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Just a Quick Update
Posted by Sergey Lorens in Internet Marketing, SEO on June 27th, 2009
Yesterday I received an email from Mitchell Collins. He read my posts about article marketing, search engine optimization and found them very interesting, however he didn’t know how to use this information. I realized that there are many people like Mitchell subscribed to my list. That is the reason why I decided to write a report about affiliate marketing for all beginners. In the report you will learn what is affiliate marketing and how to get started with it.
Of course, if you are already making money online as an affiliate, you won’t find anything new there, however, if you are looking for ways to make money online, you will find the report useful. If you have not subscribed to my list yet, fill in the form to receive the report.
Being Indexed Without Backlinks – Truth or Fiction?
Posted by Sergey Lorens in SEO on June 15th, 2009
Most SEO optimizers are under the impression that the indexing of their sites is only possible after having a few links point back to the website they want to get indexed. Only those clickable url’s, which look like
<a href=”www.website.com”>anchor text</a>
are considered to be valuable from an SEO point of view. Therefore, un-clickable url’s in the body of any content text is not considered a backlink and does not have any value. But is this true?
This year I am graduating from the university. That is why one of my classmates and I have been working on our diplomas for quite a long time. The theme of my diploma was an online shop and the theme of my friends work was a website connected with stock trading. A month ago we finally concluded the work necessary for our diplomas and both our websites were launched within a couple of days of each other.
We both used Godaddy to buy domain names and Hostgator to host the sites. Of course, only a small number of people have seen our websites. I didn’t promote my website because the sole aim of it at the time was to show my programming skills to the professors, not to show my marketing skills. Consequently, there were no backlinks pointing to the website. My classmate was in the same situation.
A few days ago we successfully demonstrated our projects to a committee and they approved it. I then decided to check whether my website had been indexed or not. To my surprise, ALL the pages on my website were indexed. Moreover, my classmate’s website had also been indexed. After a quick search I found that there was only one place online where our websites had been mentioned and that was on domain-daily.com. This website automatically lists all domains that are registered on a particular date. Our websites were listed there too, but you can only find a list of unlikable text url’s on the website.
Judging by these results I can only surmise that Google considers these links as positive votes for your website. Today I had a discussion with some of my friends who happen to be involved in search engine optimization and internet marketing. They had a very interesting theory. When testing my website, I used Firefox, Internet Explorer and the recent Google browser “Chrome” to see whether everything was functioning properly. They think that Google Chrome might have been sharing some information about the websites you visit with Google. I found this theory very interesting, however, presently it is almost impossible to prove or disapprove otherwise. I shall continue to look into this and will keep you informed.
Blog Commenting – A Very Powerful Link Building Method
Posted by Sergey Lorens in SEO on May 23rd, 2009
As of today, the new affiliate website I was telling you about a few weeks ago was finally indexed by Google. If you remember, the reason Google didn’t index earlier was because it received over one thousand links pointing to it in a very short period of time. Google considered that as a spam tactic. It eventually took me nearly two months to rectify the issue and in this post I will explain exactly what I did to get the website indexed.
First of all, I did away with all of the blog posts that were showing on every page of the blog due to the “recent comment” widget. This widget shows approximately five recent comments, so what I did was add five comments myself, without any links pointing to my website and hence the comment that had my website link was automatically pushed off the list. At the time I implemented this measure my website had over 1300 backlinks from just these blogs, according to Yahoo site explorer.
After this, I added two new content pages to the website and bookmarked them to get them indexed. As I expected, they were indexed in Yahoo and MSN but Google was still ignoring my website. At that time my website statistics in Yahoo site explorer looked like this:
Over 1300 backlinks and 3 web pages indexed in Yahoo. As you can see, the amount of backlinks continued to grow as it would obviously take some time for the search engine spiders to crawl the thousands of blog pages and eventually “see” that they don’t link to my website anymore. Over the next few weeks the number of backlinks decreased dramatically.
Finally, I have sent a request to Google via their webmaster tool and requested my website be reconsidered for indexing. I explained to them what had happened and what exactly I did to solve the problem. Several weeks passed, until finally this morning I launched my position checking tool and was very pleased to see that the website has indeed been indexed in Google for almost all my main keywords:
In conclusion I would like to add that I am unsure whether my website was indexed because of my request to Google for reconsideration, or because the number of backlinks which caused the original problem had decreased steadily over the last few weeks. Anyway, I am delighted the website is indexed and I can say with total confidence that posting blog comments for links building is a very powerful method. However, if not done properly, it can cause lots of problems for your website, as you well know from my experience.
By the way, you can find a huge “dofollow” blog archive by following the link: dofollow blogs
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Article Spinning as a Very Effective Link Building Method – Part 1
Posted by Sergey Lorens in Internet Marketing, SEO on December 27th, 2008
If done properly, submitting articles to directories can be a very effective link building method, one which can not only boost your overall position in the search engines but can also bring a fair amount of traffic from these article directories. One of the first strategies I personally use after creating a new website is posting a few articles to high PR article directories such as ezinearticles.com or articlesbase.com. A long time ago I used to write only a few articles and submit them to hundreds of article directories but after analyzing my backlinks I realized that that most of these articles were being placed in the supplemental results due to the issue of duplicate content. (Wikipedia: supplemental result). Of course, links from supplemental results are not deemed to be valuable, so consequently I didn’t see any positive changes in my positions in Google or in any of the other search engines.
There were many solutions I could try to attempt to solve this problem. One of the first ones which sprang to mind was to write a unique article for each article directory in my list. It would take me almost three days as there were more than 200 articles in my list at that particular time. I soon ditched this idea and started to Google. Not long after I came across information about article spinning and found the concept very interesting. The only thing you needed to do was write one seed article, which looks something like this:
{Hello|Hi|Greetings} {John|Mark|David}, {how are you|how do you do|how’s life}?
Then you use a special script or piece of software which spins the seed article and generates many unique versions for you. Just from the example above, it is possible to generate 27 different variations of the sentence. Imagine how many unique articles you could generate from a 400 word article? I think you’re getting the idea.
I decided to test this method on one of my websites and the results were amazing. After just one month submitting spun articles to various article directories, I was seeing lots of valuable links as well as positive changes in my search engine positions.
Before writing this post, I made a small case study. I created a new mini affiliate website optimized for a keyword that was not very competitive (about 1,000,000 competitors in Google). There were only two link building methods I used with this website: article spinning and social bookmarking. I actually only submitted my website to couple of social bookmarking sites because it is proven to be a very fast method of having your website indexed in the search engines. Almost three weeks have passed and here are the results so far:
On December 6th my website was indexed in Google at number 60 in the search results and I then started submitting my spun articles. As you can see, the very next day my website dropped to number 75 and then disappeared from Google’s index for four days. This is a normal occurrence with brand new sites, so I continued with the article submissions. From December 11th my positions have been constantly improving and there haven’t been any negative fluctuations since then. The website generated more than 400 USD in three weeks through affiliate sales. Some of these sales were from traffic that came from the article directories; however, the majority of sales are from Google organic searches.
Judging by initial results, I can honestly say that this link building method is undoubtedly worth continuing. Moreover, it has two positive aspects: first, you can get sales from the article directories because if you have written a quality seed article, so generated articles will also be of good quality, and second, you can get sales from organic search engine traffic.
To sum up, I would like to say that today there are many quality article spinning services, some free, some not. However, I have written my own simple script which I use and have decided to share it with you, so here is the link: Lorens Article Spinner. You can also find the link in the right menu. I am going to continue improving the script as best I can and as always, I appreciate your comments with any suggestions on how I can improve it. This was the first part of this particular case study and in a couple of months I will post the second part so we can all see the results.
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