Get Yourself Some .edu/.gov Backlinks Quickly and Easily

Published on October 24, 2011 by admin No comments

Creating Backlinks Everyone knows how important having an incoming link from a .edu or a .gov site. It’s simply because not any hooligan can go out and purchase a domain with these two TLDs. So how do we go about finding sites that we can get precious backlinks on? This is the key and can be resolved surprisingly easily. Check it out, use the below search string in Google to get a surplus of viable .edu blogs that you can leave a comment on creating a backlink directly to any URL you wish. Simply replace “YOUR NICHE” with whatever niche your site is in to have the greatest results for your efforts. 

site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” “you must be logged in” “YOUR NICHE”

To find .gov links, simply replace the portion that reads, “site:.edu” to, “site:.gov”. It’s that easy. Then go ahead and write a quick comment replying properly to the post it is under to have the greatest chance of having your comment approve and becoming live.

If this is too much hassle for your there are many people ready and waiting to do the heavy lifting for your on all sorts of sites. Head over to fiverr.com for the quickest find, but it might take some real searching to get a quality supplier. Remember, quantity is not always better than quality and a lot of large quantity backlink suppliers for .edu/.gov backlinks are leaving poor quality comments or completely irrelevant information. Google frowns on this blatant spamming, but it can be hard to detect. 

Personally I prefer to do this manually so that I can seek out the highest relevancy sites myself and take the time to create maybe only 5-10 backlinks per day, but know that they will be of the highest quality with the strongest authority and thus strongest power in terms of backlink juice to my sites. Even at that rate, a consistent backlinking effort will bring back 35-70 backlinks per week. Again, this may not seem like much compared to services that provide 1,000, or even up to 10,000 .edu/.gov backlinks, but even if these comments are approved and then indexed by Google, they won’t have 1/100 the power of a properly worded and relevant comment to a high PR, high authority and relevant niche .edu/.gov backlink.

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Importance of Authority Backlinks – From .edu/.gov to Meta-Indexing

Published on October 14, 2011 by admin No comments

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Imagine you are a search engine developer and you want to include only the most important, information rich, and relevant content to your searchers. Try and put yourself in their shoes and think about what they would kinds of backlinks they would want to see from a site. Which do you think is more important, 100 million forum profile links and social bookmarks? Or 50 strong .edu and/or .gov links?

If the answer isn’t clear, then perhaps you are still thinking from a marketer’s point of view, and not from a search engine developers’. The importance of authority backlinks pointing to your site is hard to overestimate. Most people know that we need strong backlinks, but most don’t know how to go about getting them. Some aim at buying links from high PR sites right away, but this can buying links can be detected by search engines if it is not done properly. And, remember, these developers are most likely smarter than your average internet marketer, as they generally have been marketers themselves in the past for numerous years and they spend countless hours and dollars studying us marketers and the ways people attempt to deceive and manipulate their algorithms.

Ok, so you get the idea, authority backlinks are incredibly important, but how do we get them?

Well, I am going to dedicate the next week’s posts to answering this question. Stay tuned and you will find out some of the most powerful techniques to creating and maintaining the highest quality backlinks.

Also, feel free to make your comments and suggestions or corrections if you have anything to add. Please note, anything that looks like spam will not be approved.

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WordPress – The Only Site Platform You Should Ever Need

Published on September 21, 2011 by admin One comment

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I’m going to make this short and sweet. WordPress is great, we all know this already if we’ve been doing anything online at all. So I’m not going to beat this long-dead horse too much. I just want to point out some of the great plugins and features that I’ve discovered in my time.

Plugins -

  1. WP Super Cache – This guy is indispensable if you want to look good for Google. Google’s very much appreciates fast loading sites, and this is one of the many MANY plugins that can help with this.
  2. Use Google Libraries – This plugin is another one to help your site load faster and be more Google friendly. It allows your site to use the content distribution network side of Google’s AJAX Library API, rather than serving these files from your WordPress install directly.
  3. Platinum SEO Pack – This or All In One SEO is a must for your blog. It let’s you specify the title, description, and keywords for each post/page and allows you to easily set follow/nofollow and index/noindex settings for your posts/pages, as well as a host of other detailed things.
  4. Google Analyticator – This is just a quicker way to setup Analytics on your site, and I use it for every one of mine. Arguably faster than copy/pasting the code into your editor on WordPress, but I find it more useful in the details.
  5. Google XML Sitemaps – This is a must and will automatically create a sitemap for your site which Google absolutely loves.
  6. GoCodes – This is an easy way to mask your affiliate codes as other parts of your own site, rather than using bit.ly or tinyurl which are a bit too obvious to me.

Features –

  1. Themes – There are so many paid and free themes out there for WordPress. You can find one for just about any kind of website you could ever want to build.
  2. Ease of Use – There’s really no reason not to use WordPress, it’s so damn easy I can’t stand to even think about using anything else again.

I will say the only downside is that it runs almost exclusively on PHP and CSS, which I have no knowledge of whatsoever. I only ever used HTML back 10 years ago on my first websites, but that is barely useful now except when making certain posts.

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6 Steps to Gathering Premium Keywords

Published on September 20, 2011 by admin 2 comments

Keyword ResearchWhen we start out looking for keywords, some people are at a complete loss as to where to begin. How do I come up with good ideas for keywords? All the good keywords are taken already.

At a first glance this may seem true. But the hidden truth is that there are so many keywords out there that people are searching every day. And even if it were true that all the good keywords are taken, culture does not stop producing new buzz words, and therefore there will always be a new stream of keywords flooding the system.

All it takes to get yourself a winning keyword is a good searching technique and some best practices to keep in mind. Soon you’ll see that the problem is not finding just one, but how to choose amongst your great finds.

Anyways, here’s what you were looking for.

6 Steps to Gathering Prime Keywords:

  1. Go to tradekey.com and scroll to the bottom of the page. Select any letter of the alphabet at the bottom and you’ll find a list of 99 keywords. There are multiple pages for each letter, but just about any keyword will do. When selecting a keyword try to think about what the larger niche it falls into because this keyword will lead to a long list of similar keywords in the same niche.
  2. Once you have your keyword, copy/paste it into Google’s Adwords tool. If you don’t know what this is, just Google “google keyword tool” and it’ll be the first thing that pops up. Plug it into the keyword tool and hit the search button.
  3. Now you must refine the search so you can take out the obviously fail keywords. Start by unselecting “Broad” and selecting “[Exact]” on the left hand side. Next, click the “Advanced Options and Filters” and make sure you are only getting Local Monthly Searches that are >= 1,000. Add another filter and make sure you aren’t getting anything with Local Monthly Searches that are $0.50.
  4. Now, you should sort the findings from highest to lowest Local Monthly Searches. You should not care about Global Monthly Searches as most of the globe doesn’t speak/read/write English as primary language. Now go and select every single keyword which shows up that has more than 3 words in the keyword phrase. Anything with 1 or 2 keywords is not worth your time because they can have very ambiguous meanings. Note: If the keyword you selected has only a few results that show up after applying the filters, then you can proceed in one of two ways. The first is to simply select a new keyword. The second, is to select all the results and then go just under the filters options area and click the button marked, “More like these” and choose “Selected”.
  5. Once you’ve selected all the 3 word keyphrases, copy/paste them into an excel sheet.
  6. Now go to the button marked, “More like these” as mentioned in the note of step 4, and choose “Selected”. Now you may repeat step 4 and 5.

Also note that if you do this more than once, you may start to get repeat keywords, but you will still be gathering new keywords along with them. Once you start showing 800 results this means that you are getting more results than the tool can show you at one time. You can remedy this by either choosing a new keyword and starting over in a new niche, or by selecting a random assortment of 100 from the results from before. This is because you can only plug in 100 keywords into the search menu at one time.

I hope this has been helpful to some of you guys out there. Please let me know if anything was unclear in the comments section and I will reply ASAP. Take care

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5 Keys to Getting Your Competition Under Control

Published on September 20, 2011 by admin 2 comments

keyword competition I just recently read a report about how PR doesn’t have anything to do with rankings on Google. This really baffles me that there are still people who can disregard PR so completely in favor of analyzing SERP competition with ONLY backlinks or whatever.

It is quite clear to me that PR is simply a very generalized number that Google applies to websites using a variety of different metrics and giving different weight to those metrics in order to pop out some guesstimated number for XYZ site’s authority.

In my experience I have found PR to be very revealing when doing competition analysis for mass amounts of keywords. I have two reasons for this:

  1. Doing PR analysis research on competition is so much easier and less time consuming than analyzing the amount of backlinks a competing site has for your targeted keyword.
  2. Google’s PR number takes into consideration the amount of backlinks into consideration when ranking it in SERP along with a wide variety of other things.

That being said, you absolutely cannot only take PR as your only metric for analysis in competition research. Here’s a short list of other things you can take into consideration:

  1. Competing domains’ age
  2. The number of .edu and .gov backlinks those domains have. You can check this by using the extension you find here: http://tools.seobook.com.
  3. The number of search results for your keyword in quotations.
  4. The number of search results for your keyword with allinurl: with and without quotes.

And yes I am simply saying “the number” which is super vague and most will think that it’s not that helpful, but the thing is it completely depends on how much money/time you are willing to put forth to rank for your keyword. So, for example, if I am making sites that are MFA (made for AdSense) and I am aiming to make 40-50 basic sites that will rank quite easily, then I will aim for the following respectively:

  1. Nothing older than 5 years.
  2. Next to none but preferably none at all.
  3. Fewer than 150,000, but I make certain exceptions if everything else is low competition.
  4. No more than 10k, but preferably lower than 5k
  5. Same, no more than 10k, but preferably lower than 5k.

If you’re aiming for a higher competition affiliate style site, then you would increase the numbers at least 2x if not 3x across the board. Obviously 0 times 3 is still 0 for .edu links lol, but you know what I mean. 

Hope this has been helpful to most. If you have any questions or disagree with me, feel free to leave a comment.

 

1.       The number of .edu and .gov backlinks those domains have. You can check this by using

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