SEO and Marketing

I am tired of hearing about the same old link development methods over and over again. Go to any seo forum you like and start a 2.301.991-st topic called: “What are good ways to get backlinks?”. I bet you will get told to go and submit your website to directories, write articles and exchange links. Come on! We are in 2008! You need to stand out from the rest in order to succeed at seo!

I have decided to sort this out once and for all and cover every single link development method known to man. (Probably not but if i miss something out please do leave a comment) I will keep this nice and sweet. Us seo-ers don’t usually have all day to read a blog entry From now on I will simply point everyone asking about way to get backlinks to this post. Here we go…
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CommentLuv is a wordpress plugin that automatically displays the commentators last blog entry in his/her comment. Try searching for “Enable CommentLuv” + yourkeyword to find thousands of blog entries you can comment on. As usual there are two ways of doing this. Spam the crap out of every single blog you see and get most of your comments deleted (Not recommended) or post useful comments on related blogs you are interested in. You should end up with some nice, deep and permanent backlinks.

Use the pagerank search tool to arrange your search results by PR.

Unfortunately this year i did not have time to come up with any decent pranks. It seems like other were well prepared. Have a look at this video i saw on Youtube:

The best thing about 1st of April is that you can pretty much just come up with any kind of nonsense and get away with it. If people believe you, you can really scoop up some traffic. If not, you can always blame it on the April fool’s day. For example this year i was going to spend a bit of time photoshopping and writing up a realistic press release about a “leaked” design of the second iphone Apple is developing. I bet that story would have hit the front page of many social bookmarks in no time. I was hoping to write something controversial as well and get sued by Apple but then i realised they would not really bother with me. That would have been a great story for the media though.

Talking about link baits. I am working on a few interesting tools that some of you will find handy. I bet these will be a good link bait. You can expect to see the first tool some time this week.

A month or so ago i saw a special offer on digitalpoint forums, giving you some free TNX.net credits. I don’t know about you but i love freebies so i decided to give it a try. I have completely forgotten about it until the other day when i noticed a jump in affiliate revenue. After a little investigation it turned out that one of my abanadoned websites that i dumped all the TNX credits on started to rank for a number of keywords. It worked! I have just purchased some more links for another, fresh domain for a proper experiment just to make sure everything is a bit more scientific this time.

So what is TNX.net anyway? It allows you to acquire huge amounts of links for little money. You can pick your categories, pages, PR and so on to make sure you advertise on exactly the pages you want. The best thing about TNX is that they have a very useful tool that allows you to generate unique link ads for different pages, making your backlinks look natural to search engines.

If my next experiment goes well i think i have a great long tail keyword method (Blackhat) i can share with you that should work a treat with TNX.

Have you heard about Qassia? Nor did i until a few hours ago. I must say it looks very promising. Finally i see something based around fresh and unique content. Here is what its all about:

Qassia is a credit-driven intelligence engine coupled to a cascading tag-based web directory. What exactly does this mean? It means that Qassia will change your life.
Good stuff your websites will like
At Qassia, you can add your websites for free, and without having to add reciprocal backlinks. You’ll get unlimited quality backlinks (as opposed to “no-follow” backlinks). You can also add intel. Short for “intelligence”, intel is a tidbit of information. Qassia rewards users who add intel in three ways.

1. Backlinks You get one backlink for every piece of intel you add. Every intel will carry a direct backlink to one of your sites. So the more intel you add, the more backlinks you get.

2. Credit When you add intel, you also get credit, in the form of Qassia dollars. Your net worth in Qassia dollars determines how well your websites rank in our directory.

3. Revenue When your intel is displayed, you get 100% of the advertising revenue generated by that page. That is not a typo, by the way: we give you ALL of the gross ad revenue.

This means that website owners have triple incentive to contribute intel. The contributed intel will allow Qassia to become a vast repository of intelligence, with unrivalled original content. And a vast amount of original content draws traffic like honey draws ants.

I don’t know how well it works but it is definitely worth submitting your site into. The only downside is that Qassia is still on beta stages and you need an invite to join. Good job i have one here http://exposedseo.qassia.com

Next on there is http://www.mixx.com which actually worked a treat for me. It is an increasingly popular Digg clone-ish where you actually stand a chance of hitting the front page. It gives you quite a bit of link juice too.

Finally there is seo friendly http://news.ycombinator.com. It reminds me of reddit. If you have tech related stories you can expect to get some very nice traffic as well as a home page backlink. (Got this resource from mixedmarket arts)