January 10th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Recently the RPM Institute (RPMi) unveiled a very clever way of handling the headaches that invariably arise when designing a new website. How? By simply taking all the technical issues of setting up a new sight away from the membership and putting this burden squarely on the shoulders of the more technically adept site design department. With the new and improved system, we (the membership) simply request a new site; fill out a few entries on a form and the support staff takes care of the rest. The entire build process takes less then a week (often much quicker).
Included with the build are all of the tools, plug-ins, widgets and graphics you need to create a content rich authority website. The designers create a professional looking site that just works —You simply have to add your content.
So what do you actually get with your new site?
First, you get free web hosting. The hosting includes the full range of services you expect – unlimited emails, traffic stats and log files, file manager, cpanel, fantastico and more…
Included with the build are all of the tools, plug-ins, widgets and graphics you need to create a content rich authority website.
Next, RPMi sites are blog based. They’re built using an SEO enhanced version of the Wordpress blog system. The blog system is further extended with a suite of plugins, some of these publicly available others proprietary. Finally, two stand-alone applications, ContentPress and PheedPress are included and configured with each site build.
ContentPress (CP) is a system that automates the posting of content to your blog, this is NOT a site scraper, or some other black-hat site builder, CP is a tool to help automate the process of getting content on your blog. Among the uses of CP, is the ability to have the system automatically post content at random days and times. You just add your articles to the CP database, set a few calendar options then go about your business. CP then posts your articles at the intervals you selected.
The next tool, Pheedpress is an application that allows you to configure custom RSS feeds for your sites. Feeds can be created by you and listed on your blog, there is also an interactive tool that allows your users to create there own feeds of your content (very innovative). Pheedpress is an awesome tool for getting your site noticed by potential users all around the world.
Both of these tools, CP and Pheedpress are proprietary and available only to RPMi users.
What I like about this new set-up is that they’ve removed ALL the old road-blocks to building your sites. Now, there’s no more excuses, you simply request your site, wait a few days for your new Authority Site to be hand-crafted by the RPMi sight building team, then start posting content. It’s that simple!
Have a look at the RPMi, It’s a great system and one I fully recommend to anyone who’s looking for a headache-free way to get their website live.
Learn More Here: RPM Institute
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January 8th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Here’s a good post from Sootle about getting your site out of the Supplemental Index.
Interesting Quote:
“being in the Supplemental Index is not a penalty of any sort. It might feel like it to you, but it’s no indication that your website has been caught misbehaving.”
Read the full article here
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January 3rd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Here’s a new web directory, WishfulRanking.com, that’s kind of a pay per click directory, as opposed to a pay per click (PPC) search engine. Here’s how it works:
At wishfulranking, you select your category as you would in any other directory, then instead of paying a flat rate to be added to the directory, you place a bid - auction style. The more you bid the higher in the directory your listing is placed.
Bids start at $1.25, you can stay in the directory for that amount, if you’re outbid you can simply place a higher bid to move your listing up in the ranks. I checked, it looks like PR is being passed to the sites listed, however at this time the site isn’t showing any PR of its own and only the homepage is currently listed in Google. I expect this will change pretty quickly as the site gets it own backlinks from press releases and reviews (like this one).
Anyway, it’s an interesting concept, I submitted this site, the process was straight forward, I made my payment using Paypal (it was the only payment option). I paid the minimum amount ($1.25) as there were no other sites in my category. As of this writing, my site is in going through the review process.
have a look for yourself.
WishfulRanking.com
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January 3rd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Keyword research is arguably the most important part of the SEO process. It does you no good to spend months getting a high ranking if the keywords you selected do not reflect how your potential customers are searching for you. If the keyphrases you’ve targeted are too competitive and you may never even crack the first page of the serps – meaning your site simply won’t be found.
The Long Tail of SEO promises a better outcome. With the long tail, you’ll find that there is a virtually unlimited supply of ripe, low hanging fruit just waiting to be picked. But how do you find these keyphrases? Two online new tools promise to help.
With the long tail, you’ll find that there is a virtually unlimited supply of ripe, low hanging fruit just waiting to be picked.
The first tool is http://103bees.com/. This is free, you sign up and tell them about your site they then give you a piece of code to copy/paste onto your web pages. Every time a visitor hits your site it’s recorded, over time a picture of the site develops. You’ll see the top landing pages, the top key phrases and after you’ve received at least 100 unique search engine hits, you’ll see a chart that shows your search term popularity on logarithmic axes. This will tell you how well you are exploiting the long tail keyphrases. This site provides some good information and can be used in conjunction with the site listed below…
Hittail is another interesting free service. You create your hittail account and again you’re given a piece of code to copy/paste into your site. Hittail tracks your hits and provides you with some interesting information – most importantly, it gives you a list of suggestions for future posts, these suggestions are your long tail keyphrases. Here’s a video that explains hittail in greater detail the I can. See The Hittail Video Here
Try Hittail Here!
Try out these two free sites and post your experience here!
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December 29th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Okay, so you’ve designed your first Mobile Website, you’ve worked hard to make sure it is W3C Compliant. Now it’s time to promote the new site! So how do you promote a .mobi site? Well, it is not all that much different from promoting your .com, .net, or any other .extension site on the internet. They all share some common goals; getting traffic and appealing to customers. Now that you have expanded to cater to the cellular phone customers, you’re ready to go. In this article, we will show you some of the ways you can start promoting your .mobi website and start getting the traffic you want.
Directories
There are several directories available to the exclusive group of .mobi webmasters on the internet. For example, you can submit your .mobi website to directories such as Yahoo! Mobile, DotMobi, and many others. The key here is you want to tell everyone you can about your latest development and inclusion into the mobile world.
Here’s links:
http://dotmobi.mobi/siteform/
http://search.yahoo.com/free/mobile/request
Traditional Promotional Methods
Promote your .mobi website on every page of your current website. Also, note it on every business card, for every employee, as well as any other promotional materials you might use, your .mobi website needs to be placed in prominent view. People will not know it exists if you do not tell them about it. Your target market will be very interested in learning about your latest development and will enjoy the time it can save.
Articles and Press Releases
Whenever you make innovative and exciting changes to your business or company, a press release is generally the first thing that comes to mind. With your .mobi website, it should be no different. Write and submit a press release to some place like PRweb.com and let the world know you are making a difference.
Articles work great as well. You want to write articles about your latest development, how to use .mobi websites, how to access them, etc. and include your .mobi website in your resource box. This is a great way to spread the word.
Once you have begun to promote your .mobi website, you will find that rest just falls into place. It is up to you how much traffic and exposure your mobile website gets, so why not promote in any and every possible way that you can.
Posted by David Olsen - Owner/Editor
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December 28th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
I’ve been submitting my site to a some directories and found a few that offer great value (pr vs cost). Here’s a breakdown of the sites I’ve submitted to along with their cost and the pr of the actual page my site is listed on.
Note, for each of these directories I’ve checked that the nofollow tag was NOT being used and that the deeper pages were acutally indexed in google. Here’s a breakdown of the $80 I spent along with the stats of the pages my site is listed on:
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Site: http://www.webotopia.org
Cost: $10
My Link: On a PR4 page, with one other site!
Site: http://www.linkopedia.com/
Cost: $9.95
My Link: On a PR4 Page with 4 other sites!
Site: http://www.cyber-find.net/
Cost: 29.95
My Link: —My Site is not yet live but my category is a pr5 with only 4 other sites
* Site: http://www.seoma.net
Cost: $24/2 sites ($12/site)
My Site: on a pr4 page with about 15 other sites
* Site: http://www.octopedia.com
Cost: $24/2 sites: ($12/site)
My Site: on a pr4 page with 6 other sites
* These two sites are interesting - they claim to be designed by SEO’s. So your
link is actually embedded in the description, Also each site gives you a second descripton page with additional links. The cost to “join” these two sites is $24, but you get two different site submissions for that amount.
http://www.DirectoryVault.com
Cost: $8.95 - Gives you links in six different directories
The Sites are:
http://www.directoryvault.com/ I’m on a pR2 page with 13 other sites.
http://www.alistsites.com/ I’m on a pr0 page with 9 other sites (The directory level above mine is only a pr1).
http://www.directorybin.com/ I’m on a pr2 page with 7 other sites.
http://www.alistdirectory.com/ I’m on a pr0 page with 7 other sites (The directory level above mine is only a pr1).
http://www.pr3plus.com/I’m on a pr0 page with 4 other sites (The directory level above mine is only a pr1).
http://www.linknom.com/ I’m on a pr0 page with 0 other sites (This directory has the lowest pr of all ).
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For the most part, you simply visit the site(s) above and click the “submit a site” option on their menu - you’ll then be taken to their sales page.
Enjoy!
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