Oct 31, 2007

Go to even things out, a good testimonal

Dear Lynn,

It has been a pleasure working with you and a much improved service from my previous website designer and SEO.

I found Lynn by doing a google search for website optimization I can't remeber the exact search I think SEO Price List, and Lynn was the top listing. I felt that if she had got herself to the top of the page under optimization she must know what she was doing.

I contacted her and she promptly replied with a reasonable quote and promised she could make the changes that were needed in a short period of time.

Over the next 3 days Lynn worked night and day on my site and was so enthusiastic about making the changes she ended up doing more than she had promised.

Lynn is constantly checking my site on a regular basis to see where we are sitting on the search engines, within 3 weeks of Lynn making her changes I have gone from about page 20 to page 2, with more changes in progress we may make page 1 by Christmas.

I would recommend Lynn to anybody wanting efficient, fairly priced service with a personal enthusiasm to your company.

Thank you Lynn for all your hard work, it is paying off and improved my business 100 percent.

Thanks

Nicky Whineray-Blair
Boxit Ltd - http://www.boxit.co.nz/

Well thank you, Nicky, I've enjoyed every minute of getting your site to where it is, and where it will be for months, years.......
I just checked the word boxes and it's at #6 on page 1 of google.co.nz "the Web" search and #8 on page 1 for "Search New Zealand"

That's darn good, I'm so good... hehehe.... that particular keyword wasn't anywhere in the first 1000 results when I started, and ranking so well for a single keyword is really good. And of course you know about all the keyphrases that are at at #1

I've done some more work on that word today, so it should come up a little higher yet. I will be interested to see where your site is by April next year as well.

Wow, a bad testimonal, does this mean I'm a bad SEO or a bad friend?

Bruce Clarke Aotea Web Hosting Wow a bad testimonial. I will post it as it was sent to me, with my responses in Red Hi Lynny, I've been doing SEO work for clients (paid work) since June 2000! Oh, you have one more years experience than me, WOW WEE!!!! I don't think it is a matter of how long you have been trying...how long you have been succeeding seems far more relevant. That is no doubt why you asked for an account of what work I would do for the $500 quote, that should have been $2000, so you could do the work yourself, and not bother paying me. To my thousands maybe millions of readers: This quote was asked for after, what this person is complaining about below. I'm more than capable of doing the work, but like most people doing SEO work, also take on the services of other individuals and companies to help from time to time. Yep I get people to do work for me, but not after they have done a bad job as you claim. I'm not that impressed with your SEO skills frankly. Why don't you post the following on your blog and let people know how wonderful you are at SEO, and search engine submission... Ok, doing that now, thank you for giving me permission, but I would have done it anyway, this is my blog, and I needed something to write about, so thank you. hostingservers. co. uk (unique visitor numbers) your words not mine, although I did put gaps in the url so it won't display as a link. This website has been registered since 2001 so not much SEO has been done on the site to only have this many uniques. Still to be fair our own site, which get's the least SEO work done on it at all, was only getting about that many about that many last year and until Feb 07 when I did some directory submissions 200 of them, now we will get about 5250 this month, that domain name was brought in 04, so you have 3 years head start. There's a lot of hope for your site with 1300 submissions, keep you fingers crossed. Jan 2007 604 Feb 2007 606 Actually paid me in late Feb Mar 2007 604 Started Submision in Early March Apr 2007 587 May 2007 699 Jun 2007 740 Jul 2007 601 did the final 2/3 starting on 27th, for reasons I mentioned below Aug 2007 648 Sep 2007 1022 Oct 2007 905 Back in March we paid Lynny $125 to do SEO search engine and directory submissions for this site. True, and I have to admit, I hung off doing about 2/3 of the submissions until the new site we built was up, as I didn't think anyone would accept your old site. Can you see the difference in unique visitors? (i can't, ...in fact i see a decrease but that's probably a seasonal variation cause not all months are the same). So actually it was even worst, unfortunately I must have choosen the wrong directories you did stipulate that you only wanted to be added to directories with high PR, against my advice. That still is disturbing, but looking at your stats for the year before, yes you do have a seasonal drop in those months. But I am still getting resposes to submission for your site, so the ones I did will be getting mixed up with the next ones now, though still there should have been a few more directory's visiting your site, as I explain later. Last month (Sept) we paid CheapestSubmissions.com NZD $135 ...can you see the diffrence for September & October? ...I can, 57% increase during September, and a 40% increase compared to previous month prior to the submissions for October. This is not a true indication of visitors, each directory a website is submitted to make a visit to the site before they accepting or rejecting it. So his visitors are actually down, drastically, but as I have said in other posts, directory submissions will help brings visitors to your website, so they will come maybe next month or the month after, or the month after...oh that would be Jan 08, another bad month... you will see the visitors went up 5 or 6 weeks later in May and September, from my submissions, thats how long it usally takes for directory submissions to actually start working. I will write a case study tomorrow with screenshots, when this month is finished in the stats, that shows after a submission of only 300 increased a websites vistors by over 6000 in 6 months. So you have already mentioned your website name so I don't need to, you can maybe expect about 18,000 visitors by March next year, by then the submissions I did will be all handled by them so prehaps you can get another 6000, you won't know whatto do with yourself huh. Make up your own mind... would you rather be paying $125 for a -3% decrease for one of your sites, ...or $135 for an average +49% increase (over 2 months following)? ...the stats tell the story Yes the stats does tell a story, the new website we designed and built in July is being accepted by more directory's, and it is coming up to Christmas, when traditionally your website visitors, and your stats are actually up as well. It's a little unfair to say you will get 18,000 visitors in 6 months, there are only 2 reasons people visit a webhosting website, either becuase they are starting a webhosting company themselves and want to look at your prices and undercut them, or they are looking for webhosting, so perhaps you can send me another email in April, and I will post it here, to show the increase in visitors from both my submission and the one thats just been done. ...go with a reliable SEO directory submission services provider: http://www.cheapestsubmissions.com/ Signed Bruce Clarke Aotea Web Hosting These guys seem to be very good, I'm not in anyway saying their service isn't good, I haven't used it, but in fact I might try them out myself. and I will allow the link to them to stay on this blog, and on my new website where I will also post this particular post. It is unfair for the person that wrote this bad testimonal to compare my prices with Indian prices, thats like comparing Sak's with K Mart or a 99 cent store. This website is a good example of duplicate content, and dealing with friends, or in this case a friends of a friend, and giving GOOD DEALS to someone, which I will discuss in a future post. You are still more than welcome to pay me for the idea's for SEO you gobbled up and used rather than paying for, my paypal email is lynny@canzdesign.com and I believe I said $550. For a quote that should have been $2000, but a friend asked me to give it to you cheap. You are more than welcome to come back anytime and read this blog, as I'm sure you are doing right now while I write this response, I freely give away advice here, so I won't consider it and isn't intellectual theft. You can't do that when it's posted for everyone to see. This is not the whole story with this client, but this is turning into a nasty "he said, she said" and I don't have the time I blacklisted this client in my email. God, this is childish.... I was going to go to bed, but think I will start writing more content for my new website. http://www.seobycanz.com/ Lynny The BEST SEO EVER.

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Deleted Post. But will leave here so I can add it later if I choose. So this post doesn't go to waste, I'm going to google analtics in here so I can track you readers, I can see where you comrom, and how long you stayed. Lynny SEO by Canz

Oct 18, 2007

www or no www

Have you ever noticed that some websites will work as it were when you put the www in front of the url, and yet go to an page not found, when the www isn't there.... or vise versa?

If you are unlucky enough to have this problem, just get in touch with the company thats hosts your website, and ask them to change the settings so both url's work. It's just a setting in the control panel, which would take only 5 minutes to change.

You may not think it's a problem, but at a recently internet users conference I attended, they said a large % of internet uses, don't think to do something like that, and that if a webpage doesn't show, they will just got to another website. I have to admit, I do know about this, and only now and again, I will think to do it, so it's worth getting fixed.

Unless you have a very big website (hundreds or thousands of pages) you shouldn't be paying more than $20 a month for hosting, more like $10 or less, and if you are only paying $5 or $10 a month your host may make a charge to change it but it's unlikely and as i said it only takes a couple of minutes to do.

Most of our website hosting clients only pay $10 a month, we set that particular setting when we first start hosting a website, but would change something like this for free.

Lynny
SEO Guru

Oct 14, 2007

How directory listings work in increasing your visitors.


To give an example of how directory listings work, to get people seeing your link, and visiting your site

I have a website I have done SEO work for for over three years. It's a relatively small e-commerce website selling gemstones and jewelery. www.gemhunters.com.au up until April this year I have only done onsite optimisation, not a lot of work, only a couple of hundred dollars a every 3 or 5 months, and her visitors where sitting around the 5000 to 5700 a month.

At the end of April 07 her website stats said she had 5009 visitors (tax month so visitors were down)

I stopped doing any onsite optimization, I started submitting her site to directory's, the owner
would only invest enough to do 100 submissions at a time, at the end of Sept 07 she had 9542
visitors. so she averaging even for her best month before I started submissions, and increase
of almost 4000 more visitors a month.

All up this client has spent just a little under $3000 on SEO and is getting as I said just over 9500 visitors last month.

The beauty of the SEO I do is if I stopped doing any SEO on her site right this minute, she would carry on getting about the same number of visitors, next month, next year, in 5 years. Sure it
would change a little on a monthly basis, but generally her monthly visitors would stay in the 7500 - 11000 per month range, as long as she keeps replacing the sold stock.

Let face it, in the general scheme of things, $3000 is peanuts,(and that was mates rates) but it really makes you wonder what would have happened if she had invested twice that amount of
money, don't you think?

I mean gemstones is a relatively small niche market, smaller than the gay market. I just did a search for a comparison of how many people searched for gay in relation to three gem related keywords, and the three gem words don't even rank.

Check out this results page of that search

Oct 13, 2007

Rainbow Tourism shaping up.

Almost a month ago, I wrote about the website we are building for Rainbow Tourism, it's a directory of gay friendly places to stay, well the site isn't quite live yet, but it's getting close now, only about 2 weeks to launch date.

A lot of things have happened in less than a month with this business relationship with Rainbow Tourism, besides making this site dynamic and a CMS, (means the owner of the site can make webpages, and doesn't have to know anything about webdesign) now all the listings are searchable, and the site is more manageable generally.

Though doing this project, we have met a wonderful American programmer/coder called Andrew, we started out with an Indian company doing the site, but things didn't work out, and we found Andrew, who can do any coding that we can't do, and the bonus is he's a very fast worker, he has good prices, and he speaks English, no more making pictures for every step of the process of building a very large website.

And if that isn't enough, he's a really nice guy, we have had him do four other small projects, as well as building the rainbow site right from the start.

My skills from the old days of owning the Canz Stock Photo Bank, are really helping me now, and the training of data entry staff, I did then, have proved invaluable for training staff now, to load all the listings into this new Tourism Site.

My arm is to sore to type anymore, it's been a hard month, See yah.

Oct 2, 2007

Boxit domain names

The owner of http://www.boxit.co.nz/ has been very impressed with the results of my SEO work,
so impressed, that she's decided to expand her business to the world market.
I advised her to buy some dot coms, and let them get into the search engines buy parking them over her orginal website.
This will get google looking though the site, and then her site will start to appear in world search engines, rather than mainly in New Zealand Search engines.
She brought these names.

http://www.boxitgiftbaskets.com/
http://www.boxitgifthampers.com/
http://www.boxitgiftboxes.com/

The results of the SEO are too numerous to mention here, but one stunning result is just for the for the word
boxes
in the google.co.nz search for New Zealand websites, her site is listed at #3 in the search results, thats a pretty impressive feat, ranking so well in a single word search.

When I do another analysis of keywords and their ranking in varies search engines, I'll write the results here so you all can read them.

ok, ok, you twisted my arm, I'll tell you three phrases she's doing #1 for in google.co.nz

buy gifts for ladies
gifts for ladies
ladies gifts

these are all #1 ranking in New Zealands google, search on New Zealand websites.
Before I started, these 3 particular searches where ranked at more than 100.
I know this, cause I don't search future than the first 10 pages,and the site didn't appear.

So thats quite remarkable, don't you think?

Lynny
NZ Best SEO

Sep 11, 2007

Helpful friends

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but I thought I would relate a story, that I'm sure some of you could relate to.
Recently I was doing some SEO work, and a friend happen by, I said to her,if you wanted a website built what would you search for?.... she replied, I wouldn't search, I would just come and see you.
Now, I'm happy that she would come to me about a website, but god I could have strangled her, with friends like that it's any wonder I have to rely on forums to ask such questions....
Contacted by the owner of boxit.co.nz on 6th of Sept, to see what I could do for her website SEOwize. She hadn’t managed to find her site in the first 20 pages of any searches she made.

On the 8th of Sept I started working on the meta tags and title tags of the website, contrary to what people say Google does read and take notice of what meta tags say because by the 10th of September I noticed that her site was suddenly starting to show on page #at #1 and #2 for some keyphrases and on page #2 for many key phrases in google NZ.

By the next day when I finished working on the site I was noticing Nicky site showing on page 1 and 2 for all sorts of relevant key phrases. Like gift box, gift boxes , gift boxes nz, gift hampers nz
Will be interesting to see what happens within a week or two.

Aug 17, 2007

Exciting New Job for Gay Tourism Site

I have a new SEO job, which I really excited about. It's for a gay tourism site called Rainbow Tourism, it's a mature website, which is what I'm really excited about, I haven't worked on a mature site for a long time, except our own of course.

This site lists hotels, motels, everything from Luxury Lodges through Apartments and cottages, and then backpackers and camping grounds (which are extremely budget accomodation, 6-10 bunks per room)

The site has over 100 pages, mostly of places in NZ and Australia, and the accomodation that place has to offer. The owner has several domain names pointed at the site... when I say several, I mean about 30 or so that I have found so far, which is pretty impressive, gives me lot's of room for getting the site listed several times one after another in search engines, depending on what the page rank of that particular domain has.

Anyway, go take a look at the site for Gay and Lesbian friendly places to stay and if you do it soon, take a good look around, cause not only am I doing the SEO, but CanzDesign is redesigning the website, doing a new logo and other site graphics, building a cms, so we'll be busy campers for the next couple of months with the redesign, and a year with the SEO work.

And by the way take a look at the blog for the site, and make a comment on it, it's quite interesting. Gay Friendly Blog

Catch you later.

Lynny
NZ's Best SEO

Jul 14, 2007

Linda.com

I just started my paid submission to Linda.com and of course i started doing the SEO tutorials. I haven't learnt anything about SEo itself, but the tutor has some great tools he has found online for checking your SEO efforts.


I also wrote to the tutor, and advised him of one tool he didn't use which is a really good program, I think I have mentioned it before, but will again, it's the google free monitor, a neat little program that automatically searches google.com and tells you where your website is listed in google for the keywords/phrases you have optimised your website for.


The program is available at cleverstat.com they have a few other free programs that are worth having in your SEO arnsenal .

Jul 11, 2007

Getting Used to Vista, and work as Ususal

having just got a new computer, with vista on, I'm after what 5 days, just now getting all my emails, favourites, found a skin for maxthon I like, revisted sites I belong to and loggin in. I've changed browser 4 times, lost my email 2 and when I found it, it didn't install about 8 times... geeze what a pain.... anyway all is well now.


Worked on EmpressGems fixing up a few things, but really thats all I have done...



oh yeah, I did some work on Hobits Hints 


I also added the Southern Gothic to websites to The Directory Submission Place I added another $20 for CanzDesign as well, I really love that place, just add your websites details, pay the money, and then in a few days the emails start arriving, that your website has been submitted to some directory or other.... and the spam from the directory starts coming.....



Ok, gotta go and rest, been online for 18 hours.....


NZ Best SEO

Jul 6, 2007

It's here!!!

My new computer arrived right after I posted the last blog, so it's here it's here.

boring stuff i just want to record

My new computer which was supposed to arrive last week has been lost, they courier thinks it may be back where it started in Christchurch, but they aren't sure. So I'm hobbling along with this old one. They courier promise the computer will be here today.. huh... heard that one before.

The panda anti virus after being so good, is a royal pain in the arse, stopping email coming thorough, stopping the browser from working, general stopping all online activity, thats after working really well for 7 months.
I think this old one would be ok if it was reformatted, which Kym is going to do if and when the new baby ever turns up.

I have finished doing most of the work on the faceted gem website I'm having problems with that domain name, always calling it a .com rather than a .net better get my act together before I start doing the seo.
The owner of the site has decided to make it only faceted gems and jewelery and delete the rough gemstone. so after all that work of finding the size of each gem I had to delete them all... major groan, however the site is looking good.

OK, better be off and check all the stats for the different websites. Catch you later.

The Best SEO in NZ

Jul 2, 2007

Empress Gems

Empress Gems: "Experience • Class • Distinction"

I have built a website over the weekend the one above. I copied the database for another of our sites, and made a new website, with the old database,
I have since been though each and every gemstone about 10 times at least, and changed the descriptions and pricing. Changed the overall look of the site store.
The owner of the old site wanted another website to sell more expensive gems on, their original site is doing very very well, with over $1000 a week in sales, but they wanted something more classy, without losing their original website.

The front page is a whole new design, looks very cool huh.

I had been working on the site for less than 24 hours when I noticed that the google spiders were there, in 52 hours Google has visited almost 4000 times, and even msn and askjeeves has been been though a few times, there no stopping them spiders huh...

OK, time to rest for a while.

Lynn
NZ best SEO

Jun 24, 2007

Hobits Hints about SEO, Websites, Email Computers and the Internet

Hobits Hints about SEO, Websites, Email Computers and the Internet

I just found out I have a button on my toolbar that lets me post straight to this blog, which means i don't have to go login, and make a post, I can click do it, and it's published....

I'm a happy camper, little things amuse even the most intelligent among us huh...
Helpful hints about websites, branding, and getting your products out there
As I said in the last post, we shifted hobit and his hints to their own sub domain, I have add a heap of hints hobit has written in the past couple of months, so there will be 22 hints when the web designer goes though them and polishes them up, hobit can only write, he's not so good at using Photoshop, which I suppose if expected, there a lot of keyboard shortcuts and his claws go between the keys and get stuck. You can see his claws in the picture and imaging how difficult it is for him.

Oh thats cool to, you can just drag pictures off web pages and the insert themselves into the blog... I can see this blog is going to be used a lot more.... great stuff.

Lynny NZ Best SEO

Jun 11, 2007

Been Busy SEO'ing

I have been very busy doing various SEO jobs for both our own site, www.canzdesign.com and a variety of websites I am SEO'ing at the moment.

One our own site, I have been writing various articles and adding them to the site, fixing up links within out site, and tweaking the meta tags of the site. I have also posting in several forums, and have written about 7 articles for Buzzle an article website. You can check out my articles on Buzzle by looking here http://www.buzzle.com/authors.asp?author=9145
I'm about to start taking screen shots of our SEO friendly CMS, there's been a lot of interest from Artists and photographers wanting an easy way of displaying their images.

The other sites I do SEO work on, have been having great results,
www.gemhunters.com.au has yet again increased it's visitors by over 2000 a month, and sales are up, the owner is thrilled. It lost a PR point on Google a couple of rounds ago, but if getting far more hits, being found for far more different search keywords and key phrases, and with sales skyrocketing everyone is happy.

I'm still working on the www.peoplecoachingpeople.co.nz site , and am teaching it's owner to do her own optimization, she seems to be picking it up quickly.

www.buykiwimade.com has had a make-over in the past month, I got rid of the CMS that was there, and created a directory for NZ owned websites.

I'm also doing the SEO work on three other websites, that are about to be opened.

www. Aotea. net is a web hosting website one of 6 we have built for the same company is about to be my next SEO job.

That site is going to be a real challenge, since there are at least 10 other sites owned by the same person, that have the same content on them. Google hasn't banned the site, but it seems to have put the site onto some kind of bad list, and is only visiting the site about 30 times a month, a site that size should be having Google visit at least 500 times a month, even if the content doesn't change. Read about the results of SEO for one of these sites here

Apr 7, 2007

Directory Submission

I found this site that enters your website into directory's for only 20 cents per submittion.

Thats a darn good price. All you do is add the website details into it, add 4 or so titles and discriptions, and pay them. They don't start immediately, it took them 4 days to start, I just noticed that I started getting emails from directories saying thank you for your submittion.

I'm going to do must of my sites thru there I think, they will be offering a service soon that will submit sites to sites that are directly related to your site.... which will be great.

Lynn

Mar 19, 2007

Re: Zillions of $$ from google adwords

Hello Lynn,

I read your email with a lot of interest. I haven't read the pdf, so my
comments may be off the mark.

What you say confirms my previous inkling that to make good money with
AdSense you need a LOT of keyword rich, good quality content. Having each page target a keyphrase or two with anchor text to other internal pages makes good sense and is what we do for our main content pages and recommend to others.

Outsource directory submission (50 per week): Who can you outsource to that will do a decent job of varying anchor text. Most directories are tiny with tiny PR. If you outsource, I'm sceptical about getting a ROI.

Make your next 6 page website on a different topic: How many topics can we be an expert in? And if the topics are related, why not subdomains on one main domain. This has the advantage for Google of looking like it's growing, and overall size.

Then link to the site from your main money making site: If this is to gain PR, Google can tell who owns domains and devalues interlinking between domains owned by same owner.

Add another page per week and make another website per week: How may hours in a day and how many areas of expertise do you/we have?

The better the page rank of the page the ad appears on, the more you get paid to have advertisements on those pages: This might explain why our AdSense income is going up while we are taking AdSense of our main pages. Add more backlinks to each site, by article submission, and other ways you know about: How many hours in a day? If you outsource this, will you get a ROI?

You could knock out one site a week for 10 weeks or so: There's not just the typing. There's the keyword analysis, thinking up good content, massaging it into good copy whilst being mindful of keywords. And what about the web design. Sure, you can use a simple template, but will this do to get quality incoming links?

I agree with you that domain registration/webhosting/ISP costs are minimal. That's what's so great about an internet business. Outsourcing the link building he quotes at $150 per site: What kind of link building? Reciprocal links from quality sites or submitting to twenty zillion tin potty little directories? I can't see you getting anything of real links value at $150. 500 links for $99 - that's 20 cents per link. What kind of links would they be? If they are of any value, I'd gladly pay $99.

$3600 earnings per website per year, x 48 websites = $172,800 per year, - 7200 for outsourcing = $165,600 profit. Net profit is income minus all expenses: webhosting/ ISP/ office/ webdesign/ accounting/ legal/ marketing. And if the owner pays themselves a salary for all of their time, what exactly is left?

Doing a sanity check using our own situation, our site is 3.5 years old with approx 330 pages. We have PR=5 and have AdSense adverts on almost all of our 150 article pages (PR=2). Yes, most are duplicates, but we also had adverts on our unique content pages (PR=3). We also do lots of eZine articles, forum posts and reciprocal links. We get approx $500 per year. This is very
different from $3,600 year - and after all of that hard work. You could say that our article AdSense pages are neither keyword targeted nor unique. Yes, but our content pages were (totalling at least 20 pages), and we still didn' t make that kind of money. One question is: Just how many pages do you need at what PR to make $3,600 per year?

"Makes me think about buying a cheap domain name, one that's keyword heavy, even if it is a long one, and try it out." If we had the time, we would join you. I'd be really interested in seeing how you go.

With the guy that has no less than 10 websites all with the same content, just the titles and metatags are different, it's not one step away from duplicate content, it IS duplicate content. He won't get banned; it's just that the later in time duplicate pages won't show up in the SERPs. Same with our articles written by other consultants - the older original articles will show up instead of our article pages. That's OK because these pages are not designed to get high PR. They serve other purposes.

This may be the way some people can offer 2000 directory submissions for $100: Aren't these just auto submissions at that price?

I've also been thinking about directories, and how to make duplicate directories: I'm sorry I couldn't follow what you were saying on this one, Lynn.

I have a google blog, and with it you can post a posting by sending an email: What's the url of your blog?

With Google AdSense, I think I agree with you that making a lot of money can be done. I'd like to see an example of some urls and some detailed accounting figures. I just have difficulty seeing how you can get high PR over a sufficient number of pages to get that kind of money.

We get reciprocal invites from sites that are, as they say, "built for AdSense". They mostly come through LinkMarket and from people with SiteBuildIt CMS sites. When I look at them, I see a minimum of content and so obviously built just for the advertising. The sites look crap and I
reject the offer because they would be of so little value to our web visitors. I'm sure there must be better AdSense sites than these.

Some closing comments: Even if we were able make over $100,000 with AdSense, it is another question whether we would want to go down that track. One consideration is the market risk. Making AdSense bring in loads of money would probably entail backing off our own business. This puts more of the business risk into AdSense. PPC costs to advertisers are going up along with greater disillusionment over click fraud. If the PPC market goes belly up, your income would go belly down. If you have your own products and services, no one can take these away from you. If one media (e.g., the internet) goes under, you could still pursue your market through other media/means. The risk is less than putting all your eggs in the AdSense basket.

The second consideration is personal interest and meaning of life. Sure, with AdSense you write content on subjects you are interested in. Assuming you have enough expertise to go around a number of subjects, will this be personally fulfilling enough? We get enormous satisfaction in producing new products and building our own unique brand. To become simply a portal for
Google does not fill either Les or I with an inner glow. These observations are, of course, personal, and everyone will be different - in how they manage business risk and in their personal drivers.

If there was a not too difficult way to make an income from AdSense, we'd be the first to look at the details closely. We're making approx USD $40 per month. This could certainly do with improvement.

Talk again soon.

Regards,
Vicki
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Mar 17, 2007

Zillions of $$ from google adwords

Hi Vicki.

I found a pdf online the other day, and eventually read it, it contained the formula for making a lot of money out of websites by having adsence on the site. It made pretty good sense to me, so I thought I would run it past you.

The basic idea, is to create a small website, that wasn't selling anything, just giving good advice on any given subject. Build a home page and say 5 more pages, with relevant information. Say the site is about SEO, and each page is about a specific keyword or key phrase to do with SEO, say one way backlinks, reciprocal links, linking text, search engine submission, and sigs on forum posts. Each page is linked to from the home page using anchor text from the home page article, then link each page first to second, second to third again using anchor text. .

The he recons outsource the job of submitting the home page to directory's, using good keyword based text links not more than 50 sites per week. meanwhile making your next 6 page website. On a different topics as long as the sites are informational and not selling anything.

Since the sites don't have any outbound links, they don't lose anything to other sites. Then link to the site from your main money making site. Once your site starts getting index, add another page at the rate of one page per week. (google see's there's changes which is good) once your PR starts to climb, then add google adsence to the pages, still keep the outsourcer adding your site to fifty directory's per week, and add another page per week. And make another website per week.

This guy says that the better the page rank of the page the ad appears on, the more you get paid to have advertisements on those pages...which makes sense.

He suggest you slip the adsence into your content rather than have it at the end of your page. And continue adding more backlinks to each site, by article submission, and other ways you know about, he again suggests you outsource this work, basically you keep making a new site each week, and adding one page to each site you have already built.

Realistically this would be a LOT of typing, but if you were writing about subjects you were particularly interested in, You could knock out one site a week for 10 weeks or so, and how much would it cost, the cheapest global domain names I have seen are $5USD. Say you made 20 sites in a year, that would be what $100 in domain names, hosting, well we can have as many
domains as we want, so that doesn't count, but renting a reseller domain costs sweet stuff all a month, and outsourcing the link building he quotes at $150 per site, $3000 per year, personally I think it would be more than that, the cheapest i have heard of, apart from the meat market, if .60 UScents per link, oh, thats right, there's one place that offer's 500 links for $250.
But this dude recons that within a year, the sites would be earning $10 per day per website, because of the high page rank of all the pages.

His figures were, $3600 earnings per website per year, x 48 websites = $172,800 per year, - 7200 for outsourcing = $165,600 profit.

I could possibly see how it could work, if you had nothing else to do but write content, and had a few grand around to pay an outsourcing place. It sounds good anyway....

Thinking as I do, I thought about the potential backlinks to the main site that could be gained once there pr had built up, and if instead of buying domain names, you were to make sub-domains with relevant names for the topic of these mini-site, as long as the main website name was also relevant. What I got from the articles was the sites should not be trying to sell
anything, but be purely informational, no fancy graphics, just good old well SEO'ed html pages.
It makes me wonder how fast a new domain could potentially build up page rank, using his idea. Makes me think about buying a cheap domain name, one thats keyword heavy, even if it is a long one, and try it out. I have witnessed, a pr3 in 5 months, with very little SEO work done.

With your site, I wonder if you had a subdomain with your articles on it, you have on the main site, if that would count as duplicate content. Would probably be best to have another domain name, possibly on a different server, I have to wonder about duplicate content, this dude, I'm doing the seo work for, had no less than 10 websites all with the same content, just the titles and metatags are different. And all his sites have a pr of 2 or 3. I guess it's one step away from duplicate content.

I've also been thinking about directories, and how to make duplicate directories. And how this may be the way some people can offer 2000 directory submissions for $100. If you had a domain name with say 20 subdomain names, and had a database driven directory, you could link each directory to the one database. So a link added on one directory would appear
all to sites in one hit. If you had a couple of hundred sub-domains, it could work the same, and since some database driven sites are massive, with huge numbers of people using them at once, think of some of the massive forums, and how many visitors are on one topic at a time. So it could be done, and if there were a few non database driven webpages on each site, to the content was somewhat different. It wouldn't take long to add links to 2000 directory's. If the directories ever became popular to actual people, rather than just search engines, you might have to make more than one database, but still.

Oh, if I could get a job, where all I had to do was think or research ideas, and someone else do the grunt work.....

Blogs.
I have a google blog, and with it you can post a posting by sending an email. So I could send this email to both you and the, and have another blog posting. Wish they had been around when Kym and I were emailing each other, it would have been fun to have a record of our friendship growing, and eight months of daily emails to read back on. Actually, I might just send the
email to the blog to see if it will work, sending it to you and it.


Regards Lynn Brown
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Why the text in a link is important

You have all heard about getting backlinks to your site right? And how important they are correct? Well here's a well known way to double the impact of backlinks. Instead of making a linking something like www.canzdesign.com like you usually do, make the linking words, use your websites keywords into a link, eg Best SEO Company in NZ if you click on either link, they will both go to the same place, but unless someone knows the name of your site already, in which case they probably wouldn't be searching for it, so they would or may be searching, in this case, for Best SEO in NZ. Google and most other Search Engines take special note of this linking text, even more than the title and meta tags or content on the page. For proof of what I say try doing a search for "click here" you will find the adobe pdf reader is the #1 ranking in google, and yet on the page itself, or in the title or meta tags, you won't find any mention of the words "click here". But think of all the websites you have been to that have a pdf, and tell you to "click here" to download the pdf reader. Using a bit of lateral thinking, you can see how a linking campaign using many different combinations of your main keywords, could make your site show highly in Search Engines for many many different keywords or keyphases, as I prefer to call them. Emailing a post to this blog RuleZ!!!! Regards Lynn Brown ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEO KNOW-ALL SEO Consultancy & Services http://seobycanz.com/

I think I have worked out how to make multiple directories.

Warning this post is just for fun, don't take seriously!!!!!!

I was just burbling away on my other blog, wondering how people could get banned for having too many backlinks to quickly, and I think I might know how or why.

If you were uncouth and into blackhat SEO have a directory database, and linked to the same database for several directory's then linked each directory to each other from a none database webpage. You could probably build up pagerank quite well correct?
Then is you entered new links into the database it would show up on several "different sites" in a matter of seconds. Do this say 300 domain names, and each domain name have say 10 subdomains, you'd have 3,000 websites.
I mean even if you had 300 databases just servicing their own subdomains, it still would be possible to add a new link to all 300 databases in a few hours. Result, would be 3,000 new links to your site in one day. If you sold that service, to even only $300 per sucker, (tell them it would take 30 days to do all those submittions), you'd only need what 20 suckers, to cover costs, and make a profit, it would probably be a couple of months before google caught on and banned your site. Then you could sell the domain names off cheap on ebay or something.

I wonder how long it would take for google to catch on, to get your pagerank up, you would need to add some content that was sort of unique, but hell you can buy content for 5 cents per page and if you that unclouth, you'd probably steal it anyway.....

Make you wonder if it could work huh, the databases would probably be slow, if you linked to them from too many sites, but you only want google to spider them anyway. Or would you.... you'd probably be gone before any of your poor suckers caught on.

I have been reading about all sorts of sleezy tricks people are doing to up ther page rank. I think my idea, is actually just pie in the sky and wouldn't work, but hell I exercised my brain, and had good fun, so what the hell.

Lynny
Best SEO in NZ (I would never do this to my clients, but I reckon it has been done)

Mar 7, 2007

Sooooo Busy.

Hi There. I have been busy, have been optimizing the life coach directory and running an adwords campaigns, and updating Best NZ SEO and, Natural Untreated Gemstones.... sound like I'm busy, I have also created cvs sitemaps for half the sites, good news is it's paying off. Anne the owner of life coach directory is thrilled at the way her brand new site is climbing in the local search engines for her top search phases. And our own site Best NZ SEO or canzdesign.com has doubled it's vistors two months in a row. Lynn

Mar 2, 2007

More than two blogs... check them out

Hey I now have two blogs, go check the other one out http://blog.360.yahoo.com/canzdesign http://webdesigngraphicartisthillcrest.blogspot.com/ http://gettingongooglesearch.blogspot.com http://canzdesign.blogspot.com/

Making Google Sitemaps

Hi there, I lost this blog until today.

I have been creating google .xml sitemaps this morning, for NZ's Best SEO NZ Islands Webhosting and NZ Business Webhosting pleased with myself, them all working, I just added more links to the canzdesign one, and waiting for it to be oked..... waiting waiting.... I'm going to do a sitemape for the Life Coach Directory NZ website when I wake up again, it's almost 9am and really should go to bed.