Local SEO- Here's what's working for me now

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First you have to have a really good writer in your pocket. I have writers who write fantastic 1,000 word pieces for around $40-50 depending on how much research they have to do, and the niche and how many I order, etc.

Then I order one piece in the niche that I'm looking for. Something really good, really detailed and interesting, I include pictures, graphs, etc. It needs to look like top notch content.

I have a "publishing company" that I use, I post the content there, and block it from getting indexed from the spiders. I might take an image of it so that I'm positive it won't get copied or indexed.

I head over to Odesk, and have my filipino worker email blogs in the niche that I want a link from. For instance if I have a plumber as a client, I'll look at home decorating, home improvement blogs, etc. They will email the blog owners, complimenting them on the quality of the writing on the blog. The email comes from my "publishing company", the hook is that we are doing tons of research in their niche and we have some excellent content that we'd love to place on their blog exclusively at no cost. They can preview the quality at the link on stodgypublishing.com(not the real name). If they have any questions, they can contact me at 800-real-inc.

Usuallly 1 in 10 or so will let us put some content on their blog. And once they see me placing content on other blogs about 1 in 4 will let us post content then. It's just not really hard to do.

Consider the psychology of what I'm doing.
1. I'm working with people who make their money using content.
2. I have fabulous content already placed. I show them how awesome it looks, this isn't some 300 word article from a non-native speaker. This is a well researched fantastic article that is pretty much publishable. We jazz it up with pictures, links to research(if needed), graphs, etc.
3. I'm not charging them anything, and depending on their comfort level there might not even be any blatant links to our ultimate target site with keyword rich titles that they are used to seeing. Plumber In Dallas, Real Estate Lawyer Nashville, etc. If I can get one or two in great but mostly what I want is a plain text link to the target site i.e. Mike'sPlumbing.com

Now you ask how am I going to get much benefit out of just a plain text link to my target site. Well, what I do is get the article posted up, and then I get some targeted SE Nuke links and Social Bookmarking links to the article that are keyword rich for the phrases I'm trying to actually target. The blog owner loves it because I'm actually helping his site(if he notices), and Google takes those links to the article and passes the juice on to the target site.

Here's what it looks like:

SE Nuke Links- Best Dallas Plumber, Dallas TX Plumber, Plumbing Repairs in Dallas, Plumber in Dallas, TX etc. that point to article

Article about the best way to save 30-40% on your water bill yearly placed on a blog, one or two small links to Mike'sPlumbing.com

Target site starts to rank for the keyword combinations I'm pointing to the article on the blog.

Total costs around $65 or so per article placed. $5 or so for ODesk emails, $40 for article and $20 for SE Nuke/Social Bookmarking campaign of links to article.

If you can build up the blog yourself you can have a little more control, split up the article across multiple pages, use good links to other sites and get a lot of juice.

Anyway hope this helps, it's pretty much what I'm using my SEO Empire Network for these days.

Marcos
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  • Profile picture of the author justin490
    Hey guys,
    I have a query will you please help me?
    Actually I have made some blogs on blogger but they are still not crawled by google , please let me know that, what i have to do for crawl my blog?
    I am giving a link of my blog please have a look them and also suggest me that what i do for crawling my blog. I hope you will help me
    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author vndnbrgj
      Interesting post Romeo. Thanks for that!

      Originally Posted by justin490 View Post

      Hey guys,
      I have a query will you please help me?
      Actually I have made some blogs on blogger but they are still not crawled by google , please let me know that, what i have to do for crawl my blog?
      I am giving a link of my blog please have a look them and also suggest me that what i do for crawling my blog. I hope you will help me
      Thanks.
      Embed a YouTube video on it.
      Then submit your site to ping sites.
      Like Ping FM, Ping Goat, Mass Ping, Bulk Ping, or Pingler

      Create some backlinks and index those as well.

      You will get crawled. Hell, even submitting a simple sitemap will get you crawled.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sleinad
    Sounds like a pretty solid method. I bet a lot of people will look at this and think the $65 total cost is way too high for what you are getting, but I've made these kind of links in the past and they are 10x more effective than normal links because they come from blogs in the same niche as your website. People think it won't make much difference but it does, and I recommend as many people try this sort of method out and you will see the massive benefit.
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  • Good stuff. Here's a couple social tools that might prove useful.

    Social Crawlytics will help you see which content on a blog or site has the most social shares. That will help you craft the content that will appeal to the site owner and their audience.

    Followerwonk can help find social influencers in your niche. You can limit the search criteria to only those with websites. From there you can determine the best guest posting opportunities.
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  • Profile picture of the author ItsmeChris
    SEO now is quality over quantity. It's more on good content, some website got penalized because of duplicate content.
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    • Profile picture of the author YellowGreenMedia
      Originally Posted by ItsmeChris View Post

      SEO now is quality over quantity. It's more on good content, some website got penalized because of duplicate content.
      BULLDOODOO!!!!! Your site does NOT get penalized for dup content, tested it many times and all my dup content on the same .info domains rank and get traffic for years, even after all the updates i still am going strong. I use LPN (Local Pages Ninja) to redirect traffic and even without spinning the content it ranks in the top of my keywords.
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      • Profile picture of the author worsin
        Originally Posted by YellowGreenMedia View Post

        BULLDOODOO!!!!! Your site does NOT get penalized for dup content, tested it many times and all my dup content on the same .info domains rank and get traffic for years, even after all the updates i still am going strong. I use LPN (Local Pages Ninja) to redirect traffic and even without spinning the content it ranks in the top of my keywords.
        This ^^ is true
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  • Profile picture of the author scottgallagher
    ^^^^ sure, it's true, you don't get penalized for having dup content on your site, however you gain no PR value, no ranking or authority and those pages are occasionally removed from the index. In most cases, dup content pages stop PR being passed throughout the site, sculpting an unbalanced PR load on your site. Matt Cutts from Google discusses this .

    What is true from Chris is about quality, which is ironic for this thread in the first place.

    Quality for any business should always think of the customer first. While the author of this thread discusses a strategy to gain exposure, it has merit, however there are better ways in local.

    Such as taking that high quality article and having it published by the local newspaper, chamber of commerce and local university. I assure you this exposure is not only much greater authority, but interestingly REAL people, real customers frequent those sites and the business generates qualified organic leads. Ranking is just like the side product.

    Not to mention a solid Review Acquisition program yields amazing results in ranking, but we already know word of mouth is the best advertising avenue. Clients love this program, again, high rankings is the side product.

    Here's what we find is working in our niches - our One Year Plan.
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  • Profile picture of the author kevin Hislop
    Thanks for the post, its true... if you have the money to invest in decent content, you should!

    Remember its not just about backlinking, its providing engaging content to bring real visitors and customers

    Cheers
    Kev
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