Blog Commenting – Step 1

By Don | Published: May 26, 2010

Hey Guys,

One proven method of getting back links to your web site when doing SEO is blog commenting (not blog spam) by the way…

The trouble was that its always been a pain in the you know what to track down these sorts of related blogs.

Well now, Google makes it super easy to find blogs that are related to your niche.

Watch this video and see how easy it really is to find blogs in your niche that you can post comments too when trying to build your back link profile.

Ok, I admit this video isn’t my best effort. It’s what we call in the business “down and dirty” – which means nothing fancy but the information more then makes up for the production values icon wink Blog Commenting Step 1

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The KEY to SEO Success

By Master Site Manager | Published: May 24, 2010

If you are doing true SEO, then you are purposely targeting specific keywords and keyword phrases that you have  tested and that you know convert.

The fact that no body wants to admit is this:

You can not effectively do SEO on more then 3-10 keywords or phrases at once.

If you are trying to, then you are really hurting your bottom line because it will take you forever to achieve the rankings you are looking for.

Having said that, sure you could have an entire team in the Philippines doing blog spam for you in order to try to get back links for dozens of keywords at once, but that’s just sloppy.

Honestly, the formula for SEO success is to focus on 3-5 keywords CONVERTING keywords or phrases ONLY at a time.

Once you achieve your desired rank (that should be #1 of course) then and only then should you start to focus on other keywords.

I am continually amazed when I see people trying to do SEO on dozens of keywords/phrases at once. This sort of SEO strategy will cause you to lose in the market place – every single time.

Because your competitors who understand the value of focus and targeting will start to capture the top spots for each of your chosen keywords/phrases one by one.

At the end of six months, you’ll be sitting there scratching your head wondering what happened, and where all your traffic went!

And the worse part is that you’ll have a devil of a time at that point playing catch up, and most likely you won’t ever catch up and here’s why.

Let’s say you spent the next 90 days trying to rank for 100 keyword or keyword phrases and you managed during this time to get 1000 new back links.

Not bad right? That’s 1,000 new links to your site! Wow! That’s sure to pump up your back link profile and give you some ranking juice, right!?

Well, not so fast. Yes, you did get 1,000 new back links, and that will help your domain gain some new authority overall, but because your  efforts were divided between 100 different KWPs, you only managed to get 10 new anchor text back links per keyword phrase.
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Warning – Your Blog Has Been Hacked!

By Master Site Manager | Published: May 17, 2010

Several months ago we released an all new feature called “Outbound Link Checking.”

You can read that post here: http://www.mastersitemanager.com/882/seo-monitor-outbound-link-tracking/

Now when we released this feature we strongly suggested how important this little number could be. Not know how many outbound links your site has is a disaster waiting to happen. And why paying attention to the Outbound Link Tracking feature of our SEO monitoring software is so important.

In a nutshell – If you see the number of outbound links on your site jump dramatically, (upwards of 200-300 over night) check the source code of your site ASAP!

It’s likely that a hacker has managed to get in and plant links to his porno / casino / sex drugs web sites.

What happens in cases like this is that at first Google will depress your rankings because your site is linking to “Bad Neighborhoods”.

Then after a period of time (Google won’t say how much – but we are thinking 60-90 days based on what we’ve seen) if you don’t correct the issue, Google will just de-index your site altogether. Ouch!

Here’s an example how bad the problem is with blogs like Word Press.

If this happens to you, it is correctable but it’s a huge pain in the you know what as you’ll have to go in an modify the WP database table. Restoring the blog/site from a backup won’t fix the problem in most cases.

But we found a very good explanation on how to clean your blog “IF” you’ve been hacked. Here’s another great WP hack prevention resource.

Now why would I say your account has been hacked?  Good question…. The answer will surprise you.

We recently did a maintenance  survey of the sites using MasterSiteManager.com for their SEO rank tracking and monitoring. And what we found was shocking even to us!

Almost 1 in 50 client sites that we monitor on MasterSiteManager shows that they have  over 200 outbound links on them (in other words – they got hacked).  1 in 50! Wow!

But that’s also a pretty good indication of how wide spread and prevalent the issue is on blogs all over.

So I urge you to login in to your MasterSiteManager account right now and check the outbound links for each of your sites.  After all, you can’t fix a problem you don’t know you have.

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System Update: 5/3/2010

By Master Site Manager | Published: May 3, 2010

Over the weekend we had a few reports of users whose keywords weren’t showing up in their account control panels. The problem stemmed from a database update we did last week that was designed to speed up the system stats look-ups.

This was accomplished by splitting the database over multiple servers. Unfortunately, one of our programmers forgot to update the database look up table, and so a few users (less the then 4) were not getting their stats updated as quickly as normal.

The issue has been corrected and now all user accounts are operational, with the added advantage of even faster look-up speeds for both keywords and general statistics.

I personally apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you or your clients.

Thanks for your continued support!

Don Schnure
MasterSiteManager.com

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The Facebook Vs Google Ad War!

By SEO Monitoring Software | Published: April 28, 2010

Facebook dropped a bomb the other day announcing it’s new “social plug-ins” and is targeting the 800lb. arrogant gorilla Google, for advertising dollars 0 and it looks like they are winning.

Watch this video and you’ll see what I mean…

So what does this mean for professional SEO’s and web masters you, ridiculously inexpensive and VERY targeted traffic to Facebooks 200 million+ users.

Here are some facts that you may need to consider when talking to your clients about using Facebook ads:

1. Facebook has way more traffic. It get’s over 39 BILLION page views a month!

2. You can TARGET your ads so that only QUALIFIED people see your ads. Good luck doing that with Adwords – you can’t

3. Facebook is simple to use and fast, you’ll be getting killer traffic in just a few hours AND there’s no “Google slap” because Facebook actually respects it’s advertisers.

4. Facebook ads are 1/4 – HALF the cost of Google Adwords

5. Facebook ads convert considerably higher that Googles do AND at usually HALF the price or less!

Again I can’t stress this enough – if you’re doing PPC advertising for your own website or that of a client, you can now get highly converting, targeted traffic for pennies.

This video link below tells the full story and in just a few minutes you’ll see the ramifications of this fundamental shift in power in the advertising and PPC world.

FaceBook Adpower Video

Let me know what you think!

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