Update on How I Get Backlinks

This is going to be a bit of a short post.

I’ve been testing a lot lately and some of the previously mentioned backlinking methods are basically unnecessary in my opinion.

However, I’ve been continually getting page one rankings using the following 2 simple methods:

1) SEO TrackBacks – This piece of software gathers info on the latest blogs out there using Google Trends, then finds those that are unmoderated and don’t have a captcha, and posts whatever comment you want, including a link, to as many of them as you want. I usually tell it to do 20-40 links per url, per day, as not all of them will stick. The creator of the software is also adding a proxy option to it as we speak.

2) The Link Juicer – This software groups the social bookmarking accounts of thousands of users, and posts your link to up to 10 of them per day, randomly, with cleverly spun, unique content.

I use these two solutions for niche keyword sites as well as larger authority sites.

For niche keyword (1-2 page) wordpress blog sites, as I’ve mentioned before, I am still mostly following the Google Sniper Method of getting the .com, .net, or .org domain of my targeted keyword. If its not available I move on.

And again, I’m using Market Samurai for keyword research. I typically only target keywords with competition under 100k, with over 50% OCI, over 50% PBR (or just select “phrase match” only), and at least 3,000 searches per month.

And don’t forget to ping your site’s URL, as well as the URL’s of your backlinks once you get them. I prefer to use the free “Ping Machine” software from SEOMunchies.com

Here is a list of the 24 services I have uploaded into Ping Machine, so my links/pages get pinged in multiple places.

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

If you are thinking you need to use more tools, methodologies, tips, tricks, fancy shmancy algorithms, etc. – STOP.

The best tip I can give you is to IGNORE 99% of what you are reading about regarding SEO. Stop wasting your time and simply do the above. I’ve tested it dozens and dozens of times and IT WORKS. You don’t need to look for a “magic pill” or “secret”.

The secret is… there is no secret.

Also, some of the links above are affiliate links. But unlike most affiliate marketers, I actually USE the tools/solutions mentioned above. I have a video of myself using them inside BringTheFresh.com. And I’m working on another video case study right now that will be available inside of Bring the Fresh soon. The first part of it will be available here free on my blog shortly.

Please test this stuff out for yourself and post your results back here to we can all help each other out.

It’s all happening.

Kelly

Edited: January 27th, 2010

How’s it going?

Hey everybody, thanks for all of the visits lately. This blog has over 6,000 uniques this month. Nice! Didn’t know that many people were interested.

Things are finally calming down with Bring the fresh and I’m gonna get back to regular posts here.

You know what’s cool? When you find out you have a problem… but its a GOOD problem. My programmer just let me know my dedicated server can’t handle all of the traffic one of my sites is getting. He said it’s eating up more than a terabyte of bandwidth a month, which is pretty crazy given that the site has very few images! Nice “problem” huh?

Anyway, can you guys do me a favor and post a few comments here and let me know the things you really wanna know about most?

What’s giving you the most trouble right now and keeping you from where you want to be?

I really appreciate your feedback and will do my best to answer everyone. Of course if you want to know something that I just flat out have no idea about, I’ll be straight up with you.

Best,
Kelly

Edited: January 26th, 2010

Bring the Fresh is Live & Good to Go

Hey guys, Bring the Fresh is live. Thanks for your patience.

Any questions, feel free to post em here.

Best,
Kelly

Edited: January 22nd, 2010

Bring the Fresh SEO Preview Pt. 1

Watch in High Resolution (and don’t forget to make it full screen)

Part 2 coming soon…

Edited: January 19th, 2010

New Bring the Fresh Video

Next video – SEO.

http://www.BringTheFresh.com

Edited: January 17th, 2010

Bring the Fresh Available Now

The official grand opening of “Bring the Fresh” will be on January 19th.

In the meantime, we will be releasing clips from the course daily, so you can see what it’s all about. A new clip will be available within the next few hours.

Due to several requests, we are going to start taking early orders now, with a special welcome package available only to early buyers – including an exclusive video and a personal phone call from both Mike and Kelly.

Click here for the early order page.

The quality of the video is always questionable in the first few days after uploading to YouTube, so we also have a streaming high-resolution version here: http://www.area51marketing.com/itsallhappening.php

We’re in the final stages of developing the “sales letter” and membership area, but we will be doing a “soft” launch of “Bring the Fresh”, on Tuesday of next week (Jan 19th).

And by soft launch, I mean there will be absolutely no barrage of emails. No affiliates. No false scarcity. No “push-button software” for $1,000+ that will break or become obsolete. No BS.

We will be releasing clips from the course daily, here on my blog, so you can see what it’s all about.

The product will be all digitally downloadable – No DVD’s, books, shipping, etc. And we will have a community Yahoo group that Mike and I will be in every day.

There is a $300 one time fee for lifetime access to our interviews and screen capture videos.

There is also a $200 optional add-on for a lengthy walkthrough of 2 current websites that Mike and I are doing well with as we speak. We’ll show you the URLs, how we made the sites, the SEO process, software used, the income stats, everything. Including how my site has over 10,000,000 pages, with 150,000+ pages indexed, and more getting indexed at a rate of 4,000 pages per day. Currently over 2,000 unique TARGETED visitors per day, all free. This site has HUGE potential and room for copy-cats (like you) to do very well. The best part is that for EVERY keyword there are less than 15 total sites competing. Yes, fifteen. And then there’s Mike’s site, which has already banked over $1 Million.

It’s full disclosure time. It’s all fresh. No more gimmicky guru marketing. It’s time to get real. I’m going to go out on a limb and guessing that “Launches” and IM products will never be the same after this. Hopefully we will set the bar so high that the majority of customers in this market won’t settle for less ever again.

And I’d like to say once again for the record, this will be the only IM product I will ever release. Any future tips, tricks, videos, etc., even years from now, will all be released under the “Bring the Fresh” umbrella, and they will always be free to all members. We’re going for an evergreen product here – sustainable and always relevant.

Mike has been intimately involved in product launches starting with apprenticing with (and living with) John Reese for four months leading up to the Traffic Secrets Million Dollar Day launch…and then helping Jeff Walker with copy and strategy for the original Product Launch Formula…and then helping found StomperNet with his business partners at the time Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins and beyond…

…And “Bring the Fresh” will be NOTHING like any launch you’ve ever seen.

And THANK YOU to all of the folks who have been involved with our little underground launch here on the blog.

Feel free to join our newsletter below for updates, or just keep an eye on the blog here or at BringtheFresh.com.

- Kelly

Edited: January 16th, 2010

Happy New Year! (It’s all happening)

Hey guys, sorry it’s been a while. For the past few weeks I’ve been filming a series of pretty intense interview style recordings, covering  everything I’ve ever done and learned online over the past 10 years, good and bad, as well as what I’m working on now. Nothing is off limits, and everything is as transparent as possible.

I have about 2 hours of material left to cover, then I will be releasing the videos as a product in mid to late January. This will be the only internet marketing product I will ever release. Of course I will add many additional videos to it over the remaining years of my career as I learn and develop new methods, but they will be free to all members.

Feel free to make suggestions here on my blog about what material you would personally like included, and I will make sure to get it in these last few videos before we go live.

Now back to the Google Sniper method I mentioned in a previous post. I’d like to clarify exactly how I use Market Samurai to find keywords/domains for SEO purposes.

Market Samurai is pretty much the coolest software I’ve ever used. It includes much more information than I would ever need or use to evaluate a market/niche.

The only 4 variables I really care about in Market Samurai are:

1) Searches – I set the minimum to 100. This is the number of times the keyword/phrase is searched for per day.

2) SEOC – I set this to 100,000. This is the number of competing website for the keyword phrase. In other words, it is not “broad” match but “phrase” match. Obviously the lower the better. Keep in mind that there is a big difference between 100,000 and 30,000. If you find a keyword with under 30,000 I can almost guarantee you will get the # 1 spot if you use the backlink techniques described below.

3) OCI – I set the minimum to 50% – this is the percentage chance that these searchers are typically going to pull out their wallet for what they are searching for. I’ve tested this with MANY keywords and found that it is typically very reliable – some of my best converting keywords are listed as 84% OCI

4) Match Type – I always set this to “phrase”. This shows you the real picture of how many people are typing in the exact keyword phrase, rather than the default “broad” match, which shows how many times the word or phrase is included with other words you don’t have any info on.

I’ll also go over getting backlinks one more time as simply as possible.

For information on what kind of site to create and how to create it, check my previous post here.

The backlinking process below has worked for authority sites of mine, as well as simple 2 page Google Sniper type sites. One of my authority sites currently has 124,000 pages indexed and 2,000 backlinks using the simple system below. It gets 1,900 organic visitors every day and is growing steadily as Google continues to index 4,000 new pages per day. I’m detailing everything about this site in the video interviews I mentioned above.

I use the following sources/software for backlinks:

1) SEO Trackbacks – This is the software I use to get backlinks from blogs. I usually set it to 20-40 links per week.

2) The Link Juicer – I use this program to get up to 10 links per day. It’s a conglomerate of about 20,000 aged and unique social bookmarking and content accounts where your links will be dispersed randomly with varying anchor text and descriptions. It also has a 30 day free trial.

3) Angela’s Links and Paul’s Links – These 2 link sources send you a PDF file with instructions on exactly where and how to get 80 fresh new links every month from PR5 to PR9 sites. The pages themselves do not have the same pagerank as the homepage, but they still carry weight based on my experience. I use someone from GetAFreelancer.com to create 100 of these links to my sites every month for $30 per month. So you don’t even necessarily need to join Angela or Paul’s services to benefit from them. The guys on GetAFreelancer.com typically already have access to the links.

4) The Ping Machine (free) – Software allows you to paste all of your links to be pinged as well as all of the ping services you would like to ping to. Make sure you ping the URL’s of every page that contains a backlink to you. This basically notifies Google that it’s there, so you don’t have to wait for them to find it.

5) I make an RSS feed of my backlinks (I do about 20-25 per feed) using html2rss.com. I add the RSS feed to FeedBurner, making it look like http://feeds.feedburner.com/my-site). Submit the new Feedburner feed to various RSS aggregators out there. You can do it on your own, or use software such as RSSbot.

6) I use Bookmarking Demon to social bookmark the RSS feeds. You can use it to individually bookmark your backlinks, but after a while you will have so many that doing the feeds instead becomes much more efficient.

That’s it. Welcome to good rankings and free traffic (AND free money).

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I previously mentioned that I purchased Wordpress Mage and was testing it. I’m sorry to say I was not impressed, and decided to get a refund of this $1200 product. I found the tutorial videos quite lacking and not up to date. Many times I was forced to search the forum to find answers to my problems, which was quite a task in itself, and it didn’t always result in me finding the answer I needed. Sure I could’ve relied on customer support, but I literally had dozens of questions and didn’t want to go back and forth waiting.

As a 10 year online marketer, if I’m having trouble with the software, there’s a good chance a lot of others are too. And for $1,200 I’m not looking for frustration. And did I mention that my Ebay Publisher Account got banned? Yeah, not good. Especially when my other projects are working just fine without all of the hassle. This is just another example of why I believe doing sites right (and under the radar), and spending a little more time on them is the best route.

Be sure to let me know of any questions or material you would like covered in my videos! Thanks!

Kelly

Edited: January 2nd, 2010