Category: Other Stuff
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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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Domain Name Coupons and Flipping Your Sites
A couple of useful things came across my desk this week, so I thought I would pass them on. One is a cool site for finding the latest domain name discount coupons and promo codes. The other is an interesting case study of how a guy flipped an Adsense site for $11,000.
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Cheaper Alternative To Multiple Exact Match Domain Names?
One of the issues that often comes up when creating more than a handful of niche focussed websites is the cost of domain names. At $10 per domain name per year, a group of 30 websites with exact match domains will cost $300 per year in domain registration fees. My view is that if any one website…
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Do Exact Match Domains Still Rank High On Google?
Google’s love affair with exact match domain names (EMDs) has been going on for a long time. I’m sure everyone has seen sites with no links, not much content and no authority at the top of search engine results. Why? Presumably because they have perfect query matching domain names. But is this still the case? After…
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The End Of Dot Com Domination?
New rules okayed by the body that oversees internet addresses (ICANN – Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) now allow a virtually unlimited number of domain name extensions – “.anything”. ICANN will accept personalized domain name requests for almost any word in any language, including in Arabic and Chinese, based on themes as varied as…
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Why Are Google’s Average Cost Per Click Values Wrong?
Up until recently it had bugged me why the average amount I was earning per click on some of my sites was nowhere near the average cost per click reported by the Google Adwords Keyword Tool – even allowing for the fact that Google only pays approx 60% of the click cost to the Adsense…
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How To Get More Traffic Than the Web Page Ranked Number One
I don’t always get the number 1 search ranking for a Google search on my targeted keyword phrase. But guess what? It doesn’t bother me because there is a way to pull more traffic than the web pages ranked above me.
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Beware Of False Page Rank
The other day I got an email requesting a link exchange. The person requesting the link exchange said that they had a PR4 site on which they could place a link to my site. I immediately thought “great, a PR4 link, which of my sites could most benefit from the link?” I decided to have…
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How To Get A New Website Indexed Super Quickly
When you create a new website, the first aim is to get search engines to find the site and index it. Indexing means that the pages in the website have been crawled by the search engine and have been added to their database (index) of pages. Just because your website has been indexed doesn’t necessarily…