Internet Marketing Brainstorming!

Heh heh. I haven’t finished working the kinks out of the Yahoo Answers Money System (Y.A.M.S.) and my brain(storm) uncovered Askville. So of course I have to wonder whether I can duplicate Y.A.M.S. with Askville by using the Askville Money System (A.M.S.)? WTF is Askville? Why it’s Amazons question & Answer service exactly like Yahoo Answers. Exactly. However this seems to have one benefit Yahoo Answers may not – backlink ability. Y.A. is great for ‘traffic’ but link s don’t count. he answers themselves rank in Google.

Askville also rank in google, but upon first glance I dont see the ‘nofollow’ tag that prevent ranking. Need to investigate further of course…..but Here’s an example of a question in askville, and the question needs to be asked about whether a similar system can be rigged to enable you to make money with Askville. Or go for the 2-pronged approach – money AND backlinks…. I’m also wondering about those sponsored ads… who gets a cut? Shelf for later investigation :-)

I discovered this quiz on SEOmoz that might help explain some reasons why some of my posts didn’t rank as well as I thought they should. Sheesh… I thought I had this SEO thing down. I may have had too many characters in the title tag? especially that one for Wordpress SEO. It’s worth taking a look at.

Meanwhile I’m looking at difffferent plugins for ’static blogging’, which should help make wordpress almost a static site with a couple of cahnging content areas. SO when I go back to my blogging empire NMOC type sites, I should be all set.
Meanwhile I’ve been going through hosting hell with slhost. Stay tuned for a lovely review of them of how much they suck by me.
Meanwhile, that seomoz quiz above, is one great way to learn things about SEO you didn’t know…

Speaking about ranking posts, I also looked at whether getting links to the individual post pages can change the effect of ranking the post over the homepage.
So i thought about trying to figure out a way to easily get links for posts. Not easy. The best tool to do it is Auto Social Poster. It links from your bookmarking accounts to each post (you need to get the accounts setup on each site first). However, to get blog comments from ranked blogs, would be great as well.
So I came across this post by Jonathan Ledger, who is one of the few “guru-ish” guys that I don’t dislike lol. He’s a pretty smart fella and always has interesting stuff to say, and doesn’t endorse every product that comes down the pipe for commisisons sake. Plus he seems to be a pretty gifted progammer.

As you can see its about the blog links. I would love to have whatever script he has…. but he ain’t selling it ;-( However I got one on the warrior forum for $5 bucks that finds such urls. :-) I can use Iopus Internet Macros to post the comments automatically, so it’s almost as good, without the “comments spread out over time” thing.

Ironically, based on one searchI did on his blog, i think he suffers from the same fate i do/did with the blog post not ranking – even when he is the originator of the article… another site’s post ranks for the title of his post simply by quoting it… his site doesnt; only, you guessed it… the home page does. I think i figured out the way to overcome it… a few more tests will tell.

I am having some serious doubts about what the fuck I think I know about ranking with posts, and I think the issue is duplicate content. With all the tweaking I’ve done, it seems the search engines are no longer getting my damn posts. Only the home page is ranking for every new post i write which is NOT what I want to happen!!!!!!

Pisses me off….. So… it comes down to the two thinhs I’v e been tweaking – 1) all-in-one-seo title tag 2) sitemap plugin.
I think the stupid ass google & searhc engines can’t distinguish between the post and the damn home page… I’m thinking about making the home page static for future blogs, so that nothing (except links to the posts) show up in addition to the home page content. But the sitemap plugin tells the site to assign priority to the posts versus t the archives versus the homepage.

I’ve set it so that the hompage is now the lowest priority. Let’s see if that takes it back to what it used to be. hopefuly this damdn post will rank for the keyword Duplicate Ranking Issue if not, I’m a jump off a small building…

This affiliate internet marketing tip is brought to you by wordpress! Yes, wordpress. The one tip I can start with is start a wordpress blog to do your internet marketing and make affiliate sales. I am still riding that learning curve, but… as I play with this blog a little more and tweak some settings, I see that there’ still more I hadn’t considered about wordpress, especially as I realize that some of my posts are not ranking like I thought they should.

I am realizing that that all-in-one-seo plugin is more powerful than I thought if you take a closer look at it. Made me realize that naming your categories and using said categories with said plugin gives you a keyword density boost in ye ole search engines. I have shitty categories for that purpose, but….. I am learning, mostly because I watched a video that kind of revealed something to me with out really saying anything…

The next affiliate internet marketing tip I can present is about:
The Lazy Marketer.
Get it.
And as I do this, I am anticipating (again) that this post should be o the first page for .. you guessed it, the title of this post.
But what i also realize is if I want to use WP to dominate more, I need to get links to the actual posts themselves, because links to posts make those posts rank higher. Its easier to rank when the post keyword has little optimized competition. When there’s ‘real’ competition, my posts seem to vanish or appear high at first, then sink. Bodes well for the tip about keeping the posts tightly focused on a theme or… ‘category’ :-)

Two most important SEO items:
1) Onpage – Title Tag (can be combined with “category” using afore-mentioned plugin
2) Offpage – Anchor text link (linked to the post or homepage – whichever you want to rank)

Since I’ve been wondering why my blog post for wordpress seo isn’t ranking, I decided to take a closer look at this blog. I realized i played around with some settings – namely the sitemap plugin settings. I messed around with the “priorities ” which ‘may’ have screwed with my blog post ranking.

I am thinking again that in order to make a blog post rank, the settings for the sitemap have to indicate the priority of importance.
I think maybe because I had the home page and the post page of equal importance, the search engines (google) were ranking the homepage again… which I don’t want since the home page is always changing…..

So, I reset the priorities in the google sitmap plugin. Let’s see how that affects the blog post ranking if any. If it did, then this post should rank well for the useles term “blog post ranking“. lol Yup it’s all about experimentation

While I await my wordpress seo ranking to materialize, I wonder i over optimized it :-), but Yahoo Answers is something I am digging into with a technique i am trying to use to rank for certain… topics.

In doing some research I notice some funy things.
First, I’ve documented a keyword research strategy for using Yahoo Answers, but I don’t know how viable it is until I test it.
So I decided to do some research:
Here’s what I found. I foud that some questions and answers are getting some google page rank.
What’s even more interesting is that I cannot tell why.
At first I though the only ones to get page rank are from “important people” like:

Barak Obama’s “How can we engage more people in the democratic process?” (PR1)
India’s president Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam: “What should we do to free our planet from terrorism?” (PR3)
David Bellamy: “What is the most important everyday thing you could do to save the planet?” (PR4!)
Stephen Hawking: “How can the human race survive the next hundred years?” (PR5!!!)

I thought it was because they were “VIP’s” OR… that they had lots o text (several paragraphs worth of “content”
But then i noticed… there were also a few “regular” Q&A’s that didn’t fit those criteria…such as:

“How do you get rid of ants in your kitchen” (PR2)
“How can I avoid mosquito bites?” (PR3)
“Do people who were born blind, see dreams ?” (PR4!)

Only reason must be links that wind up pointing to those answers somehow…..
Brainstorm: – link build to “your” quesions/answers that link back to your sites???? (too much work?)

In continuing with my Wordpress SEO Tips, I am attempting to get some things straight in my head about the whole Wordpress/SEO Niche Site strategy. SEO for Wordpress involves doing the things to make wordpress SEO friendly. This includes using the right plugins, the right permalinks, the right posting strategy and the right content.

In a nustshell, it means overhauling the SEO gorilla that is wordpress. So as I work on my other projects, I am slowly taking notes of the things I need to do in order to master the wordpress strategy for niche site creation.
This is why I have made some slight changes to this blog. You won’t notice them… unless you are an SEO geek.
But I have changed the permalink structure, I have eliminated the “utopia” plugin because it screws up the post/domain titles badly and … I added the all in one SEO pack plugin to this very blog.

Seems wierd to me as I never really took this blog seriously, but it has evolved. Now my motivation besides giving out sage advice (heh) is to test out what Wordpress is really capable of… and I see it. I am kinda pissed that people passing themselves off as wordpress experts such as the developer of the utopia plugin which actually doesn’t help as much as it should… it screws up the urls.. which is bad for anchor text. So i am slowly discovering the right structure for SEO and how to make wordpress comply.

And in a way, this very post is kind of a test along those lines. I am attempting to rank this post and this post alone, for the highly competitive term “wordpress seo“. wordpress seo on google, has 15,500,000 competing websites. 15 freaking million! I’ll be lucky to rank on the first page, but with everything I’m doing with this post, I think I can and I think i will. The only issue I see s that lots of peole are optimizing for that term… including wordpress themselves lol.

But even with all this, I expect that this post will be close to the top of the ‘wordpress seo’ heap.