has the resume and accomplishments of someone twice his age.

Oh what I wouldn’t give to have had THIS internet back when I was younger! In this podcast Neil discusses his rise to success, how to track every movement on your site, and seo and social marketing tactics.

• Neil’s Blog
• CrazyEgg.com
• KissMetrics

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Tags: crazy egg, kiss metrics, metrics, neil patel, seo, social media, website stats

Webside Chat with Nathan Anderson from SEOClub.com

Nathan Anderson is my personal go-to SEO expert. He’s one of the most prolific testers and search engine analysts online today.

Find out what he has to say about today’s search engine optimization tactics and how social media comes into play with link building and raising your rankings!

Nathan’s sites: SEOClub, Blog

Check out my other Webside Chats!

Tags: jack humphrey, nathan anderson, sem, seo, social marketing, social media, Webside Chats

Link Building Today

Wandering around the SEO stomping grounds today I found some good link building articles. Check these out for some new ideas on getting links to your site in creative ways.

Recent Link Building Blog Posts

Comment on Blog For A Cause Or Fabricate A Story by Link Building …

[…] Read more Blog For A Cause Or Fabricate A Story | Andy Beard - Niche Marketing […]

Tips on Content Centered Link Building

that reminds me of the interplay between content and link building. “If you don’t create useful content, you won’t attract any links. How can you attract links if you don’t have content worth linking to?”. …

Creating a Link Building Machine

Intelligent online publishers have been creating Link Building Machines for years but others try to rely on short term fixes. The short term fix (as you might have guessed) isn’ta good long term business strategy. …

Internal Linking & Site Depth

Many people make a common mistake, which is not getting links to pages other than their homepage. Many times you’ll see pages with 98% of all their links going to their index page. This isn’t the best practice, it is best to deep link. …

9 Critical Steps to Evaluating Incoming Link Quality — By Stephen …

After all, getting links from authoritative sites is valuable even if you do have to share the link-juice. Just be aware that the fewer the outgoing links on a page, the more link-equity (PageRank) is being passed along to you. …

Getting Links From .Edu Web Sites

Getting links from high traffic web sites is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your web site. Some of the most trafficked sites on the Net include .edu and .gov sites because they contain lots of content focused on a particular …

Tags: getting links, link bait, Link Building, seo

Tipzu - Full blown HTML enabled content network

Want to get in early on a new site? The creator of Tipzu is asking for beta testers for a new Web 2.0 property.

What’s Cool About Tipzu?

The thing I like the most about it is it is unrestricted. You can link out in any way you want from the content you publish there. It accepts articles with full HTML control and has a ton of other great features like:

• Publishing Multiple Articles
• Full HTML control
• Revenue Sharing
• Add Video’s, Opt-In Forms
• Build Multiple Landing Pages
• Blog Platform
• RSS
• Title Tag Control
• Comments
• Build A User Base Community
• Newsletter with RSS

It’s Squidoo, Hubpages + Blogspot in one…

It is worth a hard look. This is going to help a lot of publishers with SEO and the network will attract a good deal of traffic as word grows and it comes out of beta.

To check it out and become a beta tester, head over to Jon’s welcome video which shows you all the features and gives FTR readers a “back door” into the site.

Tags: beta testers, Content Syndication, getting links, Link Building, seo, tipzu, web 2.0 marketing

Today in SEO

A hand-picked selection of SEO related posts and news from around the web.

• Do I Really Need to Perform SEO for My Website?
• Eight Facts sbout SEO
• SES NY Session: B2B SEO Tactics
• Pretty Sites are Good for SEO
• New SEO questions & answers series
• SEO Tip: Almost 7 Ways To Re-Optimize Your Posts
• Beat SEO experts with a stick until they go away
• What Does SEO Have in Common With the Wizard of Oz?
• SMX West - Industrial Strength SEO - Amplify Overview
• SEO and Blog Post Titles

Tags: seo, seo tips

Social Power Linking Reviews

We are getting a lot of reviews for Social Power Linking and I wanted to share some with you so you could see how members feel about what’s inside. (You can’t trust me, I know.)

Video Reviews

There’s only one of these so far, but I am sure people will learn that a video review gets a lot more attention (hint hint) from me!

Hector Sanchez demonstrates how he got ranked by Google in under 10 minutes!

“…everybody says that a picture is worth a thousand words, so I created this video (using Jacks’s teachings) so you can see for yourself the power of what you could learn from the “social power linking” membership site.” -TechnoBuck.com

Other member reviews of Social Power Linking:

• See How Easily You Can Increase Traffic With Web 2.0 Marketing
• Andy Beard
• Neil Shearing
• Richard Mathiason
• Rick Hendershot
• Tuesdays With Maury
• The Power Of Social Linking Illustrated by Brittany Spears
• David Lee Venters
• Give Him The Gift of Traffic
• Andrew Daum
• Sly Marketing
• Tony Zayas
• Social Power Linking - Does It Deliver?
• Internet Home Business Blog Review of Social Power Linking
• Review on Zimbio
• Generating Web 2.0 Traffic
• En Espanol: Alberto Abudara
• The Home Business Archive

One of the many benefits of Social Power Linking membership is that we have an affiliate program. No big deal there. But ours is way different.

When someone, anyone, mentions Social Power Linking in a review we descend upon that site and Power Link the heck out of it. All the reviews above receive links and traffic from us. While we only link the review pages, the effect domain-wide is felt with increases in link popularity, more direct traffic from social media sites, and better rankings.

A service that would do such a thing would cost $1000+ if it was decent.

That’s the power of social marketing communities like ours. Together we can do things individual website owners cannot do by themselves.

This aspect alone is worth the strangely low price of entry for Social Power Linking.

Here are some other cool things offered:

Social Marketing Reports: Our reports show you how to use certain high traffic social sites for the best link juice and direct traffic.

A new report comes out every month. This month we released the Mashable.com report. There are tips in this one that would surprise the most avid users of Mashable!

Keyword Exchange: Members can exchange in-content links in search-engine-stimulating, white hat ways that makes link brokerages a thing of the past. Huge savings from having to buy links and a lot safer because our links are “editorial” in nature which is what Matt Cutts says Google looks for in distinguishing between good and bad links.

Buzz Group: Need friends? Our buzz group has been helping members since April 2007 and is the first such group on the internet. Your profiles and stories get an immediate white hat boost from being involved in Social Power Linking.

There’s more. Much more.

EACH of the above services could easily be split into their own memberships for the same price as Social Power Linking. I see people paying $30 a month for practically nothing in return. This is why there is so much buzz around Social Power Linking. The value is absolutely unmatched anywhere on the web for any type of membership service.

If you own a website, you need Social Power Linking. Period!

Tags: Link Building, seo, social marketing, social power linking reviews, website traffic

Social Power Linking Community 100 Strong in 24 Hours

Edit: SPL blew past the 200 member mark today, December 20th. Many reviews from members are posted below…

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Without much fanfare, no months long teaser campaign, and zero hype, Social Power Linking re-launched yesterday.

Over 100 people signed up to experience something they weren’t expecting: a packed-to-the-gills training center on web 2.0 social marketing and Power Linking tactics designed to boost any site’s traffic from insignificant to major niche player in a short amount of time.

Traffic that, if you were to pay for it via Adwords or by hiring an SEO firm, would cost you tens of thousands of dollars per year. Power Linkers, of course, don’t pay for traffic we can get for free.

And our organically driven traffic is more qualified and converts higher than your average Adwords traffic.

We Might Have Done 200+ If Our Price Was Higher!

Because everyone has been trained over the last year to think that quality means paying $997.00 for a course or $197.00 per month for a membership, we had a lot of people thinking this was a hastily thrown together “side show” community.

Some figured it was just a lead in for ASC with light content to tease them to a higher priced membership.

On all counts, those folks were wrong.

What we are doing with our low price point is pricing for volume. Many gurus tell people when creating products to work up to large ticket items. Now people are simply launching formerly $20-$50/month sites at $97-$197.00. Same volume and quality of content as before, just higher priced because they see “everyone else” doing it.

Also, a lot of people know their product only appeals to a certain number of people and they have to price it high to make a profit on low sales volume. That’s natural and good.

But Social Power Linking appeals to the masses.

The market for people looking to get more free traffic to their sites is massive. Combine what people are charging hundreds or thousands per month for, with mass appeal and low price point, and you have SPL.

Our Network Must Be Big

Because we have things built into the community like content swaps, keyword swaps, and other tactics to help members network and get more valuable links, bigger is better. The more members we have, the more opportunities for individual members to pick up killer links and traffic.

So we are doing really cool stuff to ensure we hit our first benchmark at the end of January of 1000 members.

Everyone who signs up for SPL automatically gets enrolled in the affiliate program. When a member writes a review or a success story using one of our tactics with their affiliate link embedded, their site gets promoted by our staff!

When is the last time you joined an affiliate program and got promoted by the product owner’s staff of Power Linking Ninjas?

That’s just what we do. We get you links, votes in the social sites, submissions and any other links we can for you. Think what that does for your affiliate sales. Now, think what that will do for your entire domain in the engines and for list signups, sales, and direct traffic all over your domain!

We, of course, promote your review page, but we are increasing the value and link popularity of your whole domain in the process.

That’s worth $29.95 about 100 times over.

That’s a peek at how we’ll be building this membership to thousands of Power Linkers in short order. Everyone involved with the community will benefit in so many ways for so little money that it will take off like a California wildfire.

So, if you are one of the thousands who took a look yesterday but decided it was too good to be true, take another look because once in a blue moon something actually is better than advertised.

We don’t like to have massive launches and make people sick of hearing from us through our hundreds of JV partners. It’s not our style. But don’t let the fact that people aren’t lighting themselves on fire to get your attention about this fool you into thinking it’s not the place for you to be to grow your presence on the web.

Give Social Power Linking a try for 30 days.

If it isn’t paying for itself with just one good link you pick up that might otherwise cost you $50+ per month if you had to pay for it, just ask for a refund. Simple.

Social Power Linking Reviews and Stories

• Andy Beard
• Neil Shearing
• Richard Mathiason
• Rick Hendershot
• Tuesdays With Maury
• The Power Of Social Linking Illustrated by Brittany Spears
• David Lee Venters
• Give Him The Gift of Traffic
• Andrew Daum
• Sly Marketing
• Tony Zayas
• Social Power Linking - Does It Deliver?
• Internet Home Business Blog Review of Social Power Linking
• Review on Zimbio
• Generating Web 2.0 Traffic
• En Espanol: Alberto Abudara
• The Home Business Archive

Tags: getting links, getting traffic, seo, social power linking, social power linking review

Subdomain or Folder - What does Google like better?

Search Engine Watch has a great link building post today on the difference between using folders/directories or subdomains and how Google views both in terms of rankings.

You are going to get an education in subdomains today, because oddly, Search Engine Round Table also did a piece on the topic with the same Matt Cutts info, but taking another angle on the issue.

It’s not really odd. These search engine sites are just doing their jobs. Matt Cutts talks about something and they report it. The New York Times and USA Today will have the same cover stories frequently as well.

It seems there’s no difference in using a directory to put, say, your blog versus a subdomain. There are definitely preferences among site owners, but in the end it’s about the links. A sort of “My directory can beat your subdomain any day of the week” kind of thing if you have enough link popularity.

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, search engine roundtable, search engine watch, seo

Link Building News

Link building is going through some changes.  Here’s the latest news from the streets…

• “What’s a nice girl like you doing with links like that?” - Debra O. Mastaler writes some insightful link building tips in light of the recent Google pagerank updates and the obvious slapdowns of some very big, popular sites.  She writes about some social marketing stuff we have already discussed here as early as last summer, but her ideas on alternative traffic and linking sources are something to pay attention to in your marketing for sure.
• Aaron Wall’s latest in WebProNews - “Using Google Date Based Filters to Detect Link Building…”
• WebmasterWorld forum members discuss link building and the new rules of SEO.
• Link Analysis Beyond Search Rank - Eric Ward’s article helps with link analysis and valuing links beyond search engine optimization.

Building with Trackbacks

A link building tactic that is often overlooked is using PRWeb.com press release trackback feature.   I wrote a piece on this technique and it is worth a read if you are not periodically scanning PRWeb for trackback-worthy content.

The key is to start branching out and seeking new traffic venues with your link building campaign.   I have always said that one should never rely completely on search engine traffic.  With the recent (and constant) changes Google is implementing, this is more true today than ever before.

Tags: google, Link Building, pagerank, sem, seo

Hiding From Google

I get emails from time to time from people who say they are using my recommendations for blogging and bending the web but that they still aren’t seeing Google results or much traffic.

My usual answer is that they aren’t really following what’s been written here and elsewhere about blog marketing, content development, and social marketing.

You Can’t Hide from Google

If you have the right ping list and you simply make a post, Google will come knocking very soon after.  That’s it.  No need to do social marketing acrobatics to get spidered, which is why marketers have adopted blogging.

Static sites can be put up and, with no ability to ping sites that Google watches for new content on the web, be completely deserted.  Although it’s even hard to hide a site from the spiders for very long even if it isn’t promoted…at all!

With the proper site setup, it is harder to exist on the web for 24 hours with a goal of not being found by the engines than it is to get traffic and rankings.

The short answer is there is absolutely no way you can avoid being spidered and getting traffic if you really pay attention to what you read here.  By simply setting up your Wordpress blog properly, the very moment you post anything to your site, the Great Eye of Google is upon you.  There’s nothing you could do to stop being indexed after making one post.

It is impossible to fail at getting traffic if you follow the guidelines below.

1.  Have a blog (Wordpress – self hosted – preferred)

2.  Install the proper ping list.

3.  Develop some unique, original, useful content for your niche with the proper keywords people use to find such information in the engines.  Many people think you need to be a prolific writer to get ongoing traffic, but that’s not actually the case.  You can write a quick post every other day and write a deep, useful post once a week, or less, and get good traffic and rankings.

4.  Get involved in your niche and comment on other blogs.  Simple, but most people never do this enough.

5.  Use web 2.0 sites (there are thousands of them now) to get new links and attract traffic from each community you belong to.  (Facebook and Myspace are the only communities out there.  MyBlogLog is a community as well as many other web 2.0 sites that most people don’t think of as communities.  But they have their own following and readership and the ability to create groups.)

Free Information is Trustworthy

Most people discount the value of free guides to web 2.0 marketing.  They feel you have to pay for good information when, in fact, most of the paid guides pale in comparison to some of the free guides.

Authority Black Book and Bending the Web make it impossible for you to fail to drive traffic and gain rankings if you follow them and actually do the work.

The main problems I see with people who complain that they are following what I show them here at FTR yet they are still striking out are:

1.  They are on a domain they bought that was previously a spam site and has been blacklisted by Google and others.  This is a good way to hide from Google.  Make sure you know where it has been and where it stands before you pick up a used domain.

2.  They “say” they are following the guidelines and advice, but they are cutting corners, spamming (whether they know it or not), and expecting windfalls of traffic and rankings with very little work or thought on their part.

The bottom line is that there is very little a person could do to fail with what we teach here at FTR unless what they do is very little.

Marketing on the web is simpler now than it ever has been before, but it still and will always take work to get results.

 

Tags: search engine traffic, sem, seo

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