web site promotion

Blog Posting Services, the new way to sell Page Rank - officially now

Marketing Fan — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:49:24 +0100

As you might have noticed, there are more and more blog posting services, out there – an automated broker-stype system selling blog posts for a one—time fee to advertisers…

to create BUZZ of course.

Well, frankly, since that whole “review” craze started last year or so you must admit it was all nice talk about “creating buzz”, giving your product exposure and mentioning yourself within a “topical community”

Sure, blogspot.com IS a community… but I doubt that bloggers that write about their mum and her dog, their favorite recipe as well as the anxiety attacks (and the pharaceuticals used to cure it) can be called a “topical community” when it comes to writing about HDTV Plasma Screens ... can they?

Just this week the so far leader-of-the-pack PayPerPost (when it comes to exposure and volume) released what was OVERDUE.... the Page Rank / Alexa Metric for buying blog posts.

Now you can restrict your blog posts BY

topical category (which is good, but I’ve still to see those “major topic leader blogs on highly competitive topics)
PAGE RANK (aka PR, aka green bar, aka It used to be important)

ALEXA RANK (aka Traffic meter, aka let’s fake it with some hit bots and referer spam)

I tried to order some payperpost blog posts

and instead of writing PR7 blogs ONLY, Alexa rank max. 50,000 and bidding 6$ for a post (hehe) I filled out those fields.

And guess what guys, the minimum price suggest by payperpost (EXCLUDING their 35% on top “service” charge) was around $125 or more

Does it make sense?

YES, sure it does – link prices are based on traffic metrics mostly… at least until the whole world learns about trust (aka domain status) and topical relevance being more important than pagerank.

ReviewMe gave it’s sites a pricing based on these two factors (IMHO) from the beginning… you cannot even “suggest” a low balling price there.

Oh – and the new sponsoredreviews service suggests that you can earn from $10 to $1000 … so if you got a PR9 blog, I’m sure the $1000 for the perm link will be possible for you.

Is this link selling?

YES, absolutely.

If you want a link from a post on a blog of PR3 min it will cost you $10

(meaning a perm link on a PR1+ page)

If you want a link from a post on a blog of PR4 min it will cost you $12.5

(meaning a perm link on a PR1+ page or hopefully a PR2)

Is this selling page rank?

Please read the above paragraph and judge for yourself.

Does Matt Cutts like this?

Naah, I bet he won’t.

And as you know, you shouldn’t mess with Matt (AKA show him your sites for blacklisting, thanks Jim for that great laugh last night)

But will all sites get blacklisted?

Naah, I bet that won’t happen either… at least not on a large scale.

It’s because you have that “editorial review” thing when you are buying a link from withing a blog post. Bloggers can ALWAYS judge if your site selling payday loans is a ledgit site or not, and probably they can decide if the link to with with “Pay Day Loan” or “payday loans” or just loans.

In fact, they COULD even NOT link to you … and just mentioned your site’s url… that’s called editorial discretion of the blogger.

But, the only problem – that post will get rejected when PPP does their job for the 35% cut … making sure all the links required are in there and are good.

Is this legal?

Well, sure man. Nobody can threaten you to not sell links on your own website. Not Google, not Matt Cutts and SURE THING not the FTC or any other of those choppy big US organizations…

I’ve read some ramblings some days ago where people discussing if link selling was LEGAL at all… OMG. I knew it… your editorial discretion and free speech at risk.

I have no doubts that not only Matt Cutts is on the payrole of Google, but a shitload of lobbyists in the US government and all sorts of organizations like the FTC (at least that’s what I read in the Google story).

Now if they pay all those “don’t sell links” preachers, we have to see some effect.

And of course with the twist of “deceptional advertising” (which blames people for promoting products with wrong promises and false claims) the FTC had a nice pitch to introduce that whole “disclosure policy” thing, which is a good thing at all to avoid people rambling soo positive about a shitty product just to make a PR1 link happen.

Don’t get me wrong – it’s ok if people disclose that they are reviewing stuff for money.

But does that make a difference when it comes to that shitty PR1 link on that 3 months old blogspot blob with 2 backlinks from the 2 friends of the lonely kid earning some extra pocket money?

No.

But does that make a difference for Google?

Yep. It sure does.

With all those footprints of links to Disclosure.org, and “I disclose”-Buttons, as well as the HUGE “Sponsored Pay Per Post” buttons you see in every second blog now they have all the means to identify sponsored posts to blacklist them for … guess what?

SELLING LINKs :-)

You won’t notice much when that happened, except that the link juice transfered from that shitty PR1 page goes down from 1.0 to 0.0 .. nothin more

Google has the technology to interpret, understand the meanings of content, and there are patents out there that even diagnose the “mood” and “tonality” or a writing (aka positive or negative twist)

But, as you can imagine, it’s not scaling yet.

The recent Google infrastructure updates brought back what we had in 2003… more regular page rank updates… rolling page rank updates… I’ve seen pageranks assigned at lightspeed of a few days if good domains linked to pages on other good domains…

Ok, so they fixed the stuff that stopped working in 2004 on a large scale and got more flexible.

But it’s years until they can rollout the current state-of-the-art text interpretation thing…

And until then, they can hunt down link networks not only by statistical patterns (for recip links), but also by simple patterns like “links.html” filenames or a simple link to the “Sponsored by PPP”-button :-D

And judging from that, it REALLY doesn’t matter if you can formally restrict your paid reviews by page rank or if you hide that (“Min PR3”) somewhere in the text…

It just makes sure the pricing get’s a lot easier, chunking in more money for posts on the few high PR blogs in the network… :-)

How to get a free link

Marketing Fan — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:08:01 +0200

How to get a free link on marketingfan.com

really simple…

1. Signup as a user on MarketingFan.com

* add your business information
* upload an avatar or picture of yourself

2. Then introduce yourself by commenting this thread.

tell us about yourself, and YES, you can link to your company as well…

3. Add an additional link to your homepage in your users-profile

hey, WOW! – so that’s actually ~~TWO~~ free links :-) one in the comment here, one in the user profile.

And now your link is also listed in the user profile list of professional-pm which shares the user base – so you don’t have to re-register there!

You can checkout my profile and the one of Blog Marketing Guy as a sample.

So let’s go ahead, Who are you and what do you do? :-)

BOTW promo code February 2006

Marketing Fan — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:45:27 +0100

Best of the web - the stoneage directory built 1994 offers another nice BOTW promotion code* good til end of February 2006 for all BOTW submissions *25% off - that price stays for lifetime (recurring submission)

25% off all new directory submissions for the month of February!
Promo Code: G4TNRD

Be sure to enter the Promo Code: "G4TNRD" on Step 2 of the directory submit process and you will instantly save 25%. That's right - discount both the annually recurring and one-time submission review fees by 25%.

Remember - this offer is only good for the short month of February so get started today by visiting http://botw.org/submit/

This is like the third or fourth BOTW promo in a row - and I think it pays for itself :-)

Presellpageman - the Presell Page broker site

Marketing Fan — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:56:38 +0100

Presell Pages are a pretty new and effective concept of placing advertorials (aka hosted marketing pages) on established authority sites ...

The dedicated presell page brokering service Presellpageman was launched productive yesterday offering more than 300 of those authority web sites for hosting marketing content to increase traffic, trust rank

Extra emphasis is put on keeping everything "below the radar" search engines and competitors won't be able to spot and blacklist this new method of optimization as easy as "labelled text link advertisements" in the past.

Advertisers already have a broad range of sites to query for placement at the presellpageman site, which seems to be critical for a successful campaign.

So if you are a presell page publisher then you want your site in that inventory, too! Presellpageman.com offers to list your site (below the radar) there as well – potentially earning you hundreds of dollars every month if you are a lucky guy with an old site…

Another DMCA complaint avoids product sales

Marketing Fan — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:38:49 +0100

RE: my post in Affiliate Sites get DMCA complaints for using sales images? I just came across another case of claimed copyright infringement.

NetEnforcers Inc claimed a copyright infringement for an AWS site selling products of Russound for amazon.com

Russound won't be happy if all Amazon affiliates would put up pages like this instead of their product pages, will they?

Listed in DMOZ finally

Marketing Fan — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:52:35 +0100

Can you believe it? Almost a year after creation and submission this site made it to the correct DMOZ category...

Google Directory - Business > Marketing and Advertising > Internet Marketing > Resources

I just noticed this by chance today from the visitor referrals :-)

What is Naked Link Technology?

Marketing Fan — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:03:17 +0100

just came across the "Naked Link Technology" while reviewing linkconnector.com's technology page .. wow... sounds sexy...

A Naked Link (e.g., http://www.xyz.com/index.htm) is a hyperlink devoid of any arguments or parameters. Strong evidence suggests that the appearance of arguments and parameters after a question mark in a URL link (i.e., http://www.xyz.com/index.htm?track=yes) can discount or eliminate inbound link credit to your site. An additional problem of standard affiliate programs is that affiliates link to the affiliate network, not your site. Naked Link Technologyâ„¢ overcomes both of these limitations by allowing your affiliates to link directly to your site without any arguments or parameters.

What the do is obviously the same as FusionQuest does - setting a cookie via a 1×1 pixel tag - also known as web-bug... but hey... that's a cool method I think...

more in increase inbound links with Naked Link Technology.

Deep linking works great!

Marketing Fan — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:43:29 +0200

Thanks to my current tool-kit – as you might know – I can place multiple link-destinations and texts and appear depending on the site they are place on – looking static to the search engine but allowing you to link to a big number of different pages of your sites.

Deep linking means linking to the

http://yourserver.com/category1.html ,
http://yourserver.com/category2html, and maybe
http://yourserver.com/category3-product5.html

- instead of simply to the main-domain: http://yourserver.com/

According to my recent observations, boosting a site with links to many of it’s pages dramatically increases it’s indexing speed and ranking.

If you are interested, I could show you some examples …

Free Coop Text Advertising Network

Marketing Fan — Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:54:33 +0200

DigitalPoint's Coop Advertising Network is a free ad network that allows it's members to share text ads across it's sites...

Blogs and forums generate a lot of content which could be used for such a shared advertising network. So they use it and created the first (really the first?) cooperative advertising network - for free of course.

The coop network supplies a single ad to display on the pages you choose to offer as ad space. Ads are added to the rotation by coop advertising members (other site owners).

Currently supported are vBulletin 3.x forums, Movable Type blogs and Blogger based blogs.

Currently the system can serve 468×60 graphic banners, 468×60 text based banners or a simple text based ad. For the text banners, you can control the background color of the banner.

All ads are reviewed before they become live on the network.
Ads are served in realtime on the backend from a dedicated ad server.
First an active coop ad user is selected randomly based on weight (the more value/ad space you bring to the network, the more impressions/weight you will get across the network).
Once the user has been selected, it pulls a random ad that they created to display.
The ad server serves that advertisement for that ad request.

Great idea! Signup now!

Search Markeitng = Seller Market

Marketing Fan — Wed, 19 May 2004 00:48:39 +0200

The MarketingBlog suggests that the
Search Marketing = Seller's Market - people who can print money can be selective... that sounds pretty nice... don't you think?

Sounds like: "when I grow up I wanna be a SEM expert" :-)