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Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd May 2015, 03:27 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 3,620
Posted By Texjd
Re: Google's Phantom Update Affects How-To Sites

I started noticing that Google itself started providing information on many queries. This is a pretty good deal for users who are looking for a brief but meaningful answer. And you'll notice that...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 3rd October 2014, 07:00 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 564
Posted By Texjd
Re: How to stop sites like Semalt from analysing my blog?

Here's a good reference page on how to block Semalt Crawler:

How to block semalt.com referrer traffic using .htaccess « logorrhoea.net...
Forum: Email Marketing 20th June 2014, 04:49 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 2,874
Posted By Texjd
Re: Autoresponders - PayPal - Aweber

PayPal has a debit card that you can get that can be used as a credit card (and they give you 1-2% back) and they also offer credit cards although you do need to qualify for the straight credit card....
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th June 2014, 05:08 AM
Replies: 29
Views: 2,192
Posted By Texjd
Re: Organic traffic dropped 80% last two days

Updates roll out in weeks, not necessarily in days. And if your links were devalued that's not going to de-index you but definitely can reduce traffic. And those manual reviews seem to be on the rise...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th January 2014, 09:55 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 776
Posted By Texjd
Re: How an Amazon Review Site Should Be Done

That site is a good example of what not to do :). Bad English, poor review, and on a laptop that even a mother would hate even at that low of price. That Celeron chipset is the real deal killer, it's...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 29th December 2013, 06:39 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 713
Posted By Texjd
Re: How to find a low competition keyword ?

Slowly back away from the keyword tools ;). The best keyword tool you have is sitting on your shoulders. The tip on pain/pleasure aspect is the key. Try to think of common problems people might have...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 19th December 2013, 06:49 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 430
Posted By Texjd
Re: What software do you use to download complete websites from the web?

WinHTTrack - HTTrack Website Copier - Free Software Offline Browser (GNU GPL) (http://www.httrack.com/)

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 17th November 2013, 06:13 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,524
Posted By Texjd
Re: Surprising SEO Case Study – What’s working in Google Now?

sam1893 - If you want to get better results (read direct traffic) from Social Bookmarks you post your self and look and try and figure out what is a burning question they might have about subject...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th November 2013, 06:59 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,524
Posted By Texjd
Re: Surprising SEO Case Study – What’s working in Google Now?

That's not a bad case study, in this current Google nightmare scenario. What I would like to know is the timeline. I've personally noticed I can get most new websites ranked quickly but it doesn't...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 2nd November 2013, 05:13 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 910
Posted By Texjd
Re: Penguin Penalty Given Due To Multiple Factors

If diversify your link building to include links that actually bring in traffic (instead of Google rankings) you won't be so dependent on Google traffic. Not to say that you should ignore Google but...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 31st October 2013, 02:21 PM
Replies: 96
Views: 6,352
Posted By Texjd
Re: Hostgators Actions Close to Criminal... Stay Away From Hostgator!

Went through a similar scenario about two weeks ago when they moved 26 of my domains and about half were up and down for a week. One domain they even lost (not kidding - it was on a dedicated IP and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 31st October 2013, 02:11 PM
Replies: 43
Views: 2,260
Posted By Texjd
Re: 100,000 Visitors With NO Backlinks

Nick- Just read your article on the experiment but there's no mention of revenue or cost. It sounds like it was a team effort and a lot of time was devoted to drilling down on every aspect of subject...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd October 2013, 05:10 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 1,661
Posted By Texjd
Re: I dropped Adsense

I am in the exact same scenario Yukon. I was just checking my adsense ads and it's crazy what is showing up. I have some strong geo sites and they are killing me with local ads that have no...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 19th October 2013, 08:14 AM
Replies: 129
Views: 5,580
Posted By Texjd
Re: Hosting.. which one

For all you Hostgator fans, wait until they move you to Utah servers. What a nightmare. System support guys are clueless. I have been hosting at Hostgator for about 6 years and all was good until...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 6th October 2013, 06:22 AM
Replies: 194
Views: 16,782
Posted By Texjd
Re: WTF is google doing ? I think they lied about HummingBird

Kind of early to really narrow it down but I do think there was some kind of new weighting on the high pr non-relevant links, regardless of where they came from (Web 2. or whatever).

One way that...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 28th September 2013, 09:07 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 1,918
Posted By Texjd
Re: LinkItPro.com

I gave them a try in the last two weeks. I got the 15 high PR links for a newer website that I am not having fun with in trying to rank. It is a rather tough set of keywords and I really don't expect...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 26th July 2013, 09:09 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,132
Posted By Texjd
Re: Anyone else having issues with Hostgator?

If you don't monitor your websites, you'll never know about downtime. Until my three accounts got migrated I had few, if any problems. Once they started the migration everything went downhill. All I...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 26th July 2013, 08:55 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,221
Posted By Texjd
Re: DOE for Solo Ads

Solo ads can be a great tool to pick up new sales and build a list but you need to make sure you have something of interest to the newsletter profile (or general interest to anyone). DOE has a...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 24th July 2013, 03:28 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,132
Posted By Texjd
Re: Anyone else having issues with Hostgator?

Yea, I've read their story (EIG) and they are typical corporate attitude folks. And it appears that they've expanded beyond their support. Making more money at the sacrifice of your customers is not...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 24th July 2013, 12:15 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,132
Posted By Texjd
Re: Anyone else having issues with Hostgator?

Thanks, I'll go check them out.

Yep, I'm afraid that Hostgator and Bluehost's best days are over :(.
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 24th July 2013, 10:14 AM
Replies: 20
Views: 1,132
Posted By Texjd
Anyone else having issues with Hostgator?

I've been a customer with Hostgator since 2005 and other than a few bumps in the road haven't had any complaints until this year. Just signed up for a new hosting account in the past 3 days, went...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 19th March 2013, 03:28 AM
Replies: 69
Views: 3,289
Posted By Texjd
Re: Which Hosting Companies Do You HATE?

I've been with HostGator for just about as long as they have been around and starting last summer (around aquisition) they started dropping the ball big time. I have a lot of clients on HG and...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 9th March 2013, 04:26 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 5,894
Posted By Texjd
Re: Best Membership Site? Optimizepress, Kajabi, Wishlist???

Just a heads up, no membership site can protect your product. Membership sites have a lot of very good features in day to day management but nothing is safe on the Internet as far as videos, pdf's,...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th November 2012, 11:02 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 418
Posted By Texjd
Re: Content websites is getting hit by Panda Repitidly

I have several websites that face the same issues and after reserecting them 2-3 times I folded the tent and created new domains and updated most of the content.

No re-directs, no direct...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd October 2012, 01:54 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 1,421
Posted By Texjd
Re: Interesting Thing About An EMD I Brought Back To Life

Similar results on a few of my clients. These were not high value keywords though and not much real competition (local areas with GEO). And they were not really that optimized. One other thing that...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th October 2012, 04:06 AM
Replies: 105
Views: 3,914
Posted By Texjd
Re: Ranking For the Next Two Years - Dodging the update bullets Like A SEO Ninja- Whats Next?

A few things that I've noticed is that any rule that Google puts into play has 5 more factors. On EMD hunt it's very clear that not only the EMD was checked but also keyword links/number of...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 10th June 2012, 09:03 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 3,234
Posted By Texjd
Re: My 2K Site eaten up by Penguin 1.1 :(

Based on my sites that got hit, there's no coming back to original glory. I have managed to get a few back up to about 50-60% of what they were but I'm afraid that the domains are marked and it's not...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 13th May 2012, 07:51 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,337
Posted By Texjd
Re: Penguin Case Study

I guess it all comes down to ROI (return on investment). Is the website even worth saving? I have about 8 of these types of websites, each with about the same revenue.

I can't decide whether to...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 27th April 2012, 10:45 AM
Replies: 42
Views: 1,636
Posted By Texjd
Re: Perfect SEO Methods Since Google Update

As usual it's tough to pin down any single factors. I have completely mixed results from the update. Some are obvisouly suffering from spammy links and BMR links that are no longer with us.

But...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th April 2012, 03:46 PM
Replies: 129
Views: 5,887
Posted By Texjd
Re: Yesterday was a GREAT Day for SEO... and me! Its About Time!

Last year when Google started rolling out the infamous Panda updates I had 6 webistes shoot straight to the top, not just one page, but the majority of pages. Most have about 75 to 100 pages. They...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 8th March 2012, 08:58 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 673
Posted By Texjd
Re: Anybody Else Seen A Traffic Drop Since Google Privacy Changes

Well, traffic is still down about 25% on most of my websites. Luckily I have some pretty good targeted traffic so sales are effected as much from lower traffic.

The rankings are the same, which...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th March 2012, 08:33 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 673
Posted By Texjd
Anybody Else Seen A Traffic Drop Since Google Privacy Changes

Boy, it's been a rough March and it's only the 5th. The only factor I see right now that has caused a huge traffic drop on my websites accross the board is the new Google Privacy Policy going into...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 2nd March 2012, 08:39 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 308
Posted By Texjd
Google Privacy Changes

Kind of surprised I haven't seen any reaction to this latest twist on Google. We've been testing for the last 24 hours and the most distrubing thing is search engine ranking is now a whole new ball...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 11th February 2012, 07:56 AM
Replies: 654
Views: 64,470
Posted By Texjd
Re: The EXACT strategy i use to rank for ANY KEYWORD!

I think one thing not stressed enough in the this post and similar posts about the whole process is that if the ROI (return on investment) is not there this is all a moot point.

People often get...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 10th February 2012, 03:59 AM
Replies: 25
Views: 18,596
Posted By Texjd
Re: Hostgator email problems - is there better hosting?

That's certainly not a HostGator issue. That's a user issue. And it doesn't matter where they host, if they send that stuff out they will get nailed these days. And even if they send from dedicated...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th November 2011, 10:33 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,694
Posted By Texjd
Re: BMR doubts

I've never had one rejected either in well over 1000. I write most of my own since I'm in niches that I know. You can get acceptable posts for $1-$1.25 from several warriors her on the forum.

But...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 26th November 2011, 10:20 AM
Replies: 14
Views: 874
Posted By Texjd
Re: What would be a 100% sure way to check rankings on Google US?

Don't even get me started on this subject. In the past 6 months I'm lucky to get the same serps any two times, especially on local search stuff. Google is either in absolute chaos or changing by the...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 25th November 2011, 10:07 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 1,455
Posted By Texjd
Re: Panda recovery and the link to thin content ratio

You can do your own test very easily on the latest Google changes. You don't need your own websites. Pick five different medium tail keywords (3-4 words) of different popularity. Do the searches and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th November 2011, 06:53 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,382
Posted By Texjd
Re: No One Else Sees a MAJOR Problem in October Finalized Earnings?

Yep, mine's fixed too. Guess I'll get my appropriate "gift" for the month. Just another day on the Internet ;).
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th November 2011, 11:39 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,382
Posted By Texjd
Re: No One Else Sees a MAJOR Problem in October Finalized Earnings?

I've never had a descepancy of more than a few dollars for as long as I can remember. And now 1,000s of accounts have been banged all at one time? Yea, sorry, I don't believe that there could have...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 7th November 2011, 08:38 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 1,382
Posted By Texjd
Re: No One Else Sees a MAJOR Problem in October Finalized Earnings?

Mine are off about 20% from estimated to payout amount. I've never seen this in about 7 years. I did read about others in the Adsense Forum and it appears it's about as random as it can get.

This...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 30th October 2011, 06:20 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 727
Posted By Texjd
Re: SEO Quake PR problems Again

Me too. I even reloaded browser and add-in. Not that big of deal these days but one more gap to deal with when doing research. Google may be the culprit, who knows.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 16th October 2011, 09:38 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,134
Posted By Texjd
Re: MODERATOR. Time to improve the quality of this forum

One thing I see that is certainly out of hand is how many threads turn into "p.." contest between people who have no clue to start with about the subject. We used to call them Trolls and they wasted...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 15th October 2011, 08:34 AM
Replies: 675
Views: 47,784
Posted By Texjd
Re: Anybody noticed Changes in Google SERP

Ran my reports this morning and about gagged on my coffee. The traffic was down across the board. My webiste are very diverse and many are 7-8 year old authorty sites that get a steady flow of fresh...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 10th October 2011, 01:00 PM
Replies: 120
Views: 3,892
Posted By Texjd
Re: Can we resell "used" or "unused" WSOs?

Went through this lttle meat grinder with a client (his product was sold by buyer) back in 2003 and sorry to say that it got thrown out of court at every level. This guy wasted a ton of money and...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 22nd September 2011, 05:05 AM
Replies: 54
Views: 2,853
Posted By Texjd
Re: Got tank by Big Google- 15 adsense site de-index at once!

I've seen many far worse MFA sites. But you might have fallen under a manual review and for whatever reason got the ax.

Some websites are never worth the effort to bring back, have to take a hard...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th September 2011, 03:42 AM
Replies: 82
Views: 9,231
Posted By Texjd
Re: Sept 6 Update: Case study of AMR VS UAW VS linkamotion VS Article Samurai

I did a compariosn this summer of AMR and UAW and got similar results. It was no where near as scientific as yours but the bottom line was AMR came out on top by far. And over the 3 months my PR was...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd June 2011, 11:27 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 709
Posted By Texjd
Re: Changes to Adobe Reader

Very well could be a setting that is the default on any link that appears to not meet the requirements. But I never make any changes to Adobe Reader and I doubt many users will either.

Regardless...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd June 2011, 11:04 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 709
Posted By Texjd
Re: Changes to Adobe Reader

It's not the allow, that is common to any link. It's a separate notice that will not let you go at all and states it's a security risk.

Don't know when this started since this is the first time...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd June 2011, 09:48 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 709
Posted By Texjd
Re: Changes to Adobe Reader

Yea, for future PDF's that will probably work but I have about 8 years worth floating out and around that will not produce anymore. Plus if there are a lot of links it's an extra step.

I only get...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd June 2011, 09:13 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 709
Posted By Texjd
Changes to Adobe Reader

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this question but I've noticed that when you open a PDF up in latest Adobe Reader (9?) and the PDF has affiliate links to Amazon it won't allow the link to...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 25th May 2011, 10:41 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,837
Posted By Texjd
Re: Market Samurai

All of the major keyword tools are starting to get less and less accurate due to google figuring out ways to stop all the automated data searches.

MS, MNF, Keyword Elite, Niche Finder are all...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 13th April 2011, 09:37 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 2,409
Posted By Texjd
Re: Market Samurai Effectiveness

All of the keyword tools are having problems due to Google changes. And I would bet that Google couldn't care less at best, and may even be tired of these tools hammering their servers.

I've got...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 10th February 2011, 09:12 AM
Replies: 50
Views: 7,152
Posted By Texjd
Re: Review of Magic Submitter Software and Customer Service

I have no idea about the relationship of the host file and cracked software relating to what appears to be a database problem. But if someone is running a cracked version, why would they buy the...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 10th February 2011, 08:01 AM
Replies: 50
Views: 7,152
Posted By Texjd
Re: Review of Magic Submitter Software and Customer Service

Gee, I just got a second repsonse from MS Support. Here it is word for word:

"seams you have used cracked version of MS before.

Please open your hosts file and delete all records related to...
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 10th February 2011, 07:37 AM
Replies: 50
Views: 7,152
Posted By Texjd
Re: Review of Magic Submitter Software and Customer Service

Well, after reading all of the positive feedback in this thread I thought I'd give MS a shot.

So far I've had nothing but trouble with the application itself and very poor support. I installed and...
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