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No, the 30 page eBook is just a figment of my imagination. It could be for sale if you so wish it to be – that’s up to you…

Hey Shak, I just got Market Samurai actually – albeit not to use myself, but to be able to offer it up to other potential users at a cool deal price tag!

Personally, I could care less about what backlinks are showing and what ones are not – its not about the backlinks that are showing that is the main concern, its about the amount of site visitors you are receiving (obviously in this case that is very much related to your search engine rankings) and then the amount of purchases they – the visitors – are making which are the crucial issues to be assessing.

By all means use MS to assess your goog rankings, but why not – if you want to evaluate this regularly – also use other programs to assess goog rankings? Scroogle.org I tend to find accurate for rankings assessment (in relation to traffic numbers), and I also use the Goog adword ranking tool these days quite often.

To be honest Shakd, I have little idea about that. Why don’t you send Aweber support a query about it – I always found them to be very responsive to answering queries.

Hey Zoe, thanks indeed for the positive feedback!

Sorry about the confusion there – I will be phasing edition 1 of the eBook out shortly. The second edition covers everything that the first edition did, but there is quite a bit of added value in this one – not only with the graphics, but also there is quite a bit more content and insights. Therefore its wise to go for the 2nd edition Zoe.

Thanks in advance!

Regards
Joseph

Hi ShakD, this service reminds me of Caroline Middlebrook’s IMAutomator, although IMAutomator now has other services included too.

What can you say – its free to use and there’s also a part time live support. In my mind that’s top notch and well worth giving a shot! Be sure to assess results on a continual basis though. Even with a freebie service there is the time investment and if its not helping to improve your rankings its not worthy of your time and effort.

For anyone else interested in this free social bookmarking service the web address is here…

http://socialadr.com/

Thanks for sharing ShakD!

Hi Mat, thanks for doing that!

The number of links you send depends on your site – how mature it is and how many backlinks you already have. Obviously if the site is new and has no links then suddenly getting 20 fairly powerful backlinks per day (or however many stick) would seem fairly odd. From that point of view Mat, its your call here.

As to finding out where your posts have been located, the only way that I can remember is by checking out the pings you get in your email. At the end of the day, the real way to test out the effectiveness of any tool no matter what it does is to assess whether its helping to rank your webpages. If it is then chances are good its a wise investment. If its not helping to rank (the number of expensive tools I’ve invested in that were utter rubbish is beyond belief) then its time to get rid of it, providing you’ve given it a reasonable time frame to prove its worth (or lack of).

Hope that helps Mat!

Regards and thanks again!

Joseph

Hi Mat, often you will find that your posts are added to a brand new webpage where the home page has a Goog PR of 2+. After all, its not possible to create a new page to host new content and that page is immediately Page Ranked by Goog – that takes time. What the line of thinking by many parties is (myself included) that the home page will pass value to its other pages providing they are linked together and thus the “juice” can flow through. I’ve seen this exact thing happen not only on BB but with Build my Rank too, and it most certainly does work – you can still get a powerful link from a Goog PR0 webpage, providing the home page is rated higher and is passing some of that “juice” through.

Once again however, its not so much about the technicalities of this whole thing, but it is about whether it actually works or not. If you are not seeing any improvements in your webpage rankings over a period of time then its high time to re-evaluate a continuing financial and time investment in using that tool. BB worked well for me though, hence I continue to give it a shout out. But there may be a time when it is not as effective as it is now for various reasons, and that is the time to make further assessment about your investment.

Regards
Joseph

Hi ShakD, for sure – if you’ve got Skype you can add me in:
joseph.archibald0

Cheers!
Joseph

Hi Mat, you could go on spinning and submitting articles for eternity. Some would argue that now article directory submission has lost much of its power, but some have been arguing that same old for many years, and to some extent I agree – I don’t believe that article directory submission is as powerful as it was once. But I still feel its going to be a worthy investment of time regardless all the doom-sayers own points of view.

I’d be inclined to set up more web 2.0s and backlink to those, then start hitting your money site with a variety of backlinks. Seeing as your domain has some maturity and does also have quite a few backlinks in place (I presume you are seeing the 200 in Yahoo Search Engine – in which case there will be a lot more than that), you could go ahead and start a regular program of linking back to your money site from now.

Try not to go too quickly though – as has been discussed so many times of recent – Google are really sensitive to backlinking now, and no doubt will be even more so in the months to come, so just keep that in mind. Its best to be safe than to be sorry (find your webpages dumped down the Google rankings for the next few months due to an “over-excited” backlinking campaign) after all.

Good luck and I wish you a continued happy relationship with Google!

Joseph

Hey Zoe, Backlinks Genie is a very powerful tool at a very “powerful” price tag. But it can actually save you a whole heap of money and a whole heap of time, and from that perspective can be a hugely sensible investment to make! If I had the budget for outsourcing, Backlinks Genie over and above UAW.

BMR will provide the most indexing over BB. BMR is a great tool if you are outsourcing the writing too. If you are doing the grind yourself though and you don’t like the grind too much, then BB will be the better long term investment because chances are you’d give up on BMR because it does become a right old grind. Further, if you are focusing on backlinking quite a lot of domains (30 +), then probably BB again from a financial point of view. Support is better with BMR though.

Hope that helps to clarify Zoe!

Jo

Hi Emma,
thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts here – means a lot to me to hear you say this!

In response to your questions:

1. exact match (as opposed to both broad and phrase) – this measure provides much closer statistics to reality. However, at times even this has to be taken with a pinch of salt. Take the niche and kwd phrase “how to get your ex back” for example. How many times do you think that affiliate marketers search for that in Google each month to find out their webpage rankings? Point being – for any fairly popular affiliated products, take search stats with a very large grain of salt!

2. I think here you are asking – for every one article on your primary (money) site, do you have to create an individual blog post to link back to that particular article? Not at all! It is good thinking to link back to every page on your site (over time), but you do not have to set up an individual blog (web 2.0 ) to do so. Just set up a few web 2.0s to link back to your main pages on your primary site and that should be plenty.

3. best to spread all forms of backlinking out – at least in the early days and weeks. By doing so, it appears more of a “natural” trend to Google, thus no red flags will be raised.

4. yes – well worth social bookmarking no-follow sites, as it is for article marketing directories also – go no-follow with those too. A nice mix is what we want here!

Ranking 221 in huh? That’s cool – next thing you know and you’ll be in the top 100! The only way is up!

Best wishes Emma!

Joseph

Hey Ben, great stuff, and thank you! Must have been one of the two plugins I deactivated yesterday after Tom and Michelle let me know the problem was persistent.

Be sure to come back for my upcoming post Ben. I’m in a “let them have it” frame of mind and I know for a fact that you will relate to this post very much. Not sure if I can get it up online today, but it will definitely be live by tomorrow.

Hope you are doing fine these days. And stilling keeping a very strong focus on “the dream”!!

Regards
Jo

That’s great Ben – first income report – shows you are making progress! Look forward to reading up on it!

Have a nice weekend!

Jo

Hey Shakil, right at the top of the offer it says “this eBook is no longer for sale”, as he says in his reply to you. Maybe he was hoping for decent sales but they never materialized – not much feedback on the thread, is there… Nice eBook cover, all the same!

Hi Zoe, thanks for letting me know about this contuining pain in the rear end! I’ve de-activated a further 2 plugins now. Is it working any better?

Regards
Joseph

Thanks Zoe!

Hi Ben, desperate times, huh?

In honesty, I’ve cut my outsourcing to almost zero. Google took care of that for me, in the sense that my income took a very large kick in the pants. Did me a favour in some ways actually. Got me thinking about things in a different way to previously. And I sense that although my income has not caught up with the previous highs, my own thoughts and plans are way ahead of where they were only a few months ago.

As I mentioned to Helen in my previous reply to her comment Ben, it was this time last year that I started to consider doing the Warrior Forum challenge thing. And that came about because my own focus on my business was not good, and thus my income was not enough to meet my costs of living (by then I had relocated to Malaysia, so costs were not so high in comparison to the UK, but even so I was still having to use my credit card).

But pre to the Warriors challenge, I advertised on Warriors for Hire. The first time around I got little feedback at all – that ad failed fairly badly. I then cut the prices of my writing, and suddenly was flooded with orders.

I had made up my mind that (early on) I would provide in return what people were paying for – not fantastic quality, but at the same time, perfect syntax and perfect spelling. But I decided to change that a little later on to making everything as perfect as I could. The feedback was great, the orders were getting more and more and more, and I crashed out due to burn-out. But the main point here is that if you want the work, you can visit Warriors, pop up an ad on the for hire place, ensure you price your work competitively (at least to begin to build up a reputation) and you’ll most probably get enough work that way to keep you busy 15 hours a day, 7 days a week!

The work is out there, its just a case of being fairly smart in getting it, and fairly smart in not burning out from it too.

Hope things go well for you Ben!

Joseph

Yes Ben – Warrior Forum. There’s such a huge traffic flow on that forum, so quality article writing services which are offered competitively priced are always a highly sought-out commodity on there!

The thing is though – you gotta try to figure a way to start off low priced but slowly push your prices upwards. Otherwise, you burn out all the sooner, and you may well wish instead to have a day job filling shelves at your local Asda store (that would be Walmart to our North American cousins).

Keep slogging away Ben. A mind filled with positive energy is a mind that will surely win out big time sooner or later! Law of attraction and all that stuff, you know…

Nothing to worry about Shakil – this is perfectly natural. You’ll find that your rankings vary a bit over the coming weeks to months, and may finally settle a bit more once you get to where you want to be. If you are continuing to build backlinks then its to be expected that Google will continue to re-assess your “value” and thus re-assess and re-distribute your rankings.

Chill, bro – as “they” say!

Hi Emma, you certainly are seeing a roller coaster of a ride there! A short story may help to relax you a little…

When I first got started in this IM game, I used UAW (and nothing else) to try to rank a site for a couple of kwd terms in Google search. Those terms were something like 10k global search a month and 150k global search a month respectively.

I kept on banging the articles into UAW one after the other in the hope that the more backlinks I got the higher would be my rankings, as would anyone who is involved in the IM and SEO game.

Well, sometimes my rankings got into top 10 for both kwd phrases, and would sit there for a few days, and I’d be seeing hundreds of page views per day and a few sales to boot. Obviously I was elated with this, as you can imagine!

Other times however, my pages would disappear entirely and I’d be wondering what the hell is going on here! One day I’d be making money from my one website, the next I’d be making nothing at all due to re-rankings in Google search. I can tell you that those days were well and truly a roller coaster because not only was I trying to prove to all the doubters that I could make money online, but I was trying to prove to myself too. Up till then I had failed miserably!

But there came a time when those rankings settled down and perhaps once a week the webpages would move a spot here or there – from top 5 rankings to top 10 rankings. And even to this day, even though I rarely if ever backlink to that site, those rankings remain fairly steady.

Its not to say that all case scenarios are the same, but there is a huge amount of mind games going on here. If you keep on plodding along with your backlinks and keep on plodding along with your websites, there will come a time when you feel much more relaxed about this whole thing because you know that even though you’ll not succeed every time, over-all you’ll do well, both in terms of ranking your webpages and in terms of making an income (ranking webpages and making an income from them is an entirely different ball game and takes a whole different set of skills for each – who-ever said that internet marketing was “easy”??).

Try to make things easier on yourself though by not worrying overly about what Google chooses to do with your webpage rankings. Just keep on keeping on and learning the ropes and the chances are all the more that you will see fairly regular successes in the times to come! And do keep in mind that if you are of the “right” mind-set, the more failures you have, the closer you are to success!

Best wishes Emma!

Joseph

Hi Jeffrey, thanks for visiting my blog and taking the time to comment!

I don’t believe there is a step-by-step as such. The main query I was getting whilst doing the Warrior Forum 40 Day was to put it all (minus the general comments) in an eBook, which is what I did. Not that everyone was happy with that, but I sense that the vast majority were.

Yes, my eBook (the second version, which I released 3 months ago) details everything within the 40 Day Challenge, Jeffrey.

I’m not actually from Malaysia, no. I’m from Scotland, UK. But I now reside in Kuching, Sarawak and have been here for coming up to 2 years in all. I really enjoy living here – its good for my soul What part of Malaysia are you from Jeffrey?

Hey Jeffrey, Ipoh coffee – I’m sure its very good although the Italians would want to argue as to who produces the best coffee I suspect.

When I set out on the 40 Day Challenge, the only stats to go by where searchers were concerned was the Google tool. Back then the tool was fairly useless – the stats were nonsense, but I had to use something that everyone could relate to, so that was it.

Picking out a good keyword phrase need not rely on high search volume. Often you’ll find much smaller search volumes actually selling better than much higher searched for kwd phrases.

I’m really of the mind now of avoiding much in the way of “hard work” Jeffrey – at least until you are reasonably sure that your choice in kwd phrases are actually going to bring you sales. Once you know this for a fact, then hard work becomes easier work because you know for sure you are onto a good thing.

The main thing about the WF 40 Day Challenge was not so much about picking out a good kwd phrase (as it turned out, it was a poor choice) but rather – to show that its possible to rank in Google for what appeared to be a competitive keyword phrase within a certain time period. I do discuss keywords within the eBook, but the main reason I picked something along the Twilight Saga theme was that most people (if not everyone) would recognize it and relate to it in some way. Plus, the kwd of choice fitted in with the original criteria according to the stats that were widely available at that time.

I’ll get to you on your other points shortly.

Jo

Oh dear me, Shakil – that does not sound too good now, does it!

If I had a site that was ranking top 10 or so for a number of kwds and I had made a grand total of 79 cents in income, I would be firstly – reassessing my kwd choice completely, and secondly – if nothing much came up with regards to good potential money-making kwd phrases, I would seriously consider off loading this baby on Flippa and let a grape-lover nurture it, just as he or she would a fine glass of wine and a Cuban cigar!

Its very good you have learned from this experience Shakil. Now, if you have not already done so – go back to the drawing board, get your mind to be the “in the mind” of a potential buyer who visits your website, and try to figure out the buying kwd phrases that you can then assess to see if you can rank for them without killing yourself. If there appear to be none or very few worthy onese, move along swiftly to your next project and get rid of this site as soon as you can (unless you really like the site, then by all means keep it as a hobby).

Hope that helps Shakil.

Joseph

Hi Shakil, those big boys (or girls) that you mention here – they rely on branding and affiliated backlinks to rank top for the items that they sell. They will rarely work SEO themselves on any products, unless they are very high end products then perhaps they will get some SEO done for those, but I suspect that to be a real rareity. This is why we as the smaller guys and girls should be able to outrank them time and again by doing good SEO work on our pages.

By the sound of it, you’d do well in ranking for your niche choice here.

Regards
Joseph

Hi Sharon, thanks for leaving a comment! Good luck with your niche site!

Yes, the strategies will work on any site that I can think of. Ecommerce is no different to a niche site in this respect. I wish you very well with that and do let me know how things are progressing!

Regards
Joseph

Hi Sharon, with some of these Web 2.0 type accounts, its wise to set up a different account each time unless both your sites are focused on the same niche, which in your case it appears that they are. So you will be fine with regards to using the same Web 2.0 for both your niche site and ecommerce site – in fact, its a very wise use of time to go down this route where you can.

Best wishes!

Joseph

Shak, this is not normal, no. You should not be seeing this sort of behaviour at all, let alone 3 times in a row. Yes – you will see some dancing around as you try to improve your rankings, but that’s normally a few places here and there, not in the hundreds. I wonder what it is you are using to get your backlinks. I know you use BMR but that’s certainly not causing this to happen.

You are most welcome regards the discounts on tools. As long as folks keep buying, I’ll keep the discounts going.

All the best Shakil!

Joseph

Hi Yevgeniy, hope you are enjoying the read!

I took the liberty of x’ing out details of your domain and your main kwd phrase, hope you don’t mind.

To be honest, it really ought not to be a big job on your hands to rank for your main term so I’m unsure of what’s “not” happening. Your site looks perfectly fine at first glance. However, even though you do have a few more backlinks than your main competitors – judging by what I am seeing in Yahoo Search Engine only – you still don’t have a lot. And there are a few branded and mature domains in the top ten there, so you’ll have to get quite a few more backlinks in place to get above those in Google. As you probably know Yevgeniy, Google are now placing more value on domain maturity and this branding thing than at any time previously. So what may appear easy at first site – in terms of outranking your competitors, may indeed not be the case.

Sorry I can’t offer more guidance here – its merely a case of working at the backlinks in a “sensible” fashion – methodically, adding in fresh content to your site as you surely are doing now, and then watching those rankings slowly rise up – or indeed, gaining new rankings via the long tail from new site posts. If your site content is unique and you don’t have any footprint in your theme code, such as in the footer – where there is some form of backlink being sought by the theme designer and the theme is very popular (which can occasionally happen, and Google don’t tend to like that) then I really think you’ll be good to go here.

Best to you!

Joseph

Hi Eugene, no need to stuff keywords any longer cos it does not work – in fact, its detrimental. If your content does not flow well, chances are your site visitors will not stay around for long, which lessens the chance you’ll get sales and also reduces the possibilites for return visitors. Just let your writing flow when you are creating your content, and you will be far better served for doing so – don’t bother kwd counting either – in my estimation, its pointless and will not help your rankings from an on-page SEO viewpoint.

Regards
Joseph

Hi Eugune, keeping the rule is fine as long as it does not hinder your writing. I don’t tend to worry about it at all now, and I still get top rankings regardless. I suspect you are right – its less and less important for Google – certainly at one time it was important, and even more so in the meta description, but that is no longer the case.

Joseph

For how long have you waited Shakil? I have not used support with BB for some time, but when there were regular issues with the tool back when it was fairly new on the scene, they used to reply within around 24 hours.

How many emails have you sent them Shakil? Keep on pestering them until they reply to you, or else you’ll probably never hear from them at all.

Hello Ian, the core principles of the 40 Day strategy still work well. You do have to make changes to some of the sites I used for my submissions – some have gone to paid membership for example, whilst others may have changed their terms and conditions. But the over-all philosophy is as sound as ever. I don’t believe that Google “pick up” on spun content. There are very many “systems” that work very well and they are based on spun content production. Nevertheless, with this said, you still have to be prepared to continually change and adapt to working the system. What functions today my not function so well tomorrow, as is the case with any business. Where there is a will, there most certainly is a way!

All the best Ian!

Joseph

Hi Eugene, this is something you need to take up with Jon Leger’s support which you can do by opening up a new ticket here…

http://askjonleger.com/support/

I don’t see any reason for them not to refund you – good luck!

Joseph