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“Rel=Nofollow” Googles Gift to the World

2010-11-21T12:38:00.000-08:00

Unlike most internet marketer’s I only build “Nofollow” backlinks. Against the grain isn’t it?

If you don’t know why then you’ve forgotten the reason that you’re building backlinks in the first place. Allow me to remind you. The reason you’re building backlinks is to rank on Google. Why would you want to do that? For high quality website traffic!

In fact who would care about backlinks if it didn’t bring in the visitors? The fact is that TRAFFIC is your bottom line. That’s all you should care about as a webmaster. Your website traffic is what’s going to be paying you. It’s not like Google pays out cash for being a good search result.

What can you do with this information? As of right now, nothing. However, I’m going to teach you exactly how you can build massive amounts of website traffic. By the end of this article you’ll learn how to go from zero to one million visitors!

1. You built a new website. Hopefully the domain name is optimized for goods words you’re targeting and you’re ready for business! You’re all excited and you’re ready to make some money! Until you realize that it’s not as easy as everyone says. Don’t worry 1-px is going to help you!

2. The first thing you need to do is write a link bait article. A link bait article is an interesting article that people just love to link too! What if you’re niche is boring? That’s never an excuse. You can write a link bait article in any niche. For example, one of the niches I target is “Computer Books.” Hard to write for don’t you think? An example of a link bait article would be “Top 5 Greatest Computer Books of all Time.”

Articles like that excite the reader. For some reason people just can’t get enough of them. Which is exactly why you’re going to have to write high quality articles that are link bait. After you’ve got it down then skip on to the next step.

3. When you create a new website your going to be stuck in the sandbox for awhile. Which means Google won’t refer any traffic to your website. That’s exactly why you would be reading this wouldn’t you? You’re not getting any website traffic and you’re worried. Don’t worry I’m going to teach you.

At this point you’re an distrusted source of information to Google. You have absolutely no credibility. Which is why we’re going to have to borrow some from an authority website. Authority websites are the ones that you always see in Google search results. They’re websites like eHow, About, and Wikipedia.

The problem with those websites is you won’t be able to write for them. Luckily, there are a few authority websites that we can write for: Ezinearticles, Hubpages, and Squidoo. For the rest of this article I’m going to recommend Hubpages.

4. Let’s use another example from one of the niches I target known as “Gift for Kids.” What I would do is go onto Amazon and head straight for the best selling lists. I want toys that people are actually buying. If they aren’t buying then how am I going to make any money?

After I’ve found a toy that people are buying it’s time to do some keyword research. I head over to the Google keyword tool to see if people are searching for the product that I’ve found. Typically if the global monthly searches are 2000-10000 that’s a green light.

What you need to do next is head over to the Google search engine then type your keywords in quotation marks. If the competition is less than 100,000 then you’ve just found a winner.

5. Now it’s time to write a Hub that will get on the first page of Google. When I write Hubs I make them extremely high quality. Which means 1000+ words, videos, and pictures. If you need any help writing a high quality article then check out our guide: How to write High Quality Content. Keep in mind that there is a format I use that makes me money and gets me website traffic. When writing the article you should follow this format.

Paragraph 1: This is the introductory paragraph typically 1-2 sentences. It should engage the audience by asking a question. For example, How you like a million dollars? Might keep a visitors attention.

Paragraph 2: This is where you introduce your affiliate link. When you’re dealing with Amazon your most important goal is starting the timer. You want people to click your link to start that 24 hour timer. The way you do that is by offering them an incentive for clicking. For example, tell your visitors that you’ve visited all the major eCommerce websites and found the cheapest price there. Don’t tell them where “there” is though. Finding out is there incentive to click.

The reason we use Amazon is because it’s the most dominate eCommerce website on the internet. Chances are that 99% of your website traffic trusts Amazon. They probably already have an account. Do you think people are going to make an account at your Ma and Pa website they don’t trust? I doubt it.

Paragraph 3: If they’re not interested in buying they can still be useful to you as website traffic. The majority of people who skip the first link are going to be one of the following: 1. A webmaster who knows about affiliate links or 2. Someone who’s not going to buy. All of those can be useful to you. The first visit can link to your articles. The second visitor can bring in revenue from your advertisers. This paragraph needs to introduce your link bait article. Let’s say that I’m targeting the niche I mentioned above and I’m reviewing a toy.

What I would mention in this article is: If you’re shopping for a kid this holiday season then check out some of our reccomendations. We review the hottest and most popular toys that your money can buy. Check out our list of the “Top 100 Toys of All Time.” Usually they’re sold and they click the link.

Parapraph 4: Review the Product

6. After you’ve finished you just added a high quality article to your portfolio. Keep in mind that you want all of the links in your article to be “nofollow.” We’ve already proven in the follow article "How to Rank a New Website" that Google punishes web pages for linking to new content. However, Google won’t punish you at all as long as your links are “nofollow.”

7. If you’ve written a good article then you should see it on the first page of Google over the course of the next three months. Keep in mind that using “nofollow” is like a sacrifice that we made. We chose to use “nofollow” to help the article rank in search.

Once that happens you’ll have an article making your money and bringing in website traffic. The real website traffic comes in when you have hundreds of these articles on the internet. Not only that you’ll also make a lot of money.

How to Rank a New Website

2010-11-06T01:07:00.000-07:00

For the longest time I’ve been hearing guru’s talk about using a coffee filter page for ranking new websites. The entire time I just thought it was bologna. If you don’t know what a coffee filter is allow me to explain. It’s when you build a page that links to a new website. Then every article you publish after that links to your page that links to your new website. I didn’t think there was any difference in the scenarios in the picture to the right. I decided to bust out a few experiments to put coffee filters to the test.

Normally when I write an a high quality content ( 1000+ words, pictures, and videos ) they rank good in Google. In fact, the majority of high quality articles that I’ve written have PR2 without ever having to build a backlink. As an experiment I decided to write ten high quality articles for different niche’s. Each of these niche’s were long tail keywords that had very little competition. That way I could easily track rankings.

All of the high quality articles I wrote I linked to a new website that‘s sandboxed. The main article would be published on Squidoo. After I published the article on Squidoo I wrote another article for Ezine. That article wouldn’t have any pictures or videos. The article for Ezine was 800+ words and included a link back to the Squidoo article. To illustrate what I mean take a look at the picture.

In all ten of the experiments the EZINE article ranked higher than my Squidoo article. This mean’s that Google PUNISHES articles for linking to new websites. All of the high quality articles that I wrote were indexed. They were also assigned a PR0.

As an added experiment, I decided to write a third article that links to the Ezine article. This article helped the Ezine article rank higher. This is the normal scenario that you would expect from backlinks.

Notes: Google punishes webpages for linking to new content. Pages that link to pages that link to new content are not punished. Which mean’s coffee filter’s definitely work in theory.

A Mistake Any Good Internet Marketer Can Make

2010-11-06T00:27:00.000-07:00

The other day I was researching a niche using a system that I haven’t posted to this website. The system involves using Squidoo. Which means that if 100% URL is taken then I won’t be allowed to use it (Hopefully you know what I‘m talking about).

Usually if the URL is take I always check the page to see if I can “claim” the lens. It’s basically a system for allowing people to use lenses that aren’t being developed.

After looking at the page I was SHOCKED to find out how amateur some people can be. The worst part about this guy is that he featured a biography claiming he was an expert internet marketer. Let me explain to you what he did.

He wrote a WONDERFUL lens that had 2000+ words, included three videos, and ton’s of pictures. The content was amazing. After looking at a lens like that you could only assume he was on the first page of Google. After searching in Google I was shocked at what I found. He wasn’t on the first, second, third, or anywhere to be found.

Automatically I knew why he wasn’t anywhere to be found. I plugged the URL into my Firefox browser and flipped on “Nodofollow.” Not a single Clickbank link had the nofollow tag on it. Immediately I lost all respect for that guy and anyone who makes this mistake. Why?

Even though Google hasn’t stated publicly they penalize web pages for using affiliate links you still have another problem. How many times do you see a Clickbank sales page on the first page of Google? Almost never. Google practically hates them.

They have low quality content, it’s only one page, and theirs tons of duplicate content. Every time you create an affiliate link you’re basically linking to duplicate content. Here’s why when you create an affiliate link it links to website.com/?hop=affiliate. That has the same content as website.com/?hop=affiliate1, website.com/?hop=affiliate2, and website.com/?hop=affiliate3. You get the point.

Linking to bad neighborhoods is one of the reasons that Google penalizes web pages! We’ve just proven that you’re automatically linking to a bad neighborhood every time you link to a Clickbank sales page. It’s just the affiliate system Clickbank uses. On top of that you’re webpage is voting in favor of another page targeting the same keywords.

Notes: If you want to maximize your rankings always put a “Nofollow” attribute on your affiliate links.

Taking Out The Garbage #1

2010-11-02T00:33:00.001-07:00

I’m tired of all of these “copycat” information that goes around on the internet. The majority of people lack the authority to write original content. Which is why they just grab information from other internet marketers who copy other internet marketers.

In this article I wanted to take out some garbage about building backlinks. In almost every backlink building article you’ll find “post on forums.” I’ll discuss in detail why that’s the worst advice that you’ve ever been given.

The link graph as I understand it is a graph of all the links on the internet that count. I have a single rule when it comes to the link graph. If a webpage isn’t in Google’s index then it’s not in the link graph. Which mean’s it doesn’t count for your Seo right? Absolutely. Take a look at some facts I found out.

Digitalpoint Forums
Pages Indexed: 219,000
Total Pages: 701,930
Percent: 31.2%

The way that total pages was arrived it was by adding all of the posts on every forum. The post then were divided by twenty. I divided by twenty for a few reasons. The first reason is that looking at a “Cached” page of a post Google crawls the content with twenty posts on a page. Since twenty posts can only exist on a single page it would make sense that their could only by a maximum of 701,930 pages with 20 posts on them.

This number was extremely generous for a few reasons. The first reason is that it doesn’t count pages that show the threads like page 1,2,3, infinite. That’s assuming that Google index those pages.

These numbers basically mean that 31.2% of your backlinks on a forum would “count.” That’s assuming that your website is related to the topics on the forum. Keep in mind that you’re dividing the pagerank with nineteen other posts. Of course, that’s if everyone has a link in their signature. Some people even include two links.

Notes: If you want a maximum of 31.2% of your links to count and then have the pagerank of that page be divided amongst 20-40 other links post on forums for backlinks. (This doesn’t take into consideration any other reason’s people might post on forums)

How to Write High Quality Content

2010-10-24T16:49:00.003-07:00

I’m sure you’ve heard all the professionals talking about “High quality” articles, “High Quality” content, and “High Quality” backlinks. They never once explained what those things are. That’s mostly because they don’t know what their talking about.

Here’s the facts about high quality content from my own experience. When I first started as an internet marketer I would write “250” word articles to build backlinks to my website. I thought the more “250” word articles I had pointing at my website the higher I would rank.

The problem with this was that those “250” word articles would almost immediately be dropped from the link graph. Which mean’s they wouldn’t help my rankings at all. In fact Google didn’t even index any of those articles. I ended up wasting hours of my time writing those junky articles that wouldn’t even count.

Over time I discovered what high quality content is and I realized how much it could help my pocketbook. For example, the first time I put up the website 1-px.com it was given a pagerank of 1 within three months. That was the shortest time that I’ve ever spent in the sandbox. I did this through building high quality backlinks to my articles.

If you want to actually start ranking in Google and make money then you’re going to have to write high quality content. The truth is that there is only a few things that Google can use to determine if a article is high quality.

The few factors are the most obvious ones. The first test is the amount of backlinks to an article. If an article has a lot of backlinks then Google thinks it’s a high quality article. The second is the content of the article itself.

Googlebots are pretty much dumb and can only go off of a few things. For example, how many words are in your article. I write 1000+ word articles that are ALWAYS given a high pagerank without ever having to build a single backlink. The second thing I do is include at least 3 pictures in my articles. The third thing to do is link to your other articles. For example, one niche I write for is “Gift For Kids.”

What I would do is write a 400 word article on my website with at least one picture. I would then write a Len’s on the same subject of the article on my website. Let’s say I wrote an article on “Legos” I would write a high quality article on Squidoo about Legos. Then when I’m building links to my main page targeting the keywords “Gift For Kids.” I would write a high quality article that points to my main page. That article will also point to my Lego article and a few others.

The goal is to create a network of links. That way your building POWERFUL backlinks to your website. Believe me this system of backlink building works. Before you’ll notice it working it could take up to three months. That’s only because it takes a while for Google to rank a page.

Notes: High quality content has 1000+ words, pictures, and videos. The majority of the time high quality content ranks extremely good in Google. High quality content as has an easier time getting indexed and remaining in the link graph.

The Red Steel System

2010-10-17T23:37:00.000-07:00

As an experiment I wanted to test a new system I decided to call Red Steel. What I did was set up a Hubpage account and wrote approximately 50 articles.

The goal was to see how much money I would make over an entire year with those articles. The only SEO that I did was some keyword research, 100% title, 100% H1, and text throughout the body.

I wrote each article with at least 500 words and I included at least one picture in each article. I didn’t build any backlinks to any of the articles.

Results: $200

I made approximately $200 in an entire year from 50 articles. Imagine if I decided to write 1000 articles. Of course, I’m almost certain that those results could have been improved if I built backlinks.

Surprisingly I managed to get a few articles on the front page for keywords being searched 1000 times a month. Here’s the system that I used with details.

1. I chose an authority website like Hubpages to create some web 2.0 property. The idea was that authority websites are given priority for first page placement. Authority websites are the ones that you see all the time on the first page. They’re websites like Wikipedia, Ehow, and About.Which is exactly why I decided to choose an authority website to write my articles for. Authority websites that you can write for are Hubpages, Squidoo, and Ezinearticles.

2. I went to the Amazon website to find products that we’re actually selling. This step was extremely important if you want to make money. Sometimes I see people choose products that just aren’t selling. Luckily Amazon compiles a bunch of data on the best selling products.

After finding a product I checked to see if I could create that page 100% Url in Hubpages. If I couldn’t then I would just choose another product from the best selling list.

If I could then I would check with the Google keyword tool. I would check to see how many Global monthly searches the product had. If it had 2000+ then I would write an article about that product.

3. I wrote an article with 100% keyword title, 100% keyword h1, at least one picture, and keywords throughout the entire body. I would include a affiliate link with the nofollow attribute in this first paragraph. Usually I would tell them that they could find additional reviews if they clicked the link.

The idea was to just get the timer started on people. If people we’re looking for products to buy then I had a good chance that they would buy within twenty-four hours on Amazon.

That’s pretty much everything about this system. It’s what I would consider a lazy man system. Results with it could be improved by writing longer articles and building backlinks.

How to Get Free Content

2010-10-05T16:43:00.001-07:00

I’m not talking about cheap duplicate content on article directories. I’m talking about 1000+ word articles that are not indexed by Google. Sound good?

All you have to do is find ebooks with the appropriate rights that are not indexed by Google. Keep in mind that Google does crawl .PDF files. Which is why you have to find a squeeze page or a membership website. Membership websites offering free ebooks isn’t hard to find.

You have to find membership websites that require login because Google won’t be able to index the pages only available to members. Squeeze pages are a similar scenario.

Keep in mind that you will have some competition. I’ve looked for ebooks before finding people already published them on their websites. If you can find a website very low in ranks that doesn’t get any traffic you’ve got a gold mine.

Set up a blog on Blogger then publish those articles with backlinks to your website. You’ll see your website raise in ranks in no time.

How to Build Backlinks

2010-10-04T20:47:00.000-07:00

For this article I’m going to discuss backlinks and how you can build them back to your website. If you don’t know what a backlink is it’s an incoming link to a website or web page. As far as this article is concerned there are only two different kinds of backlinks.

Backlink: Incoming link to your homepage.

Deeplink: An income link to any page other than your homepage.

Both are extremely important in search engine optimization. It’s this authors personal preference to put more important on deeplinks than on backlinks to my homepage. As for their forms, again backlinks can take two different forms.

Anchor Text: The text is used to determine relevancy. For example, if page a links to page b with the anchor text: Money. It’s assumed page b would be on the topic of money.

Image: The Alt/ Title tags can be used to determine relevancy. Although, these links are not as popular and useful in search engine optimization.

The idea of building backlinks is for search engine ranking purposes. The original theory behind pagerank was very simple. We even stated a simplistic form above. If page a links to page b then it’s like a vote from page a for page b. A pages value at any given time is called pagerank. Pagerank is constantly changing and is never the same at any given second.

There are a variety of different schemes that people will use to increase their SERPS using backlinks. Some of those are highly complicated linking schemes and purchasing backlinks.

Link Wheels

Link Wheels: The image to the right illustrates a link wheel. Although Google states that anyone participating in a link wheel will have their websites banned. The concept is very simple as the picture illustrates. The idea behind the link wheel is that if you link a series of pages together the pagerank would ultimately build up to infinite. However, Google does have a decay-factor to prevent Pagerank build up. The decay-factor means that 10-15% of the PageRank on any given page disappearing before the PageRank flows along the outlinks (Source: Pagerank Sculpting).

Complicated Schemes: I like to call these massive spamming operations. However, some people do participate in them. The majority of the time they are not practical because you need to constantly monitor the pages your links are on. If one of those pages adds a nofollow attribute or is removed the entire scheme will be effectively broken.

Buying Backlinks: In my personal opinion I don’t think purchased backlinks can be detected by an algorithm. More likely communities in which backlinks are sold are reported by people. For example, let’s say your competitor is on a forum buying backlinks. Reporting him to Google is an easy way to get rid of one competitor. Although, this isn’t proven, it’s just a practical opinion. Still, you probably wouldn’t want to participate in these kinds of schemes.

Those are things that you probably want to stay away from. Their all considered blackhat SEO and can potentially hurt your search engine rankings. The idea of building backlinks is to build high quality backlinks to your website. Most people don’t even know what a high quality backlink is. Allow us to explain.

High Quality Backlink: A high quality backlink is a link from a page with similar keywords. For example, let’s say a page about money links to another page about money. That would be considered a high quality backlink. When building backlinks to your website you have to keep that in mind. The majority of methods that you hear all the time don’t offer you control over factors that would make your backlinks high quality.

With that in mind we’ll now teach you how you can build some high quality backlinks to your website using white hat SEO methods. Keep in mind that if you’re website is new you can build thousands of backlinks and never see results. The facts are that you’ll just have to wait. As promised, here’s how you can build backlinks to your website!

Article Directories: Even though this method is a lot more work I prefer it. When submitting to article directories I have complete control over the title, keywords, and content of the article. Even though it’s a lot more work it’s definitely worth it. This method allows you to build high quality backlinks to your website.

Keep in mind that you never want to use article directories with low pagerank. Chances are that they’ll be removed from the web with all your hard work. Personally I have a list of article directories that I use that I’m willing to give to you.

High Pagerank Dofollow Directories

Website	Pagerank	Alexa	Instant
Ezinearticles	6	113
Buzzle	6	650
Goarticles	4	1666	Yes
Articledashboard	5	3190
Ideamarketers	5	4284	Yes
Amazines	3	4633
Infobarrel	4	6530
Sooperarticles	5	6629
Articleclick	4	7002
Articlerich	3	7103

We know how difficult article directories can be. For example, they don’t want you to submit an article that’s already been submitted to another directory. While the entire point of an article directory is to give out free content? Doesn’t make any sense to us. Sometimes people don’t like editors reviewing their articles. Which is why we’ll include a list of the top instant article directories. These directories don’t use human editors to review submissions.

High Pagerank Instant Dofollow Directories

Website	Pagerank	Alexa	Instant
Ideamarketers	5	4284	Yes
Goarticles	4	1666	Yes
990m	3	13861	Yes
Fourpxarticles	3	15844	Yes
Articlewarehouse	3	17904	Yes

Directory: Personally I would never recommend submitting your website to thousands of directories like some people suggest. The majority of directories aren’t monitored and it takes forever to get listed. Which means submitting to them would be a waste of your time. However, there are a couple of directories that are definitely worth some time. Here are the only directories that I would ever suggest submitting your website too.

Directory	Price	Pagerank	Alexa
Yahoo	$299	8	4
Dmoz		8	456
Blogarama		7	22473
Globeofblogs		7	46017
Blogged		6	5822
Bloggapedia		6	26212
Blogville		5	67394
Blog-Directory		5	71711
Quickblogdirectory		4	240989
Blogdirectory		4	386677

Forums: Forums are a great way of building a lot of backlinks. All you have to do is edit your signature and add a link back to your website. Keep in mind that some forums require a probationary period before you can edit your signature. Also, forums offer something that the majority of methods don’t. Forums allow you to connect with people. People are essentially traffic and customers. When your on a forum I would recommend answering questions as thorough as people. That way you can network and get more out of your time.

High Pagerank Forums

Forum	Pagerank	Alexa
Webmasterworld	7	603
Warriorforum	5	585
V7n	5	2153
Seroundtable	5	5015
Theadminzone	5	11763
Webdesignforum	5	90061
Digitalpoint	4	190
Seo	4	7714
Site-Reference	4	11205
Webmaster-talk	3	2865

Social Bookmarking: Social Bookmarking is a great way to connect with people and build backlinks. Keep in mind that you will have a lot better results by submitting interesting informative content. Some social bookmarking websites have zero tolerance for spam and will ban your account. These are all instant backlinks that you can build back to your website.

High Pagerank Social Bookmark Websites

Bookmark	Pagerank	Alexa
Digg	8	116
Reddit	8	247
Mixx	8	1198
Folkd	7	2638
Kirtsy	5	6326
Corank	5	7757
Spotback	5	7986
Mylinkvault	5	8760
Tagza	5	9669
Plime	5	23375

How to Get to Number One on Google For Any Keyword

2010-09-25T14:31:00.000-07:00

Looks like you want what all internet marketers want. That number one spot on Google. However most people don’t know how to do it. Which is why we decided to write this post to help you get to number one on Google for any keyword. That’s right, we’ll teach you how you can get to the top for any keyword.

Before starting any website I would recommend hammering out all the details. The last thing you want to do is spend nine months optimizing your website and then you change your link structure. Changing your link structure will hurt your rankings and make you wait longer than you already have too.

Keyword Research ( Step One )

This is where it starts folks. Find the keywords you want to be one the first page for. This author always uses the Google Keyword Tool. Keep in mind this step is going to be combined with step two. After finding some keywords you might want to rank number one for you should go to step two.

If you don’t know how the Google Keyword Tool works it’s pretty simple. All you have to do is type in a keyword in the box that says “Word or Phrase.” After you type in a word click search. The search will return results for that keyword. Under the keyword column the keyword tool will return the most relevant keywords and related keyword suggestions. Under the local monthly searches is how many times that keyword is being searched. Obviously you want a high number in local monthly searches. Keep in mind that the more the better.

Domain ( Step Two )

This is the most important step in my entire system. If you don’t have the right domain name then your doomed to fail. Of course a lot of people won’t agree with that statement. Aside from my system you could buy a domain name like “Bughami.com” and target keywords like Jewelry. However, I wouldn’t recommend it and it’s a waste of time. It’s a lot harder to convince Google a website named “Bughami.com” is about Jewelry than it is to convince a Google a website named “Bughami.com” is about Bughami. To be honest I’m not sure what Bughami is but I’m sure you get the point.

Here’s what you do. After you found the keywords you want to target in step one go to a domain registrar and do a search for that domain. For example, let’s say that you want to target the keywords “Brown Rice.” Go to the domain registrar and check if “Brown-Rice.com” or “Brownrice.com” is available. Both are optimized domain names for the keywords your targeting. However, it’s my personal preference to buy domain names with dashes in them. What if it’s not available? Tough luck. Go back to step one and find another niche.

Content ( Step Three )

How many times is your keyword being searched? Obviously the amount of times your keyword being search would effect your willingness to build content. If the keyword is searched less than 10,000 times I usually only write 30 articles ( 300+ words with an image ). If the keyword is searched 10,000+ times I’m more willing to put in more effort.

For this step all you have to do is build up your websites content. All you have to do is write articles based on how many times the keyword is being searched. Keep in mind that you don’t want to write 100+ articles for a keyword only being searched 1,000 times. Of course, how much effort you put into this step is entirely up to you.

Important: Let’s say you chose to set up a blog and targeted the words “Luxury Jewelry.” On the front page you want to show your best selling items. If you target “Luxury Jewelry” and write 100 articles then you want the best 10 articles on the front page. Keep in mind that’s your converting page. Having the best sellers on your front page will improve the chances that those articles show up in search results. Plus it improves the quality of your website and the conversations.

Here’s an example, let’s say you target the keywords “Luxury Jewelry” and chose to write 100 articles. Out of those 100 articles you could write 90 200 word articles. Then for the last 10 ( Assuming you show 10 post per page ) I would write 300 word articles. Plus they would be the best selling items in the marketplace.

Backlinks ( Step Four )

Keep in mind that this step can be skipped. However, if you choose to skip this step then it will take a lot longer to get to number one on Google. Unfortunately I won’t go into huge details about how to build backlinks to your website. I’m going to write that article at a later time and then link to it here. What I can recommend here is submitting articles to article directories, forums, social bookmarking websites, commenting on blogs, and directories.

Remember that building deep links is just as important to the main page. Let’s say we target keywords that are being searched less than 10,000 times a month. Obviously there won’t be that much competition which means you don’t need that many backlinks. Personally, I would write two articles that link to the main page. Then I would write articles that link to the articles on the main page.

Surprise ( Step Five )

Want to know what step five is? Wait. That’s right. I hate it as much as another other internet marketer but it’s the longest step here. You could wait for as long as a year for any keywords if your domain name is brand new.

Here’s what you can do and expect. You can search for your keyword every month and see where your website is in the results. Over time you’ll notice that your website improves it’s rankings. Let’s say you choose to check your result everyday. What will happen is that you result oscillates. On day 1 you could be at the fifth position. Then you could check on day 2 and you’ll be at the ninth position. However, after a few days of being in the ninth position you will usually improve results. Let’s say day 3 your still in the ninth position day number 9 you could be in the third. This is completely normal. Don’t think that because you lost rankings your being penalized. This is just how Google works.

Four Letter Domain Names Available

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As a tradition, whenever I host a website on my four letter domain name (1-px.com) I always feature an article like this. When I started as an internet marketer I always wanted to own a four letter domain name. Keep in mind it wasn’t because four letter domain names are particularly valuable. I like to think it’s more like conquest knowing I’m one of the very few people who own a four letter domain name. The best part is my four letter domain name actually makes sense unlike most like 2h58.com for example. Of course, there are thousands of examples just like that one. Still people buy these domain names at hyper inflated cost.

If you want to skip any of this and skip below to the information on how you can own a four letter domain below you can do that. However, keep in mind a few things. These domain names aren’t as valuable as you might think they are. The majority of the time they are worthless when they are a random sequence of letters and numbers. Still, the market for them are competitive and I would recommend owning one just for the sake of it.

Here’s how you can own your own four letter domain name without spending a hundred dollars. All you have to do is find a domain registrar. Then look for a domain name with a “-” in it. Like my domain name is 1-px.com. There are hundreds of domain names still available with dashes in them. Surprised? It’s really that simple. I would attribute this surprise of domain names to a few factors. The first factor being the possibility that people don’t know that can register a domain name with a “-” in it. Other factors might include people foreseeing potential branding problems ( However, they can brand 2h58.com?). Unfortunately I don’t know and I’m just the messenger. If you’re interested then congratulations on your four letter domain name!

Blogger Comments: Real Name Vs. Keywords

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The other day I was filling out a comment form on a blog. Then it occurred to me I didn’t know if I should use my real name or the keywords for my blog. Of course, if it was a “nofollow” comment form this wouldn’t matter. Fortunately it was and I was faced with this dilemma. In light of the event I decided to send an e-mail to Matt Cutts asking for his guidance. Unfortunately, until he responds I can only speculate on using my real name or keywords for blogger comments. Here are just a few of my thoughts on this choice.

Real Name

Guidelines: If I use my real name it’s simply a Google Bomb. I wouldn’t want my website to show up in results for my real name.
Webmaster: Webmaster’s who see real names are more likely to approve comments by commentators.

Keywords

Guidelines: You’re accurately describing your link. This aligns with Googles webmaster guidelines.
Webmaster: Unfortunately it looks spammy to the webmasters who approve links.

Being a webmaster you’re faced with a lot more problems than that. When I see comments with website titles I’m immediately alerted to the fact that it’s spam. Also, as a reader, when I see comments with titles I feel it reflects the website that I’m reading. A lot of comments with titles means that the webmaster’s aren’t moderating comments like they should be. It makes the website look a lot more junky than if otherwise. Of course, those are just a few of my opinions, if you have any of your own leave them below.