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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th August 2011, 12:43 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,919
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Get Google Search Results as rss or xml?

Just found this -

4. Get Live Search Results as RSS Feeds
While there are external services that let you subscribe to search results via RSS feeds, neither Yahoo! nor Google provide RSS feeds of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 18th August 2011, 01:12 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 660
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Value of unique IPs

Thanks. I actually have a justhost reseller account where my money sites live. I went to buy dedicated IPs for them, but could only get 4 different ones that weren't the same shared C class. I am...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th August 2011, 12:05 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,022
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Another Page Rank Update? or a Rollback? Some analysis

Many of my sites went from 0 to 3. Some were unique content, some autoblogs, some 1 page, some many pages.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th August 2011, 12:01 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 688
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: PR Changes again?

I had one of my fairly new autoblogs go to a PR3
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th August 2011, 08:41 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 660
Posted By mattbaehr
Value of unique IPs

I have a hosting reseller account and built a number of money sites on this account. I have many of them interlinking. I know they share an IP so the link juice is very little. However, I have...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th July 2011, 06:33 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 360
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Can these numbers be right?

Thanks for the replies.

I haven't done anything to the site in a few months, besides add a few backlinks. That is why I checked it with just a week's worth of numbers. Only 14 visits came from...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th July 2011, 07:59 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 360
Posted By mattbaehr
Can these numbers be right?

I have a E-MD.com website. According to Google Analytics, I had 18 visitors in a week that arrived via google organic searches for the term. However, according to Market Samurai, I am ranking 601...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th July 2011, 10:47 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 427
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: PSA - Be Sure to Update your WP Plugins

My hacks have been obvious - Site homepage is taken over with a bragging screen.

I have to replace the index.php file in the WP install using FTP then change all my login stuff. What I am finding...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th July 2011, 10:32 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 427
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: PSA - Be Sure to Update your WP Plugins

Although now reading more, maybe it wasn't akismet after all -

WordPress › Support » Site hacked through Akismet (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-hacked-through-akismet?replies=17)
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 26th July 2011, 10:26 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 427
Posted By mattbaehr
PSA - Be Sure to Update your WP Plugins

Just a friendly Public Service Announcement - Be sure you update your WP plugins.

I was in the process of updating all my sites to WP 3.2.1 but hadn't done all the plugins. I was hacked and of...
Forum: Programming 26th July 2011, 10:17 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 739
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Wordpress Security Help - I have been hacked

I finally figured out the culprit. It was a not-up-to-date version of the Akismet plugin that was their way in.

Be sure you up date your Akismet plugin and all others for that matter!
Forum: Programming 25th July 2011, 05:04 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 739
Posted By mattbaehr
Forum: Programming 21st July 2011, 06:22 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 739
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Wordpress Security Help - I have been hacked

Jake -

Many of the sites weren't up to 3.2.1, but some were. I threw on wp security scan and found a few holes like table prefix and some chmod things. Hopefully that does it. But any other...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th July 2011, 11:20 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 479
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: What to do with these sites?

TryBPO - thanks for the checklist. I definitely think it's #2, possibly the last bullet, buyer keywords. I will play around with a few and maybe try to sell a few.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th July 2011, 10:24 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 712
Posted By mattbaehr
Just a Friendly Reminder - Secure Your WP Sites

I had about half of my sites hacked Sunday. Then they did the rest yesterday. Easy to fix for the most part, although I had to nuke 3 and start over. Some hadn't been updated to latest version of...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th July 2011, 06:33 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 479
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: What to do with these sites?

Thanks guys. That is what I figured. However, that is kind of my problem. If I had good income from them, I wouldn't need to sell. I just haven't had the time to test and optimize them. I just...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th July 2011, 08:54 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 479
Posted By mattbaehr
What to do with these sites?

I have several sites that I have now built up to to PR 3 and rank in the top 10 for at least 1 keyword if not more, most with 1000+ exact searches.

I am not making the money I had hoped from...
Forum: Programming 18th July 2011, 10:19 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 739
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Wordpress Security Help - I have been hacked

Yes, fantastico.

I have been able to repair most of them.
Forum: Programming 18th July 2011, 09:36 AM
Replies: 13
Views: 739
Posted By mattbaehr
Wordpress Security Help - I have been hacked

I have a ton of sites, both mine and clients. Several were hacked over the weekend. It looks like they just replaced the index.php file and made it so my login into the dashboard didn't work.
...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th July 2011, 10:00 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 547
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Anyone noticed any page rank change today?

I just happen to look at some sites I had sitting around not doing anything with, and several shot up from 0 to 3. Like it!
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th July 2011, 02:30 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 414
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Market Samurai

You may get a better response going directly to MS. But as far as I know, they pull directly from Google.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 1st July 2011, 06:57 AM
Replies: 16
Views: 711
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Witch is more inportant main keyword in domain or age of domain?

Don't know for sure, but I have several sites where I just purchased the exact match domain and have it on page 1 within a week or 2.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th June 2011, 07:34 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,741
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: The POWER of 301 Redirects

1. Ok, then I am confused. What do you mean redirect a backlink instead of domain?

2. No I didn't do anything different.

3. Interested to see how it goes. Again, my experiment is only one...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 6th June 2011, 02:14 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 853
Posted By mattbaehr
My WSO was a flop and I need your feedback

Ok everyone, I launched a WSO last week and it was a complete dud. I was hoping for some feedback, but realized this might not get posted if I put in a link to the WSO. Therefore I am just going to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th June 2011, 02:07 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,741
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: The POWER of 301 Redirects

It has been a week, and in my small test, I actually have dropped in SERPs. Not sure what the deal is, but I am worse off since my 301s.
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th June 2011, 06:40 PM
Replies: 65
Views: 4,605
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Web design for local businesses

I had success sending a snail mail invitation to a free seminar I did on How Google Can Help Your Business. The seminar itself was just an hour going over many things folks don't even know exist...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th May 2011, 08:26 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,741
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: The POWER of 301 Redirects

Thought I would run a test a let everyone here know the results.

Main site - #16 currently (has 1667 backlinks)

I redirected 2 sites to the main site. The 2 sites are in the same broad niche,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 28th May 2011, 08:22 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 2,741
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: The POWER of 301 Redirects

So, if I have some old sites that I was learning on and built a few thousand backlinks to, but never ranked... Can I just do a 301 redirect to new sites to help boost their rank?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 28th May 2011, 06:54 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 960
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Breaking into Elance?

Joel -

Be sure to tell folks you are in the US. When I broke onto Elance last year, my first gig was from someone who didn't care that he had to pay a little more, he just wanted to be sure he...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th May 2011, 09:19 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 422
Posted By mattbaehr
EMail question

Hello all -

I have a few thousand email addresses from local businesses that I want to send invitations to for a seminar I am putting on. Ideally, I want to input them into my Imnica mail...
Forum: Offline Marketing 25th May 2011, 11:51 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,265
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: ANY SUCCESS WITH BNI GROUPS ?

I have been invited to a meeting on Tuesday and will probably attend. They need a web designer/seo person. But do they really want you to attend every week? That seems a bit excessive.
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st May 2011, 05:57 AM
Replies: 51
Views: 3,735
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: How To Get Offline Local Business...With Direct Mail

Eddie - please reply back to this thread after you try this. I would love to hear your success rate.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2011, 01:25 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 325
Posted By mattbaehr
Search Engine Submissions

Does anyone see any benefit to submitting sites to lots of the lesser search engines? I was talking to another SEO guy who told me they were seeing success with submitting to around 100 of them.
...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th May 2011, 08:53 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 3,735
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: How To Get Offline Local Business...With Direct Mail

I got on odesk and hired someone to cut and paste business contact info from chamber of commerce web directories.

Then I sent them a folded invite to a free seminar, complete with business card in...
Forum: Offline Marketing 10th May 2011, 08:46 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,105
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: The Real Deal Offline Series: Don't Quit Your Day Job....No, I'm Really Serious, Don't Quit...

Thanks Chris and Iamnameless. This comes at a perfect time for me. I have been doing web design for a while and just started doing the SEO, offline stuff. It is going well and I don't have enough...
Forum: Offline Marketing 6th May 2011, 07:40 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

It's a week later and that site that was 66 is now 15 after some basic content and backlink building. Just hit it today with an xrumer, so lets see how that does.
Forum: Offline Marketing 5th May 2011, 09:12 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 3,564
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: What are the most profitable offline niches?

I see several people saying that they have clients paying them $x,xxx per month. I assume that is to rank their site for keyword(s). Are you ranking keyword+city or are you ranking something else? ...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 4th May 2011, 10:13 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 314
Posted By mattbaehr
Go Codes/Redirect question

I need some confirmation on this. I know there are WP plugins that allow you to mask your affiliate links. I have also heard 301 redirects pass the link juice for the full page not the 301. So if...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 1st May 2011, 08:07 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 1,834
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Stock Images? Where to find them for free?

photoxpress.com is my personal fav
Forum: Offline Marketing 1st May 2011, 05:44 PM
Replies: 32
Views: 1,507
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Google Places software question

Please keep this thread up to date with any new product launches you all mentioned. I would be curious to see them. I have one coming out shortly that will combine keywords, cities and states and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 28th April 2011, 04:02 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

DrDan - I love animoto. Any good tips for ranking animoto videos for local search? Just focus the title, description and tags on your keyword?
Forum: Offline Marketing 28th April 2011, 02:40 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

Good luck. Would love to hear how you do with that. As DrDan said, keep us up to date. I will promise to do the same.
Forum: Offline Marketing 28th April 2011, 01:33 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

I literally have a site ranked #66 with just the EMD and installing wordpress. Haven't added any content or linked to it yet.

Rinse and repeat.
Forum: Offline Marketing 28th April 2011, 11:20 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

I would try to sell them on needing a website to help rank them for OTHER search terms. Plus professionalism, plus look at their competitor's sites. If you were comparing the two, which would you...
Forum: Offline Marketing 27th April 2011, 01:26 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

DrDan - interesting stuff. So are you ranking the same page for 10 keywords, or 10 different pages on their site for one keyword each?

I guess the question I have is how can you sell it to...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th April 2011, 03:22 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,390
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Managing Adwords for Clients

I am very early in the process of managing adwords for my clients. At the same time, I don't spend too much time on the research and ad setup. That's also why I charge the setup fee. I try to wrap...
Forum: Offline Marketing 24th April 2011, 09:35 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,390
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Managing Adwords for Clients

I charge a setup fee for getting their account going and initial keyword research. Then I charge a percentage of their monthly BUDGET. If they budget $300 per month, they may not actually spend...
Forum: Offline Marketing 23rd April 2011, 02:01 PM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

I totally understand. No worries and I appreciate the link you did include.

Instead of specifics, maybe we can talk in generalities.

Do folks like to just put in minimal content plus contact...
Forum: Offline Marketing 23rd April 2011, 10:30 AM
Replies: 74
Views: 6,225
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: local business idea & renting lead gen sites

Can anyone with one of these 1 page sites share one with us? I have a few solid domains and am getting ready to start putting the content on them. I am just not 100% sure which stuff to put on...
Forum: Offline Marketing 23rd April 2011, 09:07 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,378
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Post card marketing

I had a mail/print house create a small invite, 10x7 folded to 5x7 (not postcard) and envelopes with just my address pre-printed. It was all black and white. I also got 1000 business cards made and...
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st April 2011, 12:48 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 544
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Reviewers Needed

Thanks everyone - edakehurst (http://www.warriorforum.com/members/edakehurst.html), sconlinemarketing (http://www.warriorforum.com/members/sconlinemarketing.html), hommi_16...
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st April 2011, 12:27 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 544
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Reviewers Needed

Thanks! Wonder how that happened. Crazy cut and paste!
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st April 2011, 11:11 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 544
Posted By mattbaehr
Reviewers Needed

Hey guys - I just launched my first WSO and would like some reviewers. It is a nice little spreadsheet to help compile keywords with cities and states.
...
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st April 2011, 11:00 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,390
Posted By mattbaehr
Managing Adwords for Clients

I am getting into managing Adwords campaigns for some local businesses. As you probably already know, Google itself offers to help you setup your account and campaigns. So how can you compete with...
Forum: Offline Marketing 21st April 2011, 08:03 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,597
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: Need website built for local business

Personally, I like Odesk.com better, but just preference.
Forum: Offline Marketing 16th April 2011, 02:08 PM
Replies: 86
Views: 3,803
Posted By mattbaehr
Re: This is getting my foot in the door

I like to charge a setup fee, just so I know they are serious. But I also include setting up google alerts, webmaster tools, and analytics. My "google" package is pretty popular.
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