Yellow Dog Ventures

There is a member on the Warrior Forum - sparrow - who appears to have worked in programming and SEO and related fields for awhile. My take is that he knows his stuff and has had some solid success building high ranking on search engines.

I became aware of him when he posted some special offers. The first was for a “secret” technique that would put static websites on a par with blogs in popularity with the SEs. With this he also included a method for getting pages indexed promptly and predictably. I have implemented most of this on my existing sites and look forward to testing the methods on some new sites I am creating. I’ll report back.

Next he offered his tracking software. This is a script that tracks when BOTS and other traffic visit your sites. With the other traffic, you have access to the website they came from. If this was a search engine, you get a clear picture of what keyword was typed in for the search and exactly where your site is listed in the rankings. People really do use long tail keywords.  It’s very fun.

Now, I know there are a bunch of programs that do these types of tracking, but this is the first I have tried. I expect I will learn a ton from watching the results. I plan to use this software in my work with SEO clients as well. Very cool.

Sparrow also promoted a program for Web 2.0 site submissions. I haven’t started working with this yet, but will very soon. My goal is to raise my sites out of obscurity and to build links and links and links. If “Search Engine Myths Exposed” (previous post) emphasizes anything it is the role backlinks play in search engine ranking success.

For a great series of case studies on generating attention and traffic for your sites, visit Steven’s Affiliate Marketing Diary. His blog is a goldmine and he is a very generous spirit. He offers really solid “how to” guides for what to put on your blogs and how to promote them. I can’t say enough about the value he gives away freely.

Finally, it’s time for a face lift on this blog. Expect a new look within a week or so. If you can suggest a great wp theme, please let me know.

That’s it for now. Thanks for visiting!

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I read Jonathan Leger’s latest research report last night — “Search Engine Myths Exposed“. It’s well written, very compelling and makes sense. It’s free, so you might want to check it out.

The part I found most interesting was his explanation about duplicate content and whether or not you can be indexed and ranked if you include it on your site. The key is to get links and links and more links. I know this and have known it for a long time. Why don’t I do a better job of getting links to my sites? (Don’t answer that!)

Another interesting piece is Jonathan’s contention that links do not need to be from similarly themed sites. He give a lot of proof for all he says. I’m sure there are other ways to interpret his interpretations, but he is compelling. I appreciate the report.

Then, I came upon this today. Another freebie if you do just a little work:

I’m evaluating a multi-media course on blogging from the folks at Simpleology. For a while, they’re letting you snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.

It covers:

• The best blogging techniques.
• How to get traffic to your blog.
• How to turn your blog into money.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.

That’s all for now. Have a good one!

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I am loving Backlink Solutions! 

This membership allows you to post to over 100 blogs to create backlinks to your sites. All you have to do is post a snippet of content with an embedded anchor text/destination url and you're good to go. There is supporting software available both to create the snippet with your link, and to post to the blog automatically. You don't have to access the blog itself at all.  You can create backlinks to any of your sites that you want to right from the same interface. Very easy, and I'm already figuring out shortcuts to make the process quicker.

The downside is that Backlink Solutions is a new service and a number of the blogs have not had a lot of time to age and build page rank yet.  You start out with access to blogs with PR 1-4.  Most have PR2 or PR3.  I understand as you stick around, you will have access to blogs with higher PR, and I assume with time and content, the original blogs will grow in rank as well.

This is a great source of links. Combine these with web 2.0 backlinks, some directories, some article sites, a couple of your own blogs and Squidoo lenses, and you could build up a good number of links pointing to your sites.  Maybe not enough to take on the big guys in the real competitive niches, but you sure don't have to go there. Focus on keywords that are less searched with lower competition and you can be very successful with your search engine ranking. 

That's where I'm headed.  I'll let you know how it goes.

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I created a new blog about 2 1/2 weeks ago in the natural health niche. I have posted to it almost daily, and I am shocked to find that it is not yet indexed by google. Very interesting.

I have submitted the site to many social networking and bookmarking sites. I have claimed it on Technorati. I made some comments on several PR4-6 blogs. I ping with each post, but it’s still not indexed! What’s going on here?

The most recent websites I created were indexed in about 3 days. The 2 differences I can identify are that those sites have adsense on them, and I used Article Underground’s blog system to announce the pages.

I haven’t done either of those with this site. Actually, I chose to let go of Article Underground because I wasn’t taking advantage of it often enough to make the program worth the subscription cost. Instead I wanted to try out a couple other link building plans instead. (Whether I stick with those or not remains to be seen.) But I’m definitely revisiting my decision to drop AU and just may sign up again.

I also didn’t want adsense on the blog, but I’m going to put a block on there now to see what happens. I can always take it off in a couple weeks.

That’s all for now. Have a good one!

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My project today has been to implement the suggestions from a wso I purchased called “Blogging with Success.” The ebook is great. I’m learning a ton about optimizing a WordPress blog for SEO, tags, and keywords. The author recommends a number of plugins, and I’m incorporating those as well.

In the process of playing with the blog, I upgraded to WordPress 2.1.3. I immediately noticed that most of the features that are supposed to be available in the rich visual editor are missing, like text alignment, linking, adding an image, etc.

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the source of the problem and finally ended up reading about it the WordPress support. Here I learned it is an ongoing bug that hasn’t been fixed for months. Hmm. I also learned that people are having much more serious problems than just the loss of some icons for editing posts. Not cool.

Now I have to decide, go back to 2.0.7 until the problem gets fixed or stick it out here? I absolutely want to use the visual editor and not just the code option. I have a copy of 2.0.7 and I backed everything up before beginning the upgrade process, so I can go back. Not sure yet what I’ll decide.

In any event, it’s a gorgeous spring day here, and the yardwork is calling. Have a good one!

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