February 6th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Backlinks have always hit or miss with Google. Using the link command in the Google search box would return a seemingly random selection of a websites backlinks. Is Google crediting you for a specific linkback? Just because it’s not in the SERPs doesn’t mean you’re not getting credited for it.
Well today, the great Google Gods have given us a few new crumbs to play with. In the webmaster tools section there is a new tab called “Links” clicking it on reveals a listing of your sites page, each entry shows the number of backlinks that Google sees for that page – clicking on that number brings you a detail listing of those pages. It’s very cool to see all these new pages linking to you —is that all of them? I don’t know, but it’s definitely more then the link command show.
Have fun playing around with this cool new tool. If you don’t already have a Google webmaster account, get one —it’s free. Enjoy!
Posted by David Olsen - Owner/Editor
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January 24th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
On Thursday, Jan 25 – 07 at 1pm (EST), join Chris Sherman of SearchEngineLand for a 45 minute webinar entitled: “Social Search: New Marketing Opportunities”. The webinar is free but you need to register here: http://searchmarketingnow.com/
See you there!
Posted by David Olsen - Owner/Editor
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January 19th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Google recently updated their toolbar pagerank (January ’07). Immediately, webmasters from around the globe started posting in forums that either their pagerank (pr) stayed at zero or didn’t move even though they’ve been getting backlinks to their sites. Here are a few quick thoughts about that…
First pagerank is generated by Google and is always several months out of date - Google is just finishing up a new pagerank/backlinks update but even so, the data that they are showing is several months old. They do that on purpose, they really don’t want webmasters obsessing about page rank.
Next, if you’re still concerned about the PR of your site, I’d recommend signing up for Google webmaster tools (it’s free) Webmaster Tools In there they have a pagerank tool, under “Crawl stats” that tells you, in general terms, where your Pagerank is. Note: Google has said that this tool is much more accurate then the pagerank on the tool bar.
Now, just having links doesn’t mean you’re getting pagerank. Google is wise to most of the tricks that we (webmasters) have used in the past to boost pr and has discounted a lot of it. Also, lots of times webmasters use certain tricks that keep pagerank from passing to their link partners - (nofollow tag, using redirects instead of linking directly to the page) and unless you look closely you probably won’t see it.
Try the Google link query to see what Google is seeing as far as links go, use the following:
link:www.YourDomain.com
This query will return (some of) the links that Google sees pointing to your site.
Also use:
site:www.YourDomain.com
to see how many of your pages are indexed.
Lastly, try to forget about pagerank and just build good content for your blog –that’s what ALL the search engines want and they reward those sites that have it —-regardless of what their Pagerank may be.
Posted by David Olsen - Owner/Editor
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January 16th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
In the eight or so years that I’ve been an Internet Marketer I’ve managed to involve myself in a few stupid, money and time wasting scams. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy, but sometimes I can’t help myself and I just get a little too caught up in a well-written sales letter. I tell myself that I learn something from every mistake I make, I hope so. At the very least, I have enough experience to write this post. So here goes, here’s my list of five things every website owner should avoid.
1) Any of the “Make a million dollars today, by doing nothing scams”: It’s common sense that these things won’t work (c’mon if you developed a system that could make you tons money without doing anything —would you really tell people about it?), but we get so caught up in the dream that our common sense sometimes goes out the window. Earning a living is hard – being an entrepreneur is oftentimes even harder, there ‘aint no shortcuts!
2) Amazing traffic deals – get 10,000 hits for $9.95, or others like them. Listen closely to me —ALL of these “deals” are JUNK! You’re getting machine generated hits, in other words, people never actually visit your website. As with many scams, common sense would dictate that the traffic is junk, why would a company sell you so much traffic for so little money —wouldn’t it make more sense to use the traffic themselves?
3) Search Engine Submission software– Make no mistake, the multi-billion dollar search engines of the world do NOT rely on people buying some $49.95 submission script to find new content to index. Search engines like to find their own content, how? by sending out spiders that surf the web much like humans do —they follow links.
4) Link brokers – Now I’m not saying there is no value in buying links to your site – if done properly this technique can provide you with targeted traffic and maybe even boost your search engine rankings. Unfortunately, you’re often buying links on sub-par websites that never get any real traffic.
Tip: Buy links on pages that are related to what you’re trying to sell – the links you buy should be visible to the people that visit that site, remember – you want traffic – if someone sees your link and clicks through, that’s a targeted visitor that wants to see what you’re selling. Buy links for people to see NOT just search engine spiders.
5) Link Exchanging – Like buying links this is only effective when done properly. Most link exchanging campaigns are simply a waste of time, links that are buried 10, 20 30 pages deep –Never see the light of day, not by search engine spiders and certainly not by surfers. Unfortunately, that’s what 95% of link exchange campaigns are. Someone either buys a script or joins a paid service and starts doing automated link exchanges – in a few days, they can have hundreds of pages of links on their site. Search engines don’t like links pages, they’ve said so! Don’t you think the search engines are smart enough to see what’s going on? The engines can tell a links page a mile away and they know exactly what their worth: $ZERO. The engines want you to build websites for human visitors; a website with 5 pages of content and 50 pages of links is NOT what they have in mind.
Exchange links properly, do it on a one on one basis. Get to know other sites in your niche, link to the ones you like. Then (and only then), contact the owner of these sites and tell them that you’re already linking to them and ask for a link back. Some may not want to reciprocate – maybe they don’t think you have a sufficient amount of content on your site yet. Don’t get angry and remove their link from your site, if you think a resource is good for your visitors then leave the link up – remember you’re building a site for your visitors NOT the search engines.
So that’s it, five stupid things that I should have avoided but didn’t. Go forth now and make your own mistakes, just stay away from these five – they’re mine!
Posted by David Olsen - Owner/Editor
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January 11th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
I just read a great post over at the Yahoo Publishers Network that shows, visually what is important to search engine spiders. The metaphor shows a typical web page as a side of beef with each section labeled as a different cut. The “top sirloin” is the title bar, the brains (inedible) would be things like a search form.
If you’ve been struggling with the “rules” of SEO, this graphic should help you see what is important from a spider standpoint. Optimizing for Relevancy
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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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