One more reason why you should join Digital Point's free coop advertising exchange network:
My stock market blog is now up to #32 for "stock market investment. 160 spots in a couple of weeks with only the coop ads pushing me higher. I don't even ahve a linke xchange system with this site as I'm too busy and haven't gotten around to it. I imagain that with reciprocal links and the coop I'd be in great shape...
Well I have seen a lot of comment spam recently so I'm happy to see a new beta version of MT blacklist. Don't let those blackhat SEOs ruin your blog's credibility!
More reasons why you should join Digital Point's free coop advertising exchange network:
Yesterday my stock market blog had moved up to #61 (from 192). Today it's #48.
My ESL site was #23 for "English as a second language" but now it's #15. That's a fairly competitive keyword and I've been high teens/low twenties for months and months now...
These are results from the first Google update since I joined the ccop. Most people report bigger jumps after the second update after joining, so I'm looking forward to much more movement in the future.
You might be wondering which ad network to join seeing as how there are some imitations starting up. Soon you will have to choose the DP network or all the others. DP will not let you place multiple ad networks on your site (soon not true yet). Many spammy are being allowed into the new networks so I would avoid them. You don't want to be caught linking to a spammy site...
Also, DP is working on a category option so all links will be somewhat related to your site...
Digital Point's free coop advertising exchange network has bumbed my stock blog up to #61 for "stock market investment". Just a few days ago (a week maybe) I was #192 and all I did was join the coop... Well I also started writing about Vioxx (as it affects Merck stock) but I doubt that pushed me up 120 spots... Hopefully it'll make me some money though...
So Google recently shook up its search results for the term"SEO tips". #3 and #6 seem virtually the same, so Google isn't doing a particularly good job here. This blog is #5, and my friend Rainbo Rick's SEO tips are moving up. I don't know what happened to SEO book, which used to be right behind me. I don't see it anywhere in the top 40 now... Strange because it's #13 for SEO...
As I mentioned in get one way links there's a new tool that is getting some people great results (the creator of the tool is on the first page for Ebay with links only from this tool). Digital Point's free coop advertising exchange network is helping me too. I'm up to #154 for "stock market investment" for my stock market blog.
My ESL site has not seen any improvement yet and is at #23 for "English as a second language" and #37 for "ESL".
The other site I'm working on in the coop is my travel blog. Google still hates it, but Yahoo! has me at #1 for "travel idea"!. I'm seeing lots of traffic and a site I considered abandoning is now doing quite well with Adsense!
When I wrote my SEO techniques that work, I mentioned paid directories. In the comments, an important question came up about your ROI on a directory link. Here are two I like:
UTN Web Directory is having a two for one sale until Jan 1. Now is certainly the time to sign up. It is being promoted all over the web, so it should debut with pretty high PR when Google gets around to it. For $69.00 you get a link to your site and 3 deep links to pages in your site. Submit to a regional category and you'll be put in different regions and categories so you can end up with lots of links. Same thing with the 29.00 listing, but you don't get the three deep links.
www.thisisouryear.com is a great value. Under $20.00 and somehoe every link page is PR 5 with ten external links. Other directories would do well to imitate their linking structure.
These two directories are certainly worth paying for in my opinion, especially now with UTNs 2 for 1 deal. I have paid for other directory listings, if I see a high PR category that one of my sites fits into well. I ahve this thing about paying the same money for a link deeper in the directory (which therefore has less PR) as sites who get into the high PR directory pages.
A lot of people are ahppy about the new Yahoo! results. Me too. My previously unprofitable travel blog is doing quite well. It's weird, I've got #1 and #6 for "travel idea" (same site but #6 is a sub page). My stats show a huge number of referrals, but my keyword stats don't show anything much. They have "Bangcock" listed number 1 at 6 referrals. I can't find a link from Yahoo's home page, so the traffic must be coming from search. Why isn't Urchin telling me which search terms they use?
Overture shows 1,074 searches/month for Novemeber so they must be coming through searches for travel idea... I never did like Urchin much
A list of SEO techniques that work:
1. Build a site with good content.
2. Use a smart internal linking structure with keywords in the anchor text.
3. If the site is not a message board or blog, try adding one. This gives you more content and more links to your other pages. It also let's you join Digital Point's free coop advertising exchange network. Any site that supports PHP can join but sites using vBulletin, phpbb, movable type, blogger, and maybe another that I'm forgetting get specific instructions on how to install.
4. Buy directory links.
5. Have your own directory (I like WSNlinks) to make exchanging links easier.
I'm now up to 184 on Google for "stock market investment". As far as I know the only new links are coming from the Link Coop. I'm getting ready to start getting my other sites involved.
From my commission Junction newsletter:
"Your keyword list is gold!" exclaims James Martell, author of the popular Affiliate Marketer's Handbook. "You should begin every Web site project with a 200-400 word keyword list before starting any construction," he says. Then build one complete product page optimized to each keyword.Here are some tools for choosing keywords. I suppose if you ahve enough planning time, you would want to use the competitiveness of the keywords to help you organize your site. For example target highly competitive keywords on your index page, moderately competitive words and phrases on sub pages. and less competitive keywords on deep pages.
Also consider how lucrative a keyword is likely to be. More lucrative keywords deserve extra attention, even if they are not highly competitive. Of course finding lucrative keywords that aren't too competitive is quite difficult...
3 days later I see a few steps forward from my stock market blog's old rankings. For the term "stock blog" I went from 2 to 1. "Stock market investment" went from 198 to 192...
I suppose that's pretty good since it has been 6 days since I joined the link coop to get one way links.
Despite being #3 for allinanchor: nfl giants, my Giants blog continues to fall. Fist it fell from 4 to 13. Now it's down to 21. The search results continue to be very very poor including old news articles and bowling ball sites.
In a way I've given up. The site attracts between 100-200 uniques daily without Google (it seems to depend heavily on how well the Giants are playing). Adsense is bringing in some revenue, about as much as (actually a little less than) I can make selling one home page text link ad. That deal for 20/month has not been completed yet and the link is not up so it's not causing the fall.
Adsense revenue will fall after the season ends (and the Giants season is pretty much over) as ticket sellers are less interested (like visitors will be on clicking).
What I've done instead is use the pages to get links (through Digital Point's link coop) to my stock market blog. For the record, I don't think the 5 unrelated links on each page caused the fall as I only put them up a few days ago and the fall had already started.
I meant to do this a couple of days ago when I signed up for the link coop, but better late than never. My stock market blog currently shows:
Google: 305Those numbers should go up quite a bit since I put 5 links on each of about 250 or more pages of one of my other blogs. In google for stock market idea, I'm #1. Stock market investment blog = 1, stock market blog = 1, stock blog = 2, investment blog = 1, stock market investment = 198
Yahoo: 721
MSN: 407
Altavista: 735
Alltheweb: 632
Hotbot: 57
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Think of all the nice anchor text that you can put on an active message board. It can really help your site; thousands of relevant pages all linking to your main page with ideal anchor text! Well I want that for my new site, so here's an offer:
Before I start talking to myself on my health message boards I thought I'd ask for some help. I need moderators, and active forum members and am willing to pay in links.
Give me the URL of your site and I'll tell you where I can put your link. I can probably find you a nice PR 4 or PR 5 page, hopefully on a relevant topic, and promise that you'll be the only external link on the page.
Do you want to see an example? Look at the bottom of my passive modals grammar class (I know the colors don't seem to match but I'll soon have a new color scheme and it will all match).
The link will be up as long as you remain an active forum member. Plus the sig links in your messages will eventually count for something too (see the power of sig links). What do I mean by active? Maybe 10 quality posts a month (for a PR 4) and 15 (for a PR 5 link)? You might be looking at an hour or two a month. More would be OK with me. So would less if your posts are good enough.
Pharmanex herbal dietary supplements hasn't even been made widely available yet (still sorting out a few template issues), but when it launches I'd like people to see an informed (if small) group of people discussing healthy living. Please don't apply if you know nothing about any of my message board topics (but if you're an expert on another health related topic, I'll probably add a new board).
One way links are great. If you have a blog or a message board, here's a good way to get some:
1. Go to Digital Point's free coop advertising exchange network.
2. Download MTIncldePlus. Follow the simple installation instructions from Digital Point.
3. Digital Point gives you some code which you put on your site. Other ads will display on your site. Your ads will display on other people's sites.
You could use bannar ads, but of course I prefer text links...
I've been complaining about Google's sandbox about as long as I've had this blog. Today I'll complain about my English grammar forum and how it's #3 for allinanchor:learn english grammar online but not in the top 100 in the search results.
The forum was started around June and got it's initial PR very quickly. I haven't been adding many links, but there have been a few. There has been lots of fresh content; The forum is up to 400+ members and 1200+ posts.
It's detail page in my langauge directory is #30 (which again shows that WSN links is a good value directory). The link pages ranking higher than the site is a classic sandbox indicator.
Anyway, how to beat the sandbox: Buy the domain, set up some content and get a few links 6 months to a year before you plan to officially launch the site. Maybe an obscure link from the bottom of one of your old blog entries or a contnet page with PR that doesn't see much traffic anymore. Maybe a few paid directories, especially one that promises money back if your site isn't accepted.
Make Google think you're an old timer when you're ready to begin.
http://www.seo-search-engine-ranking.com/ad_network_222.php