Directory Maximizer Review

Summed up in two words – nice service!

The Directory Maximizer service allows you to add your own choice of URL’s and keywords (which are added as the title of each snippet (description) of text you enter).

The interface page or home page is nice and clean and easily navigable, which is just as well since they offer more than simple directory submissions these days. Services offered include the following:

- plain and simple directory submissions

- individually paid-for directory submissions (high PageRank directories)

- niche directory submissions (choose the niches suitable to your own site’s niche)

- social bookmarking submissions

[Read more...]

Do You Worry About the Quality of Your Backlinks?

I read something today online about quality of links and what works and what does not work and what have you, and I gotta say that I like the attitude here – a lot!

What the chap was saying was along these lines.

Its all very well to read about what sort of backlinks are real good quality and which ones are trash. And its all very well to read from the guru SEO’er that what works right now in that you can obtain real hot Google rankings will NOT WORK TOMORROW. And quite frankly, I don’t give a s..t (sorry about that, but its too true, because nor do I!).

.

My philosophy whilst doing the Warrior Forum Challenge was to utilize quality backlinks and you will be blessed for doing so by Google. And I still advocate that, but I also think that if you want to mix it up that much more, then by all means get rubbishy links too. Oh and ouch, do pardon me!

What do I mean by rubbishy links as opposed to traditional and quality links?

[Read more...]

GOOGLE, Yahoo!, Bing.com | READ THIS – this affects YOU!

I just read this really good email I received a short time ago today about Google and Yahoo and Bing and Mayday algorithm change. Don’t worry I will not bore you with the whole thing and I’m not going to bleat on about this Google algo for too much longer. Its very, very important that we all understand it however, as it could totally make or totally break our online ventures! Make no mistake about that, please.

-

Okay, the main points were this in very brief format…

- Yahoo is going the way of Bing.com with regards to SERP results.

Yahoo loves loadsa backlinks of all sorts and you tend to rank high in Yahoo by getting ‘em.

Apparently (I say apparently as I have no idea what Bing.com likes when it comes to ranking with them – all I do know is that I love the images they have on their search page!!) Bing likes ‘logical’ navigation menus and tabs that are crystal clear. Well, Yahoo! is gonna be going for a similar tact in the coming weeks and months (and please do not ask me to explain what ‘logical’ means here – logic defies me!).

More about this in times to come.

-
-

Notice the new upgrade to WordPress.org today? WordPress 3.0 is now out – its called “Thelonius“. Its got some rather hefty changes too, in comparison to any release made up till now. We’ll be talking more about this upgrade over the coming weeks – should be fun, I think!

-
-

On to the Google algorithm change, and this is very interesting and what I read from a highly reliable source it must be added!

This short list is about building your backlinks that is almost totally sure to have Google enjoying your every move!
[Read more...]

Point To Point of Writing a Press Release (Who’s Yawning??)

This post about press release writing for the internet is continued from the previous 2 posts I wrote which can be found here…

1. Writing press releases for the internet

2. Press releases for SEO

*

*

This is one of the few times so far that I have added content to the SEO Tips blog where I have had to refer to another web page for the information. No bad thing however – I need to pick up some tips about this press release game too, so thus I am being “forced” into doing so by writing out the “how-to press release writing”.

-

Mind you, I would happily shell out $20 for someone else to do a press release for me, and then another $15 to get someone to release it onto 20 relevant sites. That would be a bit risky perhaps if money is tight and its your first time of doing this stuff. So its why I am going to map out the main points.

-

This is not the be-all here. Its a quick run down of what can be included to make a press release or news release different to that of a normal article.

[Read more...]

The POWER of a Squidoo Lens For SEO Backlinks

Just a quick update here – I don’t want to spend too much time writing another great long post, nor to bore you either wink The POWER of  a Squidoo Lens For SEO Backlinks

Update on what I was talking about yesterday and related to today’s post too – the last post I made re Squids.

I just checked that archery-related product site I was telling you about yesterday. It seems to have nudged up a place to 3rd, with the ezinearticle following along nicely – 4th (its odd how these “things” tend to glue together – seemingly due to a common hyper-text link between them).

Again, this is what I’m seeing in Scroogle, thus results are going to be a little different elsewhere and with other software, search engine server locations etc. But, my point really is that this is the first time I’ve seen this page showing in 3rd and I can only but suspect it has something to do with the Squidoo lens I put up for a backlink just a few days ago - 13 days now.

Its ranking for other keywords too, but this is my main target due to the search volume, and it is a decent buyer keyword phrase, so I’m kinda happy about that too.

Actually, I should discuss “buyer” keywords because, if you get this wrong when studying potential keywords, it matters not where you rank in the search engines, you will make little to no sales! And that includes AdSense.

I’ll make a note of this and come back to you in due course. I’ve made a ton of mistakes regards “buyer” keywords, so you can call me something of a pro now due to falling flat on my face a hundred times and more when assessing for a market to target!

I only started to get it right when reading something I purchased from Chris Rempel – the Lazy Marketer, on a flight back to the UK from my current home of Malaysia. Thanks Chris – I owe you one!

Back to the archery-related site…

I see the Squidoo lens backlink is now showing in the Yahoo link checker – Yahoo Site Explorer. It has no PR but then its new, and there are no backlinks to that lens.

Its easy to make presumptions here about the strength that the lens is giving to my page ranking. There is no way to determine for sure, and don’t forget I have that PR4 ezinearticle pointing directly to my site!

However, apart from the Squidoo lens, I have not touched this site with regards backlinks or anything for weeks and it has been languishing between 5 and 11 for a while. I put the Squid up and voila! Its very nicely popped up at or very near the top!

Remember, this is a 15k a month search term I’m ranking well for, and it took me around 4 hours of work to do so, from very start to very finish!

And yes, you can do this too – trust me!!

Another point – very briefly. If you’ve not seen my site – Twilight posters (Twilight Posters for the Discerning Twilight Fan!) today, then go check it out now! Its looking oh-so gorgeous!

I’ll talk a bit more about this in the coming post a little later on today. I’m sure you agree the young lady designer has made a lovely job of it, to say the very least!

Chat soon!

J

DO-Follow Backlink showing up within 16 hours!

Just thought I would make an update to progress. I just checked the Twilight Poster site to find that there is a Do-Follow backlink showing up on there already. That’s about 16 hours its taken to show up – probably even less!

Who from?

One of the anchor article directories – its called ArticleBlast.com

Its a PR5 and allows you to submit an article and provides you with INSTANT publication! I don’t know of any other really good article directories that would do that, do you?

Here’s to ArticleBlast.com!