February 1st, 2010 — SEO
Pagerank or page rank, is an algorithm used by Google to determine the “importance” of a page.
The ranking system starts at 0, for pages with the least importance, and 10 for pages with the most importance.
An example of a PR 10 site would be Google itself, while an example of a PR 0 site, would be a newly created blog, webpage etc.
Page rank is usually updated on a quarterly basis, provided that Google is not behind.
As your PR starts to increase, the difficulty in attaining the next level of PR will also increase dramatically. In essence, high PR sites have more value than low PR sites.
How to increase PR?
Increasing PR takes into account a number of factors. One of the main factors is inbound links to the page. The more inbound links your page has, the higher the chances of increasing PR.
Getting inbound links from high PR sites, gives a level of importance to your site. It would be to your benefit to obtain inbound links from a variety of sites including high PR sites.
*Please note that this is a simplified version of how the page rank system works. There are several things to consider when starting a link-building campaign.
for a more in-depth explanation of page rank click here
January 19th, 2010 — Make Money Online Tips
Samie here,
I know it’s a bit early but due to time constraints, here is my review of the link building service known as ezarticlelink. As stated in a previous post, I have been a beta member of this service for a little over two months now. Public launch will be on the 22nd of February for those of you interested in trying the service out.
What is ezarticlelink?
For those of you that don’t know, ezarticlelink is a new service by Kenneth Koh that combines article networks with linkbuilding. You essentially get rewarded with backlinks for writing articles and submitting them to the Article Network.
There are two memberships for this service. Silver, which will be free, and Gold, which will be paid. There are several differences between the two. The main difference, is that with the gold membership you get an additional 100 backlinks to use as you wish for every article you write. An added bonus for gold members, is that they can build backlinks to their social media sites like blogger, squidoo among others.
How does the link-building work?
Each article written, will equal 100-200 backlinks for free members, and 200-300- backlinks for payed members. One of the better features of the service, is that you are allowed to deep link. This means that you can point the links in your article to any page in your website. This is great for increasing page rank for your other pages.
What you are receiving are one way backlinks to any page on your websites that you desire. As many of you may know, backlinks are the key to high rankings in the search engines.
A neat feature found in ezarticlelink, is that they also build links to the article networks in which your articles are posted. This means that as the authority of these sites grows, so will the link juice being sent to your sites. It really is a powerful feature that has long term potential.
What is the Article Network part of this? Each member will be given video instructions on setting up an article network for every domain they wish to include in the network. Once this step is complete, you essentially have created an article directory similar to ezinearticles and goarticles. Like these services, your article directory will receive articles from all kinds of topics. The articles will be written and submitted by ezarticlelink members. They are then reviewed by the ezarticlelink editors. Once approved, they are published into hundreds of article directories in the network (note that articles will not be published to all directories in one day, but in a natural fashion).
How does the article writing work? If you have submitted articles to ezinearticles or goarticles, you may be familiar with the process. You are essentially given a title, summary, a body, and the category in which the article will be placed. There is no resource box because you are allowed 3 anchor text keywords within the article body. Articles are to be a minimum of 250 words long. Where ezarticlelink is a little different is in the process that follows. After the above steps are completed you will be required to spin the article so that it is at least 30% unique.
How does the article spinning work? The article spinning interface is pretty easy to execute. You highlight the word you want to change, select the synonyms you want to use and hit submit and you are done. There is a button that will let you know how many words you need to be able to submit the article.
*For those not familiar with spinning: Spinning is the process of rewording an article for the purpose of article marketing (poor definition I know =/) For example: I hope this review is helpful. If I want the word “helpful” to vary every time the article is published, I would include the word like this: I hope this review is [helpful|beneficial|useful|of great value]. Because I put 4 words in the brackets, there is a 25% chance that when my article is published, the word helpful will appear ( I hope I didn’t confuse anyone here)
Pros:
- Getting Backlinks is very rewarding (it can be hard to get them without this service)
- Built in outsourcing feature to outsource your article writing
- In house article writers for those that have minimal articles to write
- 100 bonus backlinks for each article written (paid members only)
- Great way to monetize with adsense
- Backlink renewal if dead backlinks are found (paid members only)
- Backlinking to internal pages is allowed
- Backlinking to social sites like blogger and squidoo is allowed (paid members only)
- starting to see my articles in my google webmasters back office! ;p
- potential here is huge
Cons:
- Article spinning can take a while (takes me about 30 minutes)
- thesaurus provided with the spinner could be a bit better
- minimal html required to set up article directory (they offered free setup for beta members for a limited time, this may be the case during launch period)
- keyword competition check feature conflicts with market samurai and keyword blueprint results (I don’t use this feature much)
I hope this review was helpful for those of you interested in ezarticlelink. As stated above, there will be free and paid memberships. Go ahead and give it a try, if you like what you see, feel free to upgrade.
January 18th, 2010 — SEO
Samie here,
Joint Venture With Me And Get 50% Recurring Commissions
I have a JV invitation for those that are interested. We all know by know that traffic is the bloodline of any business or opportunity. This is true both online and off.
Now when it comes to online, the most rewarding kind of traffic is free traffic. It is commonly known that backlinks are the driving force behind free traffic. You target a keyword, build backlinks and climb to the top of the rankings.
The Problem: Many people do not know how to build backlinks. Even those that do, often exhaust their options quickly. Even worse, some keywords require hundreds and hundreds of one way backlinks in order to rank well in the search engines.
The Solution: I am giving you the opportunity to promote a link building service that has been in production for over a year. The service is called ezArticleLink. As a joint venture partner of mine, you have the opportunity to make 50% recurring commission off of your referrals. Not only that, but you also have the potential of getting free inbound links for your own sites depending on how active your referrals are within the program.
Please note that this joint venture partnership is for a limited time and is through invitation only. In other words only a current JV partner can invite you to become a JV yourself. Let me know if you have any questions. The official launch is February 22nd so you may want to act fast.
Click Here To Become A Joint Venture Partner With Me
January 7th, 2010 — Make Money Online Tips
The money making opportunities present thanks to the internet are limitless. The problem lies with finding the right place to start. It is easy to become overwhelmed with all of the information that exists regarding money making opportunities.
Add that to the fact that the internet is filled with countless scams, and you may find yourself at a disadvantage.
When I first started out, I had no idea where to begin. I purchased course after course only to find that the information provided was presented poorly, or my knowledge in the subject was lacking.
I have purchased numerous products where I was completely lost, and did not understand the subject matter. In fact even now I find myself facing the same problems. While my knowledge in internet marketing has grown, I still find it difficult to find a clear cut path to success.
I would like to recommend a product that I feel will help many with this problem. It’s a complete beginners guide to Internet Marketing titled Mining Money Online.
Mining Money Online Back Office
And by beginner I mean beginner. This is not an intermediate or advanced course. What is covered, is very basic in nature and is designed to get you to earn your first dollars online. If you are already making money online then this course is probably not for you.
What is covered in the course? The course is broken down into four modules: Getting Traffic, Picking a Product, Building A Website and Putting It all together.
Those four modules are broken down further to explain the process behind them. For example, the getting traffic module explains potential traffic generating methods including: PPC, Article Marketing, Social Bookmarking, how to do SEO, how to do keyword research, what backlinks are and how to get them and much more.
One of the best things about the course, is that they explain what each term means. If you have never heard of the terms SEO, social media or backlinks it’s okay because it is all covered in the course.
How to get the course: You can purchase the course by clicking here or by being a member of the Internet Marketing Monthly Program IM Advantage (it’s free for members). The course will bring you back $77 dollars.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the program. Keep in mind, while the material presented is proven and known to work, it will only be effective if you take action. I recommend this product for aspiring marketers that are having a hard time getting started. If you are already making consistent money online, then this course is not for you.
-samie
January 3rd, 2010 — SEO
A very important aspect to promoting a business is getting sufficient backlinks. Below are some tips as to how obtain backlinks your sites.
Forums- Joining and participating in forums related to your niche is a perfect way to build backlinks and get free traffic to your sites. The majority of forums allow you to place links in your signature file which is displayed at the bottom of all your posts.
Blog commenting - While not as lucrative as it once was, you can still get plenty of backlinks from blog commenting. You will want to make sure that the links are do follow however and be sure to provide valuable comments or risk having them be flagged as spam.
Article Writing: Article marketing is one of the top ways to build backlinks. Write articles and distribute them to as many article directories as possible (include ezine articles). You will not only build backlinks but also receive free traffic for years to come.
Social media sites: Build profiles in web 2.0 sites with links to your sites. Social media sites generally carry high PR with them. This is an added bonus for you and your sites.
Write Valuable Content: While a bit slower than the above methods, writing valuable content will get your site noticed. Viewers will naturally link to information they find useful and as a result get you a backlink. As the saying goes “content is king”
Backlinks are the backbone of online businesses. It is what Google uses to determine the authority of a site on a certain topic (amongst other variables)
Once all your on page seo is in place, your main task should be to get ranked in the search engines through building backlinks.
December 30th, 2009 — Make Money Online Tips
Times are tough and many of you may be looking for ways to earn money now with little investment if possible. Unfortunately the majority of legitimate make money programs out there require time and effort. Not only that but actual results won’t show up right away.
Pay per click is an option for almost immediate results. The learning curve however, is very high. This is especially true with Google who is continuesly updating its TOS.
For those that are really hurting for money I recommend craigslist. I don’t mean go out and buy a “how to make thousands with craigslist course.” You can make an extra hundred dollars by simply sellling stuff you no longer use. We all have items that are no longer in use and just accumulate dust. Why not make a little extra money by selling them. For example, you may have musical instruments you no longer use. There may be furniture that you have just replaced. Consider looking at your electronic devices which you no longer use. The deeper you dig, the more itmes you will find.
Another immediate source of income is free lancing. The hurdle with freelancing, is that it may take a while for others to trust you. This can result in few jobs for you from the get go. To overcome this have sample work ready for display for potential employers and make sure your rates are competitive. As you establish credibility you may begin to charge more. For freelancing jobs be sure to visit places like elance, and rentacoder. These are two well known services. With freelancing, the possibilities are endless. Consider your talents and if you feel you have none, there is always writing. Many make anywhere from 2 to 15 dollars per article written through these services. Remember that as your name and credibility grows, so does your paycheck.
Now On To The Good Stuff
About this time last year a course titled Niche blueprint was released. It was a course that covered how to make e-commerce sites without having to worry about inventory. I purchased the course and followed all the instructions but in the middle of the course became paranoid. I was scared of not seeing any results and as a result requested a refund I was completely new to Internet Marketing and thus scared out of my wits). I’m going to explain a bit about what the course is about because it may be something you may want to pursue.
In a nutshell:
- Find keywords with high search volumes and low search competition
- Find a dropshipper or use their dropshipping service
- Use their template or build your own site
- set your prices and publish your site
- link build to get top rankings
- Get payed
That is how the system works. Your success and ease of execution will vary greatly depending on your skill level. For example you may not know a thing about keyword research so you may have to spend some more time on that than others.
The reason I’m telling you about this is because the course is being revamped. I am a member of Tim and Steve Godfrey’s monthly marketing course titled The IM advantage.
They have notified us that the course will be re released this coming January and that it will come included with tools they have developed to help streamline the whole process. As a commission blueprint 2.0 customer and a monthly member I have access to some of the tools that will be included in the new niche blueprint course.
The tools are meant to make things like keyword research and link building much easier. The tools included are: Link blueprint, Article Blueprint, Keyword Blueprint and others that have not been mentioned yet.
There are other courses I recommend but since this will be a limited release once again I wanted to let you know as soon as possible. If you are interested in the course and want to know more click here. That is the sign up page where you will be told more about the course.
-Samie-
December 20th, 2009 — SEO
When it comes to creating websites, the desired result is usually the same, traffic. Not only traffic but highly targeted traffic that is ready to convert into a lead, buyer, customer etc.
A popular and free method to drive traffic to a website is through Search Engine Optimization.
What is Search Engine Optimization?: SEO in simple terms, is the use of search engines to drive traffic to websites. Properly implemented SEO, produces exceptional results.
On page SEO: Refers to creating a site that is search engine friendly. Some things to consider with on page SEO are:
- Keyword in title, url, header, and description
- keyword density and the use of LSI keywords
- Internal Linking with full URL
- including contact, privacy policy, and terms of service page
The main goal with on page SEO is to make the search engine spiders happy when they crawl your site.
Off page SEO: One of the more important part of SEO optimization is off page SEO. The main key here is building backlinks. The goal is to show the search engines that you have something of value to offer to the internet community. The best way to do this is by having people point or link to your site thus making you an authority on the subject your site covers.
If done right, SEO is a great way to get free traffic flowing. It is not rocket science but many make the mistake of jumping ahead. While results with SEO are slower than PPC, it is still important to perform all the steps required.
