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Online Tool to see PageRank on Your Backlinks
It’s important to get high quality links pointing at our web pages.
Wouldn’t it be great to quickly at a glance see what the PageRank is of sites that link to our sites and/or pages?
Well, there are a few options to find out this kind of info. Some are online and some are applications.
I just found a new way to check PR of links online thanks to Marcus Westerberg – I ran across this great tool called Backlink CheckerÂ
Give it a try and see who is linking to this blog:
http://www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker?domain=mikeliebner.com
Very cool!
The old way is to do your search on
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Google says it listened – now showing improved backlinks data
Improved backlinks statement from Google
It appears that Google may now be catching up with Yahoo and MSN as far as showing a more accurate picture as to what pages are linking to your web pages.Â
Check out the post at the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.
Google says: “You asked, and we listened: We’ve extended our support for querying links to your site to much beyond the link: operator you might have used in the past. Now you can use webmaster tools to view a much larger sample of links to pages on your site that we found on the web.”
Read the full post for more info.
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Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool Is Back!
It’s back!
Hello! Mike Liebner here with a quick heads up to let you know that the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool is back and operating.
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
It’s not certain it will stay around, but just in case I wanted to make sure you knew it was working (at the time of this writing).
Now, there is still every reason to look beyond Overture for your Keyword Research, as Overture has it’s quirks and it’s usefulness is limited.
If you haven’t seen my video on Keyword Research, I do suggest you have a look.
Link: Keyword Research is the Secret Weapon
The 34 minute video gives a great overview of the key benefits of good keyword research to get extra traffic on your existing pages.
Also, if you have time please take the NicheBot v2 tour:
Link: NicheBot Tour
It’s still one heck of a tool and with the 14 day preview offer for just 1 dollar, you can get a taste of how easy your keyword research can be!
Have a look!
High Quality Article Announcements Blogs for you to post in
24 (up to over 100 now!) Article Announcements Blogs and Growing – get backlinks fast and easy!
Article Underground’s High Quality blogs are our secret weapon. They can be your secret weapon too!
Join Article Underground now and you can instantly get access to post your links in our blogs!
click here >>> ARTICLE UNDERGROUND
It’s time to brag a little and let you know how good Article Underground Content and Traffic System members have it!
We currently have over 100 blogs for AU members to post in:
AU members can get high quality backlinks whenever they need them. Instantly. It’s as simple as posting to a blog! No extra cost – no waiting – instant gratification!
Simply include an excerpt or description of your article page in your blog post and link to your web page URL with the keywords of your choice! Match LINK TEXT with the blog post TITLE tag and our secret weapon will turn into a grand slam home run!
And you thought Article Underground was just another PLR article site??? It’s far more than that!
An Article Underground membership delivers more than simply great keyword optimized article content for your web sites. AU members are getting some of the best backlinks available to their web sites and deep inside pages! And it could not be easier! (continued – read more of this article…)
Relevance Rules! More Powerful than PageRank?
Relevance Rules!
But is Relevance more powerful than PageRank?
Linking your articles properly on your own web site can make the difference between getting a good amount of traffic and getting jumbo sized boat loads of traffic from top rankings for all kinds of keywords, even the more competitive ones!Â
SECRET WEAPON REMINDER: MATCHING TITLES with LINK TEXT is very powerful!
I was recently asked by an Article Underground member how they can organize their sites so that visitors can find all the articles.
The first suggestion was proper use of CATEGORY MENU PAGES and proper use of article excerpts.
But does linking for a visitor and linking for a search engine have the same requirements?
Yes… more than you’d think!Â
This prompted further discussion on what kinds of text links are the best.
It made me realize once again that while PageRank is important and will help a page get top rankings, what is perhaps even more important than that is the surrounding text and relevance of the words on the linking page.
Google rewards for RELEVANCE!
It makes sense! Links from pages with the same/similar keywords should be counted as MORE RELEVANT links than a say an unrelated link for a TACO RECIPE coming from an ANTI-SPYWARE site.
Yes, it makes sense!
You can use this to help you organize your site so your visitors have a better experience with the bonus effect of showing Google that your linked pages are RELEVANT and deserve top rankings because if the linking page’s REPUTATION.
Ahhh…. yes, the text link and the relevance of the page that is linking it… it is the SECRET WEAPON I have been telling you guys about it for some time. (continued – read more of this article…)
How many links can you put on ONE web page???
How many links can you put on ONE web page???Â
This question just came up in a discussion in the Article Underground Members Forum and I thought it’d be nice to share with you guys too.
The AUKDAT tool aka Keyword Density Analyzer , does a lot more than just tell you density of text.
One of the things AUKDAT does is give warnings on content and tag data. One such warning is when it analyzes a page that has MANY LINKS… TOO MANY LINKS…
This warning is just a friendly one, it is not based on science or fact.
So, when asked by an AU member if they should worry about their web pages having TOO MANY LINKS it made me think about it and suggest the following thoughts.
It has been generally accepted that web pages with more than 100 LINKS on it would piss off the search engines and cause a penalty.
This is NOT necessarily true as I have seen many sites that have MANY more LINKS than this that get high PageRank and enjoy top rankings.
BUT remember that one common thing most spammer sites employ is EXCESSIVE LINKING – both internal and external.
So your page CAN contain lots of links provided they are presented nicely and have a positive benefit for your visitors.
Too many links on any page will dillute the PageRank, which may or may not harm the web page… >>> (continued – read more of this article…)
What does Google have to say about duplicate content?
What does Google have to say about duplicate content?
Ooops… I should not have repeated/duplicated the title… hope they don’t penalize this blog!
Happy New Year! Wow! It’s 2007!
OK, so I have been doing a good amount of research recently on Google and Duplicate Content.
It appears that they finally have addressed the issue publicly and their policies have been quietly unveiled.
If you would like to read more and get in on the conversation, please visit the AU Members Private Forum and discuss it with us!
We’d love to hear what you think!
So far I just created 3 posts on this topic.
1. My conclusion about how “boilerplate repetition” as Google puts it, may be the reason some of my pages have been delegated to “supplemental status”.
Uh oh! Templates and blocks of text repeated throughout a site may be hurting us! Are you using disclaimers or privacy policies in your template? Or maybe have repeating tips and or resources??? That may just trip an alarm!
Quote:
“Minimize boilerplate repetition: For instance, instead of including lengthy copyright text on the bottom of every page, include a very brief summary and then link to a page with more details.”
Wow… that made a light bulb go off…
“bolierplate repetition”
OK, this could be a problem for us… Google appears to be cracking down on the use of ‘boilerplate repetition” and cookie cutter premade sites and templates in general – especially ones that have footprints… ie easily identifiable sections of code/text that may have been used by “abusers”.
So if they find a SPAMMER who had pages that they penalized and/or banned a site and they noted an identifier such as < -- insert your spam content or article content here --> they can use that to find other spammers.
That’s a footprint. Any repeating block of text or code is. That includes HTML code. (continued – read more of this article…)
Are You Getting the Most From Christmas Holiday Traffic?
Getting the Most From Christmas Holiday Traffic
Make more money this holiday season! It’s easier than you may think!
Well, it’s that time of year again. The annual Christmas holiday season is here and things are getting pretty crazy.
Where I live, in Newport Beach, California, USA, it is getting pretty difficult to go out and do even the most basic of things.
Everyplace is so crowded. That can be fun, but it also makes everything take so much longer than it should. It’s no wonder more and more people are shopping online! Shopping can be a hassle at the mall!
But time is running out! It’s the last few days that you can order online gifts and expect that they arrive in time for Christmas.
Actually it is pretty risky at this point, as today is Monday and we only have 4 more “business days” before Christmas weekend is here (Christmas falls on Monday December 25). (continued – read more of this article…)
My Personal Keywords
Keyword Research: There is more than enough money and riches to go around for all of us that play the Internet Marketing game!
I’ll share my personal web stats for keyword phrases so you can get an idea of how people search!
Curious what keywords searchers use to get to my web sites?
Would you like to know what words make them click???
Check out my article Personal Keywords at Article Marketing News
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Your Domain’s Home Page is Like a Magazine Cover!
Think of your web sites home page as a magazine!
Your HOME page is the COVER or TABLE of CONTENTS and should get people to the pages that will make you the most money!Â
I would first try to build the sites front page so it accomplishes YOUR goals of getting visitors TO your most important ARTICLE PAGES.
So make sure you have nice TITLE LINKs and DESCRIPTIONs that point to those pages. Put as many as you can without looking spammy.
Then when you are finished type in that URL and analyze in AUKDAT Keyword Density Tool (continued – read more of this article…)
The Undeniable Power of Google’s PageRank
The Undeniable Power of Google’s PageRank
At least it should be undeniable!
Quote from a POST in the Article Underground Private Forum:
“I have heard in the training of 3 seperate “SEO experts”
that PR does not influence your SERP.”
OH BOY! This Article Underground Forum post opened up a can of worms! Can of worms in the sense that it got me going on a very important subject: PageRank.
In this post I will share some of my responses in that post from an Article Underground member who said that
Quote:
“I am beginning to question the value of PR as it pertains to
linking. I have heard in the training of 3 seperate “SEO
experts” that PR does not influence your SERP. So I am
left to wonder why we spend so much time and money
trying to accquire links from high PR sites.”
Please do not question the value of PageRank as it pertains to linking. There is no evidence that “it has no influence on rankings”
I’ve only seen evidence to the contrary. PageRank in links pointing at sites has a huge impact. (continued – read more of this article…)
I’m Down on Cookie Cutter Adsense tm Web Sites
I’m down on Cookie Cutter Adsense tm web sites, but am I wrong about that? It’s just that it seems next to impossible for them to get any traffic…
With Article Underground I encourage members to make unique web sites that have their own creative touches and personal character sprinkled all over them. I show them many techniques to make sure their pages are not duplicates of others that are out there.
But an emerging trend seems to be people buying cookie cutter pre-made Adsense web sites that are completed and ready to publish as is.
Complete with articles and template and even links. Some even have the same ebook giveaways.
Did you know that Google and the other search engines originally developed DUPLICATE CONTENT FILTERS to filter out IDENTICAL and EXACT DUPLICATES???
They don’t care so much if many web sites are using the same articles, but they do care if MANY pages are clogging their indexes and the pages are IDENTICAL. (continued – read more of this article…)
Knowledge is Power – Properly Evaluate Your Success and Progress
Don’t worry – I’m not going to tell you to read a book… but I will try to convey how KNOWLEDGE as in STATS can help you do magical things with little effort.Â
This is a followup to the previous post – Analyze your way to the top. There were some great comments and questions so i thought a new post woud be a great way to answer and address them! So here it goes!
Chris said “I think this is something we all need to remember is to stay focussed and give your content sites enough time to see the outcome. Then by using a tracker you can make the necessary changes to revenue.”
I agree that people need to be more patient when they start a new business such as web publishing and internet marketing. If you really want something, such as a new career where you can work at home in your pajamas by publishing articles on web sites, you need to WANT IT BAD and you need to do the right things.
Taking it a step further you need to be MOTIVATED. Really want it bad. So bad you’ll do whatever it takes to be successful YOu need to want success so much that’ll you’ll take every failure as experience and USE IT to bring you one step closer to success!
Sorry, but that motivational mumbo jumbo really can help you achieve success faster. Resist it at your own risk!
So, simply putting up a web site with a few pages and sitting back and waiting is not ENOUGH. At least it is not enough IF you really want this bad enough.
Nor is building an INSTANT 1,000 page article directory site and waiting.
The real winners and super successful people put love and care into their web sites and web pages. They massage their way to the top!
It’s not mandatory to do the extra steps and work, but it does help.
I am looking for a good way to properly explain the “wait for 30 days” thing so that it is better conveyed. I often say – give it at least 30 days before you look at what you’re doing and ask if it is successful. Sure – you may get traffic and clicks sooner, but a new site and new pages need time to properly MATURE.
It’s not 30 days from the day you joined Article Undergound, or 30 days from the day you put up your first home page or article page.
More appropriate would be 30 days since you put up a “significant number of pages”. More appropriate would be 30 days from the point you hit 10 or 20 or 50 pages indexed by Google.
If you put up 1 page on July 1st and 20 pages on July 28th, it wouldn’t be fair to expect results on August 1st (30 days from your first page). August 28th would be more like it.
In order to properly evaluate your statistics and success you need to have ENOUGH data to analyze. Putting up 1 page or 5 pages or even 15 pages really isn’t enough.
You need to build consistently for a month and then start looking at what is happening.
Are people visiting? How many? Are people clicking? How many?
And then more importantly you need to ask WHY and find answers.
Why are they visiting my web site? What pages are they coming to? Why are they coming to those pages? Can I get MORE people to come to those pages???
If you don’t care enough to ask those questions, then you may not really want success bad enough.
And if you only put up one domain – that’s a shot in the dark.
Maybe the ONE domain is a dud and has been BANNED or had a terribly spammy previous life… maybe the domain has stink on it that simply can’t be washed off… the point is WHY take a chance that ONE DOMAIN will do it???
You don’t need 20 or 50 or 100 domains… but ONE simply is not enough. Not if you are serious and motivated to succeed.
So, how do you analyze your success???
You need to have ENOUGH content that has been indexed by the search engines. So let’s just use a number – like 30 pages. I think that’s the minimum number of pages that should be indexed on a site for you to get any decent stats you can analyze. Ideally 50 pages.
When you have that many pages you’ll see which ones “click” and which ones don’t.
The idea is to take the ones that “click” and make them CLICK MORE!
It can be done with 5 but you’ll have more opportunities when you have more pages to analyze.
It’s far easier to take a page that is already getting free search engine traffic and make that PAGE better than to blindly just add pages and cross your fingers they’ll hit it big.
So, you buy a domain (hopefully you’ll buy at least 5 or have 5 sites to start with – 1 or 2 sites isn’t really a fair testing ground). But let’s assume you only have 1 domain.
Once your domain gets indexed – put up new pages regularly and start analyzing your stats. Look to see WHERE people are coming from.
Are they coming from search engines??? Which ones and why???
AdsenseGold and Astracker will help!
http://www.articleunderground.com/adsensegold
Jerry asked:
“I was wondering what other tools you might recommend to track site statistics? Have you evaluated other software beside AdsenseGold? Have you looked at statcounter.com?”
I better give you a short answer because I have been doing this over 10 years and stats have been a big part of my business from the beginning.
Before Adsense (3 or 4 years ago) I would just simply rely on the stats my server was giving me. More recently since discovering Astracker from AdsenseGold (which is MADE to be used to track Adsense clicks and Yahoo Publisher stats) I know far more than I ever did in the past. And in this case KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
The problem with Astracker is that it only works on pages that Adsense or Yahoo code on them. It will not analyze pages without the ads.
So, if I have a site without adsense that I’d like to study, I will use my server stats (I had them modified for me) and/or statcounter.com which is good in a pinch.
However, if you have adsense or yahoo ads on your pages, there really is no substitute for a stats program such as Astracker (Adsense Gold). I haven’t tried the others because AdsenseGold does everything I need it to and more.
AdsenseGold and Astracker will help!
http://www.articleunderground.com/adsensegold
What are the stats you should be looking at?
Well, my friend bought AdsenseGold on my suggestion and when I asked him about it he said “it’s ok” and that he uses it. But I didn’t sense the excitement that usually comes from seeing where your traffic comes from so I pushed him and asked what he saw in his stats. He said he looked at the keywords.
OK, I said… that’s nice, but that is not enough. That is the same data a regular stats program will give you. It’s too broad and general to be really useful.
To me – there have always been 2 things that have been the most important.
1. Which pages are getting traffic
2. Where do the pages get traffic from (the referrer).
Now, most stats programs (statcounter excepted) will onloy tello you the domain they come from. That’s not enough.
I want to know what ExACT URL sent people to WHICH PAGE on my site. AdsenseTracker does that.
It will show you every URL that had YOUR PAGES linked on it. It will also show you WHICH PAGES of yours GOT THE Adsense clicks and where they came from.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=%E2%80%9Cseason+premieres%E2%80%9D+2006+tv&FORM=QBRE
They show you actual QUERY STRINGS/URLs such as the above.
My site is TV ROBOT
And that’s what will tell you WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT and I use that info to make what I am DOING RIGHT even BETTER!
In the above example my page is ranking #5 on MSN for:
“season premieres” 2006 tv
What that tells me is that without any effort on my part, this brand new site (a week or so old) is already indexed and is #5 for that phrase – no big deal in itself, but enough peple have veisited me because of that and they have clicked on my adsense ads.
So that is valuable! Invaluable information!
So now I know that season premieres is attracting people to my site oand that page specifically.
I can now build more external text links using the words to get me higher rankings and maybe even put me on the map at Google and Yahoo in addition.
That is just ONE URL that AdsenseTracker has shown me.
The reports will show you OPPORTUNITIES.
In the case of my friend, after we both looked at hos stats together – he kept going “Wow! I had no idea!” OVER and OVER again.
His excitement was overwhelming. Because just a few minutes earlier he told me it was going “OK” and now he was excited with the possibiliteis.
Why? What had changed?
NOTHING CHANGED except he now saw firsthand that Google had him ranked for hundreds of phrases. As did MSN and Yahoo. He now saw the exact words and where he ranked on the search engines.
And the power is in taking 7, 8 or 9th position rankings and pushing them UP to number 2 or #1. If you get traffic from being LOWER on the page, imagine what you’ll get being at the TOP!Â
Ian said “One reason that maybe a lot of people don’t start analysing their stats and acting on them is probable that they don’t understand what they are telling them. In my experience people are afraid of what they don’t understand and therefore it gets pushed to the back of their minds. So maybe a video on analysing stats or should I say more simple “what are they telling meâ€? and how to put this information into practice would be of some use.
Also maybe in the video you could mention what good stats should include. I notice you mention Adsense analyser is this different than other stats because I for one have no idea.
My son and I have a godaddy hosting account (unlimited domains)This has stats enabled which are analog 5.1 (www.analog.cx) with report magic. We looked at the stats this morning but we do not understand what they are telling us and I don’t consider myself slow in understanding technical matters. Or is it that other stats programs tell a different story:-)”
YES! right on! So true! Stats can be overwhelming! But it’s like anything. You need to start at the beginning. Have a poke around. See what is what.
The problem I beleive is that the Analog and regular server stats in themselves do NOT show you enough. You don’t see naything that will give you that AHA moment. Regular server stats suck!
AdsenseGold and Astracker will help!
http://www.articleunderground.com/adsensegold
I plan on doing a video covering AdsenseTracker – part of Adsense Gold and will hopefully make it easy to find ways to take STATS and use them to EXPLODE your earnings. That will be coming soon!
Cheers!
Mike
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Just in case you haven’t signed up yet for the newsletter and 2 FREE PDF Special Reports – 1. Words = Money 2. Ban Proof Your Web Sites – I thought I’d entice you by reminding you of all the free videos you’ll be seeing…
Free videos??? Yes! As an Article Marketing Newsletter subcriber I will regularly send you links to special videos I have recorded in addition to the huge 3 hour plus libray of multimedia included with “words = Money”!
Here is a video I just notified subscribers of on Sunday. It’s pretty cool!
New exclusive video on “Your First 5 Sites”By popular demand I have created a new 30 minute video showing my suggestions for how to start your future as a web publisher! I’ve often been asked “how many domains” “what host do I use” and “which HTML editor is best” so I broke down and decided to do a comprehensive beginners video where I walk you through getting started with 5 domains.* how to quickly brainstorm and select the best domain names
* how to get hosting quick and easy
* how to set up your first pages and get them indexed fast by Google!
While the video is specially made for beginners, even the pros out there may discover a secret nugget or two as I reveal my personal strategies and methods.
“Your First 5 Sites” is available at the “Words = Money” Multimedia Library page:
It’s 34 minutes long and is intended to help beginners get a handle on how to get their first sites up and running.
It’s 34 minutes long and is intended to help beginners get a handle on how to get their first sites up and running.If you haven’t yet subscribed you can register at:
It’s 34 minutes long and is intended to help beginners get a handle on how to get their first sites up and running.If you haven’t yet subscribed you can register at:Article Marketing News
Is there such a thing as too much competition???
Is there such a thing as too much competition???
That’s a loaded question! Sometimes YES – sometimes NO!
I just got an email from a nice man that basically asked:
If Google shows 12, 14 or 27 million pages competiting for the keywords isn’t it impossible for me to compete with that many pages???
How SMALL should the number of other competing web pages be in order for me to get top rankings with reasonable time and effort???
Personally, I do not get caught up in how much competition there is for the most part… Granted I do keyword research which helps me find the easier words to rank on and make money with, but I do not ever look at how many PAGES are listed on Google and say THAT’s TOO MANY!
Several people have asked me this. For some reason there are folks out there that are afraid to spend time going after keyword phrases that have LOTS OF PAGES out there.
I’m not! And you shouldn’t be either!
This is what I wrote back to the nice man hoping to get his spirit up and his battle mode kicked into high gear!
Is there such a thing as an “impossibility” for ranking due to too much competition???
Response:
“Impossibility”???? Why would you think that???
If I followed that logic I’d never try to do anything that had a big payoff.
Do you want SCRAPS or a big RETURN???
My site is #Â 82 on Google for boots which has 122,000,000 competing pages.
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Should I just give up and roll over because there are too many pages for boots??? Â
If that were a factor I’d have no chance to get to #82 with 122 million pages as my competition.
OK, someone out there is going “82 – big deal! Who cares!”
82Â is actually a big accomplishment for a popular one word phrase… it gets trafffic! Even on the 8th page of Google it gets traffic and makes Adsense clicks!But ok, let’s get more real… 8th page isn’t worth bragging about…
My site is #9 for the term
reality tv
There are 170,000,000 other pages with reality tv on them
Should I have given up and not try to rank for reality tv with 170 million other pages as competition??? And it didn’t take much time or effort! Don’t get me wrong – I did spend some time and I did earn that #9 spot, but in the scheme of things I didn’t spend a LOT of time. It happened because I earned it!My site has the right words on it! My site has the right links pointing at it!Here is another one:
One of the AU blogs ranks # 1 for announced articles
#1 with 195,000,000 other pages – that’s 195 million competing pages
OK, here is a brand new site. No more than a month or two old.Â
#1 for
article marketing news
I’m number 1 with 321,000,000 other competing pages.
That’s a relatively new site too and 321 million is obscene.SO WHAT! 321 million pages… is that too much to compete with???
And those are all ranked without quotes which is harder than ranking with quotes (exact search).
If you believe you deserve the results you desire – it’s really pretty attainable!
Not every time… but often enough!
How about this one!#1 for
news events media
That’s another AU blog
I’ve personally got hundreds, maybe even thousands of web pages with top rankings on words that you may say have too much competition.
**by the way – rankings go up and down – sometimes on a daily basis*
So how do I do it??? The same way I tell you guys to do it.
Build Pages! Get links!
You need to get past the DOUBT phase and start DOING.You can second guess me and doubt if the keywords are worth going after… sure – that’s an option… but you have got to belive in someone!
My keyword research may not be perfect, but I do believe it’s the best you can find!
So, the moral to this story is –
Don’t worry about your competition –
worry about what YOU ARE DOING and just do it the best you can! Â Â Â
When you change the way you look at things – the things you look at change!
Thanks to all of you for all the great questions. I understand how you guys feel.
Part of the secret to success, at least for me, is to think POSITIVE!
May I please ask you guys to consider a quote by the great Wayne Dyer.
“When you change the way you look at things – the things you look at change.”
I’d like to ask you guys to consider all the wonderful possibilities that 400 keyword stuffed articles would provide a member.
On the surface it may seem like 350 people will use the articles exactly the same way, however a big part of the Article Underground membership is showing and encouraging members how to use the articles to build tightly themed sites of all shapes and sizes by hand. I encourage members to add unique twists and make their web sites BETTER than the others out there!
There are a number of forum posts and videos for members showing how to make the articles “your own” by adding additional keywords, custom templates, resources, links, extra H1 tags and even breaking up the articles and much much more.
I could talk for an hour about this, but a short simple concise answer is that while a few members may submit the articles to directories (which they are encouraged to do ONLY if they modify the articles by the way), the majority of members use the articles as part of the ‘content toolbox”, not so much for submitting to directories.
If they do, they must modify the article significantly.
I like to think of the 400 articles as a “toolkit for SEOE’s (Search engine Optimization Experts)” that enable us to build web sites and pages about words that have been researched to get traffic and make money. (continued – read more of this article…)
Duplicate Content is an Urban Legend
Duplicate Content is an Urban Legend… kinda!
Do you have web pages that are IDENTICAL to other pages on the web??? Identical as in EXACT???
I hope not! IDENTICAL is NOT GOOD!
OK, I have had many conversations with some of the top people in the business of internet marketing and we have come to some conclusions about why “duplicate content” is an overblown concern that just has too many implications to answer with a yes or no or black or white answer.
First off – everybody has a different idea in their head when they ask about it…
When people ask me about duplicate content they usually frame it in questions such as:
“Your system sounds great BUT how can 350 people all rank #1 with the same article?”
or
“Won’t Google penalize me if I have duplicate content on my site”
or
“If everybody else is using the same articles as me won’t I get penalized for duplicate content???”
The short answer is NO! NO! NO NO NO!
And I will elaborate on this so we can get some things clear.
DUPLICATE CONTENT should be a concern if you are STEALING an exact web page or article that you do not own.
In that case the copyright owner can ask Google to remove you from their index and they will. Not because it is a duplicate, but because it is STOLEN CONTENT!
Look at the phrase “DUPLICATE CONTENT PENALTY” and tell me what that means to you???
Is there a penalty???
Will they ban you???
Well, if there is a penalty there should be a Google webmaster guideline somewhere that says something like “NEVER use any content that appears on another web page or we’ll hit you with a penalty or ban your ass.”
Whoaaaahhh…. he said “ass” Chuckle…
If that were the case all the big PR 7 – 8 and up newspaper web sites would be purged from Google’s index for using all the exact same syndicated articles! That’s just not going to happen!
Also, think about it conceptually… STOCK PHOTO LIBRARIES – ROYALTY FREE MUSIC LIBRARIES, ROYALTY FREE CLIP ART and on and on…
The web is founded on the principal that people share good things… they share clip art, pictures, music and WORDS!
How many times have you seen a blog that will reprint a newspaper article or press release??? Are they getting banned???
The nature of the web lends itself to sharing.
So, if that is the case, why would Google penalize a site just because a web site has a page that may have some of the same words… did you notice how I said SOME of the same words???
SOME because almost every web page on the net has OTHER words than the ARTICLE it is publishing.
My point is that pages in real life are almost never EXACT DUPLICATES! They all have different templates, different author boxes and links, different bios, different navigation links, different advertisements… I mean c’mon! The pages should have some identity of their OWN other than just copying and pasting an article. That isn’t smart. Add something!
If you are so concerned about other web pages having the same articles – add your own twist! Tweak the pages! Add your own words to make the page your own!
It’s so easy!
Simply add an INTRODUCTION – a middle COMMENTARY – a SUMMARY or CONCLUSION in your own words!
Maybe even add an extra paragraph!
How about adding some personality to your pages and don’t just settle for copy and paste! It’s really easy! Add your own words and you will rise to the top!
OK, now that I got that out of the way… let me show you an EXAMPLE where DUPLICATE CONTENT can get you in trouble (maybe not a penalty or banned, but maybe points off…)
There is a trend among lazy webmasters out there to build these huge MONDO DIRECTORY sites that use articles from the PUBLICLY ABUSED article directories (such as goarticles.com etc.).
These webmasters have a program or use a script that simply takes the articles as they are and adds them to a web page. Usually their template is sparse at best, and usually has very few extra words other than category links… (NEAR Empty templates are not good – they leave footprints – especially when 100’s of other “button pushing” webmasters are making huge directories with the same sparse templates and publicly abused articles! Can you say FOOTPRINT? It’s like saying hey – look at me – I’m pushing a button too!)
Now this case is a problem… because the sites will have hundreds or even thousands of “me too pages” and they’ll all have many factors in COMMON – not just duplicate content.
Now, it isn’t really the CONTENT/ARTICLE that makes it so easy for Google to find these “machine generated sites” – it is the AUTHOR CREDIT BOX – ie BIO!
The AUTHOR CREDIT is required by the author of the article and may not be tampered with. It’s terms and conditions state that you can use the articles on your sites BUT you must leave the author box INTACT links and all.
So what happens???
Hundreds and even thousands of pages with the SAME WORDS all have the same IDENTICAL AUTHOR BOXES and same exact TEXT LINKS! Many of these text links even point at pages that are on domains banned by GOOGLE! (continued – read more of this article…)
How many web sites should you have?
Q: Article Underground articles are diverse and cover many different keyword phrases, therefor how many web sites should one get to use all of the articles properly???
I get this question a lot! Or some variation of it! Usually people will ask – do I need 400 web sites to use each article? Or I only have 1 site and domains are expensive – how many will I need?First off – domains are NOT expensive! They are dirt cheap! $8.95 a year works out to 75 cents a month! If you can’t afford to spend 75 cents a month for fear you will not make that back – this is not the business for you my friend :’>
Monkeys can make 75 cents a month with a web site. Yes, I know there are other expenses like hosting (which is also dirt cheap) but lets keep things in perspective here – Interent Marketing is one of the easiest businesses to start with hardly any major expenses. Hosting and domain names add up to hardly anything. Try that with any other startup business!!!
Ok, well enough of that… I suggest you stop thinking in terms of buying a domain or hosting as a negative. It’s an investment for you to make back 100 times over what you invest. Maybe even 1,000 times over! The sky really is the limit, so please don’t start nickeling and diming. If that’s what you gotta do – maybe this is not the right business for you at this time. Save up a few bucks and come back when you feel it is less of a risk.
So, how many domains??? Only a few… really! How about 5??? That’d be $44.75 a year or $3.79 per month.
I guess I owe you guys a bit of an explanation so we can put things in the proper perspective!
I understand why you might think you’ll need a lot of web sites to use all of the articles from an Article Underground membership. After all 400 each month is an obscene amount of content! And some members even buy TWO memebrships so they can have access to all 800 articles! (continued – read more of this article…)
Are you SKEPTICAL or OPTIMISTIC? Open or Closed?
Is your mind OPEN? Or is your mind CLOSED to possibilities???Â
Anthony Robbins says that people are motivated by ONLY TWO THINGS
1. Desire for Pleasure 2. Fear of Pain
Which are you motivated by more???
Which is greater??? Your fear of PAIN or your DESIRE for PLEASURE???
Looks like Article Underground is keeping Neil Shearing’s bloggers busy! And ruffling some feathers!
http://www.neilshearing.com/neil-shearing/2006/06/27/more-questions-about-article-underground/
What I don’t get (not just with Neil’s blog) is the huge level of skepticicsm about products with solutions to problems I see in blogs and in forums. There are so many haters out there!
>>> Â If they’d only put some of that nasty energy to good use, they’d be sucessful themsleves!
I realize that not everything deserves optimism, but why not focus on the good and the potential in things?
Is it wrong to be successul and make money? Isn’t that what we all want?
People who recognize problems and provide solutions are HELPING our fellow web publishers, not stealing from them… there is a reason so many people pay money for HELP!
They recognize value and appreciate being enlightened! But there are always going to be people who just don’t get it. They see the problems that will surely happen to them instead of the benefits.
These people FEAR PAIN more than they DESIRE PLEASURE!
No course in the world is going to help people who can’t believe in themselves! I mean, some people seem so eager to shoot down anything without really thinking rationally about it.
I guess a lot of people have bought products and feel ripped off because they never used the products or maybe even the products sucked.
9 times out of ten – people simply buy something and never use it.
I’m guilty of that and I bet you are too!
But I try to buy things with a more modest goal. I don’t expect products to change my life – I expect them to open up my eyes and help me think about things differently than I have before and help me with new ideas. If I can just have 1 or 2 really good ideas from buying a course or product – I am satisfied!
I say why not see the possibilities and potential in things instead of thinking negatively?
(continued – read more of this article…)
Link Text – Another Secret Weapon Exposed
This is a linking tip that will get you MORE TOP RANKINGS on all of the search engines. It’s a neglected secret weapon that few webmasters use to full advantage.
Proper LINK TEXT can make or break you!
I just went and had a look at one of the Article Announcements blogs this morning and a NEW USER has posted announcements that cause the blog formatting to go haywire. I have found out from past experience whenever the sidebar of a blog disappears (same with forum) it is usually because of a long RUN ON WORD (with no spaces) or in this case a LONG URL as the LINK TEXT.
The problem was what I thought – someone used a URL as the link text – and a LONG URL at that! BOO BOO!
So I thought, what better time to drop a HOT TIP about LINK TEXT that will help make you more money.
I’ll keep this tip brief and to the point and then show you examples. LINK TEXT – what is it? It’s the WORDS you put in a HYPERLINK.Health Medicine MedicalThat above is a hyperlink with the LINK TEXT “Health Medicine Medical”
That is the right way to have your link include TEXT that will make you money. Those 3 words represent what the front page of that site is all about!
Common mistakes among newbies is to link with WORDS that have ZERO BENEFIT such as home, index, domain URL, next, full article here, click here, click for article, or in this example THE URL of the PAGE.
If you want to find out what words are on your page use the free Keyword Density Analyzer Tool - it will help you link to the RIGHT WORDS on your web pages!
That above LINK is a good example of using link text to control the rankings! That phrase is representative of what you will find at that URL! But unless there are LINKS that tell the search engines about the content, other pages will be above this one in the listings. (continued – read more of this article…)
