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Google And Link Building

So we know link is important for Google ranking. Google said so. But we also know that Google has publicly shunned a number of link building methods. So, what link building methods is acceptable and what is not?

This forum thread from Google Webmaster Central has good answer from a helpful member
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=39ad174d2c0f6fd1&hl=en

Question
I recently had a company optimizing my website, I thought Id picked a good reputable company but it appears not as I got penalized. I have ended the contract and want to work on my site myself. Ill be going through seeing if theres anything I can do to make the pages more user friendly on my site and will be adding some good content but I wanted to know id there any link building methods that is ok with Google such as article submissions. Im keen to optimize my site as much as possible but I dont want to do anything that could penalize me

Answer
Google prefers the “natural” method.
That means you do nothing bar work on your site.
Of course – this tends to be incredibly slow …. and also has the whole “chicken vs. egg” issue.

So, failing that ……

A smattering of Reciprocal links.
You link to them, they link to you.
(The guidelines say avoid Excessive …. no hard figures … but be “sensible”, and you’ll be fine)
Remember – this is Your word, Your recommendation!
Do Not steer your customers/clients/readers to spammy, crappy sites!

A smattering of Directories.
You Submit to listing sites, you get a link.
Remember – this is a source of potential Traffic, and possibly quality leads.
You do Not want to seen/found in some backwards, limp/lame little dirtbox directory.
Things like HotFrog are fine.
Things like Yell/Thomsons … those are standard/reputable (apparently?).
Things like Craigslist … pretty standard.
Do not go signing up to 40+ pants directories though …. most aren’t worth toffee!
Look at the sites listed by the Directory – are those quality sites?
If you can – find some form of “industry” directory, or a Niche one etc.

Related sites.
Remember – competition comes in lots of forms … but there are some that are not really a threat.
Those that cover different areas…. that provide related services, but not the one you do etc.
(this could work with the Reciprocal)

Articles.
Most article sites suck.
There are a few that are worth while – so it may be worth your time to look around.
Remember – do Not supply the same content as found on your site.
Remember – do Not supply naff content – you want it to make people want to come to your site.
Remember – do Not write a “memememe” article – it puts people off!
Remember – it may not generate a “link” that benefits the rankings – but it may generate traffic and/or interest

Posts.
If you can find a related blog….
Comment on it.
Relevant, insightful …. and more than a single post.
Don’t slap in your URL straight away.
Contribute a bit of time/effort etc.
Same goes for Communities/forums etc.
As per the Articles – these may be nofollowed etc. – but you are after traffic as well as rankings.
(You get traffic – you may get links from that traffic, if not the source of that traffic!)

Guest posts.
If you provide a bit of quality commenting etc….
you could try asking the operator if they would accept a post or two from yourself.
(similar to the article submissions)

Vary the link text.
Do not use the same term repeatedly.
Do not stuff the link text with 34 variations of the same word.
Do not point them all to the same URL.
Do not point them all to the homepage.

Head over to the thread

How to Make Money Flipping Websites-2

Last week we have covered How to Make Money Flipping Domain Names. For the more elaborate flippers, there is another way to make money online, that is by flipping websites.

How to Make Money Flipping Websites

Online money-making opportunities are growing in number. There have been a number of ways to make money online that are already made known to public. One of which is domain-flipping. If you’re just starting to create a website and planning to make money from it, you must of course know the ABCs of it first.

How in the world do you make a website? This simple question requires a complex, yet a beginner’s answer. What do you need to have in order to make a site? 3 Things: The domain, the hosting, and the files. Beyond those needs, there are other two necessities that a website needs: a content and search engine optimization. Search engine optimization is how website masters perk up their sites to make it highly visible on the web.

When you have all the fruit of what you have done for your site, you’re ready to make money. There are these common perks like pay per click advertising, pay per post opportunities, affiliate programs and a lot more. But typically, there would come a time when you’ll be bored with your site, and you’ll have a hard time updating it, until it depreciates, devalues, and eventually grown to be unvisited.

You won’t let that happen, would you? Here’s good news for you. Do you know that you can have someone else to take care of your site, and earn a lot of money at the same time? Yes, that’s possible. The process of buying and selling a website is called website flipping. It’s like sowing and eventually reaping what you have planted, and in the long run, selling your website again.

The process could possibly be as easy as ABC, but there are factors that you need to ponder upon in order to master the practice. Here are some tips most website-flippers do consider:

1. Be sure you know where to sell your niche.
2. Be sure you know how much you have originally spent for this site in order discern your expenses from your capital.
3. Be sure you know where the good auction market is.
4. Be sure you know when to hike your price.
5. Be sure you know the right market.
6. Be sure you know where the best appraisal services are.
7. Be sure you’re easy to contact with when you’re already selling your site
8. Be sure you’re capable of compelling sure buyers to your site.
9. Be sure you’ll get the return of your investment.
10. Be sure you hype up the profit that your board market would appreciate mainly.

Making money online is unbelievably this easy, however, easy will only turn out to be easy when you do things customarily and routinely. This is what makes flipping websites a beneficial practice. Flipping website is expected to have a high, or most often that not, higher revenue versus the original cost that you invested for the site. You only start from a low-cost investment, and earn more than what you expected!

How to Make Money Flipping Domain Names

Have you ever bought a prepossessed gown and decided to sell them on Ebay right after you used it in a one-time event? Well, one of the most profitable means to earn today is through buy-and-sell opportunities. Many things today are being bought in a lower price and are sold in a higher value, which is in any how a sure way to gain revenue.

At the present time, aside from the usual things that are bought and sold online, do you know that there are other things on the web that you could sell and eventually will turn your small capital into a bunch of riches? If you’re a website owner and you own a lot of domain, you might be very interested to hear one of the excellent approaches to make money with your sites.

Domain Names Flipping
Consider that in this world, it is impossible to have 2 the same domain names at the same time. There is only one Google.com or Yahoo.com in the World Wide Web. Taking into consideration the law of demand and supply: the law says that the demand increases, and supply remains unchanged, then the higher the equilibrium price. Applying it to the norms of web masters, everyone wants to have a unique domain. Say for example, you own an SEO company and you want a domain like seocompany.com. Upon purchasing, you noticed that the domain is no longer available. Lucky are you if you learn that this domain is being sold in the market, but practically, luckier is that man who in the mean time owns this domain.

Of course, flipping website is expected to have a high, or most often that not, higher revenue versus the original price the domain was bought. You only buy a domain $ – $$, while you earn $,$$$ or more when you resell it. This is more profitable because you are selling a domain that is already established. Thus, when you constantly buy and sell domains on the web, hence you will create a big bunch of cash.

In the long run, these major reasons have become my standard method in making money via flipping domain names. But how do we really make money from flipping domain names? Here are some of the tips most own domain flippers has shared through the web.

Domain Ideas:
Current Events: One must be very aware of what’s hot and what’s not in the environment.
ORG, .BIZ, .IN and .CO.UK are the most-flipped domains, while .COM is the best know TLD. Concentrate on those.

Domain Registration
Be sure you check the availability of that domain before registration. Name.com and Godaddy.com are just two of the popular sites for domain registration

Domain Selling
Don’t get disappointed if your domain does not sell instantly. You need a little effort to market and you’ll achieve the trade you wanted.

Hence, like buying and selling a pre-owned gown and any other stuff online, you could make a big profit out of it. Remember though that it takes a little effort to come up with a first-class, compelling, and money-making domain.

Adsense Pub ID Reverse Look-Up Tools

Have you ever want to find out what other projects some Internet marketing guru are running? How about all those sites that look similar and are clearly MFA (Made for AdSense) sites?

If the sites are hosted on different server and have different or masked domain whois information, one way to look them up is via the Adsense ID.

Why would you use the Adsense Pub ID Reverse Look-Up Tools?

• To check your competitors network of sites.
• Sometimes people steal your web content entirely, without removing Google AdSense ID from the pages. So by searching for sites with your Google Adsense ID, you’ll be able to find all sites that have stolen content of your pages.
• To copy successful strategy that someone else has implemented.
• For detective works, for example you want to find out more information about owner of a private-protected domains.

List Of Adsense Pub ID Reverse Look-Up Tools

http://sameowner.com/

http://www.w3who.com/

http://reverseinternet.com/

http://webrota.com/

http://hostnology.in/

http://sitegrep.net/

http://www.websitelog.net/

http://serversiders.com/

http://domping.com/

http://websiteindepth.com/

This is by no means a comprehensive list. Feel free to mention other similar services that you’ve encountered via the comment below.

How Google Detects AdSense Invalid Clicks

How to Cheat Google AdSense (and get your AdSense account disabled)
- by Fernando Hal

Face it. You come to this article probably thinking to find some ways to cheat Google, or to confirm whether some method you have on mind will work. Well, if you want to know how to cheat AdSense, here are the ways, focusing on the AdSense click-frauds. These covers from basic AdSense cheating techniques to the advanced class.

But before you proceed, you might need to know why you shouldn’t cheat Google (answer: you will get caught).

1. Basic clicker cheat
   This is a noob. This guy knows almost nothing about web technology or network architecture. He clicks on his ads every time he has chance. It can be a few clicks to hundreds of clicks daily. Most likely he doesn’t even read the AdSense Program Policies and Terms and Conditions.
2. Proxy clicker cheat
   She knows a thing or two about cookies and IP address. Or she doesn’t know, but somehow guessed that if she use the things called anonymizer, Google will not be able to trace her, because her identity is hidden. She may use anonymizer / proxy websites or specialized anonymous software like tor (The Onion Router).
3. Multiple computer clicker cheat
   He knows that somehow Google will detect if the clicks are originated from his own computer. So he will try to even out origin of the clicks. He will recruit his friends, family members, relatives, neighbors, his cats, and his dogs on single mission: to click on the ads. He will also click on the AdSense ads when he is using the library computers, or his office workstation.
4. Software clicker cheat
   Graduate to the next step is buyers of clickbots / click-bots. These are specialized robot software to click on AdSense ads. It will browse around your websites, clicking on the ads every few minutes. The more advanced ones will cloak the IP address too, so the website seems to be very popular worldwide. To cover the track, this clickbots will browse around the advertisers sites too while continuing its “click quest”.
5. Paid-clickers cheat
   If you don’t like automated things, there is always other option for you. Just pay $50 dollars a month to the professional AdSense clickers. These are groups of highly specialized Internet surfers with office in the dark rooms in street corners of India, Pakistan, and China, helping AdSense account owner to earn good amounts of money before the AdSense account is disabled, that is. They will browse around your websites, clicking on the ads every few minutes. Because they use human eyes, they know which ads worth more. And to be more convincing they can click a link or two, or sign up free offers / newsletters on the advertiser sites.
6. Click-rings cheat
   Network is power. So says many business gurus. Instead of taking things to their own hand, this people realize that they can join hands with those with similar goals and distribute AdSense clicks among themselves, the so called AdSense click-rings. Joining this click-ring network means that your website address will be made known to members, who will regularly browse the website and click on your AdSense ads. In exchange, you will also browse other members’ sites and click on their AdSense ads. The medium used varies. Some click-ring groups use mail-list for communications. Some are using bulletin boards/forum, Yahoo groups, or Usenet. IRC is another popular way. Slightly more complicated is specialized AdSense exchange software for collecting members website address and displaying others’ websites for clicking.
7. Other medium cheat
   I have tens of thousands email address on my newsletter subscriber list. If I include AdSense ads on my newsletters, with 5% CTR, I can get a thousand clicks per one email. Not bad. Or I can pay someone to write some useful/nice/funny/cute toolbars or firefox extensions or screensavers that people can download and use for free, and display my AdSense ads there.
8. Visitor cheat
   Simply putting “Visit out sponsors” or “Check out the ads above” on your website is cheating. This might not be very clear-cut cheat to some. But Google AdSense program policies has stated clearly, the only text allowed are “Advertisements” or “Sponsored List”
9. Spam cheat
   This is the highest level all click-frauds, the Maestro of Fraudsters. She spams millions of emails regularly, offering to “satisfy your inner needs if you can help me check on the links on my website”. Of course, email is not the only way. What IRC and instant messaging (IM) are for, after all. She will look for unsuspecting victims, offering something too-good-to-be-true “if only they will visit the website and click on the links”.
10. Click-through-rate cheat
    Whichever method(s) above used, there is one limiting condition: the CTR(click-though-rate). Any CTR that exceeds certain percentage (probably around 10%) will raise red flag in Google AdSense back room. To lower the CTR, the professional cheaters will create some pages on the same domain that attracts very high traffic. Some interesting freebies will sure do the tricks. AdSense code is pasted there, thus creating a very high page impressions. Whether or not the the ads are clicked does not matter anyway, because they are targeting low paying keyword that does not have much competition. The fake clicks are, of course, on where the big money is, the low traffic pages stuffed with high-paying keywords.

Disclaimer: I don’t say and don’t think that these methods will work. If you even need to read this article, there’s 99.999% chance you will get caught before you can even get your first paycheck. Your AdSense account will be disabled, and you get banned from ever applying for AdSense account again. To see what other ways you can do to get banned, see How To Get Banned From Google AdSense.

If you are not interested for getting banned, and just want to increase your AdSense earning, check out 100 Google AdSense Tips.

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New Digg : For Better Or Worse

I just have time to take a look at the new Digg. It looks refreshing, but seems they have a big problem with the algorithm currently, with 9 out of the 10 links are directed at Reddit.com, a competitor user-submitted news aggregator.