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Trying To Escape An SEO Black Hole Part 3 – Things Are Getting Worse Rather Than Better
This post is the third of a series documenting my attempts to retrieve one of my money sites from the depths of ranking despair. Unfortunately things seem to be getting worse, rather than improving. My “black hole” site, which has an exact match domain (EMD) name of the form “NicheCity.net”, got hit by the Google…
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Trying To Escape An SEO Black Hole Part 2
This post is the second of a series documenting my attempts to retrieve one of my money sites from the depths of ranking despair. You can see the first post here to get the background story. To pull my site out of the black hole I decided to enlist the services of one of the…
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Trying To Escape An SEO Black Hole
This post is the first of a series documenting my attempts to retrieve one of my money sites from the depths of ranking despair. How I Got There…… The site is an exact match domain of the form “NicheCity.net”. The niche is real estate and the site monetisation method is lead generation. Up until late…
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Was Earning 10K Adsense Per Month – Now BANNED
Here’s a horror story that features Google as the monster. Spencer Haws is (was) a very successful niche website publisher who was averaging around $10,000 a month in Adsense income. Not any more – his Adsense income is now $0, and he did not receive the previous month’s income as this was returned to the…
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The Death Of Getting Links From Blog Networks
I haven’t talked much about link building in this blog. That has been sort of deliberate, because link building can be a touchy subject. Everyone has their own way of doing it and it is pretty well impossible to describe a one size fits all approach. Also, if you follow my blueprint, you don’t need…
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Be Wary Of F*r*e*e WordPress Themes
Ever seen the acronym “TINSTAAFL”? It stands for “There Is No Such Thing As A Free Lunch”. Why do you think there are so many f*ree WordPress themes available for download? I used to wonder why myself – I mean, are there just heaps of very generous theme designers out there? Well, the answer is…
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How To Easily Backup 30+ WordPress Blogs
Backing up your websites is important – I’m sure you know that – but do you actually do it? Well I do, and I thought I had a reasonable system for backing up about 20 blogs. A friend of mine was using the same backup system after being hassled by me about not backing up his…
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What Do You Use To Check Backlinks?
Good ol’ Yahoo Site Explorer (YSE) closed it’s doors in November 2011. In case you didn’t know it YSE supplied the back link data for the vast majority of link checking tools, including the one I use in my 5 Minute Keyword Research process. Not only was YSE comprehensive, but it was also free. So…
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Free Backlinks For Christmas!
One thing I haven’t talked about much on this blog is backlinking. To be honest I hate backlinking and try and avoid it if I possibly can. Backlinking is either too time consuming, too expensive, or both. However, I recently found a site that gives you 15 free contextual backlinks per day – that’s 450…
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More Evidence In the Case For Exact Match Domains
There are differing opinions about whether Google favors exact match domains or not in their search engines results pages (SERPS). Personally I think there is an advantage in using an exact match domain name. I see examples supporting this position all the time when I am doing Google searches. Here is some evidence in the…
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