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		<title>5 Quick SEO Link Tweaks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going to keep this quite short and sweet and show you some really quick ways on how to get some SEO love. This is by NO MEANS an SEO guide! These are not for you if you are just setting up a new site or page. But if you need a quick push in the [...]]]></description>
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                        <script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script></div></div><p>Going to keep this quite short and sweet and show you some really quick ways on how to get some SEO love.</p>
<p>This is by NO MEANS an SEO guide!</p>
<p>These are not for you if you are just setting up a new site or page.</p>
<p>But if you need a quick push in the search engines. Or you are at position 11 and want to be in the top 10, then these work great for me:</p>
<p>1. Go and put a link to your website on the relevant page on Wikipaedia. They are nofollow but also v powerful.</p>
<p>2. Create a blogger blog and put a unique article on with a link to your main site.</p>
<p>3. Email the top 10 people in Google for your chosen keyword phrase. Be friendly and say something unique about their site.</p>
<p>4. Do 3 quality comments on related blogs.</p>
<p>5. Answer 5 Yahoo answer questions about your subject.</p>
<p>Told you it would be short <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Please post any other quick tips below.</p>
<p>Keeping it real in an unreal world,</p>
<p>Ben Shaffer</p>
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		<title>Common Flippa Scams</title>
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<p>I was Skyping with a friend this morning how he had just been scammed out of over $20k (ouch) on Flippa and thought that I would write a post outlining how some of these scams work and how they can be avoided.</p>
<p>I have been scammed a number of times and even when the money is lower and doesn&#8217;t hurt so much, inside it hurts like hell so don&#8217;t want you to go through the same thing.</p>
<p>In a sec, I will go through a few specifics on some scams that I have come across, but first want to give some general advice.<br />
<strong>1. Do your due diligence</strong></p>
<p>That means going through all of the revenue and traffic stats. Watch out for anything that looks suspicious. Although there are circumstances where it is unavoidable, as much as possible make sure that you view the Google Analytics. If possible ask them to add you as a user to their stats so that you can verify.</p>
<p>Also, try and watch them live log in to their stats to make sure that all is legit.</p>
<p>Do remember though, that nothing is conclusive. URLs can easily be spoofed and faked even if you are looking at them live.</p>
<p>How to do due diligence is a post in itself, but there is plenty of info on the internet and on Flippa itself on what is involved.<br />
<strong>2. If you are suspicious, then jump ship</strong></p>
<p>Obviously, if something is too good to be true, then generally it is. But sometimes you just get an inkling that something suspicious is up. If that is the case, then just don&#8217;t bid. This can be extremely hard and requires self-discipline, but if everyone practiced this, then most of the scams would not work and you can save yourself a lot of money.</p>
<p>One of the things that I follow, not just in buying sites, but generally is that it is a lot better to not buy something and be disappointed than to buy something and be disappointed. There will ALWAYS be new opportunities.<br />
<strong>3. If you are purchasing a site that is monetised by AdSense</strong> or something similar ask if you can place your AdSense code on their site for a day. If they are reluctant, then ask to do it during the Escrow protection period. If they disagree then it is likely that something is fishy. You can also ask to place your statcounter code in the same way.</p>
<p>Here are some specific examples. Some which I have been a victim of. Some of which I have heard of others being a victim of. And others that have been so clear from looking at the auction.<br />
<strong>1. Google Images Scam</strong></p>
<p>Sometimes you see a site that is getting a lot of traffic in a good niche. In reality though, much of the traffic is coming from Google Images which is almost worthless, but certainly less valuable than normal Google search traffic.</p>
<p>One symptom of this, is if they are NOT monetising their site at all but are selling it on the traffic figures rather than revenue.</p>
<p>It is pretty easy to find out if this is this case by doing two things:</p>
<p><strong>a.</strong> Check the statistics to see where the traffic is coming from<br />
<strong>b.</strong> Do a search on the major positions and see if it is likely, that they are getting that much traffic from those keywords. You can use semrush or google keywords tool to try and get an estimate of how much traffic they should be getting.<br />
<strong>2. AdSense Ban Scam</strong></p>
<p>When buying a site which doesn&#8217;t currently have AdSense on, make sure that you check that that site or owner has not been banned by AdSense if that is the way that you want to monetise it. There are several online tools which claim to do this, but an easier way is to ask them just to place Adsense code on their site. If they don&#8217;t want it on their main site, then they can put it on a non-public page. If they refuse outright, then it is likely that something suspicious is up.</p>
<p>Even if you don&#8217;t intend to monetise the site with AdSense, then the resale value will be reduced if you ever do intend to sell it on.<br />
<strong>3. Clickbank Gravity Scam</strong></p>
<p>Here is one that is pretty hard to detect. Basically, they are selling a Clickbank site and claim to have a high gravity. You can confirm this gravity by CB Engine or a similar site. However, they may be fraudulently increasing their gravity by using their own different accounts and acting as an affiliate.</p>
<p>(NB. Putting it simply &#8211; The way that gravity works is how many unique affiliate accounts are used to sell a product)</p>
<p>When you purchase the site, if they don&#8217;t continue their own campaigns and you don&#8217;t have access to these campaigns then your sales could dramatically reduce or even stop. What you want is multiple affiliates making sales rather than all coming from the same person.</p>
<p>This is very difficult to detect, although there are a couple of ways that you can investigate it:</p>
<p>a. Do a search on google for the product name and also the product hoplink id and see if there are multiple people selling the product.<br />
b. Ask to have a list of the referring ids and check if they are individual people. For example, if they have their own products and have different whois details etc.<br />
<strong>4. AdSense Click Fraud</strong></p>
<p>Here is a really horrible one and is becoming a lot more rampant in the last few months. The way that it works is that the owner hires freelancers in a developing country to click on their AdSense ads. Before Google catches up with them, they list the site with a short revenue history. It&#8217;s very difficult to know for sure if this is the case, but there are several things you can look for:</p>
<p>a. Look for a constant history. If the revenue and traffic are fairly constant for about a year or longer then this is a good sign.<br />
b. In statcounter, you can see the exit link activity. Look at the IP addresses of the people who are clicking on the links and check that they are also from US/UK etc. as well as developing countries.<br />
c. Look at the times of day when the majority of the clicks are happening. If they are all happening in Indian hours, but it is a site directed towards a US market then it is likely that something fishy is going on.<br />
d. Look at the traffic logs to see where the traffic is coming from.<br />
e. Look for an unrealistic CTR on the AdSense.</p>
<p>The way that this scam works is that once you purchase the site, the clicking stops and your revenue drastically reduces. In addition, Google can catch up with you and ban YOUR account on suspicion of click fraud.<br />
<strong>5. Trademark Scam</strong></p>
<p>This is something that I have been a victim of and is hard to investigate. If you purchase a site which has a trademark in the URL or the site goes against the terms and conditions of another site.</p>
<p>An example may be a site which scrapes twitter etc.</p>
<p>At any time, you can be issued with a DMCA or asked to take the site down or even sued. Generally, you will comply and will have lost the site.</p>
<p>In many cases, the previous owner may have already received a notice and is selling it on before proceedings have been taken. You will basically be left with a duck/turkey.</p>
<p>The only real way to avoid this is not to buy sites which are &#8216;dodgey&#8217;. Or in the case of larger sites which are on the grey side of legal, get the seller to sign a contract saying that they have not been issued with warnings.<br />
<strong>6. Search Engine Scam</strong></p>
<p>In many cases, sites will only be getting traffic from the search engines because of a few high power links that they have. If those links are removed, then you will lose the SERPS and ultimately traffic. The scam part comes when those links are from the seller who removes or redirects them once you purchase. Watch out for this also if you are buying a site based on its PR (which can be faked) or traffic that is coming directly from just a few sites.</p>
<p>The way to avoid this is to investigate the links and hope that they are from a number of varied domains and IPs and owners.<br />
<strong>7. Shiller Scam</strong></p>
<p>This is basically where one user has several accounts or enlists the help of friends to bid an auction up so that the social proof makes you think that it is more valuable than it actually is. You can&#8217;t really detect this, but should try as much as possible to know how to value a site for yourself.</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Although there are probably many more, those are the main ones that I come across in the $2k-$30k range where the majority of my purchases are. As I said at the beginning of the post:</p>
<p>1. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.<br />
2. If you get a bad feeling, don&#8217;t bid. There will always be more opportunities.</p>
<p>Very interested if you could leave in the comments any other scams that you have seen or advice for potential buyers (or sellers).</p>
<p>Would appreciate it also if you could &#8216;like&#8217; and/or forward this post on.</p>
<p>Keeping it real in an unreal world,</p>
<p>Ben Shaffer</p>
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		<title>SEO is NOT a Jungle in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to an SEO conference yesterday. And although I didn&#8217;t learn a huge amount of tactics, it did help me define my SEO strategy - or perhaps a philosophy - which I thought you may find useful for me to share. There seems to be a massive oxymoron in SEO. On the one hand, [...]]]></description>
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                        <script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script></div></div><p>I went to an SEO conference yesterday.</p>
<p>And although I didn&#8217;t learn a huge amount of tactics, it did help me define my SEO strategy</p>
<p>- or perhaps a philosophy -</p>
<p>which I thought you may find useful for me to share.</p>
<p>There seems to be a massive oxymoron in SEO.</p>
<p>On the one hand, Google says that we shouldn&#8217;t artificially create links.</p>
<p>On the other hand, gaining links to your website are definitely one of the top 2 factors which will decide on where you are positioned in the search engines.</p>
<p>So, how do we build links, where any linkbuilding is in itself artificial?!</p>
<p>It was very interesting to hear from people outside of our internet marketing commmunity &#8211; some of whom are really on the cutting edge of SEO.</p>
<p>These are people who are working in leading international SEO companies who are dealing with extremely high profile clients.</p>
<p>They are running 100s of tests daily to see what is working and what is not working.</p>
<p>IMHO, a far cut above from the internet marketing community whose &#8216;new&#8217; advice is the next best place where you can get links.</p>
<p>I will definitely share more in a future blog post, but here are some things which came out at the conference and which I believe are true:</p>
<p><strong>1. You can be penalised for incoming links</strong></p>
<p>Many people counteract this arguement by saying that if this were the case, then you could harm your competitor by linking to them from bad neighbourhoods.</p>
<p>Well, um&#8230;yeah.</p>
<p>It also seems to be the case, that Google looks at your links as a whole, so if you have 1k bad links and 1k good links, then the good links will be devalued by the bad links.</p>
<p>Think about that when you do your next Xrumer or Scrapebox campaign <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>2. Social factors are being used more and more to determine search position</strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think that anyone would argue with this. However, it seems that it is actually becoming a MAJOR (with a capital M) factor and if you are not using it, then you are missing out.</p>
<p>Although, I hate to blow my own trumpet, this is exactly what my message was about 6 months ago when I came out with Instant Profit Booster which was my course on exactly how I am doing that.</p>
<p><strong>3. Some of your pages can affect the rest of your site</strong></p>
<p>It sounds kind of obvious when I say this, however it is not something which I had thought of before.</p>
<p>But what does this mean in practice?</p>
<p>What it means is, that if you have some low quality pages, then they can give a negative effect to your whole site. So in many cases, it may be better to actually eliminate lower quality pages in order to bring the quality of your whole site up.</p>
<p>Call it trust score.</p>
<p>Call it quality score.</p>
<p>Comes down to the same thing&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>4. Google does know&#8230; <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
<p>I think that this is a massively important thing to remember. They know what we are doing on the internet in terms of backlinking.</p>
<p>They have 100s of engineers working on the internet and 1000s of people around the world manually checking sites and feeding back any obvious patterns to the algorithm.</p>
<p>There are some things which you will get away with either in the short term or the long term though.</p>
<p>But you won&#8217;t really know that unless you are testing &#8216;doing it&#8217; and not just &#8216;doing it&#8217;.</p>
<p>There is an easy way to keep Google happy and that really is to pay attention to delivering what visitors want.</p>
<p><strong>5. Different niches should be treated differently. Not only in the force of your linkbuilding, but also in how you should be doing your linkbuilding.</strong></p>
<p>A massively easy way to know what is working for your niche is to look at your competitors.</p>
<p><strong>6. There seems to be some arguement on how powerful long tail keywords are.</strong></p>
<p>As a reminder, 30% of keyword phrases searched are either search for the first time or haven&#8217;t been search for in the last 90 days (usually misquoted without the last bit!)</p>
<p>On one hand, if someone is searching for:</p>
<p>large blue widgets</p>
<p>they may be better served by going to a site which is specifically about large blue widgets.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it is also likely that a site about blue widgets will also discuss both large and small blue widgets and therefore will be able to supply the information.</p>
<p>As a sidenote, when creating content for your site, do you think that Google genuinely wants you to have 3 separate pages for:</p>
<p>cheap halloween costumes<br />
low cost halloween costumes<br />
halloween costumes that are cheap</p>
<p>Generally, all three pages will have identical information on them, even if written slightly differently. You may want to try just creating one higher quality page which has all of the information there without duplication.</p>
<p>Another connected point to this, is that different keyword phrases will convert differently for you. Apparently there is evidence to suggest that the main keyword phrase + 2 words will convert the best.</p>
<p>So, for example if your main keyword phrase is &#8220;dog training&#8221;, then &#8220;dog training for labradors&#8221; has a higher chance of actually converting than just &#8220;dog training&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>So, my Google/SEO predictions for the year ahead?</strong></p>
<p><strong>a.</strong> I think at some point that exact domain name matching will become less powerful. It just doesn&#8217;t seem logical that it should be as powerful as it is. Just because you have a domain with an exact keyword phrase, doesn&#8217;t actually mean that you will be the site which delivers to the visitor what they are looking for.</p>
<p>In many (or even most) cases, from an objective point of view this simply will not be the case.<br />
<strong>b.</strong> Social media will become more and more important for the majority of niches. The fact that you are spending time or money on social media also tells Google that you have some authority in your niche.<br />
<strong>c.</strong> More and more, we should be giving Google what they want in order to get great positions in the search engines. By putting a larger emphasis on the manual viewing of sites they are showing that if you don&#8217;t give them what they want then they will make you suffer.</p>
<p>Either eat it up or lose out&#8230;</p>
<p>In conclusion, the vast majority of Google&#8217;s revenue comes from advertising. In order to continue and even increase that revenue, they need to do two things:</p>
<p>1. Keep advertisers happy<br />
2. Make sure that searchers continue to use Google in such mass</p>
<p><strong>1. They can keep advertisers happy by making sure that they get targeted visitors to their website and make a positive ROI.</strong></p>
<p>They will not be able to do that if ads are placed on spammy or low quality sites as the visitors to those will likely be lower quality prospects and also will start to trust Google/AdSense less.</p>
<p>(Read that paragraph again &#8211; it&#8217;s really important)</p>
<p><strong>2. In order to keep searchers using their search engine and clicking on their ads they need to make sure that they are delivering the best possible results.</strong></p>
<p>If you are not ranking, it is unlikely to be that they hate you (or even your website) but more likely that based on the profile that they have of you and your website, you are unlikely to present the best content to the person who is searching for your information.</p>
<p>It is important to keep account of the search engine updates when they are occur, but the overriding factor when deciding your website strategy, is to ensure:</p>
<p>a. You build a site with quality and relevant content<br />
b. You put up content that people will actually want to link to and THEN go about getting the links.</p>
<p>I know I&#8217;ve said a lot in this post <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Do you agree/disagree? Please do leave a comment below.</p>
<p>Especially interested to hear your own predictions on where SEO/Google is moving.</p>
<p>Keeping it real in an unreal world,</p>
<p>Ben Shaffer</p>
<p>PS. Oh yeah&#8230;If you could like, share or link to this article that would be great <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Importing Posts Into Build My Rank</title>
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<p>Not the neatest of code, but does the job and shouldn&#8217;t be hard to convert to PHP if needed.</p>
<p>Love to hear any comments as usual&#8230;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&lt;%<br />
&#8221; function to capitalise the first letter of each word.<br />
Public Function Capitalize(ByVal str)<br />
DIM arrTemp, strTemp, i<br />
arrTemp = Split(str, &#8221; &#8220;)<br />
For i = 0 to Ubound(arrTemp)<br />
strTemp = strTemp &amp; &#8221; &#8221; &amp; UCase(Left(arrTemp(i),1)) &amp; LCase(Mid(arrTemp(i),2))<br />
Next<br />
Capitalize = strTemp<br />
End Function</p>
<p>&#8221;Easiest way to create the csv file is to create a table, view source, save that as an xls and then save the xls as a csv</p>
<p>response.write &#8220;&lt;table&gt;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8221;where on your server the articles are<br />
Whichfolder=server.mappath(&#8220;\articles\&#8221;)</p>
<p>Set objFSO = CreateObject(&#8220;Scripting.FileSystemObject&#8221;)<br />
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder(Whichfolder)<br />
Set colFiles = objFolder.Files</p>
<p>&#8221; I am using pp as a counter to create the date when the articles are posted. Should adjust depending on your own schedule&#8230;<br />
pp=4<br />
For Each objFile in colFiles<br />
xfilename=objFile.Name</p>
<p>&#8221; check that it is a text file rather than zip or asp page or anything else that you dont want to process</p>
<p>if instr(xfilename,&#8221;.txt&#8221;) then</p>
<p>&#8221;find out the keyword by looking at the filename</p>
<p>keywords=split(xfilename,&#8221; &#8220;)</p>
<p>for n=0 to (ubound(keywords)-1)<br />
keyword=keyword &amp; &#8221; &#8221; &amp; keywords(n)<br />
next</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&#8221;textfiles seem to be in a bit of a weird text format. Didnt work without using explicitly stating -2</p>
<p>&#8221; Getting the content of the textfile/article and then finding out what the title is and get rid of the author name.</p>
<p>set k=objFSO.opentextfile(whichfolder &amp; &#8220;\&#8221; &amp; xfilename,1,false,-2)<br />
article=k.readall</p>
<p>lines=split(article,vbcrlf)<br />
article=replace(article,lines(1),&#8221;")<br />
article=replace(article,lines(0),&#8221;")<br />
xtitle=lines(0)</p>
<p>&#8221;check that there is actually a title in the textfile<br />
if lines(0)=&#8221;" then<br />
response.write &#8220;&lt;br&gt;NOTITLE: &#8221; &amp; xfilename &amp; &#8220;&lt;br&gt;&#8221;<br />
end if</p>
<p>&#8221;get rid of any weird spaces that may have come up in the split and rejoin</p>
<p>keyword=trim(keyword)</p>
<p>&#8221;your link will be constructed depending on how you name your files and stuff. In my case, the file is the index file within the directory that is named after the keyword without the spaces</p>
<p>link=&#8221;http://www.yourdomain.com/&#8221; &amp; replace(keyword,&#8221; &#8220;,&#8221;")</p>
<p>if instr(lcase(article),lcase(keyword)) then<br />
&#8221; Put the link in the first time which the keyword phrase is found</p>
<p>article=replace(article,keyword,&#8221;&amp;lt;a href=&#8221;"&#8221; &amp; link &amp; &#8220;&#8221;"&amp;gt;&#8221; &amp; keyword &amp; &#8220;&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;&#8221;,1,1,1)</p>
<p>else<br />
&#8221;if the keyword phrase isn&#8217;t there then let us know<br />
response.write &#8220;nonono&#8221; &amp; xfilename<br />
end if</p>
<p>&#8216;replace the character which seems to give the xls file trouble</p>
<p>article=replace(article,&#8221;’&#8221;,&#8221;&#8216;&#8221;)</p>
<p>&#8221; create the rows in the table<br />
response.write &#8220;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&#8221; &amp; Capitalize(xtitle) &amp; &#8220;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&#8221; &amp; article &amp; &#8220;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&#8221; &amp; &#8220;01/&#8221; &amp; pp &amp; &#8220;/12&#8243; &amp; &#8220;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&#8221;</p>
<p>article=&#8221;"<br />
keywords=&#8221;"<br />
keyword=&#8221;"<br />
lines=&#8221;"<br />
xtitle=&#8221;"<br />
filename=&#8221;"<br />
p=p+1<br />
pp=pp+1<br />
if pp=15 then<br />
pp=4<br />
end if<br />
end if<br />
Next</p>
<p>response.write &#8220;&lt;/table&gt;&#8221;<br />
end if<br />
%&gt;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>EDIT: Also need to check that title is between 3 and 25 words&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Traffic Kaboom &#8211; A basic explanation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to give a quick explanation of what Traffic Kaboom is, how it works and why I believe that it is so successful. 1. Traffic Kaboom allows you to submit spun articles via their interface. These are then distributed to up to 120 blogs. Each of these (120) blog posts contains a link [...]]]></description>
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                        <script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script></div></div><p>I just wanted to give a quick explanation of what Traffic Kaboom is, how it works and why I believe that it is so successful.</p>
<p>1. Traffic Kaboom allows you to submit spun articles via their interface. These are then distributed to up to 120 blogs. Each of these (120) blog posts contains a link to your website.</p>
<p>2. You also have the opportunity to submit one of your own blogs to the system. This will then have content posted to it by other people in the network giving you free content. This is NOT mandatory though but an extra revenue stream.</p>
<p>3. Due to the fact that different people are letting content be submitted to their blog, it means that there are lots of different hosts and IPs being used that are then being linked to your site. In Google&#8217;s eyes, this increases the value of each link.</p>
<p>4. When you submit your article, you are able to spin it. In fact, they have integrated 3 different kinds of Spinners. This means that although Google may not see all of the 120 links coming from unique content, they can see a diversity of articles. You can also spin the title.</p>
<p>5. In addition to Traffic Kaboom building incoming links to your website with your chosen link text, they also build on average 15 links to each of your incoming links. What this means is that there is a much higher chance that Google will count those links and is more likely to give more value to those links. </p>
<p>In summary, Traffic Kaboom works extremely well to build relevant incoming links to your sites. </p>
<p>I have used it on multiple sites and achieved in some cases remarkable results.</p>
<p>If you want to see some examples of my increases in traffic, click on the following link:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.connectwithben.com/tk">http://www.connectwithben.com/tk</a></p>
<p>As I write this post, they have just opened up 300 spaces where you can get a trial for 14 days for just $1. It is well worth you giving it a try and 14 days will be plenty to see some great results.</p>
<p>To activate your $1 trial, click on the following link:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shmoozewithben.com/recommends/tkswb">http://www.shmoozewithben.com/recommends/tkswb</a></p>
<p>Any questions, feel free to post them below&#8230;</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I mentioned a few days ago how I was inadvertently running a little test on one of my sites. (Worth going to: http://theproductmachine.com/fbjacker/ if you have no idea what I am talking about) The reason why it was unintentional was because I actually received the salespage like that, so didn&#8217;t set up the test [...]]]></description>
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                        <script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script></div></div><p>So, I mentioned a few days<br />
ago how I was inadvertently<br />
running a little test on one<br />
of my sites.</p>
<p>(Worth going to:<br />
<a href="http://theproductmachine.com/fbjacker/" target="_new">http://theproductmachine.com/fbjacker/</a><br />
if you have no idea what I am<br />
talking about)</p>
<p>The reason why it was unintentional<br />
was because I actually received the<br />
salespage like that, so didn&#8217;t set up<br />
the test on my own.</p>
<p>However, I was still very interested<br />
to see how it would turn out.</p>
<p>What you will see, are that there<br />
are three prices:</p>
<p>$9.95 &#8211; single site license<br />
$19.95 &#8211; unlimited site license<br />
$21.95 &#8211; multiple site developer license</p>
<p>The first thing that you will<br />
notice are that the 2 higher prices<br />
have very little difference is<br />
price, but for the extra $2 there<br />
is a definite benefit.</p>
<p>The second thing that you will notice<br />
is that there is a really cheap option.</p>
<p>Cheap at a pricepoint where it should<br />
easily break down the barriers of anyone<br />
to buy if there is even an inkling<br />
of desire of the part of the prospect.</p>
<p>So, what I want to do is first to tell<br />
you what the results were, and then to<br />
give you a bit of commentary on why I<br />
think that the results were as they<br />
were.</p>
<p>The actual results really surprised me<br />
and probably will you also&#8230;</p>
<p>Just a quick note though. To give some<br />
perspective, the results cover a few<br />
hundred sales. Probably not conclusive<br />
under total scientific conditions, but<br />
good enough for me in order to come to<br />
some conclusions.</p>
<p>So&#8230;&#8230;.here is how they were:</p>
<p>Single license ($9.95) &#8211; 1 Sale<br />
Multiple license ($19.95) &#8211; about 15% (of the rest)<br />
Developer license ($21.95) &#8211; about 85% (of the rest)</p>
<p>Now, what really surprised me was the<br />
fact that there was only one sale of the<br />
single license.</p>
<p>At a price which I thought would be very<br />
impulsive, I thought that a LOT more people<br />
would buy at this pricepoint.</p>
<p>Personally, I know that I buy a lot of<br />
downloable products online that I never<br />
even look at. Therefore I tend to go for<br />
the cheapest version and then upgrade if<br />
I liked the taster.</p>
<p>Obviously, I am slightly unusual in that<br />
way <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>In addition, on my second email, I made<br />
a conscious decision to try and push the<br />
cheap version as I thought that people<br />
who were on the fence would be easily<br />
pushed to spend $9.95 and just &#8216;give it<br />
a try&#8217;.</p>
<p>I guess I was wrong.</p>
<p>I was also very surprised that 15% of<br />
people bought the unlimited site option.</p>
<p>I thought that people would spend the<br />
extra $2 to purchase the developers<br />
edition which in my mind gave a lot<br />
more value.</p>
<p>Here is what I have concluded from this<br />
test:</p>
<p>1. This product at least was NOT an<br />
impulse buy and the people who bought<br />
were serious enough about their purchase<br />
in order to know that they were going<br />
to use it on multiple sites.</p>
<p>2. I suspect that I was probably slightly<br />
unclear about the differences between the<br />
three licenses and had I been clearer, I<br />
would have seen more people buying the<br />
developer rather than the umlimited. Perhaps<br />
had I called the third version &#8216;unlimited<br />
developer&#8217; rather than &#8216;multiple developer&#8217;<br />
that also would have made a difference</p>
<p>3. That you never know the results of<br />
tests until you run them and running<br />
by just a hunch will (almost) always<br />
be wrong.</p>
<p>Many of you may recognise the set up<br />
of the prices from a book called<br />
Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t read that book then<br />
I highly advise you to get it.</p>
<p>Available from Amazon at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006135323X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=httpwwwclarif-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=217145&#038;creative=399369&#038;creativeASIN=006135323X">Predictably Irrational: The Hidden<br />
Forces That Shape Our Decisions</a></p>
<p>The basic premise, is that you should<br />
have 3 prices.</p>
<p>The difference between the 2nd and 3rd<br />
price is very little, but the value that<br />
they get for the highest price is considerably<br />
more than the 2nd.</p>
<p>On many things in life such as antiques<br />
or collectibles in the offline world<br />
or virtually anything downloadable in<br />
the online it is very difficult to put<br />
a monetary value on something.</p>
<p>By giving three prices, you are setting<br />
different levels of value in your prospect&#8217;s<br />
mind so that they can justify the price<br />
which you are asking.</p>
<p>There is a lot more to is and suggest you<br />
read the book yourself, but I guess that<br />
this experiment did kind of prove his theory<br />
to be correct.</p>
<p>Hope you enjoyed this analysis.</p>
<p>Please DO leave your comments in the box<br />
below and feel free to share the link to<br />
this post.</p>
<p>Keeping it real in an unreal world,</p>
<p>Ben Shaffer</p>
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		<title>Google News Site For Sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very excited to let you know that I have another Google News Website for sale. The last one that I sold at: http://www.shmoozewithben.com/uncategorized/website-for-sale went for $5k. If you know about Google News websites, then you will know how valuable they are. Virtually every single post gets a 1st page position on Google within [...]]]></description>
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                        <script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script></div></div><p>I am very excited to let you know that I have another Google News Website for sale.</p>
<p>The last one that I sold at:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.shmoozewithben.com/uncategorized/website-for-sale">http://www.shmoozewithben.com/uncategorized/website-for-sale</a></p>
<p>went for $5k.</p>
<p>If you know about Google News websites, then you will know how valuable they are. </p>
<p>Virtually every single post gets a 1st page position on Google within 10-15 minutes <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>You can see some examples of recently sold GN (Google News) websites at:</p>
<p><a href="https://flippa.com/2638839-google-news-site-rank-first-for-any-keyword-highly-profitable-venture">https://flippa.com/2638839-google-news-site-rank-first-for-any-keyword-highly-profitable-venture</a></p>
<p><a href="https://flippa.com/2633521-google-news-site-w-front-page-posts-high-traffic-no-reserve">https://flippa.com/2633521-google-news-site-w-front-page-posts-high-traffic-no-reserve</a> </p>
<p><a href="https://flippa.com/2622538-pr4-google-news-ceritfied-site">https://flippa.com/2622538-pr4-google-news-ceritfied-site</a></p>
<p>The idea behind a GN site is, that your news articles which you write appear on Google and Google News extremely quickly, usually within about 10-15 minutes.</p>
<p>As I mentioned, I have a GN site for sale which is approved by Google News. Articles were not written for a while, although I wrote a few yesterday and one of them has received over 500 visitors in about 12 hours.</p>
<p>You will need to add content to attract further visitors, but due to the amazing ranking advantage of Google News websites, it is very easy to attract visitors from Google for literally any keyword &#8211; target high-paying and you will be golden.</p>
<p>I monetise my Google News websites with AdSense mainly, although any monetisation method will work.</p>
<p>As I have not been actively writing on this site, I have no current earnings or traffic, but as mentioned above, the power of this site is really that it is Google News approved.</p>
<p>If you have been following Google News, you will also know that it is MUCH harder to be approved than before, but this is a site which has already been approved and is still actively being indexed by Google News.</p>
<p>I am putting a BIN price on this site for $3.5k. As there is only one available, the first person to hit the paypal button and pay gets the site. If there are more than one person who pay for this site, then any after the first will be refunded. </p>
<p>To protect the winning purchaser, I am not making the URL public, although am happy to use Escrow if that method of purchase is preferred.</p>
<p>I am leaving this up for one week from now, and if it doesn&#8217;t sell will sell it instead on Flippa.</p>
<p>Any questions, please post them below and indicate if you don&#8217;t want them to be seen publicly.</p>
<h1>SOLD</h1>
<h5>If you are interested in buying another GN site or have one available then please leave a comment below. I don&#8217;t have one atm, but will let you know if and when I do.</h5>
<p>Keeping it real in an unreal world,</p>
<p>Ben Shaffer</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a feeling that this is going to cause a bit of controversy in the marketplace, but I need to vent and also think that you are going to find my vent useful. If it saves just one person some money, then that to me makes it worthwhile. You may expect me to start [...]]]></description>
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                        <script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script></div></div><p>I have a feeling that this is going to<br />
cause a bit of controversy in the marketplace,<br />
but I need to vent and also think that you<br />
are going to find my vent useful.</p>
<p>If it saves just one person some money, then<br />
that to me makes it worthwhile.</p>
<p>You may expect me to start talking about 1-click<br />
products sold on Clickbank.</p>
<p>But I think that you know about those scams already.</p>
<p>No, there are two kinds of products.</p>
<p>1. Local/Offline Marketing Courses<br />
2. Putting bad quality PLR products on Amazon</p>
<p>The first is because the pitch is that even<br />
though you are not able to properly SEO your<br />
own sites, you are offering this service to<br />
other people knowing that the chances are that<br />
their site will be as successful (or not) as your<br />
own.</p>
<p>The second is because you are just totally<br />
spamming the marketplace and ruining the<br />
marketplace for genuine sellers. In<br />
addition, once someone has purchased from<br />
you, in all likelihood they will never buy<br />
from you again as they feel bad about their<br />
first purchase. Not quite building a business.</p>
<p>Well, wanted to keep this short, but very<br />
interested in what you have to say.</p>
<p>Have a feeling it may get heated, but let<br />
the excitement start <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Please do make a comment below.</p>
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		<title>[Part 2] &#8211; 8 Step blueprint (AdSense)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a few months since I gave you one of these, but one has just come up which is&#8230; So easy Non-technical Quick to implement that I wanted to get it out to you asap. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that you should put literally an hour aside for and just implement it and [...]]]></description>
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                        <script src="http://widgets.fbshare.me/files/fbshare.js"></script></div></div><p>It&#8217;s been a few months since I gave<br />
you one of these, but one has just<br />
come up which is&#8230;</p>
<p>So easy<br />
Non-technical<br />
Quick to implement</p>
<p>that I wanted to get it out to you asap.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the kind of thing that you should<br />
put literally an hour aside for and just<br />
implement it and you will see results from<br />
it for months and years to come.</p>
<p>Just reread that paragraph and realized it<br />
sounded a bit hypey &#8211; but also oh so true.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll try and keep it short and sweet and<br />
give you just the steps, as there are not<br />
really any gaps to fill in:</p>
<p>1. Go and buy:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nicheseeds.com" target="_blank">http://www.nicheseeds.com</a></p>
<p>It is a new tool that has just been released<br />
by my friend and WOW expert (yeah really)</p>
<div>Matt Garrett.&nbsp;</p>
<p>It is a monthly service, but one month<br />
will be enough for your purposes.</p>
<p>One of the main stumbling blocks for a lot</p>
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<p>of people is what  niche to go after. This<br />
takes away all of the guess work and tells<br />
you:</p>
<p>- the niche<br />
- the keywords<br />
- the domain name to buy</p>
<p>There is a limit of 1,000 places and they<br />
have just passed the 600 mark after less<br />
than 24 hours of it being on the market.</p>
<p>CLUE: The domain name <a href="http://bestdigitalkeyboard.com/" target="_blank">bestdigitalkeyboard.com</a><br />
is still available. Go and register it before<br />
someone else does <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>2. Spend around 5 minutes playing with the<br />
tool and choose a niche, set of keywords<br />
and domain. If you are spending more than<br />
5 minutes then you are spending too much<br />
time. The results are there for you to take.</p>
<p>3. Write 250-300 words for each of those<br />
keywords apart from the main keyword where<br />
you should write 500 words.</p>
<p>If you have difficulty writing the articles<br />
then use a tool like:<br />
<a href="http://www.thegreatestarticlespinner.com" target="_blank"></p>
<p>http://www.thegreatestarticlespinner.com</a></p>
<p>which currently has a 7 day $7 trial. It&#8217;s a tool<br />
that I use and have used daily.</p>
<p>4. Go and buy this WordPress theme:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.adsensectrtheme.com" target="_blank">http://www.adsensectrtheme.com</a></p>
<p>Over the last few weeks I have swapped out<br />
all of my other themes for this one and<br />
seen massive increases in revenue. It<br />
works incredibly well. So well in fact<br />
that I have just made an offer to buy<br />
the website on Flippa!</p>
<p>5. Buy the domain name you chose earlier<br />
and set it up on some hosting. If you don&#8217;t<br />
have hosting, then be in touch at my helpdesk<br />
and if you ask Josh nicely, then he will set<br />
you up with some for free.</p>
<p>6. Set up the theme that you bought in step<br />
4 and upload the articles you wrote in step<br />
3. If that takes more than 10 minutes, then<br />
also be in touch with Josh at the helpdesk<br />
and he will do it for you.</p>
<p>(Have a feeling Josh is going to hit me for<br />
saying that <img src='http://www.shmoozewithben.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  )</p>
<p>7. Make sure that all of the articles apart<br />
from the main one have links using the main<br />
keyword coming into the main page. The main<br />
page should ONLY have the main article<br />
showing on it. You can do that by changing<br />
the settings on the control panel.</p>
<p>8. Build some links to the site. If you don&#8217;t<br />
have any software or sites that can automate<br />
this for you, then spend about 10-20 dollars<br />
on Odesk or <a href="http://fiverr.com/" target="_blank">fiverr.com</a></p>
<p>and that really is it&#8230;</p>
<p>Most of the things in life that really work<br />
are simply. You can definitely complicate<br />
the blueprint above by adding in additional<br />
steps.</p>
<p>But if you do follow it, then you will create<br />
a recurring AdSense income for yourself.</p>
<p>I strongly advise you to spend an hour now<br />
and implement it.</p>
<p>If you have 2 hours then implement it twice etc.</p>
<p>It works.</p>
<p>Hope you found the above useful and do take<br />
my advice.</p>
<p>Keeping it real in an unreal world,</p>
<p>Ben Shaffer<br />
Helpdesk: <a href="http://www.replytoben.com/" target="_blank">http://www.replytoben.com</a></p>
<p>PS. Here are the links for your reference:</p>
<p>Niche Reaper:<br />
<a href="http://www.nicheseeds.com" target="_blank">http://www.nicheseeds.com</a></p>
<p>The Best Spinner:<br />
<a href="http://www.thegreatestarticlespinner.com" target="_blank">http://www.thegreatestarticlespinner.com</a></p>
<p>High AdSense CTR Theme:<br />
<a href="http://www.adsensectrtheme.com" target="_blank">http://www.adsensectrtheme.com</a></p>
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