Online Marketing

This comic strip made me to crack up. It has even been discussed at my Swedish SEO forum that people sending link exchange e-mails tend to use female names to increase their success. “PS: I’m cute too”, hehe
As for me I just dump all link exchange mails in a folder, I will [...]

Update: I have developed a new link building service based on this article, check out: Smart Link Building
Introduction
I have been providing many thousands of links to my SEO clients and I have myself established a number of PR6 sites and almost won the biggest SEO contest ever with the means of huge link power.
The purpose [...]

Q. Why doesn’t my online drugstone rank for “viagra”, “levitra” or “cialis”?
A. Because you’re a schmuck business adding absolutely no value to the world wide web and as such you have no quality linkage, and will continue to have no quality linkage. Google determines the value of a website based upon its linkage, and rightly [...]

I just explained to a Swedish client why I turned him down.
He is willing to pay 7K USD to me for the SEO job to his site.
I looked at the site for 5 minutes, read the KW he wants to target and explained to him why I choose not to take this job.
His site: English [...]

Text Link Ads just released their Text Link Ads Calculator.
It uses Alexa, backlinks, theme, number of links to be sold, sitewide or single page and location of the link in the calculation.
Announcement and discussion at their Link Building Blog.
I certainly like it, do you?
Will you use it?

Matt Cutts just recently wrote a major post, Indexing timeline. In it he explains a great deal about the new BigDaddy infrastructure, new rules for crawling and how relevancy in regards to links now has become a lot more important.
I will quote below what I personally find very interesting from his post and his comments.

Rand has been updating his invaluable SEO Guide some months ago and today I printed it out from his word doc (26 pages) and read it on the bus while travelling.
I must say that I am really impressed. Altough I know a great deal in the SEO business I still encountered a lot of new [...]

Wow, found another very great SEO resource. It is just released.
Let me present the Link Building Wiki.
There you have most of the things you need in the area of link building, collected by one of the most prominent in the link building business, TextLinkBrokers.com

If you ever are too busy … make sure you still keep an eye on AdWords.
I have been very busy lately, especially the last 2 weeeks.
I checked AdWords and wow - burned $300 in 7 days, usually it is running on $20 per week or something for all my campaigns. (I use AdWords mostly for [...]

EDIT: April 30, 2006:
What I was seeing below was Co Citation in full action, it was not “related text with links” as I thought. Thanks to Gustaf for the heads up (below) and thanks to Jim Boykin for explaining Co Citation.
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One of the keyword terms that I track is “Jim Westergren”. I know what is [...]

Check this!

It was shown in DigitalPoint Forums for SEOs and Webmasters - those that are most blind to ads and that includes me. But this one I definitely saw
In actual fact it is done by a DP member himself with his referral URL of the link program to get credits and more weight, [...]

Aaron Pratt asked in a comment where do I buy and sell so here comes the answer.
SitePoint: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=56
Serious place.
DigitalPoint: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52
Second best place. Sorting by thread start time here
NamePros: http://www.namepros.com/developed-sites-for-sale/
Good place to buy cheap web sites.
Whenever I have “too much” money I will go to those three places and place bids intensively. It is a lot [...]

My friend Praveen sent me a tip about the latest SEO Contest hat is hosted by Webmaster-Talk.
Link love goes to charity and someone actually thought about the rules this time. For example you have to have a new domain but not have the keywords in it … interesting.
Here are full details:
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/seo-talk-forum/44465-webmaster-talk-com-seo-contest.html
Not sure if I [...]

The latest blog post of Matt Cutts of Google is a Questions and Answer post.
There he answers a lot of questions including the RK parameter and gives a lot of valuable info for an SEO:
Here:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/q-a-thread-march-27-2006/
Thanks Matt.
EDIT:
Some more info about his post:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/03/30/tidbits-of-google-knowledge/
http://www.irishwonder.syndk8.co.uk/2006/03/29/matt-cutts-selected-quotes/

Site A
Article site that ranked extremely well starting just some days after it went online with 20-60 daily referrals from Google between 10th December 2005 to 4th February 2006 then suddenly nothing. Literally 0 Google referrals after that. 8 weeks before hitting the sandbox.
Link building: Agressive and many PR 4-5 links and also sitewides when [...]

The new BigDaddy infrastructure has now been exported to all or almost all of the datacenters.
Now the strange shift between datacenters when searching is over.
Coverage:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/2006/03/25/big-daddy-rollout-complete/
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bigdaddy-status-update-almost-there/
Let’s see if something more interesting will happen.

It is true, no kidding.
Geoffrey, aka as G-Man, who is probably the most known BlackHat spammer there is has joined the blog of SEOMoz, administered by RandFish - one of the highest profiles in the Pro SEO industry.
RandFish introducing him:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=931
His SEOMoz profile: (he has 100K spam sites)
http://www.seomoz.org/profile.php?user_id=7277
His first post:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=932
Ethical as I am, I don’t really [...]

Just some days ago the incredible Google AdWords Keyword Research Tool became available for those that somehow does not have an AdWords account. Also interesting seasonal data was added.
If you are not already using this in your keyword research, then it’s about time.
More info covered here:
Inside AdWords
I am also happy that a few days ago [...]

If you are an SEO Consultant that charges $80 per hour like me, have too many clients and too little time - why would you go to forums and spend 15 minutes only to answer some guy asking SEO questions on a forum, for free and giving out valuable information? Why?
And why would you start [...]

This I can highly recommend, especially for bloggers.
Social bookmarks is probably the most powerful means of online marketing existing today.
Socializer is a service in which you only have 1 link instead of a link to all of the social bookmark sites.
See the link below on the left to test it on the single pages, it [...]