If you rely a lot on sitewide links from top commenters list on blogs, make sure that the name you give starts with a letter close to the start of the alphabet.

Most of these plugins seem to rank on alphabetical order if there are two commenters with the same amount of comments, thus if your name starts with a letter higher in the alphabet than someone with the same amount of comments, they will drop off the list before you!

Try this sucker:

<?php

$list = array(
‘http://blogurl1.com’,
‘http://blogurl2.com’,
‘http://blogurl3.com’,
‘http://blogurl4.com’,
);
foreach($list as $value) {

//let’s get the code for each page
$content = file_get_contents($value);

//let’s find the part of the page code where the RSS feed link is (we’re adding the “xx” to the end to make it easier to regex out the RSS URL)
$regex = (’/<link rel=\”alternate\”(.+?)\” \/>/’);
preg_match($regex,$content,$match);
$match = $match[1] . ‘xx’;
//let’s grab that RSS feed address
$regex = (’/href=\”(.+?)xx/’);
preg_match($regex,$match,$url);

//let’s print each RSS URL to a page

echo $url[1]. ‘<br>’;

}

?>

Just add your list of blog URL’s to the part of the top of the script where you see the “http://blogurl1.com”, “http://blogurl2.com” etc. (You can pretty much add as many URL’s as you like.)

Save the file as “getrss.php” (or pretty much anything you like ending in “.php”), upload it to your server, and run it.

I’ve found that this script works for about 98% of blogs. There are probably more elegant ways to do this, but I needed something quick, and it worked.

(If you’re on the 45N5 list, but not in this list, it’s because my spider had trouble accessing your site)

All in all there are about 330 blogs on the list this time, compared toaround 250 last time.

Some comparisons to last time:

• The average page load of the complete list is 638kb
• The average page load of the list minus the two worst offenders is 450kb
• The largest load size was Court’s Internet Marketing School, weighing in at a hulking 53Mb (might have something to do with all those videos pre-loading)
• The second largest was The Blog Novice, at a piddling 9.7Mb (46 images at around 60kb each will do that)
• The smallest load size was JonnyQ888 at a featherweight 31kb
• There are 5 blogs over 2Mb (1.5%, compared to 0.8% last time)
• There are 23 blogs over 1Mb (6.9% compared to 7.1% last time)
• There are 98 blogs over 500kb (29.6%, compared to 27.8% last time)

So here’s the list, from largest to smallest:

How did you do, if you were in the last list, did you increase or decrease your load size from last time?

1. Courtney Tuttle: 53081kb
2. The Blog Novice: 9778kb
3. Blogging Experiment: 5363kb
4. Flimjo: 3479kb
5. Buzz Marketing by Dean Hunt: 2322kb
6. News Notion: 1625kb
7. Nate Whitehill: 1600kb
8. Retire At 21: 1552kb
9. John Chow: 1546kb
10. Internet Babel: 1495kb
11. The Writers Manifesto: 1491kb
12. Ezyas123: 1344kb
13. Mr. Javo: 1308kb
14. Net Frontier Marketing: 1227kb
15. HomeBiz Resource: 1222kb
16. Cayman Host Blog: 1172kb
17. Lost Art Of Blogging: 1136kb
18. Ian Fernando: 1129kb
19. Super Affiliate Mindset: 1124kb
20. ProBloggers Matrix: 1075kb
21. Oibo: 1070kb
22. Think Like An Sob: 1030kb
23. Internet Dreamer: 1030kb
24. Gather Success: 990kb
25. John Cow: 972kb
26. Mailbox Money: 955kb
27. Tyler Cruz: 918kb
28. Aurelius Tjin.com/: 917kb
29. Blog Me The Money: 913kb
30. ViperChill - Internet Business: 891kb
31. Money Making Scoop: 868kb
32. Blogging Fingers: 861kb
33. Big Marketing Online: 853kb
34. How To Make Money Online: 841kb
35. The Net Fool: 836kb
36. Blog Badly: 831kb
37. Ez Rich Project: 822kb
38. Shoemoney: 816kb
39. Road 2 Blogging: 809kb
40. 5xmom: 806kb
41. Small Fish Big Money: 781kb
42. Ades Blog: 779kb
43. Mom Works At Home: 771kb
44. FabNet Revenue: 770kb
45. Etienne Teo: 756kb
46. Feed Flare: 752kb
47. Pajama Professional: 732kb
48. Blog dahh net!: 731kb
49. Ryan Shamus: 720kb
50. Blogtrepreneur: 718kb
51. Moms Cash Blog: 693kb
52. Blogger Unleashed: 692kb
53. Infected By Bugs: 675kb
54. Scribbles And Words: 674kb
55. Chip Seo: 648kb
56. Freelance Folder: 644kb
57. Viral King: 637kb
58. The Blog Entrepreneur: 633kb
59. Bloglyne: 628kb
60. Vandelay Design: 627kb
61. Christian Affiliate Marketers: 627kb
62. Just Make Money Online: 624kb
63. My Journey To One Million: 619kb
64. Blue Sky Brothers: 615kb
65. Money Maker Times: 615kb
66. Dat Money: 608kb
67. Richard Lee: 603kb
68. Keith Goodrum: 600kb
69. Searching For The Big One: 599kb
70. Neilsweb: 597kb
71. eMonetized.com: 592kb
72. Search For Blogging: 592kb
73. The Germz: 592kb
74. Super Blogging Tips: 590kb
75. ShaMoneyMaker: 585kb
76. Success For Your Blog: 584kb
77. Performancing: 579kb
78. Problogger: 574kb
79. Jonathan Volk: 572kb
80. Tim Bossie: 572kb
81. The University Kid: 569kb
82. Wealthy Wayz: 569kb
83. AffGoo: 563kb
84. Grownup Geek: 562kb
85. Earners Blog: 558kb
86. Bloggers Journey: 557kb
87. Steven Wilson Marketing: 557kb
88. Carl Ocab: 554kb
89. CDF Networks: 552kb
90. Entrepreneurs Journey: 550kb
91. Affiliate Crunch: 547kb
92. 5 Star Affiliate Programs: 541kb
93. Blogging Tips: 536kb
94. Building My Empire: 526kb
95. Zak Show: 524kb
96. Marketing Tips Blog: 517kb
97. CPA Affiliates: 513kb
98. Internet Business Success: 503kb
99. Money Bites: 497kb
100. Work At Home Wealth: 496kb
101. Money Blogger: 495kb
102. Dazzlin Donna: 494kb
103. YeePage: 493kb
104. Sukosaki: 493kb
105. Rich Sage: 485kb
106. Maximizing Revenue Tips: 468kb
107. Make Money Online with EJ Cooksey: 467kb
108. True Blue Titan: 464kb
109. Monetizeyoursite: 454kb
110. Part Time Blogger: 453kb
111. Cash Quests: 452kb
112. Darin.cc: 451kb
113. Earning From Affiliates: 449kb
114. Slyvisions: 448kb
115. Winning The Web: 446kb
116. Jim Kukral: 445kb
117. Mason World: 444kb
118. Not John Chow: 444kb
119. Andy Beard - Niche marketing: 443kb
120. Kentonnewby.com: 439kb
121. One Year Millionaire: 435kb
122. Million Dollar Challenge: 434kb
123. Craig S. Andrews: 430kb
124. Grade Money: 429kb
125. Rich Minx: 427kb
126. My Debt Free Goal: 422kb
127. Blogging 4 Everyone: 421kb
128. Affiliate Confession: 420kb
129. Income Academy: 420kb
130. Blog About Your Blog: 416kb
131. Slightly Shady Seo: 414kb
132. Rice Blogger: 412kb
133. Why Do Work?: 410kb
134. JohnOBrien.com: 410kb
135. Affiliate Fortune Cookies: 409kb
136. Earn Blogger: 404kb
137. Standout Blogger: 403kb
138. JCcommerce: 394kb
139. Bfreedom: 393kb
140. BlueVerse: 392kb
141. Day Job Nuker: 392kb
142. Blogging Addiction: 388kb
143. Internet Marketing Nirvana: 386kb
144. Art Of Money: 382kb
145. Top Work From Home Blog: 382kb
146. Genuine Online Opportunities: 380kb
147. Online Presence: 380kb
148. Garry Conn: 378kb
149. Uber Affiliate: 378kb
150. Blogoholism: 378kb
151. Retired Pay: 375kb
152. Money Making Blogs: 374kb
153. SwapW: 370kb
154. Make Money From Home: 368kb
155. Caroline Middlebrook: 367kb
156. Blogging Startup: 367kb
157. Income Hero: 365kb
158. Charles Lau: 363kb
159. Online Cash Flow: 362kb
160. Getty Cash: 362kb
161. NiggyBuzz: 361kb
162. Adsense Addict: 357kb
163. BuckServ: 352kb
164. Internet Marketing Mind: 351kb
165. Blog Or Not To Blog: 350kb
166. My First Million Dollars: 348kb
167. Big Foot Web Marketing: 344kb
168. Enkay Blog: 341kb
169. Web Diggin: 339kb
170. That Blog Site: 334kb
171. Adsense 4 Dummies: 330kb
172. The 30 Day Man: 329kb
173. Jon Waraas: 328kb
174. Affiliate Toolbox: 327kb
175. Cash Juke: 327kb
176. Yimto: 325kb
177. Bruce Hopkins: 325kb
178. Rajawang: 324kb
179. Project Payday Mentor: 324kb
180. Michael Mosby: 318kb
181. Turnip Of Power: 317kb
182. Memwg: 313kb
183. Webmasters Resources: 313kb
184. Ian Lee: 312kb
185. Dosh Dosh: 309kb
186. Money Maker Info: 309kb
187. Earn Cow: 309kb
188. Royal Radande: 308kb
189. Noob Wealth: 305kb
190. Mixed Market Arts: 304kb
191. Mikes Money Making Mission: 304kb
192. Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog: 300kb
193. Bucks From Internet: 300kb
194. Self Made Minds: 299kb
195. P Morrow’s Online Money: 295kb
196. The Niche Store Builder: 292kb
197. Peomedia: 291kb
198. Turn One Pound In To One Million: 290kb
199. Who Is Andrew Wee: 287kb
200. Google Lady: 286kb
201. Toast & Egg & Me: 285kb
202. Itswritenow: 282kb
203. Cyber Cashology: 281kb
204. The Monetizer: 280kb
205. Shylock Blogging: 279kb
206. Duckeldannys Money Blog: 276kb
207. This Affiliate Marketing Path: 276kb
208. Me Myself and I Blog: 272kb
209. Palatnik Factor: 272kb
210. FinalTAG.com: 270kb
211. Ez Online Money: 269kb
212. Cash Tactics: 265kb
213. Jay Geiger: 265kb
214. Jangro: 264kb
215. A Run The Ace: 264kb
216. Rich Gilchrest: 263kb
217. Site Creations: 260kb
218. Interwebhunt: 259kb
219. Jim Karter: 258kb
220. Make Money With Kassper: 257kb
221. Elite Blogger: 257kb
222. ReveNews: 256kb
223. Blogsessive: 256kb
224. Adam Dempsey: 255kb
225. Nicky Cakes: 253kb
226. Stephan Miller: 249kb
227. Internet Business Guide: 247kb
228. 46and47: 246kb
229. E-biz Booster Blog: 244kb
230. Internet Business Coaching: 243kb
231. Brandon Hopkins: 242kb
232. Grand Start: 242kb
233. Blogging Secret: 241kb
234. Conversation Marketing: 240kb
235. Derek Semmler: 239kb
236. Tha Cash: 239kb
237. Egonitron.com: 238kb
238. Get Paid To Write Online: 235kb
239. Knupnet: 235kb
240. Aojon: 234kb
241. My Internet Lab: 234kb
242. David Cheong: 232kb
243. Internet Marketing Hype Free: 232kb
244. Software Projects: 231kb
245. Mr BeachBum: 230kb
246. Twenty Steps: 229kb
247. Make Big Money: 227kb
248. The Make Money Online: 226kb
249. Blogging Tune: 225kb
250. Net Hustlin’: 223kb
251. My Affiliate Programs: 216kb
252. Nerdy Nomad: 214kb
253. Talar Systems: 211kb
254. Daily Blog Tips: 209kb
255. One Mans Goal: 205kb
256. eXtra For Every Publisher: 204kb
257. College Startup: 204kb
258. Keith’s Affiliate Marketing Blog: 204kb
259. Success Passcode: 203kb
260. Higher Trust Marketing Blog: 201kb
261. Small Fuel Marketing: 200kb
262. Profitable Productive Blogging: 200kb
263. Marketing Tools Review: 197kb
264. Somewhere Over The Debt: 193kb
265. Strategic Profits: 192kb
266. Sitecash: 192kb
267. Ask Jason Marketing: 189kb
268. The Home Business Archive: 188kb
269. Blog Earners: 176kb
270. Rosalind Gardner’s NetProfits Today: 175kb
271. Student 10k: 175kb
272. Minterest: 172kb
273. Thousand Dollar Project: 168kb
274. Emoms At Home: 166kb
275. Million Dollars Journey: 162kb
276. James D. Brausch: 161kb
277. Webmaster Chick: 159kb
278. AMWSO Affiliate Blog: 157kb
279. Freelancer 2.0: 157kb
280. More Merchant: 155kb
281. Making Money Experiment: 154kb
282. Freedom Ideas: 151kb
283. Zero And Up: 151kb
284. Bernard Griffiths: 150kb
285. Usman Money: 148kb
286. Blogging For The Money: 146kb
287. PreBlogging: 143kb
288. Affiliate Watcher: 141kb
289. Aaron Brandon: 141kb
290. Some Useless Info: 141kb
291. Online Business Growth: 141kb
292. Carlo Selorio: 138kb
293. Can I Make Big Money Online: 137kb
294. Full Tilt Blogging: 130kb
295. Multivar: 130kb
296. 15 An Hour: 129kb
297. Chris Blogging: 128kb
298. Blogstorm: 127kb
299. Pat B. Doyle: 127kb
300. Internet Business Blogger: 125kb
301. Make Money Online: 123kb
302. Blog Me Cash: 120kb
303. Ask Shane: 119kb
304. Sam Carrara: 119kb
305. NetBusinessBlog: 117kb
306. Thatedeguy: 116kb
307. Make Money Work Online: 116kb
308. Blue Mushrooms: 114kb
309. Internet Marketing Chaos: 109kb
310. Marco Richter: 104kb
311. World Of Angel: 100kb
312. SuperAff: 92kb
313. Net Passive Income: 87kb
314. Green Affiliate: 87kb
315. Free Home Business Tips: 85kb
316. Osworld: 82kb
317. Blogging Bits: 79kb
318. Dorm Earning: 77kb
319. David Fiske: 74kb
320. Retire Young And Wealthy: 67kb
321. Leaving The Dayjob: 67kb
322. Mubinahmed.com: 64kb
323. Make Money Plan: 62kb
324. Pimp My Pagerank: 55kb
325. James Pegram: 45kb
326. 45n5: 39kb
327. The Geek Boys: 37kb
328. Blog Talks: 35kb
329. Jonnyq888: 31kb

So now we won’t be just using domain extensions such as dot com, dot org etc, now organisations will be able to own their brand name as a TLD.

For example, companies like Coca Cola will be able to register the TLD dot coke. (.coke)

My question is this: Who does this actually benefit, other than ICANN, who will collect the mid five figure sum for each of these extensions registered?

First things first, let’s say a company registers their TLD (.coke for example), what’s their web address going to be now? coke.coke?

That just sounds stupid.

Secondly, it’s going to be a freaking nightmare trying to remember website URL’s and email addresses. Let’s say you’re looking for the Microsoft website, it could be any one of the following:

• microsoft.ms
• microsoft.msn
• microsoft.msft
• and so on and so on….

Once again - stupid Stupid STUPID!

Idiots….

That is all.

Well the game’s changed.

There are a couple of features on the new IPhone 3G that have my head swimming with the possibilities, namely the push email, contact, and calendar facilities, and the data synch offered as part of the mobileme.com service.

These are game changers for anyone who runs multiple devices, and needs to keep them in synch without wanting to bugger around manually synchronising stuff.

I love the idea that I update a contact in Outlook on my desktop, and BLAMO! it’s updated on the IPhone. Waiting for an important email, but need to leave the office? That sucker’s gonna send me the email to the IPhone, and I get it at the same time it arrives on my laptop.

I know I can do this stuff on a Blackberry, but have you seen the price of those suckers?

Now on to how the whole shebang might work in Australia:

Australian ISP’s, and even more so, Mobile network providers, have a history of gouging their customers for every kilobyte of data they use. Especially our main carrier, Telstra. This will get interesting when people start using their IPhones the way they are intended to be used - an always connected device which has data PUSHED to it, rather than just a data retrieval device. This is going to add up real quick here on these Australian networks.

Given that Apple have priced the two models of the 3G Iphone at US$199 and US$299 respectively, and the fact that the Australian dollar is sitting at around US$0.95 at the moment, the carriers are going to be hard pressed to sell the units for much more than AU$250 and AU$350 respectively (yes I know it should be AU$210 and AU$320 respectively, but this is Australia we are talking about, if there’s a profit premium to be paid for technology, we’re going to be paying it).

I’ve done a few quick sums, based on the 3G carrier I use (Three), to see what the pricing might look like when the phones arrive on the 11th of July.

Let’s say we’re signing up for a two year contract, which is the norm here in Australia, and we’re buying the 8GB Iphone at the (Australian inflated) price of $250. The phone price is ammortised over the contract period.

Let’s also take into account that I can buy data from Three at the rate of 1GB/month for $15.

OK, here goes:

Three sell the Sony Ericsson Z610i off the shelf for $249, around the same price I reckon the IPhone 8GB should be here in Australia. I can walk into a Three shop and get this phone for no money down on a $29 cap, which gives me a bucketload of free calls / sms etc.

So let’s say we can get our Iphone no money down on a $29 monthly cap, let’s go get us some data allowance…

Three have what are probably the most generous mobile data plans in Australia (which isn’t saying much). I can grab 1GB of data a month for AU$15. If I really want to go nuts, I can get 6GB for $49. I’ll stick with the 1GB for now, for the sake of the argument.

Ok, so far we’re paying $29 a month for the phone and network access, and $15 for some data allowance. Now we need to pay for Apple’s mobileme service.

The mobileme service is priced at US$100/year. This might seem a little pricey, but it’s the whole point of getting the IPhone in the first place - remember, we’re talking PUSH email, contacts, and calendar here - right from Outlook on my PC.

Let’s call the mobileme cost $8 a month. So we’re up to around $53 a month ($30-odd for the phone and network access, $15 for the data, and $8 for mobileme).

I currently spend $30 a month on my phone, and $15 for mobile data for when I work on the road. The extra $8 for the features i can now get from the 3G IPhone is a no-brainer.

Australian telco’s - you are on notice. Anything that goes wildly outside the above pricing constitues nothing other than outright price gouging.

Another job I do for this designer is a bit of copywriting and proofreading (I worked as a proofreader in the printing industry many moons ago - although you wouldn’t know it by reading this blog ;-))

The proofreading seems to be more like copywriting, the client writes what they want on their website, I re-write it so it flows a little better and makes sense, the client gives me some money, and everybody’s a winner.

My quandary is this: When I re-write this copy, I generally give no thought to SEO. I just make it sound nice, and that’s the end of it. I die a little inside each time I hand over the copy, knowing so much more could have been done with it in an SEO sense, but the client isn’t paying me to do keyword research or write SEO’d copy.
The situation is the same with the website development I do for this designer. I just create the site so it looks as nice as possible given the Photoshop template that the designer gives me. I don’t worry about styling H1, H2 tags etc, I don’t worry about having keyword rich title tags, or having catchy page descriptions. I just make the site how the client wants it, and hand it over. Once again, it pains me to work this way, but given the budget constraints, I have little choice.

The problem is, that if I offer these services to the client, I don’t want to give them unrealistic expectations. Yes I could offer to charge a little more to the clients who are happy to pay for some keyword research, some extra time writing the copy, and the extra time to create an SEO friendly website, but unless they’re prepared to pall for a full SEO campaign (link building, link baiting etc), this would simply raise their expectations with the real risk of seeing little in the way of results.

So what to do?

Do I offer these services to these low value clients? Or do I just keep collecting the money for doing the work that I do?

Used to be that when I typed “google.com” into my address bar, I’d be redirected to “google.com.au”, this doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.

Whilst this is good for keeping an eye on my non-geotargeted niche sites, it’s a royal PITA when trying to look up my geotargeted local stuff.

Anyone else noticing this in other parts of the world?

Whilst he’s embraced some of the wonders of the new generation of web technologies such as RSS, blogging, and he’s even been known to stumble aimlessly when particularly bored, there’s still plenty about web 2.0 which leaves him wondering whether the world is passing him by.

So here are the thoughts on web 2.0 of a dinosaur who, although he loves all things tech, wonders whether it’s all really worth the effort.

Facebook - sounds like something we used to do with any girl who was willing in the church carpark whilst our parent blissfully sat through the sermon.

Myspace - What that guy with really bad breath at my first job always seemed to get into.

Social Media - When I and a bunch of mates got together to watch a porno movie

Stumbleupon - What I do when I’ve drunk too much, ie to stumbleupon the coffee table when I lose my balance.

Sphinn - What the room does when I lay down after drinking too much.

Reddit - What I did with a book I borrowed from the library - I reddit then I gave it back.

Digg - What people with afro’s and sideburns did when they liked something - Yes, I’m old enough to remember this.

Payperpost - The payment model my father’s grazing business used for their fence builders. You got paid for how many posts you put up in a day.

Slashdot - What I told my nana when I was going to take a leak - “I’m going to take a slash, Dot”

Squidoo - The black stuff a squid squirted all over you after you dragged it into the boat.

 Fark - What you said when your mate pointed out a particularly del.icio.us piece of tail.

Twitter - What my dad called me when I did something stupid - “You bloody twitter!”

What about you - Are you confused by web 2.0?

Hop on over to the Pimp My Favicon page and add it to the showcase!

We’re building what will soon become the world’s largest Favicon collection!

Don’t have a Favicon? Pop over and have a look anyway. You can add a Favicon from another site if you like.

So let’s build the world’s largest Favicon collection together!

If spammy links could hurt a site, we’d all be running around dropping links to our competitors on free-for-all links pages, and nuking them into oblivion.

Now, on to my point:

It’s no secret that the GoogleFairy has been quite busy of late wandering around the web sprinkling her green GoogleDust on sites here and there, taking GoogleDust from some sites, depositing it on others.

Whilst Google exporting PageRank to the toolbar engenders not nearly the hysteria that it once did, you just know that webmasters the world over are secretly checking all their sites, quietly patting themselves on the back for their gains, and bemoaning their losses, despite the disparaging posts they are making in their blogs about the irrelevance of PageRank.

Of course, I was one of those said webmasters. One of the things I do when there’s a toolbar pagerank update, is go through this blog, checking the posts that I know were popular at the time of their writing, and gained a few backlinks in the process.

One internal page I checked had actually gained a PR of 4, the same as the home page. The funny thing is that it was this post. In short, this post was just a list of 5,000 highly searched terms.

The post was an experiment to see how many trackback links I could get from sploggers (people searching through RSS Feeds for specific keywords, then publishing an excerpt of the post, with a link back to the originating site). Yahoo Site Explorer is showing 143 links to this post, each one spammier than the last.

If we’re to take pagerank as google’s measure of authority of a page, it would appear that Google thinks that this page is of a higher authority than some of the excellent blogs I read.

So here’s a tip - If you’re a pagerank whore, or if you’re into selling websites, don’t worry about building out a quality site with quality content and quality backlinks.

Just throw up a post with a shitload of high search volume terms on it, and watch the links roll in.

I’ve been of the firm belief for some time now that the blog you are now reading, Pimp My PageRank, was probably the best SEO blog in the world.

Well now I have vindication, but don’t take my word for it, luminaries such as Yahoo and Google agree.

See for yourself:

• Ask Google which is the best SEO blog in the world
• Ask Yahoo which is the best SEO blog in the world

I’m just so proud!

So what to do? Give up? Sit and wait?

I don’t think so.

We’re obviously on the right track, we wouldn’t be on the first page of results if we weren’t, we’d struggle to improve the on-page or on-site SEO, so it just comes down to links. There’s not a whole lot of other places for us to drop links. This is a particularly competitive industry, so none of his competitors are going to pony up a some linky goodness.

Do we just start buying links? I think not, this is no long term strategy, as we don’t want our ongoing rankings being held to ransom by some random webmaster.

There is one thing we can do though, which can help immeasurably. Whilst we may have used up pretty much all of the places we know of to drop links to this site, we can create another site and do it all over again.

“What, so you can have two sites in the top ten, but neither of them in the number one spot?” I hear you ask?

Well, you’re half right, and half wrong. I know we can move a second site into the top ten for his keywords, we’ve done it once, there’s no reason we can’t do it again. But doing it again gives us one distinct advantage.

We have an authority site to link from.

Whilst I’m a firm believer that a shitload of links is a good way to get a site ranked, there’s also a lot to be said for a single link from an authority site in the same niche. Google obviously thinks our existing site has some sort of authority, or it wouldn’t rank it in this quite competitive local niche.

So we’re off to create a second site. This is a particularly long term strategy, I wouldn’t recommend it for an affiliate or AIS site. The site we’re doing this for is a bricks and mortar business where long term rankings will be particularly beneficial.

This second site won’t simply be a second site for his business, I believe that search engines are smart enough to pick up on things like two websites in the first page of results having the same contact details, addresses etc. This site will simply consist of half a dozen well written and researched articles on the niche in question, with no outgoing links.

The important thing to keep in mind whilst building this second site is to keep it completely un-connectable to the first site. This means:

• Don’t use the same registrar to register the domain name
• Don’t use the same contact details to register the domain name (private registration with a different registrar is good)
• Don’t use the same Google Analytics account to track the site’s statistics.
• Whilst you could probably get away with hosting the site on the same IP as the original site (resellers host thousands of sites on the same IP, so the search engines can’t be sure that sites of a similar subject on the same IP are owned by the same person), it’s probably better to host this site on a different IP or hosting account from the original.
• Try to avoid using the exact same anchor text as you’ve used for the original site when gathering links.
• Don’t use the same web template as you used on the original site.
• Don’t place contact details on the second site.

Once we’ve written our articles and published the site, we start promoting the site in exactly the same way, in exactly the same places where we promoted the original sites:

• We write half a dozen more good quality articles and submit them to article directories
• We hit up our 1,000 or so link directories and drop our links on them (this is a good one to outsource - 1,000 submissions can be bought for around $70, but I find that they can be a bit hit and miss as far as accuracy goes)
• We hit up all the same blogs we did with the original site and start commenting on them using the new site as our URL

Over time, when our page reaches the first page in the search results (or even the second page), we drop a single, good anchor text sitewide link to our original site.

……and wait and see if this link is enough to tip us over into the top spot in the rankings.

Whilst looking for information on where the gold star was on the Cool Cool Mountain, I happened across Yahoo Answers. I’d heard of this part of the Yahoo empire before, but had never actually bothered to go have a look.

Well I did….

And I was astounded. Once again, my ability to underestimate the sheer stupidity of the majority of the human race was brought home with a resounding thud!

Here’s a few of the questions I found:

• How Gay do you have to be? - Not nearly gay enough, apparently.
• Poison Ivy! What Should I Do? Leave Bloody Ivy alone. What did she ever do to you?
• What is the best way to murder somebody and get away with it? - um, riiiiiight…..
• How can you tell a sim on the sims 2 (pc) is pregnant? - You mean apart from slicing it open and looking?
  
• What do you do when you are falsely imprisoned and with a charge that has a 30 day mental stay? - Leaving this one right alone…..
  
• Why do photographers say good day whenever they first meet you? - You’d rather they tell you to fuck off?
  
• How can i hack my school computers? - From the “I have 1337 hAXoRing skillz and am not afraid to use them” dept.
• Where have all the batteries gone? - Is my face red?
• Is beta mail winning lottery is real or fake one? Actualy I got the winning mail but I am not sure is it true? For real dude. And once you get your money, I have this internet marketing e-book I’d like to talk to you about.

What if you were to serve different content to visitors who come to your site via a search engine, based on what search terms they used to find your site?

Let’s say, for arguments sake, that a person came to your site after searching google for the term “red four inch high widgets”, the referral to your site would look something like:

http://google.com/search?q=red+four+inch+high+widgets

We could, in theory, serve that person a list of all the widgets that they might be interested in based on their search string: all our red widgets, all our four inch high widgets etc.

The content we serve them might look something like this:

Hi there, it looks like you’re searching for red four inch high widgets. Based on what you’re searching for, we think you might also be interested in these other products we have: (insert list of related products here.)

A basic php script to do something like this might look something like this:

<?

$referrer = $_SERVER[”HTTP_REFERER”];

if (strstr($referrer, ‘red widgets’)) {

echo ‘whatever content you want to show people looking for red widgets’;

}

?>

I wonder what sort of difference this would make to conversions on a website?

Who’s on twitter? I don’t know who I should be following….

If you’re on twitter, drop a comment here and I’ll follow you.

You can also hit me up at http://twitter.com/dapimp 

Cloaking? I wondered….didn’t seem to be.

Then I scrolled down the page. Down, and down, and down some more…..

Wow! This is what I found:

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Adelaide Web Design

Web Design Adelaide

Adelaide Website Design

Website Design Adelaide

[Company name] specialise in Adelaide website design and are arguably the most recognised Adelaide web developer with Adelaide web design awards [Company name] Website Design is also the adelaide City and Eastern Adelaide Web Design Finalist/Winner of the 2002, 2003 & 2004 Small Business Awards, for Communication Services. Intrinsic with web design and website design is the ability to be found in search engines and not only are we (arguably) the best Adelaide Website developer and Adelaide graphic design house we are also considered one of the most successful adelaide search engine optimisation and/or adelaide search engine marketing exponents.

Adelaide Website Design

Website Design Adelaide

Adelaide Web Design

Web Design Adelaide

Search Engine Marketing Adelaide or Search Engine Optimisation Adelaide, it goes by many names including Adelaide SEO, Adelaide SEM, SEO Adelaide, SEM Adelaide - there are many ways to describe the practice of search engine success.

But what we mean can be summed up in the sentence - there’s little point in building a website if nobody visits. So if you want to be seen online consider [Company name] Australia for website design Adelaide and search engine visibilty.

When you are after website design in Adelaide you can find us online with the following terms:
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When you are after website graphics in Adelaide you can find us online with the following terms:
adelaide web graphics, adelaide website graphics, adelaide webgraphics, webgraphics adelaide, web graphics adelaide, webgraphics design adelaide, adelaide graphic design, adelaide design graphics

However when you want your website to be found try using the following terms:
rank success, rank success adelaide, adelaide seo, adelaide sem, adelaide online marketing, adelaide web seo, adelaide web marketing, web marketing adelaide, online marketing adelaide, adelaide search engine success, search engine success adelaide, seo adelaide, sem adelaide, australia seo, australia sem, australia online marketing, australia web seo, australia web marketing, web marketing australia, online marketing australia, australia search engine success, search engine success australia, seo australia, sem australia

We specialise in:

Adelaide Web Design

Web Design Adelaide

Adelaide Website Design

Website Design Adelaide

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This is one of Adelaide’s most respected Web Development houses, flagrantly using, getting away with, and ranking with, an SEO tactic that is sooooo 1997 that you’d think that google would be all over it.
I feel sorry for any of their prospective SEO clients. If this is the tactics that they use on clients sites, there may well be website owners wondering why they paid good money for rankings worse than what they started with.
For shame….

Whilst I understand that directory links are probably not worth that much, at $20 for 300 submissions, I figured that that was still pretty good value. And before anybody mentions it - poor quality backlinks can’t hurt your site, if they could, I could unleash a bit of php to nuke your site into oblivion with about a million dodgy backlinks in fifteen minutes.

Anyhoo, so I’m wading through a plethora of “Confirm your submission to our directory” type emails, which generally have anything from spammy links in them to random SEO advice etc, and I come across this little gem:

Thank you! for your link submission in [directory name] Directory. If your link is approved it will be notified to you by
email. Here are some free seo tips for you. Its important that while
submitting your site to directories you must use your company name or
site name(domain name) in anchor text while giving title. Putting a
keyword in anchor text is a black hat seo and directories taking
keyword in anchor text of a link are getting penalized.

Yeah, those links with your keywords in the anchor text will get you every time!

Sheesh!

Linkbait is defined by wikipedia as thus:

Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites.

Which is all well and good, assuming that your readers have the capacity, inclination, and skill to actually link to you.

I have a blog where I write about the issues facing people who suffer from kidney disease (an issue close to my heart). I could create all the linkbait I like in this field, but the simple fact of the matter is that the vast majority (over 95%?) of the readers of that blog don’t actually have their own blog or website.

The fact that they have no means to place a link on a website or blog of theirs makes my linkbait virtually worthless.

So remember, it’s all well and good to create linkbait for your make money online blog, as the chances are that the majority of your readers has the capacity to link to you, but think long and hard before you spend a lot of time creating linkbait for people who can’t link to you.