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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 22

Older is better

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I own an old domain. A great domain actually. It is DMOZ listed, 10 years old, at least 5 year old backlinks. The only downside is that its not that brandable.

And for a silly inexplicable emotional reason I did not use it all this time. It is on the travel niche, a competitive niche compared to others.

Anyway, I stripped down the old site, and set up a new WP blog, and the classic thingies:

  • Revolution Blog theme
  • WP cache
  • Expanded pinglist and permalinks
  • Nextgen Gallery, with 20 pics
  • Xml sitemaps plugin, and submitted site and sitemap to Google webmaster tools
  • Pingcrawl
  • CForms II, it is still a business site, we need orders
  • Feedburner
  • TLA, because the niche pays good and TLA inlinks are as discreet as it gets

All the tricks I mentioned on a previous post basically…

I filled the site up with 20 articles on the theme, and 20 videos, utilizing the pingcrawl and putting tags so that it fires.
Then submitted a few of the articles and videos to social bookmarking sites, mainly stumble upon.
The next day, the domain was ranking #6-7 for some competitive terms. Of course, the rank will not stay that easily, but it proved to me that an old trusted domain can rank very easy with no penalties, and no red flags for quick link growth. The ranks fluctuate for 4 days now, as expected, but they are much higher than my main site that took me a year to rank.
The point is, that if you have, or can buy, an old trusted domain 7+ years old with same age links etc, use it.
Throw up 20 pages of articles, 20 pics and 20 youtubes. Dont bother that much. Just develop it a bit, and link to your main sites. And sell links on it.
If the case is different than mine, and your domain is brandable, by all means work on it. You will find yourself waaay ahead of the curve.

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Mar 09

Choosing A Domain Name

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Finding the right domain name for your website can often be a pretty difficult process. This is not because it’s going to be hard to register it, but because of the fact it’s not always easy to come to a final decision on what is going to work best for your site. Even though this site’s domain name looks pretty simple and straightforward, it still took me a few days to browse through all the domain names on offer before I decided upon this one.So what should you be looking for in a domain name? You obviously want to find something that you are completely happy with and can work with in the future, so here is a quick guide to finding the domain name that is going to work best for your poker site.

Branding

When people visit your site, it’s great to have a domain name that is easy to remember and will stick in people’s minds. Some of the best domains involve 2 words together (e.g. cardplayer.com, cardschat.com, everypoker.com), with some superb domains just using one word. However, the chances of getting a good one-word poker domain in this day and age are pretty slim, so you are more than likely going to need to shoot for a domain with 2 or 3 words in it.

The best kind of domain to get is one that is memorable, yet still contains keywords for your site. However, this is not always going to be possible, so you have to make a compromise in some area. You can still rank well if you don’t have your keywords in your domain name, so don’t be too afraid about sacrificing a keyword to help keep your domain short and sweet.

If you are pushing to 4 words then it is less likely that your domain is going to be very memorable, and on top of this it’s going to be a pretty long domain name. The same idea applies to the use of dashes (-) in domain names. If you use too many, it’s not going to make your site all that brandable. Many people would say that you should stick to 2 at most, but in my honest opinion I don’t think you should use more than one.

So as a general rule, go for something short, sweet and brandable rather than getting an overly busy domain name just to try and fit your keywords in. Imagine how hard it’s going to be for people to say “Hey I found this really great site the other day… its: Holdem dash strategy dash tips four (the number not word) dash poker”. It doesn’t really have much of ring to it now does it?

.com .net .org?

When you have found your desired domain name, you have a choice between a number of different TLDs (top level domains). The obvious choice would be to use the .com domain if possible, because it is much more familiar to your visitors to have a .com at the end of your domain and it helps your site to sound more reputable.

The other two are also fine to use, and they should not pose any problems if you are forced to use a .net or .org when it comes to ranking well in the search engines. I would choose .net over .org, but that is just a matter of personal preference. However, I wouldn’t stray away from using a .com, .org or .net domain for a poker site unless you are targeting a specific country and using a domain like .co.uk or .ca. If you are using something like a .tk domain, people are going to think, “If this is such a great site, why didn’t they get the .com domain instead?”

So stick with the ones that people are familiar with.

Domain name tips

When you register a domain name, try to avoid names that may be trademarked. A good example of this is using ‘wsop’ anywhere in your domain. This is because ‘wsop’ has been trademarked, and you can easily be asked to take your site down and transfer it to another domain if you get spotted. Another example is anything ending in ‘rus’, as ‘toysrus’ tries hard to prevent anyone using this particular trademark. But I wouldn’t imagine you would want to use this in a domain name as a poker affiliate anyway.

Another tip is to choose a different company to register your domain name with than you use for your hosting. This is because if there ever happens to be any trouble with your hosting, there won’t be any trouble with switching from one host to another and retaining your domain name at the same time.

The problem with finding a good poker domain is that all the best ones are taken. There are literally thousands of websites already out there, so it can become a pretty difficult task to still find some half decent ones that might be left. So the idea is to compromise a little, but don’t go over the top just to try and get a few keywords in. At the end of the day, something short and memorable like knowholdem.com is going to work much better than holdem-strategy–texas.net.

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