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Hi there Eli, big fan of your blog.

just wanted to say thanks for this awesome information noone is willing to share, keep it up !
 


LazyHippy said:
Will do. So far he's been very accommodating with themes, feeds etc. Waiting to here if he can do subdomains as opposed to separate domains for each site. I've been looking at Wordpress MU today though - seems like that might be a better idea long term for what I'm trying to do (if I can find a feed plugin that works with it).
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I looked at the example blogs as well as ones posted by people in DP who bought and posted their URLs. They all look like turds but if they work... :D

I too would like to find a reliable WP plug in for pulling relevent content. So far, nothing seems to work the way I'd like. This guys blogs, however, seem to pull in relevent shit.

He might be on to something and it may very well be a bargain. I'm going off to kill some brain cells and maybe come back with a CC in hand. :eek:
 
If I am making blogs on .info domains should they only be 1 niche per domain?

How many subniche blogs should I have on that domain?

Hmm idk
 
csflmuc said:
Eli, thanks for taking the time to answer some question!

Do you think search engines weight .info domains and .com domains differently? I know for branding the .com is much better, but if the sole purpose is search engine related, are they both seen equal? What's your take on .info domains?
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The thing you got to remember about any form of devaluing done due to a trend in spam is, the search engines can't pull the trigger if an innocent bystander might get hit. This isn't a public relations or a moral thing, its a preventative measure. The moment a search engine devalues something that a legitimate site might use just because it's popular with spam sites (ie using .info's because their cheap) than people like me see a loop hole and use it against our competition. Look at what happened when Google tried to get rid of cloaking, they accidently banned several large sites like BMW because they cloaked to point users in the right geographical portion of their site. That "tough on crime" algorithmic change lasted all of about a week after Jagger because the moment black hatters found out about it they went nuts exploiting the bowling loophole (several big .gov's got hit as well but never made the news). So of course .com's are better for branding and .info are perfectly suited for cheap niche sites. I have seen absolutely no difference in how google treats them. I also foresee no difference anytime soon. Notice that many local newspapers use .info for their websites. The moment a search engine decides .info's aren't worth as much as .com I'll buy mylocalpapersomething.com and start stealing all their traffic knowing my .com has a better chance of outranking their .info. So it just can't possibly happen, and if it does consider it an early Christmas and be sure to send Google a big thank you card.

Someone also asked something about hyphens(-) in urls. My same argument applies to those as well. Not to be confused of course with underscores(_), those are on a bracket all their own because they are a programming principle(they mean something in programming). Yes they are popular with splogs but look how many legitimate wordpress installs use them as well. So it's the same principle, even when applied to a subdomain. Still, when talking about a domain or subdomain i'd have to advice against going crazy with them, matt cutts has shown his distaste for them which means they are an easy target for human check, even though they may not be encorporated into the algorithms themselves.

As far as Jelf's question. I say Yes on the single niche and no on using a single keyword. I don't say this because of my experience with Google, because I have no evidence to back it up. However I do say this because of Yahoo. From my experience Yahoo loves sites that are focused on a single topic. One of my very first posts on blue hat was actually about that and I still think it still holds true today. That's why niche sites tend to perform very well in Yahoo while generalized directory orientated sites, errr not as much.
 
Hope you can tear yourself away from giving great advice to get some boobs ready for a few posts time!
 
lol @ "someone" - jelf is more important than me :-( :-( .....

my question was more in regards to how you would organize a bunch of longtails for grabbing up public KW real estate, and how far you go with slight variations.

some people prefer to use dashes as opposed to nothing for multiple word keyphrases, my question was more aimed at the endless possible variations of longtail KW's and how far is overkill. to accurately test and gauge this i would need a lot more sites and seo experience than someone who has been in the business longer - not sure where to stop when creating these variations.

thanks again for your answers
 
lucab said:
lol @ "someone" - jelf is more important than me :-( :-( .....

my question was more in regards to how you would organize a bunch of longtails for grabbing up public KW real estate, and how far you go with slight variations.

some people prefer to use dashes as opposed to nothing for multiple word keyphrases, my question was more aimed at the endless possible variations of longtail KW's and how far is overkill. to accurately test and gauge this i would need a lot more sites and seo experience than someone who has been in the business longer - not sure where to stop when creating these variations.

thanks again for your answers
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hehe awww i made Lucab sad. :(
Sorry i must of misread the question. That's easy, with my keyword real estate scripts I have it split on the space. So if I'm targeting "Long Tail Keyword" than it's split into three words on the space. The idea behind keyword real estate is to grab up the good stuff, the good stuff of course has less hyphens. So I go for those first.
1) check to see if longtailkeyword.domain.com exists. If not than register it. Goto END (old qbasic joke).
2) if it does exist try longkeywordtail.domain.com.
3) if that still exists than go long-keywordtrail.domain.com
4) if even that is taken then try longkeyword-trial.domain.com
5) once again, long-keyword-trail.domain.com
6) still taken? long-trailkeyword.domain.com
7) and it continues long-trail-keyword.domain.com
I usually stop it right there.

I usually don't register more than 1-3 on each keyword real estate possibility because it'll throw up red flags and I risk loosing them all, including my coveted one. I also make sure that on any 3 more word phrases I keep my first word first and try to do the same all the way down the line even if I have a 5-6 word phrase. Simply because most of the time the first words will be the primary words and when they become increasingly longtailed the more specific words usually go last not first.

Did that help?
 
So you automate the keyword real estate process? How do you get around all the CAPTCHAs? Do you use the technique you posted about a while ago where you serve out CAPTCHAs to users?

It's alright if you don't want to answer this one. :)
 
1) On your blog, you mentioned that people spend a lot of time building back links but if the pages with the backlinks aren't indexed then they are pointless. So, why not try to help the pages with your backlinks on them increase their authority thus increasing their value. Great point, and basically I've just been pingoating all of the links I build manually, such as comments on wordpress blogs. Would you suggest automating this process or doing something more in depth (beyond pingoat)?

2) Also on your blog, I thought i remember you redirecting the www version to the non-www version of your homepage. They seem to be seperate now. Meanwhile, most seem to redirect the non-www version to the www version. What's your take on this? Maybe less characters = higher keyword density? Just a formality, ie pick one and do it? None of my sites redirect these so wanted your opinion before I do the grunt work.
 
yeah that was what i was interested in... i am being thorough, for example if i was doing ringtones i would get $everyhotartistoutnow.'ringtones', but like you said, not more than 1-3 variations of each, so as to not raise any suspicion and risk losing all my primo real estate.

thx

sidenote: ahhh, the days of writing text adventures in qbasic obv not just zork ripoffs =P
 
1) Do you think the indexing bot will index more of a faster loading site in 1 go than a slow loading site?
2) Do you think sites coded "well" without using tables for layout and seperating presentation from content have any advantage in terms of SEO.
3) Do you see any advantage in using a meta description in terms of CTR.
4) In order to become the current Top Seo Guru, do you have to eat the reigning guru's heart? or do you have to have more excellent h1 tags?
 
chatmasta said:
So you automate the keyword real estate process? How do you get around all the CAPTCHAs? Do you use the technique you posted about a while ago where you serve out CAPTCHAs to users?

It's alright if you don't want to answer this one. :)
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I personally just type them in, typing in a couple dozen captchas is minuscule effort compared to going out and registering and posting on all these places. However if you DID want to automate it, you're welcome to check out my Army of Free Captcha Typers post.
 
Hey Eli, what about my question? :P Was that too broad ? I'm not necessarily looking for a detailed answer, I'd be pleased with just a Google query on a technique that I should study, that could help me :P .
 
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