SEO

Have you watched the videos and read the content for my primary review of Google Sniper yet?  If not, definitely check that out first and foremost, then read this post…

google beliefs and gsniper system

In the last post by my buddy and fellow sniper, Gregg Kellogg, told you that this system is NOT for everyone.

Specifically, those affiliates who’re still holding out for that next underground get rich quick solution that’ll change their lives overnight.

Or, anyone who’s allergic to consistent hard work.

If you fall into either of the above categories, I’m recommending you sit this one out.

It’s not even so much that implementing George Brown’s sniping formula is so tedious and painstakingly difficult.

Hell, it ain’t like we’re out digging ditches in 115-degree heat or anything.  But it is going to call for some focused energy day in and day out, until things begin to snowball.

Take the site you’re on, for example.

Cash Review didn’t start out from day one or even week one reeling in all sorts of easy commission checks.

My first few reviews bombed like Hiroshima.

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The saga continues.

GOOGLE-tang is here forever.

98% of you won’t get that reference, but that’s okay (remember, rap music is my drug of choice).  In layman’s terms, Google’s mission to reward high quality sites – and slap lower quality sites that have worked hard to manipulate their rankings – is on like Donkey Kong, now more than ever.

While some SEO experts saw the recent de-indexing of blog networks as nothing more than a scare tactic, I think everyone is starting to see the light now.  Google continues to clean house and there’s no reason to think that this trend won’t continue. 

But if you haven’t gotten hit yet, should you panic?  And what’s the future of affiliate marketing in the post-Panda era?

The way I see it, there are 3 basic categories your affiliate marketing websites could fall into that’d place you in the danger zone:

1) A thin, crappy little affiliate site with piss-poor content that only exists as a means for you to siphon buyer traffic and get easy commissions… but that you haven’t went out of your way to link build to…

2) Everything I said above, plus overly aggressive link building that utilized spammy, unnatural methods like blog networks, automated software, paid links, etc…

3) Or, maybe you were one of the few super affiliate marketers who realized the importance of top notch content that’s written to provide extreme value to your visitors… BUT you combined this with suspect linking methods to help rank faster…

If your blogs fall into either of the first two categories, you’re screwed.  More than likely, if they haven’t tanked yet, consider ‘em to be on life support.

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With the recent onslaught Google’s been dishing out to blog networks like BMR or any webmaster who’s been engaging in paid link building, those in the know about SEO are growing more and more concerned about “negative SEO.”

What is negative SEO?

Basically, it’s when competitors spam those outranking them with enough paid, over-optimized and/or low quality links in an attempt to push ‘em down in the rankings.

And the scary part is, this is a legitimate concern.

Theoretically, based on what’s transpired over the past few weeks, it’s easy to see how some shady online marketers might try to exploit this.

Now, my hope is that Google is smart enough to have envisioned this problem way before they began wiping out blog networks and penalizing website owners.

I believe the answer to whether or not you should concern yourself about negative SEO has a lot to do with whether or not you believe sites that have tanked recently have done so because of an actual “penalty” or simply because many of their links were devalued due to the de-indexing of blog networks they were using.

In almost all cases, I’m fairly sure it’s the latter.

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Google Ain’t Playing Around

by Brad Campbell in SEO

In yesterday’s blog post I talked about Google’s latest spanking episode and what it might mean for webmasters going forward.

After a little more digging around today, I confirmed one thing…

Google ain’t playing around.

The pimp slapping of weak affiliate sites is something I have been forecasting for a long time now, but it always seemed like Google was dropping the ball.  In achieving all of my top page one rankings across so many different websites and niches, I’ve spent a lot of time in the trenches, reverse engineering how various sites were getting their top spots in good old Google.

Time after time I was shocked and disappointed that spammers seemed to still be cashing in.

But finally, Google seems to have cracked the code.

Because websites are dropping like flies.  I checked in on some of my old, thinly built affiliates sites earlier today — these sites have had top three rankings locked up for many months.  They hadn’t budged.

Until today, that is.

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Minimizing Bounce Rate

In one of my most recent 2012 Internet marketing predictions posts, I said that user experience would become the new SEO.  At the end of that (geeky) cliffhanger, I said I’d be following up with some aspects to think carefully about in regards to maximizing your visitors’ onsite experience. One of those objective units of [...]

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User Experience — The New SEO?

Picking up where I left off with my 2012 Internet marketing predictions, I want to discuss what I refer to as the “new SEO.” Search engine optimization is no longer something that any ole’ affiliate can just learn in a mini-course and then go out into cyber land and start gaming it an hour later.  [...]

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Fresh Content and Search Engine Optimization Continued

A couple weeks ago I did a Google Caffeine 2011 video post, where I pointed out that Mr. G had improved the previous algorithm update that dealt with speed of indexing, freshness of content and so on. With this newest update, they’re apparently even “awesomer” at spitting back SERPS that contain both the most relevant [...]

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Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?

Alright guys, let’s do a little forward thinking here… I just got off the phone with one of my coaching clients (see:  Internet Marketing Coach) and we were discussing trends that would be hot in 2012 and beyond.  One of the “biggies” is undoubtedly mobile marketing. It’s estimated that within just a couple of years there [...]

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Google Caffeine v2.0 (aka Version Double Espresso)

How you living? Large? Hope so. I made a quick video while drinking a double espresso “drink” from Starbucks (I don’t really get down with the Starbucks nomenclature — I just tell Staci to get me something that’ll provide a sh*t ton of energy)… … and the funny thing is, the topic is basically how [...]

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Google Analytics Changes — Should We Freak Out?

I stumbled upon this article the other day:  Making Search More Secure… In a nutshell, big G says that going forward, they’re not going to show keyword data for visitors who landed on your website while logged into their Google account. This change stems from a privacy concern, although I’m totally clueless as to how [...]

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