Turning Spam Into Gold
June 25, 2008
We are not talking about Hormel here. What I’m about to suggest will seem reasonable to many and some will see this as unethical, but here it goes. We, who market on the Internet or those who simply have an email account or two, deal with spam daily. It is a sad fact of life that our mail boxes and blog comments are filled with spam, those unwanted pieces of electronic drivel.
I am going to address the spam that arrives in my Akismet blog spam filter. Since we moderate our comments nothing slips through onto the pages of our blog without are approval. We are going to suggest a solution for turning this putrid junk into gold.
We have no real recommendations for those solicitations that are merely a bunch of links. You are on your own on this one. What we are addressing is the comments that arrive daily that include text right out of your blog. It often has the appearance of a trackback. The spammers hope that your spam filter will not pick this up and the comment slips into your blog. Maybe, just maybe, someone clicks onto that link and visits there site. Spammers after all play a numbers game.
Now, this is where you can turn this into gold, comment gold. You can edit the track back style comment or have a friend do it for you. We suggest changing the name and deleting the email and website address. Then change the comment to whatever you would think best ads to the on-going blog conversation. You have now created value, or gold, out of spam.
This was written as linkbait, and while some will see it as unethical, others will see it as Gold.
So is this Gold or fools Gold?
We invite you to join the conversation and leave a comment. We further invite you to continue the conversation on your blog and use a trackback, perhaps even social bookmark this post, or maybe Sphinn it, or Stumble it.
If your business is located in Chandler or through out Arizona and beyond and you would like to learn more about how your website can benefit from a blog please call Tucson SEO at 520-777-6479.
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Got More Time Then Money? Try Digital Point Forum
May 31, 2008
Got More Time Then Money: Try Digital Point Forum
I have previously written about avoiding Forums to ask questions about website marketing or anything in general. I have changed my mind when It comes to Digital Point at www.digitalpoint.com .
I now use Digital Forum daily to ask questions, to answer questions, and to pick-up some links. This is a friendly forum where it seems like people are really trying to help each other out.
This is not the case with other Forums many of them allow negative attacks to occur. I have asked questions on many other Forums and been told how stupid I was or they start arguing about who has given the correct answer. Often they argue so much that the original question goes unanswered. This is not so at Digital Point, or I have not seen it.
Like most forums it covers a wide variety of topics and it allows registered users to start discussions. There is a lot of self promotion that goes on that is not allowed on other forums. Eventually, you will be allowed to use signatures on your post which include live “Do Follow Links” to your website.
When you have posted enough you will be allowed to turn these links into very valuable anchor text links. I originally started using Digital Point merely to acquire links. However, I really like what I do and I love helping out others by offering free advice. So now, links are merely a side benefit of using the forums. I have learned a lot as well about free resources that I was not aware of.
We believe that if you want anything in life you must first give to receive. Call it the yin and yang of life if you will or what goes around comes around. Do good and you will be rewarded.
So give Digital Point a try you will be glad that you did.
We finally have a blog!
May 8, 2008
We finally have a blog… Yea!
We started our SEO service a year ago. We didn’t have money to buy a designed website, but we knew you couldn’t sell SEO without having an SEO website. We tried for two months without much success.
I am a firm believer that if you need something Internet related you can most likely will find it for free. Whenever, we need something we always include the word free in the search phrase. So I entered the search query “free website.” The top sponsored ad was from Microsoft.
It took me to OfficeLive.com where I could acquire my free website, free domain name, and free web hosting. It included a basic WYSIWYG editor and limited templates but it was free. What made this so much better than most free website tools is that it allowes you to use SEO techniques on your website. You could actually name your page title, keywords, and page descriptions.
I couldn’t believe my good fortune. The only drawback was that it did not include a blog. Since we recommend a blog to all of our clients, this made things a bit awkward for us. We overcame this obstacle by creating an industry update page. There we could express our view but it was a one way conversation.
We saved the good material that was still relevant and have used it to fill in our blog. We also created a list of about 60 or so topics that we would like to discuss. We are working daily on our version of a “Do Follow List, by far our biggest undertaking. We have already put in over 30 hours on this project. We consider it our way of giving back; after all we are in business today because of what we have learned on other blogs.
So if you have a “Do Follow Blog” we would love to list your site.
We invite you to join the conversation and leave a comment. We further invite you to continue the conversation on your blog and use a trackback, perhaps even social bookmark this post, maybe Sphinn it, or Stumble it.
To learn more about our services please check out these links:
Local SEO Tucson Website Designs Phoenix SEO Tucson Search Engine Optimization
Small Business SEO Solutions Geo-Targeted SEO Solutions Niche SEO Solutions Do Follow Blog List
If your business is located in US, Canada, and through out Arizona and beyond and you would like to learn more about how your website can benefit from a blog please call Tucson SEO at 520-777-6479.
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