Posted by Ruddy on Feb 28, 2009 in
Marketing Actually I wouldn’t create this post if I never got lots of questions regarding how to look at your real SERPs and ad positions. People sometimes misunderstood where were their websites on Google. This is a very common mistake and I still don’t get it how come they never understand even after I keep reminding them again and again.
So let’s just get to the point. If you type “google.com” directly into your browser, no matter what, you’ll get redirected to Google of your country, not Google.com US. Even if you click the link “google.com in English“, you still won’t see the same results as if you really go to Google.com US. To prove this, try using a proxy service and find US proxies there. Go type “google.com” and search the same keyword. Viola, you’ll see different ads and most of the times different natural listing as well (although not significant).
I usually love to use anonymizer. The complete URL is anonymizer.nntime.com and it still works until I write this. You can also check different proxies from there to get the most accurate ad positions and natural listing from each country on Google. This is crucial for me because when I target US market (for example), I have to know who are my real competitors there. The same thing goes with SEO. If you want to know where’s your site position for Americans, then use US proxy.
Strangely, lots of people out there still do not understand how it works. Sometimes they asked me “hey my site is on the top of Google but why my traffic is much less than I expected?”, well my answer has been always the same, “If you target people from outside of your country, always use proxy before you go to Google”.
Tags: adwords, google, SEO
Posted by Ruddy on Feb 10, 2009 in
Marketing People said link exchange is already dead but you need to think twice before you say so. If you are such a noob who only know how to do reciprocal link exchange or resource page link exchange, I can make sure you won’t be at the top of competitive keyword’s natural listing. Everybody knows reciprocal link exchange, I guess. How about resource page link exchange? It’s something that most people offer. For example, someone at DigitalPoint sends you a PM, it looks like this:
Hello dear, I can give you link from my biz opp website:
http://www.domain1.com/resources.php
http://www.domain2.com/links.html
http://www.domain3.com/resource-links.html
Please reply and tell me about your websites’ PR and where you can place my links.
Ever got this kind of private message or email? This is stupid but people are still doing it. So what we need to do then? The answer is easy. Find in-content links, as always.
If you have one website, let’s say a business opportunities website, then you have to create one dummy site/blog so you can give backlink from this dummy site to your link partner. Personally I’d suggest you to create two dummy sites so we can do more tricks. Of course before you can give backlink to your link partners, first you need to build incoming links for these dummy sites. It’s going to be an intensive task to do but it’s worth it in the end.
You can find link partners everywhere, start by doing manual job (emailing the SEO people) and also by contacting forum members. Although most of people on the forum are totally rubbish (they don’t have quality sites) but sometimes you can find superb link partners. The ratio maybe is less than 5%, it’s like you send 100 PMs and you only get 5 good link partners. But as I said before, it’s still worth it.
Of course you can also start a new thread inside relevant subforum (for example in Digitalpoint, create a new thread inside link exchange subforum). You’ll receive many PMs although maybe not all of them have good and quality websites. Remember one thing, you have to look professional. Don’t send any email/PM like the above example but tell them how to do in-content link exchange. Tell them you are looking for a real deal, a link with anchor text inside their article pages.
In-content link exchange actually is similar to paid blog post (I’ve given you the example - SEO case Study I), but the difference is you have to give backlink to their websites from your dummy sites. Sometimes I even give backlinks from my real sites and in return I get backlinks to my dummy sites. But of course you can’t just link to everyone, you have to know what you are doing.
Personally, I don’t really care about PageRank. Usually I did link exchange after I checked my partner’s incoming links. Usually I checked how many backlinks they have for their sites and I also checked how many outbound links do they have in a page where they will give me backlink. If they have no outbound link at all in the page where they will give me a backlink, I will definitely take the offer.
This is also a grey hat SEO technique but it works until today. You can build your own network by creating 9-10 websites if you want and link each other but I’m too lazy for that. When I was still actively build links through the above link exchange technique, I felt I’ve spent too much time for that. So since the last few months, I even never trade anymore links with new partners. But believe me, if you do this technique and the paid links campaign I told you earlier, you’ll be on the top of Google (unless Google changes its algorithm).
Tags: internet, Marketing, SEO
Posted by Ruddy on Feb 8, 2009 in
Marketing I’m gonna talk about SEO today. Search Engine Optimization is one of the main reasons why I can earn money from my affiliate websites. Of course I won’t rely on SEO for my upcoming websites (including Hymoo) LOL. But I just wanna share what you might don’t know about Google and SEO.
OK here it is.Go to Google.com and type a competitive phrase there “diet pills”. I’ve been observing about this website: consumerpricewatch.net (sorry but no FREE backlink to this kind of website from me…). At “diet pills” and related keywords, you can always find consumerpricewatch.net at the top of the natural listing. Maybe he’s not always at the first position but at least he’s always at the top three.
Am I impressed by the content of this website? No. Personally I believe he’s working directly for the diet pill he recommended. The last time I checked his website, he was recommending Orovo and it was a direct link (not affiliate link). So it must be something. I don’t believe if Orovo or other crap diet pills really work. After all, every supplement in this world is overrated. They are produced to fool you.
So if consumerpricewatch.net is not a good and honest diet pill review site, how the hell can he stays on the top? Simple. Paid links! You can check his backlinks using backlink analyzer tools like Yahoo Site Explorer or whatever you want. I’ve come into conclusion that he has SO MANY backlinks from irrelevant blogs. He contacted the blog owners through paid link service providers (or directly, I don’t know) then he told those bloggers to create a post about “diet pills”. Of course inside the posts, these bloggers gave backlinks to him with his targeted anchor texts like “diet pills”, etc.
Usually people told us to focus on article marketing, directory submission, blog commenting, 3 ways link exchange, etc. But only several of them believe paid links are still having big impact for search engine optimization. Well, I don’t know what will happen in the future since I don’t work for Google but I know consumerpricewatch.net IS JUST one example that proves how effective paid links are.
Of course if you are not stupid enough, you won’t buy blogroll links or links inside resource pages. Try to buy in-content links inside unique articles and vary the anchor texts. Obviously they’ll help. Even from unrelated blogs and websites, they are still helpful as long as the posts related to your anchor texts.
To make everything clear here: I’m NOT the owner of that website. Consumerpricewatch.net is owned by someone else and I’ve been observing his SERPs because it’s quite interesting. He relies on paid links but he has been staying on the top of Google natural listing for competitive keywords since a long time ago. This is not kind of black hat SEO because I’ve seen websites with this kind of campaign always stay at the top of their targeted keywords.
If you ask me how I did it myself, I usually bought links for my affiliate websites through Digitalpoint. I also ever used some services like TLA or buyblogreviews but most of the websites listed there are totally crap. Digitalpoint forum, however, is a little bit different. You can find lots of link sellers and negotiate with them about the price.
Well, I don’t focus on my affiliate websites anymore. So to be honest, the last time I bought a link for my website is around 1-2 months ago. But I’m telling you, this is one of the golden keys to the top. I’ve experienced it myself and you can also analyze the competitive keywords on Google. Some websites “buy” their way to the top and they know what to buy and what to avoid. Do not buy blogroll links and links from directories. Buy in-content posts instead.
By the way, it is very easy to detect in-content paid links. If the anchor text looks like targeting keyword, it’s 90% paid link. And if the post is very irrelevant to the blog niche, it must be paid link as well.
*PS: Wait for my next post. SEO Case Study II: Link Exchange and Networking.
Tags: internet marketing, paid links, SEO
Posted by Ruddy on Feb 5, 2009 in
Marketing Welcome to the world where work ethic is not needed anymore. No, I’m not talking bullshit. This is true. As an internet marketer, I’ve seen too many examples. Have you ever seen one site 100% copied another website and only twisted the texts to manipulate Google duplicate content issues? Well, as I said earlier, I’ve seen too many examples.
The easiest way for lowlife spammers is to find one affiliate/small e-commerce website which is on the top of their targeted keywords. For example, you want to be on the top of “diet”? Then go type “diet” on Google and click the first position there. Copy it completely, twist the texts to avoid dupe issue, and check its backlinks through Yahoo Site Explorer or whatever you want to use. Then copy his backlink techniques as well.
This is a common practice nowadays. Of course I have never done such a terrible thing but I know several people who copied my successful affiliate sites like this. I even talked with one of them and I mocked him in Windows Live Messenger. It’s fun you know to make them feel shame of what they did to your websites 
(although it won’t help. These lowlife spammers will always try to go for it).
These stupid search engine optimizers (to be honest) are people without work ethic. They only think of money. They know I make money, they know the other successful SEO sites also make money, and they thought by copying the original sites, they would be at the top of Google one day. What ridiculous is, they are also targeting the same keywords. This is why in my earlier post I was wondering when Google can eliminate these shits?
Tags: internet, Marketing, SEO, work ethic
