Why I LOVE .Edu Backlinks
If you’re looking to gain organic traffic you probably already know how important back links are, but what you might not be aware of, is the power of .edu back links. Simply put, 1 .edu back link with no Page Rank is easily equivalent to 50 back links with PR1 or 2. If you want to rank for a heavily competitive keyword try building some .edu back links and see how drastically it changes your rankings.
I have seen .edu back links bump sites as much as 20 spots within days of the link going live.
Building .edu links is not easy. Often times you will find blogs on .edu domains and can leave comments in them, but in most cases they are assigned a “no follow” attribute so you’re link gets no juice! Check out the forums or Google around for creative ways to build these links and find out for yourself the power of them. Better yet, if you’re in college or know someone that is, hit them up and see if they have a site or blog on one of these domains. Most colleges provide students with websites, so check with your college!
Want Stumbles? Try StumbleUdon!
Are you tired of posting threads on DP begging people to Stumble you? Stop wasting your time and sign up with StumbleUdon today!
Heres how it works… You get 5 credits a day, 1 credit = 1 stumble. You enter in your user name and password and give them access to your StumbleUpon account, what this does is allow them to stumble others with your account. You can buy 100 Stumbles for $10 which is a great price. Sign up only takes a minute and you can get 5 Stumbles right now!
I’ve found that 40-50 stumbles can get me to the front page for certain keywords, and with this service I have been able to achieve this with ease. I have had over 1000 hits a day from StumbleUpon and this wasnt a one hitter quitter, this went on for weeks. If you want to keep your stumbles on top, use StumbleUdon and make your life easier.
Social Media Marketing can be great if leveraged well. Having the tools is one thing and knowing how to apply them is a complete other. Most people will tell you that Social Media traffic doesn’t monetize, and in most cases they are correct but think about the exposure from an SEO stand point and what value that can bring. I’ve seen an increase in inbound links from StumbleUpon more so then conversion but links = ranking and ranking = conversions.
Update on my Affiliate Sites.
I’ve spent the last month revamping an old supplement site and it has paid off big time! I was able to make over $200 on the site in the month of January and February looks even better. I’ve been designing and testing landing pages for various affiliate programs, setting up numerous PPC Campaigns and making revisions daily. I think the biggest tip I can give anyone getting into Affiliate Marketing is to TEST ads, landing pages, ad content and ad titles. I have found that often times the difference between a 4% conversion rate and a 0.5% conversion rate is an Ad title or description.
Well thats it for me! Work hard, stay focused and reach those goals!
Girlfriend 7.0 - Funny Email!
I couldn’t resist the temptation to post this. If you want to see more of these emails let me know and I’ll start posting them up.
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up a lot of space and valuable resources.
In addition, Wife 1.0 installed itself into all other programs and now monitors all other system activities, such as Poker Night 10.3, Football 5.0, Going to the Pub 7.5, and Softball 3.6
I can’t seem to keep Wife 1.0 in the background while attempting to run my other favorite applications. I’m thinking about going back to Girlfriend 7.0, but the uninstall doesn’t work on Wife 1.0.
Please help!
Thanks,
Troubled User…..
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REPLY:
Dear Troubled User:
This is a very common problem that men often complain about.
Many people upgrade from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0, thinking that it is just a Utilities and Entertainment program. Wife 1.0 is an OPERATING SYSTEM and is designed by its Creator to run EVERYTHING!!! It is also impossible to delete Wife 1.0 and to return to Girlfriend 7.0. It is impossible to uninstall, or purge, the program files from the system once installed.
You cannot go back to Girlfriend 7.0 because Wife 1.0 is designed to not allow this. Look in your Wife 1.0 manual under Warnings: Alimony-Child Support. I recommend that you keep Wife 1.0 and work on improving the situation. I suggest installing the background application Yes Dear 2.7 to alleviate your program problems.
The best course of action is to enter the command C:\APOLOGIZE! Because ultimately you will have to give the APOLOGIZE command before the system will return to normal anyway.
Wife 1.0 is a great program, but it tends to be very high maintenance! Wife 1.0 does come with several support programs, such as Clean and Sweep 3.0, Cook It 1.5, and Do Bills 4.2
However, be very careful how you use these programs. Improper use will cause the system to launch the program Nag Nag 9.5. Once this happens, the only way to improve the performance of Wife 1.0 is to purchase additional software. I recommend Flowers 2.1 and Diamonds 5.0
WARNING!!! DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Secretary With Short Skirt 3.3 . This application is not supported by Wife 1.0 and will cause irreversible damage to the operating system!
Best of luck,
Tech Support
Win A Google Fridge!
Who wants to Win a Google Fridge!? All you have to do is trackback a post to Dan Perry’s Google Fridge Giveaway and tell him on your own blog why he should give it to you.
My answer is simple. I began blogging to give back to the blogging community what they have given me, great content, useful tips and up to date news and in return they can choose what I do with it (assuming I win of course). I have added a poll below which will allow anyone and everyone to cast their vote as to what I should do with the Google Fridge. I cant think of any better way to spread the love then let the users decide! Thank you Dan Perry, and enjoy!
What should I do with the Google Fridge?
Want Smoother Shifting in Your BMW!?
This is a GREAT TIP on how to improve the shifting of your BMW, no matter what model you have. It’s been tested on 3, 5, 6 and 7 Series BMW’s.
- Insert the Key to into the key fob (DON’T HOLD THE BRAKE).
- Press the Start Button ONCE, just so the car electronics start and show the Engine light is on. (Again, Don’t START the Engine).
- Press and HOLD the GAS PEDAL all the way to force down the click on the gas pedal for 25 seconds.
- After those 25 Seconds, proceed to Starting the Engine and drive your car.
Basically, all you’re doing is resetting the adaptive function of the transmission which is supposed to adapt to your driving style.You WILL feel a difference when you do this.
3 Tips to a Great AdWords Quality Score
Google and Co. is always looking for a new way deliver better and more relevant content to its users, thus leading to an improved way of selecting relevant ads. As a long term AdWords user I have managed hundreds of thousands of dollars in PPC Campaigns, ranging from travel and vacationing to health supplements and real estate, and often times I have seen the same mistakes. Here are some Tips on how to optimize your landing page, ads and titles to help increase your ROI!
- Relevant Content - This is a NO BRAINIER!! Still landing people on the home page from every ad? Stop it!! If you really don’t know where else to direct someone, contact me, I’ll gladly help you out.
- Links - Ohhh Yes, did you think they were only an SEO thing? Nope - they are an important factor for both SEO and PPC! Google looks to see that relevant pages/sites link to your landing pages and that you also link out to related pages, so be sure to include some links in your landing page and watch that Quality Score go up!
- Ad Titles- Including things like, “100% Guaranteed”, “FREE Shipping!”, “What kind of Equipment do you need?”<- Asking a question is a great way to hook someone, “Order Online!”, “Safe & Secure”, “Trusted for over 25 Years” and “A New You for the New Year” are all great ways to get attention. Use seasons, holidays and other important dates whenever you can, it shows people your ad is fresh!
Well folks, thats it for now! There are many factors that go into determining Google Quality Score and if I knew them all I’d probably be working for them and having lunch with Matt Cutts, discussing no follows and laughing about how everyone makes such a huge deal about paid links. 
Everyone Can Do SEO, But Most Will Fail
SEO is simple. If you read one of the millions of blogs that covers it, you will read the same stuff over and over again… Good Content, Links, Meta Tags, Clean URLs, blah, blah, blah. They all regurgitate the same information and say it in a different way. Don’t get me wrong, there is often news that can be helpful, but rarely does anything change enough to make any SEO change his/her entire strategy.
You want good SEO? Stop being lazy. That’s the best tip in the world I can give you. If SEO’s invested even half the time they spend on buying and trading links into developing good content and sites that worked and offered their visitors an experience worth returning to, their results would ten fold. Building links to a crappy website with poor content might get you some traffic, but in time, Google and Co. will figure out ways to filter out these weak sites that offer nothing but old content and out of date information.
This being said, everyone can do SEO. Anyone who can write that is. But the problem lies in peoples habits. In todays inforamtion and fast food age we want everything yesterday, with higher quality and lower prices, but in reality this is often not possible, unless you have some big bucks to spend. Most people will fail at SEO because their lazy habits. Building links and worrying about driving traffic instead of bettering the user experience and providing good quality content will most certainly hurt you more then help you.
As an SEO, I am advising you not to spend your money on SEO until you have developed a site that works, has excellent content and is making you money, then, and only then, do I recommend you looking into an SEO company to help accelerate your success.
Building Links 101 - Back to the Basics.
Building Links has always been a vital part to any SEO strategy so here is how I start my link building campaigns.
1. Research - This is hands down the most important part before you build even a single link. Find out what keywords you want to rank for and more importantly what keywords convert the best. Look at your PPC Campaigns, Analytics or any kind of data you can analyze and figure out what ones are work and what ones are bleeding. Make sure you mix up your keywords and keep in mind that in order to rank for a main term like “widgets” you will most likely have to dominate keywords like “blue widgets”.
2. More Research - After developing a strong list of keywords then begin searching them and seeing who comes up. Check back links on the top ranking sites for each keyword and start a spread sheet of the sites. I like to group the links by keyword but use whatever method you prefer just keep it organized because it will make it a lot easier when you actually begin contacting them.
3. Build Links - After putting together what should be a lengthy list of website that are related to your keywords begin emailing them. Finding the contact form is not always easy but checking Alexa & Whois will sometimes give you their email. Be sure to create personalized emails that include your site and their site and tell them why they should link to you. Also be sure to use a professional looking email, something like hotguy_2001@aol.com doesn’t really come off as professional.
This is just one of the many ways you can build links and even though this is a common method it has proven to be effective.
Subscribe to my feed because I will show you another method soon and you wont want to miss out. This next one will certainly not be as basic and will be much more effective!
3 Steps to Getting Great Traffic from StumbleUpon
I will show you 3 easy steps on how to get traffic from StumbleUpon. I recently used this method for a client and we have been seeing about 300 hits a day from StumbleUpon and this has been going on for about 2 weeks now. There is a little initial work involved but it pays off so without further a due here are the 3 steps to getting great traffic from StumbleUpon!
1. Install the StumbleUpon Firefox addon so you can stumble yours and others sites with ease. This is a great tool that will make your job a whole lot easier and make you much more efficient!
2. Pick the page you want to drive traffic to, usually articles work best for this. After you have a page opened up, click on the thumbs up icon in the toolbar you installed in step 1. It will ask you for a review, keywords and weather or not its adult content. The MOST important part of this step is the keywords you define as this is how it will be found so be sure you add in plenty of relevant keywords. After you add all this in, Submit it.
3. Go to the Digital Point Forum -> Buy, Sell or Trade -> Freebies and start a new Thread that says something like “Stumble me and I will Stumble you!”. Post your link in the thread and nicely ask people to stumble you and in return you will do the same for the links they post in the thread. I also suggest adding these people as friends because if they are avid users they will usually check out your stumbles and help you out. Sharing is caring so be sure to do the same.
Thats it! After you start your thread be sure to check it often and stumble people that have stumbled you. I usually respond and let them know I stumbled them which bumps the post meaning it keeps it near the top because it was recently updated. be careful with bumping your thread because they will punish you if you’re posting things that are not related or are clearly meant to only bump your thread.
