Thursday, June 10, 2010

Make Your Sites Easy To Edit And Link To Other Sites You Own

NOTE: Some of the parts in this section of the guide are a little technical, but once again don't worry if you don't understand. This guide is more about fundamentals than tech stuff anyways.

For advanced users on a Linux/Unix server you should be using includes wherever you can. When you have 50 websites and you want to make changes it's a nightmare to edit a few thousand pages by hand.

There are several ways to do includes : both with PHP and with Server Side Includes : do a Search to find the one that is right for you.

You should be linking your sites together on a regular basis. This will make your sites viral : people will click from site to site so they don't have to go back and search from scratch.

Make As Many Sites As You Like Without Spending More Money

Once you have your first site complete you are actually already 80 percent completed on your next site. Did you realize that you now own the rights to the words you have written?

You don't want to use duplicate content if you can avoid it : so rewrite what you have written for the first site. For just about 20 percent more work you have two completed sites.

You should link all these sites together for maximum effect.

Again, I like to write in 'themes' more than I go for just keywords. I'm trying to build an avalanche of traffic and repeat visitors : not just a quick click on adsense. If I provide some valuable information on my web sites I find that the Bookmark ratio is great and I get repeat visitors and more 'free' links back to my sites.

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Stuff to Watch Out for

Stuff to Watch Out for:

1.) Robots.txt file

Did you know that in the root directory of every website there is a robot.txt file that tells the search engine spiders where to go or not go? They can tell them to not follow your link. After a new link exchange wait a few days (and on a regular basis if your suspicious), check it out. Most of the time you can view it by going to: http://www.theirdomain.com/robots.txt

You can also change your user agent for your browser to be "Googlebot", and if you don't see your link on their site, neither do the search engines. This is a little complicated to do : so you should really do a search and get some expert advice before you try it.

2.) Making your hyperlink not able to be followed by the search engines. This is pretty easy and all you have to do is view the page source. Look for this type of code: Your site name

Of course, yoursite.com and your site name would be your link. The "nofollow" part tells the search engines NOT to follow your link to your site. You won't get a PR credit for that link.

3.) Javascript usually isn't spidered by google. So if your link is inside javacode you are probably wasting your time.

4.) Inline Frames. Inline frames are other websites "nested" inside a website. You can usually tell they are there because they have a scroll bar, but they don't always. View the page source and look for tell tale signs of an inline frame.

5.) The most common way of cheating of course, is to take YOUR link off their page a few weeks later. An organized plan of keeping track of who is linking to you is in order before you even start. I collect the person I am exchanging links with name, email, hyperlink url, and text. I also collect the exact page they say they are listing me on...

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Using Articles To Generate Traffic

If you can't write an article you should have a couple written for you by a decent writer. These articles are a gold mine of traffic, Page Rank, and of course establishing yourself as an expert in your field. I have written hundreds of articles under various pen names to point to a multitude of my sites, and my client's sites.

It's getting harder to use the article directories to generate traffic though, because unlike a few months ago : all these directories are getting stripped by bots and scrapers for the content. You have the right to have your resource box intact when it's published. Do searches for your articles title and if you find they aren't linking back to you correctly contact them and ask them politely.

If they don't fix their obvious 'oversight', you do have the right to contact their host, to inform them that they are publishing your copy written work with out your permission. The host can be held liable if they don't force the site to comply. I'm not a lawyer, but you can also send a cease and desist order, and several other things to force them to comply.

My favorite places to submit articles are:

http://www.Ezinearticles.com

http://www.Goarticles.com

http://www.Articlecity.com

There are literally hundreds of places to submit your articles. Make sure you post in as many places as you have time for, or purchase one of the 'submitters' to do it automatically. I recommend doing your homework on these though as many out there are outdated.

The fact is you don't need to spend thousands getting secret software to get indexed. You just need to write great articles.

Your article should have:

- A great title : this is no different than using something catchy in an ad.

- A Great TOPIC : if no one is interested in what you are writing about why should you expect anyone to publish it?

- A resource box to 'close' the sale.

- And above all you have to promote it. Submit it to several directories. Link to it in your forum signatures, link to it from your websites. If you do this : it will get published.


Don't forget to proofread your article : bad grammar can kill its effectiveness.

Paid link purchases : getting your moneys worth

There is nothing wrong with buying links. If you were to purchase Search Engine Optimization from a company this is what they will be doing : why are you going to pay someone else to do it for you. Go to http://text-link-ads.com/ and other similar sites to purchase links.

The good news about purchased links is you are not only buying Search Engine rankings, but in many cases you are also buying immediate traffic. If you have set your network of sites up to send traffic to itself, that's even better.

Great Places To Get FREE Keyword Rich Links

While directories, classifieds, e-zine ads and other places all give you a way to get links back to your site : how many places let you fill in the content and keywords for the pages your links appear on?

Not many.

I have found several sites made by Stmadeveloper that allow free advertising. The first is http://www.stmadvertising.com : it's ad free and you can make your own keyword rich page that includes keywords, page title, and more.

Another one is:

http://www.groupmarketingsolutions.com they have a link in the member's area to create a 'product' review. It is acceptable to make another search engine friendly page for your website there.

Here is an example of what one looks like: http://www.groupmarketingsolutions.com/product/review/15.php

Imagine if you did this for every affiliate program you were involved in?

I'm telling you my secret places I have found for myself to get Search Engine Traffic from : I hope you take advantage of my own resources and use them for your benefit.

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Pumping Your Websites Full of Traffic

As may have already known, there are more ways than one to get people to visit your websites. Here are the easiest and most basic ways to do this...

On-line Classifieds:

It's been widely reported that On-line Classifieds are a complete waste of time : and they are if you are trying to use them to promote a web site. However, using them for free link backs to your site isn't a bad idea.

This isn't worth a whole lot of your time : so don't concentrate on it. A few links in classifieds are a good idea though as they are free back links to your site. Some paid services like USfreeads allow you to make whole pages to promote your site/ad.

This is a great way to get a back link with some highly targeted surrounding text. The benefit will be up to you though as there are other places to do the same thing for free.


Smart E-zine Advertising:

If you place an e-zine ad and NEVER get a sale did you waste all your money? Not if the e-zine you published your ad with actually has an on-line archive.

Anytime your Live URL is active somewhere it is usually a good thing. Search for e-zine with affordable rates and advertise in them with your 'anchor text' terms.

If you don't know what anchor text isÖ. Go here: http://seo-branding.info/anchor.htm

If you have never advertised in an E-zine before and are a little hesitant may I suggest going to: http://www.ezineadauction.com : Merle has done a great job of setting a site up where you can actually BID on advertising space.

Directory Listings:

Directory Listings are a very important part of the Search Engine Optimization game : and if you do it right you can even generate traffic this way. Here is a list of a ton of free directories : this is the best resource I have found period.

http://info.vilesilencer.com/

They are changing formats right now to also include paid listings, but it does not appear that they will be getting rid of their free directory listings.

Paid directory inclusions may be a good idea if you can find a 'niche' directory that is getting targeted traffic to your sites topic. This will be the only way you can count on getting some traffic in return for the directory listings, if any traffic is generated from the 'free' listings it will be just through luck for the most part. The main reason you are submitting to the directories is for a nice high PR backlink.


Link Exchanges:

How to do them right : and make sure you aren't ripped off.

Link exchanges are a fast way to brand your website. You can't do it automated though, you need to write to other webmasters and ask them to exchange links with you.

It will take time and I think it's almost a waste of time. Sure some people will argue with me, but I know how hard it is.
Instead why don't you go to where webmasters are searching for link exchanges already?

There are 100's of webmaster forums, marketing forums and more where other webmasters are working on their branding......and they want to exchange links with you!

Right now I have 4 posts on various forums looking for link partners. I put them up this morning and tonight I have 11 link exchanges complete. I can already see the increase in traffic and Google has already "found" one of my websites that it hadn't crawled yet. By this time tomorrow I will have a 4 new websites on their way to a profitable future and a higher search engine ranking. It didn't take much time, and the results are phenomenal.

I disagree with trading links just for a Page Rank boost : if I am taking space up on my website I expect some traffic in return. So make sure you ask your linking partners if they are getting any traffic

If you are not getting much traffic yet it's hard to be pushy on this topic. You are just going to have to gamble on their site growing as yours does.

Believe it or not exchanging links is risky business and there are many ways for you to get cheated EVEN WHEN YOU SEE YOUR LINK ON THEIR SITE!

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Do Press Releases

A well written press release is a great way to both boost page rank and get some immediate traffic : don't expect a flood though. I'm not going to teach you to be a writer here, but every good press release has the basic laws of Journalism...who, what, when, where, why and how.

A press release is not an ad and shouldn't be written as such. Read a newspaper article and your press release should be the same format.

A great suggestion on when to release your press release is once you know ALL the bugs are worked out of your website.

Using forums to really get the traffic flowing:

I spend 30 minutes a day in forums. Why? It makes me money and I get to do what I enjoy : helping people.

See most forums allow you to post your signature below your name (look for the place where you edit your profile in the menu). This should be active anchor text links for the maximum benefit. Almost every single 'helpful' post I do get at least 3 or 4 click throughs to my sites. That's on the day I do it. Over the 'life' of the post I usually get hit by the search engines if the forum is SEO friendly, and several more clicks. I did a test with one of my sites a few months ago. I only linked to it in forums and had it set up so the Search Engines wouldn't index it.


After 30 days I had 1900 unique visitors. Remember I only spend about 30 minutes in forums a day. I spend that time participating instead of promoting though. The best part about Forum Traffic that you get because you helped someone is that they already have built a relationship with you. Don't be one of those confrontational jerks. If your genuinely helpful and do forum posting on a regular basis, it really can be your only method of promotion.

If you are not experienced at this you might not be aware of some of the more popular forums or forums that are search engine friendly. Here is a short list to get you started: http://www.affprogram.info/forum

http://www.sitepoint.com/forum

http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/ ?

http://www.namepros.com

http://ablake.net/forum


Blogs : Should you be a 'Blogger'?

One word : YES! Blogs are a great way to really drive the Search Engines where you want them to go plus they generate a ton of traffic if you write well.

If you can't write well, well that is what reprint rights on articles are for.

If you have fantastico in your webhosting control panel you can set up wordpress in about 5 seconds.

Did you know that if you have a blog other sites want to know (and link back to you) the moment you make a new post? It's called pinging and while I could fill another 30 pages on this, I don't have too. Just do this.

1.) Install wordpress.

2.) Set it up the way you like it via the admin panel.

3.) Under 'options' click the 'writing' link.

4.) Scroll down until you see 'Update Services'. There is probably a single link in a box below that just add all this:

http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdtes http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogbot.dk/io/xml-rpc.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/

Every single url there will be 'notified' after you make a post on your blog. I use my blogs (yes, I have more than one), to promote my products, tell others what I am doing, goof off, and of course for the obvious Search Engine benefits.

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How To Save Some Time

If you're crunched for time : who isn't? There are some great ways to both reduce the amount of time needed to get your network off the ground and save you money.

- Buy content outright: You can find writers in almost any forum.

- Buy completed websites : check out sitepoint and namepros.com for websites for sale.

- Have someone make you a website : I suggest going with a reputable company for this. OR make sure you use copyscape on whatever you purchase. I've redone many content sites that my clients paid someone else to make and they later found themselves having stolen content.

- Join a service like Nichesitespecial.com that gives you all the sites, products, and materials you need to start your own website network.

- Join a membership site like nicheology that just gives you the framework of a product or website. Or, buy the package from http://www.privte-label-resell-rights.com

- Join other sites that give content as part of their membership site.

- Buy content packs from the Warrior Forum Special Offers section.

- Rewrite your own previous content to cut down on time.

- Or if your just looking for speed and money saving : just republish others articles and include the resource box.

That should be enough to get you started down the road to becoming your own webmaster of a powerful network. Getting started is the most important part : so go do that right now.

If you feel overwhelmed and know you need help, I really suggest you join one of the niche site membership sites that are out there. Just make sure they will give you video tutorials, content, materials, and full web site content to get you started.

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Search Engine Optimization is A Must : Each Step of The Way

As you create your sites you need to keep several things in mind. The most important part is making your sites search engine friendly right off the bat.

Here are some tips and resources to help you accomplish that properly.

1.) Pick keywords using a free service or a paid service like seolite, wordtracker, or others. I usually get by using Mcdar and Nichebot.

2.) Make sure your pages all have Meta-tags and Titles. Learn a little about meta-tags at places like http://www.seo4dummies.com

3.) Make sure you link to your other sites using anchor text.

4.) Learn to read your web stats- http://www.track-it-now.info Chances are your site already has awstats in the control panel and that will be all you need to really see who is visiting your site and what keywords are bringing them there.

5.) Link all your pages back to your home page using Anchor Text Links.

6.) Make sure you understand the basic principles of Search Engine Optimization. Sites like sitepoint.com , seo4dummys.com and others can help you.

7.) BUILD LINKS : using anchor text terms.

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