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I Want To Learn About Link Building

Kelly Ifrah — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:56:36 +0000

John signed up at IMMembership.com yesterday and said he wanted to know more about link building, so I decided to answer him as fully as I can today.

Firstly before any sort of link building is done you need to have a website with content. This can also be an affiliate link redirect, but I would always use some form of content.

Now this man John used an e-mail that was from a domain he owned, so I went along to have a look. I wanted to see if I could get some background on him, but the site is just a fresh wordpress installation. I had a look using the way back machine as the domain is well over 4 years old, but there is nothing but a holding page to see.

There is something holding this man back from building a site and in most cases this is either that the person is chasing the next ‘greatest thing’ or they are worrying over building the best site in the world.

START TODAY. Get something up on the site, even if it a ‘I don’t know where to start, but I will’ kind of thing

Now once you have something on your site you can start building links. Below is a list of how to do build links, in no particular order. You will no doubt have seen this list before, but if you don’t do them you will not get backlinks. People always seem to think there is something missing and 99.9% of the tilme there is … they do not take action.

1) Social bookmarking - use a keyword rich title, description and as many tags/keywords as you can. Varying your title and description will help too.

2) Article Marketing - Completely unique articles will do the best, but If you are no good at writing you can just write one unique article and spin/re-write it to be about 40% unique (although the more unique the better) and submit it to the article directories. You can check the uniqueness for free at Dupecop.

3) Submit your RSS feed to the RSS Directories - if you have a html or php or asp site and are not using a blogging platform like wordpress that gives you a feed automatically visit Dapper.net and get an rss feed.

4) Trackback - this is only relevant to wordpress users, but if you link to another wordpress users blog post and they have trackbacks enabled they will see the post you made the next time they log into their dashboard and can approve or not approve it like a comment. Most people approve these trackbacks giving you a relevant backlink.

Now this list of 4 ways is not in any way exhaustive. You can also comment on other people’s blogs and post in forums with a link in your signature to your site. Like I have said more than once the most important thing is to start and once you have a few links in forums and on other people’s blogs and in the social sites other people will start to link to you too, if your content is worth linking to of course

A great example is at the end of this post there is a link with the title ‘Related articles by Zemanta’. Zemanta is a firefox add on that integrates with your wordpress dashboard. It might integrate with blogger too, I’m not sure. Anyway the link below was a suggestion from them on related content to what I am writing about in this post. Now the guy who wrote the article on the link missed out any links to his website in his article which completely defeats the object of article writing, but it still proves my point. People CAN and WILL find your website and use your content if you put it out there.

So get to it. Create 10 links to your site every day in the hope to get 4 and after a month you could have as many as 300 backlinks meaning you would beat most of your competition out of the water.

Let me know what you do to get backlinks or if you have had success doing the above. I love to hear from you.

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Google And Customisable Search

Kelly Ifrah — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 21:10:48 +0000

I have known that Google were testing a way to allow users to customise their searches, voting etc … for a while, I just didn’t think it would be coming our way so soon.

To be honest, I really think that this will help the internet in general and if those of us creating websites create quality sites and content this can only help us. I for one will be happy to get rid of the ‘rubbish’ sites from the SERP’s. Don’t forget, what I think is rubbish, someone else might love

I found this video demo from an Italian guy on YouTube, which is definitely worth a watch …

From what I understand it is only available via Google Chrome and when you are logged into a Google account of some kind. This is because they want to monitor what you choose so thay can adapt their algorithms etc …

I have not downloaded Google Chrome as I already have too many apps on my computer, so am careful what I install. I also love Firefox way too much to let it go just yet

Are you using Google Chrome? Are you logged in to a Google account and using this new customised search feature? Please let me know your thoughts, I would love to hear from you.

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My Favourite Site Ever Part 2

Kelly Ifrah — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:23:16 +0000

Why did I put this post in tutorials I hear you asking.

No, I did not press the wrong button

… what is this?

In life you need to look at the successful and copy them.

This sales page in itself is a great tutorial on how to do things. Running through his/her product is another tutorial. I honestly loved it and think it may have been the best $7 I spent this year.

… what is this?

You will not be disappointed in this if you read between the lines

… what is this?

You can tell how much I loved it as I am still thinking about it today and enough to blog about it again.

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My Favourite Site Ever

Kelly Ifrah — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:03:47 +0000

Well, it is my favourite site so far … what is this?

I know, it is mad.

I just had to buy, I had to know what this guy was selling.

I know you want it too. It is just $7 and though one of his secrets relates to an eBay policy that has changed, you can use this methos in any sort of marketing online and off.

… what is this?

I don’t want to say too much

Look closely at his sales page, what he is doing and how he is doing it. You will learn a lot. I bet his conversion rate is in the high double digits.

… what is this?

What did you think of the site? Let me know your thoughts.

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Google Shows Us The Way To Go

Kelly Ifrah — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:12:01 +0000

Image via Wikipedia

Google have released heir own SEO guide. It is a 22 page easy to read pdf covering the basics of on page SEO.

I think it is a great idea and should help beginners (newbies) with getting their site up without buying this, that and the other (meaning the latest SEO ebook, software or script).

Don’t get me wrong, there are some great products out there, but ‘information overload’ can and will arrive. The people just starting out get it the worst as they search desperately for THE THING that will get them to where they want to go.

My suggestion to everyone would be to start small and build on it …

1) Buy a domain

2) Sort out hosting

3) Create a one page site selling something

4) Drive traffic to the site

5) Learn one thing new

6) Implement that change

7) Drive traffic to the site

Repeat steps 5 to 7 until that site is earning you a steady amount

9) Repeat all steps with a new site.

By the time you reach step 9 you will have learnt a lot and can implement it all straight away in your new site.

Just think, it may take you 6 months to get your first site earning $100 a month, but it will only take you 3 months to do it for the second one and less for the third etc … Within a year you could be earning $500 extra a month.

I know there are lots of people offering you lots of money per month with little effort, but this is just not the case. If you are a fast learner or have some knowledge already you are already ahead of the game.

However, stop chasing the next big thing and put yourself to work. Taking action is the only way to succeed.

Google is giving us this information, which means that this is what they use to look at sites. Implement this if nothing else. You can download it here.

Let me know your thoughts as always, I love hearing from you.

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Lighten Your Mood

Kelly Ifrah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:57:57 +0000

I just got sent this link to a great video that made me smile, so I thought you would like it. As cleaning is my pet peeve this suited me perfectly. If only cleaning were that easy …

It does show you though just how viral something can go. This is actually part of an advertisement for a tv program. Just think what you could do with a funny video. What could you advertise? Let me know your thoughts.

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Getting Started

Kelly Ifrah — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:29:46 +0000

When signing up for your free Keyword Domination report over at IMMembership.com, Lee wanted to know how to get started for free earning some money before he invested in other tools to make it big.

This is a very interesting question, which is why I chose to cover it first.

First and foremost you need to take action. You can only make something if you put something in. There is a saying that you need money to make money, but in the case of online marketing this is slightly different. If you have little or no money to start off you need to make more of an effort and will see less return, but as your returns/profits come in you can invest this in your online business, work less and create more profits.

So, how do I get started for free?

Follow the 9 easy steps to keyword domination laid out in the report at IMMembership.com, but instead of buying a domain and getting hosting you would use web space on someone else’s site.

There are lots of websites that will let you create your own site within their site. These sites rank highly, so if you build your links as you would with a site you owned you should be able to rank highly for your keywords.

Here is a list of just some of the sites available to you (there are loads more, just do a google search for free web space and free websites) …

I hope you found this post helpful. Please let me know your thoughts by posting a comment.

What are you waiting for? Get to it

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Terrorists Using Twitter

Kelly Ifrah — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:41:50 +0000

Before I get into explaining the title of this post I just want to apologise for those of you who came to read a post only to find the iste down or no post. I had a problem with my hosting, apparently my a servers had changed back to my old nameservers and they go above the nameservers. It was just a bit too technical for me, but after a little tooing and froing between Hostgator and GoDaddy I got it sorted. I have since moved to a new host again due to cutting costs, so hopefully I will be ok this time Might do a separate post next week on hosting comapnies, so if you have some complaints, keep them till then. I will re-post the post tomorrow, but this was much more interesting …

Twittering terrorists … I wish I could find where I got this link from, because it is absolutely hilarious and want to give credit where it is due, but I can’t, so whoever you are … thanks.

According to cnet.com the US intelligence community has released a report voicing it’s concerns that terrorists might use twitter.com to organise attacks. Now I can see where they are coming from, cheaper and easier to use someone else’s network, but I think the terrorists have enough funding to have their own communication network.

The report says that there are already people twittering their “extremist ideologies and perspectives”, which could then be exploited by terrorists.

I for one believe that ALL people are created equal. I have my opinions, you have yours and they have theirs. We don’t have to agree on it all. There are some bad people in the world or are they just people who have misunderstoo their bible or the history books. It is a very grey area. I don’t want to get too ethical here, so I am going to stop, but love thy neighbour as thyself, regardless of his race, colour, sexuality or religion. We live in an enriched world, don’t spoil it.

You can read the full report over at cnet.com. When you have read it, come ack and let me know what you thought about it.

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We’re Moving

Kelly Ifrah — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:45:41 +0000

If you are reading this post you are looking at this site on my old server. I am migrating to a new account, so am moving the big sites first. Wish me luck

Please bookmark and comeback later. Nothing will change straight away, but there are themes coming your way.

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Wordpress 2.7 Will Have A New Theme

Kelly Ifrah — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:42:55 +0000

Image by Vermario via Flickr

It is official, the release of Wordpress 2.7 will see a new theme added as standard.

It is clean and beautiful and you can read all about it, as usual, on the wordpress blog. (it is not the one in the photo)

It is about tile they had a new theme, although I do like the current ones. There are so many to choose from, I don’t know how they did it. If it had been me I would never have been able to choose … lol.

On a separate note, do you facebook? Wordpress do and you can become a fan and chat with other wordpressaholics. I just became a fan and will look into it ore tomorrow. If you do facebook, please feel free to add me as a friend, I like to put faces to names … Kelly Ifrah’s Facebook Profile.

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