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3 Easy Steps to Making Mini-nets

admin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:37:36 +0000

I’ve always liked stately trees with their widespread branches. It just reminds me so much of someone who’s in the peak of their lives, someone who’s life has influenced a lot of people and whose influence can be easily seen as shown by where the branch is anchored. Some branches can’t be traced easily though because of the tangle but nevertheless it is there.

Mininets are like branches for me. For those who don’t know what mini-nets or (mini-networks) are as it suggest; it is a network of sites or blogs built to support one particular site that it wants to boost. So it’s like the trunk is the site that you want to boost and the branches are the mini-net of sites and blogs. What’s the advantage you ask of spending time on a lot of other sites you say? Well, obviously, its still about link-building. But unlike other methods, mini-nets shouldn’t be as blatant as the usual link building techniques. It’s subtler thus is considered a black hat technique for some, but the patience and the ingenuity in creating mini-nets isn’t something you usually see in black hat techniques, so I digress. Here are 3 easy steps to creating your very own mini-net:

First, find free hosts. Since, these aren’t sites that you want to boost, I suggest that you don’t spend. But if you have to, just think of it as part of your investment.
Second, build sites on these free hosts. Think of 10 or more sites with at least 10 or more articles, updated regularly (every other day, or once in 3 days will suffice). Make sure this is keyword rich and I’m pertaining to keywords pertaining to that one site you want to boost. WordPress can make this a lot easier for you.
Lastly, interlink randomly. Do not link one site to each then link it back to that site. Rather, make random links. Site A can be linked to C and D. Then site E can be linked to A and F. etc. Google isn’t stupid. It will know if you are deliberately trying to fool it. This article gives a great illustration of this.

Hopefully, if you do these steps correctly that is, you will end up with your mininets deep linking to your most important site.

Go Natural

admin — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:51:33 +0000

Trainings are hard. As any athlete knows, the demands before getting that much coveted gold medal can be painful. An athlete has to suffer muscle pains, getting up in the wee hours of the morning, having a limited diet and wearing skin tight skimpy clothing. But after sweating through it all, if you are great enough, you get the prize at the end of the race. It’s a natural process. One all, beginner athletes (or those who have rested a long time) has to go through. It’s the same with SEO of course. All high ranking websites started out as beginner athletes. They had to sweat through making quality articles everyday. Stretched their muscles in making good links. Spent long sleepless nights monitoring the traffic. But at the end of the day, they know it’s worth it. But just as all athletes know, they do not rest on their laurels (unless they plan to retire of course). Instead, they consistently undergo the same things, at a greater intensity, with the goal of maintaining their position. It’s a NATURAL process. And natural processes always churn out great results. It’s the same with link building. You have to be natural about it. Natural does not include getting 43,398 links on your first day. A gradual build up of links everyday is more like it. Here are 3 check lists you can use to build links naturally:

1. Check your family.

If you check you Facebook, you would be surprised at how many prospective links you can find. Check your Twitter to see the same thing. Family members and even your friends can help you link naturally. Simply ask them to make a link to their sites or blogs if they have one. Have them Twitter a link to your site. Share a link in your status message on Facebook so they can respond faster. You’ll be surprised at the slow trickle of traffic to your site.

2. Check your neighbors.

This is going local. You can check our social clubs or organizations relevant to your business or your blog. You can ask them to make a link to your site in exchange for more exposure of their organization as well. Check your local chamber of commerce also. They have an updated and comprehensive list of businesses in your area so you can contact these and ask them to make a link to your site. Think up of something creative in exchange for the link or some make the links in exchange for promotion of their business. You can also check out non-profit organizations or cause oriented groups in your area and volunteer your services for free in exchange for getting a link to your site.

3. Check the web.

Devour articles on SEO. With the fast paced changing style of the web, what is applicable now may not be that effective tomorrow. Because of this you have to update yourself continually through quality articles about SEO.
Be consistent and be constant. Just be patient and you will reap great results.

How To Be A Positive Virus

admin — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:06:13 +0000

Viruses have been considered a curse to the digital age since the beginning of time. From personal experience I lost 2 gigs of important data on my USB, had a cell phone gone haywire and a friend gone crazy (for a brief period of time) because of its destructive effects. Taken from the medical jargon and defined as a microscopic agent which has the ability to infect almost anything it can come in contact with (think the I Love You Virus almost hacking into Pentagon), it is truly a bane for most. But believe it or not, it can be a boon to your site. If you can infect anything you come in contact with, in a positive manner of course, even a just begun site (after the Sandbox experience of course) can shoot up the search engine ranking. It’s a fairly simple concept, with fairly simple means of doing it.

Viral marketing as implied above involves getting a bunch (think BIG bunch) of links that are relevant to your site. While it may seem dubious for some, the methods we’ll be presenting here aren’t. As long as you do things honestly and naturally, you’re sure to get positive results. Here are some ways to make sure you’re site positively viral (pun intended):
1. It’s about content. Whatever strategy you employ, always think that if you’re content is not up to par in terms of quality, substance, even quantity (of articles) it will be useless. It has to be informative, interesting or entertaining depending on your target audience.
2. Bait for links. This can be done outbound or inbound. Outbound through making comments on blogs related to your site or industry with a link to your site or a specific page. Inbound through making sure you’re site is interesting enough for others to make a comment on or you can pay a popular blogger to link to your site or vice versa. Another inbound method is through using “hooks” to bait them. You can use useful information, funny jokes, news, or a review about something/someone popular to “hook” them.
3. Use social bookmarking tools and social networks. Social bookmarks can increase awareness and more visibility for your site if it’s content is interesting enough. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter help build relationships and also associations to potential target audience and customers of your site.
4. Utilize blog commenting. As stated in link baiting, post comments on sites related to your site or to your industry.
These are some of the ways you can make more valuable links to your site.

Being a positive virus can generate positive results for you!

Link building: No Spamming Please

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:48:11 +0000

I get frustrated by irrelevant and/or curt replies. One time, I gave a very long and detailed message to an employee outlining the tasks I had in mind for him, for the week. There were a lot of questions interspersed in that message for me to check if he really did get what I asked him to do. And voila, a day late later, he replied “Ok.” I didn’t blow a fuse but it was enough for me to know that he really wasn’t serious with what he was doing.

The same thing goes for blogs, forums, etc that you hope to get your links to. All clean, decent websites truly, deeply hate spam. It wastes space, gives junk information, may contain malicious backlinks that may not just harm you but even your visitors and makes the website look unattractive. So as much as possible, you do not want to be labeled as a spammer when submitting your links. Here are some tips on how to fill in comments or answers in blogs or forums:

Read the article. Do not just skim and make an answer kinda related to the post. Go over the article (not necessarily thoroughly) but enough for you to get the basic facts straight.
Search the web. If you don’t know the answer but it is a site relevant to your site, search the web and give an insightful answer. But no verbatim copying please.
Don’t post generic answers or comments. No “cool”, “great job” and other obviously recycled replies. You can post these of course at the end of your reply but let it not be your reply alone. These are the usual answers of spammers so websites find these suspicious and sometimes don’t give a second thought to disapproving comments like these.
Put in a valid email and URL. Fill in the fields properly.
Comment back. If somebody made a reply to your answer, try to go back to it and post a response to gain the trust of the website moderator.

Link building is not just about widening the scope of your site, its also about building rapport with sites relevant to yours. And just as in a friendship, you want to win the respect and trust of your neighbors. Being honest, ethical and not looking like a spammer would do just that.