Market Samurai was updated again today and I really want to share a new feature with you. It’s called Promotion and it’s a very easy way to find do follow blogs/edu.gov/squiddo lenses/forums that you can comment on. Plus, and this is what I really like, it tells you which blogs have automatic ping back enabled. Enter your keyword and let MS find backlinks. Then click on a link to look at the blog post. If you like what you see copy the ping back code and insert into a post on your blog.
That’s all! If the blog has comments automatically enabled you’ll get a backlink immediately otherwise you’ll have to wait and see if the blog owner allows the ping back on moderation. Watch the video below to see how it works! Continue reading ‘Getting Backlinks with Market Samurai’
I’ve been using Market Samurai for a while and a couple of people have asked me how it’s working out. As I use linux I’m using MS on a virtual machine and it’s a little slow and every now and then doesn’t give me any results. Not sure if this is because of the way I’m using it or Google messing about! so it has been a bit frustrating using it. If any one is using it on Windows perhaps you could let us know if these are usual problems or a result of using it on the VM. The only way to get the free trial I can see is to register with the Thirty day Challenge (it’s free) then follow the download links once logged in. Continue reading ‘Market Samurai’
I’m a bit slow at putting up this post as the challenge started on August 1st (my apologies) but better late than never I hope. I’ve been following along with the Thirty Day Challenge (30DC) and found some good information there. It’s aimed at complete newbies to internet marketing (IM) to take you through all the steps to get a web site online and earning (at least $1 in 30 days)
This is the second year that the Thirty Day Challenge has been online and it seems to be successful. Everything the team uses is free (at least for the 30 days) although they do have a follow up course that costs. There is no hard marketing to buy it however, which I like, I hate in-your-face marketing techniques! Obviously they are hoping that you like the 30 day information so much you will subscribe to the advanced marketing courses. I’m a bit too busy right now to actually go through all the steps of the Thirty Day Challenge and a lot of the information is stuff I’m already doing for my BANS and keyword sniping sites, but there’s a some new stuff for me to learn in there. Continue reading ‘Thirty Day Challenge’
I can access my websites on Blue Host (at last!) No idea what the problem was but, as I said earlier, it seems to have been a server somewhere between me and the hosting server.
Here’s a list of the plugins I’ve found most useful on my keyword sniping sites. Hope you find it useful!
All in one SEO Pack Always essential for any WordPress site of course!
Category Posts Widget Put your posts in different categories then display by category in the sidebar
Dagon Design Sitemap Generator Easy to use sitemap generator
Google Sitemaps Always need a Google sitemap!
WordBay Only needed if you’re displaying eBay auctions
WordPress Related Posts Helps SEO by internally linking your posts
WP-DBManager Excellent, easy to use, database backup manager. Automatically finds your database (and the absolute path to it). Can be set to email you the database at regular intervals.
WP tags to Technorati Changes your tags to Technorati tags then displays them after posts (or anywhere else you want)
That’s all the plugins I’m using. One of the reasons I love WordPress is that, whatever I’ve wanted to do I’ve found a plugin to do it! Anyone have suggestions for other useful plugins?
It’s a month since I set up my keyword sniping experiment so here’s a report on the progress so far.
Total visitors 659
Google 347 MSN 96 Live 33 Referring sites 122 Direct Traffic 27
Keyword A position in Google After 1 week 125 After 1 month 97
Keyword B position in Google After 1 week 106 After 1 month 68
keyword B is a seasonally affected keyword that has few visitors in the summer. The trend starts to increase in August so I expect that to have an influence on the no of visitors. Probably not the best keyword to use for my experiment!
So my number of visitors is a little disappointing but probably expected as I am not optimising for long-tailed keywords with few visitors but trying to eventually get more visitors by targeting harder keywords. My positions are coming down and I still have directories and article sites yet to approve my submissions. I’ll leave it for a while then try to submit some more articles.
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