boulderjoe

Eddie,

See my responses to Mark above.

Try setting your number of pages/posts to the EXACT number that should be created and see if that works better. I think a variable is not getting cleared out when a specific number is not entered.

I have been entering a specific number and getting the results I expect because I too was getting more pages than should have been created until I started explicitly telling LPN the max number of pages it should create.

Try it out and let us know.

-joe

Eddie J

Ahh.. I gotcha. I guess LPN does 200 on autopilot maybe? I tried doing 200 with my hostgator shared plan and crashed. 150 - 170 seems to work for me.

Thanks Joe
Eddie

optimumex

Hey Eddie,

Thank you for sharing that plugin. Personally I like to have a new draft for each major area I do, that way if I need to edit something I don't have to delete everything, just that particular area's draft. It's an extra step or two, but it's worth it to me.

In any case, I was just going through the motions last night of copying and pasting the info from one draft to another, and literally thought to myself how nice it would be to just click a button and have all the settings of a draft copied over to a new draft. I didn't even think to look for a plugin. So, thanks again for sharing! You've saved me a bunch of time.

IndieRetailer

Okay... I'm fairly familiar with Wordpress, I've read just about every post on this thread over the last week, and I'm aware that nothing happens instantly and I don't have any misgivings about that.

However, I've created two projects thus far and I'm stumped on one of them. I'm working on dual monitors on my computer so I've been able to run the video on one (just to make sure I'm following the steps and I'm also taking notes for step by step, so I don't forget anything..) and then work in my browser on the other monitor. On my first project, I built pages (not posts) and most of them got indexed by the next day (probably not ranked well because the niche is extraordinarily competitive and I'm not relying on it to do well).

On my second project, I created a site on a subdomain and created posts (as I was under the impression that they indexed more quickly), I published the pages, pinged the URL and sitemap. As of now, two days later, I see only 4 pages indexed in G, out of 211.

I'm wondering a couple things....

1. I published posts, not pages. However, I see that there are pages indexed and they're named numerically .com/page/7/

2. When I click on the link, there's an excerpt of the the post that is only 3 lines and then a button to "read more". I'd like to get rid of this and I vaguely remember a setting somewhere in Wordpress that allowed you to change that.... OR, do away with the "pages" altogether.

3. I'm also wondering if there's any other setting that I'm overlooking that's keeping the other posts from getting indexed? I've checked the privacy settings in Wordpress to make sure the site is viewable to everyone, but don't know if there's something in AIOSEO that I'm overlooking....

- I'm using Headway Theme
- AIOSEO Plugin
- Google XML Sitemap Plugin

I submitted a helpdesk ticket on this, but the more I think about it, I'm thinking this is more of a Google/Wordpress/User error type issue. So, I hope one of you folks might have some ideas on any of these issues. I'd appreciate any guidance.

manhattan mortgage

http://tinypic.com/r/2q9jg40/7

OK, I don't really talk much here but I can say I know SEO very well ... I apologize in advance, I'm not going to elaborate on what and how BUT I have read a lot of crap here and got tired of 'some inexperienced I believe what google says' folks. I also have NO relationship with any of the developers.

I do rank #1 for many keywords with 68M to 80M competitors ... the point is, in the 1st 9 hrs, I went from averaging 8 to 10 page views per day to 70, in only 9 hrs. I will say I don't put sh*t out on the net, I'm a professional, I take my time. If you scale this out 24hrs, I anticipate 150+ page views by noon tomorrow eastern.

Most importantly, there was a healthy profit made today as well.

Please remember and no disrespect to anyone, I'm not offering the specifics of how I specifically did this other than, this program DID help a dead blog come back to life (I wasn't paying any attention to it at all for over 1 yr).

Thanks Jeremy & Steven & Supporting Cast

IndieRetailer

LMAO.... While you were editing your screen shot and putting up text blocks, perhaps you could have added an additional block on the first photo of "images you'll also enjoy" !

manhattan mortgage

was there even a legitimate point to your comment?

BreathPatrol

have you even looked at the pictures you may also enjoy

LOL

zerofill

Heh... I think he is referring to what shows up first on "Images you might also enjoy" or whatever it says there... lol

Might want to just link directly to the image itself

manhattan mortgage

LOL ... OK ... wow .... never bothered looking ... just wanted to host a pic, actually, that was for the women here ... lol

Eddie J

LOL...woops...I think that site might need a moderator or something lol

Nice job though manhattan mortgage Feel free to PM a noobie if ya want to help me out lol

Eddie

subprime1

Uhm... I believe his "point" (no pun intended?) is that there is a stray penis on your screen shot.

BreathPatrol

makes you wonder what numbers he was trying to show of

gerhard

Eddie J

Stray Penis....LOL

Back to building pages now....

manhattan mortgage

too bad i'm not out at a club with some women, it would be a great conversation piece

u guys are too much

Eddie J

I searched the thread but really couldn't finmd anything on it....even though I think I remember it being talked about...but I ain't goin through the entire thread AGAIN..

How many pages per site per day is "enough"? I've kinda went a little crazy today and just noticed. Any opinions??

Thanks Warriors
Eddie

latinguy20

I don't think there's really a limit. They don't all get indexed at the same exact time so they will just be picked up by Google at random.


-Andres

maxspeed65

Is Host Gator any more of a problem than other hosting? I've noticed two or three complaints in this thread about Gator not allowing the normal amount of post/pages that other users say they are able to publish.

Eddie J

REALLY?? Sweet...tomorrow ( actually, TODAY ) is Sunday. Build pages all day!!!!

Thanks
Eddie

Graphix Guru

Well this figures. The one time a thread descends into the gutter, I'm not around. I mean, had I been here and had I looked, I would have preferred private parts of the opposite sex (let's just be clear about that). Ahem. But still...

Sheesh.

I'm never around for the party.

Graphix Guru

As long as your fingers don't bleed, your browser doesn't crash and you don't get an irate call from your hosting company, you should be good to go.

Graphix Guru

LPN BEST PRACTICES FLOATING "FAQ"

ADD TO IT AND HELP EVERYONE (BUT READ FIRST, PLEASE!).

OK LPNers, I (MisterE) want to try an experiment with all of you following this thread (you must be an owner to participate), it's something that I think will help us and the creators immensely. And possibly carry over to other WSOs for the future benefit of all.

Every WSO has what is considered Best Practices. These are hard and fast rules that must be observed in order to capture the full effect benefit and/or power of the offer. Sprinkled throughout a thread are small bits of information that are an integral part of the WSO.

For example, LPN could have a 'best practices' for WordPress Plugins; Google XML Sitemap, WP-CMS Post Control (?) and All-In-One SEO Pack. Or pinging sites that worked for you etc., etc.

So how is this going to work?.... First a quick lesson on the options available to those that want to contribute and add to the 'Best Practices' post.

At the bottom of this 'Best Practices' post you will see the option to quote the post. If you click on it you will find in the editor the previous posts enclosed in quotes (and our ever growing list of Best Practices). For the sake of continuity, scroll to the bottom of the quoted text and start a new line after the last closing quote that looks like this [/ QUOTE] (I had to break it with an extra space after the forward slash). And then add to the bottom your 'Best Practices' tip........ You Can, Copy & Paste, quote, type in, it's up to you and whatever is easiest for you. Again, if it was mentioned by another Warrior.... Give them their due credit.

Again this is an experiment.... I see no reason why it shouldn't work... If it catch's on it could and will be a huge timesaver for all interested parties and those just joining the thread.

In addition to Best Practices we could also include FAQ's, or for that matter anything beneficial to the offer or thread.

I am going to make one rule for this Best Practices post,.... theft of another Warriors tip, hint, idea or practice is allowed as long as you know that the info is valid i.e. you tried it and found it beneficial. Best Practices for the Best Practice post again, should include the username of the originator of the practice.

For example and to start this post off I'm going to steal Subprime1's post concerning curly brackets... This was the highest hurdle for me in the beginning and I didn't want to screw the curly bracket thing up. So his little bit of info on them I believe will prove valuable.

So what's going to happen with this post? As long as we choose the option to 'QUOTE' at the bottom of this post this post will grow and grow and be sprinkled throughout the thread for all to read on potentially every page of the thread....And in my opinion the longer this post becomes the better off we will all be and most importantly we won't be bugging the creators of the WSO. More free time for them means faster answers to unasked questions.

Hope this all made sense..... Remember it's an experiment It may very well not work.

My intention is to create a living, breathing document that keeps up with all the beneficial information.

SO, AWAAAAAYY WEEEE GO!!!

Again, I stole this quote from Subprime1
Thank You Subprime!

And one last thing. My intentions with this is to not pollute the thread. As the originator of the post I reserve my right to delete or modify it at any time.... And Dat's Da Fac's Jack!!!

Oh, and one more rule that should be followed. Select the info you've posted and hit the BOLD B for easier reference to the info.

The important stuff.

In order for this to work, you must find the last posting of this BEST PRACTICES post to quote and add to. Otherwise it will end as nothing more than SPAM!

YOU MUST DELETE THE QUOTE TAGS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PREVIOUS POST AND THE END OF THE PREVIOUS POST! BEFORE POSTING YOUR INFO!

THEY LOOK LIKE THIS: [/QUOT E] & [QUOT E=MisterE;4411581]

Jeremy, Andres or Don.... If you want this post gone just shout!

#1 Subprime1:
I seem to remember earlier mentions of duplicate post issues found they were caused by improper use of {shortcodes}.

With the original plugin this could happen by calling { City} instead of {city}.

With the updated version I think some have had it happen when they named a shortcode using the "{ }" symbols. You should name the shortcodes without using "{ }" symbols. Only use those symbols in the text/html/copy of the post/page you are publishing.


NEXT!
#2 Big Hombre
Hey everybody. I discovered two different rank tracking plugins for Wordpress. I'm surprised nobody is talking about them. I will be trying one or both out shortly, but I thought I'd give a head's up to everybody here since it seems like this is now a real issue for all of us.

Many of the tools mentioned here are good (if not great), but some are very expensive and most require you to boot up an app and go back and forth between your site(s) and the tool. What's really cool about these plugins is the promise of making the job a lot easier. You can work right from within WP—to which I say "COOL!"

Website Rank Tracker
Currently free and seems to have all the tools. Works via a WP plugin.

Rank Tracker Plugin
This is a $29 plugin, but it's got what looks like some killer features (not to mention testimonials).


#3 Jody_W
SEOBook.com also has a nice Firefox addon, which is also free: Keyword Rank Checking Software & Rank Tracker Tools: SEO Book.com

What I like about it is that you just load up your domain name and your keywords and it does the rest. You don't have to deal with the individual pages. It returns the url for any pages that are ranking for the particular keyword.


#4 Big Hombre
Quoting myself here not because I'm necessarily in love with my own ideas (really!), but because others seemed to find the following helpful.

The strategy I'm currently following is to:

A) Create Categories and Posts around my main and general keywords to give the site some permanent "weight", e.g. "plumbing," "plumbing in los angeles," "plumbing services la", etc. Let keyword volume and common sense be your guide.

B) Create Pages using LPN for main keyword + local neighborhoods/cities: e.g. "plumber los angeles," "plumber hollywood," "plumber beverly hills," etc.

C) Create Pages using LPN around narrow niches: e.g. "unclog sink los angeles." This assumes (having not done any KW research for this) that there is some volume of traffic (either in general or specific to the city) for "unclog sink."

If you do this, you'll cover all the bases and look like an authority site. But bear in mind, I'm new to this plugin, so I can't speak from great authority as to whether this is a good strategy. It seems to be in line with what Jeremy et all are recommending. Your results will undoubtedly vary.

jeffbell

I've been reading this looong thread...
Didn't seem how many drafts you can save, and will changing one effect the other

thanks

classified

I bought the single license, am I able to upgrade later?

latinguy20

You can have as many drafts as you want. I typically do one draft per keyword I'm trying to target.

Yes, you'll just have to pay the difference depending on what the developer's license is going for at the time.


-Andres Tobar

jeffbell

What if you want to change you "cities" to a different bunch... Like change them to zip.
Would you delete your list
Then put in zip's
make new draft and save
Now you have new post with zips
Now could you go back and change your cities again?

Sorry trying to explain this the best I can... I have some county domains which I would like to use the cities, townships, zips separately in post/pages.


Food for thought... Why don't you put another variable in there like the cities, maybe make the other "keyword"
But hey, this is coming from a non-coder

Thanks

latinguy20

Sounds like you are using the older version, make sure to go to Local Page Ninja and download the latest update.

You can do exactly what you want to do in that version.

You have the freedom of setting up the shortcodes and you can name them whatever you want.

So in one draft, you can use {city}, then in another draft you can use {zips}, etc.


-Andres Tobar

jeffbell

No I'm waiting to buy... The paypal fountain when dry and my cc's are maxed, ya I'm living the IM dream baby!
Just trying to get a little informed so when I get it, I can start living that IM dream again.
But hey! I did go golfing yesterday, and if I would of seen this first... Ah, who am I kidding, I woulda still gone




Ok! Called in a favor, bought, now it's time to play... You guys surely out did yourself!
Thanks for sharing this!
It's a Killer product!

subprime1

Feature Request:

I'm not sure if you guys plan on adding more to this in the future, it's already awesome and priced way too low. Seriously, I would love to see you jack the price up to well over $100, or just take it off the market and charge for updates or something. But, if you do plan on adding features, here's what I'd like to see.

*** The ability to specify custom menus on each LPN page ***


UPDATE:

Nevermind. It's overkill. I just built another LPN site today and this feature really would have just slowed me down.

Eddie J

Hello My Friends,

Andres, or other guru, we spoke about my categories and how I messed them up by putting {city} in them. If I edit those OR move the posts to new categories wth proper names, will I lose all of those pages and their rankings?

Thanks
Eddie

waynewalters

Andres,

One draft per keyword still keeping in mind a max of 400 posts (or so) per draft to avoid timing out, right?

mario23

This should be a great money maker

zerofill

Whatever you find your host limit is during the generation/building process.

Eddie J

Let me know if you find a host that wont time out at 400!!! My limit is about 200 with a 90% success rate. If it fails...I just go again.

Thanks

Eddie J

OK. I made straight A's in math growing up but I have a spinning question. I am already spinning the body of my posts and am going to spin some titles too. If I have say 87 {zip code} in the shortcode, am I safe in assuming that since I am spinning titles and content, I will have considerably more than the 87? I just did exactly this and my post count went up by 120 instead of 87.

I'm not sure what I'm asking really. I guess I want to know if I am spinning both, and put in for it to make 200 posts, but only have 100 items in the shortcode, will the posts "turn out" OK?

LOL...I think I have that "analysis paralysis" again.

Thanks everyone
Eddie

Update. I spun a title that had 106 items in the {}. It still made 106 posts. Whew....now back to work.

mikeyespo

Hi,,, was in your webinar for this,,, kinda of confused reading the posts,, in the webinar it seemed so simple,,,, do this and this and bam you are set to go on the first page of local google...newbie friendly,,, but after reading all the posts it dont seem so slam dunk and much more complicated,,,, could you clear this up for me?

thank you

MisterE

If I'm understanding correctly what Subprime is asking for.... This feature would be excellent for Lead Gen sites. In addition, if each {city} was whole unto itself you could rent or lease these inner pages that are already ranking to your client(s) without going through the hassle of setting up a site for them and then working yourself to death trying to rank the new site.

I like it
Mark

MisterE

Eddie, I think I understand what you're saying. I was wondering the same thing just recently. I'm also new to spinning so I'm definitely not speaking with any authority. I'm assuming that you've spun your article enough to have much more than 87 unique articles. I don't believe that the number of spun articles should have anything to do with the number of posts/pages that are published.

120 posts when the largest used {variable} is 87 is what we were mentioning yesterday in this thread. I think for the time being, and until we learn what is causing this 'over-posting', we should follow BoulderJoes advice and manually input the number of posts/pages to create.

Purposely asking LPN to create more posts/pages shouldn't hurt anything article wise, I think they would still be unique, as long as they were spun deep enough. Where the problem would arise is with duplicate zip codes that may not match up with the other shortcode variables that you might decide to use.

Eddie, did I understand you correctly?

Enjoy,
Mark

Eddie J

Yes, that's what I meant but if memory serves, once it goes to the 87th zip code, then it starts over at #1 again and goes through the list again.....I think. Need confirmation on this one from Andres I guess.

It sure is fun watching all those pages build up though. Now if I can only find a way to stop RankTracker from banning my IP with Google so I can check them all.....guess it's gonna be time for Andres' recommedation to get HMA Proxy Service.

Thakns for the input Mark
Eddie

MisterE

We'll get this figured out Eddie.
Mark

eQuus

It would be nice if you can include an WSO about how to monetize and include it with this plugin for those who are clueless about offline monetization.

Eddie J

Clueless?? Well, you're in the right place to learn. You shouldn't be TOTALLY clueless though....wanting to make money online is probably what brought you to the Warrior Forum. Just don't be scared to "get it and growl"..... That's usually my problem but I'm growin out of it.

Good Luck my friend

Graphix Guru

LPN BEST PRACTICES FLOATING "FAQ"

ADD TO IT AND HELP EVERYONE (BUT READ FIRST, PLEASE!).

OK LPNers, I (MisterE) want to try an experiment with all of you following this thread (you must be an owner to participate), it's something that I think will help us and the creators immensely. And possibly carry over to other WSOs for the future benefit of all.

Every WSO has what is considered Best Practices. These are hard and fast rules that must be observed in order to capture the full effect benefit and/or power of the offer. Sprinkled throughout a thread are small bits of information that are an integral part of the WSO.

For example, LPN could have a 'best practices' for WordPress Plugins; Google XML Sitemap, WP-CMS Post Control (?) and All-In-One SEO Pack. Or pinging sites that worked for you etc., etc.

So how is this going to work?.... First a quick lesson on the options available to those that want to contribute and add to the 'Best Practices' post.

At the bottom of this 'Best Practices' post you will see the option to quote the post. If you click on it you will find in the editor the previous posts enclosed in quotes (and our ever growing list of Best Practices). For the sake of continuity, scroll to the bottom of the quoted text and start a new line after the last closing quote that looks like this [/ QUOTE] (I had to break it with an extra space after the forward slash). And then add to the bottom your 'Best Practices' tip........ You Can, Copy & Paste, quote, type in, it's up to you and whatever is easiest for you. Again, if it was mentioned by another Warrior.... Give them their due credit.

Again this is an experiment.... I see no reason why it shouldn't work... If it catch's on it could and will be a huge timesaver for all interested parties and those just joining the thread.

In addition to Best Practices we could also include FAQ's, or for that matter anything beneficial to the offer or thread.

I am going to make one rule for this Best Practices post,.... theft of another Warriors tip, hint, idea or practice is allowed as long as you know that the info is valid i.e. you tried it and found it beneficial. Best Practices for the Best Practice post again, should include the username of the originator of the practice.

For example and to start this post off I'm going to steal Subprime1's post concerning curly brackets... This was the highest hurdle for me in the beginning and I didn't want to screw the curly bracket thing up. So his little bit of info on them I believe will prove valuable.

So what's going to happen with this post? As long as we choose the option to 'QUOTE' at the bottom of this post this post will grow and grow and be sprinkled throughout the thread for all to read on potentially every page of the thread....And in my opinion the longer this post becomes the better off we will all be and most importantly we won't be bugging the creators of the WSO. More free time for them means faster answers to unasked questions.

Hope this all made sense..... Remember it's an experiment It may very well not work.

My intention is to create a living, breathing document that keeps up with all the beneficial information.

SO, AWAAAAAYY WEEEE GO!!!

Again, I stole this quote from Subprime1
Thank You Subprime!

And one last thing. My intentions with this is to not pollute the thread. As the originator of the post I reserve my right to delete or modify it at any time.... And Dat's Da Fac's Jack!!!

Oh, and one more rule that should be followed. Select the info you've posted and hit the BOLD B for easier reference to the info.

The important stuff.

In order for this to work, you must find the last posting of this BEST PRACTICES post to quote and add to. Otherwise it will end as nothing more than SPAM!

YOU MUST DELETE THE QUOTE TAGS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PREVIOUS POST AND THE END OF THE PREVIOUS POST! BEFORE POSTING YOUR INFO!

THEY LOOK LIKE THIS: [/QUOT E] & [QUOT E=MisterE;4411581]

Jeremy, Andres or Don.... If you want this post gone just shout!

#1 Subprime1:
I seem to remember earlier mentions of duplicate post issues found they were caused by improper use of {shortcodes}.

With the original plugin this could happen by calling { City} instead of {city}.

With the updated version I think some have had it happen when they named a shortcode using the "{ }" symbols. You should name the shortcodes without using "{ }" symbols. Only use those symbols in the text/html/copy of the post/page you are publishing.


NEXT!
#2 Big Hombre
Hey everybody. I discovered two different rank tracking plugins for Wordpress. I'm surprised nobody is talking about them. I will be trying one or both out shortly, but I thought I'd give a head's up to everybody here since it seems like this is now a real issue for all of us.

Many of the tools mentioned here are good (if not great), but some are very expensive and most require you to boot up an app and go back and forth between your site(s) and the tool. What's really cool about these plugins is the promise of making the job a lot easier. You can work right from within WP—to which I say "COOL!"

Website Rank Tracker
Currently free and seems to have all the tools. Works via a WP plugin.

Rank Tracker Plugin
This is a $29 plugin, but it's got what looks like some killer features (not to mention testimonials).


#3 Jody_W
SEOBook.com also has a nice Firefox addon, which is also free: Keyword Rank Checking Software & Rank Tracker Tools: SEO Book.com

What I like about it is that you just load up your domain name and your keywords and it does the rest. You don't have to deal with the individual pages. It returns the url for any pages that are ranking for the particular keyword.


#4 Big Hombre
Quoting myself here not because I'm necessarily in love with my own ideas (really!), but because others seemed to find the following helpful.

The strategy I'm currently following is to:

A) Create Categories and Posts around my main and general keywords to give the site some permanent "weight", e.g. "plumbing," "plumbing in los angeles," "plumbing services la", etc. Let keyword volume and common sense be your guide.

B) Create Pages using LPN for main keyword + local neighborhoods/cities: e.g. "plumber los angeles," "plumber hollywood," "plumber beverly hills," etc.

C) Create Pages using LPN around narrow niches: e.g. "unclog sink los angeles." This assumes (having not done any KW research for this) that there is some volume of traffic (either in general or specific to the city) for "unclog sink."

If you do this, you'll cover all the bases and look like an authority site. But bear in mind, I'm new to this plugin, so I can't speak from great authority as to whether this is a good strategy. It seems to be in line with what Jeremy et all are recommending. Your results will undoubtedly vary.


#5 Jeremy Kelsall
(Should probably be #1)

There are several ways to monetize...

You can sell advertising space

You can sell the sites to local businesses

You can set the sites up and broker leads

you can set the sites up, and once they start to rank, put adsense on them.

you can set the sites up, and then use something like our core conversions plugin to display some sort of CPA offer

You can use the results as an "in" to get consulting and SEO work from local business.

You can "rent or lease" the sites

...and that's just off the top of my head...

abra

Actually I kinda remember reading in this thread about a monetization and conversion video Is it still in the works, I wonder?

MisterE

LPN BEST PRACTICES FLOATING "FAQ"

ADD TO IT AND HELP EVERYONE (BUT READ FIRST, PLEASE!).

OK LPNers, I (MisterE) want to try an experiment with all of you following this thread (you must be an owner to participate), it's something that I think will help us and the creators immensely. And possibly carry over to other WSOs for the future benefit of all.

Every WSO has what is considered Best Practices. These are hard and fast rules that must be observed in order to capture the full effect benefit and/or power of the offer. Sprinkled throughout a thread are small bits of information that are an integral part of the WSO.

For example, LPN could have a 'best practices' for WordPress Plugins; Google XML Sitemap, WP-CMS Post Control (?) and All-In-One SEO Pack. Or pinging sites that worked for you etc., etc.

So how is this going to work?.... First a quick lesson on the options available to those that want to contribute and add to the 'Best Practices' post.

At the bottom of this 'Best Practices' post you will see the option to quote the post. If you click on it you will find in the editor the previous posts enclosed in quotes (and our ever growing list of Best Practices). For the sake of continuity, scroll to the bottom of the quoted text and start a new line after the last closing quote that looks like this [/ QUOTE] (I had to break it with an extra space after the forward slash). And then add to the bottom your 'Best Practices' tip........ You Can, Copy & Paste, quote, type in, it's up to you and whatever is easiest for you. Again, if it was mentioned by another Warrior.... Give them their due credit.

Again this is an experiment.... I see no reason why it shouldn't work... If it catch's on it could and will be a huge timesaver for all interested parties and those just joining the thread.

In addition to Best Practices we could also include FAQ's, or for that matter anything beneficial to the offer or thread.

I am going to make one rule for this Best Practices post,.... theft of another Warriors tip, hint, idea or practice is allowed as long as you know that the info is valid i.e. you tried it and found it beneficial. Best Practices for the Best Practice post again, should include the username of the originator of the practice.

For example and to start this post off I'm going to steal Subprime1's post concerning curly brackets... This was the highest hurdle for me in the beginning and I didn't want to screw the curly bracket thing up. So his little bit of info on them I believe will prove valuable.

So what's going to happen with this post? As long as we choose the option to 'QUOTE' at the bottom of this post this post will grow and grow and be sprinkled throughout the thread for all to read on potentially every page of the thread....And in my opinion the longer this post becomes the better off we will all be and most importantly we won't be bugging the creators of the WSO. More free time for them means faster answers to unasked questions.

Hope this all made sense..... Remember it's an experiment It may very well not work.

My intention is to create a living, breathing document that keeps up with all the beneficial information.

SO, AWAAAAAYY WEEEE GO!!!

Again, I stole this quote from Subprime1
Thank You Subprime!

And one last thing. My intentions with this is to not pollute the thread. As the originator of the post I reserve my right to delete or modify it at any time.... And Dat's Da Fac's Jack!!!

Oh, and one more rule that should be followed. Select the info you've posted and hit the BOLD B for easier reference to the info.

The important stuff.

In order for this to work, you must find the last posting of this BEST PRACTICES post to quote and add to. Otherwise it will end as nothing more than SPAM!

YOU MUST DELETE THE QUOTE TAGS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE PREVIOUS POST AND THE END OF THE PREVIOUS POST! BEFORE POSTING YOUR INFO!

THEY LOOK LIKE THIS: [/QUOT E] & [QUOT E=MisterE;4411581]

Jeremy, Andres or Don.... If you want this post gone just shout!

#1 Subprime1:
I seem to remember earlier mentions of duplicate post issues found they were caused by improper use of {shortcodes}.

With the original plugin this could happen by calling { City} instead of {city}.

With the updated version I think some have had it happen when they named a shortcode using the "{ }" symbols. You should name the shortcodes without using "{ }" symbols. Only use those symbols in the text/html/copy of the post/page you are publishing.


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#2 Big Hombre
Hey everybody. I discovered two different rank tracking plugins for Wordpress. I'm surprised nobody is talking about them. I will be trying one or both out shortly, but I thought I'd give a head's up to everybody here since it seems like this is now a real issue for all of us.

Many of the tools mentioned here are good (if not great), but some are very expensive and most require you to boot up an app and go back and forth between your site(s) and the tool. What's really cool about these plugins is the promise of making the job a lot easier. You can work right from within WP—to which I say "COOL!"

Website Rank Tracker
Currently free and seems to have all the tools. Works via a WP plugin.

Rank Tracker Plugin
This is a $29 plugin, but it's got what looks like some killer features (not to mention testimonials).


#3 Jody_W
SEOBook.com also has a nice Firefox addon, which is also free: Keyword Rank Checking Software & Rank Tracker Tools: SEO Book.com

What I like about it is that you just load up your domain name and your keywords and it does the rest. You don't have to deal with the individual pages. It returns the url for any pages that are ranking for the particular keyword.


#4 Big Hombre
Quoting myself here not because I'm necessarily in love with my own ideas (really!), but because others seemed to find the following helpful.

The strategy I'm currently following is to:

A) Create Categories and Posts around my main and general keywords to give the site some permanent "weight", e.g. "plumbing," "plumbing in los angeles," "plumbing services la", etc. Let keyword volume and common sense be your guide.

B) Create Pages using LPN for main keyword + local neighborhoods/cities: e.g. "plumber los angeles," "plumber hollywood," "plumber beverly hills," etc.

C) Create Pages using LPN around narrow niches: e.g. "unclog sink los angeles." This assumes (having not done any KW research for this) that there is some volume of traffic (either in general or specific to the city) for "unclog sink."

If you do this, you'll cover all the bases and look like an authority site. But bear in mind, I'm new to this plugin, so I can't speak from great authority as to whether this is a good strategy. It seems to be in line with what Jeremy et all are recommending. Your results will undoubtedly vary.


#5 Jeremy Kelsall
(Should probably be #1)

There are several ways to monetize...

You can sell advertising space

You can sell the sites to local businesses

You can set the sites up and broker leads

you can set the sites up, and once they start to rank, put adsense on them.

you can set the sites up, and then use something like our core conversions plugin to display some sort of CPA offer

You can use the results as an "in" to get consulting and SEO work from local business.

You can "rent or lease" the sites

...and that's just off the top of my head...

OK Warriors, the next Floating Faqs are compiled from the first 5 pages:

opportunex:
Does the plugin work with cities in the UK?
Absolutely, if you can create a page or post and you know which cities you want to target then there's nothing stopping it from working.

It really is super simple to use and it works in any area.

Cedricl:
I understand it works for any country. Does it also work for other languages (non English)
It should. Like I said earlier, if you can create a page or post and know which cities you are targeting then the plugin will do it's job.

MisterE:
Free updates for the life of the product?
Yes, Andres is the developer, and as you can see, he is very passionate about the plugin, and uses it in his daily day to day business, so it will be kept up to date.

Elis:
can it wotk with only WP sites?
Yes, it's a wordpress plugin

Helecis:
Are we limited to using All In One SEO?

It should work with any SEO plugin as long as you can input the title, description, and keywords on the page or post you're working on.

rgkweebiz:
If I'm leasing sites on domains that I own, and not flipping them, will the personal use license suffice or will I need the developer's license?

If it is all being done on your own domains, you are good with the regular license.

Donp:
will you have a way for someone to upgrade to the developers license at a later date if needed?

Shoot us a message if you want to upgrade at a later date, but you would need to pay the difference calculated to what the price is at
THAT time....

Manhattan mortgage:
Can you add pages vs posts, use both or just posts?

Works with both pages and posts.

Melody:
where's a good place to swipe a list of 'clean' city names or do you have resource in the file?

I get my lists from wikipedia. Google the state or metro area.

Vrs:
I didn't see a money back guarantee. Is there one?

As with all of our products, refunds are handled on a case to case basis.

if you send me an email that simply says "refund" - my answer back is "NO".

if you have a legitimate problem, or can't get the plugin to function, we will of course give your money back.

GraemeHawley:
Seen at least 2 people ask about duplicate content being an issue, and you don't seem to of answered the question, so can you please explain why you wont get hit for duplicate content using this method?

both of the example sites that we used have dupe content - the ranking report that andreas showed that he gave to his client a few months ago, uses dupe content - It's a non-issue.

Most of your local directory/listing type sites for the most part are created with dupe content, and they routinely rank on the first page, and stay there.

Kasida:
It would really help to see video showing how the plugin works. It would have been much easier to understand. Any chances for that?

The plugin is both a TOOL and a METHOD all in one, so showing a video of exactly what the plugin is, does, and why it works, is kind of giving away the farm.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but "how" it works isn't as important to me as....as long as it works

Your not spamming anyone
your not violating any TOS
Your playing by the rules, and being rewarded for it - The plugin just condenses hours and hours of work down to a few minutes, and gives you results faster than you would ever see yourself in scale.

Dark witness:
so am i right in thinking you don't really need to do any of the other usual seo stuff to get a good rank with this plugin?

Every situation is different, but in the dentist example in the OP, the only thing that I did was ping the site and submit it to a few social bookmarking sites to get it indexed.

Zerofill (Don):
Anyone looking for U.S. cities... and there may be a few countries in there but mainly should all be U.S. cities you can use this thing I made that we use.

U.S. Cities

You can just copy and paste right form there...

AussieT:
Jeremy in the video you mentioned that you are using the "Yet Another Related Post Plugin"
Is this also needed for your plugin to work fully?

I don't think that it's "needed" - But, I use it to help get all the pages indexed etc when the spiders hit

Drhook:
Jeremy will this work with sub-domain name or do we have to use main domain

Andres replied: I've tested it on a subdomain and it works just as well.

Mlbs:
it says on plugin to create draft post but do not publish this ??

You don't publish because the plugin takes care of that for you.

Kcseke:
Do you have to use cities in the city tag or can you use neighborhoods in a city instead? Thanks.

You can use neighborhoods, it's really up to you how you want to target it.

Or you can load up a list of cities AND neighborhoods.

Mtntgr:
white
gray
black hat?

COMPLETELY WHITE HAT...nothing gray, black, or any other color about this

Dubhlinn:
How would i go about adding phone numbers like the skype icon etc to individual pages. Can i do this manually as pages begin to rank? I could offer to place separate numbers on these pages for multiple rental pages.

You can do it manually, just edit the individual page and make whatever modifications you need to make.

Palpatine:
I don't use all-in-one plugin either, but do you know if this works with the Genesis Framework and child themes? I can input the custom title and description underneath the actual post or page content in the admin panel, I think you mentioned that somewhere in this thread, but I definitely prefer Genesis without the all-in-one SEO plugin or ANY SEO plugin for that matter.

It does work with the Genesis framework. It pretty much with any custom fields that are available when you are setting up the page or post.

Dubhlinn:
Also i dont think that the posts look great if i try to sell to one client #example one post after another after another scrolling down the page.

Go into "Settings" => "Reading" and change the default "Blog pages show at most" from 10 to 1 to take care of that.

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dubhlinn:
I think it would look a lot better if we used individual pages. If we do individual pages is there a way to hide them from the nav bar so we don't have a mess of 50 + page names

Use a free plugin called "Exclude Pages from Navigation" it provides a checkbox on the editing page which you can check to exclude pages from the primary navigation.

Pages 6 through 10:

Markiz:
How the posts are being built? On the fly?

If I understand your question right, Yes!

Morpheus26:
Just to clarify. What this plugin does is change a city name in the title content and so on and create a seperate post or page for each city I add in a list? Is that correct?
So the pages only differ in the city name, everything else is the same. After the plugin created these pages I can manually change things in these pages?
Does the plugin do this for all pages setup or can I say I want this behaviour only on my contact page for example?

Yes that's correct and after the pages are created, you do have to option to go in and change whatever you want manually.
The plugin will automatically do it for the pages that have the placeholder anywhere in the content. If the placeholder is not there then the plugin won't mess with it.

Catgirl07:
Will this only work for "your niche + city" keyword domains.
Was wondering if it would work for any domain eg Joesplumbing.com?

Will work with any domain.

Bostoncitymass:
When adding the plugins (all in one seo, yet another related, etc.) anything in particular we should do with the configuring? I have a few standard tweaks I usually make but for the most part I don't change much. Wondering what your opinions/suggestions are.

Nothing other than the standard setup.

Edc3076:
I use thesis framework, how is this going to react inside thesis? thank you

Andres Replied - I've tested in multiple themes with no issues really. The only thing I noticed is that if your theme automatically creates the menu from the pages in the site, then you would need to use the Exclude pages plugin so that you can prevent a multitude of pages being added to the navbar.

If you use a custom menu, then you don't have to worry about that.

Jaycar:
I just bought your Local Ninja Plug In and I cannot seem to install it. It keeps saying that this plug in does not have a valid header. Any ideas what the problem could be?

Need to unzip the initial zip file you download. Once you extract it... there is another zip file inside along with the video. That zip file is the one you install.

Onecrackedegg Added -
Unzip the downloaded file and you will see 3 items inside:
READ-ME-FIRST.txt
plugininstructions.wmv
localpagesninja.zip

Upload the localpagesninja.zip in your wordpress install (that is the actual plugin) and it should work.

Jeremy Posted:
Just an FYI....

Myself, Don, and Andres are all located on the East Coast of the USA.

So, if you ask a question and we don't answer right away, you're not being ignored, well get you taken care of as soon as we roll out of bed.

I'll be deleting the better part of the OP introduction and rules. No sense wasting valuable space.

Thanks again Big Hombre!

Jody_W

Just wanted to post a quick update for anyone who is still on the fence about buying this plugin.

I bought a domain on July 30th, bought the plugin, and set up the site in a couple of hours. I went after a challenging financial niche and chose the top 100 cities (by population) in a large state. Then I chose 5 keywords - 4 competitive and 1 easy...so I wouldn't get too discouraged. When I combined the cities with the keywords I ended up with 500 posts/pages (250 posts, 250 pages).

The only thing I did to promote the site was to ping the posts/pages.

I was concerned because it took a few days for the posts/pages to get indexed, but I just left it alone to see what would happen. I'm happy to report today that I have hundreds of ranked posts/pages, and quite a number on page 1 now.

I'm going to start a gradual backlinking campaign on the stuff that's on pgs. 2-3 to see if I can get them up to pg. 1.

What did I need to know to do this? How to set up a wordpress site and install plugins, how to write a well-optimized post, how to do basic keyword research, and most importantly, how to put away my tendency to over-analyze and JUST DO IT.

Personally, I'd be just as happy if no one else buys this plugin and if everyone who has it continues to do time consuming extensive analysis on every possible keyword combination, city/state combination, onpage SEO possibility, domain selection, and hosting options.

But don't hesitate because you think it doesn't work. It does.

TheBigShow

I cant get core conversion to work with this ninja plugin?? Any thing special I meed to do?

zerofill

Using the latest version of Local Page Ninja? Because I haven't had any issues using it with the plugin.

Graphix Guru

Outstanding results, Jody_W! Thanks for sharing. Very inspirational!


I think we all feel the same way...

Russ1395

Hi Jeremy/Andres,

I have two questions.

1. Will the posts show up in Google along with the homepage?

2. Do you have to completely finish the site for all of the pages/posts to show up in Google?


Thanks!