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I’ve been using Blog Submitter Pro for 1 week and I am sure a lot of you would like to know how this "controversial" software works.
Read the full review of Blog Submitter Pro and leave your comments about it if you have if too.
Categories: Search Engine Optimization | 30 Comments »
I would like to say big thank you to Robert for telling me about BlogSpot.com’s "No Follow" META tag that prevents the search engine spiders from visiting the links in my BlogSpot.com blogs.
I went to verify it and here’s what I see in a typical unedited default BlogSpot.com HTML Code:
As you can see the meta tag "ROBOTS" with the command "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" instructs search engine spiders not to follow the links and index the blog. No wonder my blog and ping efforts were useless with BlogSpot.com!
I thought of a solution to remove that meta tag by editing the default BlogSpot.com template HTML Code. Its actually very very easy do do. You just have to remove 1 line of code, save your template and republish all files.
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Check out the 1st screenshot. See the line with the code <$BlogMetaData$>? Delete that line and click on "Save Template Changes" and republish all pages of your blog.
I believe this change might help the search engine spiders follow the links on my BlogSpot.com blogs and hopefully index my web site faster. Like all things… You’ll never know if you don’t do it. I’m going to test it right away!
Categories: Search Engine Optimization | 9 Comments »
I’ve been asking loads of questions about blogging and pinging at The AdSense School. I’m a Beta member at The AdSense School membership site. Its a place for people to learn how to make money with Google AdSense. The site is still in Beta so there isn’t much valuable content yet.
According the owner of The AdSense School, Blogging and pinging doesn’t work with BlogSpot.com anymore. I’ve been trying to get it to work for some time now. I have a few Traffic Equalizer pages indexed but not all of them (200+). Its been almost 2 weeks now and I can’t see it happening anytime soon.
The weird thing is the search engine spiders did visit my web site but they simply do not wish to index my pages. I believe they got smarter now since so many people are spamming their blogspot.com blogs with junk content in a bid to get the search engine spiders to visit the links in those posts.
Install WordPress in the Root Folder of Your Site?
I’ve been doing some research and some people recommend installing WordPress in the root folder of your web site. I first read about this in the AdSense Empire ebook. I did that for 1 web site and I have since “discarded” it. It didn’t work out well for me because I had only 1 page indexed in over a month! The AdSense Empire ebook says that I have to add articles to my blog everyday and I did that with a free WordPress plugin. For more than 7 days, the plugin blogged 1 article for me everyday. If you’ve used WordPress before, you will know that WordPress can help you ping to a lot RSS directories. So that solves the pinging part of the blog and ping process.
I’m going to do that for my next site to see how it goes. This time I am going to use an auto blogger that submits RSS feed content to my blogs automatically. I am shopping around for a software to do this. I won’t be adding outrageous amounts of content to my blogs per day. Just 1 post a day will do with the latest news on my web site’s topic so that it looks “real”. I’m going to call the RSS feed content “Latest News on ….”.
I’ve seen a couple of RSS auto bloggers in the market:
I bought Blog Submitter Pro on Sunday and I am still testing it. This software doesn’t blog to your blog but it blogs to other people’s blogs. What it does is it helps you automate the submission of comments to a random list of BlogSpot.com blogs. I will review this software in great detail once I have used it for about a week to document my results. To be brutally honest, I think its as bad as blogging and pinging because its spamming. But you get loads of incoming links from all the blogs you submit to. Maybe that will help your web site’s rankings? I don’t know for sure because I might get into trouble for spamming their blogs!
There is another software that I believe will be useful for getting your web site indexed. Its called the RSS Indexer. The RSS Indexer creates an RSS feed of all your pages on your web site and submits them to RSS directories for you everyday. I still do not know how the software works because I haven’t used it yet but it does look like a “white hat” SEO technique. I personally consider blogging and pinging and Traffic Equalizer generated pages a “black hat” SEO technique simply because you’re spamming the internet with junk. I feel the RSS auto bloggers are OK because they add real content to your blogs.
Categories: Search Engine Optimization | 7 Comments »
I believe I have found a way to blog and ping with Blogspot.com. I set my Instant Blog & Ping software to blog and ping 3 pages every 40 minutes. I also tried 3 pages every 30 minutes and I have found that 40 minutes works better. It does take longer to blog and ping but at least most of the URLs are blogged.
Maybe Blogger.com doesn’t like too many auto posts that are submitted in a short time frame. I used to blog and ping 3 pages every 15 minutes and Blogger.com skips most of my posts. My Instant Blog & Ping software would blog and ping the 1st 3 posts and from the 4th post onwards, it would replace the 1st 3 posts. It would seem like the Instant Blog & Ping software was overwriting the 1st 3 posts over and over again. Now I know how to get over that!
I thought the only way to blog and ping now was to buy a domain name, get a web host and install the WordPress blogging script. Its quite a hassle to do that. I am having problems getting my pages indexed with blogging and pinging lately. My guess is that the search engine spiders are getting smarter. I used the same blog to blog and ping multiple domain names. Maybe the search engine spiders are noticing that and do not bother to index my links anymore. I know for a fact that the search engine spiders have visited my blogs by looking at my web server logs. They just can’t be bothered to index my site anymore. The search engine spiders used to index my sites within 2 days but now its been almost 1 week and there hasn’t been any significant progress.
I have no way of verifying this but I believe 1 blog should be used to blog and ping the URLs of 1 domain. It would be a piece of cake to create a blog and Blogspot.com just to blog and ping your sites. I will do further tests on this to see if my 100% new sites will get indexed this way or not. I’ve been adding pages to my old sites and I blogged and pinged the old sites hoping that the new pages would get indexed.
Please feel free to share your blog and ping experiences by adding your comments to this entry!
Categories: Search Engine Optimization | 3 Comments »
Frank Kern has found an interesting way of reviving some if not all of your disabled keywords that have been disabled by Google in their recent "crackdown".
Check out Frank’s video below:
http://www.underachievertoolkit.com/google/
I just have to say this…. I feel the new quality keyword system by Google AdWords is BS! My keywords are disabled because they do not have "sufficient quality" but raising the bid prices will make it a "quality keyword" once again. Thanks for sugar coating your words Google. The bottom line is you want more money. I hope a lot of Google AdWords advertisers do not buy into this "extortion" and literally force Google to scrap this new money leeching feature of theirs.
Categories: Pay Per Click Search Engines | 1 Comment »
Perry Marshall has a teleseminar on the latest Google AdWords changes and he covered the following topics:
The MP3 is posted at:
http://www.perrymarshall.com/keywords
Listen to this ASAP, because Perry is not making any promises about how long this file will stay up there.
Categories: Pay Per Click Search Engines | No Comments »
On a positive note for Google AdSense publishers…..
When the Google AdWords’ bid prices go up, that would mean the amount a Google AdSense publisher earns per click would also have to go up. Just don’t be the ones paying for those clicks be the one profit from the guy who is over paying for his clicks.
I believe this would be a good time to get started with building content sites with Google AdSense ads on them to capitalize on this change. Furthermore, Yahoo is coming out with something similar to Google AdSense and I am sure that would make Google want to pay the publishers more money.
Categories: Google AdSense | 1 Comment »
This is the worst update by Google AdWords in my opinion. They have changed their keywords bidding system to a quality based minimum bid keywords system. I feel they are raising the prices of certain keywords they feel people are paying too low for their liking. For example, I used to be able to bid $0.23 for a loans affiliate program and now they want me to pay $5.00 for the same keyword.
The old way of determining the keyword price was based on a minimum of $0.05 per click and how much the other guys were paying for their clicks. The more you pay and the better your ad is written, the higher you rank. It was a fair system much like an eBay auction bidding process that starts with a minimum bid of $0.05. Now there is a minimum bid of $X for a certain topic that Google dictates and you have to bid at that minimum price and above to have your ad listed. From what I have seen, the loans minimum bid price is at $5.00!
I would go bankrupt if I paid $5.00 for every keyword! If I can’t find a way to bid $0.23 for my loans campaign, I can kiss goodbye to 1 huge income source. I had this sinking feeling something was wrong when I was struggling with my sales for my loans campaign this month. Last month was absolutely booming with an average of 1 sale per day. This month has been really slow with 1 sale in every 2-3 days. Now I know why… Most of my keywords have been disabled and Google wants me to pay $5.00 to activate them. No chance I am going to pay $5.00 per click! I am not selling diamonds and the profit margin won’t be that great if I pay $5.00 per click for a loan affiliate program!
Here’s the official Google AdWords announcement I received:
Hello from the Google AdWords Team:
We’re happy to let you know that we’ve implemented our new keyword status system. We’ve simplified our keyword states and introduced quality-based minimum bids, giving you more control to run on keywords that you find important. With these improvements, your keywords will now either be active or inactive, depending on their quality and maximum cost-per-click (CPC).
We suggest you log in to your account to view these changes. Any keywords that were previously normal, in trial, or on hold are now labeled as either active (triggering ads) or inactive (not triggering ads). Any keywords that were disabled before implementation will remain labeled as disabled in your account for several weeks. This gives you the opportunity to review and activate any disabled keywords you’d like to run on before we delete them. However, we will no longer disable any new keywords you enter into your account.
Here are some resources that will help you get better acquainted with the new keyword status system:
We believe these system changes will give you more control to run on keywords you find important and result in higher quality ads, enabling you to reach your potential customers more effectively.
Sincerely,
The Google AdWords Team
Categories: Pay Per Click Search Engines | 1 Comment »
I created 2 AdSense web sites on Monday and Tuesday. They were actually old sites that were sort of like affiliate sites so I converted them to an AdSense site model with RSS feeds on the front page and Traffic Equalizer pages. I used the free PHP script Carp to generate a Google News search query into an RSS feed and I installed the 5 latest news items to my web site at InternetMarketingGuy.com.
Both my sites have about 150 + pages generated from Traffic Equalizer. I used the Instant Blog & Ping software to blog and ping all the pages and I hope they get indexed in the next 7 days and bring me some traffic.
I am getting a hang of the process of building an AdSense site. It shouldn’t take more than 5 hours to build one. I believe I will get faster at it over time. Now I’ve got about 10 AdSense site ideas with the unused domain names I bought to promote some affiliate programs with Google AdWords. I will report on my progress of my new AdSense sites regularly.
Categories: Google AdSense | 3 Comments »
I realised my sites have a pattern of how they get indexed….
My previous attempt at building an “AdSense Site Cluser” as described in the AdSense Empire ebook ended up with only 1 page of the Traffic Equalizer site indexed and all pages of the web site with articles getting indexed.
What I am going to do next is simply get rid of my Traffic Equalizer site by removing the web site completely from my web host server, “return” the IP address to my web host and forget about it. Then I am going to create the same Traffic Equalizer content to my article site. I hope that since the article web site already has pages indexed, the Traffic Equalizer pages will stand a better chance of getting indexed.
Therefore I am moving away from the “AdSense Site Cluster” model and building just 1 web site for my sites. I will also be adding Traffic Equalizer pages to my web site InternetMarketingGuy.com and remove most of the Corey Rudl content from the site. Once I have fixed my 2 web sites, I will go on a “AdSense Site Marathon” and build at least 3 web sites in a week.
Categories: Google AdSense | No Comments »