John

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:03:26

Would you mind telling every single backlinking technique you do for a content niche website. For example a website with 30 articles for starters. We know you do article submission, but that alone is probably not even close to enough. We also know you have blogs at your disposal... do you spread one article with the same content and anchor texts across all this network? Directory submission, blog commenting, software directories (making a .exe file), podcasting, etc... is that anything you use or everything? What else?

James

You would be surprised just how effective article marketing can be...however it's not all I do....of course the blog network which is syndication power like FOX news :)....I try to spin the anchor text, url's,content etc across blogs and make them of high quality that add value to the users experience....I don't do much directory submissions except for the quality ones like Yahoo, dmoz, joeant, botw, lii a few others ....and yes almost everything you mentioned I either do, have done or plan to do....in addition to high quality content that get links naturally... check these two posts out that I made here and here..hope that gives you a better idea..


Mido

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:07:10

I want every method you do to get traffic!

James

Hmm....thats another book all together..but I'm sure if you stick around on my blog you'll gain a better perspective on how I get traffic.


Therese

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:26:47

Hi James...
Here's where I am:
No site yet, no traffic to speak of, many products I'm interested in selling, my own information product aimed at the wedding industry... what comes first-- the traffic for the list or the site? Blog monetized with Adsense & affiliate products?

I'm not new to SEO/SEM and viral marketing... I am new to developing my own strategy and my selling system. Where do I begin?

THANKS!
Therese

James

Building a list and a following is very important....You really need a website first and work on building your list once you have your product and site up and running..


azlan

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:33:21

thanks,
what do you think about my site?

lankapo.com


James

Dont know wouldn't connect to server


sunny

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:01:08

how to get a traffic to adsense websites and i need how to create a back link s could u plz explain these methods

James

Did you read my free book...if not read it then if you still have questions then you can ask next time..


Nancy

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:26:20

Thank you for letting me ask a question! What is wrong with this site? It's old (in internet terms), it has many pages and I update it once in awhile. I know it's a mess because it was my first site. I also know that google adsense doesn't ever get the keywords right because video editing is a new consumer phenomenon. So the problem with it is it makes no money. Negligible. I am a video editor and I have a lot of things I know I can do to make it better (I intend to really push selling camcorders, etc). But I am not sure it's worth my valuable website building time. I think I should leave it as an info site and work on others. So the question is, when do you know you should leave a site because it isn't working? I will always keep it because it's what I do for a living. But it frustrates me that it isn't profitable. Thank you!

James

Well if I was you since it is what you do for a living... try developing your own information product about what you do and sell it or give it away for free and build a following through an email list and make $ that way...but if the site still isn't worth your time then you have to look at your ROI and go from their..

Tony Mandarich

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:39:59

James, let me start by saying that the information you provide to all of us for free is great. I (we) appreciate it! My question is about your PROJECT ROI section where you built the 40 page niche website, optimized it etc...and then did nothing else to it and in 6 months your adsense was maling you approx. $600. When you say you did NOTHING ELSE to it does that mean all of its traffic came from organic searches through the search engines? Did you do any other link juicing with squidoo, hubpages, zimbeo etc......
thanks
Tony Mandarich

James

Thanks, I appreciate you too :)

I haven't updated the website since I first built it....I only had about 60 articles in Ezinearticles pointing to it when the site was making $600 a month after 4 months....but since then I have syndicated some articles on multiple hosted blogs, done about 2 squidoo lenses, 1 hubpage and I think thats it...which that is not much at all and I could really do alot more but time is money and I have a lot of stuff going on...but that little site keeps ticking and is ranked well in the search engines and has great referral traffic from Ezinearticles and multiple websites that have published my articles and the blogs....now that site is doing about $900 or so a month...


Chris

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:09:57

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

What is your site strategy? Do you have many sites that produce a little income, or a few sites that produce a large income?

Which do you think is better, concentrate on a few sites or do many sites?

What do you think of micro sites? Are they worth doing?


James

Google it...

My site strategy is try to build high quality sites whenever possible but I don't forget about the smaller, easier sites to build that will bring a hefty return....

I'd say concentrate on a few sites then once they get going move on to the next...and if you got too many going then have your friends help or hire someone...but then again it all depends on how your monetizing...if you do adsense then their much easier to run then say and Ecommerce site...so it just depends..

I assume your talking about micro niches...yes their highly targeted and are easier to become an authority brand and rank.


Mitoman

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:49:09

sorry, just read the old post and found the answer, you can delete the previous comment.

One big thing is that squidoo and ezinearticles rarely generate any traffic for me, are we doing it just to get indexed? if so there are a lot more easier ways of getting indexed


James

Nope I do article marketing for big time traffic...not to get indexed...

Trent

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:41:47

Sure, I'll play. Do you ever get involved with adult marketing?

James

I've thought about it :)


hanzahar

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:49:49

I want to know how to get social online...with programmers,designers and stuff...

you know...learn etc

James

What like how to meet people...just become active in conversations all across the web...

Hoe Bing

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:55:38

Hello James,

Do you do everything yourself?

Can you take one person i.e. me :)

Hand hold all the way from the start till finish with a promotional launch campaign.

Starting from setting up a blog, writing x number of articles, customizing and submitting to directories, web 2.0 stuff, etc?

BTW, who won the phone call with you?

I'm ready to implement! Teach me.

HB

James

No I do not do everything myself anymore..I have a web designer, writers, programmers etc..

No I cant hold anyones hand... right now ;)

You won! If you'd visit the site a little more you'd know that :)... I made a post and said you won.... just email me..

A-Z Proxes

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:25:52

Hey James,

I have just had my first article published over at ezinearticles.com I am so chuffed! LoL

What are your plans for the future? Do you have other projects that you are working on since selling your last project?

Regards
Adrian

James

Congrats!

I'm trying out blogging about my passion here :) ... I'm going to work on building membership sites, more adsense sites, Ecommerce site I am hoping to start working on soon....

Andy

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:38:36

Hey James, thanks for sharing your knowledge both on here and on DP. ;-)

My question is, how much backlinking do you need to do to get enough traffic to a site to make e.g. $5 a day or maybe $20 a day in Adsense?

How many actual links (in terms of numbers) do you need to get traffic up on a site? 100's or 1000's?

Thanks.
Andy

James

NP!!

It all depends on the niche and quality of links Andy! No niche or link is the same....I've ranked for keywords that get thousands of searches a day off less than 300 links....but other niches have taken thousands...just keep building links to you get to the level you desire..


Ok thats it folks....hope that clears some things up....chat with you soon...cya

JDN


 
 

Now's your chance ask me anything. Wonder how old I am, how I got started....what I think about your site....ask me anything.

Post your questions below and when I get enough questions then I'll post the answers.

 
 

This post is going to show you the steps I take when building a squidoo lense....

First step is figuring out what I want it to be about and doing my keyword research...I already have an article about laser skin resurfacing so I'm going to use that.....Now I'm going to do my keyword research so I can get the full power out of it...

I can take a look at what suggestions Google gives in a couple of ways...First I will type in Google Laser skin resurfacing and this is what I get..

Whats so good about looking here is because you'll get those searchers who click the related searches links instead of just typing it in....So heres two keywords I'll keep in mind...Laser skin resurfacing cost and laser skin resurfacing prices....Now I am going to go to the Google keyword tool and see what Big Google has to give me...

After I type in my keyword and verify that I'm not a robot I'll then hit Get keyword ideas..and this is what I get....plus a few more not on the screenshot..

Now what I'm going to do is go through these keywords and pick out some good long tail keywords and make sure I put some of them in the title of my squidoo lense, content etc...Another great place to get keyword ideas is Assista or yahoo answers..below is a search I did at Assista to get even more keyword ideas...Assista will give you question based queries...Questions are always good to rank for....for a few reasons..They are usually easier to rank for and people type in questions in the search engines....Also you have lots of question based search engines like Assista that will link to your article or page because their search engine fetches question based queries across the web..

Now I have all kinds of ideas for keywords for my Squidoo page...So I'm going to sign in at squidoo and start on my lense...

First step is my title...

Now that my title has some great longtail keywords that I thoroughly researched earlier using Google and assista...

now I'm moving to step 2...
Step two will give you a few options...I always choose that "I want to do my own thing"

Step 3...you will choose the actual URL of your page and category...I suggest to make sure your title and url of your page are similar or the same...this way you have your keywords in your title and url..so choose wisely :)

Step 4....adding tags....tags are your keywords of your page....so put alot of them....atleast 5 + tags...

I'm going to put my tags as laser skin resurfacing cost, laser skin resurfacing, beauty, does laser skin resurfacing work, health, cosmetic surgery, plastic surgery, skin resurfacing...this should be fine for now...I might tweak it later on...You will only be able to add 3 tags on step 4 but you can add the rest later...it's easy to find you'll see it off to the right of the page....just hit edit and add more tags..

Well now I have my little page...now all I have to do is add modules...I'm going to add 4 rss modules, youtube videos, the article I had my writer write and some linklists....For the rss modules I will use the RSS feeds from my articles at Ezinearticles, a couple blogs, zimbio feed and another squidoo lense...Example one of my author accounts at Ezinearticles...

You should see the feed button in your browser just click it and you should see xml or rss in the url...once you have your feeds from your related blogs, articles, squidoo pages etc add them in the modules....Adding your rss feeds on your squidoo page will link to your articles, blog posts, squidoo pages, zimbio etc.. which will help your pages get more referral traffic....Plus the squidoo page will have more fresh content for the users.....

Then just add your youtube videos, linklists, pictures whatever....And make sure to add atleast 400 words of content that you can have a writer write for you..or write it yourself......and be sure to add those good longtail keywords that I showed you how to find earlier in your article...and update your page every now and then too...a couple times a month is good...but really making the squidoo page is easy step by step process....

Then when your done with your page you can get links to it from bookmarking it using onlywire.com....submit a story to digg...make a hubpage and link to it, do some article marketing ...or just make some more squidoo pages and link to your squidoo's within your squidoo's....

The possibilities are endless but be sure when making your squidoo pages you do proper keyword research and use 4 + keyword phrases in your title and url....Also be sure to add those RSS feeds to your squidoo pages...If you have feeds that are related to your Squidoo page then add them its a must for link juice, instant crawlability and referral traffic...

Just think if you had 20 squidoo pages or even a 100 and all of them had your rss feeds on them...it would be a beautiful thing....

You would have more referral traffic to your sites...

PS: The RSS, linklist Squidoo technique is not for SEO...it is strictly to help you build referral traffic to your sites and update the content on your squidoo page for your users...

Building referral traffic is critical and piggybacking on a high authority site like Squidoo is great....because think if you had lost all of your rankings in the search engines then what?....all you will have left is your referral traffic, direct traffic....So build your referral traffic today!

 
 

If you are Hoe Bing then just email me....and congratulations...You'll get some link juice and my phone number for some help..

 
 

Let me tell you a story really quick... :) so listen up and really, really pay attention to what I am about to tell you in this story OK..

Today I stopped at my local gas station, I go in and grab what I need and stand up at the register....this lady was paying for her stuff and was getting her change back and she told the worker just to keep the change ...besides the dollar bills...so the change was around 9 cents ok.....Now me I am going to take my change no matter how little and let it add up, my wife takes my change and puts it in her little stash and it adds up...Why? because I get change everyday from everywhere...them little nickels, pennies, dimes and quarters are all money just like them big dollar bills are. If you save your change then it has the possibility to add up really quickly....just ask my wife :)

What I am trying to tell you is that you don't necessarily have to rank for major keywords that get tons of traffic....you should try ranking for easier to get long tail 4 + keyword phrases....Example: If I am selling mens jeans...then of course my major keyword that I would want to rank for would be mens jeans.....but what I can not forget about is those long tail, higher converting keywords such as..... "Size 32 Mens Tommy Hilfiger Jeans"....btw higher converting means basically an action your want your visitor to take.... These more specific keywords are easier to rank for and your typically attracting a higher converting user....Which means if you put something really specific in front of your prospects then your more likely to gain an action...Whether if this action is a sale of your product, signing up on your email list, or clicking your adsense ads....

But what I am saying is you don't have to rank for those major keywords..like mens jeans...because the long tail is literally infinite.

Keep your change and take it....take those smaller keywords that get less traffic but if you get lots of that change it adds up really quick....."Small Streams Equal a Big River"

Take advantage of these sites for the long tail....

http://www.ezinearticles.com
http://www.squidoo.com
http://www.hubpages.com
http://www.hoobly.com
http://www.craigslist.org
http://www.zimbio.com
http://www.kaboodle.com
http://www.thisnext.com

Your titles and main keywords should be atleast 4 keywords....When choosing your keywords just think if you were searching for it...describe it....if your selling a bridesmaid gift then what type of bridesmaid gift is it....Is it a ...pink personalized spa slipper or a personalized glass jewelry box....what is it....make it long tail and
more specific and your traffic will add up...

Take your change!!! Take a look at how my change to this site added up!.....

You can get these type of stats from hittail.com...you get real time search hits and it stores a database of all of your keywords......This is great for multiple reasons...you can use your keywords for tons of ideas about what your market is looking for.....so use the keywords for those article topics, squidoo pages etc.....and just look at my stats above over 30,000 unique keywords that this site is ranked for!!!!

Leave your comments below and heres to your success...

JDN................. :)

 
 

I've received a comment from David Law and I just wanted to let everyone know that this blog thing I got in the works is not going to be a link farm nor is it anything similar at all!!!....The blogs in the network will not link to each other at all.....theirfore no relationship pattern at all....
It's not a link farm!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The network will be used for you to promote your other sites that are not in the network....So... if you put a blog in the network then you can basically publish unique, user friendly, high quality and relevant content to the other related blogs in the network and link back to your other websites that are not in the network...so were never inner linking the blogs together....you just use the blogs to promote your sites that are not in the network....

As far as the sites gaining PR and link juice...thats not a problem...I have access to over 1000 hosted blogs that have no relationship whatsoever that I can easily shoot links to the blogs in the network to help boost the PR and link juice...and the webmasters involved should use link building methods that they have learned too...to help boost PR...

What I basically want to clarify is that these blogs in the network WILL NOT link to each other....you will basically use the blogs to post highly relevant, quality content and link back to your other sites that you don't have in the network...theirfore no relationship pattern at all exists....It's just like you contacting 50 webmasters or more and asking them to publish your article and link back to you....

These blogs will be hosted in all different areas of the world because these are your blogs and mine...all of us live in different areas...all these blogs are on different IP's and will not inner link to one another...so no relationship exists....
Just wanted to clarify that This by no means is a link farm....

BTW this stuff works trust me...I have access to over 1000 blogs right now and all the blogs are from people all across the world and theirs no relationship since their hosted all across the world and theirs no blogs linking together...So its just like asking a random person to post your content on their site and give you credit with some link juice...

Link farms are sites that all link together and are usually all hosted on the same server by the same person....these blogs will not link together nor will they all be hosted by the same person....nuff said!!

BTW not only will you benefit from your newly found syndication power but if your blog is in the network then you will be receiving high quality, fresh content on your blog in the network which will help bring your blog more traffic and more options for monetizing your blog such as adsense, affiliate marketing etc...

 
 

Tip #1 - Link out to dominant, authority sites in your niche but make sure to use the "nofollow" tag on the links. This helps Google and other search engines better determine what your page is about, plus your users gain more insight about what your page is about too. Can you say more RELEVANCE!! Usually what I will do is link my page out to a relevant Wikipedia page. Also linking out IMO will help your site get crawled faster as well....

Tip #2 - Do alot of inner page linking in the content on your website. But not just any pages...the most similar and relevant pages of your site. An easy way to know what Google thinks are relevant and similar pages within your site is to perform this search in Google.... site:http://www.mydomain.com "My keyword for this page" then Google will pull up all similar pages in your site for that keyword.. Then just link to together...This also helps the flow of PR and crawl ability of your site..

Tip #3 - Do not bleed the theme of your pages

Bleeding your theme basically means stay on topic to keep your pages HIGHLY RELEVANT to the topic of the page....Example If I have a page about "wedding gifts" then if I choose to link out from my page to another page in or out of my site about "wedding hairstyles" then I should use the "nofollow" tag....This way your keeping your page highly relevant to the search engines that this page is about wedding gifts and not wedding hairstyles..

Tip #4 - Silo Structure

Most people don't know about using the silo structure but it really helps to keep you from bleeding the themes and really takes your page relevancy to its full potential....Heres some nice easy graphs to help you understand it more.....Basically keep your apples with your apples and oranges with your oranges...and if you link out to an orange from an apple page then use a nofollow tag...I use the silo structure on my websites whenever possible. It seems to help me.

Tip #5 - If you must buy links then do not buy blogroll links, sitewide links, footer links, non relevant pages with your links...these types of bought links are known to be an area of abuse....I mean come on...people have been known to sell and buy in those areas FOREVER..I imagine Google has a data base of all the areas that they have had a report or found a bought link. They can then use that data to make really damn, good guess about anything.

Tip #6 - Any virtual real estate that you own that has an RSS feed then anywhere you can place that RSS feed then do it....If you build Squidoo pages, hubpages etc.. then add your blog feeds, article feeds etc to these pages but not in full text. Publish only snippets of your feeds this will defeat the possibility of duplicate content ....This will help your pages crawl ability, relevance, freshness..and everytime you publish an article or make a new blog post then your links will be spread everywhere....

EX: Say I have a 5 squidoo pages...in each one of these Squidoo pages I have my blog's rss feed...So now every time I publish a post on my blog then the 5 squidoo pages will have my blog post on them....Now just think if you had 50 squidoo pages, 50 hubpages with your feeds on them...Thats syndication power!!

Tip #7 Kaboodle, Thisnext

Kaboodle and Thisnext are social shopping and is Ecommerce and affiliate marketing gold....and a BUM marketers dream..  It's easy just add the button and your ready to go. Quickly and easily add your products in Kaboodle and thisnext. Make sure to Be more exact on your titles and descriptions of your products. So dont just think Mens Jeans... Think >>> Size 32 Tommy Hilfiger Means Jeans Boot Cut >>>> The long tail keywords like this are a diamond in the rough and they're really easy to get in the search engines...Long tail keywords also bring the buyers not browsers and in turn convert to more sales. $$$$$

Tip #8  Article Marketing

Now article marketing was really what helped bring me where I am today, before all of the web 2.0 sites starting sprouting out every day. I stayed up night and day writing my articles for my First Ecommerce store. It was a very big hassle especially when your married and your just fed up with the crap and low pay at work. So I did what I had to do to promote my site and link build. Back then the Algorithm was different then what it is now....Let me tell you...Back then IMO you could just publish your articles in loads of article directories and tons of them would rank and the links carry more weight in Google...Why don't I think that can really work as well anymore. Because tons of the article directories I think have been discounted and written off for lack of editorial control. Same thing with the regular directories. If you allow crap and have no editors then you are obviously of low quality right? Well not necessarily but in Google's eyes I think so.

Tip #9 Take advantage of all the free ways to get traffic.

Ezinearticles
Squidoo
Hubpages
Thisnext
Kaboodle
Youtube
Gather
Twitter
Hoobly

Heres a huge list

There are more and more ways that you can bum market your site. Bum marketing means you don't really pay anything to market your business just mainly time. If you sell a product or service then put it up and market it for users and search engines. Be specific with your title, description and tags. Also find a hook!! You can be one or all of these :)
Be unique, knowledgeable, hardworking, funny, cute, sexy, emotional, controversial at what you do and you will most likely have a better chance than alot of people at succeeding. So go build that Squidoo lense, or make a goal to publish 30 articles a month at Ezinearticles...Go start that blog and write your thoughts down and build a brand for your users....Go...Go...Build a hubpage for your Gift baskets your mom makes....Anyone can do this!!

Tip #10 ..It's a new revolution

It's not really like it used to be back before the internet got sooo big..and web 2.0 came on the seen and has been doing nothing but growing at a phenomenal rate...

Now marketing all together is really changing because everyone has a voice and is starting a conversation somewhere...Blogs, lots of people have blogs and can write their thoughts down and have a voice...Youtube..right their is your own tv channel...It's just crazy you know...Myspace, facebook, Social shopping, rate a babysitter, plumber, cable guy...everything is rated, reviewed and people can have a voice!

Before at that famous restaurant the chef, workers etc typically only had to really worry about those couple of critics that would publish what they thought about their experience in print. Now you have a voice, I have a voice..why? Because of all the new social sites and platforms that came about with Web 2.0 such as youtube, blogging etc..

The new revolution changed the way the music industry does business, because people share..........CD's are pretty much going bye bye..because everyone can easily download them on the net and get for free any music they want...You can easily SHOP and RATE any product or service online or have a voice about that persons service...Before this did not happen...

Just look at the presidential elections in the US how the bloggers, youtuber's and even the candidates themselves are using the power of the net to market...just not to long ago this did not happen..Why? It's because it's a new revolution called Web 2.0...so jump on!! 

I encourage you right now to add your own tips, techniques, experiences with SEO, Web 2.0 and making money online below. Lets make this a 100% free, no strings attached "go to guide" for all new and advanced SEO's, marketers.

So..Who's got Tip #11

 
 

***Update***

If you have your blog then email your url to jdn605 at gmail dot com please and thank you. Now it's time for us to get excited!!

Tell Your Internet buddy..The more blogs we can utilize the better for all of us!

Cool it seems like quite a few of you are down to start a hosted wordpress blog...Now what's going to happen next is my partner and I are going to sooner or later get an automated system put together so you can just choose which blogs to post articles and links to and it will post automatically to the blogs without having to log in to everyone of them....When this is done we'll bring all of you in as beta testers to work out the kinks...and you'll add your blog and you can put Adsense, affiliate products on your blog if you want and get free, fresh content added to your blogs which will bring more visitors to your site. But before we get some automation I'll figure out how we can utilize the blogs til then...but give me awhile.

But seriously folks this is going to be big for the people involved. Because just think of the power if you can have your articles and content sydicated on loads of blogs. This will increase your referral traffic, backlinks, page rank, search engines rankings and of course the almighty $$$$ ya'll...So start that hosted wordpress blog now!

Also tell your friends to get some blogs too and come join us! The more blogs we have access to the better for all of us....Just think if you could publish your articles on many different blogs all at once....that's syndication power at it's finest.  You will never have to email a webmaster begging for links anymore trust me! So hop to it, and get your friends involved too I know I am....cya..

 
 

Do want to rank higher in the search engines?....Do you want to get more traffic? Do you want to make more money? 

If you answered yes then what you need to do is start a hosted..not free  wordpress blog....If you start a hosted wordpress blog and we can get several of us here to start a wordpress blog then what we can do is utilize our blogs for link juice and referral traffic....now believe me this works....how do I know? Well because I already have access to about 1000 hosted blogs and can dominate almost any niche I choose....ask Chris the winner of the link juice contest...he's already seeing more links and more referral traffic....

This works because all of the sites will be registered by all different people in different Geographical areas on different Ip's....this means no relationship pattern at all for the search engines to detect...means link gold!!!

So go start a blog or even 10 blogs and in a few months we'll put them to use...now this is a work in progress but if we can get enough of us to do this then we'll be set....Like I said I already have access to 1000 but you don't.....so start a hosted wordpress only blog today....

Leave a comment and state I'm starting one today because I want to rank higher and make more money...

 
 

I am going to do alot of contests and try to help as many people as possible while I'm living.....why you might ask....well because I used to be their...I was broke, no home and nothing period....but now things have changed and i want to help others...

So what i am going to do is give one lucky person my phone number and chat with them over the phone and try to see if I can be of some assistance...

This one lucky person will get access to my personal cell phone number...a full consultation and some all might link juice...

So if you want to call me and chat it up over the phone then this is what you need to do.....

If you have a blog then make a post linking back to this post and tell me why I should talk to you...and if you don't have a blog then go start one over at wordpress or blogger...

Then of course you need to make a comment here linking back to your blog with the post...

Contest ends in two weeks.....good luck....