Caydel’s SEO Blog

From a Digg post:

“SEO Black Hats have found a major loophole in the comment preview of the Moveable Type blogging platform. This exploit let’s them insert active links into any post, avoiding the “nofollow” penalty usually associated. This allows them to artificially inflate the importance of spam websites, leading to less accurate search engine results!”

This is really too bad, seeing as their are hundreds, if not thousands, of high-ranking blogs out there based on the Moveable Type platform…

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I just thought I would make a quick post on my latest site.

Recently, I have begun development on Free-Journal-Articles.com, a royalty-free content archive. It’s a great resource for article marketers, or anyone who is trying to drive traffic to their site. Since some of our articles get picked up by larger publications, authors can aquire more readers and exposure by including a homepage link in their articles.

Below is a copy of the press release announcing it’s launch. It explains alot of what we are about, and why we are better than most of the existing comopetition.
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Free-Journal-Articles.com Launches - Your Source for Quality Royalty-Free Articles

Ancaster, ON (PRWEB) August 1, 2007 — We would like to announce the official launch of http://www.free-journal-articles.com. We are your best source for quality royalty-free articles.

Free-Journal-Articles.com has much to offer over traditional article sites, both for publishers and for authors. We have studied the major article sites such as GoArticles and Ezinearticles, and decided on a feature set which addresses the shortcomings of these, and many other article directories.

Readability - A problem consistent to most article sites is a lack of readability. By placing heavy restrictions on formatting, and displaying articles in smaller font sizes, many article sites make their articles often difficult to read. This results in less read-throughs and pickups. In addition, this provides a less pleasurable experience for publishers who are choosing articles for their prospective sites.

Proper Seach Engine Optimization - Owners of many article directories do not practice proper SEO. This hurts the ranking of the articles submitted to them. This site is managed by a competent SEO. We have managed a variety of websites in the past, and know how to ensure that articles submitted to this site perform well in the SERPS.

Revenue Sharing - We practice revenue sharing. What this means is that users who have submitted 5 articles may submit their Adsense ID to Free-Journal-Articles to recieve 50% of the impressions their articles generate while on this site. This provides yet another income stream for our members!

Updated Technology - Free-Journal-Articles.com is running on a cutting-edge server, using advanced software to deliver the most positive user experience possible! Users who enjoy a site are more likely to return - and that’s what we all want, isn’t it?

Breaking the Mold - There are a few very popular software packages to run and manage article directories. While some of these packages are very good, because there are so many of them, they all start to look the same. Our site is different. We do not employ the traditional software packages. We want to make a lasting impression on visitors, so that they return, and continue to use articles from our database.

Free-Journal-Articles.com can offer you more than any other article site. We hope you will join us soon!

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At any rate, so far, so good. I have a group of talented writers submitting articles somewhat regularily. Some of the articles are quite well written:

• Barry Michaels - Radio is My Life!
• Children Don’t Outgrow Abuse
• Recipes for Dutch Oven Cooking
  

Others are not so good. I’ve even written some myself, either with my real name, or a pen name. Here’s some articles under my real name:

• Review of ‘The Zero’ by Jess Walter
• Promoting Yourself as a Content Writer

Anyways, that’s what I’ve been up to. Now to try to get more writers!

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Last night, Rand Fishkin wrote an interesting article on the SEOmoz blog regarding the necessity of having proper search data and the inadequacy of the existing search APIs from the major search engines. He then explains the resulting need to scrape to get accurate data, and follows that up with the consequences of scraping, both for the scraper, and for the search engine being scraped.

I think that representatives from the big engines really should read this - it provides compelling reasons to update and ‘fix’ their broken/poorly implemented APIs. The data they can give is extremely valuable to companies, to the point that if necessary, many companies would be more than willing to pay for it.

At any rate, Rand provides a great listing of the important APIs, and great descriptions of their function. In addition, he makes some great suggestions about how such engines should be improved. Definately go read the article!

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Someone I met on the forum at eWealth got me somewhat interested in his ‘Bum Marketing Method”. Travis, the creator, noticed that most of the best conversions come from extremely specialized phrases and searches which have relatively low competition. Anyways, he came up with the idea that if you could place an article related to the phrase you were targeting, it would typically end up near the top of the search results, due to the low competition. This article would get roughly the same CTR as an adwords ad on the same page, but it would be free.

Well, I tried it, and we will see how well this method works. I created an article, and uploaded it to goarticles.com. Within the next few days, it should hopefully become visible within Google’s index by Monday. Then I will be curious to see how much traffic/sales etc. I get through it. The phrase I targetted had 31 results. This is great, because on Wordtracker it shows that the phrase gets 100-200 searched per day. Yee-haw! If I can get 50-60 of those? I’m laughing… even if I get only 10 clicks per day, that is 1 sale per month. If I can make about 30 other articles this way, well, that seems like a health y affiliate income. Plus, the articles don’t expire, so the profits only increase!

Wow - I like that… I hope my optimism is justified. Travis has released his method as a free e-course which you can take. I would definately recommend going through it - it’s alot more detailed and in-depth than the little that I have written here. Without any more ado, here is a like to the Bum Marketing Method!

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A couple of months ago, George Boone wrote an interesting piece on the Irrelevancy of SEO. I just read it, and it has made me think a bit. I think I may try the same tack he mentioned in his article with this blog. I am not going to worry about search engine traffic. I am just going to work with links, word of mouth, and other tactics, to see what kind of traffic I get.

Anyone interested in SEO, marketing, and traffic building should read that article - it’s one of the better ones I’ve read in a while.

edit: I didn’t see that article on digg anywhere, so I went to submit it. I got a message back: URL is on the ban list. I wonder why?

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One of the biggest struggles of being a blogger is getting traffic. We all want people to read what we write. If noone else read it, would it be worth the time?

Of course, one of the best ways to get yourself alot of traffic is to get posted at Digg. But what is the best way to do that? How do you get the most traffic out of your Digg submissions? Matt @ Matt’s Projects E-Network posted a list of 9 digg tips entitled, ‘How to Get Promoted at digg.com‘.

Now, I have made some previous attempts at blogging on some of my other sites, but I always gave up after a couple of months, due to no traffic. Now that I’ve read this article, I think I know how to get some traffic. I intend to keep the quality as good as ever, and provide useful, informative posts, the same as I have always done. But now I have the tools to help get my blog listed in the places where people can find it easily, to get what help they need.

That’s what blogging’s about, isn’t it? Helping people to find the information they need when they need it. Or, perhaps, give them a bit of an interesting story.

Related Link: Targeted Traffic Targeted Traffic

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