Need SEO Help For An Aggregator Site

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I have posted here before and gotten some great information about lots of wonderful free SEO tactics. However, most of them are not compatible with an aggregator site.

For example: Have lots of original content, use your keywords in the first paragraph of your site, use your keywords in your links, etc. This is not possible given my site.

My site, a defense and intelligence news site, pulls together defense and intelligence news from more than 300 websites. I then write catchy headlines and post the links on my site. I have had some industry websites mention my site and i am up to aboue 150 uniques per day. I would like to be at 1,000 per day.

I am using 5 keywords: national security, defense news, military intelligence, iran news, syria news

PLEASE HELP!!!
#aggregator #seo #site
  • Profile picture of the author mikeshinobi
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    • Profile picture of the author Supermoves
      Anyone know this link cannon thing? I've heard that programs like that get you ranked on first page within a week, but then can get you de-indexed really fast.

      Thoughts?
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      • Profile picture of the author Supermoves
        *cough cough*
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      • Profile picture of the author gearmonkey
        Originally Posted by Supermoves View Post

        Anyone know this link cannon thing? I've heard that programs like that get you ranked on first page within a week, but then can get you de-indexed really fast.

        Thoughts?
        By the lack of responses, my guess is nobody ever heard of it. Perhaps the poster is spamming the thread.

        I suggest avoid the overnight gimmicks and build high quality backlinks.
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        • Profile picture of the author Supermoves
          Originally Posted by gearmonkey View Post

          By the lack of responses, my guess is nobody ever heard of it. Perhaps the poster is spamming the thread.

          I suggest avoid the overnight gimmicks and build high quality backlinks.

          I am not sure backlinks wil work when my homepage (and only page) is just a bunch of outside links. Thats the problem. The site is The Intelligence News | Defense News | Iran News | Syria News if you want to check it out.
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      • Originally Posted by Supermoves View Post

        Anyone know this link cannon thing? I've heard that programs like that get you ranked on first page within a week, but then can get you de-indexed really fast.

        Thoughts?
        I have heard of link cannons. But is it worth the risk? I think not..
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    • Profile picture of the author faceblogger
      Originally Posted by mikeshinobi View Post


      2. Buy the Link Blaster Cannon Thunderbolt Dodecahedron Package v2.37 and rank overnight!
      Actually they have released the v2.47 yesterday. It's even faster than the previous version!
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      • Profile picture of the author pinchyfingers
        Supermoves, despite what some people say, link cannons are not risky. Most people just don't want to "out" what is really working for them.

        Since your niche is completely different from mine, I can give you a trial of the link cannon, just PM me
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  • Profile picture of the author Supermoves
    This thread isnt getting many replies...maybe its just too hard to rank an aggregator? Of course the main problem is that aggregators don't have a whole lot of unique content.
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  • Profile picture of the author DylanC
    Try to get more high PR links to your homepage and build it up as an authority.
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    • Profile picture of the author Supermoves
      Originally Posted by DylanC View Post

      Try to get more high PR links to your homepage and build it up as an authority.
      Sorry, Im still new to all this...what is a "PR" link? And how do I go about getting them?
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      • Profile picture of the author HD Node
        If you have contacts within the industry, then persuade them to promote your site across their blogs, Twitter accounts, etc. This is only an option, though, if you already hold some influence. If you don't, then social marketing is still possible, but it's very much a long-term game. You will first need to establish who the big players are in your market (if you don't know already, that is), and then target them. Leave comments on their blog posts, talk to them on Facebook; generally make yourself known as a fellow expert.

        A word of warning, though, be very subtle. Don't even think about asking them to share a link until you're on very good terms. The end goal is to get them promoting your work without even having to ask.

        The above strategy will take time to play out, particularly in the niche that you have chosen. In the mean time, the old rules and advice you mentioned about on-page SEO still apply. Obviously it is going to be difficult to affect anything on your home page in this particular case, so consider adding a blog to your site to drive traffic and act as the basis of your SEO campaigns. A blog will give you the option of regularly adding good quality, optimised content to your website. For example, you could round-up the biggest stories of the day, as well as offering your own views on developments within the industry.
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        • Profile picture of the author Supermoves
          Originally Posted by HD Node View Post

          If you have contacts within the industry, then persuade them to promote your site across their blogs, Twitter accounts, etc. This is only an option, though, if you already hold some influence. If you don't, then social marketing is still possible, but it's very much a long-term game. You will first need to establish who the big players are in your market (if you don't know already, that is), and then target them. Leave comments on their blog posts, talk to them on Facebook; generally make yourself known as a fellow expert.

          A word of warning, though, be very subtle. Don't even think about asking them to share a link until you're on very good terms. The end goal is to get them promoting your work without even having to ask.

          The above strategy will take time to play out, particularly in the niche that you have chosen. In the mean time, the old rules and advice you mentioned about on-page SEO still apply. Obviously it is going to be difficult to affect anything on your home page in this particular case, so consider adding a blog to your site to drive traffic and act as the basis of your SEO campaigns. A blog will give you the option of regularly adding good quality, optimised content to your website. For example, you could round-up the biggest stories of the day, as well as offering your own views on developments within the industry.

          Thank you for the advice...couple of issues though:

          1) The only people that exist in this space are people who would consider me to be competition. That is, other news outlets. Usually these outlets provide many different types of news, which is why their defense news coverage stinks! So they would never mention me, because people want readers for their own news...not mine!

          2) I am not an expert, nor was the plan for people to think of me as such. True, I learn a TON just from reading all the articles I post (20-30 each day), but I am far from an expert on U.S. defense. If anything, I could simply tell you all the things going on.

          This is why I posted for advice. The sort of typical or standard SEO options don't work for my site or my industry, so I really need to think outside the box.

          Thankfully, Google is trying to push people toward paid ads and away from organic searches, which will be helpful for sites like mine that dont rank well.
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  • Profile picture of the author seo3659
    Actually SEO is not Hard its complete Technique But most of the people confuse.... I think you need to concentrate your link building again if you complete your on-page working & Link building should be manual so search engine not penalize
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    • Profile picture of the author Supermoves
      Originally Posted by seo3659 View Post

      Actually SEO is not Hard its complete Technique But most of the people confuse.... I think you need to concentrate your link building again if you complete your on-page working & Link building should be manual so search engine not penalize

      Thanks for the advice, but search engines penalize me automatically just by the fact that I am an aggregator site :-(
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      • Profile picture of the author mraffiliate
        I'm PMing you a link to a thread from a Warrior Member here that you can get a free PDF showing how to properly structure your site to get ranked well in the serps. It is by far the best WSO I have read on this subject and best of all it's free.
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    Mike shinobi is actually a spy from wicked-fire
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