The art of leveraging free online resources…turning them into into cash…again and again.
Just put together quick video blog about these new Platforms we’ve been talking about and why we’ve been going on about them plus also some research we came across about the surprising power of nofollow links as part of Google’s whole approach at present.
The video blog can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3DdsDUC0A
Any queries about the packets / packages then email me and we can get you sorted.
Before the weekend officially gets under way I thought I’d drop everyone a line to answer a few questions regarding the recent events and goings on over SEO in the last few months and certainly regarding Panda, Penguin and SLS.
Well first up, I get asked regularly about has SLS and its network been affected by the Penguin Update and the answer it would appear (touch wood he says) is that we seem to be OK at the moment as we do appear to have maintained our “low key” below the radar status.
I ran a test for a client last week on one particular keyword phrase and after the Press Releases had appeared in the top 5 slots in Google (well 4 out of the top 5), positions 7-10 were occupied by our Bookmark Directories.
Also I spoke to one of our longer standing SLS members the other evening and we were talking about SEO and Promotion in general and how sites were starting to come back post penguin and I mentioned that in our case we hadn’t changed anything in terms of promotions Post Penguin and that the one site we did have that had been affected was now showing a month on month increase in Google traffic by about 15% for the past 4 months.
The moral of the story it would appear was that yes you couldn’t deny the Penguin Update had had an effect but that by just keeping on with the basics, we had managed to survive without buying the plethora of “shiny new toys” or reports that always seem to appear post a Google Update. One wonders whether in fact what some folks would do if there never were any Google updates at all.
Ok, another question that came in recently was “what the heck is Back Links Heaven all about”?
Simple, loads of places (probably more than any other source) where you can put your own back links.
I recorded a brief video guide about Back Links Heaven here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP7KlGdiqK8
We still have a few packages of the first six Volumes of Back Links Heaven available at $45, which effectively prices them at $7.50 per volume for 2.5K Links.
The platforms covered in the first six volumes ranged included:
AEForums
UseBB
PunBB
ESyndicat
phpDug
MoinMoin (wiki Platform)
Also as a quick Weekend Promo for SLS users and Members we have the following happening.
A few JV partners have approached us to see if we could put together a brief mini-series of Back Links Heaven and we have and it’s comprised of the following.
Volume 1 will contain links from 10 different Platforms and the OTO that will be on offer only to those who have bought the deal will offer 30 Urls from each of the 10 Platforms for $35. These will all be links from Sites with a minimum Home Page Rank of 4. The sites will include the following platforms:
PunBB
VBulletin (Blogs here not forums)
MoinMoin,
Elgg
ExpressionEngine,
TikiWiki
DokuWiki
JomSocial,
SMF,
phpFox.
There are some nice unusual Software Platforms there as we are expanding rapidly our range of Platforms on offer in Back Links Heaven
These packets will only be available as a OTO or to members of Simple Leveraging so anyone who wants some links from some nice PR4+ sites (mix and match of NoFollow and Dofollow) then send over the $35 via PayPal to info@simpleleveraging.com and we’ll get you sorted.
For those who wish a bit more coverage and want to go for the Proper Volumes of Back Links Heaven and want the half price offer then send over the $45 to info@simpleleveraging.com and we’ll get you sorted.
In the meantime have a great weekend.
The world of SEO is not the greatest place to be in at the moment as the likes of Google play a perverse online version of Basket Ball at the moment with their index and to say it makes for nerve racking client meetings is a gross understatement.
However despite all of the online shenanigans, sometimes it pays to just go back and be “old school” for a while and sit tight when all around you is bouncing around maniacally.
This is not easy I can tell you and when you have a client getting near hysterical because their main keywords have gone “walk about” and wiped out about 75% of their traffic, sometimes the answer they least want to hear is…”lets’ just sit tight and see what happens”.
You have to be very careful at junctures like these as though to “sit tight” may well be the best course of action, as I have said; sometimes it is the least sort of thing a hysterical client wishes to hear.
We’ve been in just such a situation these last 10 days or so with one of our clients who has a nice site that’s based in the Health Niche and to say we’ve been under pressure is playing down the situation “big time”.
The trouble as I’ve said is that when an array of hitherto rather stable keywords and SERPS disappears almost overnight it is very easy to break out into wholesale panic. The trouble was that the more we analysed the situation and thought about it, the less inclined we were to actually effect wholesale changes to our SEO approach and “game plan”.
You could almost cut the sense of relief with a knife when thank god, the clients main term came back onto Page 1 in Google after a 10 day absence touring round “the nether regions” of online obscurity.
This was not, as it turned out, anything to do with the so called current “Panda Massacres” or anything like that but a phenomena that was more familiar.
A good old fashioned “Google Dance”.
Unpleasant nonetheless and if you are suffering from any form of “gastric issues” then this sort of occurrence could be defined as almost the perfect form of “online laxative” such was the very “uncool” situation client wise.
The trouble is nowadays it is very easy to over react and abandon Tactics and approaches mid Campaign if suddenly your SERPS go awry but sometimes that is the last thing you should do.
It is sometimes beneficial when the “brown smelly stuff hits the fan” to actually sit down and think logically at times as these such is the crazy world we inhabit called SEO.
When the bottom has seemingly appeared to fall out of your marketing world sometimes it pays to sit down and analyse why you think this has happened before you make a move and sometimes the result of that analysis and introspection is actually to do nothing especially if your previous actions had been well thought out, researched and seemingly well implemented.
Too often we seem to hear nowadays of client scenarios appearing to go badly wrong and all the blame seems to be laid at the doors of the “manic Panda” when actually it is something different altogether.
Think before you make a move….always. You’d be surprised at the numbers of those who don’t.
Lastly, last week, we informed you of the fact that we had some rather nice dofollow wikis that folks could use for their Marketing and Link Building Campaigns. There were 120 dofollow wikis that were based around the Apple Snow Leopard OS and the cost of them was $80 for the 120.
This week we have something hat is even tastier and much much rarer and that is 80 rather nice Authority sites based around the Academic world. Now the euphemism for this is usually the “EDU market” but that would actually be a gross over simplification as in this case, in this list is a very prestigious German University that is certainly not an EDU domain suffix (but is Still a PR8) and several Academic Institutions in the UK (all ac.uk) plus some nice Colleges and Universities in the Far east that are also not EDU’s. Plus also within this list are a long time favourite of mine and that is some nice “K12.us” domains which represent the US education sector just below the University and college sector.
I personally love these as they seem to get crawled very quickly and stay indexed due to their very nature plus even if the wikis get restricted, quite often the pages don’t get taken down so your links remain “in situ”. They also often have some nice PR on the homepage of the site and quite often this is PR4 or 5.
Anyway we have a very limited number of these that are available as we like to use these “in house” in a lot of our domestic Campaigns so we’re limiting the number of lists we’re making available to 12 copies and these will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
Priority will also be given to members or readers who have already bought the 120 dofollow list to be fair.
PR on these sites ranges from PR8 at the top end (a nice number plus as I said some nice prestigious European Uni’s from at least 3 different Countries so a terrific IP spread) to those we have not yet had the time to allocate Page Rank to but in a spot check just before this newsletter was published I took 3 of the N/A Page Rank assessed sites and two of them turned out to be PR4′s on a manual inspection!!
Anyway this list is available for $80 and as I’ve said is available on a first come first served basis. Our PayPal address is as usual info@simpleleveraging.com .
We will also be running another webinar on these within the next 7 days and priority on that webinar will be given to those who have bought the lists which is only fair.
Not a pleasant concept and folks the world over are feeling the pain and pressure it is inflicting with its current activities. To be honest it is doing so much at present that you’d almost be pushed to try and fathom out where to start, what to take notice of first?
Well the subject I want to discuss today is that of the current so called “Over optimisation” slap that currently appears to be doing the rounds either brought about by or part of the current war against High Page Rank Networks.
The latest casualty appears to be Build My Rank hard on the heels of Authority Link Network and a whole host of others. At the same time Google appear to be firing the starting shots against some of the major Press Release Agencies who supply (for a fee disguised as an upgrade / premium fee) dofollow links in their Press Releases. The most notable name that has appeared here is PRWeb.com.
As well as de indexing and downgrading sites that have getting links form these networks there also appears to be a huge increase in the so called “Google Re indexing Request”. Now this is where via Webmaster Tools, Google kindly informs the recipient that they have been guilty of dubious linking building practices and are going to be de-indexed but that they will be eligible for re indexing if they clean their act up and stop these nefarious activities etc.
Now I know that this is a gross over simplification of the issue but sometimes it is best to strip these down to the basics and then try and work your way up from there.
Firstly in a lot of cases this is long overdue and I am surprised it has taken so long to happen as some of these Networks were extremely over the top in the way they promoted themselves and what membership of these networks would achieve.
After all consider the following. Why would Google continually allow such networks to prosper when their main aim is to undermine what Google is about?
Consider the way that most have continued to go about their activities:
“Join us and with our help we’ll make sure that you get No 1 slots guaranteed in Google despite their updates!” etc etc.
Answer from Google? “No you’re not and we’re going to de index you and punish all the folks who have had anything to do with you”
Going back to my gorilla analogy, it’s like sitting next to the aforementioned big hairy fella, continually poking him with a stick and then wondering why he has just picked up an even bigger stick and hit you with it?
So what is there to do and what advice can be given?
Well strangely the first thing to do is sit tight. Do nothing, don’t reply to any so called Google Messages as I have a sneaky feeling these are auto generated (well really Steve? That’s a surprise) and that they are just “shaking the tree” as we say over here in Northern Ireland and waiting to see who runs for cover and who falls out?
Don’t give them the pleasure but sit tight, watch and wait.
If you have a site that has been de-indexed or downgraded then go back and re-evaluate what you’ve been doing and what your involvement in any of the above High Page Rank Networks was.
Take this information and effectively reverse engineer it i.e. if you’ve only been targeting certain terms or anchor topics then widen your target base “as of yesterday”
Also consider your Anchor Link Density ratio and then expand upon that.
“Throw some dust up” and get some activity and signs of life surrounding your site and Google will have to re visit the site. Get fresh links but from different sources and don’t get beaten out of shape over Page Rank. It’s a busted flush, gone and not worth worrying over.
Nice if you have it but don’t lose any sleep if you haven’t.
Google are slowly pulling out of Page Rank anyway so why bother with it in the long term (the subject of another webinar basically but we’ll cover it in some detail in our next one).
Remember, Google wants to see a Back Links Landscape that as closely approximates a human powered one as possible. So if all Google sees on its occasional check is about 600 links all of which are coming from only PR4 sites and above, all on the same anchor subject and all from a limited number of IP’s then it is going to look very gerrymandered and false.
That’s why we’ve been “banging on about” these Wikis for the past few weeks. They are the perfect tool in your armoury for generating large numbers of any sort of links you want from 16,000 different IP’s. For literally a pittance you can create large numbers of sacrificial links that otherwise would be too expensive to procure or set up and then you can widen your back links base to as large a spread as you need.
For diluting a heavy links concentration they are perfect. They are also extremely useful in other areas and anecdotally we are in receipt of a number of case studies where they have been shown to have positively impacted upon increases in SERPS.
Now in case folks think that we’re ignoring what is going on at present and trying to pretend that nothing is amiss, we’re not. We’re just as anxious as the rest over what is going on but we’re anxious perhaps in a slightly more laid back manner.
Those of you who know me fairly well with confirm that my view on Google is that I listen to everything it says, don’t believe a word of what it says and trust it about as far as I can throw it.
I intensely dislike what it does and how it conducts itself, the breath taking hypocrisy that it comes out with time after time but sadly it is a fact of life we have to deal with it and live with it.
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock recently you can’t have escaped the fact that our friends (ho ho) at “The Mighty G” <wink> have thrown another series of updates and general aggravation at us all again.
Now this email is not a complete chapter and verse analysis of what exactly is going on with the latest update rather the point I wish to make is that these updates tend to get classified as if they are just one action i.e. the update does just one thing when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth.
First up, Google no longer releases Mega Updates, those days are long gone. The days of the “Florida” and “Big Daddy” updates are well behind us and actually Google is permanently updating and “tweaking” its algorithm, it’s just that we’re not always aware of what it has been getting up to.
We only become totally fixated with Google as and when it gets round to one particular aspect of our SEO and in this case the latest update appears to come down hard on High Page Rank Blog Networks and similar High Page Rank Home Page Links. To be honest, the fact that Google has hit these types of activities is not actually much of a surprise, the only thing that really surprised me was that it took so long.
But it does appear to have punished these types of networks and does it mean that this is the end for High Page Rank Networks? Nope or at least not in my view, rather what has happened is that Google has singled out whole networks of sites where these sorts of links can be found and penalised accordingly. Now where does this lead this type of Link Building and Ranking as part of your SEO Arsenal?
Well I always say to folks, think like Google and behave like Google. By this I mean, you have to constantly evolve and change your marketing mix to survive. None of these activities that Google have come down will disappear but they will change and that is what I recommend you do to.
When we first started out in Simple Leveraging in early 2009 we were a vastly different proposition to the Simple Leveraging we are now and the fact that we’ve lasted this long is a testament to how we’ve changed. If you don’t change and evolve in this game, you’ll die. It’s that simple.
Anyway for those who want to find out more about what exactly Google have been looking at with their latest activities then follow this link: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html . It’s interesting to note that there are a whole range of things that Google look at constantly.
The one factor that attracted my attention was this snippet:
“Improvements to freshness. [launch codename "iotfreshweb", project codename "Freshness"] We’ve applied new signals which help us surface fresh content in our results even more quickly than before.”
Now this to me confirms what I’ve long suspected that Google is coming down big time on the side of the provision of Fresh Content. This time they’ve just gone ahead and confirmed it.
Anyway to other updates and the various goings on at the vendors of the great wiki Submission tool Extreme Wiki Poster (hereinafter called EWP). Now this terrific tool has only been out about 4-5 weeks and they are already on version 1.3 which is in beta being tested by none others than your truly amongst others and so far so good. There are a few minor bugs but Kishor and his development team are on the case and I am sure that version 1.3 when it comes out of beta will keep raising the bar as far as submitters are concerned.
At the same time we have expanded our Public Wiki list to now include over 10,000 wikis and to answer a few questions about our “growth policy” for want of a better description it is as follows.
Our first list was 3,128 in size which we then shortly expanded to 4,000. Those who bought at the 3,128 level got the expanded list for free. We then came out with a few minor upgrades which everyone was notified about (email me if you hadn’t received any of the emails and you think you should have had as Aweber has been fun for the week or so) and the list was increased to 6,000 with the minor additions being free to those who bought at the 4k level or 3,128.
The list has now grown to over 10,000 and is on sale on Traffic Planet for $80 but for those who bought the old 4K list then you can upgrade to the 10K list for an additional $32. This also qualifies you for the free updates which will take the list eventually in this update to over 12,000.
Those who wish to update the size of their Wiki list just send the $32 via PayPal to info@simpleleveraging.com and we’ll make sure the new amended list gets sent out asap.
Lastly we had a couple of Webinars in the pipeline for early this year which we’ve had to re schedule largely due to voice issues with yours truly but we are planning to schedule the first of these is this week and the provisional date for this is Wednesday 7th March. It is pencilled in for 9.00 pm GMT (4.00 pm EDT etc) and will cover the subject of Wikis, both general and EDU / Gov as well.
It will of course be recorded and for those who are eligible, copies will be available. Eligibility for the Webinar falls to those whose membership of Simple Leveraging is current and valid or you have bought one of our WIKI Lists recently. If you fall into either of these categories and would like to attend then please email me with your Skype address and I will add you to the list.
Like our other Webinars, this will be conducted via Skype as I quite like the interactivity of it all. It will be held in the same format as our others and this will be first up presentation about the subject of wikis with guides for best practice and developments and then followed by a Q&A. If there is anything in particular that you would like to discuss or get answers to then send me an email with your question and I will make sure that I will address the issue and also do as much research into the question beforehand to make sure that my information is as up to date and current as possible.
Lastly I will make sure that there are some additional freebies available as an incentive to attend and they will also be some additional wiki Urls but these will be different. As a teaser rather than give too much information away but the clue is a two word phrase and the initials are DF.
Anyway, I think that is enough to be going on with so if you wish to upgrade to the 1Ok Wiki list then send the $32 via PayPal to info at simpleleveraging.com and if you wish to attend the Webinar then send me your Skype contact details and any questions you might have.
Yup that’s the results this morning from two bookmarks placed earlier today (well late last night really) from our new High PR EDU Backlink package. I recorded a brief video to add to the package that shows these results for one of our Test search terms.
For this term the video shows us capturing position No 1 and 6 in Google.com for a term that shows 443K pages in Narrow Match. In under 12 hours. It’s a search term that has traffic as well being a tightly focused niche.
I’ll put the video out to our Peer review team and post the results in the forum but for obvious reasons can’t publish the video live as it would divulge too much information and not be fair on those who are part of this promotional package. It will be included in all copies of the zip file going out to purchasers today and also copies sent out to folks who jumped on board late last night.
6 spots left open and 12 hours left so if folks want to get involved then paypal the $50 to info@simpleleveraging.com and I’ll send the packages out by return.
What’s the fastest way to get your links on a handful of High PR EDU Sites?
Quick answer?
Get yourself onto the distribution list for each volume of Back Links Heaven. Or it used to be except that now the Weekly / Monthly memberships are now closed leaving only a handful of Series Memberships still available.
I was speaking to a member of SLS earlier today and we were discussing the practicalities of the Back Links Heaven Packages and what they entail and as I explained more in detail the actual enormity of what they provide hit me.
Now I know most of you out there will be thinking “So what Steve, you put the packages and the idea together, so how come you’re having the AHA moment?”
And you’d be right.
Except for the fact that when I put the whole concept together, it was more of an explanation of Forum and Blogging Platforms with a batch of extra links and Urls thrown in for good measure……or so I thought?
The Challenge that was made to me was to go into Volume 3 of this Series which covers the forum platform punBB and then take out some of the Urls and work them?
OK, I looked at this week’s Url lists and within 20 minutes I now had confirmed memberships and access to 5 PR5 EDU Forums plus 2 PR 6 and one PR8…and also a PR2.
This was a result of having filtered through the Urls and processed just 20 out of the 130+ EDU Domains that can be found in this week’s list alone!
I hadn’t even begun to approach tackling the 85+ .Gov Urls we had.
Then there was the small matter of the other 9,500 Domain Urls that remain to be worked through.
All of this for $16?
Now as I said, I know this might come across as being dumb but my role in this whole project had been very much on the “global concept” side of things and not the “roll your sleeves up and get working side of things” but when I looked at what I had generated then the penny dropped big time.
Now we will be changing the format of this program as to be honest we are massively and I mean massively, under charging for this information and material and as such we will be closing the doors early and re opening them for roughly the same price but a tenth of the size of the product delivery as to be honest that is still one hell of a steal.
Consider the following. If you were to buy links on 2 PR5 sites, inside the sites I grant you, then currently you would be looking at $3 per month at the very least per Url and that would be cheap according to current market prices
That would make it about $36 per annum per links making the cost for the two of them $72 for the yearly rental.
For $16 I’ve just managed to unearth a lifetime source of 5 PR5, 2 PR6 and one PR8 (and the rest).
Talk about a no brainer or what?
I’m taking this program off the market with immediate effect ( http://backlinksheaven.com )but will honour all our existing Series Subscriptions taken out to date. That is only fair and I’ve never gone back on a deal in my life and I don’t intend to start now.
As I mentioned, though we’ve closed the Weekly / Monthly memberships there are still a handful of the Series Memberships available for $175 and for readers of this newsletter I’ll keep those places open for the next 24 hours and then shut the doors and when we’ve re-examined the whole proposition and priced it correctly then we’ll reopen the doors.
Those interested in this and the ramifications of this are pretty dumb-assed as well. For $175 you get access to 50 odd other volumes, each as powerful as Volume 3.
At current investigation levels that means you could get access to 350 plus PR5 and 6 EDU Forums and then there’s the small matter of the other 495,000 Forum Urls as well.
“I’m off to see my shrink”
Just thought I’d drop a quick update to yesterdays email where I discussed an ongoing case study we were carrying out on some brand new domains and also checking how well the SLS Network was performing at the start of 2012.
OK interim stats are as follows:
1. 15 Domains bought and launched
2. All 15 were indexed and were starting to rank (albeit in a limited manner) within 24 hours.
3. For Narrow match terms, 4 had hit Page 1 in Google within 3 days, 5 had hit Page 2, 1 was on Page3, 1 was on Page 4 whilst the remaining 4 were lost in the mire (sub Page 5 but we’ll get them to where we want them to be ( it’ll just take some more time). So that’s a 60% success rate at Page 2 plus within 3 days.
The time period was as mentioned three days since we bought and registered this domain and we were looking at the following results for one term (our main and keyword targeted term) plus as we had launched a while network of sites there was also some collateral penetration as well in that some of our other sites were also showing up for this term:
1. 5 Places controlled by us on Page1 in Google.
2. 4 Places on Page 2.
3. 5 Places on Page 3 (including Bookmark Directories).
4. 7 Places on Page 4 (including Bookmark Directories).
5. 5 places on Page 5 (including Bookmark Directories).
Plus when we expanded the Search queries it showed on Pages 9 & 10 that we had in some cases 90% of the page tie up for our sites / terms etc when we also took into consideration the member Directories of SLS which had also started to appear.
All we used in this promotion were a couple of items that we discuss in the members area of SLS plus the Bookmark Network using one account to deep link the sites.
So the quick response to does Social Bookmarking still work in 2012 (heck there was a post in the Warrior Forum recently that predicted the “death of…..” yawn) is yes and is alive and kicking.
The key thing that you have to bear in mind and I’ve stated this on countless times over the years, SEO is a constantly moving form of marketing. You have to keep evolving or you are finished and that’s what Simple Leveraging does, it moves constantly with the times and if it seems that in 2012 we are massively different animal to how we were in 2009 when we first emerged then in certain cases we are but in our core methodology? Nope, our principles and approach have stayed the same, just the implementation of them has been slightly “tweaked” that’s all.
In this case I mean by taking my recommendation regarding the use of the various Simple Leveraging techniques and getting them to work extremely well.
Literally a few hours after my last email I received this quote in from one of our members who I “talked through the process” of putting this sort of plan together only a few weeks ago.
I won’t embarrass him by giving out his details but his quote ran as follows:
“I ran one press release test on a new site using the PR submission service, followed by your instruction and I followed that with an RSS Submit Submission and nothing else and take a look at the results 48 hrs later. Now this is a pretty none competitive keyword with a number of local modifiers but I’ve never seen this many keyword ranking combinations ranking this fast.
My friend you’re the man. Thank you for sharing with us.
You really over deliver.”
H e enclosed an excel spreadsheet of SERPS that quite frankly if I delivered it to a client without checking I would have basically been laughed at.
It was that good.
Seriously, I mean it.
If you thought yesterdays statistics were mind blowing (and humbly speaking I reckon a 443% increase in traffic ain’t too shabby as they say over here in Northern Ireland) then pick a couple of cushions to soften your fall ‘cos this is going to knock you sideways.
His spreadsheet enclosed (and I kid you not) the following statistics taken over 1200 terms:
Google:
500 Top 5 slots (251 at No 1)
Yahoo:
607 Top 5 slots (343 at No 1)
Bing:
605 Top 5 slots (343 at No 1)
Now this was 6 weeks ago so between a few of us we random checked about 70-80 terms this morning and….yes there had been some slippage but who the heck is going to complain if a few of the terms had slipped from No 1 to………No 2? To balance that in quite a few cases he had tag teamed the No 1 and No 2 slots and this was still 6 weeks after the release!
All in all we found that 75-85% of his results still stood so extrapolate that over 1200 terms and you get the picture as to why he was so excited and why the hard-bitten SOB’s (OK guys not really) in our ClientSEO Team were so impressed.
And we thought our results were mind blowing.
Listen boys and girls, there is so much…..how can I put it, but think of the smelly stuff that comes out of the rear end of a cow, flying around being sold nowadays that it is nice when something that is so achievable and practical appears that sometimes it is very easy to overlook it.
In this case it is the execution and implementation of the process that brings about the results here.
So, before we get tooooo carried away with everything let’s put in place some caveats here to bring about a dose of reality to the situation.
Yes as he said, a lot of his terms were very very Long tail..but in most cases (90% of the terms we checked) they had adverts running alongside the SERPS so someone was bidding on the traffic so that confirms to me that yes the majority of these terms had traffic (albeit small amounts but traffic nonetheless).
Does this technique work 100% all the time, every time?
I wish I could say yes and claim 100% perfection but to be honest I failed those exams at school so I’ll settle for a slightly “grubby” 75-85% hit rate which is still well above the average and in a lot of cases delivers results that most folks out there only fantasize about.
Hmnn that’s about it really.
Too many folks have come back now with amazing results for this not to be genuine. As I’ve said, it might not hit the target absolutely 100% all of the time but the strike rate is too convincing now for it not to be included within everyone’s’ armory.
Now those of you who have been receiving emails and newsletters from me for some time will testify that we don’t go down the conventional “Guru, churn and burn” route i.e. I very rarely send out emails promoting other peoples products purely just to create affiliate income. I know there hundreds out there who do but I don’t as I will only promote something that sits alongside our Simple Leveraging methodology and also something that we have tried out, tested and found to work on our clients first.
As an organization, we don’t exist purely on earning our income via affiliate sales in fact affiliate income accounts for less than 1% of our turnover so if we do send information out about another product or service (and I think we’ve done it 3-4 times in the past 2 years) then it’s because we think it will help your service.
Also because we feel so strongly that you should be using this we are quite prepared to waive potentially $480 worth of affiliate income per user, as a way of saying “Thank You” and also to act as an incentive for you to get hustling and do something.
If you or a client are working on a project and you absolutely have to deliver on something quickly then this is the road down which you should go, even allowing for the pre Christmas rush.
When you are promoting something for either yourself or a client then you have to make one of two decisions regarding SEO.
Firstly, how quickly can I get the target page into position in the SERPS to start the traffic flowing and how much of a fight is it going to entail and also how much budget do I have?
Secondly, if I can’t get my target page onto Page 1 quickly then I absolutely have to get either a Press Release or some form of associate page there to at least get into “the action” and deliver some sort of ROI.
Press Releases, designed, implemented and submitted correctly fit the bill here. Put it together with our SLS methodology and Bookmarking Network and you really have the weapons with which to carry the fight forward towards the achievements of your goals.
If you are a member of SLS and not using this technique then the first thing you should do after reading this email is to email me by return and I’ll get you set up with our discount link and get you up and running.
$480 worth of savings is not to be sniffed at, especially in these times of hardship and recession.
You have to ask yourself the question, given the resources it has at its disposal, the seemingly limitless funds and general marketing & personnel clout that it can throw at a situation, how come Google so often seem to open their mouths to change their feet?
How can such an organization that prides itself on the quality of its staff and resources engaged employ such a bunch of idiots to actually go out and do what they do at times?
First there was last year’s little escapade over the serious emergence of their new Social Media Promotional angles when they said that certain types of Link and Referral data was being withheld for…wait for it……Data protection issues. Then they were found to be selling, yes you’ve guessed it, that same Data to Adwords Buyers if they paid the right fees. The whole exercise was then blown wide apart when most observers rightly (in my opinion) highlighted the whole incident as the opening shots in driving the free version of Webmaster Tools under and the emergence of a Premium version of Webmaster Tools.
Now they’ve gone and done it again in another “hello Mr Foot please meet Mr Mouth” incident over paid Linking Campaigns.
Now for those who have only just entered this fun packed little Industry of ours, Google have developed, over the years, quite a negative stance (understatement here) on the whole concept of paid links. They don’t like them, they don’t like the practice of it and if they catch sites doing it then they basically consign them to the “nether regions of on-line hell” (or certainly below No 500 in the index or ban entirely) or so the theory goes.
Imagine the hilarity then when the Big G themselves get caught out a few days ago, supposedly engaged in a paid Link Building Campaign for their Chrome Browser but when challenged about it, suddenly develop a sense of moral outrage that “yes the Campaign was ours but it was not what we signed up for!”.
Really?
As they say over here in Ireland, “Do they think we’re not wise?”
Anyway back to the point, this whole episode highlights a great many things.
Firstly Google are going to do what Google want, for the interests of Google and not anyone else and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise?
Secondly they are not above making waves and delivering changes that come completely out of the blue as with yesterdays “Search, plus your World” announcement.
Now this has to be as clear an indication that they have finally decided to come out of the closet and take on FaceBook head on in the Social Arena with a beefed up “Google Plus” program.
Now my opinions of Google Plus in the early stages were very undecided and were very much powered by my distrust of all things Google and I still have some of the reservations but I do think that Google Plus could be “where it’s at in 2012″ and that 2012 could be the first year that FaceBook “catches a cold” (albeit not a major one).
We need to study at greater length the Google “Search, plus your World” concept further and we’ll write about in the days and weeks ahead as this could be something that it is essential to keep on the right side of with regards to Google but let me finish this with one last warning.
If in your or your client’s Campaigns you are indulging in anything even remotely, how can I put this, slightly greyish/leading to Black Hat then steer clear of Google Plus by a country mile.
The downside of Google Plus is that because they call the shots as you can only take part if you have a Google controlled account, this means that if a Grey Squirrel as much as breaks wind in Southern Spain then the boffins at the Googleplex in California will know about it. I know this might sound as if I am an apologist for the likes of George Orwell et all but Google plus could possibly turn out to be the most potentially Orwellian of online marketing tools in that it really is a case of Google playing the role of Big Brother.
They do know what you are up to so keep it smart and stay safe.
This doesn’t mean that you can’t indulge in the odd piece of “cute” marketing as that would be boring but just don’t do it with any user logins or profiles that you use for Google Plus.
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