Easy Content and Backlinks

OK,

I just realised exactly how lazy I was, here I am recieving targeted news and blog posts in my email everyday and doing nothing with them.

I'm talking about Google Alerts.

I sign up for a free account, and they send me relevant newsworthy web pages and blog posts whenever they come up.

News to post about in any blog with any keyword that I want, hell I can use the Blog This! tool in my toolbar to over simplify the process, and a Google Blogs Alert that not only provides me with updated opinions but options to add a comment to any relevant post. (even nofollow tags create traffic)

So if content is your problem, and it shouldn't be, try Google Alerts. That and a few articles from ArticleYou.com and a Wordpress Theme and you'll be in business.

Blog Comment Backlinks

Recently I posted about my new found appreciation for the Comment Kahuna Software in its ability to speed up my ability to build up relevant backlinks to any of my websites.

If you don't have it, get it.

Anyway, Blog comments on my mind I came across a competitors website that relies heavily on blog commenting to generate backlinks. It isn't something that I see all that often. But in viewing their backlinks I was able, if I wanted to, post a comment everywhere that they did without doing all of the research that they had already done.

And I could always out do them by generating links by other means.

Then I came across this video over at YouTube, it's sad that you have to wade through so much crap to find something this good but thats why I'm posting it here:

So you don't burn out your eyes squinting like I did here is a copy of the search terms he used so you can copy and paste that into your book of baclinking tricks.

"keywords" "powered by wordpress" "leave a comment" - "no comments"

Link Building Update

Ok,

I apologize. I was supposed to post this picture and the amount of new links the other day and I totally forgot. Actually I was working on a new website using some potentially incredible software and lost ALL track of time.

Anyway here is the Link Building Information as of last Tuesday for RankBullet.com:

16 Inbound links from a one time use of Version 1 of the Rank Bullet System. As I mentioned before it has changed a lot since Version 1, Version 2 is a lot more powerful, however I have held off on attempting to use it as the end results for Version 1 have not fully come in yet.

And already I have a Version 2.1 in mind.

Building Social Media Backlinks the easy way

Social Media and Social Bookmarking are all the rage right now in building traffic.

But I have to admit that I am woefully far behind on this gravy train. There are too many sites and too many differing rules at each for me to focus on all but a handful. Then it really comes down to the matter of wether this traffic is really worth the effort for your website.

But isn't more traffic always better?

No. Targeted traffic is better. The type of things on most social media bookmarking sites that get passed around are usually of the tabloid type of information. Something pop culture, current event related or really bizzare.

If that fits the content of your website then you are looking at a goldmine of traffic.

If however your websites sells your services as a nanny, or used car parts in the michigan area then the traffic will be of little use to improving the bottom line of your business.

So what to do?

Beyond bookmarking your own website on your favorite bookmarking websites there is something that I encourage all of my customers to implement on every page of their website. A simple bookmarking button that allows a visitor to say, "Hey, I like this site (or information) and I wanted to share it with everyone else online."

It is a passive, non-intrusive button that allows your website visitors to easily share the contents of your website with their extended internet community.

However there are a multitude of bookmarking sites from which to choose from, which buttons do you include and which do you omit?

Thankfully the people at AddThis.com have created a Free all in one button that can be quickly added to any page of your website.

Even if your content isn't something that gets people bookmarking it at a furious pace even one visitor bookmarking your website will help others interested in the same subjects to visit your website from their network. And these people will be more likely to also bookmark your content.

The passive role of the bookmarking button can be like a snowball rolling downhill as far as traffic is concerned. The longer its up there, the more visitors will be building relevant backlinks for you and your targeted traffic will continue to grow.

Rank Bullet Challenge

OK,



Here it is one week after I started building backlinks for the Rank Bullet Web Site, page really, and I'm up to 13 inbound links from that first day of work.

While there are surely more to come in the following weeks as the various websites and search engine spiders catch up with my flurry of activity I have been working on Rank Bullet 2. It is an improved system, working out the kinks from the first one while expanding its horizons to a greater amount of websites.

But once again I will not use these techniques on my original Rank Bullet System as I want the inbound link figures to acurately reflect the least possible amount of inbound links one would get for their investment in my services.

Third day of the Rank Bullet Challenge

Just a quick update here on the begining of the third day of my own Rank Bullet Link Building Challenge.

I spent the first day executing what I plan to be the basic Link Building Package to get some inbound links for the Rank Bullet website (page really). I keep being tempted to go above and beyond, to do some link building that would be done with more expensive packages, or to do the the basic package a second time to double my links, but I want this to as honest of a test as possible.

So, no work has been done after the first day of link building. Here it is the begining of the third day, roughly 48 hours after I started building links and Rank Bullet now has three inbound links.

Whoo Hoo right? But we'll wait and see how they all start trickling in over the next few weeks.

Link Building Experiment

Jenny, who just started her new Traffic Building blog, Got me started thinking about some of my recent ideas on building traffic when I came up with what could be an ultimate system for generating large amounts of relevant and quality backlinks.

No links from any website with a page rank less than 1, in fact most would be from page rank 4 and above. No spamming, no link farms and no blackhat seo techniques involved.

The idea which I call Rank Bullet is a culmination of two years trying to build links and putting in long hours with very little to show for my efforts. In fact it is only recently that I have seen the skyrocketing effect of my increasing inbound links.

So I have an experiment going. The following picture is a screen capture of the amount of backlinks for the above mentioned Rank Bullet website. As you can see as of today there are Zero.

I will start building out a 1 or 2 page minisite tomorrow and begin using my new proprietary system for generating quality inbound links.

And I will update everyone on this blog at least weekly, June 17th and 24th and July 1st and 8th.

That way I will be held accountable for my new system and we can all see the effects that it has on both my inbound links and search engine rankings.

Free Online Business Promotion

It amazes me how many small business owners who come to me for Search Engine Optimization for their already existing website haven't done one of the simplest things, one thing I consider to be a first step in building your business' online presence.

As a business owner that is always looking to reach new customers your website is a very important part of making yourself available to servicing your customers needs. But if nobody knows about your website then it isn’t being effective in bringing in new customers.

In the old days a brick and mortar type business would set up shop and invest in an advertisement in the local phone book to bring in customers from the surrounding area. To be honest, not much has changed. Sure, you may not have a physical business location but the popularity and terrific potential of the local phone book is still a massive customer building option.

Phone book advertising can be expensive. The costs of printing and delivering hundreds of thousands of phone books to every residence have to be paid and those costs are pushed onto the business owner looking to make a decent return on their investment.

But on the internet publishing costs can be minimal, allowing the major phone book companies to give away free phone book listings.

That’s right Free!

Why? Because they want to have a useful web presence to keep visitors coming back and because they want to know about your business so they can attempt to sell you on upgrades and more expensive packages.

In the mean time your business name, website address and maybe even phone number are getting out there to potential customers looking for your type of service or product at no extra cost to you.

The best part is that there are only four major Business Directories which make up the largest segment of online traffic and they all offer free listings for your small business website.

They are:
http://www.askmryellow.com/home.php
http://www.bizweb.com/
http://www.superpages.com/
http://www.yellowpages.com/

I can’t recommend Yellow Pages enough. It has shown me a great customer response and it is the only Free Business Directory that creates a backlink to your website which is indexed by the search engines.

And as any business website owner should know generating backlinks is imperative in search engine placement and ranking for your business related keywords. To add icing to the cake YellowPages.com is a Page Rank 8 website.

So if you are online to make money and expand your existing business by exposing yourself to new customers then the free business listings with the phone book directories can not be ignored.pages is the only one that creates a backlink to your website