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Ruck |
 Posted - 04/26/2006 : 23:25:39
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Hi Everyone,
First off this may seem lengthy. I started blogging heavily last month. I concentrated on my content, writing for my human visitors while keeping those robots in mind, and I built a few links every now and then. But I wasn't getting to where I wanted to be. So I read "Blogging To The Bank". The only thing I hadn't thought of was the cluster blog effect. Well, I did sort of, but never put it into action.
Then I tried it, I hated it. I felt like what I was doing was pretty much spam. People have their opinions, and that is mine. But the whole cluster thing got me to thinking, why I couldn't I take those keywords and instead of putting them on seperate blogs, just somehow incorporate them into 1 blog. It took quite a bit of work over 7 days-I have 7 posts in my "niche" blog, and I have 4 keyword/keyword phrases on the first page of MSN.
I would like to open this up for discussion, and see if anyone else is doing this type of blogging. I mean today I got $83.31 in affiliate commissions and well can't tell you my ADSENSE earnings but it feels so good to make $100+ dollars on your 7th day of starting your blog. All from MSN traffic. Can't wait to start getting more links and get into Yahoo, and maybe the big "G" later.
Has anyone had immediate blogging success like this? Please let me know, I know a lot of what I am doing towards my SEO for my blogs, but then again 7 days seems way too fast. I guess if it works, I will just keep replicating on more niches:) |
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NadinRath |
Posted - 04/26/2006 : 23:30:35
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Great way to use blogging with SEO in mind.
I have 3 blogs (All blogger blogs) with 5 - 10 posts in each and all of them are in the first page of msn. I didn't make it there in 7 days though - it was more like a month.
Is your blog a blogger.com blog or something like Wordpress?
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Ruck |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 00:26:59
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| I have 8 blogs on blogger. I ten to put my quick niche blogs up on blogger although I am working on broader niches on wordpress. Blogger sucks, but JEEZ you can get indexed really fast. You said you have 5-10 post in each of them, I am curious on your post titles-Are you ranking for different keyword/keyword phrases throughout differnet MSN pages? |
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Joshua Uebergang |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 01:07:58
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ksruckman,
You made $100+ on that one blog from affiliate links and adsense solely from msn traffic within a week? |
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uclaboyz |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 01:08:02
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wow, this is great to hear...
May I ask, how "competitive" are your keywords? |
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Ruck |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 01:37:29
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Yea almost $110 in 7 days:)
And like I said I really cannot figure the whole thing out.I only claimed the blog in Technorati, and wrote my content. I kept Rob Benwell's SEO blog techniques in mind when creating my posts and that is it. I am kind a loss for words, but I guess it is working. What I am doing is researching my keyword and finding all the keywords associated with it. I then take all those keywords, and turn them into post titles. I will not lie--I spend about 2 hrs for each post so that it looks good for my human visitors while keeping the robots in mind. That is it-that is my method. I will post more information as time progresses, hopefully it is a start of a good thing. I still want to keep posting to it though, researching my content thoroughly before writing, and see if I can get some more results for keywords/keyword phrases out of this blog.
By the way-this is a blog built on a sub-niche of a "broad" niche. I really do not care at this point though. If I could replicate systems like this, then I won't have to compete with the big boys (for at least awhile). I actually got this niche idea, because it is something I do. My wife knew I was having a hard time on the blogs that I really wanted to succeed, so she told me to just write about something I am familiar with. I think I will buy her that "new" purse she has been wanting.
But yes-in 7 days I am #2 in MSN for my main keyword on blog. I'll be back to post more info. as soon as I can come up with more ideas on why this is happening. I am still a little shocked:) |
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dturner |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 01:43:50
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Hi mate,
Curious how many articles you've released, and how many links you've got back to your blog.
One of my niches took about 3 weeks to hit first page on msn, with 1 article released and no other links.
Just content posted.
I've got the hebejebes with Blogger since they deleted 90 something of my original (meaning content written for me or by me) blogs... but there is no doubt it works.
Wealth and Abundance,
Daniel Turner
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Ruck |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 01:59:54
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| Like I said-I have released 0 articles. I only have 7 posts in my blog. I am guessing someone like what they saw through my Technorati tags. I am still researching all of this because I still really do not know what is going on. I visited the sites that have used my blog posts and everyone of them is relevant to my blog. I only have 9 links in MSN. More to come (still researching). |
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CalGolden |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 06:56:59
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Wow, that's awesome! In such a short time. I hope that you figure out what you did
to skyrocket your blog to the top so that you can replicate it over and over. And
share it, too :).
I tried some of your methods on my blogger blogs. Having varied success. But I can't
claim my blog on technorati. Keep getting a message stating that it is unclaimable.
Go figure! What are you submitting? Your URL or atom feed? I am using my URL.
Much continued success!
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Ruck |
Posted - 04/27/2006 : 10:48:45
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Cal,
I too had a problem claiming my 1st blog in Technorati. Can't recall what I did really to get it claimed though. It did have something to do of when it asked me to put my Technorati Profile html on my website. I did not put that html code on my blog, as I want one-way links not reciprocal. Oh by the way--make sure you are tagging your posts in blogger for Technorati, a fellow forum member from Self-Starters Weekly Tips showed me how, and when you tag your blogger posts, you will get picked up without ever linking to them, just remember to ping them some way:) |
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iloveaffiliatemarketing |
Posted - 04/29/2006 : 17:17:13
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Hey ksruckman,
That is really impressive. I've been working on this one blog for the past 2 weeks and still get no traffic. Do you mind explaining how you are tagging your blog posts without linking? And also where do you come up with tag ideas? Do you just put them in as keywords? Sorry for all the questions but I am just desperately curious. |
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Ruck |
Posted - 04/29/2006 : 22:04:41
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Hello Everyone,
I am still researching this wierd experience. Here's how I tag in Technorati. This is the "code" to ad at the end of your posts on a blogger blog. In Wordpress of course there's a plugin to add to make it easier. On a blogger blog it is really a manual way to tag. THEY do pick up on it when they crawl. I have tested this time and time again. Whether you claim your blog in Technorati or not, still use these tags to be picked up by them.
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/[tagname>" rel="tag">[tagname></a>
Example for keyword in your post "turtle"
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/turtle" rel="tag">turtle</a>
Just edit your html after you right your post, I think I read somewhere that 5 tags is sufficient, anymore may look a little "fishy"--Try to only tag with the keywords in your post--you know the drill:)
You do not have to put the brackets back in. Also I am still baffled by this blog. I had a traffic spike for about three days, and it has calmed down to steady numbers. But I am blown away by the amount of time it took to rocket to the top of MSN. I am in my 3rd day on 2 more blogs following the exact methods I used with this blog. So if it works, I will post the theory for experimental purposes. I don't want to post anything that I am unsure of. More to come:) |
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Double Nickel |
Posted - 04/30/2006 : 11:59:04
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Here's a question about claiming your blog at Technorati.
What if you have several wordpress blogs and each one is built using a different domain name.
For each one of these blogs, should you create a new, different Technorati Account to claim each of these blogs at Technorati? Is this the best way (or the only way??) to maximize the benefit of claiming blogs at Technorati?
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iloveaffiliatemarketing |
Posted - 04/30/2006 : 15:35:09
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Hey ksruckman,
Thanks alot, but do you always use just one word for each tag or do you sometimes use multi-words for Technorati? Thanks.
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Ruck |
Posted - 04/30/2006 : 16:24:38
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| I'll use any word/word phrase to tag my posts. Tags are really like categories. As in a wordpress blog you have the option for categories in your blog. On a blogger blog you do not have that option. I always scan my new blog post and find word/phrases that I think other people might be blogging on. That way when somebody runs a tag/blog search in Technorati they will see you blog. I think this is what happened with my blog that shot to the top of MSN. Some people pretty much liked some of my posts and used them and wrote about them. I got an explosion of backlinks in a short time. |
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freetraff |
Posted - 05/03/2006 : 09:17:30
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| Not only blogging can give that. Good, quality link exchange too. It gave #1 in MSN for my keyword with pure link exchange. No press releases, no article submissions, no ads. Week has passed and #1 MSN and 2nd page in Google. |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/03/2006 : 22:43:18
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UPDATE-
I now have 3 blogs rolling through MSN. 2 on the front page and 1 on the 2nd page. For the first blog I am still baffled on how it rocketed up to #2 in 7 days. I did a link popularity report though and the blog was picked up by quite a few sites as a reference tool on their sites. A couple of first page sites in their field by the way.
Anyway with these last 2 sites after 5 days I noticed nothing was really happening. These 2 are real beauties in their "niche" field so I wanted them to just really do well. Well it is now 14 days after the creation of these 2 blogs and one of them is #3 on MSN and the other is number #14. I have submitted 1 article a piece for each of these 2 blogs so maybe that "explosion" will happen one of these nights. As far as these 2 going up to 1st and 2nd pages in 2 weeks, it really comes down to the basics. Article submission, forum postings in my fields, and a comment on a relative blog every now and then.
I just do not comprehend how he does it. Although I do believe he does make disposable blogs and posts comments to the blogs he wants to do well. That is his business and none of mine though. I kind of feel that type of blogging is on the border of "unethical". Now I did not say it was unethical, I said that type of thing is not for me.
If Rob Benwell is out there, I want you to know that everything you put in your book has worked really well, up to the flooding traffic steps of 4 and 5. Also another question, I am unable to locate the blogs of Benwell anywhere. His examples of freshwater, saltwater, aquarium, fish, along with the credit card after bankruptcy blogs are nowhere to be found. I manage to find them and nothing is there for some odd reason. Any thoughts? |
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Joshua Uebergang |
Posted - 05/03/2006 : 23:51:43
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| Google's banned button caught up to him with his black hat seo... |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 00:18:49
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Joshua,
Is that true? You know that for sure? Is there a source I may read your information from? I would really like to know. When I got the book and started all of this I really was skeptical. Now if you have source to prove this, then my skepticism is reality. I always thought this, just did not want to say it aloud.
Appreciate your reply Joshua. You figured out what I was asking without having to say it aloud. |
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wilson |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 00:40:05
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ksruckman,
I just started using the technique in the book last night. Waiting for my 1st blog to be indexed. Thanks for your sharing here. If you try search tropical fish in MSN, you should be able to find the blog example from the ebook in page 3. |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 01:01:24
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Yea,
I found it and it looks like crap. Also I am tracking Benwell's blogs. All of them have just turned into that one. All the content gone and stuff. Ohh, but do you see the other Blogspot blogs like the one he had there. Hmmm, also I was tracking a lot of his comments on some of his blogs. All he was really doing was making other usernames and blogs in Blogger and commenting on his own blogs. Kinda retarded if you ask me. That's just my opinion. So far I have tracked 6 users commenting on his "high" ranking blogs back to other blogs similar to his high ranking blog. So pretty much what you could see before long is 10 tropical fish blogspot blogs on the front page of MSN. He states in the book that you could dominate the search engines. I was just hoping that someone that put a book like that would have done it more ethically. Although he was kind enough to state that tips 4 and 5 were not for everybody. But, most of the smarter people knew what that meant.
I hate to say it but when I got that book I am glad I didn't have to pay for it. (hint, hint) That's all I got to say about that. Wonder if he knows when you type in his name in Yahoo that you can download the book for free?:) |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 01:20:55
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UPDATE
I have definitely done more research on this topic. I am now committed to only submitting my articles, Press Releases, and forum signatures. A comment here and there on a relevant blog, but that is all I am doing. AHH, forgot-I submit my RSS feeds here and there. As for building blog clusters and inter-linking them-I have found that to be too time consuming. What I have managed to do is get 4 keyword/keyword phrases on the 1st page of MSN for my first blog. I do not believe that you have to build clusters.
Ok, Here is my method-What I do is my keyword research, find the terms people search on and incorporate them into posts. Now, this is assuming that you picked a "niche" already. I picked one for my first blog that was getting searches, but not too many people marketing to this area. Now, after incorporating the keywords/keyword phrases you would like to rank for, turn that into a post. Your post turns into a page yada, yada, yada. Some may not agree with the next part, whatever, this is what I do. I personally research my keyword/phrase and find information on it. I then take my notes and references and write MY own article. If I am going to have something rank highly I want to be my own original work. I write an article of at least 400 words, for me it is more like 600. Anyway, I post to my blog. I wait 1 day, then I submit my article to directories, that sort of thing. That's what I do for the keywords/keyword phrases I want to rank for.
Now I have reader established message receiving on my blogs. Rss and email updates, that sort of thing. At present I am managing 10 blogs and my wife has 3. But in order to keep readers you must update rather constantly. So now that I got my pages I want to rank for in, I just build me an important post section or a pages section with anchor text to those pages. This is interlinking, and can greatly help you for the rankings.
Back to the readership though. To keep your readers they probably do not want a stale blog. So what I do is make short posts daily to articles, references, etc.. with the links to those articles. You now have your basic content set up for your rankings, but if you are trying to capture a readership base you must stay updated.
Although, I do have a couple of "informative" blogs that I am working on strictly for rankings. I have my keyword enforced posts that are going up in rank, that will just stay there and gain backlinks. Kind of like a disposable blog. Set it and forget it kind of thing. This is strictly a blog based for affiliate sales, and Adsense earnings, coming from people searches. Once that blog ranks highly I will leave it alone until I can find another keyword/phrase that I would incorporate to that blog.
But seriously-I would not suggest blog clusters. Too time consuming. I am having success just by using interlinking anchor text in my blogs. People come to the blog, see my important pages/post section at the blog, click on it, and I am in business.
More to come, I am tired tonight, and besides John Reese's freakin videos gotta hold on me like you would not believe. Reese you are a genius, and is that really YOUR Ferrari? |
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Eagle-Eye |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 02:28:20
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Hi Ksruckman,
I'm finding your forum interesting because I just posted my first blog last Friday! Like yours, mine is also on blogger, and I too created the blog with the idea of a niche type theme to promote one of my affiliate urls. I wrote my own article and posted that one first by itself, and then I added another one a few days ago. I didn't think of looking this soon to see where I was at but after reading your blog results I decided to look. First I want to preface this with the fact that I'm not one to blow my own horn, but you got me pretty excited when I decided to look to see where mine was with the search engines, and wowza was I surprised!
LIke you, I'm only 6 days since I posted my first article on the blog. On Google my blog already shows up on page 26 of 30 pages out of over 33,900 other possibilities! Also, my affiliate url that I'm promoting from my blog has moved up one page from page 13 where it was last week, to page 12.
Then I got more excited when I checked on MSN and Alexa my blog shows up on the first page at #5 out of over 8,000 other possibilities after only my 6th day on the web! I didn't use a search term to look up, but I used the name of the company that I'm an affiliate for, and it's the name mentioned in my blog. So I used that as my search term for my first research. I'm sure my results would not be as good if I picked a more common word or words to search, but I still figured for only 6 days I can't complain.
My second article on my blog isn't yet showing up (or it's too far down to bother to yet look for it), but I'm sure it will be soon. Both my articles are my own creation, so they are brand new content to the search engines.
Like you I'm pretty excited. I'm fairly new to IM and to html so I'm not doing anything fancy yet, but I guess all that matters is my content is getting picked up. I have been sending my blog to Pingomatic each day so I'm sure that has something to do with it. When I started my first blog last week I did it with the intention of doing multiple blogs for multiple niches soon. Since I'm not a techie I figured it would be easier to do multiple blogs for niche sites rather than multiple web sites, which I figured would require more time to maintain than doing blogs. PLus, I figured since blogger was free I couldn't go wrong!
Two questions for you: Did you set your blog up for allowing comments?
And, are you doing Adsense on yours?
I'm not very happy with the advertisements that Adsense has on my blog, but it's also my first experience with Adsense, so I'm experimenting with that as well. It seems that the Adsense ads are a conflict of interest in regards to what I'm promoting, so that's why I'm not very happy with it. I still have much to do to improve my blog like add some clip art or something to jazz it up, and more links etc. I don't yet have my blog in my sig file but if you want to snoop around on it you can send me a PM, and I'll give you the url...I don't want to post it here since this is ksruckmans forum, and I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to spam anyone!
Keep us posted on how it's going with your niche blog!
Tammara
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Joshua Uebergang |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 04:23:16
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so this is ksruckman's forum eh? lol...
There ya go. You can download his ebook from a yahoo search : )
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Joshua,
Is that true? You know that for sure? Is there a source I may read your information from?
I don't know for sure, but I'm just adding 1 and 1 together. Having not read his book I don't know the methods, but from word of mouth it seemed to be just blog spam. Yeah he did well for a while, but so did the ones who stuffed meta tags, stuffed hidden keywords, cloaking... It was a soon to be banned technique. |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 14:22:57
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Eagle-Eye,
1. Yes I do allow comments on my blogs. But I do not get many. 5 comments out of 10 blogs. And Yes I do Moderate my comments. I want these to last so I am doing everything I can to ensure that they do not get corrupted.
2. Yes I do have Google Adsense on my blogs.
3. I am you HAPPY are doing so well. Some people are finding that it takes awhile with blogs. Therefore they usually give up, right when things are about to take off for them. Also Blogger blogs dominate MSN and Yahoo for some reason. I am not sure why. With just a few links-depending on your keyword/description etc...You can just OWN MSN in a matter of days. If anyone knows why, I sure would like to know the specifics. I imagine nobody is going to tell me the answer to that. But that's fine, because I know you do not need many links to get a good ranking.
Joshua,
Just for you-type rob benwell in the yahoo search engine. On the second page you will see Blogging To The Bank PDF there you go. By the way Rob does not come around the forum anymore. That is a pretty good assumption of what's going on with him. Although, I would really love to talk to him, and see if he has turned out to be a spammer, or if he decided to build REAL blogs. Probably not considering his last product he was starting to sell. |
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wilson |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 20:07:18
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Hi ksruckman,
My blog is still not indexed by MSN. I have submitted it to MSN for about 30 hours and I claimed to Technorati about 8 hours ago. What is the best thing should I do now - post to the blog or submit an article ? Thanks in advance.
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Eagle-Eye |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 23:37:36
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Originally posted by ksruckman
I am you HAPPY are doing so well. Some people are finding that it takes awhile with blogs. Therefore they usually give up, right when things are about to take off for them. Also Blogger blogs dominate MSN and Yahoo for some reason. I am not sure why. With just a few links-depending on your keyword/description etc...You can just OWN MSN in a matter of days. If anyone knows why, I sure would like to know the specifics. I imagine nobody is going to tell me the answer to that. But that's fine, because I know you do not need many links to get a good ranking.
Thanks ksruckman!
But, having one's blog picked up quickly by MSN doesn't yet mean I'm doing well as far as getting enough traffic - unfortunately. However, it certainly adds more fuel to the fire to persevere on days like I had today! I didn't do any updates to my blog today, and therefore didn't send it off to Pingomatic. So traffic was flat today!
Like you, I have no idea why my blog showed up so fast and up so high on MSN, other than you pointing out that it possibly is par with the course with blogger. I also thought blogger was owned by Google, but I don't recall if that was correct or now, so I have to wonder if that has something to do with it.
Glad you posted this forum because it got me thinking and otherwise, I would not have looked anywhere for my blog yet! It was waaaaaay too early to figure on seeing it anywhere!
Tammara
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/04/2006 : 23:54:27
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wilson,
Now I do not want this to turn into a place where everybody asks me what they should do. I merely wanted to tell people my results and how I did them. What I can tell you is that NOT everybody's blog will get indexed in short periods of time. It will differ greatly among everyone.
As far as what you should do now. Well, I can not tell you what you should do now, as I do not consider myself an expert or guru or anything like that. But if you would like the information from me because of the success I am recieving then here you go. I am not telling you should do this I am merely giving my blueprint for my last 2 blogs that got indexed fast.
1. Figure out what you are optimizing for in your blog. I figure the keyword/phrases, do my research, provide factual information as I find it and turn it into a post/page in Blogger.
2. Regular posting is essential. I post once per day to every blog.
3. When you write that first article, THAT IS YOUR ARTICLE. So it is easy to just go out and submit to all the directories. Now when you gear up another article for you blog, post it, now you have 2 articles to submit to the directories. See what I am getting at here?
4. Turn that damn blog into a Press Release!! Announce that beauty to the world. YOU must make it a press release, I am seeing this afternoon, some major backlinks because of 2 press releases.
5. Forums-Plain and simple!! Introduce yourself to the forums relevant to your blog. MAKE sure they allow signatures. Answer questions when possible, relay that you have a blog full of information on the topic--Be careful with that part though. I have not had a problem yet, and nor do I want one. I pay real close attention to what I say in my "niche" forums.
6. While I do not know if the search engines use backlinks for comments anymore, I still leave every now and then. I've left 16 comments and only 7 have shown up in my link popularity reports. But maybe a reciprocal with the other blog could help.
7. THIS IS UP TO YOU!! I place classified ads saying I have a blog on such and such, feel free to visit for more information. Try to only put in your ad what is relevant in your blog. This will kind of filter the traffic some. You only want people visit and leaving links that are relevant.
8. Submit that FEED!! Just take the time to submit your feeds here and there.
Just the basics everyone!! Nothing extreme or special. I have seen a blog go 3 weeks without being indexed. Even though I like those high rankings, I kind of wish I had not run my popularity reports for my links. Concentrate on providing VALUE to people and to the WEB, it will come back to you.
Technorati-I stated earlier that I had claimed a blog through Technorati. This is true, I do believe people like what I wrote, and found it either through the TAG or BLOG finder. They then proceeded to put up links and posts on their sites and blogs that referred to mine. While my last 2 high rankers did not recieve the same treatment as my 1st blog, that is fine. What I am now trying to do is TAG my posts with broader, more searched Tags/categories through Technorati. I will see how this goes for a couple of days, and report the results.
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wilson |
Posted - 05/05/2006 : 00:07:01
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Cool, thanks, I will stick to the basics. I think I had some false hopes that things will just go well. Will put more effort into it and see how it goes.
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/05/2006 : 01:06:09
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Definetly Wilson,
If you want that blog to rank well, then MEAN well. Do your optimization, and get your relevant links. That's all there is to it basically. Now, granted with those two things said--there is a lot in between those two things that will be done. And if your blog is something that you are trying to retain a readership on, well things get a little more sophisticated there. A lot more work involved-instead of set and forget |
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Eagle-Eye |
Posted - 05/05/2006 : 01:35:36
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Hi again!
Silly me, I don't know why I had asked you if you were doing Adsense on your blog! Dah, I forgot that I read that on your first post Ksruckman! Anyhow, another point I was going to make is that I wonder if having the Adsense on the blog is why Google is picking it up so quickly. With that being said plus the fact that a blog is generally alot of content, may perhaps be the combination that the bot likes to crawl over.
How do you find time to post to your blog every day? Do you do just a small amount perhaps even if it's just some minor tweaks to your blog, just to keep the bots happy? I know how much time it took me just to write the two articles I put on mine so far, so I can't imagine taking the time to write an entire article each day! Not to mention the level of creativity it takes if you are only posting your original home grown stuff. Bye for now, it's late here on the west coast.
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/05/2006 : 02:08:50
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Eagle-Eye,
This is the part I did not want to write for fear of "scaring" people. I will put it like this-"I want these blogs to earn me a "living". With that said, I take these blogs so serious enough that 14-18 hours a day work is nothing to me. But look at it this way. I still work a full-time job Sat-Mon 12 hrs a day as a Supervisor at a Wal-Mart Distribution Center. So to be honest with you I am pumping in at least 80 hrs a week. I use to run my own construction company so all of this is no different to me. At least it's easier on me "physically"> LOL
Time to me is irrevelant-my wife and kids are at home with me all day Tues-Fri. My wife is even blogging 3 blogs so far. I just do the optimization for her. As far as having enough time to research, write, post and all of that-Well, the posts/pages I want to rank for take me awhile but after I optimize my blog for the search engines, then I do one of two things.
1. I only have to blogs I am building for readership
2. The rest of my blogs are set and forgets.
So basically I am only working on 2 blogs. A lot of this should be self-explanatory as to what I am doing. But, I have not been "totally" clear I guess. If you know what Willie Parker has done with his FAMOUS nail fungus blog you can see what I do. His nail fungus blog was for the engines. Meaning that once he built that blog with a significant amount of posts and information that he was optimizing for, he just went to work on his links. Now that blog is high enough in the engines that he really does not need to mess with it.
As far as time-management 14-18 hrs a day is what I have been doing. But, this includes gathering information to post Sat-Mon when I get home from work. That way I stay on a daily track. When my "set & forget" blogs get high enough I leave them alone. This gives me time to work on my valuable readership builder blogs.
I do not want to put tons of time in with my blogger blogs. I build these up, they roll in the $$$ and I work on my Wordpress Blogs. I am only using Blogger to build my bank roll. A lot of voodoo stories on Blogger out there.
Also-yes I use Adsense, but not every blog. I am testing YPN also. I also promote affiliate programs. And with all of this "niche" knowledge I am getting-eventually I will start to come out with my own products. Got to Diversify to keep the ball rolling.
I will agree that it does take time for your own creativity. I won't lie or BS you. Takes a DAMN long time, but I only concentrate on my own creativity for what I want to rank for. Then I will go find articles to republish. I feel I want to rank for my own "original" content, then if I need more after I optimize MY stuff, I will get the Free Reprint Content.
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Posted - 05/06/2006 : 12:55:55
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This is great advice, ksruckman. Personally, I have had greater indexing success with Wordpress.
Thanks for the tip on the pdf. It's not even a pirate site. Seems that Rob has somehow got his download page indexed!
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/06/2006 : 18:52:48
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rolf123,
Wordpress is awesome, I cannot tell you what it is exactly that I'm doing with it. I mentioned that I have blogs on wordpress and blogger. I never mentioned what I did with them. I can't really either though. Not every secret is up for grabs--YET:)
Update-5 blogs--11 keyword/keyword phrases optimized pages MSN 1st & 2nd pages.
Yahoo-1 blog page 1st page, 7 blog pages 2nd page- 1 blog page 3rd page-can't find the 2 pages in yahoo. Don't care, had my best $$$$ day today. Just got home from work to go over my reports. I am liking it more and more.
Thinking seriously on maybe outsourcing some work, my wife and I are having a hard time trying to keep up. I also work in Adwords department, and promote various affiliate programs, starting to wind down after these last couple of months. If anyone has a good source or site that promotes outsourcing, would be much appreciated if you shared. Thank You,
Please do not send me a rent-a-coder link:( I have seen their work LOL
Have a great weekend everyone:) |
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bnikol |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 11:12:40
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Hello Everyone!
You mentioned "Blogging to the bank" ebook. I would like to know, is there anybody use the suggested softwares in the book (Blog submitter pro, vodoo blogger)?
Which are your experiences?
Is there a chance to get good results without these softwares? |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 12:33:23
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A pretty good chance your career won't last long.
They are black-hat tactics, so if you are lazy feel free to buy them:) |
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bnikol |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 13:43:50
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| Black-hat what does it mean? Forbidden or not fair? |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 14:59:03
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Black-hat=Tactics that are not good to be used for sites or blogs.
Blog submitter is used to located hundreds of blogs so you can post comments to them to get backlinks. What they don't tell you is Blogger has introduced the noindex/nofollow so unless the other blogs have removed this (not likely) then your link won't really count.
Voodoo blogger will basically automate the process for making hundreds even thousands of blogs. Basically you create shit to put out on the web. I do not understand people keep asking these questions. When you go to any Voodoo blogger site it says "that you will be able to avoid detection" THIS SHOULD GIVE YOU A CLUE.
But hey it's only my opinion. As you can see from the threads above I have been successful without all these spam tools. All it takes is some REAL work and dedication.
Hope it helps:) |
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bnikol |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 15:09:45
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| Thanks your explanation. I didn't know these programs are spam tools. I won't use these. |
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Ruck |
Posted - 05/11/2006 : 15:52:56
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bnikol,
I should not call them "obvious" spam tools. I am sure somewhere along the line that you could use these as tools to help you. But, with the capabilities that these 2 tools can produce can get people into trouble.
I do not suggest "not using" them. I have looked into them, and they are not for me. But, everyone is different, and in some instances these tools may be able to help you. I am just throwing out a word of caution. I look at EVERY new blogging tool that comes out. You just have to decide what is right for you.
Currently I am maintaining 22 blogs. This is about all I can handle. It takes me an average of about 80 hrs a week to manage them. This is on top of a 40 hr job too.
So I have been looking at ways to help maybe "automate" my process. But these tools are designed to boost your search engine ranking in ways that people should not practice if they want to keep their blogs--In my opinion.
If you want something to help speed up your blogging process-look at Autoblogger. Sry-don't have a link. This lets me write up a bunch of posts or queu (spelling?) content up so that it will publish it for me. My last 5 blogs I used it on I have not touched in about 12 days. What this does is takes my content and publishes it when I tell it to.
Basically I could queu up 50 posts and not touch the blog in 50 days. This gives me time to write my own articles to submit to article directories, organize my Press Releases, jump around forums, and concentrate on my off-page optimization.
Software isn't all bad. It's the capabilities that they could produce that gets a user hyped up, thus it can lead to trouble, or just producing garbage onto the web:) |
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