Its raining outside where I am at this morning, so I am feeling a little blue…blue hat that is.
This is one of those “bean spilling” posts that nobody is supposed to write and you’re DEFINITELY not supposed to read because it will make your virtual existence just a little more dangerous, but I am writing it anyway for some dumb reason…so stop reading now if you don’t have the stomach for this type of stuff, but if you do, read on at your own risk and whatever you do, DON’T SHARE THIS POST. I don’t want some Google employee reading this junk. This post is really only supposed to be for our private newsletter.
OK. I guess it could be labeled as one, under the right circumstances, but for all practical purposes, its an industry that sells dreams, dreams of search engine rankings and money to boot.
Does SEO work? Well sure it does boys and girls, SEO does indeed work.
But understand that SEO alone is NOT what makes your business money.
Somewhere in time, somewhere shortly after Google emerged as the indexing/aggregating juggernaut that we all know it to be today, we all fell in love with the idea of having great Search Engine Results Page (SERP) rankings.
Sure you should. But I am going to be completely honest with you here, it shouldn’t be at the core of your business model. The odds of you making a living as an affiliate marketer are not good. They are not good at all.
Before you read the rest of this article, I want you to realize something. There is a very good chance you have been led to believe that you can make tons of money as an affiliate marketer.
Well, while there are exceptions to every rule, the rule here is: odds are, you won’t. Now, this doesn’t mean that you can’t make money at all as an affiliate marketer, you can, but dreams of CRUSHING IT ONLINE are (for the most part) just that, dreams, and more often than not, they have been pitched to you as an effort to sell you on the re-selling of a product or service.
The thought of making money while sitting in front of a computer is a temptation more than most can bear.
Many newbie IMers, my self included, have spent plenty of time in the past pitching flashy products only to find them NOT CONVERT on the back end.
Why is this? Why would someone who is considered targeted traffic come to your website looking for a product that you are reviewing or recommending and not pull the trigger when it comes to buying it?
For starters, I am going to assume that you are targeting certain keywords that you feel will be profitable to you. Additionally, you are writing (or buying) content based around those keywords as well as making efforts to build contextually relevant links to your site based on those keywords and others semantically related.
So what is a website owner to do if one day they boot up their “Super SEO Software” to check their rankings only to find that their (seemingly) life’s work has been DESTROYED, DECIMATED, DEMOLISHED, and ABOLISHED by the heartless BEAST Google? LOL!
Well, first of all, don’t panic. Why do I say this? Because the mentality that surrounds “ranking for keywords” is really one that is fundamentally flawed.
The bottom line is…you don’t. What is that you say? You copy and paste the URL of your article in Copyscape and you show that it is unique to your site?
Or, you copy and paste excerpts from your article into Google only to find those specific blocks of text indexed on your site only?
Congratulations! You just proved one thing…that you can’t detect your stolen content using OLD technology! Yes, that’s right, old technology that is very, very yester-year.
One of the really annoying things about SEO is that it follows a formula.
By following a formula, I mean that it is for the most part, a numbers game or an arms race. To date, SERP ranking has largely revolved around the number of inbound links that a webpage has as well as the quality of those links, so the race is always “on”.
In all honesty, that really isn’t a good thing, because it means that SERP results can be manipulated in a way that may not bring you the most relevant results, but, rather, just ones with the most quality links.
Actually, yes, SEO is easy…first, second, and third order SEO that is. Fourth order SEO…hmmm…maybe not so much.
What in the world is “Fourth Order SEO”? For that matter, what in the world are the first, second, and third orders of SEO?!?
Well, its really not that complicated, but first, I must confess, blog posting and SEO are not actually what I do for a living. Truth be told, these are just a hobby, albeit one that I am very passionate about.
This actually is not an article so as much as it is an announcement.
We are currently in the process of performing a post-Panda, post-Freshness off site SEO case study using what we are hoping is a
high-powered private network.
I am not sure how long this is going to take (I am guessing weeks or months – these things take time to do correctly), but we are already seeing positive results.
It is understandable that everyone prefers appealing and robust websites for their business in order to create a strong online presence. Hence, they tend to consider all the aspects which would aid them in achieving so, to help them stay ahead of the competitors, where one such aspect is the design software.
The software used for the design purpose also plays a key role for designing any particular site, as it would actually determine how a site would turn out to be. It helps create the site, a client is looking to build, in the way it should look like and how it should be.
You might not be a big shot in your industry but you know that you are good at whatever your company does, be it selling services or products, you are aware of the fact that you are partially successful.
Partial is the word that strikes the chord here and it gets you thinking of the fact that despite of having a sound online presence and descent traffic, why is your website staggering?
In the world of underground SEO, trust and rank flow in mysterious ways. Truth be told, its really not that mysterious. Actually, its really a function of IP diversity as well as inbound link structure naturalness and trust.
Now there are two ways to do this, there is the blue hat way where you perform forced takeovers of websites from their existing webmasters (yes, this type of thing exists) and then there is the much slower, white hat version of this and that is what we are going to layout here.
Discipline is important in every business, be it online or offline. When you are disciplined, you are more organized, which translates to heightened efficiency in every aspect of your business.
Discipline is also one of the major things that separate the successful and flourishing websites from the ones that shut shop within a short while.
Has your WordPress installation been running slow lately. Does you front-end run fine while your back-end takes thirty or more seconds to load your dashboard or any of the other pages in the “admin” panel?
If so, you may be the victim of a WordPress update.
More often than not, whenever there is a WordPress update, there actually seems to be a decent chance that any one of the plugins you have installed on your blog may thereafter become incompatible with the latest version of WordPress.
Having created websites for several years now, I have found that having the proper tools with which to do your job make all the difference in your overall experience. The right tools will effect a higher level of quality and professionalism on your site.
Of the tools that I have used that I have come to appreciate the most are the WordPress and Joomla content management systems. The nice thing about both of these content management systems is the fact they are both highly customizable platforms. Both platforms boast extremely large libraries of modular plugins that are available for download free of charge.
|
Resources Recommended By TheBitBot.Com: Secure your home from intruders with security cameras from Esentia Systems. Power them with DVR cards from DVR Kits. |
All of Our Articles are Republishable
|
Mark (47)
Sticky: Sources Of Targeted Traffic Versus Sources Of Non-Targeted Traffic
Truth be told, websites live and die by their traffic numbers, “targeted” traffic that is.
If a website receives lots of targeted traffic, then, generally speaking, conversions will be good.
If a website receives lots of non-targeted traffic, then, odds are, conversion rates and such will be bad.
What type of traffic do you want? If you’re like me, you want traffic that is legitimately interested in the information found on your site. Anything less is a waste of bandwidth.