Do Follow List: Insurance - Music - Nature - Politics
July 16, 2008
Insurance
Delta Fund - http://www.deltafund.org
Music
Afrision - http://afrison.com
Guitar Licks And Tips - http://www.guitarlicksandtips.com/
Nature
Angs Chicken Coup - http://www.angschickencoop.com
Politics
Opinions Are Free - http://www.opinionisfree.com
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Do You Ask: Please Link To Our Blog?
June 21, 2008
I spend a fair amount of time on forums and I recently posted a title “The Mother Of All Linkbait.” I was letting everyone known that Cornwall SEO has a great post that included 78 articles on linkbait.
Since I hadn’t read them all, I revisited this post looking to glean some useful information. While mining these posts for quality tidbits I read this “ask your visitor to link to you blog.” Bingo, the lights went off in this marketers head.
We had just started including ‘call to action” taglines in some of our more specific posts about SEO, as in “if you need help setting up a link building program call…” But not all posts were a good fit for this. I recently paid tribute to Tim Russert and felt a tagline was tacky at best.
Then, I realized it would be very simple to ask for a link or a comment. The old sales person in me knows many sales are lost because the seller forgot to ask for the sale. Since, I put a tagline on all the non blog pages why not do the same on the blog?
So this post is about applying common sense, tried and true sales techniques to each blog post. I recommend that your try it and then visit us later and report the results. So here is my first attempt at this.
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Wal-Mart Takes On Craigslist And E-Bay
June 3, 2008
Perhaps, brick and mortar Wal-Mart is taking a page out of the online retailer E-Bay’s book by entering the free classifieds market. That would lead one to suspect these free classifieds sites are income producers.
E-Bay was looking for different marketing opportunities when it turned to Craigslist in 2004. At that time they purchased a 25% interest in Craigslist. This seemed like on odd move for the retailer, as most of craigslist classifieds are offered for free. In the process E-Bay had out maneuvered many Silicon Valley venture capitalists, as well as companies like Yahoo and Google
Insiders would later reveal that the honeymoon didn’t last long. Tensions between the camps mounted over time. E-Bay’s 25% position gave it control of one of three board seats. Then in early July of 2007 E-Bay launches it own free classifieds site Kijiji.
By April 2008 E-bay sues Craigslist for shareholder dilution. Many writers rejoiced seeing these purveyors of used items going at each other. And to make things more interesting, of course, Craigslist countersues. Craigslist alleges E-Bay was performing corporate spying.
Then as these corporate giants slug it out, The Wall Street Journal, reported today that Wal-Mart has quietly joined the free online marketplace for classified ads. Wow, that’s three giants feeding at the same trough.
It seems Wal-Mart is teaming up with another classified website Oodle.com. Now, finding this area on the Wal-Mart site was not an easy task. If you use their search feature on the site it will provide you with 435 products related to “Free Classifieds.” You have to use the site directory which is found on the bottom of the home page. Click on it and you will see the link for classifieds. Follow that and you will eventually arrive at your destination.
Since the Wall street Journal failed to provide that url, here it is www.oddle.walmart.com. One is left to wonder how Wal-Mart will deal with the onslaught of spam that will surely target their new venture. This should be interesting since Oodle has been a spammer haven for sometime. They pull ads from other sites and place them on their site. So there is not a whole lot of filtering going on here.
From my perspective this might be a very smart move for Wal-Mart. Their market is a low income customer or someone interested in saving money. This is the same demographic that these other websites are targeting.
So let’s say you have a $30.00 budget for a used DVD player and you visit Wal-Mart’s free classifieds option. While on Wal-Mart’s site you search for a DVD player and you find a new one under warranty for $49.00. All a sudden that new DVD player at $49.00 starts to look real good.
And I thought I would never have anything good to say about Wal-Mart!
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Aboutus.org: Write About Them And They Spam Your Blog!
May 30, 2008
Yesterday, I wrote an article that recommended using this website. They returned the favor by spamming our blog. They offered to write SEO friendly articles, if you had a little bit of money. I find this very disgusting and offensive. We offer this service.
They most likely are using Google Alerts to inform them when anyone has mentioned them. This is a good form of reputation management. We have been discussing using alerts ourselves now that we are becoming a national player.
The sad thing for me is a better course of action would have been to thank us for the positive write-up. However, they chose to exploit our kindness. We need to apologize for not doing our homework on this site. We are listing links to other sites that have trashed these people. Please accept our apology.
I am deleting the original content and linking to this post. We will do a little more homework before recommending a website.
Tucson SEO Salutes Our Military And Coast Guard Services
May 26, 2008
We are very blessed to have been born in The United States of America. We have freedoms that most on this planet can only dream about. We have these freedoms based on a strong military so we just want to say Thank You so much for your services.
We also want to thank the families who have sent their sons and daughters to war to protect us all. Thanks.
Link Building: Anchor Text Style
May 20, 2008
Today while searching for resources for our “Do Follow List OF Lists” my partner discovered a blogger, at http://www.affiliatewatcher.com was ranting about “Do Follow Blogs.” It has an eye-popping graphic of someone pulling out there hair, that I really liked.
Specifically, he was going off on blogs that have the “u comment i follow” logo on them. This logo was created by Randa Clay to indicate that the blog would pass link juice for any link resulting from commenting.
This person was ranting about how the blog owners should remove these logos if they are on longer relevant. When we are blogging for links we use SEO Quake which produces a line through links that are “No Follow.” So this doesn’t bother us much. There are lots of reason why this might be occurring. It could simply be the plugin is no longer working after an upgrade or hasn’t been set up correctly I’m also sure some of this is intentional.
What really got my attention was when he continues his rant about those people who don’t use their real or assumed names in the name field of the blogs comment section. This is where this story really begins. You see, link building is its most effective and powerful when it produces an anchor text with the link. The name field of blog comments creates the anchor text link.
Blogs often by default, use the name field when they when they turn your comment information into a link. So when we use “Tucson SEO” in the name field it doesn’t mean that we are spamming. It merely means that we want the link to be given a keyword attribute that is related to our website. When I use the name Boris, the search engines can not match the name with this web sites content and the link is less useful.
When the anchor text can not be aligned with the websites content, the search engines devalue the link. However, when the anchor text matches the content you now have a very valuable link. Like anything good it can be over used. This is a growing trend that you can expect to see more often.
Many people have a real sense of community in the blogosphere. They grumble every time they see a keyword or keyword phrase used in the blog comments, just as this writer was today. They believe that only your real name should be used exclusively.
They fail to realize with the advent of “No Follow” and Google’s crusade against paid links it has made acquiring links much more difficult. This shrinks the opportunities to acquire links. So we in the SEO and SEM industries must make the best possible use of the links that we are acquiring. That’s why you are seeing an increase in this practice.
Like any good Internet marketing practice it can be abused.
Do Follow List Of Lists Update 280 Blogs in 22 Catagories!
May 19, 2008
This is a follow up post. We wanted to explain how you can get on the list. All that is required is that you have a “Do Follow Blog” that you are actually maintaining on a regular basis. We do not list Blogger blogs, as they are useless to us. We reserve the right to deleted or reject any blog for any reason. The most common reason to be not listed is that the blog leaded to slow or was to hard to read.
Here is a follow up to some of the things that we have encountered along the way. The best thing is that we picked up a bunch of links for ourselves.
The arrogance of it all… The side effect of Link Bait
Our link bait, The “Do Follow List of Lists” Is slowly doing what we had intended. We’re not setting the world on fire and we didn’t make it the top of Digg. However, traffic is up and some of the blog posts are getting some traction in the SERP’s.
What we foolishly hadn’t anticipated was the strange and arrogant requests that we might receive. This one I thought was worth sharing.
“If you have something useful to say, and are an SEO, and your own website is well SEO’ed, please add a comment to (removed his link) I have the ability to do follow AND to allow link text, if your comment
is worth it”
He followed up with this:
“There should be do follow on this blog! Rather crazy promoting it if you don’t lead by example.” Don’t you just love it when someone you don’t know thinks nothing of telling you how to run your business?
He did bring up a point worth discussing. Why is our blog “No Follow” and yet, we have a large “Do Follow List? Too many, this writer included, it seems ironic. Well, now is a good a time as any to address this issue.
First we are doing it this way because we want to! Mostly, it’s straight up a business decision. This is a business website that depends on Google for roughly 35% of our traffic. Google is a profit center for our business and for our customers. We wouldn’t be in business if it were not for Google. We are attempting to walk a fine line here.
It seems like a perfect win, win, win, situation here. Google gets what it wants from us in the form of a “No Follow” blog. Visitors benefit from a valuable resource for obtaining links. The blogs on the list get some extra traffic and we pick up some relevant links when we build the lists.
Since, the blog is only about a month old, this is our first attempt at “link bait.” The ironic thing for me is that we are using links as our “link bait”