May
13
Common SEO mistakes made by new webmasters.
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I often troll through adult webmaster forums such as GFY and (insert one of a million others), to look at the Newbie Forums. It gives me a pretty good look at new ideas, and you are almost always sure to find some decent discussion, usually from a post where someone asked advice and got some solid answers from somebody with a clue. Of course you have to judge what is a good answer, and what is not, as you often have people without a clue, answering also. But anyrate, it kind of lead me into today’s post.
While surfing and reading the Newbie Forums its evident to see that many new webmasters have many great things going for them, they are eager, asking questions, testing theory and actually building things, as opposed to sitting back and running them. But the one thing that stands out to me is that almost all of them make tragic mistakes on their starting sites, which basically seals the deal as far as google giving them any love in the future.
Here is a quick list of the “simple” things I see done wrong everyday.
- Non Unique Content. This is the main offender, most new webmasters get eager to build pages, post to their blogs, or even end up going with plain rss fed garbage regurgitated from sponsor programs account admins. It is ESSENTIAL that you build your site with a unique text base, there has to be a reason for google to include you. Google wants to catalogue and index the world’s information, and then make it searchable by the general public. Now here’s the thing, yes they want every bit of information they can get, BUT they only need a peice once. Anything more then that is just more of the same, and they work to trim and clean the index, NOT add duplicate information to cloud things more.
- Jack of All Trades, Master or None. Its hard to say the above is the main offender, because this is possibly more common, atleast as common. A very common mistake is to build your first site and think its best to give your surfers everything, all niches, free pictures and free movies and links out to every possible type of paysite out there. Thousands of galleries onsite, hundreds of links, and basically its all just a huge pile of shit. Focus on ONE theme, ONE niche and hit it hard. Be a Master, not a Jack. “Jacks” dont make front page for big terms, that is reserved for Masters and Specialists who cater specifically to the search term niche.
- Make Use Of Your Title Tags. Its the simplest, yet most important thing you can do to easily increase your search engine traffic and onpage SEO, is to adjust and correctly write your page titles. Pick any term that you would like to rank for, and do a search right now. I think you will notice that about 90-95% of all sites listed on the first page will have that search term in its title. It matters greatly to Google, and it also weighs in heavily on the clickability of your link in the serps, its the link the surfer will click from Google serps to you.
- Bad Neighborhoods and Link Trades. Linking into a bad site or neighborhood is basically as effective to a webmaster, as shooting themselves in the foot is to a long distance runner. It completely voids any work you have done, and shows to the search engine that you are either shady, dangerous, or totally a fool, none of which you want them to think. Never trade with sites that openly spam Webmaster boards looking for trades, stay away from onpage “link add” services. Don’t use scripts like linkex, and do not trade links with them. Yes it matters, watch what you trade links with, Google is certainly paying attention.
Oct
24
Some great blog domains for sale.
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On the far right sidebar you can see a list of blog domains I’ve had for quite awhile (original owner, never winter driven).
Some are definately premium blog domains and others are just not bad. I’m open to offers on all of them, but in no real rush to get rid of them. Emails offering 50$ and such will be ignored.
Chances are the ones i don’t get rid of i will develop, it isn’t hard to get ideas for them, the names make that self explanatory
- homosexualblog.com
- guysblog.com
- galsblog.com
- mansblog.com
- womansblog.com
- potblog.com (with pr4)
- bongblog.com
- pillsblog.com (with pr4 sub-domain)
Oct
20
Knock Knock Knocking on Yahoo’s backdoor.
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As i mentioned in a prior post about my early days trying to reverse engineer other seo’s stuff, to learn the tricks or figure out atleast some proper building and linking strategies, i stumbled across a way to make it into yahoo’s back door. Yahoo search results werent what i was expecting to get either, but was a sort of side-effect of how i built my early pages. For a couple reasons, Yahoo’s bot really loved my stuff.’
For almost 3-4 months, i had reverse engineered some of the top seo’s rankings, i scoured over the first pages of serps and studied, big dick pages, blowjob sites and any other webpages i saw ranking in the top 10. I had wrote down websites i figured were all in the same persons networked, and basically mapped out all the players. It was fairly evident that back then, just a few years ago, that there was only about 4 or 5 major players, and then hundreds of “one offs”, people who ran single sites with deep rich, authoritive pages.
Now allthough i was getting a real good idea how the networks all worked, i didnt have link power or page history to work with (wasnt smart enough then to buy old sites), but i had all the other peices, i had unique text, relevant links and was utilizing a new thing called blogs to push my content out to the masses through many diferant means. I actually solidified it one week when i built a bunch of blogspot.com blogs. Using the blogspot domain i added something to my domains and sites i couldnt make. I added some trusted domain and aged links to the sites. Of course the sites and links were new, BUT they were on an old trusted domain, blogspot.com.
Now doing all them sites on blogspot really bumped things for me in a couple ways. Like i mentioned above, it gave me a trusted domain to push links from, and it also gave me this new neat thing called Atom, or RSS to syndicate the content to users. So after completing a bunch of fresh blogs, i headed out to several sites that were just beginning to offer services that allowed users to monitor and be updated, when an RSS feed was updated. One of those places who first offered this type of service to users was Yahoo.
This is where it all got interesting for me. I was running links and building sites to Trafficcashgold.com sites. Seehersquirt, CastingCouchTeens, Tinysblackadventure and ispycameltoe. And had not only built blogs for each site, but was using the blogs to all point to one major site for each niche, a money site so to speak. So i create these blogs and make my way across the 10 sites or so i found, that let you add rss feeds, Yahoo was one of them, it was one of MyYahoo’s new features. So i added about 10-12 blogs to myyahoo that nite and thought not a whole lot about it. I expected to get spidered by yahoo at worst, and maybe a few clicks somehow.
The next night, about 20-22 hrs later, i started to recieve traffic not only to all the blogs i listed the feeds for, but to the sponsor. In less then a day, the blogs had been indexed, and listed in the yahoo search engine. And the listings werent 8th or 9th page, they were top 10. It was evident that adding the rss feed to my yahoo, forced the yahoo spider to visit and cache the page, something that wasnt so evident was that they gave major weight to any site that was added then, almost classifying all RSS Feeds as news sources, and listed them in the serps as such.
I had found a backdoor into the yahoo search index, and it led right to the first pages of results. The week following is when i quit my long time job/career in construction, and pursued my online earnings. Things were very weak still back then. It was still hit and miss with some results in yahoo, and they were very quick to fix the backdoor, and stop giving such massive weight to feeds, after all, it wasnt just news sites and press sources using them anymore. But the 300-400$ a week i pulled from them for a few months was more then enough to convince me i shouldnt be working outside, freezing my balls off for 20$ an hour.



