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Forum: Social Media 4th July 2014, 05:58 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 2,228
Posted By WildGale
Re: Buying Facebook Traffic from Fan Pages

I am seeking to buy shares of FB posts from larger pages in the health and food niches, on a pay-per-share basis. If you are interested in monetizing your FB page, if your page has at least 50K real...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd October 2012, 11:31 AM
Replies: 105
Views: 6,995
Posted By WildGale
Re: EMD Penalty Recovery and Prevention (case study)

My EMDs were not hit in this update and they do fit the list provided here by Becker. Just FYI.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th August 2012, 11:24 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 10,810
Posted By WildGale
Re: .co vs. .com, .net, .org

A friend with a local business just set up a site like this -- citynameroofer.co
I scratched my head and did a search. The domain is only a month old, so I wouldn't expect it to be killing it, but...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st August 2012, 07:34 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 1,168
Posted By WildGale
Re: Crushing the Competition in the SERPs

Did Google display image results before you worked on ranking your own images? I'm in a niche where images would add some value but they don't display on page 1, so I wonder if I should bother.

In...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 20th July 2012, 03:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 932
Posted By WildGale
Re: Unnatural links message, no mention of penalty...

Cutts posted on G+ today saying a whole new batch of messages went out and not all are for sites that will be penalized. (Just to make it all a bit more complicated...)
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th July 2012, 06:25 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 840
Posted By WildGale
Re: Panda Recovery - Case Study

They added content to about 100 target SEO pages out of 10K+ pages on their site.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th July 2012, 05:57 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 840
Posted By WildGale
Re: Panda Recovery - Case Study

Excellent. Thanks. That long tail IS powerful
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th June 2012, 10:51 AM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

We've been using this plugin. We're on Macs, so the other tools weren't a good fit, but this one is working very well.

So far we're a week into the project and have four live links and about four...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd June 2012, 05:24 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

LOL @ retsek. Are you in the field of psychology? ;)

We may be playing it perfecting, then, because most of the people we are emailing are women and my partner (a man) is contacting them. I'm a...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd June 2012, 12:25 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd June 2012, 12:01 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

We are getting very good responses. Something that seems to be working well is to email first thing in the morning. We are emailing program administrators for the most part and many are in their...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st June 2012, 03:49 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

Let us know how it goes, RevSEO. With my specific approach, it would be far less effective. If there are large numbers of the targeted sites, automation might have some payoff.

My time is valuable...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st June 2012, 03:30 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

I don't think I'd automate or outsource this. We're customizing the emails and approaching them as colleagues. I guess it would depend on the type of site you're targeting.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st June 2012, 03:18 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

Thanks again, retsek. We got our first live link today using this method.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st June 2012, 08:24 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 482
Posted By WildGale
Panda 6/19/2012 Update (?)

Hi guys. I had a site hit on 4/27/2012 apparently by Panda. It was unaffected by Penguin on 4/24. It appears to have recovered fully in search starting Tuesday afternoon, 6/19.

I made changes to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th June 2012, 04:59 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

I had a PR6 for a while with very few inbound links except one PR7. You may well be looking at a PR7. I agree -- PR means nothing until you have a PR7 site yourself and then it obviously means that...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 19th June 2012, 02:34 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

This is great. We are about to implement a variation of this and give it a shot.

retsek -- You mentioned that a description of your site appears with your link. Do you provide one? It might seem...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th June 2012, 10:08 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 2,284
Posted By WildGale
Re: How I got a link from a PR9 .GOV [Link begging tactic]

retsek -- Thank you for another great tip. How do you monetize your site?
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th June 2012, 10:34 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,328
Posted By WildGale
Re: Any news about Article Ranks, UAW or My Article Network being massively deindexed

nik0 -- I had a site hit on Apr 27 for what I suspect is an on-page over-optimization issue. It has recovered a bit by reducing keyword density but I suspect there is a factor I'm missing. If you got...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 21st May 2012, 09:57 AM
Replies: 121
Views: 6,178
Posted By WildGale
Re: Whitehat linkbuilding: RESULTS + COST Breakdown

Smart.

My photo doesn't show in search consistently, though I am actually an expert. My Google+ profile is only about a month old and I've probably only got about 50 followers to my personal page....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th May 2012, 09:33 PM
Replies: 121
Views: 6,178
Posted By WildGale
Re: Whitehat linkbuilding: RESULTS + COST Breakdown

Thanks for the share, retsek (http://www.warriorforum.com/members/retsek.html). I've been working on a release, inspired by your post. We'll probably send it out next week. Gearing up for it has been...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th April 2012, 09:55 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 669
Posted By WildGale
Re: Who Has Seen Their Website Jump in the SERPs Because of Adding Content?

Yes, I have seen an overall boost in ranking from adding quality content to the site. I had a site with about 150+ pages on a topic and I added 75 more. I saw a boost in SE traffic to the 150 pages...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th March 2012, 08:07 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 436
Posted By WildGale
Re: What is going on??? Anyone else seeing indexing issues???

I've just noticed the same thing. My posts from today are not indexed and they are usually indexed within minutes. Yesterday's posts are in.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th March 2012, 07:44 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,091
Posted By WildGale
Re: Can SEO help with BIG Health sites like Mayo & WebMD ?

I beat them with a domain that is close to an exact match -- mykeyword.com ranking for "my keywords"

It didn't take a huge backlinking effort, but my site has over 1,000 indexed pages, so it is a...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd January 2012, 02:20 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 330
Posted By WildGale
Re: When It Comes to Youtube...Have You Guys Ever...

If you're going to do this you should do the same sort of keyword research you would do for an adsense site and focus on better paying keywords. We have a couple hundred videos that get food-related...
Forum: Offline Marketing 31st July 2011, 12:43 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 871
Posted By WildGale
Re: Going Big: 1,000 local sites renting for $99/month

ITA w Charles and would add that I spot-checked a few and they don't seem to be ranking on page 1 for their keyword terms, so they have a long way to go. They may just be aging their domains.
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th March 2011, 12:14 PM
Replies: 937
Views: 76,169
Posted By WildGale
Forum: Offline Marketing 9th March 2011, 12:12 PM
Replies: 937
Views: 76,169
Posted By WildGale
Re: This is what's working for me!

Good thought. A friend with a hair salon had some high school kids canvassing better neighbors with a flier and offer, but if memory serves, the flier was 1/4 page and not much in the way of...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th March 2011, 05:16 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 3,699
Posted By WildGale
Re: Do lead gen sites really generate leads for local businesses?

If you have actual hot leads, they shouldn't be able to sell, but they won't sell by themselves either. I see a lot of sites set up obviously for leasing, with pretty weak lead-capture systems in...
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th March 2011, 05:11 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 2,263
Posted By WildGale
Re: Has Google Places killed the rent a site model?

Make them a basic website along with the GP package if they don't already have a website
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th March 2011, 04:18 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,197
Posted By WildGale
Re: How to rank a client's website for multiple cities?

I do basically what IAmNameless is suggesting. The key is the first question: what's the competition like? If there is a decent bit, just make a new page with "cityname2 keyword" as the title. If...
Forum: Offline Marketing 4th March 2011, 10:29 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,308
Posted By WildGale
Re: Rent-a-site model

What's your ranking with these sites? How many unique visitors are you getting to them? Have you offered a certain number of leads for free?
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd March 2011, 03:06 PM
Replies: 226
Views: 28,671
Posted By WildGale
Re: How To Build A Local SEO Empire

Sorry. It's been so long since I read the OP.
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd March 2011, 03:05 PM
Replies: 226
Views: 28,671
Posted By WildGale
Re: How To Build A Local SEO Empire

Thanks Marcus, that does help.

What's the smallest city you tend to hit? I have a number of plumbing sites ready to rent, the largest city is 150K, with two smaller distinct cities in the same...
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd March 2011, 09:51 AM
Replies: 226
Views: 28,671
Posted By WildGale
Re: How To Build A Local SEO Empire

Hey Marcus. I don't know if you take requests for future posts, but I would love to see your analysis of selling ad space on local sites versus selling leads since it sounds like you do both.

I...
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd March 2011, 09:43 AM
Replies: 226
Views: 28,671
Posted By WildGale
Re: How To Build A Local SEO Empire

For people just getting started, the poor man's approach is using Web 2.0 properties. They are taking a beating now but they still work as you build your empire.
Forum: Offline Marketing 2nd March 2011, 09:41 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,192
Posted By WildGale
Re: Googles New Stance On Exact Match Domains

I haven't seen any negative effect on exact match domains. The update appears to be centered more on the on-site content.
Forum: Offline Marketing 19th February 2011, 10:12 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 12,868
Posted By WildGale
Re: 300 video sharing sites like youtube

Alrighty, based on Louie's recommendation I started a PixelPipe account and almost immediately had that reaction, "Another thing to learn!" It can't be *that* hard, but it does take time.

In any...
Forum: Offline Marketing 15th February 2011, 01:00 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 12,868
Posted By WildGale
Re: 300 video sharing sites like youtube

Do you guys set up accounts for clients or put the videos in your own accounts?

Are you liking these video sites for backlinks, traffic, or both?
Forum: Offline Marketing 20th January 2011, 01:43 PM
Replies: 226
Views: 28,671
Posted By WildGale
Re: How To Build A Local SEO Empire

This is why I read every bloody thing Marcos writes on this forum.:)
Forum: Offline Marketing 11th January 2011, 12:30 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 526
Posted By WildGale
Re: local keyword research

Both.

Lead with the broad and say something like "that's any phrase with those words such as ....." And then drill down: "But what exactly are users typing in?...." (Describe exact results and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th January 2011, 08:49 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 858
Posted By WildGale
Re: How much to charge lawyers

Are you guaranteeing a certain ranking?
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th January 2011, 08:44 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 2,966
Posted By WildGale
Re: Top Offline Markets

ITA with this and like the lists here too. :)

I have learned so much getting my own stuff ranked that it has allowed me to create a much better system. I don't know how many people are just...
Forum: Offline Marketing 8th January 2011, 08:38 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 811
Posted By WildGale
Re: How much are Lawyers willing to Pay for domain?

Good question. I'm interested too.
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th January 2011, 10:12 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,337
Posted By WildGale
Re: Google Places Changes - How Does This Affect The Website Leasing 'Model'?

David -- I think your plan is good and it should sell itself.

On Places, just based on what I'm seeing, I would say that Places don't come up when you are far enough in the tail that Places Pages...
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th January 2011, 10:17 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,337
Posted By WildGale
Re: Google Places Changes - How Does This Affect The Website Leasing 'Model'?

Dominate the page by having something in Places and then taking up the lion's share of the organic results. You could rank YouTube videos, BlogTalkRadio shows, Hubpages, and and any number of other...
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th January 2011, 09:59 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 642
Posted By WildGale
Re: Google Places, Old Way, New Way, Why?

I'm just reflecting a little more here but those little markets without a lot of money could be profitable (even without up-sells) if you have a good salesman who knows the area.

I think my...
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th January 2011, 09:54 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 2,966
Posted By WildGale
Re: Top Offline Markets

This advice is really gold. I stumbled into such a niche because of a service my dad required as a customer and, of course, I bought relevant domains. It's on my to-do list. Hopefully in a couple of...
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th January 2011, 09:49 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,337
Posted By WildGale
Re: Google Places Changes - How Does This Affect The Website Leasing 'Model'?

Places is just one way to get to Page 1. If I had a site for lease, I'd make sure it was #1 on Page 1 AND I'd get their Places page optimized.

I have a site coming up in a competitive market and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th January 2011, 09:43 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,337
Posted By WildGale
Re: Google Places Changes - How Does This Affect The Website Leasing 'Model'?

No, I'm not. With good on-page SEO and some directory and RSS submissions I'm ranking above Places in some medium markets (60-70K population) right out of the gate in some cases. In more competitive...
Forum: Offline Marketing 7th January 2011, 09:36 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 642
Posted By WildGale
Re: Google Places, Old Way, New Way, Why?

Thanks guys.

That's just it -- the old style results represent a wide open market. Not only do those Places listings typically not even have any businesses verified, it's dead-simple to rank...
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th January 2011, 05:59 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 781
Posted By WildGale
Re: The Dropping In Strategy

The attitude and approach is really critical. It works well in the U.S. if you've got a good approach and can hang back, be polite, and wait for your opportunity.
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th January 2011, 04:48 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 642
Posted By WildGale
Google Places, Old Way, New Way, Why?

Ok, so we had changes in October and for many universal results we had a shift from the "push-pin" look of the "old" Places listed to a "merged" look where you could break up the Places listing with...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th December 2010, 01:15 PM
Replies: 185
Views: 16,739
Posted By WildGale
Re: NEEDED - Google Places LOCAL Ranking Software

Confidence is a great thing but if you are in a really competitive niche, you'd better check the ranking. Just sayin'....
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th December 2010, 01:13 PM
Replies: 185
Views: 16,739
Posted By WildGale
Re: NEEDED - Google Places LOCAL Ranking Software

I'm with RockSolid on this issue. I can do a rank check in Market Samurai that shows terrible ranking results and then just type the term into the G search box and my site is doing well (this is when...
Forum: Offline Marketing 23rd December 2010, 09:22 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 437
Posted By WildGale
Re: Question about keywords

Do you have a website associated with this business? Is the website optimized for the city name too? If not, make sure both the website and the places listing are well optimized for the city and...
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