Should You Focus On StumbleUpon Now That It Passed Facebook As A Traffic Generator?
Posted on 30. Oct, 2011 by admin.
The above is a big question that has left a lot of people thinking and in the state of dismay as to whether they should focus on StumbleUpon or stay with facebook. There have been press releases about the fact that StumbleUpon has passed Facebook as a traffic generator. This has kept a lot of Businesses in a position of dilemma as to staying with Facebook or Switching to StumbleUpon.
Let us carefully analyze the two Media and know the integrities of both in order to stand out bold when we talk about them.
StumbleUpon: it is a discovery social bookmarking engine that allocates and recommends website content to people. Stumble upon has been in existence since 2001. Some News on Stumbleupon site showed that stumbleupon drives more traffic than any other social media site. Just recently on Wednesday, October 12th, 2011 it was estimated that 20 Million Stumblers where. There is no doubt that stumbleupon isn’t doing well but most analysis showed that most of the traffic generated by stambleupon is mostly from the United States. By all standards they are doing absolutely well. To catch such amount of traffic within this time frame is a plus to them.
Facebook: It is relationship based social networking site. According to Wikipedia, Facebook was launched in February 2004 and as at now has more than 800 million active users. Users can choose to create a personal profile or page. Statistics on Facebook has shown that it is the social site that has been famous throughout the whole world. By all standards it is also clear that facebook is also doing absolutely incredible. Moreover, the traffic generated by facebook are not only limited to the United States but rather a worldwide traffic. Facebook can boost of the fact that it supports over 70 languages.
Now let us look into detail some issues here. It is clear that the main work StumbleUpon does is to allow its user to bookmark contents of website such as articles, videos, photos and among others in that you will be able to share with friends and likewise they will be able to share with you. That is pretty good stuff there. Facebook too is mainly design to build links in order to create relationship for you and share stuff. With facebook there is also the possibility of advertising one’s self through post, pages, events and others. It is clear that all the two are very purposeful but the two serve different purposes.
This analogy depicts clearly that the two media are entirely operating on different assumption in that stumble upon allows you to bookmark and share website you visit with friends and facebook allows you to create relationship with friends in order to have fun by posting comments and sharing stuff about your personal life with your friend.
From the above analysis, it is very difficult to focus completely on Stumble upon and forget about facebook since the two media are designed to deliver two different concepts.
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How to NOT get banned from Adsense
Posted on 06. Oct, 2011 by admin.
Recently my payments were in hold because of account checking (or something like that), google found some shady things at my account and decided to Hold my Payments.
This happens to a lot of people, some of them were making +2000$ per month (I have been reading Adsense Forums)… time later most of them get banned so I was worried about if they will or not disable my account.
And surprisingly WTF thing happend: My account was NOT disabled
Why? I think that was because I made some changes in my websites (all micro niche)
So I want to share what I did and some others tips to help BHW members and readers, like you guys help me with all your useful info. Here it goes:
Why Google Team start to watching you (manually)?
1. Your CTR increased a lot
2. Your impressions increased a lot
3. Your revenue increased a lot
4. Your clicks increased a lot
5. Because of no reason
6. Nobady know why
You must be worried? No, if for example you change your wordpress theme to another that brings you a much higer CTR (like a did by incresing my CTR to 20% and more) nothing will happend.
My account was in the Adsense Eye, from my experience because all my statistics increase 200% each month. First month I made 50€, second 120€, third 250€ and this month I am making +480€… next month hope to bring 700€.
All this happens by changing wordpress theme, adding new niche sites, improve SEO by only white hat methods (adding new posts and manual bookmarking).
But you never have to worried about increasing your income, maybe Google will be watching you, but never will disable your account for that reason.
TOP Disable account reasons
(If you have one of this reasons your account may be disable, so don’t cry later)
1. Your site is a porn site
2. Your site is almost porn site
3. Your site seems to be a porn but with clothes
4. Your site is about sexy girls youtube videos, images or TEXT (yes, sexy text)
5. Your site is about download copyrighted resources (and you don’t have permissions)
6. Your site have pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content or is linking to them.
7. You don’t have a privacy policy page
8. You don’t have a license/permission page (Adsense TOS don’t say anything about this but you must have one, my experience is talking)
9. Your images, videos, text… are copyrighted ¡IMPORTANT! Don’t search images at google image search and copy or download them. Use a creative commons image search if you don’t want to lose your account. Creative commons with comercial permissions and link to the source.
10. You don’t have a contact page (Again nothing about this in Google Adsense TOS, buy make it, its easy with some wordpress plugins).
11. You have a privacy policy page BUT you are not linking to the privacy policy page of Google Adsense, link to them, and link to your statcounter/analytics privacy policy page too.
13. Your content is only images (For Google, Images is not content)
14. Your content is poor text, few words and a lot of adsense at the same time. If you have pages with 5 words and 3 adsense large blocks you will be banned.
14. Your content is useless only written for a SEO spider
14. Your content is just useless, few words, say nothing…
15. Your content is copied, if you copy and Google realize you will be banned. Auto-blogging is banned by google.
16. If you talk about google (any of its services) or use a its trademark will also get banned. You must have their permission.
17. If you share your CTR, amount of clicks, adsense screenshot you will be banned. You can only share your total amount of earaings (monthly, weekly, yearly…)
18. You hide your ads in any ways
19. Google Adsense Ads may be confused with others Ads or links of your page.
20. You change the providen code in any ways
21. You click yourself
22. Your friend click you ads
23. Go to friend-family-mediamarkt-apple store computer and click your ads.
24. Some guy click a lot your ads (this can be resolved)
25. Some guy put your ads in his porn-hate related-download copyrighted files site (this can be resolved)
26. Your adsense ads appears in a software installation
27. Your ads appears in a pop-up
28. Your adwords link go to your adsense ads
29. Your adwords link go to your site with adsense ads
30. By Doing black hat seo (a lot and no quality)
31. By Doing black hat link building (a lot and no quality)
32. By doing black hat traffic(a lot and no quality)
33. Making several accounts
34. Saying at google forums your CTR, that you have several accounts, that you click your own ads…
35. Making a gaming site with not your games and copyrighted protected
36. Using Adsense with websites with no traffic, not finished, broken links, few content…
Steps to NOT get banned (like I did )
(this are my personal recommendations)
1. Create content with 350 words or more
2. Content for the user (for example: tips, recommendations, how to do, steps to follow…not only information, but also.)
3. Put 1 or two images (from creative commons), link to them like a source.
4. Create a Privacy Policy page, link to privacy policy of google adsense, say to users that you are using cookies, teach how to disable cookies, say to users that third party companies can access to user information like OS, browser… link to analytics/statcounter/other privacy policy
5. Create a contact page with contact form
6. Create a licence page, say here that you are using creative commons images, that you are link to them, all your info is yours and its under creative commons licence (link to creative commons licence), say that all trademarks and products are for descriptive use or as a part of the information, say that you have no relationships with trademakrs…
7. Use a clean template
8. Put an advertisment header in each adsense add
9. Uptade your site one time a week if you can
FAQ
Will google disable my account if…
… my CTR is to high(+60%). No, even for a 100% or 200% CTR
… I have 5 ads. No if 3 of them are text/image banners and the other 2 are link units.
…Use the same theme for all my websites. No, but change some of them to increase the quality and don’t get the adsense attention.
…someone clicks several time to my ads. No, google don’t ban you because one person click in your ads, google just make this clicks like invalid clicks. But you must advice them or ban his ip by tracking by statcounter.
Thats all for now, hope to help some people!
Read the Adsense TOS
Ask in Adsense Forums
And all will be right.
Source from QuiGloriam from BHW
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Free Web2.0 Blog List – 79 Websites Update 13 August 2011
Posted on 02. Sep, 2011 by admin.
list updated August 13, 2011
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20six.co.uk
angelfire.com
beep.com
blinkweb.com
blog.com
blog.de
blog.ca
blog.co.uk
blog.hr
blogdrive.com
blogetery.com
bloghi.com
blogger.com
bloggerteam.com
blogreaction.com
blogs.ie
blogsome.com
blogster.com
blogstream.com
blogtext.org
blurty.com
bravenet.com
busythumbs.com
devhub.com
edublogs.org
fc2.com
fotopages.com
freeblogit.com
freehostia.com
freewha.com
flukiest.com
flixya.com
freeflux.net
gather.com
hpage.com
hubpages.com
i.ph
insanejournal.com
inube.com
jimdo.com
journalspace.com
livejournal.com
moonfruit.com
multiply.com
my.opera.com nofollow
nireblog.com
officelive.com
ohlog.com
onsugar.com
posterous.com
quizilla.teennick.com
rediff.com
snappages.com
sosblogs.com
squidoo.com
tabulas.com
tblog.com
terapad.com
thoughts.com nofollow
tripod.com
tumblr.com
twoday.net
typepad.com
typolis.net
upsaid.com
webs.com
webnode.com
webspawner.com
webstarts.com
weebly.com
wetpaint.com
wikidot.com
wikispaces.com
wordpress.com
yola.com
yousaytoo.com
zimbio.com
zoomshare.com
Thanks to phpbuilt for contributing the list.
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How To Avoid Google Panda Slap Your Quality Sites
Posted on 18. Aug, 2011 by admin.
Since Panda first hit back on 24th Feb 2011 I’ve seen a number of quality sites lose half their Google organic traffic overnight followed by a steady drift down since.
On the same sites, I’ve since seen long articles, written by leading experts in their field get beaten in Google’s SERPs by spammy scraper sites.
Panda is not catching the spammy scraper sites. But that’s not what I’m investigating here. I want to know why the quality sites are getting Panda slapped in the first place.
Tried and failed
Like almost all who’ve tried, I’ve wrestled with the Panda and failed (so far).
I’ve read all the advice from Google and the insights from SEO experts. I wrote the Google Panda survival guide myself.
I found all pages that might be deemed thin in content and they have been removed from Google’s index with noindex tags.
So all that’s left is those in-depth quality articles.
Nothing changed. So if Panda is only about quality content it is a narrow definition of quality.
Adsense has been removed.
Nothing changed. So the problem is not advertising.
I checked the link profiles. There were already thousands of natural links, built over many years, from blogs, expert sites and Wikipedia.
So the problem is not the absence of natural quality links or the presence of spammy low quality links.
So we can rule out the following:
• Advertising
• Quality content
• Link profile
How can that be, considering all the advice about quality we are receiving from Google?
I’ll tell you how soon. But first let’s look at these quality sites that have been Panda slapped …
What properties do these sites share?
They all share the following:
• Quality original content written by experts.
• Established. Some over ten years old.
• Lots and lots of natural quality links to the expert quality content.
• Owned by small companies.
• No fancy design. These sites mostly cared about the words.
• Almost no brand development.
The above combination has led to one other shared quality …
These sites were very successful at getting visits from search engines.
They got visits by ranking high for very competitive keywords.
They beat international brands and media sites with ease.
They got visits via thousands and thousands of long tail keywords because …
… if a page with thousands of words on it is successful for a popular keyword and those thousands of words are about the same subject then that page will clean up in the long tail.
So by design or luck, these sites had great SEO.
Strike ‘luck’ from that sentence. These sites did everything that Google said they were we supposed to do and that wasn’t luck.
So what went wrong?
It starts with a machine …
Panda is a machine (not a cuddly animal)
The first Panda details from Google talked about the challenge they faced trying to define quality with a machine and an algorithm.
Some factors a machine can use to define quality are obvious indicators and these are the most mentioned eg, ‘thin’ content issues like:
• Lots of pages with little content
• High duplicate content (including boilerplate content) to original content ratios
• Lots of adverts
But clearly these factors can’t be used on their own or half the web would be Panda slapped.
Those factors would earn you Panda points (a bad thing) but they must be cross-referenced with more than that.
What about things like:
• User experience
• Design
• Trust
‘Human’ factors like these are mentioned a lot by Googlers talking about Panda. But how can a machine measure these?
It can’t. Not directly.
But it can measure the following two types of metrics and be confident there is a strong relationship between them and the human factors …
• Toolbar data
• Branding data
Let’s look at each of those …
Toolbar data
Toolbar data are all the factors that Google can measure via its toolbar and whatever data sources it might choose from its vast store of information. Factors like:
• Time spent on site when clicking through from a SERP
• Bounce rate
• Return visits
(On those other data sources: you might believe Google that it was an accident its Street View cars downloaded the web browsing data of the wifi signals they passed. But it wasn’t a coincidence because Google is dedicated to gathering as much information as possible about everyone.)
That Google uses toolbar data is now clearly documented. For evidence, read SEO veteran Mike Grehan:
“Andrew Tomkins, Engineering Director at Google and former Chief Scientist at Yahoo, made it quite clear at SES New York in 2008 that, in his opinion, whereas anchor text had always been the ‘workhorse’ of search, the strongest signal now comes from the toolbar.”
Also, when Panda 2.0 rolled out, Google publicly stated that [user feedback signals] were now being used. These signals come from Google’s site blocking Chrome extension.
Branding data
Google engineers say they don’t favor big brands.
Eric Schmidt, Google chairman, and ex-CEO, seems to disagree. When talking about the “cesspool” (his description) that is the internet (ie, spammy results on Google), he says “Brands are the solution, not the problem”.
These two viewpoints are easily reconciled. Google favors sites with a wide range of factors that big brands just happen to display. Factors like:
• Brand mentions and links in social media.
• Brand mentions and links on highly trusted sites.
• Searches with brand and domain name.
It’s important to note that the definition of a big brand is relative to the keyword and the market it is part of.
So a big brand in a small market might not be a big company.
But a big brand in a big market will be a large company.
In practice, this means if you’re a small company it’s going to be hard to do well in a big market.
This is a bit like small shops getting kept out of the shopping mall by high rents.
The Panda hypothesis
So my Panda hypothesis is that the Panda algo measures quality with these three types of factors:
• Thin content
• Toolbar data
• Branding data
And some quality sites get Panda slapped because …
First the toolbar data fail …
Our quality sites are failing on the toolbar data because their SEO was too good.
Those quality sites have (had) fantastically successful SEO thanks to their natural links and the depth of their content.
This meant they got lots of visits from searchers using popular keywords.
But the pages contain long detailed experts’ content.
This is not the content those ‘populist searchers’ want.
Result: high bounce rates, low average visit times and low average return rates. Ie, poor toolbar data.
Lots of painful Panda points.
Now the branding fail …
These sites all have almost no brand development. Branding just wasn’t part of their plans.
There was no association of the brand with the content.
No marketing of the brand.
And they are small companies so their brands don’t get looked after and mentioned by national media (who can only exist if they look after their big brand advertisers).
They weren’t that sophisticated. They just produced quality content.
Or they came from a direct marketing background that taught them the message is what delivers response and not the brand.
What’s more this was working very well for them. So why change?
And it was exactly what Google recommended – quality content. So why change?
Result: low brand and domain name searches and mentions
Lots more painful Panda points.
That’s the theory.
I’m more confident of the toolbar part of it than the branding. Both are considered by Google but I can’t be sure they are considered by Panda.
The trouble with Panda
The problem with Panda is that it’s a hack to fix a broken algorithm.
Large content farm sites containing crap were appearing at the top of Google’s SERPs. The sites were not breaking any rules.
Google’s algorithm couldn’t stop them.
Specialist quality sites like those talked about in this article were getting top for populist searches they weren’t built for.
Google’s algo was not working well enough.
Searchers were finding inappropriate and poor sites and this is a threat to Google’s success.
Aaron Wall goes further than this and says that the content farm industry publicly made Google look stupid
Google had to act.
But it couldn’t fix the algo. So it bolted on Panda.
Panda is not part of the main algo. Panda is run every 4-7 weeks. Panda does not change the algo so that better results appear for every keyword search.
Instead any site that falls foul of Panda gets crudely wiped out by a site-wide, all-keyword handicap. That handicap can’t be lifted until the next time Panda has been run.
And it probably won’t be lifted then because very few sites have had a Panda slap lifted.
Why have almost no sites escaped Panda?
I know of only one site that I can confidently say has escaped Panda. A few other cases are reliably reported.
This is telling us something. This suggests that you can’t just change a few things on your site. Like no-indexing thin content, removing excessive advertising and tidying up design.
It’s consistent with the case for toolbar and/or branding data being part of Panda because you can’t change this data quickly.
It takes time to change your toolbar data. Especially if there is a mismatch between many of the keywords being used to reach your site and your site’s content.
You’ve either got to offer those searchers different content or go out of your way to un-optimize your site for those keywords.
It also takes time to build your brand online. That can either take years or a lot of money.
What to do (anti-Panda tactics)
The following points are for quality sites that have been Panda slapped so I’m assuming you don’t have a crappy site with scraped, dupe, useless or spammy content.
Thin content
• Use robots tag to noindex any large groups of thin content pages. I know other sites get away with them and yours may be very useful. But you’ve been Panda slapped so you’ve got to have to get rid of every possible Panda point you have.
• Look for significant content from feeds. Remove it or noindex the pages it’s on.
• Make sure you don’t have too many ads on a page.
• Reduce ‘boiler plate content’ (the same content on multiple pages).
• Identify groups of pages (two or more) that are optimized for very similar keywords. Merge the content and 301 from one to the other or change what all but one is optimized for.
Toolbar data
• Use bounce rates and ‘average time on site’ on keyword reports to find the page and keyword combinations that aren’t delivering good data.
You’re looking for mismatches between keywords used to reach a page and the content of that page. When found, either:
– Change page content to make those searchers happy, or
– De-opitimize for those keywords. Eg, optimize for others.
• Make sure your design and user experience is clear and up to date.
• Make sure users can easily see some interesting related content when they arrive on each page. This might be significant categories, links to your best content and even irresistible free marketing offers.
• Make sure you have ‘best content’ to tempt users.
• Show images and videos ‘above the line’ (ie, they can be seen without scrolling). Give images captions.
• Show videos where you can.
• Craft your headlines so that readers want to read the following content.
• Craft your standfirst (first paragraph) so that users want to read on for details.
Branding data
• Give users clear share buttons for Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon and Google +.
• Invite discussion with comments.
• User your brand name in your marketing and public relations.
• Use your brand name in content headlines when this can be done smoothly. For example, your ‘free widget’ becomes the ‘Mybrand free widget’.
• Use your brand in your page title tags and description tags.
• Build a network of bloggers, media journalists and social media users. Interact with them.
• Build a branded email list for a free value-packed newsletter that’s named after your brand.
• Promote your new content on your free newsletter and to your media, blogging and social media networks.
Also see the Google Panda update survival guide.
Lessons for us all
That Google Panda includes toolbar and branding data is a hypothesis (that’s another word for a guess).
But even if they aren’t considered at all by Panda, they are considered by the main algo.
So I still strongly recommend you consider them in your SEO planning.
To become a leader in your niche’s SERPs you have to be a leading brand in your niche. That’s branding.
To stay a leader, visitors from SERPs are going to have to want to stay on your site and come back. That’s toolbar.
Mentions and links (I’ll call these ‘sharing’) in social media (Twitter, Facebook, G+, StumbleUpon, etc) are part of both branding and toolbar …
Your brand needs to be shared (branding) and traffic seen moving to and from social media (toolbar).
Branding and toolbar data are a significant part of a New SEO.
Source: http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/panda-slapped-quality-sites
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Free Backlinks With Social Monkee
Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by admin.
If you never hear about socialmonkee, then now is the time for you to know about this cool bulk social bookmarking website. By using this website, it can dramatically increase your number of backlinks for better search engine indexing, rankings and traffic!
Okay, first of all head to http://www.socialmonkee.com/ and sign up for a free account.
Now, an email confirmation letter will be sent to the email you’ve specified.
Note, you can create only 1 account with Social Monkee. They are tracking your IP address, so you can have only 1 account chained with 1 IP unique address.
Just head to your email inbox and click the confirmation link (sometimes confirmation email end up in a spam inbox, so check that one too!).
Once you are confirmed, you can login to your Social Monkee account.
http://socialmonkee.com/login.php
If Social Monkee will offer you some special offers (to upgrade to PRO version or anything), just pass this for now. PRO version is great, but I’ve promised to show you only the free methods 
Hit the “Download Plugin/Submit” link at the top navigation.
Now, you will land on Social Monkee’s submission spinner.
First of all, you will need to specify the URL of your website you want to receive backlinks to.
Then you will need to fill in your site’s title, decription and tags. It’s like any ordinary spinner.
You need to specify at least 3 title, description and tag variations. You must specify your set variations in such syntax (standard one):
{title|title2|title3}
It’s very important that you don’t miss {} and | signs or else Social Monkee won’t work (if you find this too overwhelming, you can use alternative submit form instead – http://www.socialmonkee.com/submit-old.php).
Don’t forget to select the appropriate category for your website. It’s set to “News” by default.
Once you’ve filled in all fields hit “Submit to 25 social sites” button.
Now, Social Monkee will queue your submission and it will post your website to 25 different social websites whenever your queue is over.
It’s that simple! You can view your social bookmarking posts by visiting “Reports” page:
http://www.socialmonkee.com/report.php
In most cases, your social submission will be made during the next 24 hours. Just fill in all information, hit “Submit to 25 social sites” and then you can relax, because you know Social Monkee will do all the work for you!
You can submit 1 website every day to get 25 new backlinks. It’s really handy if you are running a blog and you make a new blog post every day.
With PRO version you will be able to submit your link 3 times a day to 100 different social websites.
I know you may be thinking about the PRO version now, but I don’t recommend you rushing. Try the free version first and if you like it, you can always upgrade later!
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10 Internet Marketing Commandments
Posted on 18. Jun, 2011 by admin.
Even when you’re an experienced internet marketer, don’t forget about your roots and your time spent as a newbie. Everyone was new once. Pay it forward by helping others in the same way that people helped you out when you were just starting out.
1. Don’t tell people how much money you’ve got, either on the internet or in real life. There’s the potential to make serious amounts of money from internet marketing – way more than most people with 9 to 5 jobs can imagine – and bragging about how much you’re making can cause real friction and resentment with your friends and family. On the internet, if you talk up about how much money you have got, you are making yourself a target for hackers, scammers and the IRS. Keep it on the down low.
A good internet marketing empire should be like an iceberg – all anyone ever sees is the harmless looking tip. But underneath, there’s a humongous mass of automated sites cranking out 10s or even 100s of thousands of hits a day. A force to be reckoned with.
2. Don’t tell people about what you’re doing! If you’ve got a method and it’s working, rinse and repeat it as hard and as fast as you can while it’s still working and don’t tell ANYONE. Especially, don’t go harping on about your awesome method on message boards while you’re still making serious money from it. Only reveal your secrets when you’re already moving on to the next thing. In the mean time, ruthlessly blast away any competition you might have and own your own little corner of your niche. This is a war you are in.
3. Don’t trust anyone. Other webmasters, affiliate managers and programs, joint venture partners, payment processors, even friends you decide to teach… They’ll all screw you without a second thought once real money is involved. Especially if you only know people online, always take measures to protect yourself in whatever way you can, and have contingency plans in place in case they screw you over. Never leave your future or your livelihood in the hands of someone else.
4. Don’t go wasting all your hard earned internet marketing dollars on crap! This biz is like a roller coaster and you might be banking hard one minute and broke the next. Always, always put some cash away for an emergency fund and funnel some into expansion for your business. Domains, hosting, programs, captcha services, outsourcing, whatever – while you’re on the way up, live frugally and spend your money on making more money and scaling as hard and as fast as you can. There will be plenty of time to party when you are making $10,000 a week.
5. In terms of your own geographical area, and your real personal stuff online, keep your internet marketing activities and your real life completely separate. Don’t go spamming blogs or local sites that are owned by people in your own city or doing things that are going to get irate members of the public turning up on your front door. Keep your anonymity top notch – secure proxies, anonymous VCCs and fake names wherever possible. Keep your real Facebook account, gmail account etc completely separate from your dodgy marketing activities. Clear cookies regularly and use proxies if possible so the powers that be have trouble identifying you as an internet marketer. You want your neighbors to think that you are a respectable online entrepreneur, not a ruthless spamming prick. Don’t shit where you eat.
6. Don’t lend money to people you only know online, or listen to any kind of bullshit sob story. If you do, don’t ever expect to get the money back and treat it like a bonus if you do. That goes for anything of value – links, traffic etc – you can’t ever count on anonymous people on the internet (especially blackhats) holding up their end of the bargain. That doesn’t mean you can’t set up deals, but protect your own interests at all times and don’t deal with sicking retards.
7. Try to avoid doing business or partnering with family members. These things seem to end badly more often than not. Definitely don’t sign up your parents or spouse to any kind of loan to put into something as unpredictable as an internet marketing business – fund it yourself, rely on yourself and then feel the immense satisfaction when it pays off knowing that YOU made it happen. Often you will find that family members who are not internet savvy don’t understand what internet marketing is all about and it is easier to let them think you are a run of the mill marketer or web designer rather than have them accuse you of being a criminal. And leave the work in the office; enjoy spending time with your girlfriend, wife or kids and forget about internet marketing once in a while.
8. Again, anonymity and preparedness is essential. You might not have a kilo of crack in a gym bag in the kitchen, but you probably do have a hard drive of dodgy marketing scripts and data and more of the same on a server or VPS that is rented in your name with your credit card. Take proactive steps to limit your exposure to the law; what you are doing may or may not be illegal (a lot of the stuff we do has never been tested in court) but all it takes is a lawsuit to bankrupt you. Encrypt your backups; use proxies and VCCs; set up an offshore bank account or an LLC that protects you personally from financial ruin; shred your papers; do whatever it takes to keep yourself safe.
Also, outsourcing is essential in 2011. There is just too much for a single person to do. Outsourcing is cheap and accessible with sites like Fiverr; take advantage of them, so you can focus on doing your highest value tasks rather than menial labor.
9. If you post on boards, you will eventually find yourself friendly with a bunch of other internet marketers – either just talking shop and trading tips via email or Skype, or doing joint ventures and making money by combining your efforts. Don’t ever screw your business partners over! That means both in direct financial terms and in terms of keeping the stuff they tell you to yourself, not outing people’s productive sites and methods etc. If someone is kind enough to share something with you in confidence, respect that and keep your mouth shut. If you get a rep as untrustworthy, you will rapidly find yourself shut out of the closeknit internet marketing community and you won’t be privy to any more juicy secrets.
10. This one is more for advanced internet marketers. Don’t do prepaid traffic deals or offer services if you can’t come through with the goods, whether it’s delivering leads, paid sales, prepaid traffic, backlinks that stick or whatever. Reputation is a fragile thing in an industry filled with sharks and scammers, and all it takes is one false step for you to lose all the good will that you have worked so hard to gain.
Work hard at this game and you could literally be a millionaire within a few short years, or even within 12 months if you are smart and ready to really hustle. If you work smart there is no limit to the scale to which you can build this thing; but if you act rashly, you could lose your shirt. But you have got to be willing to put in work and get your grind on 24/7 if need be to get that cheddar.
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Get a HUGE increase in search click-through rate
Posted on 02. Jun, 2011 by admin.
I’ve been here for a while but this is my first share. I went back and forth about whether or not to share it because it’s brought me quite a bit of success in increasing my clickthrough rate by about 250% on my search result pages, and I’d hate to see competitors using it. However this community has given a lot to me and I want to give back. The method is completely white-hat and it’s something that you can implement for any pages that are showing up in search results.
So we’ll be working with the meta description tag here. This post will be a tad long because I am explaining the purpose of this tag, for those of you who already know it, you can skip right to example 3.
For those that don’t know, this tag functions as a suggestion to search engines for the snippet of text that gets placed below your links. It almost always shows up in G for your main keywords, for long-tail searches though it will often show a snippet from the actual content of your site.
So anyway, on to the method. For this example, pretend we have a page that we are ranking for the search term “The key to the universe” – I’ll start with what NOT to do. You definitely don’t want a description like this:
Example 1:
“Key to the universe, Key, Universe, Universe Key, The key to the Universe”
Spamming this tag with keywords is a big newbie mistake and does nothing for you. You need to write the text that will entice a person to click on the link. G does measure the amount of times your link gets clicked on vs. others, so more clicks with an acceptable bounce rate might even help you in ranking up. You have 155 characters to get it just right.
Now the next example is what you see in 95% of search results. It’s people who understand what the tag does, but don’t understand how to use it to it’s potential. So they write something like:
Example 2:
“Look here! We have the Key to the Universe! We are your one-stop source for everything related to the key to the Universe and more!”
This just makes you look like everyone else. If you’re not in the top 3, forget it, you’re just another link in the pile. Even if you are ranked high, you’re not going to get the clicks that you could if you write something like this:
Example 3
“And so that is how finally after nearly 2 years of searching, having spent over $150000 to travel the globe, I discovered that the Key to the Universe is t”
IS WHAT?!?! WHAT IS IT?!?! I CANT STAND NOT KNOWING
You have to click on the link to find out how that sentence ends. Notice it’s exactly 155 characters, so it looks like G just cut off the sentence. And the visitor’s eyes will go right to the “Key to the Universe is” part because search engines put the keywords in bold. Then they’ll at least have to scan your article to find the part they were looking for, because you’ve already got them hooked. Build enough suspense and they will scrounge for it. The end result is more time on your site and a much better click-through rate because you’ll stand out in the results.
I was able to modify my meta descriptions on all of my ranked pages to implement this a few years ago and I didn’t lose any rank. Once the SERPS updated i saw a huge increase in clickthrough, up to 300%, depending on the page. This helps you to pull a lot more hits even if you are near the bottom of the SERPS page.
So there it is, one of my best kept secrets. Enjoy!
From: BHW Sacrilege
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Full Insight Of Todays SEO
Posted on 24. Mar, 2011 by admin.
Todays SEO – what is it?
How Google indexes things, and how it valuates websites?
Here is few facts that are not available to public:
How Google is scraping web?
Lets divide Google Spiders (bots to index content of WWW) to 4 main groups.
1) Backlinks Spiders – this creatures are most basic ones, and came out from initial creation of Google. They are somehow Highway builders for other Spiders. They are build like viruses – they will follow link, then they will scrape for more links, and multiply themselves, and follow all links from that page. They love to scrape code and backlinks. They will send back to server information about <head> and backlinks (if they don’t see any value in <head> they will scrap some random content, but that will give you —). If they will catch you on using dead link, they will give you penalty, as you will kill one of them. Google hates when you kill their spiders.
Those spiders have limited ability to reproduce themselves as well (limited by server abilities), that explains why some websites get most pages indexed in one move, and some just 1-2 pages. (it is possible there are 2 spiders – one that scrapes for backlinks, and one for meta, impossible to determine).
2) Content Spiders – they are creation of first Google evolution. They are scraping all websites content. There is some insight that they can actually understand, and recognize text. They will know if article is spun, if article is about something, that is related to your keywords/website. They are “heavy” spiders, and require outstanding amount of resources. They use Backlink Spider highways to move around web. They love constantly changing content. They are so heavy, so they don’t want to be forced to scrape same content every time they will enter website. If you will delete one of the links after backlinks spider will index you, but before content will get to you, you need to expect huge damage in your SEO, as they are so heavy to run, that Google will issue penalty when you kill them.
3) Picture Spider – another effect of Google Pictures evolution. They love pictures, and they will actually be able to somehow see some of the pictures (not details, but colours, patterns and will recognize poorly adult content) and read pictures related tags to rank them. They move on highways, and use Content Spiders information to find pictures.
4) Video Spider – another experiment from Google. This smart fellas will do some amazing things. As of now they have no ability to see video itself, so they will use Content Spiders information to find video files, and scrape Thumbnail, tags, rating, and comments, to decide whether this is good video. They have been created in YouTube era (why Google needs YouTube? Test test test).
Enough about spiders. Only Google knows how much more crazy creatures they have.
About Google Dance:
What is Google dance?
Simply – every spider from Google family have power to valuate website. Based on that your website will go up, or down.
Lets say on maximum of 1.000.000 points new website will start having “0″ points.
After Backlink Spider visit it has counted that you build a lot of authority backlinks, and you have good Onsite SEO. So this important Spider will give you 257.654 points. You rank on page 2 after this.
Now content Spider. It found no valuable content. All copy-paste. Content Spider do not like this, it will give you -57.567 points. After few days you dropped to page 17 because of that.
Now another spiders came in, and re-valuate your website. Some will give you +, some will give you -. After 2 weeks of dancing around (you deleted some link, get some crappy backlinks, or Xrumer spam from bad list? -12.867 from Backlink Spider) you will get to page 3. Is this make sense now?
What is Google Sandbox/Penalty?
Whenever you will get more minuses, than pluses, you will get hit by Sandbox (for example Google find out that you have duplicate content farm pointing to your site. Backlinks Spider couldn’t find out, but content one would). Penalty? If you will get sudden drop of ranking (for example from 300.000 points to 150.000 points) it means for Google you messed up = penalty. Remember that Google works using script. You can say – it was just 10.000 backlinks from free Xrumer list, its not that much! – Google says: SPAM.
Why there is no 1 Spider To Rule them ALL? Well simple answer = cost. They cant afford to have 1 Million servers. They are dividing work between spiders, so servers can handle this (yes, Google is using regular servers too). Then all information is send back to super network. Amazingly huge network creating one big computer (computer “42?”). This network calculates position based on score you get.
How determine if website has authority?
Simple. Position in Google is determined by this factors:
1) Authority
2) Backlinks
3) Content
4) Other less important stuff.
What is authority?
Its simple:
2+3 + 4 = 1
Is Page Rank any important anymore?
Yes and No. Pagerank was original way to determine authority. It is not anymore, as it is using old, and not updated ways to do this. It is using simplest way of 2 + 3 = 1 to determine its value without including +4 and partially new “3″ updates in this, so it will be highly inaccurate.
Is No Follow any good?
It is, but not as much as Do Follow, as it will be scraped by Content Spider, so it will bring less value, and it wont create Highway for other Spiders (they are not allowed to enter it).
What is hot these days?
800+ words article single directory submission (Ezine is still alive, just don’t spam articles to 100 directories, as Google now sees this as SPAM!), high AUTHORITY backlinks, Social Backlinks, Viral Marketing, News Feeds, Closed Websites backlinks (ones requiring payment, or difficult to get in to).
Is Google smart?
People behind it – extremely. I worked for Google (few days only) and I had possibility to see head programmers. I am pretty sure all head programmers are freaking millionaires. Google as a search engine – no. It is just a script. And every script has a loophole. I found 2 exploits last week alone. Just think outside of the box. How to please all Spiders.
I was working for Symantec long time (Norton Anti-virus) and I know for example that they hired CIA guys (some hacking stuff), and young hackers Prodigy to work for them. Some of them ARE on BHW. Google guys for sure too, and they will be pissed after seeing this 
Perfect Website?
Having around 10 links on each page. External links to authority sites that are anyhow under same category. Few videos, and 2+ pictures for each articles. 80% of unique content. Some big citations. Only naturally looking backlinks. Some backlinks pointing pictures. 50% of inner pages have relevant backlinks pointing to it. Maximum of 40% of forum backlinks, 30% of blog backlinks, 20% profile backlinks. Minimum of 30% authority backlinks. Articles/content of various word count. From 300+ all up to 1.500+. Minimum 30-40 words of unique content on every page.
How accurate is this info?
5 years of “no bullshit” tests. I never read any SEO ebook. In my life I read only 2 ebooks (one about HYIP and one about Mastercard today – waste of time BTW), so my mind is clear. No Guru bullshit, or Google blog. Just raw information filtered and exposed.
Why Google wont give this info away?
Would you shoot yourself in foot? It is OBVIOUS they will keep in secret all the juicy info, and feed people with lies.
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How to Write Truly Effective Articles
Posted on 16. Feb, 2011 by admin.
Writing articles is a big part of internet marketing and is important for article marketing, web content and even emails. Most people aren’t writers, however, and they will often view writing articles as a chore. Outsourcing is always an option and might be a good idea if you need a large number of orders but you don’t need to be an English major, or even a good writer, to create truly effective articles. I write a lot of articles for other people, sometimes 15 or more a day, so I thought I would share some of my experience and techniques with people who might be struggling to write articles.
The real secret to writing a lot of articles is being able to maximize the amount of time you spend writing and minimize the amount of time spent thinking. If your article flows well while you write it then it should flow well when people read it. Writing is generally considered to be an art but there are also a few technical things you can do to make your job that much easier. Most effective articles will follow a fairly basic formula and if you stick to this formula you will find writing to be much easier.
The first thing you should do is look at your keyword or topic and decide how long you want your article to be. Most of the articles that I write are roughly 500 words or so and I’ve found this to be a good length with which to craft an article. The next thing you should do is figure out the problem or topic you’re addressing and then come up with a few major points that you want to cover. With a 500 word article I generally choose about 3 major points that I think I need to address in the article. Each main point will be covered in about one paragraph and I always include an introductory paragraph and a conclusion paragraph. This should make your 500 word article consist of about 5 paragraphs all together.
As I said before, effective articles follow a standard formula and this is how I will usually structure my articles.
1.Introductory Paragraph
2. First Point
3. Second Point
4. Third Point
5. Conclusion
This is the exact same basic structure I use for all my articles no matter what I’m writing about. This works for articles, reviews and articles with multiple sub headings.
The introductory paragraph is often the most important part of an article as this will be the first thing a visitor reads and it will determine whether the person reads the entire article or heads elsewhere for their information. The introductory paragraph should start with a statement of the problem or topic you’re addressing. The next few sentences should each cover the main points of your article and I will generally use at least one sentence for each point. I can’t stress how important it is to end the first paragraph with a lead out sentence, this keeps a good flow going and will entice someone to continue reading the rest of the article.
Here is an example:
“Flying saucers are the premier form of space travel for all interstellar species but with so many options it can be hard to choose the best saucer for you. Flying saucers will come in a variety of sizes and passenger capacities and can range from a compact sports model to a large family craft. They will also run on a number of different propulsion systems each with their own benefits and drawbacks. In addition, some will be outfitted with a number of different weapons systems that can come in handy in certain parts of the galaxy. Finding the perfect flying saucer can seem like a daunting task but if you consider a few simple points it should be an easy decision.”
This is how I will start the majority of my SEO articles. Notice how the first sentence states the problem, the next three represent the three main points and the final paragraph entices the reader to continue reading the rest of the article. When writing for SEO or for article directories its important to include your target keyword at least once in the first paragraph.
The next few paragraphs should follow the same basic formula. Each paragraph should start with an introductory sentence that states the intent of that paragraph. You should then cover the major elements of the point you’re trying to make with the next couple of sentences. Again, it is extremely important to end each paragraph with a sentence that leads into the next paragraph. I generally try to keep each sentence at around 100 words as I feel this is long enough to clearly make my point but not so long as to appear as a massive wall of text.
Once you have covered your main points in the preceding paragraphs you need to write a good conclusion paragraph. This final paragraph should restate the topic and then summarize the points you made earlier. The purpose of this paragraph is to reinforce the over all intent of the article, usually I am trying to prove why someone should visit a certain site or purchase a certain product or service. This paragraph is also the perfect place to include a call to action or an affiliate link. You want to make sure that your final paragraph represents a good ending to the article and should leave your reader convinced that the information you’ve presented is the best option.
This is the method I use to write almost all of my articles and I’ve found it to be an effective way to create great content in the shortest amount of time. It can be hard to constantly come up with unique articles, especially if you don’t consider yourself to be a writer, but if you follow this basic formula you should have a much easier time. The most important thing to remember is to just stick to the formula, if you follow these basic steps your articles will pretty much write themselves.
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10 Things To Do Them Right For Your Internet Marketing Success
Posted on 10. Feb, 2011 by admin.
I do think that if you following my below advice should help you make more money, especially if you are quite new to the industry.
None of this is ground-breaking but just a few lessons I have learned (the hard way) since I started. I’ve been in internet marketing a while now, and become more active recently. I certainly don’t make as much as some of the internet marketing gurus, but I do alright. I’m sure the higher earners/oldies will have some gems of their own to chip in.
First off, you should all realize that there are many good internet marketing information and knowledge online which could prove invaluable both now and in the future. Take advantage of those who are specialists in topics you don’t know about, but be sure to share what you know as well.
I like lists, so here’s a few tips I can think of off the top of my head:
1) Leave it to the experts. I’m a firm believer in not trying to learn 100 different skills at once. I have literally no design skills, no coding skills so I will always outsource it. There’s no point me learning how to use photoshop when someone who has been using it for years can do something 10x better for $10. I buy and sell sites, and that’s what I’m good at. People contact me as they know I can do a better job than them (at least I hope that’s why). Use your own skills to your advantage, and leverage off those who specialise in areas you lack skills in.
2) JV, JV, JV. JV’s are great. They are good because you can combine one or more people with skills and form a team that is far more powerful than a single individual. When I first started out in IM (about 18 months ago) I teamed up with a designer/coder and I was basically clueless. That was bound to fail from day one as he didn’t appreciate my skills, and it ended up costing me $1000s as he stole money from our company. Since then I’ve lost more money by being too trusting and let down by people. I kept my faith and now have a business partner from here, we make a great team and have a growing amount of revenue each month. Don’t lose faith if you get screwed over, karma will come bite them in the ass one day, so keep at it until you find something that works.
3) Learn from your mistakes. We all make them, don’t be afraid to admit it. I learn something new every day either from a mistake I’ve made or from my research. You can also learn from other’s mistakes. Follow the posts of the more experienced members, chances are they’ve made and lost $1000s testing their strategies so make the most of that and fast-track your own success.
4) Be generous with your time, but value others. Time is money and people should respect that. I try to be generous with my posts and spend time replying to PMs and in return people are generous back to me. I’ve had a ton of great advice from people on here. If you’re a jackass and don’t respect people’s time, then don’t expect a friendly reply.
5) Ignore the haters and doubters. Your friends and family WILL doubt you. They will say what you are doing is stupid, scamming, pointless, risky, short-term so you just have to get on with it. The best way to prove them wrong is to make money sitting at home in your underwear while they are slaving away at their crappy day jobs that they all hate. Just remember that most people don’t understand what we do, so don’t worry if they don’t get it.
6) Never give up. IM is not easy, especially when starting out, and you will definitely hit a number of roadblocks along the way. If you have a good character you can get through the hard times and ride the waves while they are good on the other side.
7) Build a business, don’t focus on methods. This is especially important for those who want to be in IM full-time. Find what you are good at and build a business around that. There’s nothing worse than putting all your time and effort into a “method” that dies to $0 a week later.
Diversify. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Similar to 7 it’s important to mix it up. Build white-hat web properties for longer term income and subsidise those with your income from elsewhere (whether it be BH or whatever).
9) Reputation. Reputation is important and will help you build you business. No, I don’t mean your actual rep count, thanks count or post count – I mean having people know who you are and seeing you as the “go to guy” for a certain subject or skill. It’s a great place to be and makes it far easier when/if you ever want to sell anything. It could be feedback on Ebay, feedback on Flippa, writing articles around the net attached to your name or whatever. Don’t hide behind your computer screens all the time as one of the most important things you can do is build trust with people. You can’t buy someone’s trust so run your business well and treat others as you would like to be treated.
10) Don’t be afraid to invest money. I know that not everyone has cash to invest, but it does help massively to get a head start. You will lose some, but when you make a profit it’s far easier to scale up if you have good cash flow behind you. Life is much easier if you can afford to buy a website making $100 a day with established traffic than having to do it from scratch.
With a combination of this forum, contacts you build and hard work, you can easily quit you day job and make a living online. I’ve only been full time in IM for 5 months since I finished my degree, but I don’t regret it at all. I earn more than all of my friends, even those in top City banking jobs so can’t complain and I can only see it growing from here.
That’s about all for now. Didn’t want to make this an egotistical post, but it’s good to give back to the community that has helped me gain the freedom I have today.
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