Nov 02

LFM BFD tank no dru, healer, dpser

Doodling, Internet Marketing, Mind over Pixels, WebWriMo challenge No Comments »

If the above do not make sense to you, then you are lucky to have escaped the World of Warcraft virus. The online video games niche is one of the hottest and most competitive online.

A trend that has been going on for the last 4 years, is buying and selling World of Warcraft accounts.

Before you start laughing (Huh huh, he is playing with video games! Stupid kiddo.) check out these wow bargain accounts and these wow elite accounts.

Not laughing now, eh?

In my mind, a product/service priced at 700$+ is considered high ticket. Be it shiny jewels or online incorporeal mmorpg characters, money is money, demand is demand, and sales are sales.

Here we have an example of an online retailer, struggling in a competitive market, with tried and tested tricks to make that sale. Go to buymmoaccounts.com and check out the homepage.

The whole frontpage is a well constructed landing page. At the very top, you see the Seals, 3 well known brands. Those little graphics are more than enough to make silly customers feel comfortable about spending 500$ on your site.

Next we have the prominent:

100% WoW Account Guarantee!

Security Guarantee on ALL Accounts!

Which people again fall for, and the cherry on top the WOW logo on the left. The site has everything well placed, click to buy banners on the top left, reassuring the customer every 5 secs that he is safe on the site.

A very important feature is the phone number, standing out at the very middle with bolded letters. The company informs the customer that they are the only ones with phone customer support, and in shady niches like these, that is a major factor in conversions.

The list of characters available are neatly categorized by class and faction. Bargain characters and high end chars are singled out, and all of them are shown cleanly, price, description, with full character data pulled from the armory.

All in all, the site is a lesson in itself. The domain is not that brandable, but in competitive niches keyword rich is sometimes the best path to take. The site reassures the buyer every step of the way, with McAfee seals, reviews from 3rd parties, showcasing their acceptance standards for bought accounts.

All of this on a site that is clean, easy to navigate and professional despite not being slick like web 2.0 sites. Trust me, this site converts.

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Nov 02

Why you always need a splog

Blogs, Can of SPAM, Feed the Spiders, Fire and Forget, Mind over Pixels, Noobs, Techniques, WebWriMo challenge 4 Comments »

What is a splog?

A spam blog, an auto updating blog, setup to scrape feeds at regular intervals and post them.

Why do you need one?

Because if you don’t have one, you are an idiot.

Even for completely whitehat sites, you cannot possibly expect to cover every product in your niche, and every keyword, and every misstype, and every new small thingie that pops up.

Having a splog, that slowly updates, lets say 2 feeds every 1.5 or 2.5 days, makes a secondary site relevant to your niche, filling up with content, linking to you with your preferred anchor text.

I have been using splogs everywhere for 2 years, and I have seen crappy 20 page 5 hours old splogs rank for great terms. Its not only the keyword itself that allows it to rank, its also the relevant keywords and news in the niche that get pulled with every feed.

If you want to keep it completely whitehat, name it NEWS and set it to scrape niche related news with permalinks pointed to the original articles, and keep it clean and similar to your site’s theme.

Or, you can buy a secondary keyword rich domain, and simply splog it, linking back to your main site. If you remove footprints and make it pass casual inspection, it will actually help your rankings and stay up there for a long time.

How to make that splog? It is so easy it hurts.

  • Download the feedwordpress plugin.
  • Install a new Wordpress engine.
  • Name it, remove the silly blogroll etc…
  • Put up a nice theme, do the permalinks hack.
  • Expand the pinglist.
  • Hand pick your feeds.
  • Set up feedwordpress to scrape every 1.5 days from 2 feeds max.
  • Put your links on the blogroll. 

And you are done. Another fire and forget method that works.

I usually add about 5 articles and 10 youtube’s as well. The broad keyword coverage from an aged splog can get you a lot of visitors, from untapped keywords.

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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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