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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Oct 18

Glowleaf.net X-rayed again a month later

Blogs, Doodling, Feed the Spiders, Google, Heavy construction, Inorganic agriculture, Mind over Pixels, Noobs, Techniques No Comments »

Here is an update, a month after my original post Glowleaf.net x-rayed for data analysis.

It had:

  • PageRank: 3
  • Indexed pages G:128 Y:199 M:85
  • Links G:11 Y:653 M:0
  • Technorati authority 199
  • Technorati rank 22,922

Now:

  • PageRank: 3
  • Indexed pages G:387 Y:384 M:128
  • Links G:21 Y:693 M:0
  • Technorati authority 112
  • Technorati rank 49,657

It had:

Page External links
All pages (total links) 855
http://www.glowleaf.net/ 851
http://www.glowleaf.net/famous-failures/ 1
http://www.glowleaf.net/google-black-hole-the-lite-version/ 2
http://www.glowleaf.net/oldest-domains-on-the-net/ 1
All pages (total links) 855

Now:

Page External links
All pages (total links) 1,954
http://www.glowleaf.net/ 1,122
http://www.glowleaf.net/a-small-collection-of-icons-for-you/ 7
http://www.glowleaf.net/anarchy-online/ 71
http://www.glowleaf.net/building-your-seo-empire-the-glowleaf-way/ 1
http://www.glowleaf.net/famous-failures/ 1
http://www.glowleaf.net/how-to-shoot-yourself-on-the-foot-or-how-to-kill-your-own-viral-product/ 15
http://www.glowleaf.net/sustain-the-flame/ 6
http://www.glowleaf.net/tip-of-the-day-creating-youtube-backlinks/ 10
http://www.glowleaf.net/to-innovate-or-to-immitate/ 721
All pages (total links) 1,954

And also some great rankings now,  but I am too bored to analyze them. As if Google would leave their SERPS alone long enough for this post to make sense. Lets just say that after a whole year my site finally gets organic visitors…

I think it is a great improvement for just a month, right?

Take into consideration that the technorati stats are skewed due to my site getting slammed by the Digg mob at that period.

Wanna know what I did to get those results?

  • Installed pingcrawl, and put 3 relevant tags on every post.
  • Submitted my itty witty posts, to digg, delicious and stumble with itty witty descriptions.
  • My theme is SEOed.
  • I submitted site and sitemap to Google Webmaster tools.
  • Burned my feed with Feedburner.
  • Made sure my titles have keywords in them, while keeping them catchy at the same time.

That is all. What did you think, that this is rocket science? That I was going to sell you a crappy ebook on how to rank?

(And since I am heated up about this issue…)

  • Also, I used wordpress.

Try doing that with your crappy fucking Joomla.

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Oct 15

Multiplying like rabbits

Cybertowns, Doodling, Fire and Forget, Heavy construction, Inorganic agriculture, Mind over Pixels, RGBhat, Social abuse, Web 2.0 Cutesy Bullshit No Comments »

Communities are the ultimate blackhat

Let me say that again:

Communities are the ultimate blackhat

What does blackhat mean?

Mainly automation, and content generation, all while exploiting a bug or two.

What do communities give you?

Content generation, niche spread, news discussion, and automation.

The only thing that is missing from a community to become a blackhat tool, are the exploits. Having a community on a niche, means that you automatically have, buyers, sellers, news topic discussion, content, and the member’s sites to link to you, all in the same niche.

Where am I going with this?

  • Do you need more visitors? Tell your members, or better yet train them, to social bookmark the content that is uploaded on the community.
  • Do you need incoming links? Tell your members, or better yet train them, to ask for links, to put the link in their sigs on the fora they frequent, or if they have sites, link to the community.
  • Do you need buyers? Use the mailing list!
  • Do you need content? Have a contest!
  • Do you need more members? Tell them to invite their friends.

If you take the time, to build and grow even a small community on a niche, you are alone no more. You can simply ask for something, or at least provide an incentive, monetary or simply e-peen, and the members will make it happen. This does not mean that you should lay on your ass and wait for results, but if you are creative, and focus the community’s attention to what you want, you will wake up the next day and find it right there.

You can work to generate one great piece of linkbait for example, or you can work harder, to create a tool and a platform for creative people to generate linkbait all day for years.

You think linkbait is hard? Ok, stick with content then. A content driven community dishes out more content than what you could ever generate yourself, without outsourcing the load.

I am amazed by the results of my newest project. 30 members, just 30, have already uploaded content, sparked up the forum, created 2 groups in hi5 and facebook, created 2 groups in my site, created a banner that they have on their sig in fora, linked to the site from their blogs, blogged about the community, started a buzz in various relevant fora, and invited 3 members.

Before you say that 30 members is nothing, bear in mind that the community is nichy niche. It is about a particular thing, on a small country, in a non english language. The maximum members available in the whole country are around 3000. So I am at a 1% coverage.

You can do the same. Work on gathering the critical mass for a community to thrive, and you are in for more mouths than you can feed.

Think bunnies. Think orgies.

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Oct 13

Tip of the day: Utilize the trackback

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This is just something that most of us forget, utilizing the trackback in blogs.

When you write a link to another blog, don’t just link to its homepage. Link to any internal page, so that your blog will ping and trackback that post. If there is nothing relevant, just choose one of the recent ones, or the popular ones for linkjuice.

Simple, easy, and we all forget to do it :)

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Oct 09

Burn the parking lot

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I discovered a stupidly simple but effective way to increase your revenue from parked domains.

Anyone with a large enough domain portfolio, will own some dead domains, unsellable and with little to no traffic.

Well, what you can do is this:

  • Set up a splog on that domain. WP of course.
  • Use feedwordpress to fetch feeds related to the keywords your domain is about.
  • Put it on quick burn mode, i.e. scrape every 10 mins from multiple feeds.
  • Put up a cpm ad. Why not?
  • Let it run 2-3 weeks, until pages get indexed etc.
  • Switch the domain to the parking service.
  • Do a crop rotation every 2 months.

Simple as that. The best part is that you don’t violate the company’s TOS. See? I’am a good boy for a change.

Also, you don’t need to delete anything from the hosting, just switch the dns, get parking revenue, and then switch the dns back to the hosting.

You will need a catchall parking service like namedrive for this to work.

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