Need SEO advice? Shoot Your Questions! (16)
Hello guys,
I have joined in a few days ago, and saw the seo section being a bit neglected - compared to all the gems I have found in other sections.
In other words, I'm going to share insights with you guys & answer your questions.
I've doomed some keywords I'd consider pretty hard, I have outranked several offline loan brokers.
Right now I'm mainly making money by click jacking traffic coming from the financial niches & twitter.
I've been developing my knowledge by building many sites, and inspiring my methods from works done by some people I consider "big guys" just to name a few of them : Brad, Larceny, Igl0w.
If you have any particular question about linkbuilding, wordpress (who knows), splogs, cloacking, seo myths, blog networks, keyword density, anchor variation, whatever comes to your mind.. Shoot!
If you have any particular question or wish to discuss stuff privately, shoot me a PM with your skype.
Go ahead guys 
I agree with this section lacking a bit. Good post
Question 1: how has your link building changed since penguin? Are you using a lot more URL anchors and social signals?
Originally Posted by comedia1
Currently, I'm using 40% related anchors, 40% domain variation & generic anchors (such as : http://domain.com, domain, click here..), 20% exact.
I try to keep a steadily increasing flow of social signals going on - including twitter, facebook and bookmarks.
I increase for a short while social signals before spamming my sites. Then progressively decrease the flow of signals to normal after the blast is done.
How do you integrate social media into your SEO efforts? I have considered advertising for likes/social engagement for one of my brand pages on FB and it does bring in decent daily traffic. Just wondering if you've used any similar methods with social media.
Originally Posted by navuud
Also having your own MySpace / G+1 profile should bring good results as well, I usually don't bother with these though.
I grab Likes & G+1 by clickjacking visitors. I use custom script to retweet my links.
whats clickjacking?
Got a good question via PM
i had a google adsense account banned a few months ago with $2500 in it (fuckers), i got the usual reply from G and i honestly didnt do anything!!
anyway if your doing clickjaking with adsense then you probably know more shit then me
do you have any suggestion how to get back to adsense and protect myself next time??
thanks
Couple of things may have triggered the ban :
a) Twitter traffic or from other funny sites (including iframed traffic or traffic with blank referer) is a big no-no if sent directly to your adsense site.
b) Clickbombing from someone ?
c) Mistake from you : clicked ad / linked adsense account to another banned account via login into gmail of a previous account & stuff like that
Also important thing, you can potentially be manually reviewed if you reach $1K/month/account, as I blatantly break google's TOS, I keep each of my accounts under $1K/month. Also some keywords are more susceptible to trigger a manual review - high CPC ($10+ per click) keywords.
If your site is legit, it can be because of poor design (many ads etc) or poor content, or no reason - unfortunately it happens.
Best way for you to get back on track is to buy a cheap vps, and get a new account approved on this. You should not login to any previous google accounts from this vps. You can install a Virtual Machine too & go with private proxies, but it's way more risky because adsense interface is flash based, and they can track a lot more stuff from that, so you'd need to deactivate flash & javascript.
Make sure Timezone, OS, screen resolution are not the same between your VPS/Virtual Machines
You should buy a new simcard or use a call forwarding service so you don't link your phone # between accounts, and spin your address like : "3-street-smith, 17th appt" if you live at "3 street smith, appt 17". These address are different for google but you'll still receive checks.
That's pretty much all, if you're in a hurry, you can get adsense accounts within 72hrs at adsenseg.com, otherwise you can submit a blog of yours.
I am trying my hands on niche sites lately (mostly to flip). Any suggestions for keyword research. I am open for paid options.
Originally Posted by harmonyinfotech
I rank gradually #1 for each of the keywords by increasing competition order, I have found out that was faster than going for highly profitable keyword right away, or looking for fast traffic at all cost.
The more I target competitive keyword the more quality content I publish.
Also, I make sure my set of 10-15 initial keywords are related (close & in the same niche); for each one of these keyword I publish 5-10 mashed posts on the side (depending on how competitive the keyword is) and link them back to the article I wish to rank using closely related anchors, and I gradually spam these mashed articles.
This means the more I'm going to rank for highly competitive keyword; the more (quality) articles ranking #1 & related to this article are linked back to it.
Also once I have a good number of articles ranking #1, I do some more keyword researches to find closely related keywords with high traffic and tweak these posts to be rankable for them.
One example I did last year was :
first level keyword : mature online
second level : mature online dating
third level : free mature online dating
fourth level : free mature online dating sites
and goes on & on...
the higher the level, the higher the traffic, or you can expend on less worthy keywords by tweaking article title / keyword density / external links, this work very well too. Make sure you don't touch the permalink!
Right now I do very sloppy keyword research, I mean once you realize it's just a marathon and have your method proven to work for highly competitive keywords,
you just look for traffic without .edu/.gov or PR6+ taking the first spot.
One thing, when doing your keyword research check the #1,
if it's a root domain ranking, it'll probably be a difficult keyword,
if the #1 is targeting that keyword and has built many quality links to the page it'll be hard as well.
Also becareful with page ranking without backlinks, really important you have a look at the domain,
already had to compete with irs.gov - it was a real bitch -
it doesn't mean you can't do it, only that you need your domain to have good trust - can take time & money to build - and then focusing on your particular keywords will make things roll smoothly.
Also another advanced tip, if you are in a narrow niche, where some big sites are owning it e.g dating niche,
target keywords where you could possibly outrank these big players over & over again, even if these are not very interesting keyword,
the fact that you can outrank a trusted site over & over again will hugely increase your potential to rank.
Maybe because google sees you make the job easier for them to rank you based on which domains you already outrank for this particular niche.
I use Ultimate Niche Finder for keyword research, and look at top selected keywords manually.
I'll catch up with PMs & Skype stuff asap, very very busy incoming days, thank's for your patience guys 
aye.. my one and very serious question: How do we keep getting adsense accounts? seems pretty hard on my end here
Hello joe,
here's a post I have made on another private board where I explain how to get adsense accounts fully approved within 72 hours -
I've submitted a free blog about 3 days ago and just got my adsense account fully approved.
Here are the exact steps I did, some may not be necessarily.
The idea behind is to show google reviewers you're very naive about internet marketing, very competent in your field and very motivated.
You have to clear all your browsing and tracking data, get a new IP, change your timezone, your screen resolution and your OS (VMware) - Adsense account safety
Lazy way : buy a low end vps $5 a month or so
Also, make sure you enter each time this is asked : your real name, a fake address. You'll be able to change your address inside adsense, not your payee name. If your name in gmail doesn't match your adsense payee name, it may look suspicious.
I wouldn't recommend using a PC that has chrome installed on it as I'm sure they track a lot more stuff from it - well if I were them I would at least.
1) Make a gmail account
2) From there set up a blogger account, make sure your account sounds 40~45 years old not really familiar with technologies e.g My Fishing experience
3) Add a new blog myexperiencewithfishing
4) Pick the cleanest template possible, the reviewer after having seen 600 flashy blogs this day will eventually & subconsciously thank you for this.
5) change a little the blog template :
change the default color and add a nice picture in the sidebar
add G+1 widget before your posts,
put Twitter/Facebook widget in the sidebar,
enable the search feature
6) Add a "privacy policy" page, check serprank to make it in a second
7) Add an "about me" page - put a little description telling what's your position in your field/why you're fond of this topic.
Also make it clear that visitors are welcome to comment on and share your articles as well as giving you new ideas to grow your blog at your new gmail address.
8) Add a "contact me" text widget at the bottom of the sidebar, with your gmail address.
9) Download some PLR articles (http://www.plrarticledirectory.com/) and post about 10 of them (same topic please : in this case I'd grab PLR articles about fishing) over 2 days.
NOTE:
put some images in almost each articles
leave your articles free of links
change the titles of your articles to something more personal
10) Go to My Earnings tab, and submit your adsense application through blogger.
11) Once you get partially approved, go to this link Google adsense approval state and submit the form with your blogger blog. This step is crucial because it'll end the "pending approval" step within 24 hours vs. a couple of days or weeks.
Also once your application is seen by a google employee through this special form, you'll be able to rate the VA that reviewed your application. This means they can't easily deny your application because they know their salary will depend on your feedback.
Have a nice day everyone
Hey,
I"m planning to build a number of review niche sites monetizing with amazon.
Each site will have 5-10 buying keywords(1-10k exact searches each). Starting with 20+ reviews and will be adding new regularly(once weekly or so). Will do the research using market samurai and make sure the competition is as low as possible. I do not have a good idea on how I should approach offpage SEO tho. I have had some experience with it in the past but mostly outsourcing it, ordering different packages etc. So my questions are: what type of links I should be building, should I outsource or not, what % of the bl goes to main kw : other kws: review posts? Any tip is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
How can you leverage FB ads to help your SEO? I know the link might not be there, but I'm wondering if there's a way.
What tools do you use?
How would you approach SEO for an entertainment website that gets 10k-25k visitors a day? A site like http://hitfix.com for example
considering we got destroyed with this last big update... i'm taking some time off with SEO.... its just too much of a pain in the ass...
i think buying traffic is really the only long term way forward.
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