Hi Jeremy,
Do let me know what time on Monday is good to talk, please.
Tasks accomplished this week:
1. Published four more posts on the site. Two in the deals category, one in the Asus category, and one in the Acer category. The Asus and Acer posts are based on the keyword research with WT.
2. Posted an update to my Facebook page about the deals.
3. Set up the links page and wrote to each of the sites requesting reciprocal links. One already linked back: http://netbook-evangelist.com/ .
4. Looked at back links on the sites that I contacted and applied to several directories. Accepted in to at least two.
Questions:
1. The links page always puts something as a "menu" at the bottom of the page. I changed it to the main navigation, but I don't really like having any menu down there. Any idea how to fix this?
2. As we get more into Q4, traffic becomes imperative. Do you recommend starting a ppc campaign at some point?
Hope to catch you soon,
me
Showing posts with label link building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label link building. Show all posts
Friday, October 22, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Ezine Articles
Ezine articles are a decent way to get targetted traffic to your site. Of course, you have to invest time in writing a decent article. The higher quality the article, the more views you'll get, and if you use some marketing know-how, you can get some very high click through rates.
EzineArticles.com now offers their authors a Title Tool. They claim that these titles are gleaned from searches that land readers on the site. This may be true, but I haven't been impressed with the results.
I took two titles in my niche and wrote two original pieces. I'm a Platinum Author, so within 48 hours my articles were live. I have several pen names and have seen some articles get tens of views on the first day, hundreds in the first few weeks. Some of my articles have an outrageous 30% click through rate, and others a dismal less than 1% click through rate.
The titles that EzineArticles.com gave me didn't take off for views. I can't blame them for a lousy click through rate, that's more my hooks or lack thereof.
I then used some of the "templates" that EzineArticles.com offers and that I've found very helpful for both getting past writer's block and getting views. First one was their "7 things" template. The article is a lot more successful in views and click throughs than the first two.
Then I hit some keyword research tools looking for some keyword phrases that are getting searches. I can't tell you yet the results of the test, but I did write a new ezine article: http://ezinearticles.com/?Netbook-Computers---Asus-Vs-Toshiba&id=4965878
EzineArticles.com now offers their authors a Title Tool. They claim that these titles are gleaned from searches that land readers on the site. This may be true, but I haven't been impressed with the results.
I took two titles in my niche and wrote two original pieces. I'm a Platinum Author, so within 48 hours my articles were live. I have several pen names and have seen some articles get tens of views on the first day, hundreds in the first few weeks. Some of my articles have an outrageous 30% click through rate, and others a dismal less than 1% click through rate.
The titles that EzineArticles.com gave me didn't take off for views. I can't blame them for a lousy click through rate, that's more my hooks or lack thereof.
I then used some of the "templates" that EzineArticles.com offers and that I've found very helpful for both getting past writer's block and getting views. First one was their "7 things" template. The article is a lot more successful in views and click throughs than the first two.
Then I hit some keyword research tools looking for some keyword phrases that are getting searches. I can't tell you yet the results of the test, but I did write a new ezine article: http://ezinearticles.com/?Netbook-Computers---Asus-Vs-Toshiba&id=4965878
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Life with Google
So I subscribed to an interesting newsletter about backlinks. Nice. Informative. Some great tips.
And some things that I could never stoop to on the internet.
I have some Google alerts set up, and at least one of them is largely full of reprinted articles. The same ones over, and over, and over, as if the articles had some interesting content. But they don't. All the links stripped, nobody notices that the products no longer exist. Today as I read through the newsletter I signed up for, I realized that largely these are Google bot bait. Yup, pre-scheduled PLR articles that nobody read because nobody cared.
Please, if you use the internet as well as market, publish unto others what you would have others publish unto you. I, for one, prefer real content, written by a real person. Thanks.
And some things that I could never stoop to on the internet.
I have some Google alerts set up, and at least one of them is largely full of reprinted articles. The same ones over, and over, and over, as if the articles had some interesting content. But they don't. All the links stripped, nobody notices that the products no longer exist. Today as I read through the newsletter I signed up for, I realized that largely these are Google bot bait. Yup, pre-scheduled PLR articles that nobody read because nobody cared.
Please, if you use the internet as well as market, publish unto others what you would have others publish unto you. I, for one, prefer real content, written by a real person. Thanks.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Knowem.com and Fiverr.com
Knowem.com has a huge list of Web2.0 sites and a service that costs a pretty penny. For essentially a dollar a site, you can have them initialize sign up, thus reserving your username.
This is helpful for branding, and most profiles give you a place to mention your website. This is helpful for building incoming links and possibly driving traffic if you are honestly active on the sites.
In the partnership forums (which are still down, by the way), someone linked to a site called fiverr.com. It's an amusing idea: Buy and Sell services for $5. In the forums someone pointed out that you can get article writing for $5 (which is a tad expensive if you are planning on paying for a lot of them, there are cheaper ways). But there are other services offered like commenting on your blogs, inviting 3,000 Facebook friends to your fan page, and such.
I didn't see one for doing Web2.0 signups, but there is a box in the far right hand column for "wishlist" gigs that you might like to see. So I put in a wishlist request for 10 Web2.0 signups for $5. Two sellers replied to my fiverr.com inbox (I had to sign up to post in the wishlist box)!
Hey, for $10 I could try this out and get 20 sign ups. 100 signups would then cos me $50, a savings of $49 over Knowem.com. I decided not to request them finishing the profiles for several reasons. One is that I wanted to check out the sites myself, since maybe something would be interesting (like kiva.org!). The other is that I wanted to change the password before entering more data. Hiring out someone to sign up was already enough information for them to have in their unknown to me hands!
One seller immediately sent me a gmail address to contact him/her. When I replied that I was new and didn't understand how to set it up so I could pay for the gig (that's what they call these at fiverr.com), s/he replied that it was no problem and I could pay directly to his/her PayPal account. My radar went up.
The other seller tried a sample sign up, messaged me at fiverr.com to check if it worked and if I was still interested s/he would set up a gig so I could purchase it and s/he would do the other 9 sites. Now that was good marketing, and all according to the rules. So I approved setting up the gig, purchased it (your payment is through Paypal to fiverr.com), and s/he quickly, efficiently, and with good communication when more info was needed, did the job. So I immediately hired him/her for another 10 sign ups. I gave him/her good reviews for both gigs.
I also hired someone to read my Squidoo lenses, comment, and rate them. She left relevant comments that showed she really had read them, and I gave her positive feedback. Fun!
And that first seller? I reported him/her to fiverr.com and the account was closed within hours. I didn't mean to get someone booted, but that kind of behavior is what could ruin the investment that fiverr.com put into the site.
Another thing about Knowem.com. So they have data on all the sites and for the 100 site fee, you get the 100 most trafficked sites. Some Web2.0 sites just never take off and dwindle, so what's the point of a sign up. Okay, so I figured we had the skills from the niche selection unit to get an idea of a site worth a sign up. I didn't end up having to do all that work, though Knowem lists on their site the Alexa ranking, Compete.com ranking, Yahoo incoming links, etc.., so you can see for yourself pretty quickly which are worth a sign up.
And don't forget to sign up for Knowem.com itself!
This is helpful for branding, and most profiles give you a place to mention your website. This is helpful for building incoming links and possibly driving traffic if you are honestly active on the sites.
In the partnership forums (which are still down, by the way), someone linked to a site called fiverr.com. It's an amusing idea: Buy and Sell services for $5. In the forums someone pointed out that you can get article writing for $5 (which is a tad expensive if you are planning on paying for a lot of them, there are cheaper ways). But there are other services offered like commenting on your blogs, inviting 3,000 Facebook friends to your fan page, and such.
I didn't see one for doing Web2.0 signups, but there is a box in the far right hand column for "wishlist" gigs that you might like to see. So I put in a wishlist request for 10 Web2.0 signups for $5. Two sellers replied to my fiverr.com inbox (I had to sign up to post in the wishlist box)!
Hey, for $10 I could try this out and get 20 sign ups. 100 signups would then cos me $50, a savings of $49 over Knowem.com. I decided not to request them finishing the profiles for several reasons. One is that I wanted to check out the sites myself, since maybe something would be interesting (like kiva.org!). The other is that I wanted to change the password before entering more data. Hiring out someone to sign up was already enough information for them to have in their unknown to me hands!
One seller immediately sent me a gmail address to contact him/her. When I replied that I was new and didn't understand how to set it up so I could pay for the gig (that's what they call these at fiverr.com), s/he replied that it was no problem and I could pay directly to his/her PayPal account. My radar went up.
The other seller tried a sample sign up, messaged me at fiverr.com to check if it worked and if I was still interested s/he would set up a gig so I could purchase it and s/he would do the other 9 sites. Now that was good marketing, and all according to the rules. So I approved setting up the gig, purchased it (your payment is through Paypal to fiverr.com), and s/he quickly, efficiently, and with good communication when more info was needed, did the job. So I immediately hired him/her for another 10 sign ups. I gave him/her good reviews for both gigs.
I also hired someone to read my Squidoo lenses, comment, and rate them. She left relevant comments that showed she really had read them, and I gave her positive feedback. Fun!
And that first seller? I reported him/her to fiverr.com and the account was closed within hours. I didn't mean to get someone booted, but that kind of behavior is what could ruin the investment that fiverr.com put into the site.
Another thing about Knowem.com. So they have data on all the sites and for the 100 site fee, you get the 100 most trafficked sites. Some Web2.0 sites just never take off and dwindle, so what's the point of a sign up. Okay, so I figured we had the skills from the niche selection unit to get an idea of a site worth a sign up. I didn't end up having to do all that work, though Knowem lists on their site the Alexa ranking, Compete.com ranking, Yahoo incoming links, etc.., so you can see for yourself pretty quickly which are worth a sign up.
And don't forget to sign up for Knowem.com itself!
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