Does Google Hate You?

April 6, 2011 By 15 Comments

 

Recently, Google updated their algorithms again. This caused many people to lose ranks in the search engines. I waited to make a post about this so I could monitor anything I noticed over the previous few months.

However, I didn’t experience any sliding at all. In fact, my sites increased in ranks in the search engines.

So if you’re using the Niche Blitzkrieg methods that I teach you’re safe.

Here is why I think many people lost their rankings outside of NBK.

I believe some people out there are using methods like link spamming, link farms, mass comment spamming and other frowned upon techniques. If you have no clue what those are… good. Stay away from them.

Here is what I use the most still to this day.

Articles (link building within the resource box).

1 Way Links (love this program for automation).

Press Releases.

Directories are still good too.

These are my favorite link building methods and the only reason is….

Because they work.

Link building isn’t going to go away.

Ranking in the search engines isn’t going to go away.

I am going to add a few tips here to help you even more as to what I would ultimately avoid.

#1. Keep building links.

#2. Do not build shallow affiliate sites – these are sites that have very little to no content, just a few pages and are loaded with affiliate links. Make sure you have good content (over 250 words on the page as well), the content should also be unique. Don’t use content that you do not own.  When in doubt add more pages/posts to your site. Hey more content can’t hurt. It can only make your site better and add more openings to get more traffic.

#3. Avoid link farms and link buying deals. Basically any sites that just have a ton of links on them (outside of directories) If someone tells you they will get 10000 links for $100 bucks run away.

Tools like 1 way links will help you automate your link building and are safe. They are safe because it’s a non-spammy way of link building. You actually have to do a small bit of writing to make it work but the rewards are high.

Remember, as I mentioned in several other posts.

On page optimization + link building = ranking in the search engines. I cover that in more detail here.

Not ranking where you want to be? Keep building links into your site and never forget that each page/post of your site ranks individually in the search engines.

So to sum it up.. Google doesn’t hate you.  Google wants to make sure it’s giving it’s users the best search results and not stuff that has millions of spam laced links driving it.  However, Google hates shady tactics for a good reason – so steer clear.

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Increasing Traffic, Link Building

How To Rank Your Website in the Search Engines

October 12, 2010 By 3 Comments

I get this question all the time… "How do I rank my website in the search engines?"  I even get this from current members of Niche Blitzkrieg.  That’s OK.  I know during the learning process it can be tricky to figure out.  So the idea behind this post today is to recap the key factors of getting your website ranked in the search engines.  Keep in mind every page on your website ranks individually.  So let’s say you have 40 pages – they all rank individually in the search engines for their keywords.  This the main CRITICAL formula you’ll need to get any of your pages ranked in the search engines.

#1.  On Page Optimization.  Your page title needs to contain the EXACT keyword phrase you want to rank your webpage for.  So let’s say you want to rank your webpage for the term How Can I Make Money Using The Internet?  Then you’ll want that phrase (minus the punctuation) as the title of your webpage or to at least include it.  After the title make sure the body of your content has the keyword used in it.  Don’t over-do it just use your keyword phrase 1-2 times for every 300-500 words.

Bolding or underlining doesn’t hurt.  If you have a keyword phrased used a few times in the body bold it one time.  The search engines will place more emphasis on bolded keywords.  This isn’t as relevant as it once was – but still good practice in all of my experience.  Do not do this every time you use your keyword phrase – just use it sparingly.

#2.  Content Matters. You’ve got to use content on your webpage.  I suggest at least 250+ and I’d put as many words as possible on each page.  The more content related to your subject matter on your webpage the more likely you are to be found in the search engines for terms you may not have thought of.  I can’t tell you how many millions of visitors I’ve had to my websites on terms I never even thought to rank for.  These happened naturally and by accident.  Content matters!  Don’t be in a hurry make a content rich site.  I’m not saying to have 2000 words on each page, but the more the better.

#3.  Backlinks – Backlinks – Backlinks – Backlinks.  Did I say it enough?  YOU MUST HAVE BACKLINKS!  I cannot stress that enough.  But, one of the things I see happen so often is that my students build these amazing websites filled with fantastic content.  They even have these sites optimized and monetized correctly – but – they still ask why their sites pages are not showing up in the search engines in the top 10. 

99% of the time is because of lack of backlinks.  You must work on linking other pages back to your website.  Use article marketing (NBK Articles Directory Rocks), press releases, social bookmarking, forums, classified ads, blog commenting and anywhere else you can put a link that leads back to your website.  these backlinks are critical.  The more links you have coming in the better.  You must do backlink work for every single page of your site.

Those are the 3 things that will matter the most.  Make sure you’re doing them and keep building your backlinks to your web pages until you’re ranking where you want to rank.  Once you are ranked well and established you won’t have to link build as much and often times very little ever again.

Read more about link building tactics here.

Read how to use articles to get great backlinks here.

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Increasing Traffic, Internet marketing, Link Building Tagged With: , ,

Disturbing Facts About Free Article Directories Most People Will Never Know

October 12, 2010 By 8 Comments

One of the things I’ve been a big supporter over the last few years is article marketing.  I use articles for traffic and to get my websites ranked in the search engines all the time.  In fact, it’s probably my favorite way to build traffic.  Link building will be the life blood of your websites getting ranked in the search engines.  The free article directories I use mainly for LINK BUILDING purposes only.

#1.  ADS – and More Ads – The free article directories have ads all over the place.  Go watch this article video I shot a few days ago about this it’s pretty bad.  So because they have so many ads you’ll get a problem that I mention as bullet number 2.

#2.  LOW CTR – Low click-through rate.  Because there is so much page leak going on on the free article directories the majority of the visitors to your article will never even visit your site.  In fact, in my experience I get under 20% of the click-throughs from traffic from the free article directories – (ouch).

#3.  Not Enough Link Building – The free article directories do not build links to all of their categories.  This often leads to few links coming into the categories at the directory.  Sure their home pages have thousands of links coming in, but the categories do not.  This means that the high page rank of just their home page won’t end up doing much for you.

#4.  Distractions – Free article directories are masters of distractions.  If you missed the video the first time let me show you how they are distracting the visitors away from your site.

 

So by watching that video you can see why I only want to use the free article directories for link building only.  They are great for that.

Over the last couple a months I decided I wanted to have an article directory built that isn’t just for link building though.  What I wanted to build was an article directory that can get you The ULTIMATE CLICK-THOUGH and provide link building at the same time.

So I got with a team of experts and created  NBK ARTICLES which is an add-free article database where you can place unlimited articles and there are NO distractions to take visitors away from your site.

And here are some other super-benefits by joining this site.

#1. Your work will benefit you and only you – When traffic comes to your article to read your article they won’t have any distractions to take them away from clicking over to your website! 

#2.  You can get Major exposure using the author resource box – Beside your article will sit and author resource box.  Inside this box you can put banner ads, links, videos, opt in forms and anything you want to draw attention to your website.  Yes, you can also have affiliate links over there!  Check out an example of how you can use your own ads on your own article here.

#3.  You can add links in the body of your article – Most free directories make you use a resource area below your article.  The way we have it setup you can get click-throughs while the reader is reading your article.

#4.  At NBK Articles we have a team of dedicated link builders getting the site mass exposure – We want our site to grow and for you to get the ultimate benefit.  To do this we do our own link building to make sure it’s a win/win all around.

Watch all of our other benefits and features here.

I am happy to get this out and think you’ll be really impressed with what you’ll be able to do as a member of this site to not just build links but to get traffic from our site.  As this article directory grows you’ll get mass exposure, great backlinks and a high % of the click-throughs will go to you and not us.  That’s why we are 100% ad-free.  Check it out at http://www.nbkarticles.com

If you have any questions ask below :)

 

A few hours ago I also released another helpful post that might be beneficial to you.  Check it out here.

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, Article Marketing, Increasing Traffic, Internet marketing, Link Building

Adding Profitable Pages to Your Niche Sites – The Easy Way

April 19, 2010 By 6 Comments

Once you have a site built it can sometimes seem hard to find additional places to gain traffic and sales from.  This can happen because we’ve already done the work and want to move on and simply forget about traffic or in this case additional traffic building.

I am going to show you an easy way to get more traffic to your site even beyond the original traffic you were trying to pick up.  Members of my Niche Blitzkrieg course learn these kind of methods and we’ve had many successful students replicate these techniques.

For this technique to work you’ll want to have Google Webmaster Tools account – it’s free.  If you don’t know how Google webmaster tools works either become a Niche Blitzkrieg members as I take you through via video the whole way.  Or read Google’s tutorials here.

OK. Back to business here.

What you’ll want to do is go into your webmaster tools account and select one of your sites.

After you’ve selected what site you want, click it and it will open up another menu.

 

Select a time frame.  I suggest selecting as far back as possible so you can get an accurate read of how many clickthroughs you’re getting.

The above pic is a bit blurry… sorry not much I can do on this one.  But the links say… Michael s. Brown 140 impressions and 22 click-throughs and the second link says michael s brown (no period)  91 impressions and 22 click-throughs.

Now you’ll see a lot more than just 2 lines…  For instance my site has over 200 queries , not a lot but not bad for a site I only use to communicate with my list.  Yours might have a lot more queries than that on it.

Let’s look a bit deeper here.  By clicking the little plus sign beside the keywords you’ll be able to see an opened menu that will give you more detail.    Where it shows "Positions in the search engine" you can see where the keywords have ranked and how many impressions and click-throughs you’ve had at those locations.

 

You can see the impressions here and in the next column over you can see the click-throughs.  I cut the click-throughs off this shot so I could keep the image readable.

 

Just below the stats for the keywords you can also see what page is showing for those keywords, how many impressions to that page and also clickthroughs.

So what can you do with this data?  Well this will show you keywords and pages that are ranking but could rank and do better.

Let’s say you were ranking #9 for your keywords and only getting 10 click-throughs per week/month or whichever time frame you choose. 

Now imagine getting that term to rank #1?  If you’re getting 10 at 9 you can guess that getting ranked #1 or 2 would substantially increase your clickthroughs and ultimately sales.

Easy enough?

If you went through every keyword you’re displaying in your webmaster tools account and then started link building those pages you could substantially increase your web rankings and again make more money…..

About 60 days ago i made a post about an easy way to do fast link building if you missed that you can see it right here (easy link building technique).  This technique uses the popular 1way links program and is pretty simple.

Of course you can always use traditional methods such as article writing, social sites, press releases and so on.

Anyway, put this tip to good use, use it and you will be able to drastically increase sales, web rank and get more mileage out of each site you build.  Google helps us make making money easier…

 

Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing, General, Increasing Traffic, Niche Research, Website Building Tagged With: , , , , , ,
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