New Products from Linkworth
This is a paid review but I thought you might want to know as well.
I’ve been a long time publisher of Linkworth right when I first discovered text link advertising and search engine marketing. I’ve created sites revolving around text link advertising since then and most of them are monetized using Linkworth.
They just recently launched 4 new products: LinkPost, LinkInTxt, LinkArt & LinkDir. LinkPost is their version of paid reviews. Like this post is a paid review. LinkArt is their article directory submission tool. LinkDir is for their web/link directory submission. LinkInTxt embed links in the body of the site’s content.
These are 4 new ways to earn a little online. It might be little but it bought me a brand new car.
Using our tool and adwords
Today, I created my very first Google Adwords campaign. I am going to put to test the tool we wrote. If our users pay $300 per month for what we built, it must be doing something good for them. Besides, the tool is already stable except for some quirks here and there. It’s completely usable.
I don’t know if it’s a good sign or not but after a few minutes of creating my first ad, it had it’s first click. I’ve yet to see if it converted as my affiliate hasn’t updated it’s report pages yet.
Do I sound a bit too excited? You bet, I am. It’s the same feeling I get when I get my first click in Adsense.
Google will Sell Domain Names
Ready to make that SEO theory about getting preferential treatment in Google when you use them to register your domain name? Here’s your ammo.
Google’s service will charge a $10 annual fee and only handle addresses ending in four suffixes — “.com,” “.net,” “.biz” and “.info.” There are more than 250 other suffixes in the Internet’s master directories.
Web sites that register their domains through Google will be automatically set up to work with several other company products, including e-mail, calendaring and instant messaging. The configuration won’t prevent the Web sites from using services offered by Google rivals…
via Yahoo News
No Linklove from HBO’s Pacquiao-Morales Fight
I was Ego searching when I came across this HBO post on Pacquiao-Morales fight that mentioned my name. Sadly, there’s not a single linkback can be found. It doesn’t matter actually if they have a link back or not. I still have my name cited on that post.
Now let’s look at this in a SEO point of view. That single link from HBO really mean a lot. It can be interpreted my site as an authoritative boxing resource site. HBO is a huge site. A single link from that article could have made serious damage to my web host and see my alexa traffic ranking shoot up.
Anyway, no problem with me as I see the post wrote it in the positive.
DMOZ Listing
What is the benefit of having a site listed in DMOZ? Well, one of my personal blog hosted in blogger got listed in DMOZ. I submitted the site 3 months ago and totally forgot about it. This morning when I checked the stat for that site, it got a referral from DMOZ. And the link to it is actually exist.
OK. Let’s list down the characteristics of my site.
- It has a Google PageRank of 3
- Updated once or twice a month
- Average article length is 1000 words
- Lots of outbound links to sources
- A few (approx. 5) inbound links, all from link exchange
Nope, there’s nothing special about those, right? Right.
Duplicate Content on One Domain
Being a SEO wannabe, I was wondering if multiple exact pages on the same domain is considered duplicate posts by search engines. This is related on the current project I’m working on which deals with free tagging, that is, users tag their posts with keywords they deem appropriate for their post.
For example, a post about php software being run on linux. If I were to tag it, it would be “php, “linux”. Then if I visit the linux tag page which returns all posts with tag “linux”. Same thing will happen if I visit the “php” tag page. Because the post (usually published on full) appears on two different pages, does this constitute duplicate post? If it does then tagging is not seo friendly.
I can understand why duplicate content on different domain is bad. But I don’t know if that applies if they are found to be hosted on the same domain. This is a complete noob question.
SEO Philippines Mini-Contest
Filipinos who are members of SEO Philippines Yahoo Group are gearing up for the upcoming mini-seo contest much like the just concluded v7n’s elursrebmem and the ongoing shoemoney mini-seo contest. Details of the contest has not yet been announced formally but Mr. SEO Philippines Marc Macalua, also the group’s founder, has hinted it to start very soon.
Sure, it’ll be fun. What I am waiting to see is a clash of skills of who’s who in the group. Heated arguments about various seo techniques has already begun with people silently taking sides. Colors will fly. Black, white, gray? Whatever colors you can think of that can pull them through the ranking will be done. Best of all, seo noobs like me get to learn actual tricks from practicing SEOs on this side of the planet. Last time I checked, the price is pretty good. For now, I’ll chase shoemoney’s money.
Filipinos and Shoemoney Mini-SEO Contest
Do Filipinos like joining online contests? Abe have already won a couple of times, Retz too had his share of online fame which he’s enjoying until now. While checking my shoemoney standings in search engines, more and more Pinoy sites are showing up.
You may notice that I am writing and linking too much about Jeremy Schoemaker’s - a.k.a shoemoney - mini-contest. It is because I enjoy playing games. Others play games like mmorpg’s or FPS, I tend to play games that are more or less will give something in return other than wasted time. Shoemoney and other SEO contests as of late have given me the pleasure.
More fun in Shoemoney Contest
I’ve taken a shot at ranking for the shoemoney keyword. The things is the shoemoney contest gets a little bit more interesting and doable. Shoemoney previously wanted us to take the #1 spot but quickly realized it’s next to impossible for the keyword shoemoney.
Anyway, Shoemoney revised the rules that’ll give prizes to those who lands in top 10 spots in Google, Yahoo and MSN for the keyword shoemoney. All the rules pretty much stayed the same just the prizes. By the way he will be checking the search engines for shoemoney on June 22. I hope to be at least in the 10th spot.
After reading on shoemoney’s blog that there were changes, I was thinking that I can win this after all. But then again, that’s because the prize isn’t that high and the bigshot SEO’s won’t waste time with it. Some will enter the shoemoney not for the prize but, I guess, for the fun of it and for that elusive SEO repuatation that this contest brings them. As for me, I’m on this for fun. I’m no SEO whatsoever - at least not, officially - just trying to learn to. So if the keyword is shoemoney, then shoemoney it is.
Link Proximity
Does the proximity of the links in a webpage determine their quality? There are other ways that search engines determine the quality of the links in a webpage other than the PageRank of the page or the relevance of the content.
One of my hunch is that the proximity of the links from each other can be one of the determining factor of its quality. For example, it is common to see links displayed as list in sidebars. It is easy for one to analyze that they must be a blogroll, reciprocal links, or paid links which search engines can tag as low quality links that has nothing to do with the content.
I believe that links that are embedded in the content like citation links have higher quality in search engines than those listed somewhere. Being embedded in the content, it suggests that it is needed somehow especially if it is relevant with the topic. Search engines view these links as authoritative as they are often use to point to the source.
I think this is the reason why “Presell Pages” and “submitted articles” are seen as an effective way to increase PageRank and SERPs. Or it is just my flawed and untrained view of search engine optimization. Or maybe it is just my imagination.