Dec 02

Give linkjuice to those who link to you

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If you are creating sites that have something more useful than rss scrapes, it is inevitable that someone will eventually link to you.

Following the same concept as parasite linkbuilding, give them link juice!

I just went through the referrer logs on glowleaf.net, and noticed that quite a few blogs are referencing some of my posts. After the warm and fuzzy feeling I had inside, thank god it lasted only a few seconds, I put all the incoming links to an excel file, and social bookmarked them all.

I separated the links from sites that are juicy, like PR 5 blogs or those totally relative to my niche, and also threw in some backlinks from my other resources. Not too much, just a few.

These guys took the time, not only to read my posts, but also use them to make their point, and also paraphrase them on some occassions, to twist them to their own mindframe, like I have done with Bluehatseo’s SEO empire post for example.

They deserve some linkjuice for that, and while doing it, I also help myself, because those are clean, original posts that actually send linkjuice and traffic to my own sites.

A funny thing is that a lot of Russians seem to like me. Я тебя люблю слишком

Put that concept in your SEO schedule. Once in a while, go through all your logs, and see who is linking to you. Beef up those pages, and forget about it. It is simple, hardly time consuming, and it fits the “do onto others what you want them to do to you” mantra.

You are already spending hours creating doorway pages to give juice to your sites, why not utilize the ones already there?

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Nov 07

Testing out the waters, the Pikachu way

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All affiliates, at least the advanced ones, test out many micro niches at any given time. If I, for example were to consider the pokemon niche, I would do some keyword research, and come up with a good keyword list, that includes both competitive and untapped keywords.

Then, I would buy a few domains, preferrably with those keywords in them. Pokemon have lots of products, so I would go the tangible product way, setting up 10-20 Mcjiffy ebay stores. If one of the domains got some traffic, I would switch it to ppc ads just to get an idea of the bids, as well as the advertised websites.

I would also set up around 10 splogs, to test out the keyword list. And a picture gallery, as well as a video gallery filled with youtubes.

I would social bookmark all of those sites, and see which social bookmarking site performs better for the niche.

After a timeframe that gives me significant statistical data, I would print out every bit of info I had gathered, lay them all out on a table, and start brainstorming on possible utilization avenues.

Maybe the video blog performed well? Maybe I got 2 keywords that brought in lots of traffic, something like “pokemon teddy bear”? Maybe the niche needs more boobs? Or less boobs?

Simple questions really. Then I would use my experience to see what I could make on each category, with which engine, and which tools.

I have made for example, a successful anime pic gallery in the past. I used the Gallery2 engine. I already have a folder with the engine, templates and useful plugins. Cool, that is one project on the list.

I have also made a successful anime adwords campaign in the past, with deceptive ad copy. Kids are much easier to deceive… Great, that means I can do the same and get lots of cheap traffic.

Where to send it though… Hmm. I scour the CPA networks, and find 2 lead offers related to pokemon or kids. Cool. So the second project has the title “Adwords campaign, with deceitful ad copy sending traffic to a thin pokemon site, filled with the CPA I found”.

I saw that Adsense performed poorly, so I decide to leave it out of the deal.

Then I do some different kind of thinking. I have never done it before, but I know that avatar sites work well. Why not niche avatar sites then? That is my 3rd new project. Will need some research, checking out the other sites, and finding the script for the job. I will also think about bundling the avatars on torrents and uploading them, putting the site info in the torrent file. The latter is a technique that I know it works.

This process, gives me:

  • A keyword list to focus on.
  • Keyword rich domains to play with.
  • Indexed domains to play with.
  • Domains with relevant traffic.
  • 2 tried and tested methods to make money.
  • A brand new project to keep me from falling asleep from boredom.
  • About a month’s worth of data to extrapolate information.
  • Worthless sites, that can be splogged for linkjuice poured into the performing ones.

Cool. We have work to do. Pika?

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Nov 02

Finally an actual use for Spydermate!

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I remembered an old technique that I have learned a while ago. This one is so simple, you will slap yourself when you read it.

I do not claim to have invented it, but I cannot find the thread that I learned about it…

Here it is. In tight SEO fights, the ones where you have every fucking relevant link on the planet, and the ranks go up and down every day, you just need that little bit of edge to take over the competition. Well, here is a sly technique.

In summary, you pay for links from your competitor’s website.

Fire up spydermate the seo site crawler, register if you haven’t already done so, and crawl one by one your competitors sites. This will take a while, you just need them indexed. Go for the top 20. A few hours later, when you have stats for all of them, go to the history tab, and check out the broken links report in everyone of them.

Check out the link equity of the page, its pr, the broken link’s anchor text etc. You goal is to find old abandoned high PR pages, with plenty of incoming links, and preferably with some decent anchor text. Most big sites have abandoned pages, with lots of broken links pointing to some other website. Find those outgoing broken links that carry plenty of link juice, and point to abandoned domains. 

Snatch the abandoned domains!

Go to waybackmachine and find out how the linked site looked, copy it, set it up at the linked domain, fix the broken images etc, and link back to your main site. Using those crappy freehost’s that come with new domains is amazing here, because you get a new IP link as well.

There is no step by step guide on this technique, use your fucking brain. Use your experience to evaluate the worth of the broken link, the spyder is there just to point it out, and help you pick up the best ones with link equity.

The technique is very simple, yet effective. An indirect link from your competitor can sometimes mean the outcome of the fight. Did I mention you can also make them link to banned domains? No? Huh, I thought I had…

Also, you may not find any broken links pointing to dropped domains, even when you expand the search to top 30. If that is the case, then your niche sucks and you are a poser.

For example, a quick search on my top 20, showed me two authority websites, having 78 and 133 broken links, with 4 dropped domains for the first and 3 for the second. And the first has good anchor text. Just try it folks.

You may also find links pointing to blogspot accounts etc. Try to snatch those as well.

Because I am sneaky, I prefer to make the linked page same as the old one, and link 2 good keywords to my main page. That way, it passes a casual inspection. Others might prefer just buying the domain and redirecting it to their site, to pass 100% linkjuice. Whatever you want, I just rather have a long term benefit. It depends on the niche too…

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Oct 24

Arachnophobia…

Feed the Spiders, Heavy construction, Inorganic agriculture, Internet Marketing, Noobs 1 Comment »

There is a beta tool online, about site assessment and SEO called Spydermate.

It doesn’t seem to do much at a casual glance, but it’s actually a neat analysis tool.

First of all, you need to register, because the unregistered crawl goes up to 25 pages only.

Crawl your site, and check out the analysis.

You can skip the summary page, it is kind of worthless. The first section informs you if your site is linked from edu or gov sites, as if that is an important SEO factor… The most useful info here are the broken links. Fix them.

The analysis tab is more of the same, just for a quick view of the Alexa rank and Yahoo linkdomain. Again, the tool insists of informing you about edu links. The most significant number here is the Average Page Depth, which should be as close as possible to 1. Something like 1.25 is more realistic.

And finally, we get to the juicy parts, the Link Equity tab. This tab, is pretty much useless unless you click on the “show rows: 1000″ (and of course had your whole site crawled, not just the 25 pages).

And now we see some cool things. First of all, this page, unless it times out, shows you a great overview of your website. Each and every page, analyzed, PR, backlinks, broken links. An experienced SEO, can simply glance at this page and predict the rankings… Especially if you click on “Targeted Keywords”.

The keywords it shows, link to SEOBook’s keywords research tools, which I personally find useless, but it’s there if you want it. No idea why.

If you don’t see the value in the Link Equity tab, go do some more reading, you still have a lot to learn.

Next comes the Scheduled Crawling. Another thing I personally have no use for, but others might want it. It does what the name says. Figure it out for yourself.

And the second useful feature of this tool, the Compare tab. Simple, when you are registered, it automatically saves your previous crawls with a timestamp. With literally two clicks, you can see an overview of your site between point A and B in time. Awesome, fast, easy and useful.

EDIT: It seems that I have to spell that out for some people. You can compare two different sites.

Some might think that I bury this tool in this review. Actually I am not. As I always say, I am a person that looks for the 80/20 rule in my tools. Well, while I have no use for the silly tabs in Spydermate, I have great use for Link Equity and Compare Crawls.

Honestly, this tool has become the mate (pun intended) for my SeoQuake plugin, another amazing website overview tool. With those two, I can easily skim through the stats of other websites, see how good their SEO is, how “stable” their rank is, what their weakness is. By comparing the overview of the competitors to my sites, I can find out what to do to outrank them.

As I said above, if you don’t see the value here, go do some reading. No, NOT EBOOKS. :)

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Oct 20

TLA vs TNX, Round 2: Fight!

Fire and Forget, Inorganic agriculture, Internet Marketing 2 Comments »

This an addon post to my previous TLA vs TNX preview. Since people liked it so much, I thought I would give some more information on the matter.

Two things have changed since the time of the first review’s writing:

  • TLA has opened their previously “secret” inlinks marketplace to the public.

This move has significantly increased their marketplace, and also decreased the average link price. Buyers can now find the anchor text they want, on old, linked, PR posts, and pay a logical price like 7-9$, rather than the ridiculous 300$ older links.

For my sites, the old inlinks had not wielded a single sale, whereas now, they are selling like hotcakes. I have an average of 1 inlinks sale per week, and those are cumulative, meaning that I expect to reach 100$ passive income in 3 months from the inlinks alone. Not bad, for doing absolutely nothing.

  • TNX has perfomed beyond expectations, selling links steadily. Also, they increased their buyout price.

They have been selling links all this time, without falter, filling up close to 85% of my inventory. Also, they increased their point buyout price by 0.03$, to 0.93$ per 1000 points. It may not seem much, but it adds up. 

Honestly, when I read that they would increase their point buyout price over time, I thought they were lying. Guess I was wrong.

You can also sell points to other users, by checking the first option in “Sell tnx points” page. But I fail to see the use in that. If I wanted to barter all day for selling points, I would sell the links on digitalpoint in the first place. 

Also, a thing I did not mention in the last post, is that the TNX forum has plenty of information about tech issues in various CMSes etc. Personally I had no use for any of that, but it’s there, and it deserves to be noted.

Something that I am writing with caution, is that I am fairly certain TNX has sold 5 links on some of my pages. Their system claims the max is 4. Either this is true, or the code is messing up with my caching plugin. EDIT: I am an idiot. Ignore this.

A little hint if you are buying TNX links, is to ignore their advice to put text around your link. I have seen the high PR buyers put only 1-2 words, just the anchor text, so that may be a nudge in the right direction. Plus the text thingie really screws up the formatting, making it impossible for a publisher to make them look good. They should at least make it standardized, like an xml feed.

All the other points remain the same, TLA is still a pain in the ass to register all your sites, and their other links are still too expensive to ever actually sell. But their inlinks move has changed the scene, because it shows actual constant link sales. The move really put them back on the market.

So, now its a close match. Which one is better, remains to be seen in Round 3. I suggest that you use them both though, they are slightly different in the application.

And somebody tell that idiot who owns tnx.com that he could earn thousands by putting up a single referral link. The waste just tears my heart in two.

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