seo empire � Glowleaf

Sep 16

A stepping stone for newbies to begin their SEO Empire

When I look back to my internet assets, I see a lot of foundation, a lot of “solid” matter to rely on and push my new sites upwards. Of course, a lot of work and experimentation went into those foundations. Blind stumbling was involved too. Well, you don’t have to run blind.

I assume you have read Eli’s SEO empire, if not, then you certainly should. Actually print that out and have it by your desk for reference.

I also wrote my version of the concept. I haven’t read it recently, and I assume it will not be as good.

Anyway, based on these concepts, here is a great opportunity to begin your SEO foundation. There is a guy on WF, who is making mininets for you. Feedback seems to be excellent from the thread(s). Yes, his average prices are steep if you are just starting out, but hey, you either do the gruntwork or pay for it. And the cheapest package is 80$. Come on.

I suggest you buy one of his mininets (don’t wait too long, he won’t be around forever) and take that as a framework to learn and develop your own.

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written by Glowleaf \\ tags: mininets, seo empire

Sep 11

Long term project management

Doodling, Heavy construction 1 Comment �

If you are looking for the RSS prize I mentioned in the previous post, I said you will only find it in my RSS feed!

Long term project management. It sounds hard, doesnt it?

Its not really. I know, I know, not all of you have studied business/computers and management in the university.

Universities are overrated though. There is nothing to be taught there that you cannot learn for yourself from seminars and/or good reading.

Anyway, lets stick to the subject. Project management is about managing a project, to:

Maintain momentum
Have smooth outsourcing
Get completed on schedule
Stay on budget
Overcome unexpected difficulties

See? Simple really. It is all common sense. Grab a book on project management and read it (I will dig up a recommended one, can’t find it right now). You will learn a lot.

But the most important thing is not to learn a lot, but to see where you can use all those clever ideas.

On your business of course, where else could it be?

Learn the basics, and make PROJECTS. No, those scribbles on the napkin are not projects. Projects are well thought out, start-middle-end ideas, with a timeline (google it), projected budgets, outsourcing partners, a deadline, and well written specifications (check out the listings on elance for an idea).

Dont go the other way, to plan for a stupid website for five months! No, that is wrong too. Do the exact amount of planning required. Just give it some thought, and make it happen. A project outline is not an excuse to delay the start of a project, its a step by step map to completion of the project.

I know, it is not easy for the first timers (I also assumed there are no first timers on this blog, I tried to shoo them all away with my cheesy attitude). Once you actually complete a few projects, once you know what you need exactly, and can imagine a project in your head from start to finish without anything solid (or digitized, whatever) then you will be able to chourn out projects like a Quake 3 Nailgun spits lead.

I will let you do some research and reading, while waiting for my upcoming post. It will feature an example project management of the creation of a site, from start to finish, and the whole philosophy behind it.

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written by Glowleaf \\ tags: Internet Marketing, project management, seo empire, site building

Jul 08

Building your SEO empire, the Glowleaf way

Heavy construction, Inorganic agriculture, Mind over Pixels 16 Comments �

Have you read eli’s seo empire post? If not, you should read it now.

Its what every wannabe affiliate should have read before he even tried putting up his first affiliate link.

Here is my version of the seo empire. I am not trying to copy eli’s post, I am simply trying to show you, how I took eli’s concept and turned it into my creation. (I do tend to turn everything to my own, unique, twisted way). I will not regurgitate everything he says there, so I suggest you read his post as well.

All the information I am sharing here, is simply what I wished someone would tell me when I began affiliate marketing.

First of all, you need a solid foundation, as eli says. A solid foundation means a VPS. It is ok to start off with shared hosting, to lower the starting costs, but you need to make the switch as fast as possible. A 150$ per month cost might sound hefty at first, but you can use that as your starting point. I mean, make your goal to make 150$ per month to pay off the vps cost. It is much easier than you think.

For a good, solid, allaround hosting plan see webmasters.com. They offer a cheap shared hosting service which has more options than what you can think of. The only thing I did not manage to install on that package is wordpress mu.

For VPS servers, you can look around the net. What I use is this

Next, you need a service that allows you to register domains, and bulk modify them. I suggest Moniker, its what I use, and I suggest you do too.

For non US affiliates, you should find a registrar that allows you to mass register and mass modify your domain tld as well. For example, I have a lot of .gr domains, and in the beginning I didnt find a registrar with a good interface, and it made it a nightmare switching dns and managing my portfolio.

I dont even need to tell you, you need a paypal account set up, and a credit card, with internet banking preferably. You also need to organize everything, your notes and your passwords, because if you dont, you will be in chaos in no time.

What you need to start with are autogenerated pages. Lots of them. When I say lots, I mean hundreds of thousands. Pick your niche, e.g credit reports, buy a couple of cheap info domains with some relevant keywords, and start generating and uploading.

You can use a lot of tools to generate the pages, a free solution is yacg. What I recommend is rssevolution, a paid alternative. Check out this post, to see how to make the pages easy to manage. You need to make everything with php includes, so you can switch ads and links easily. The structure I use is this:

I have for example credit-report.info. I generate 30-50.000 pages with rssevolution, with a custom template of course to eliminate footprints. I include 4 files from the root domain, advertical.php, adhorizontal.php, wannacookie.php, and linkz.php.

By doing that, I am able to easily change the content of 50.000 pages, simply by changing 4 files. For example, you start off with one domain, about credit. You put up adsense on it (the bids are killer) and some lead offers. You write or buy some articles, and you let it rank. You put up the link inside the scraped pages, and as they get indexed, the links with the anchor you want to rank for get indexed as well.

Then at some point, you make a second site. Instead of starting at zero, you simply go to your linkz.php file, and add the second domain as well. If 5000 out of the pages are indexed, that means 5000 instant backlinks, before you even start developing the site. (hint, go for inline links, google takes into consideration the text close to the link as well, not only the anchor text).

The cookie php is selfexplanatory, just iframe an affiliate link. The only ones that work are ebay and amazon. Even though people say that amazon hunts down cookiestuffers, I have yet to be banned. Their one day cookie will give you not much though. You need to be really lucky about it. A better alternative I have found is ebay, but you will be banned a lot. And I mean a lot…

For the ad phps I suggest you do not use adsense, cause you will get banned easily. Use adbrite, or, better yet, peakclick. You can also mix ppc with affiliate, one ad for ppc, the other for an affiliate banner.

Then come the splogs. You need splogs. Lots of them. They are the best for ranking. They ping, they get backlnks without you doing anything, they get indexed in no time, they give you link juice for your big projects. Splogs are a major part of your foundation for your seo empire. One reason I said earlier to go for VPS, is that splogs will quickly tear your shared hosting to pieces. The bet I have done without bringing down the whole server, (and making the hosting company nag me because the other hosted sites where pissed) is 10 splogs. Trust me, you need more, much more.

Infact, at some point, you should buy bulk info’s (500 or so) and splog them all.

Now, you could build splogs one by one, and at some point, you will be able to set up a new splog in 5 minutes, but its tedious work, and a life saver I have found is blogsolution. It makes managing a huge network of splogs a breeze, and the support is excellent, as well as the fora. Bear in mind though, blogsolution can bring down a dedicated server as well. Something like 100 splogs will be marginal for a normal VPS. An important feature of blogsolution is the easy interface, the cloaking feature, and the fact that it uses its own blogging software, so if you do it smart, you will have no footprints whatsoever. You can even import wp templates, though I havent tried that feature yet.

If you decide to make splogs by hand, you need to scout the net for at least 10 wp templates. Clean them from any footprints, and links at the footer, and start varying the templates among the blogs.

Then use the concept I said earlier, about making everything modular. An easy way to make splogs modular is to make them scrape the normal feed, but also make a master blog, only for link insertion. Set up the splogs to scrape the master blog’s rss feed (its usually www.masterblog.com/feed). That way, you can simply login to your master blog, post links with the anchor text you want, and it will all get scraped by your splogs and indexed. This is very good for putting pages in the index, and indexing parked domains as well.

So, that is all. This is how I built my foundation. Now go and make yours.