Archive for the ‘Link Building’ Category

Blog ghostwriting for SEO: Pay peanuts, get monkeys

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Pay $10 – $25 per blog post?! Wow! Put me down for 200 of those. I imagine they’ll be top shelf link bait! Just what I need for my SEO…
C’mon! I know blogging is hard work and takes a lot of time, but do you really think the answer is outsourcing to someone cheap? How [...]

Black-hat SEOs – If they’re gay as well, can we ‘Out’ them twice?

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

“Out him! Out him! Out him! People have a right to know!” Sounds very familiar, doesn’t it? But if you think I’m talking about lifting the lid on the personal lives of the Neil Patrick Harrises and T. R. Knights of this world, think again.
I’m talking about exposing black-hat SEOs for the depraved, oiled-up, muscular, [...]

A copywriter’s vent about crap SEO copy!

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I read an interesting blog post today: Low value content is destroying your website.
The guts of the post: most pages of most websites are low value. People hardly ever visit them, and if they do stumble upon them, they tend not to return. Only a handful of pages are visited often. Furthermore, “… what I [...]

If Twitter’s so great, why don’t I get it? – 10 tips for Twitter beginners

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

When I first checked Twitter out, I didn’t get it. Like you, I’m always too busy. So I had one quick look, couldn’t see the immediate benefit, and (much to my own misfortune) I didn’t come back for months.
It wasn’t until I had the privilege of seeing Darren Rowse present at a Search Engine [...]

Are backlinks in syndicated articles really counted?

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Article marketing, article PR, article submission, article distribution… Whatever you want to call it, it’s a great way to generate backlinks. But are those backlinks really of any use? I decided to find out.
For quite a few years now, I’ve been using article PR as a link building method. For an SEO copywriter, it was [...]

FreeCopywriting.com splitting AdSense revenue with copywriters

Monday, October 13th, 2008

I’ve just upgraded FreeCopywriting.com. Here’s how it works:

You write some copy and submit it to FreeCopywriting.com
Google automatically displays ads whenever someone views that copy
Google pays a commission whenever someone clicks on one those ads
Half the time, that commission goes to me. The other half of the time, it goes to you (assuming you’ve told us [...]

‘Link baiting’ – A great way to generate link popularity

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

‘Link baiting’ may just be a fancy name for ‘good web content’, but it’s a handy reminder that content is critical to a high search engine ranking. Simply put, it’s about making your site content so good that people can’t help but link to it. They feel they’d be doing their own visitors a disservice [...]

Copywriting tools & SEO copywriting tools

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Just a quick post this time… I quite often find myself recommending tools or specific applications of tools for copywriting and SEO copywriting. So I thought I’d cut out the middle-man and simply publish my list and a few comments on each tool.
So here’s my list of copywriting tools and SEO copywriting tools. If you [...]

Steal search ranking from your competitors!

Monday, February 19th, 2007

One of the best ways to build the link popularity of your site (thereby increasing your search engine rank) is to check where your competitors’ links are coming from, and try to get links from those sites yourself. (You’ll be surprised where some of their links come from.)
Yes, it’s a simple idea, but when you [...]

How to get link partners & boost your rank

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Probably the most well known method of generating inbound links is to look for link partners. This is done in a variety of ways:

ask customers to link to your site (possibly in return for a link to theirs)
ask suppliers to link to your site (possibly in return for a link to theirs)
look for relevant high [...]

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