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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th September 2011, 08:53 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 980
Posted By Seekness
Re: Bolt Web Hosting - Disappeared?

Update: Just got a reply here from Christian.

The primary hard drive on the server failed this afternoon, which took the server down. We’ve put in a new hard drive, installed the core operating...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th September 2011, 08:05 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 980
Posted By Seekness
Re: Bolt Web Hosting - Disappeared?

I sent Christian a PM and haven't gotten a reply yet.

Even "I'm aware of this and working on it" would be very reassuring right now, especially since you can see on his profile page that he's...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th September 2011, 07:10 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 980
Posted By Seekness
Re: Bolt Web Hosting - Disappeared?

Their owner, Christian Little, ran a WSO here earlier this year and I paid up front for a year's worth of hosting. Now I have to figure out how to access my site files and transfer the domains to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th September 2011, 07:01 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 980
Posted By Seekness
Bolt Web Hosting - Disappeared?

Anyone else here use Bolt Web Hosting? I noticed that none of the sites I keep on one of their servers have gotten any visits for about 5 hours. I thought it was a Statcounter issue at first, but...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th June 2011, 10:16 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,206
Posted By Seekness
Re: Site Rank Lost 7 days ago, come back today

Glad you found my post useful and congrats on your success. These are challenges we'll all continue to face as marketers, and the best thing to do is to continue producing original, high quality...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 14th June 2011, 10:12 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 669
Posted By Seekness
Re: Possible Google Penalty?

Both are possibilities. A lot of it would depend on some factors like:

1) The rate at which you built your backlinks.
2) Types of backlinks and variety of sources (or lack thereof)
3) Anchor...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th May 2011, 04:33 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 530
Posted By Seekness
Re: Random Password Generator.. need help!

Post an ad on Odesk or another site (freelancer.com, elance.com, etc.) for a simple PHP script that generates an email with a random password upon a purchase. It's possible that there are pre-made...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th May 2011, 04:27 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 707
Posted By Seekness
Re: The Value of a Keyword

Make sure you're logged in, and you'll be able to see the value once again. They've disabled the feature for those who aren't logged in, but it still exists if you're signed in.

The other ones you...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th May 2011, 09:48 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 387
Posted By Seekness
Re: Ranking sites and money pages. HELP!!!

How old is your site? How competitive is the keyword? Both of these factors matter very much and may have to do with the fact that you're not ranking yet. It's likely that the keywords your site is...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 08:19 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 446
Posted By Seekness
Re: Just need confirmation on how 301 redirects work

Yes, exactly. And if the page is offering something unique that isn't offered elsewhere, I'd say it boosts your chances that it'll remain up near the top. At worst, it should continue to get those...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 08:07 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 446
Posted By Seekness
Re: Just need confirmation on how 301 redirects work

In theory, yes. There's no guarantee that it will go exactly as hoped for, but the idea is that the 301 prevents you from losing all accumulated authority/link juice.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 07:52 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 753
Posted By Seekness
Re: Would you try to rank for this Keyword?I have Exact Domain Name & Market Samurai competition dat

3,500 doesn't happen to be a ton compared to other keywords out there that get the same volume, with much less search competition. Unless this niche pays huge money, even a ranking like #3 would...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 06:55 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 3,589
Posted By Seekness
Re: Concerns About BuildMyRank.com Post Panda

This is the inherent risk that comes with any link building network. There's always the chance it'll be sniffed out and the links on them devalued, or worse, your sites penalized at Google's...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 06:47 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 556
Posted By Seekness
Re: Anchor Text

It gives the search engines a signal as to what your page is about.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 06:43 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 667
Posted By Seekness
Re: AdSense Overkill

According to a bunch of articles I read after Panda, Wisegeek was on "the list" of those sites hit most hardest by the Panda update, so I wouldn't worry too much about them. It seems that sites with...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 06:38 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 753
Posted By Seekness
Re: Would you try to rank for this Keyword?I have Exact Domain Name & Market Samurai competition dat

This question is very subjective. As to whether it's worth buying the domain and building out a site or not, it depends on so many things, like:

1. How many monthly searches the term gets
2. How...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 06:31 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 565
Posted By Seekness
Re: Variance of Adsense Earnings?

This is more and more likely to happen as your daily traffic total gets higher and higher. It's the law of averages in effect. I do find that some days of the week (i.e. Friday/Saturday) may have...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 06:22 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 766
Posted By Seekness
Re: All my rankings have disappeared

Sorry to hear about this. This could have happened for a number of reasons. I actually just made a blog post about this yesterday, which you may want to check out for a much more detailed...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th May 2011, 09:08 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 912
Posted By Seekness
Re: If you run an IM/MMO blog: Why?

I recently decided to start my own. As to whether it'll be worth the time spent relative to the money I could make building out my other niche sites, I'm not exactly sure it will...but I've decided...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th May 2011, 03:14 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,618
Posted By Seekness
Re: Bin Laden T-shirt seller, 23, makes $120k in two days

Had to have been heavy PPC - adwords, facebook, etc. There probably wasn't much bidding competition for these keywords since it was so new, not to mention not too many ways to monetize something like...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th May 2011, 11:23 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 1,055
Posted By Seekness
Re: Google keyword tool changes- No CPC

I noticed this too. You can just use the competition bar for now. The more full, the more competitive the term and the more likely there's money behind that term. I haven't tried checking it while...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th May 2011, 03:20 AM
Replies: 28
Views: 1,093
Posted By Seekness
Re: Youtube or Vimeo for Video Marketing?

YouTube - go where the people are!
Forum: Off Topic Forum 6th May 2011, 03:10 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 496
Posted By Seekness
Re: Please allow me to introduce myself....

Welcome Michael - good luck in your quest. If you've had success in mobile marketing (especially since its early stages), you should have no problem getting acclimated to the web. Read up, but don't...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th May 2011, 03:07 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 384
Posted By Seekness
Re: using affiliates help or not

You have very little to lose by offering affiliates the opportunity to sell your product. Of course, the offer has to be enticing enough to be worth their while or you'll end up spinning wheels...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th May 2011, 02:42 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,252
Posted By Seekness
Re: Can a beer drinking, potty mouth, truck driving, college drop out succeed at this???

Good luck, it's an exciting time. It's even more exciting when you have some completed work to show for it. Stick to your plan and don't veer from it. There's no doubt you can earn $1500 from the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th May 2011, 02:28 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 573
Posted By Seekness
Re: Another reason why people fail...

You're absolutely right. You'll never truly understand the nature of the business without experiencing every little detail yourself at some point. Even if it's painful, it's simply something you've...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th March 2011, 02:17 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 552
Posted By Seekness
Re: Do you know a hosting company that allows product name domains?

I've never known a hosting company to be the authority on this. I don't think they have the time or resources to screen every domain name that enters their system. The greater risk comes from...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 24th February 2011, 10:59 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 504
Posted By Seekness
Is this a sandbox or a permanent penalty? Is there hope?

Hey everyone,

I have a site (product reviews in a certain niche) with 250 unique pages of original articles that's about 4 months old now. It was getting up to 300 uniques per day from organic...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th February 2011, 03:49 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 796
Posted By Seekness
Re: What about .co domains?

I don't see many (if any at all) in search results, so I'd just stick with what works. I remember .us, .cc, and .info being hyped up at points, and neither of those panned out. I'd assume the same...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th February 2011, 02:40 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 708
Posted By Seekness
Re: This is overwhelming...

Try out as much as you possibly can at the start. Getting your feet wet will put you ahead of 98% of other people who simply sit back, read, and talk about starting for months and even years. I've...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 02:30 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 479
Posted By Seekness
Re: Ranking Top 10 But Need One Last Push. What Do I Do??

There are a number of factors you need to take into consideration, most of which you probably already know. These include things like strength of competition, link velocity, age of your site, and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 11:04 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 686
Posted By Seekness
Re: Alexa results...

Rather than focus on day to day, see where your numbers are in a month or two. It's not like the numbers jumped from 250-300 visitors/day to 900+ overnight, so it may take time for the change to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 10:31 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 742
Posted By Seekness
Re: Backlinks not turning up in Webmaster Tools?

Webmaster Tools will NEVER display the full amount of backlinks that you have. In fact, the company has almost so much as indirectly acknowledged that they choose not to display the full backlink...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 10:28 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 686
Posted By Seekness
Re: Alexa results...

A. Alexa gives a decent measure of traffic to a site, but it's still just an estimate and never entirely accurate. Visitors need to have the toolbar installed, and it's possible that a bigger...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 10:23 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 603
Posted By Seekness
Re: Seeing the Effects of Recent Google Algorithim Changes

It's happened to many people. It looks like we're in the midst of a larger sweep aimed to penalize search results that include sites like these. In the end, I think high quality, detailed results...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 02:12 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 548
Posted By Seekness
Re: What are the best links for SEO?

Links found within relevant content from a wide variety trusted sources. The best results will usually come from natural looking backlink profile that includes a healthy mix of all possible formats...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 02:08 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,651
Posted By Seekness
Re: What's a GOOD Job title and/or Description For........

{Online|Digital|Web} {Marketing|Traffic|Media} {Consultant|Strategist|Advisor}
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th February 2011, 02:02 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 575
Posted By Seekness
Re: Wordpress Blogs & Top Rankings on Google - a Myth?

There's no truth to this. Wordpress sites generally do well since much of the on page SEO factors are optimized and Google is familiar with the site structure and knows how to crawl these sites,...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th February 2011, 01:56 AM
Replies: 47
Views: 1,452
Posted By Seekness
Re: The 2 Powerful Tools I Couldn't Be Without

Wordpress and the Google Adwords keyword tool.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd February 2011, 07:15 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 524
Posted By Seekness
Clickbank sale email alert notifications. Recommend one?

Looking for a reliable and trustworthy app or service that gives me email alert notifications every time I make a Clickbank sale. I paid for an Android app that works (with some small bugs), but...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th April 2010, 12:25 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 532
Posted By Seekness
LSI - how much does it matter?

We all know the importance of having the keyword you're targeting mentioned several times throughout a page if you're trying to rank for it.

How much, in your opinion, does having LSI (related...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th January 2010, 09:41 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,117
Posted By Seekness
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th January 2010, 12:44 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,117
Posted By Seekness
Re: Got credit for a Clickbank sale I never threw up a hoplink for...how?

That would make perfect sense. The product is one of the highest gravity products on Clickbank at the moment and it's brand new. Interesting strategy.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th January 2010, 12:03 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,117
Posted By Seekness
Re: Got credit for a Clickbank sale I never threw up a hoplink for...how?

Nah, it's for a pretty new product. I guess I won't question it. More concerned about the potential buyer having somehow done that to exploit my information in any way.

After googling his...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th January 2010, 11:58 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,117
Posted By Seekness
Re: Got credit for a Clickbank sale I never threw up a hoplink for...how?

Extremely unlikely considering the user ID at the end of my hoplink...never any affiliation with the product either. Very confusing.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th January 2010, 11:44 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 1,117
Posted By Seekness
Got credit for a Clickbank sale I never threw up a hoplink for...how?

Just checked my Clickbank sales for the day and noticed a (small) sale for a product that I've never had any affiliation with and have definitely never thrown up a hoplink for.

It's a top gravity...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st December 2009, 06:25 PM
Replies: 64
Views: 5,733
Posted By Seekness
Re: $100+/Days with Adsense from one site

It's only a matter of time before this thread has hundreds of replies. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more responses by now.

Thank you so much for sharing this and giving us a different...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th November 2009, 11:42 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 733
Posted By Seekness
Re: Does changing your Clickbank ID to something less affiliate looking increase your conversion rat

Right, but I'm not talking about cloaking - I'm talking about what shows at the end of your hoplink. Depending on how discreet your username is, this may or may not be relevant to my question.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th November 2009, 10:06 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 733
Posted By Seekness
Re: Does changing your Clickbank ID to something less affiliate looking increase your conversion rat

Thanks, Pat - guess you were more thoughtful than I was. Something tells me that if you thought about it and I have too, there's a chance that it matters.

Any other opinions?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th November 2009, 07:53 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 733
Posted By Seekness
Re: Does changing your Clickbank ID to something less affiliate looking increase your conversion rat

I do cloak it. I'm talking about once the user lands on the sales page. They'll see hxxp://salespage.com/?hop=clickbankID

Could that last part (clickbankID) look suspect in the eyes of the...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th November 2009, 07:42 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 916
Posted By Seekness
Re: do hyphens in domain names matter for seo?

.net without hyphens, unless you're looking to rank specifically for UK searchers - in which case I'd go with the .co.uk. There's nothing wrong with doing hyphens, but it won't give you the inherent...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th November 2009, 07:33 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 733
Posted By Seekness
Does changing your Clickbank ID to something less affiliate looking increase your conversion rate?

I didn't know much about Clickbank when I signed up for an account a few months ago, and I chose a user ID that would very obviously look like an affiliate ID at the end of the URLs on the product...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th October 2009, 03:08 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 807
Posted By Seekness
Re: Visitors per Clickbank Hop Rate

Yeah...was just looking for a range though, or a broad average. For the sake of getting more specific, let's break them down into three separate categories.

1. They're searching for information...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th October 2009, 12:33 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 807
Posted By Seekness
Visitors per Clickbank Hop Rate

I see the metrics where people discuss when it comes to conversion rates after they've gotten the hops (i.e. 1 in 100 hops convert to a sale), but is there a general average as far as site visitors...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th October 2009, 09:31 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 649
Posted By Seekness
Re: either no.1 for one keyword or no.5 for 5 keywords

Hopefully your keyword research is on point. If it is, I'd say that you'll get some heavy traffic to your site if you're ranking at #5 for five terms that get that many searches...so yes.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th October 2009, 09:27 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 514
Posted By Seekness
Re: domain name and seo rankings

From my experience, the .net will rank much more quickly than the .com with the extra word.

As they say, the only thing that might matter is that some people prefer to visit .com sites over .nets...
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