help and advice for newbies and people who need a kick up the backside in 2009

[HomeCreditor]

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From this thread, I have set up 3 sites.

Two are earning me small amounts....about £100 per month from small searches..about 100 per month searches.

My latest site got indexed in 4 hours and I am on page 1 for my keywords (10,000 per month) Not an affiliate site but my own.

http://www.sunnybeachbulgaria.org.uk

This is fantastic, but I am still waiting for the off-page SEO guide.

I have researched this, but there is so much conflicting information, how does a newbie determine what is good and what is cra...not so good.?

9,900 exact searches per month...Let's see how it goes.

Smingle, your advice so far has been golden!! Keep it coming with the off-page if you have time!?!

Ade

[confuscius]

Two are earning me small amounts....about £100 per month from small searches..about 100 per month searches.

£100 from 100 searches per month - that is a mind blowing rate of earning - unprecedented in my experience.

Care to clarify?

[HomeCreditor]

£100 from 100 searches per month - that is a mind blowing rate of earning - unprecedented in my experience.

Care to clarify?

All I have done is follow Smingle's guide.

To me, earnings are small fry, and would like to increase this by...well ..a lot..

Not sure what you want me to clarify? Do you want to see my balance sheet/profit accounts....????

[warren_p]

All I have done is follow Smingle's guide.

To me, earnings are small fry, and would like to increase this by...well ..a lot..

Not sure what you want me to clarify? Do you want to see my balance sheet/profit accounts....????

I think we would be interested to know the number of visitors that you have received from these 100 searches and the value of the products you are selling because this does seem like an extraordinary return from the stats that you have provided thus far.

Thanks.

[Jim4jesus]

Hi, I hope this is okay to post a question in this area. I'm new to forums in general and am not sure if I know what I'm doing. My question is about my attempt to get an ad campaign going on adwords. I've been trying constantly for 3 days now to get an ad accepted but my display URL is either too long (the affiliate i'm promoting give me a hoplink which is 47 characters long) or if I try to shorten the URL with tiny URL or the like then I get rejected because the extension is different from my landing url. What can I do?

Jim

[Seamaster]

I think we would be interested to know the number of visitors that you have received from these 100 searches and the value of the products you are selling because this does seem like an extraordinary return from the stats that you have provided thus far.

Yeah I would like to know this as it would help me chose niches I think.

If there is 100 searches and you can make £100 then either you are converting most visitors and getting small commission or converting a couple on high priced items!

Either way I must be doing something seriously wrong with my pages are most get 50-100 visits (not searches) a month and probably make £5-10 (if that) from that amount.

[Seamaster]

What can I do?

You could register a domain Widgets.com and forward it onto the merchant?

[mcderd]

I have not been around for a few weeks, has Frank come up with his off-page SEO guide yet?

[Seamaster]

I have not been around for a few weeks, has Frank come up with his off-page SEO guide yet?

Not that I've seen. I think he is working on other projects now.

[bluebird]

I have not been around for a few weeks, has Frank come up with his off-page SEO guide yet?

Not yet. But in the meantime people could do some of their own research into off-page SEO and perhaps then they wouldn't need the guide!

[mcderd]

Not yet. But in the meantime people could do some of their own research into off-page SEO and perhaps then they wouldn't need the guide!

Good answer, except if the same logic had been applied to Franks On-Page guide then a lot of the information on the net is misleading and contradictory, and says different things to Frank, so as a newbie you do not know what to follow!

This is a thread offering advice for newbie’s, when a novice looks at all the advice on the net regarding SEO most of it is contradictory which is why I have followed Franks On-Page guide.

I was also one of those lucky enough to receive one of Frank’s domains, I got the site up and running within a week as requested (using On-Page advice from Frank) and was now looking to continue with the Off-Page stuff.

My area of expertise is in databases, I have been programming them for 25 years, I am sure newbie’s into this field could do with a guide from me rather than trying to research on the net. Perhaps I will write one

[linktank]

Im going to get together a basic off page guide, mostly link building tips and techniques.
Il put it online so that if anyone wants to contribute PM me and i can add a link to your blog etc..

If anyone does have anything to offer or knows of a good resource then PM me and il look at adding it.

[smingle]

I know loads have been pestering me for the off-page seo guide, and rest assured it is on my ever growing to-do list

For those of you still doubting using meta keywords on your site, take another look at the site in my seo guide here : free seo guide | seo advice | smingle under the "meta keywords" paragraph I ahve just updated the paragraph.

So for those who constantly wondering about using them - it is an absolute no brainer to use them !!

There are lots more nuggets to come, but as I have explained to alot of you on email / PM - I am so busy with work, that it obviously has to take priority

Nice to see some of your results though - keep up the fantastic work

[Miracle]

I know loads have been pestering me for the off-page seo guide, and rest assured it is on my ever growing to-do list

For those of you still doubting using meta keywords on your site, take another look at the site in my seo guide here : free seo guide | seo advice | smingle under the "meta keywords" paragraph I ahve just updated the paragraph.

So for those who constantly wondering about using them - it is an absolute no brainer to use them !!

There are lots more nuggets to come, but as I have explained to alot of you on email / PM - I am so busy with work, that it obviously has to take priority

Nice to see some of your results though - keep up the fantastic work

Hi Smingle,

Thanks for clarifying the meta keywords question - I'd asked this in a separate thread some time ago.

I had a quick look at your seo guide and have another question. I am (still) a newbie but a few weeks ago I found that some of my content (including its unusual title) was present at another website. I did not know what to do but removed it from my site. I spent time writing unique content and then someone stole it - that was really disheartening. What can one do in this case?

[darrenb]

Hi Smingle,

Thanks for clarifying the meta keywords question - I'd asked this in a separate thread some time ago.

I had a quick look at your seo guide and have another question. I am (still) a newbie but a few weeks ago I found that some of my content (including its unusual title) was present at another website. I did not know what to do but removed it from my site. I spent time writing unique content and then someone stole it - that was really disheartening. What can one do in this case?

I would not have removed the content after all you created it.
Best thing to do is to get some proof if you can, that you created the content first (use something like archive.org if possible).

Send a polite email to the website owner giving them chance to remove the content as duplicate (use whois etc to find the details). Then try contacting the wesites hosting provider to inform them of the problem and ask them to help remove it.

If this does not work then either C&D (cease and detest - google it) or use the following link to inform Google of the duplicated content:
Google - Digital Millennium Copyright Act

I have not had much in the way of problems with this in the past, i guess my content is not worth copying!!