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2Sep/100

Articleranks Review Updated - Articleranks Gets Even Better!

Articleranks Review

I already wrote an Articleranks review some months ago telling how much I like it. Now they have upgraded their service and Articleranks has become even better.

Now your articles will get more exposure than ever because Articleranks has just introduced 2 new features.

1) Your articles will now be published on social sites on multiple accounts, users will provide them their login information and we will publish your articles on social sites.


2) Their second feature is also very exciting, they will now be building social bookmarking links on multiple accounts, again provided by  members, into your articles that they distribute on blogs, FTP sites and social sites, so your article links will not only get indexed quicker but they will pass more and more power to your money site, as random selections of your articles will also have incoming links.


As you can see both, blow owner AND publisher will benefit from this new features. If you are a publisher your links will get indexed faster and as a blog owner you will get backlinks to your blog.


The best part for blog owners is that you will not only earn credits by adding your blog to receive content, you will also earn credits by adding social bookmark accounts. These credits can be used to publish articles. So your Articleranks membership can be completely free.


I have been a monthly paying member, because I publish a lot of articles and the monthly membership fee is definitely worth it. I am still getting great results from using Articleranks and results will even become better with the new features added.


Articleranks is now by far the best article blog network and outranks Seolinkvine, MAN etc.

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26Aug/100

UniqueArticleWizard - Problem With Links

Here is a short note to everyone who is a member of UniqueArticlewizard. I have been a member of Uniquearticlewizard
for over a year know and I am still pleased by the results. 

I recently subscribed to get articles sent to me by e-mail. When looking at
your distribution stats you probably noticed that getting articles sent by
e-mail is used by many blog owners. I have choosen the option: "Free Flow Text".
And here comes the point: all e-mails I received from Uniquearticlewizard
contain the article, but most of them have NO LINK
INCLUDED
.

So why is this? Because MOST authors only put their link in
the resource box using HTML. However, blog owners who chose to receive articles
by e-mail in "Free-FLow Text", won't see the HTML.

This is why when writing resource boxes in Uniquearticlewizard
ALWAYS include the url.

Example: "To read more about this topic visit MYSITE
AT
http://www.mysite.com

If you do not include your url your article will get published on a lot of
sites and blogs and you won't get any benefit out of it!

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9Aug/101

Seolinkvine - 2nd Chance - Honest SEO Linkvine Review

I have to admit that I expected a lot when Seolinkvine re-opened doors on 28th April 2010. I joined immediately.

However, Seolinkvine did mot meet my expectations. The number of blogs my articles were sent to was ridiculously low. This is why I cancelled my membership on 31st May. You can read more about it on my blog post "Seolinkvine Results - Articleranks Results - Ama Results".

However, I never cancelled their option of getting free content to my blogs. I really liked the ability of approving and denying articles with a mouse click and getting great content sent to my blogs.

I care a lot about my blogs and right now I have over 50 blogs getting content from Seolinkvine. I deny most articles, because they are not targeted enough. However, the articles I actually approve are highly targeted and well spun. Most of my blogs are now PR1 to PR3 and article posted usually show up in Google within some minutes after they get posted.

So obviously the people getting their articles posted to my blogs get great value. So some weeks ago I started wondering that may be if I have added valuable blogs may be others did the same by now and the Seolinkvine network has expanded and improved.

I knew that Seolinkvine closed its doors to new members on May 14th 2010, so I was pretty surprised when I noticed that obviously the doors are open again. So I thought that may be I should give Seolinkvine a second chance ... and that's what I did ... and I am glad I did!

Seolinkvine Review

My articles are now sent to many more blogs a lot faster than back in April. You can see a screenshot above. So right now I give five thumbs up for Seolinkvine.

If you are looking for high quality blog networks to gain quality backlinks fast, then Seolinkvine and Articleranks are the way to go.

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28Jul/101

Firepow - Auto Blog Software - Create Wordpress Blogs In Minutes

If you are a frequent reader of my blog you know how much I love Firepow. I have been a member for over 1.5 years and it is the fastest way to create quality blogs with good content fast.

I now have blogs getting over 1500 visitors per day which solely use content auto-generated by Firepow. You can read more about how I set up my blogs and how I get them indexed within some hours in my post "Firepow And How To Get Indexed Fast".

There are several other (and cheaper) Wordpress Blog Creator tools available. I have tried all of them and trust me, Firepow is by far the best. Although it comes with a hefty pricetag ($117 per month - However, there is a 14 day trial for $1 - click here to get it).

In general it does not take me longer than 30 minutes to register a domain name, set up hosting and have the blog up and running.

In addition to the pre-installed Firepow plugins, I am using the following Wordpress plugins on most of my blogs:

Tweetme:
TweetMe is a simple Wordpress Plugin that posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post.

Wp-sticky:
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress's blog.

Facebook Like Button
Add Facebook Like Button to your wordpress blog with a lot of customization options, And you can preview the settings at real-time in the settings section

Sexybookmarks
Extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

Web Traffic Genius Pro
Automatically creates Rss feeds of every post and submits it to 20 feed directories on autopilot

Simple Tags
Easily manage tagging, related posts, autotagging, and mass editing of tags

Onlywire Multi Autosubmitter
Autosubmit your posts to all sites listed in your onlywire account

Featured Content Gallery
I love this one. I came across it just recently and just started using it on new blogs

Wordpress Toolbar Plugin
I just started using this one with good results. It adds a nice toolbar to your blog.

Disqus Comment System
Great commenting system. And the good thing is you can moderate ALL of your blogs from one account. This is a great time safer and it adds tons of features to regular commenting, which makes it easier for visitors to comment on your blog.

So what I do is have a folder containing all of the plugins above. I upload all of them, log into Wordpress activate and configure them.

Due to the fact that some plugins have the same or similar functionality than plugins pre-installed by Firepow, I deactivate the following:

FP - Related Posts
FP - ShareThis
FP - WP tags to Technorati (Technorati never worked for me... they never find the code on my sites and there are always problems. It does not make any sense listing Technorati tags on your blog if your site is not listed in Technorati....)

When creating my content in Firepow using Content Blitz you will get the following options where content should be pulled from:

Youtube
Yahoo Answers
Google Blogsearch
Ezinearticles
Articlecity
Article Dashboard
Yahoo News
Google News

I use all of them except Yahoo News and Google News, because you won't get real targeted articles. Once you have completed Content Blitz, it is highly recommended to view all of the content generated for you. Sometimes you will find some off topic articles and you want to delete them.

There is also an option on how many articles you want to have included in each post. You can choose between 1-3. I usually pick 2 or 3. This will make the content look more unique to Google.

As mentioned above, I have niche blogs getting up to 1500 visitors per day using content solely generated by Firepow. So obviously there is no duplicate problem with Firepow.

For a new blog I choose "random posting time" and "one post per day". Once the blog gets older and settles down in the search engines I change this to "random" (you will get about one post every 5 days in random intervals)

Once the Content Blitz is set up I have it post 5 posts immediately. That's it.

Firepow also offers several built-in promotion tools like RSS feed submission, their own Blog Network, Social Bookmarking, and Yahoo answering. I have to admit the only feature I use whenever I create a new blog is Rss feed submission.

I have no idea why only few people are talking about Firepow, as it really is the best and fastest way to create quality niche Blogs that with some effort will rank high in Google ... and make money :-)

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14Jul/102

Build My Rank - An In Depth Review Of BuildMyRank.com

I have been trying several Link Building services in the past and you can find some other reviews at Services Similar To Linkvana. However, I have to admit that Build My Rank outranks all of them and I wished I had joined them earlier.

Build My Rank Review

1. The Price

Build My Rank is $59 a month (Linkvana costs $149, BlogBlueprint if you join via IMa is $147). You can outsource blog posts for $2 each. There is also a FREE Trial which will give you 10 Free Backlinks.

2. The Blog Network

Build My Rank Blog Network is high quality. In difference to Linkvana and Blogblueprint blogs in the network do not come with the same Worpdress template. They are all different and appealing and do not look spammy at all.

In difference to Linkvana and Blogblueprint it seems Build My Rank only posts to the same blog one to two times per day. So my posts did not get buried within some hours. They stick on the frontpage of the blog for quite a while. Linkvana and Blogblueprint add up to 15 posts to the same blog daily!!!

3. Transparency

Inside the Build My Rank Members Area you will see

a.) The Title of your post
b.) When it has been posted
c.) If the blog post is already indexed
d.) The PR of the blog

Below you can find a screenshot of my project. To secure my own projects and of course the Build My Rank Blog Network you won't see keywords and post titles.

Build My Rank Review

I ordered 30 blog posts on June 29th. Two days later all blog posts were written by the BMR writers. I chose to have them submitted randomly. Using this option resulted in 1 to 7 blog posts per day.

All I had to do is submit my keywords, urls and payment. After that my posts were written and submitted automatically.

It seems BMR does not check indexing often, because most of the posts are already indexed.

4. PR Of Blogs

As mentioned above, I ordered 30 blog posts, which resulted in:

12 x PR1 Links
10 x PR2 Links
5 x PR3 Links
3 x PR4 Links

I should mention that I verified each and every blog post and all PRs are 100% correct.

5. Are They On Different C-Class Blogs?

I have to admit that I was a little sceptical whether blogs are indeed on different C Class Blocks. This is why I investigated this issue carefully.

First of all... why is this important?

The major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN/Bing are becoming ever more sophisticated and smart in their search algorithms, and incorporate historical and ip address data, it is now even more important than ever to ensure that you take the necessary precautions when designing a network of linked web sites. So if blogs were on the same C-Class block links would be pretty useless.

I used the following tool to check random 8 blogs my post had been submitted to: http://www.ip-report.com/

Again: to protect Build My Rank you will not see urls or IPs.

Different C Class Blocks

As you can see all blogs are on different C-Class Blocks.

I have not run this check for Linkvana or BuildMyRank blogs. But I guess it is definitely something that should be done.

6. What Makes Build My Rank Better Than The Competition

One thing that is absolutely outstanding and is not offered by any of the competitors: Build My Rank will submit your blog post to Social Networks. This results in

a.) Additional Backlinks
b.) Much faster indexing

The best part here is that they seem to be using Social Bookmarking accounts that are in good standing, because the backlink shows up almost immediately in Google. I was pretty surprised about this, because in most cases Social Bookmarks do not show up at all. At least this is the case for Bookmarks created by Imautomator, Thelinkjiucer and Bookmarkingdemon.

For most of my blog posts I can see tagza backlinks, jumptags and several others.

I have not seen any change in rankings so far. However, this is obiously too early and will take some more days.

I guess Build My Rank is aware of the quality they are offering and this is why they offer 10 FREE backlinks to everyone who creates a free account (no credit card needed!).

I definitely recommend Build My Rank and if I were you I would take advantage of the 10 free backlinks asap.

free backlinks

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6Jul/100

Paid Blog Posts - Any Good?

Of course I knew that there are several sites out there offering paid blog posts. However, I did not have a closer look so far, because I was under the impression that paid blog reviews are expensive and you have to expect to pay around $20 for a post. I am glad I now had a closer look and gave one service of this kind a try. The paid blog post service I joined some days ago is Linkfromblog.

Linkfromblog Review

Linkfromblog Review

After I signed up I added one of my domains and soon after I started receiving bids from blog owners willing to review my blog and write a short review. Short reviews are about 200 words. I was pretty suprised when I noticed that you can get a blog review from a PR3 blog for as low as $2 (of course prices vary).

I immediately deposited $20 in my account (there is a 20% service fee, that's how Linkfromblog makes money). Out of the 35 bids I received I chose a total of 5 blogs (PR between 1 and 3) and accepted the bid. I am very pleased with the service provided and will add it to my arsenal of marketing methods.

Why I like Linkfromblog

1. Easy account creation
2. Option to accept bids or browse their whole catalog and send invitations
3. Lot's of blogs to choose from
4. Details oin every blog: demographics, PR, Alexa ranking, amount of posts added, blog url
5. The blog owner writes the review.  So every review is totally different and not duplicate content
6. Ability to tell blog owners how they should write (positive, negative, neutral) etc.

5. Ability to add my own blogs and start accepting blog posts and getting paid (well.... right now I won't do this)

What I dislike:

The service fee of 20%... However, a service like this has to make money somehow.

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1Jul/102

Clickbank Sales Down - Summer Blues!

Clickbank sales have been really slow in the past weeks. This is why I took a closer look at the Clickbank sales numbers graph on cb-analytics.com and I was pretty surprised when I had a closer look at the analytics graph. The graph is a little hard to read and the numbers I figured out are just "about numbers". In addition the graph only shows sales data starting 2008. Nevertheless, we are in the middle of the summer sales slow down, with a turnaround to happen in some weeks.

CB Analytics

2008: After Clickbank sales climbing rapidly until about March 2008, there is kind of a slow down, with another strong increase in sales from July to August 2008, with an dramatic drop in September. There is another strong increase end of September 2008, after that stagnation.

In January 2009 sales increase drastically with the high in May. After that a drastic drop. The turnaround seems to be middle of July. Another strong drop in December.

January seems to be the strongest month for the past years. Same in 2010. Clickbank sales climb until May and then there is a drastic drop. With June / July being the lowest months.

I wonder when the turnaround should take place. From history it should be end of July / August.

What makes me wonder is that there has been a strong increase in Clickbank sales summer 2008. Whereas in the other years these have been the slowest months of the year (except of the YEARLY december slow down in Clickbank sales). The only news I found for Clickbank during this time is the introduction of direct depost and the fact that affiliates from more countries were accepted. So may be there was a drastic increase of affiliates in this time resulting in increased sales.

So what can be said looking at the past years?

In general January is the strongest month for Clickbank sales. After that sales go down a little and make a drastic drop middle of May.

It seems a turnaround can be expected middle / end of July.

Sales stay stable until december. In december another big drop in clickbank sales can be expected.

So let's see if I am right. We all should see an increase of sales middle / end of July 2010.

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30Jun/101

Get Indexed By Google Within 24 Hours - Download My Private List

As you can see from my get indexed fast test I got a brand new domain indexed within some hours using my private "get indexedby Google within 24 hours" list.

By the way: today 5 days later houseboatsplans.com is ranked 12 for houseboats plans and 1 for "housboats plans" with quotation marks. The only thing I did was using my "get indexed by Google within 24 Hours"  list.  I guess over the next weeks it will be jumping around in Google search results and may even disappear completely for a while. This is what I noticed for all of my new blogs.

It takes a while and some effort getting a stable ranking these days. However, the first and most important thing for every new domain is getting noticed by Google and indexed. After that you will have to build more inbound links SLOWLY to avoid getting sandboxed.  In this way getting a Top 5 ranking within some months for a keyword with a competition of around 50,000 (shown results with quoation marks) is absolutely doable.

I now decided to make my "private list to get indexed fast" available to my blog readers. I won't give it away for free, because this list is really valuable to me and I do not want to make it available to every freebie hunter.

You can download it for $10, which is still ridiculous taking into consideration what you will get and that you can use the list for all of your new domains.

What you will get:

* A list of 120 sites to add your new domain to (only top level domain, no subpages will be accepted on these sites).

After payment has bene received you will be taken to the download page where you will find a .zip file. The zip file contains a .txt. version and a .doc version, because you will have to use the "search and replace" function of Word or your Text Editor to speed up the submission process.

* The main part are analytics sites. This means you only need to visit the sites and you are done .( I have tested several autosubmitters doing this automatically, however, I did not get any results. This is why I am doing it manually, although I am a great fan of autosubmitters)

* Other sites: you will have to create accounts at some sites, however, this only needs to be done once and after that you only have to login whenever you want to add a new domain

My guarantee: if you add your new domain to all of the sites listed and do not get indexed by Google within 24 hours, I will refund your money.

$10

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24Jun/100

Firepow And How To Get Indexed Fast

If you are a frequent reader of my blog you know that I am a big fan of Firepow. Today I will show you how I use firepow to set up a site and get it indexed in Google within some hours.

Earlier today when browsing the Clickbank Marketplace I came across a niche that is completely new to me but could be profitable: Boat Plans. I did some keyword research and decided that I wanted to start with "houseboats plans".

Google Competition:
houseboats plans: with quoation marks 3700, without quotation marks: 852.000

So I went ahead and registered the domain houseboatsplans.com at Godaddy. Godaddy is my favorite domain registrar, because you can't beat the price of domain names. I never pay more than $7.49 for a .com, .net, .org. How do I do this? There are various Godaddy Coupon sites out there where you can find discount coupons and there is always a $7.49 coupon. My favorite Godaddy coupon site is Fatwallet (make sure to go to the last page of the forum to get the newest codes!)

OK.... so I registered houseboatsplans.com earlier today:

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At 16.15 (4.15 p.m) I installed the blog using Firepow. The whole installation and creation of content took about 15 minutes. Because Firepow does not offer timestamps, I logged into my blog using FTP so you can see a timestamp of blog creation:

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Firepow automatically installs the most important Wordpress Plugins automatically (like Seo for Wordpress, Google Sitemap Generator, Max Banner Ads, h1h2, and a lot of others)

However, I usually add some more plugins:

Tweetme:
TweetMe is a simple Wordpress Plugin that posts a tweet to Twitter when you publish a blog post.

Wp-sticky:
Adds a sticky post feature to your WordPress's blog.

Facebook Like Button
Add Facebook Like Button to your wordpress blog with a lot of customization options, And you can preview the settings at real-time in the settings section

Sexybookmarks
Extremely useful and successful tool in getting your readers to actually submit your articles to numerous social bookmarking sites.

Web Traffic Genius Pro
Automatically creates Rss feeds of every post and submits it to 20 feed directories on autopilot

Simple Tags
Easily manage tagging, related posts, autotagging, and mass editing of tags

Onlywire Multi Autosubmitter
Autosubmit your posts to all sites listed in your onlywire account

Featured Content Gallery
I love this one. I came across it just recently. You can create amazing slide shows etc. Did you notice the neat slideshow on houseboatsplans.com? It has been created with Featured Content Gallery within 15 minutes.

There are some more Wordpress plugins I am using, but the ones above are my favorite ones and I install them on all domains and I also installed them on houseboatsplans.com

I should also mention, that I disable some plugins that are preinstalled by Firepow:

FP - Related Posts: Because Simplet Tags does the same job better
FP - ShareThis - Sexybookmarks does the job much better
FP - WP tags to Technorati - Technorati is driving me crazy. In the past months addition of new blogs has not worked for me. They never recognize the code on my site. There is no use having Technorati tags on your blog if your site is not listed in Technorati. You will only lose visitors...

So once all plugins were installed, I modified some of the settings. E.g. activating Akismet (otherwise spammers will spam your blog with spam comments almost immediately).

And added my ping list under "Settings", "Writing":

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

After that I added my affiliate ads to houseboatsplans.com. I added code to the sidebar and also used the Max Banner Ads Plugin to get ads automatically added to every post.  In addition Firepow adds affiliate banners etc. at the bottom of every post.

All the above took me about one hour.

After that I took a break :-)

I arrived back at my computer at about 20.00 (8 p.m.) and started submitting my domain to my "private list". My private list consists of about 150 sites, primarily analytics sites that I only need to visit.

An example: http://www.peekstats.com/www.houseboatsplans.com

There are mostly analytic sites, but it also contains some pligg sites, and other stuff like twitterpr.com and some social bookmarking sites. This list is pretty valuable to me. But I guess I will give it away for $10 to anyone interested. I won't have time over the weekend, because I have to go through it and clean it up. But you can expect that I will offer it for download beginning of next week.

Why is it so valuable to me? Because I get all domains, no matter how big the competition is, indexed (not ranked!) within some hours. Same this time. As mentioned before, I started at 20.00 (8.pm.)  and at 23.00 (11 p.m.) houseboatsplans.com was indexed in Google:

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So as you can see, it only took me some hours to set up a new domain using Firepow that gets content on autopilot. It only took me some more hours to get the site indexed. I guess tomorrow visitors will start coming in. Of course there is a big difference in "getting indexed" and "getting ranked". It will take some time and efforts to get a stable Google ranking. So let's see what will happen. Over the next weeks I will start promoting houseboatsplans.com.

I should mention that I know from experience that the worst thing you can do is start promoting a new domain heavily right away. This will result in getting your domain sandboxed. Some of my domains I promoted aggressively in the beginning seem to sit in the sandbox forever (over one year). That's why I am building backlinks slowly and try to be patient.

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