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Well after burning the midnight oil until about 6am today we finally finished the tally and selected the three winners of the first ever Link Money Contest.

I entered all contestants in a database and assigned each person a contestant number, then as they performed additional tasks I kept a running tally of the points count.  When the contest closed there was a total of 713 points spread out among all of the contestants.

Great care was taken to be sure that all points were credited to each contestant and then the final drawing was totally selected by chance by using Random.org to generate three different numbers for all of the points.

So now we will announce who the three winners were…

But first a word from our sponsors.
I want to thank each and every contestant who put a lot of effort into all the jumping through hoops that some cockamamie guy dreamed up, gee I wonder who that could be..?

I really want to thank some very special online internet marketing friends that stepped up when the contest was first announced and from the goodness of their heart freely donated some very nice prizes with no strings attached.

Mark Mason of Mason World http://www.masonworld.com/ donated two copies each of NicheAdsenseThemes, FirstEbookNow, and NicheNav, which will go to the first and second place winners.

J.T. Pratt of http://www.jtpratt.com/ donated three copies of his ebay plugin for WordPress, WP Easy Bay,  One of those will go to each of the three winners.  He also donated 2 hours of consulting as a WordPress Consultant value), which can be used for upgrades, security, SEO, theme work, etc.”   This will be one hour each to first and second place winner.

Then LinkMoney.org donated a paid copy of GoogleSniper and $200 cash to the First Place winner, which will be in addition to the above mentioned prizes..

$100 cash and prizes mentioned above go to the Second Place winner.

$50 cash and the Ebay plugin to the Third Place winner.

And the winners are…

First place goes to: Contestant “krissy knox”

Second Place goes to: Contestant “Eva”

Third Place goes to: Contestant “glf”

Notifications have been made by email.

Thanks again to everyone involved and when we do another Link Money Contest it will be easier all the way around.

Happy Holidays everyone.
Rich Hill

http://LinkMoney.org

UPDATE: 01/15/10

As of this date I can no longer recommend the second product shown below either.  Use any of these types of  automated backlink programs at your own risk.  Google knows who you are and where you live.

UPDATE: 05/24/09

At the time I wrote this article I was quite enthralled with the NextGen product discussed, however since then I have had second thoughts and ultimately did unsubscribe.  There is nothing wrong with the advertised offer of this product and it does do what they make claims of, however they go about it in a way that i am not too keen on so decided to retire it.  The biggest objection to it that I had is that the outgoing links that get inserted on your website end up being kind of klunky looking box ads on the bottom of your website and they appear to break outside of the WordPress theme.

I did give it a pretty good run for a few months but I never really saw any backlinks being indexed by you know who and suspect that they might not have any weight but am not sure of that.

In any event I have switched over to another product to do the same thing but they do it in a much more valuable method and you can read about it in this link:  One Way Links

This new product actually posts articles that you write just like any standard article and you may put up to 3 html links with anchor text in each article and that article can get sent out to hundreds of websites.  Read the full instructions here at:  One Way Links

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This is an unabashed glowing testimonial for a new way of creating backlinks.  I will qualify this by telling you that I am an affiliate advertiser for this product, but that is definitely not the reason for this testimonial.  The product is called NextGen Links, the way linking ought to be,

We get bombarded by scammers quite often trying to extort a little money out of our pockets for the service of providing us with wonderful backlinks to our website du jour.  If you recall I wrote about one such case where I experimented with one of these fabulous deals for 100 backlinks to my site for only $14.00.  These were to be links to the homepage of whatever site I chose, and they would be from “appropriate” websites.

I paid the money for one website, and over about a month I did receive notices that “my” links had been approved by this site or that.  Most all of the sites were in India and Asia, and some were nothing more than blatant link farms, and a few were from Adult sites.  So much for appropriate.  Too late, the damage was done.

Within two months my site was delisted by the Big G.  If you search on the domain name it does show up in the search index, but there is absolutely no data following the domain name.  You can never locate it in the serps by any of the article titles or article keywords.

You may read the previous article about this here:
It is Not Nice to Fool Mother Google

So I must admit, when I first heard about this new product I took a quick glance with trepidation as I had no intention of purchasing it.  Then I dug a little deeper and listened to the audio interview between Willie Crawford and Charles Kassotis, the top dog at NGL, about this new automated backlink generating system and I thought hmmm.

Well it was being promoted by Willie Crawford, a legend in Internet Marketing success, and he unabashedly recommended it with no reservations.  That fact alone made me feel much better.  So I drilled down another level and looked at the demonstration videos provided by NextGen Links and when you see how it works it makes real good sense to give it a go.

I hate these sales funnels where you have to go down, down, down to find out what the Hell the price is, so I’ll tell you right up front.  The entry level is $37.00 monthly and that is for up to ten of your domains with 500 unique url’s each.  There are various other packages at higher prices that go all the way up to an Enterprise level for SEO specialists that sell linking services as part of their SEO marketing package.

What is different about NextGen Links is that the system is automated.  You may select to trust the system to provide backlinks to each and every one of your internal unique urls, or you may elect to use the monitored process, which is what I do, to stay aware of what links that I send out and to what websites are sending backlinks in to my deep pages.

The way it works is that you receive a small piece of invisible code that you insert in your website, on WordPress Blogs I put it in the footer, just as you would Analytics code, and then you “Spider” your own site with either a downloadable tool, or use the online version from NextGen Links.  The graphical spider is a little creepy, but you can turn that off.  You can minimize the window and go about your business while the crawling is being done.

If you have a lengthy website it might take quite a long time for the spider to crawl your Blog, some were done in a few minutes and one site took 2.5 hours, and when it is complete the spider has now created a csv file which you upload to NextGen Links.  All of this might sound like it is complicated, but it is not.

I just checked the dashboard stats and in the first three full days of operation I have sent out 54 individual unique links that have been accepted and I have received in 11 of them from other websites to be included in my posts.  There is a quid pro quo of course, but all of the links that I approved are from good valid websites and the subject matter does relate to the post on my site, so I think they are a plus to the article.  If you are a niche marketer that does not want your readers to be able to link out to anyplace other than your own sales page you might be missing a golden opportunity.  Look at how many millions of more eyes will see links to your pages.

I have installed this tool on five of my niche sites and not on my major content Blogs yet.  I always like to test things before I go whole hog on anything, but I have a feeling that I am going to be adding this most excellent feature on hundreds of websites.  Oh, I almost forgot, you get to approve the websites that are accepting your links also.

Here is something pretty strange that I discovered.  On two of my sites that I had just recently updated to WordPres 2.7, the spider would not crawl.  After checking all the plugins and sitemap and internal SEO features of my Blog I discovered that for some reason the “Privacy” tab had defaulted to private.  None of the search engines have been able to crawl through those sites since I upgraded.  I have no idea how that happened but I’ll tell you this.  I did NOT set that tab to private.  Now I am checking all of my hundred plus other Blogs for that privacy setting.  Actually I would have never known it without installing the NextGen Links system.

The dashboard on the backend is totally awesome!  It is so intuitive and easy to use, that you will get the hang of it the very first time you use it.  You are allowed to approve only eight outgoing links per day per website.  The reason for this is so you will not receive a penalty for link cramming.  The search engine Gods like to see normal, gradual, relative and “appropriate” links developing over time.  This system fills that requirement nicely.

What you receive is totally context relevant links in that you can select where you want to display them, and all links are to individual internal posts.  These links do not just point to your homepage.  They are all deep links.

There is a forum attached to your account where others have posted questions and comments and the tech support responds very quickly, (almost immediately in my two cases,) with answers to any of your questions.  You will also become registered automatically with an affiliate sales account for this product as soon as you become a member.

Let’s cut to the chase.  I wholeheartedly endorse this system.  The price of $37 to get thousands of links to every single deep page of your websites, that come from other websites in your niche or that closely resembles your niche, is just a fabulous deal!

Oh by the way, the first two weeks are FREE!

Check it out and watch the training videos.  Try it, you’ll like it…

Click Here for Automated Backlinks

Actually do click here for One Way Links

If you have read this far, please read the very top of this article for the latest update.  Rich Hill – 01/15/10.

Holy Bat Dung, Batman, this really, really, really blew my mind!

Quoting Randfish, in part, on the SEOmoz Blog today in his excellent report about one of their new SEO utilities called Linkscape.  “The Internet is really, really, really Big…” and “if your [website] page has 100 [or more] external links to it, you are in the top 1/10th of one percent of all of the pages on the web”, and “On the entire web, the vast majority of websites never get 100 links pointing to them!”

Here is what I gained out of this morning’s RSS feed from the SEOmoz Blog,

Linkscape goes out with its own bots or spiders and they crawl the web indexing everything that they possibly can, and then you are allowed to use this compiled data for your own SEO purposes.  Since they created this tool and started crawling and collecting data for the 4th quarter of 2008 they have had two major updates.

You will want to read this full report by Rand because his numbers are staggering.  I see that they have crawled over 36 Billion url’s and he also states that their database may only be from 1/3 to ½ of what some of the bigger companies, (like you know who,) have compiled.

That is 36 Billion, with a “B” folks.

I’m also presuming that at this size there are probably some millions of new websites being built every day, and each and every one of them are trying to get a little bit of that fish food that is in front of you in this humongous aquarium called the Internet.

You must go and read the report yourself.  I have printed it out and hung it over my monitor.  I’ve really, really, really got to work harder.

Gotta go get some links.

Rich Hill

Update: 5/25/09 – Speaking of really big, I had to go to New York City recently on business and I was not sure where I was going to stay.  So I found this website that I want to share with you for booking your hotel or motel room in the Big Apple.  The site is: New York Motels and there are free descriptions of rooms and amenities of all the best hotels and motels in Mahattan as well as reviews of the really cheap hotels as well.  We recommend that you go to this site to check prices and availability and you may also make your room reservation right from the New York Motels website.

You all know that in SEO that there is a right way (white hat,) a wrong way (black hat,) and a sort of in-between way (grey hat,) method of obtaining a good Google rank for your keyword of choice. I am not going to tell you any specific methods of white or grey ways because they are discussed ad nauseum throughout the whole Inter-webs and beyond.

I do want to tell you about a case in point of a wrong way that I can speak from experience on, and you are welcome to make comments or ask questions regarding same.

Here is the scenario. About six months ago I purchased a dropped domain name that is an absolute killer, very common three word phrase, that is a marketers dream for a domain name. These words fall into the class of Top 10 best, Best Deals Online, etc. They are three words that always would be used with a specific target product of any type, and not likely that anyone would ever use just those three words alone, and by the way it is a dot com and no hyphens. Oh and it came with a GPR of 3/10.

I had great hopes for this domain and commenced writing articles humping various affiliate products. All was going real well, traffic was starting to build and then one late night offer was too good to resist. You know the type, “100 links from high quality websites, spaced out over a month, guaranteed quality links, only $14.00,” blah, blah, blah…

What the heck, it’s worth a shot right? Wrong.

The company in India did exactly what they said they would do and starting in about two weeks I started to get notices of various websites that would send me an email saying that my link had been accepted for their website and when ever I checked them they were indeed applied. By the end of the month the 100 guaranteed quality links were posted and I started to get tons of offers to increase my fabulous deal. No thanks. Oh yeah, some of the quality sites were X rated.

This excellent domain name still ranks number one for the three word domain name, but that is all that it does. There is absolutely no data shown in the serps for this site, just the domain name, nothing cached, no article titles, no article excerpts, nothing, zip, nada. It’s great to be in first place, but remember no one would ever use just those three words without a product or item included as well. So I reign supreme over everyone with this site, but you will never know it. The site now has a GPR 0/10.

You no doubt have heard that Google uses a sandbox to stick brand new websites in so that they don’t just pop up over night ranking for a keyword over all of their good paying customers. There is a lot of discussion from many people that are all very experienced and most all of them have differing opinions as to whether or not there is such a thing.

I did a little searching on the subject and found some older posts from a few years back where this was talked about, and a couple of them are as follows:

webmasterworld.com

The existence of a new-site “sandbox” (which delays the site being ranked well for months) has been a topic of debate among SEOs.

From a forum that I did not record the url for:

In reply to a question, Matt Cutts of Google said that there wasn’t a sandbox, but the algorithm might affect some sites, under some circumstances, in a way that a webmaster would perceive as being sandboxed.

Mark Mason told me in a recent message that there was no such thing as a sandbox, but call it what you will, this little treasure chest of a domain name is in limbo somewhere. Not one article comes up in G search anywhere.

What am I going to do about it? Not much. I will still write articles for it and not lean on any affiliate deals, just put up articles discussing marketing in general. I will still do some article submissions and link to it, but I will not ask anyone to link to this site, not ever. I will strive to put up quality content and hope that at some time in the future it will have the dark cloud lifted.

I suppose I could go back and try to have some of those 100 links removed but that is a huge pain in the ass. This one site out of over a hundred niche sites and a few primary Blogs is not going to kill me. I learned a huge lesson that I will never forget. The site cost fifteen bucks and some man hours. I’ll move on.

Was I trying to game the system, you bet. Did I know better, you bet. Did I think I would ever get caught, no way. Please take my word for it, don’t try anything like this.

In case you think, well there is no way I would get caught, just think of some of the things that we all do without even thinking. Most of the people I know in Internet Marketing are using WordPress Blogs. If you do, you no doubt use Akismet as a spam blocker right? Well every time you activate Akismet you must include your unique WordPress API key right? Do you think that Mother G does not know each and every site that you own or operate?

If you use Adsense, and most marketers do, then your Google ID is known. If you use Google Analytics, then your G-ID is known. So it doesn’t matter if you spread your websites out over several different hosting companies, there is no place to hide.

Remember, it is not nice to fool Mother Google.

The wordPress plugin CommentLUV is now installed for an undisclosed testing period.

You will get a link to your website using a keyword that you select by leaving comments on this Blog.

Normally when you leave a comment on a site they ask you for your name, email address and website url. This Blog will keep doing the same thing, however you can choose the keywork or phrase that you want to use by putting it in the name box.

Let’s say your name is Gertrude Blatz and you have a website named LadiesHouseholdFurnishingsAndClothing dot com. Normally you would put “Gertrude” or “Gertrude Blatz” in the name box.

Now let’s say you want to become known as a specialist in and to get high rankings for the keyword phrase “leather pocketbooks.”

Now instead of putting your name in the name box use the keyword phrase “leather pocketbooks.” That way when a reader finds your comment of interest and wants to see what type of a website you have they will click on the keyword phrase to go to your website and you just received a free vote in ranking.

Here’s the deal. This is an experiment and I might pull it at any time for any reason, but you can be sure that if you intend to spam or scam this generous offer I will wish a POX upon you and all of your goats.

Keep the comments relative to the subject, make them interesting and helpful and you will gain great benefits. No one likes negativity so keep it upbeat.

Thank you Gertrude for letting me use you as an example.

Rich Hill

ps: Chris Guthrie has posted an excellent article on back scratching.

See also: CommentLUV, KeywordLUV and lucy’s Linky Love here.

You use keyword linkbait in comments and in Blog posts to encourage the search engines to keep moving you to the front to the pack, right?

You hear about keyword search tools and they do work, but then you hear where the Big G is going to punish users of these special tools. I personally think most of the scuttlebut is all crap, but here is a way to search for your keywords or keyword phrases to see where they rank in the serps without using any special tools, just the Google search box.

[ SERPS = Search Engine Results Page (s) ]

I use Firefox, but this probably works with any type of browser.

1 – Go to the Google search page and click on “preferences.” Change the number of search returns from 10 to 100.

2 – Search for your keywords or phrase.

3 – On the first 100 returns, go to the top of the Firefox tool bar and click on “Edit,” then “Find in this Page,” and type in your url that you are hoping to gain search rank for, or enough of the url line so that it would be a unique word.

4 – If your url is within the first 100 pages, the search will take you right to the serps listing. Just count your position number, log it and then re-check it once a week or so.

5 – If it does not show up in the first 100 returns, then scroll all the way down to the bottom of the screen and click on the next group of 100. You will have to click on the “Find again” tab to see if it pops up there or not. If not, continue to the next 100. I never bother to go beyond 500 because you just don’t exist at that point.

Once you know your number you can then work on promoting it with other means and keep checking later.

I have seen several of my own keyword phrases start out in the high 300′s and eventually work their way up to the first page, and even have a few that are now on page 1, number 1, so it pays to promote your keywords!

This post was inspired by a similar one on Jarret Cade dot net .

I’m Rich

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A few days ago I submitted a comment on Michael Martine’s very fine Remarkablogger website in which I asked him to describe three often used phrases in website promotions. The three terms were; Anchor Text, Backlinks and Nofollow.  Well Michael, true to his word, did just that in today’s post which you should read at SEO for Beginners.

The one thing that struck me the most was that Anchor Text is the actual text you use in the link, like the word “Rebarkablogger” above.  One should never use such as “Click Here,” because the search engines actually index the Anchor Text.

Thanks again Michael.

Oh and Michael also recommends very highly a very easy to understand ebook titled SEO School and he provides a discount coupon from his website.