Please read: confused Internet marketer

[wellspear]

Hello!

My ambitions about Internet marketing are So apparent to me, and I really love the business. I am very motivated to work with it and I don't give up. But I have registered on the greatest marketing forum online, in hope to get some advice from you guys - who have understood the system more than I have.

I have been learning Internet marketing for about a year now. I've learned some techniques and topped google for low competition keywords (less than 2000 exact global monthly searches). I learned that from a online course that I very much admire. But I believe that recent changes is google's algorithm have changed the value of the guide; or perhaps it is just that I'm trying to rank for higher competition keywords.

So guys, I'm going to tell you what I'm doing to promote my affiliate websites and how I create them:


I check google competition for intitle PNK, and what domains are available. Usually i purchase domains with .com, .net, or .org extensions - with the PNK and the suffix of either 'review', 'reviewed' or 'reviews'.

I post the website to social bookmark websites, to blog directories, rss directories, and create the wordpress based website (with a SEO plugin) with about 3 articles - and a fourth review article.

I've been registering on high profile websites and creating profile backlinks using the PNK as a keyword. I usually created about 100 of those each month using packets online.



That strategy has been able to get some of my websites to #1 in google; however I have learned a lot about Internet marketing that I didn't know then. So here is what I know when I'm writing this and please correct me if I'm wrong:

• Profile backlinks, even high PR, are not considered quality links in comparison to other SEO methods.
• Article marketing has been reduced in efficiency by google's new algorithm.
  Backlinks are not worth anything unless indexed - BL2BL is used for that (Backlink energizer and blog commenting with backlinks urls).
• Link wheels should consist of about 5-6 web 2.0 properties at most, or risk google website ban.

I've learned that software is essential for SEO, and I am using:

• Backlink energizer
• Scrapebox
• Sick marketing
• 10 private proxies
• Decaptcha
• The best spinner
• PADsubmitter
• SEOQuake

I've come to understand the importance of that list just some weeks ago, and I invested in them. But I haven't mastered them; I would love to be able to know exactly what wizards to use in SM in conjunction with scrapebox for example. And it seems that SM has great potential but that I haven't comprehended how to use it with scraping tools, despite watching the tutorials and reading the instructions & reading forums.


I have learned the following SEO methods very recently, about 2-3 weeks ago:

• Trying to get better at scrapebox + SM. Yesterday I received 20 working backlinks out of about 1500 scraped.
• Using the built in article submitter in SM.
• Using the build in RSS/bookmark/directory submitter in SM for all keywords that I want to rank for.
• Using the build in profile submitter in SM with the free packets and trying to get more links through scrapebox.
• Scrapebox - blog commenter for backlinks energizing.
• A backlink energizer cluster with about 1500 backlinks for indexing, mostly profile links.
• Despite the things I've heard about article marketing, I created a articles at ezine and articlebase - but they are not always allowed because the articles are PLR and spun.
• I created a hubpage with a spun article
• Did some posting of PAD's both via the software and the directories

Okay guys, I think I've summed my SEO knowledge up in a even more confusing post than I am confused. But I hope that your glances will capture the important pieces and give me advice on how I can improve.

My biggest questions to you are: would the methods I've listed scale with the amounts posted and be competitive even for more popular keywords that 10 000 searches/month? What would you add to my SEO strategies and what would you change in them?



God bless ya'll

[joel1031]

I think your mindset is a bit incorrect when considering what's "competitive" or not. The number of searches doesn't indicate that, a number of other factors do, such as:

Page Rank
Backlinks
EDU/GOV Backlinks
Title/Header Optimization

You can use SEOQuake plugin to check out these statistics for the Top 10 Google results and really gauge how competitive a keyword is, whether it has 30 searches per month or 30,000.

[Gail_Curran]

Hi,

Your post may get moved to the SEO subforum (check it out if you haven't already). In the meantime, here's my 2 cents.

You don't really need software if you're willing to outsource the work to someone who can do it for you.

No one can tell you if your site can compete unless they look at the competition. There are tools that allow you to see the backlinks that the top ranking web pages have - then you can go after the same type of links.

A lot of the backlinks you propose would be considered low-value, such as profile links. I'd suggest adding higher value links as well. Don't discount article marketing. If you write or outsource good quality articles, you can syndicate them and gain high quality backlinks and traffic.

I've had some success using private blog networks and social bookmarking services (where other people bookmark your pages, not you).

[wellspear]

Originally Posted by joel1031

You can use SEOQuake plugin to check out these statistics for the Top 10 Google results and really gauge how competitive a keyword is, whether it has 30 searches per month or 30,000.

Yes yes, I forgot to mention that I use SEOQuake too, and checking the competition. I've found that affiliate products (CB, amazon) that have a lot of searches usually have proportional amounts of marketers - perhaps that's just a observation which cannot account for every product, but true for some I believe..

How would you improve my SEO strategy?

[wellspear]

Originally Posted by Gail_Curran

If you write or outsource good quality articles, you can syndicate them and gain high quality backlinks and traffic.

Do you suggest that I create a RSS feed with all the article links in it and submit it to directories?

[wellspear]

How would you guys interlink a pyramid SEO strategy?

[bigcat1967]

Don't discount article marketing. If you write or outsource good quality articles, you can syndicate them and gain high quality backlinks and traffic.

with the panda rollout - article marketing is not as effective as it once was...

[wellspear]

Can you tell me about panda?

[wellspear]

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I would want fresh opinions on that affiliate marketing system. What do you think about it? Which other methods can you recommend me?