5 Common Search Engine Optimization Myths: Debunking The Fallacies

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There’s a lot of misinformation online regarding what works in search engine optimization. To be fair, much of it is found on sites that haven’t been updated in years. We’ll give them a pass. But a startling level of bad info is posted on marketing blogs and sites even today. Worse, these fallacies travel and somehow gain traction without any statistical support.

Let’s address some of these SEO myths below. It’s worth noting the following list merely scratches the surface.  

#1 – “Keyword Density Is Everything”

Keyword density is important for ranking. By sprinkling your keywords throughout a page’s content, you’re helping the search engines identify your page’s topic. But keywords haven’t been “everything” since the 2003 Florida Update. Yet, I continue to run across pages that deliberately push a keyword density as high as 5%. There is no better way to say, “Hey Google. I’m trying to game your algorithm.”

Pull back the throttle on your density. There are far more important factors for SEO (hint: links).

Please read “Tips on how to get Backlinks to your site”

#2 – “Frequently Updating Your Site Improves Your Rankings”

This fallacy is understandable. A lot of people mistake crawl frequency with ranking. So, they update their sites over and over, hoping their search positions improve. Let me clarify.

The more often you update your site, the more frequently your pages will be crawled by the search engines’ spiders. This helps ensure your site is properly indexed in the engines. However, there is little proof that the frequency of your updates translates into higher rankings. The organic algorithms may indeed take frequency into account, but I have yet to see data that conclusively supports this notion.

#3 – “Search Rankings Only Come With Time”

Here’s one of the worst-kept secrets in search positioning: you can buy your way into the top ranks. I’m not suggesting you write a check to Google. Instead, you can enjoy quicker rankings by purchasing aged sites. These sites tend to have aged links pointing to them. With Google – and increasingly with Yahoo and Bing – age equals authority. Authoritative sites rank higher than non-authoritative sites.

As you can imagine, using this strategy isn’t cheap. There are a lot of folks buying these sites under the radar, which drives up bid prices. But if you have the budget and want to rank quickly, this is the way to do it.

#4 – “You Can’t Outrank The Authority Sites”

Have you ever researched a niche in Google and seen Wikipedia.org, About.com, WebMD.com, or other authority sites ranking at the top? It’s easy to throw your hands up and think there’s no chance you can outrank them.

Wrong. You can.

Those sites – and their individual pages – rank because of their authority. Their authority comes from a number of factors, but two of the most important are domain age and links. Unless you’re going to buy an aged domain, there’s little you can do regarding the first factor. But there’s plenty you can do to trump their incoming links. In many niches, the top-ranking authority sites are positioned as the result of a small portfolio of links. If you can build a similar portfolio, you can compete.

It’s important to manage your expectations. You’re unlikely to have much luck outranking CNN.com for “news.” But can you climb to the top listings for “discount golf putters?” Maybe.

#5 – “No-Follow Tags Are A Waste Of Time”

This depends on how you use the tags. First, there’s plenty of evidence that no-follow tags are actually followed by Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The tag’s name is a misnomer. The purpose of the tag is to tell the search engines to avoid giving authority to the linked page. That way, a blogger or site owner can link out without “voting” for the page to which the link points. This leads to a second issue…

Because a no-follow tag passes zero authority to the linked page, it can be used to “sculpt” Pagerank. By using no-follow tags when linking to your “copyright,” “about us,” and “privacy” pages, you can avoid sending authority to those pages. As a result, you conserve the “link juice” inherent in the linking page. Pagerank sculpting is a complicated issue and we’ll revisit it in the future. For now, it’s enough to know that no-follow tags can be put to good use.

Click here for information on How to pass link juice with in your site.

There are dozens of SEO myths that point folks in the wrong directions. The five above are some of the most pervasive. I’ll return with a few more in a future post.

P.S. Take all things into consideration when you start building your rankings and don’t believe all the hype when it comes to this or that.  Google loves great content and links keep it that way and you will do  good.

Wanna learn more about link-building to build your page rank Read my Review of  5000 Backlinks

High Value Backlinks

Learning how to get high value backlinks is a great way to build links to your site.

Marketing is essential. It is the lifeblood of your business. After all, if nobody knows about your business products or services how will you get noticed? That being said, there are many ways to market your site online and one most valuable tool is to get high value backlinks pointing back to your sites pages.

Each marketing tool has its own strengths and weaknesses and each marketing tool can be integrated into a comprehensive marketing strategy, such as link building.

It may sound complicated… so let’s look at an example.

To integrate all marketing tools into one comprehensive strategy you want to start taking link building seriously and realize that  it is the backbone of your business that will give it eternal life on the internet.

That is why I created a video to show you some quick easy ways to Links pointing back to your site fast!

P.S. I recommend that you read my review of 5000 Backlinks to quickly learn a way that you could learn to implement a daily linkbuilding plan.

How To Direct Multiple Streams Of Traffic Through Microsites

Targeted traffic is valuable. The challenge is finding a reliable way to bring it to your site. For a lot of marketers and small companies, the search engines remain one of the most cost-effective sources of traffic available. That’s because the people who visit your site from the engines already know what they want. They’ve qualified themselves by their searches. By the time many of them arrive, they’re ready to read, buy, or sign-up.

Now, what if you could leverage the traffic volume you receive from the search engines? There is a way – and it’s one of the most neglected SEO tactics that work.

Today, we’re going to talk about using microsites to drive multiple streams of traffic to your flagship site. I’ll define them, explain how to get them ranked, and give you a few suggestions that will make them more effective.

What Are Microsites?

Microsites are small websites. They are built on their own domain and consist of no more than a few pages. They focus on a single niche topic rather than following a silo structure with several categories.

There are a lot of ways to use these sites. For example, you can use one to launch a product that you eventually plan to sell off. Or, you can publish a piece of niche content that has little to do with your main product of service. And of course, you can use them to drive a lot of traffic to your flagship site.

You could use blogger.com, wordpress.com for all my flagship sites, you could even use weebly.com and wetpaint to launch content and get some high pr links pointing back to your site. But that is another story.

For more information on link building please read my 5000 backlinks review.

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Getting Backlinks To Your Site: Some Quick Tips

When you are growing a business online it can very helpful to get links from other blogs and sites. Getting backlinks to your site as I mentioned in an earlier post helps your site to get on the first page of search engines like Google and yahoo. Google the more so because they place a high value on how many links are coming to your site.

So how do you cash in on this traffic and get those links pointing at you benefiting your site. Well for one you can get opt to do link exchanges where you can contact the owner of the site and ask if they would be willing to do a link exchange with you. But a word of caution should be taken with link exchanges, if you do this try to only get links in the same or complimentary niche as you.

For example if you have a site about dog training, you will want to get links from sites that cater to dog training or sell dog equipment. You do not want a link exchange from a site that sells boats; it just does not look natural to Google when you are doing a link exchange.

Although link exchanges is not something that is used much these days it still holds it place depending on what page you are trying to link to.

Another way to backlinks to your site is mass syndicate your content across the internet with your Rss Feeds. Many Social networking sites like facebook, myspace, even squidoo allow you to post content and publish your Rss Feeds on their platform. Just Think of all the ways that you can generate a mass amount of backlinks in a short amount of time with Rss feed submissions.   

Whenever you get an account in any of those social networking sites you can also get a link back from your profile signatures. This is a great way to get indexed quick and get traffic all at the same time. When you are active in these online groups you are able to get a lot more links while at the same building your web presence.

Commenting on blogs is another way that you can get quick links to your blogs, keep in mind that when you do post comments to blogs try not to keep linking to your domain name. Switch it up a bit and place links to individual pages on your domain. Remember Google ranks pages not domain names.

Another way to get links to your site is to publish content on sites like squidoo, wordpress.com, and blogger blogs which are feeder sites that you can set up to write content on that gives will give links back your niche sites. I do not spend too much time on these but they do have their place when it comes to generating links.

One of the best methods of getting links is getting other blogs to link back to you within the content on of their site. Nicole Dean has an awesome workbook that teaches you how to set up and get other blogs to link to you. A must read for anyone that wants a system on learning how to do this.

You can learn more about Guest blogging here.

You should also start writing articles and submitting them to article directories like ezine, isnare, and go articles. These sites will help your site to get indexed quicker and allow for people to find your content and publish it on their site with a link back to your, now how simple is that.

These are a few different ones that I use to generate links back to my site on an ongoing basis.

P.S. A I mentioned earlier you can use Nicole Deans book of generating links to your site and you can learn more about that here - Guest Blogging workbook or can read my review of  Lynn Terry’s 5OOO Backlink building Product.

5000 Backlinks Review – Best Ways to Get Backlinks

If you are like most people that are on the internet and wondering how to get your site seen then you know that in order to get your site more visibility you know that you need more traffic. And to get more traffic you need to have more backlinks. Backlinks is similar to the road you drive on that directs you some place. Yes you can have some one road to get you there buy why not have many roads directing you to that one place.

That is when backlinks come into place, don’t belive all the hype about buying backlinks for hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Don’t even get into all the jargon about which and what links are better than the others.

A link is a link!

Yeah, some links have more weight than others but when you can build links over time over and over again and for free. Then you at the same time are able to have higher rankings in the search engines and dominate your niche for that particular keyword phrase.

If you want to learn more about keyword research see post here: Keyword optimization

So what are the benefits of having backliks to your site.

•Your website gets more visibility

•More traffic

•Increased revenue depending on content value

•Higher rankings in the search engines.

That is why when I came across Lynn Terrys and Pauls  5000 backlink program I was a little skeptical at first because really who is able to build that many links in such a short amount time. I mean really.

But when I went through program I was amazed how simple the program was put together and how simple the information was laid out that even a complete newbie can get a site, get indexed and have more then 70 links back to that site the same day!

So you may be wondering what does this program consists of?

5000 backlinks comes in a Pdf format so that anyone can access it and refer to it time and time again.

1.Getting Starting Guide – teaching you all all about backlinks and how getting backlinks can help your business.

2.Daily Action Plan- Shows you a complete step by step system on how to implement daily a way of getting building links back to your site.

3.Instant Indexing Guide- Creative way of getting a brand new site indexed in under 24 hours or less with links pointing back to your pages.

4.Power Tips that will skyrocket your Site to higher rankings in the search engines on a ongoing basis.

5.Text links lists of sites to get links from

6.PDF- List of sites with high pr rankings to get links from.

I was able to take a brand new site that I had and get indexed with more then 20 links  pointing back to the index page in less 5 hours!

Don’t get mistaken now getting backlinks is not some magical blueprint that will shoot out links for you, it is up to  you to put in the effort to get those links. Clearly stated in the daily action plan a little bit of work per day about an hour or so will benefit you for the long run with building high quailty one way backlinks to your site.

It does take work and if you don’t wont to do the work don’t buy the product but if you are looking for a way to get links with a systematized  effort and tired of scrambling of way to get links then 5000 backlinks is the right product for you .

For only $97.00 it comes with all that plus updates from Lynn and Paul who will be sending out more place to get links from time and time again.

You Can Get 5000 Backlinks by clicking here! ——- 5000 BackLinks

P.S.  Wanna learn more about getting traffic to your site then see post on Getting free Traffic to your site and  Check out  my Video Post on Some Ways to get Free Links to your Site.

Selling Your Content Through Information Products And Membership Sites

Hopefully, you’re already blogging. I’ve includes plenty of tutorials that will give you a jumpstart toward launching your own blog, attracting readers, and making money from your effort. As I’ve mentioned before, the linchpin to thriving as a blogger is to provide your readers with a continuous stream of high-value content. But, what if you could recycle, repackage, and update that content, and sell it through information products and membership sites?

While they don’t actively promote the fact, this is exactly what many of the top marketers do to build their information empires.

Building an online business that generates income through info-products and membership sites involves a lot of different skills. Writing, video production, marketing, search engine optimization, affiliate promotions, payment processing, upsells and cross-sells… there’s a lot to consider. Today, we’ll focus on two small areas: price points and affiliates. You’re about to discover why the top online marketers gravitate toward selling information.

Low Versus High Price Points

Here’s a rule of thumb that is seldom proven wrong: you’ll make more money by charging higher prices for your information. You’ll also experience fewer customer service issues.

For example, suppose you create a membership site for dog owners and charge $5 a month. Further suppose that you build a relatively stable base of 600 members. You’re grossing $3,000 a month from a single site. Not bad. The problem is, at that revenue level, you’re likely running the site (i.e. creating content, handling customer service issues, etc.) on your own. You’re not netting enough to hire a staff. That’s a lot of effort with very slim margins.

Let’s take a look at a model that uses a higher price point.

Suppose you charge $27 a month for access to your membership site. At that price point, you would only need 111 members to generate $3,000 each month. And it wouldn’t take much effort to double that revenue base and hire others to handle the daily operations. Moreover, you’ll find that higher prices tend to attract customers and members who require less support.

But, there’s something else to think about…

It is extremely difficult to establish yourself as an authority in your field when you’re only charging $5 a month. And if you can’t establish your “preeminence,” (a concept Jay Abraham uses), you’ll have a hard time cross-selling information products and consulting services.

To sum it up, the more you charge for your info-products and access to your membership sites…

1. the more money you’ll make

2. the fewer support issues you’ll have

3. the easier you’ll find it to establish your authority in your field.

Affiliates: The Key To Growing Your Information Business

Affiliates are the key to nearly all types of online businesses, but they’re indispensable when you’re promoting your info-products and membership sites. A lot of online info-marketers are loath to give up commissions because they’re afraid that doing so will lower their profits.

In reality, the reverse is true.

Imagine the traction you would gain if the top dog-related sites and bloggers regularly promoted your information products and membership sites. You would enjoy a continuous stream of traffic. That means more customers and members (not to mention opt-ins). The only way that will happen is if you cultivate an affiliate base and offer a healthy commission.

The alternative is to promote your information business on your own. That not only limits your profit, but it exposes you to volatility. While your search engine optimization efforts will bear fruit, a single change in the ranking algorithm can cut off your traffic. What’s more, if you’re using PPC to drive people to your sales pages, an increase in bid prices can likewise affect your traffic.

There will always be an insatiable appetite for high-value content. That lays the foundation for building an information empire with info-products and membership sites. The two things you should take away from today’s post are…

1. charge higher prices

2. attract affiliates

If you do both of the above, you’ll find there are few limits to the amount of money you can make with your content. And that gives you the freedom that makes being an internet marketer so rewarding.

The Super Sweet $5 Sale – Crissy Herron

My good friend Crissy Hereon is at again and whipping out some awesome products. She has been on a roll

Since the latter part of last creating awesome products for you to learn how to market your business the correct way.

You should know that when it comes to really setting up a business online you need to have the knowledge that it takes to market correctly online. Marketing offline is not the same as marketing online in fact they are completely different.

Well today she is back with a awesome deal that will allow you purchase her marketing products for more than less than half of what it is worth.

The Indie Biz Chicks Super Sweet 5 for $5 Sale!

I already own most of Chrissy products and enjoy them very much very easy to digest in bite size pieces. Enough just for the beginner to get started.

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P.S  Read My Review of  Crissy Product “How to Give Good Blog”!

Niche Affiliate Marketing Program: Workshop

As you guys know I am back from the niche affiliate marketing workshop in Atlanta, Ga this past weekend again. I love the nams workshop, it is filled with so much love and realness. The moment that you get there until the end you can tell how much hard work went into bringing this program together. The instructors were great along with the aides, many of them friends that I got to see again.

All the instructors are there because they want to be and none of them are paid to be there or do they try to sell you something in the end.

The knowledge you are given there is top notch and compared to none and just the experience of getting to know people on a more personal face to face basis is great for building joint ventures and on-going friendships.

Here are some of the photo’s below of some new friends that I got to meet and old friends that I got to see again.  The niche affiliate marketing workshop is the spot to be if you are ready to learn how to make your online business real on the internet and the place to be if you are looking to take it to the next level with joint ventures.

Many seminars teach you a little and then expect you to buy something on the very end for a huge price tag up in the thousands, at this niche affiliate marketing program you are taught from scratch how to start your business the aides are there to guide you while you have hands on experience into it.

As you can see Nams is the place to be! If you would like to find out more information about the niche affiliate marketing workshop you can do so here:      Niche Affiliate Marketing

I know at the moment you are able to get all the workshops recordings for $97.00 but you can also get access to the next nams coming this August if you were not able to make it to the last one!

P.S. At the event they gave a great presentation on Social Media Marketing and you can see my review here —->  Social Media Marketing Review

It was loads of fun and I can’t wait to do it again!

Crush It and Cash In Your Passion Book Review!

As you guys know I had attended the niche affiliate marketing workshop this weekend. While I was there during one of the presentations I was able to see a booked that caught my interest. I immediately wrote down the title of the book   and bought it last night at the airport.

The book was so good that I completed the book in less than two hours flat! It was just that good.

I could not wait to get home to do a review of Gary varynerchucks “Why Now is the time to Crush It and Cash in Your Passion”!

This book is a must for those in the internet marketing and for all who have thought about building a business based around their passion and goals. A real goal pusher is what I call and heart throbber.

In fact Kevin Rose — fonder of Digg.com Wrote ” Gary was the first person to push me on the importance of personal brand and transparency – this was months before anyone was talking about it; he’s always two steps ahead of anything else”

Anyhow How I thought you guys might like the book.

You can get the book through Amazon by Clicking here Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion

P.S. Wanna Learn More about Social Media  See Post on   Social Media Marketing

Social Media Marketing Seminar – Reveals Secrets!

As you guys may or not know, I like to attend the Niche Affiliate Marketing System in Atlanta, Ga. Ever since I attended the last one I have been hooked and keep coming back time and time again because of the valuable information that these guys share on a ongoing basis.

The information is top notch and always on point!

Anyhow this morning at the workshop we had the chance to witness live and have our questions answered on topics related to social media marketing and how to make the most of it for our own particular business.

People have been talking about social marketing for about two years. There’s so much involved with social marketing that if you are beginner it can be quite overwhelming and you are easy to shove it to the side right.

I made a quick testimonial video below for you guys on the social media workshop and how it has helped me what you can learn from it.

The audio recording is only $17.00 bucks and a Steal for all the information that these guys shared.

You can get the Information here   —   Social Marketing 4 U

Check out the video below —-

P.S. If you really want to learn more and get your hands wet then you can get all the recordings from this whole weekend at the niche affiliate marketing workshop —–> Niche Affiliate Marketing Workshop

Get it all with coupon code 200aug14!

Read both Reviews on the Niche Affiliate Marketing Workshop Here –    Part One and  Part Two!

I would love to have your comments below.

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