Keyword sniping is a phrase coined by Courtney Tuttle to target keywords by making the whole site optimised for 1 or 2 keywords. If you haven’t seen Court’s post on this head over to Introduction to Keyword Sniping. Most sites will optimise a page for a keyword, by optimising the whole site you can, in theory rank well for much more competitive keywords. I was very impressed with this method which is very clearly explained by Court so I’ve set up a couple of sites to see how it goes. I’ve also tried to keep the cost down as much as possible by using free software (WordPress and WordBay) and submission services when possible.
I won’t explain the whole method here, Court does a very good job of that, instead I’ll document what I have done to test this method and report on my results. Continue reading ‘Experiment in Keyword Sniping’
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- Experiment in Keyword Sniping
Do you need to add content to your sites but don’t have time to write it all yourself? You could go to Ezine Articles and copy and paste articles into your website or blog (always remembering to include the authors bio and links of course) or you could use Unique Article Wizard. Unique Articles Wizard can send you ‘unique’ articles via email, directly into a blogger blog or directly into your WordPress blog using their plugin. The plugin is simple to set up and will send you a test article to make sure it’s all working correctly. set up some categories on your blog for the articles to be posted into and Unique Article Wizard will post articles fitting those categories. You can allow posts to be published automatically or as drafts and manually approve them later. You can also set up the maximum number of articles that you would like to receive daily.
The articles are not completely unique but they are much better than articles copied straight from Ezine or another source. The service is free to receive articles. You pay if you want to have your own articles published.
Of course it would be much better to write your own articles but if you don’t have the time, this service is probably second best! I personally hate writing articles, I’d far rather be playing with my themes CSS or setting up another website.
As my regular readers will know my best performing BANS sites have been sandboxed by Google. Sandboxing (as opposed to de-indexing) is when Google decides to dump most of your pages in the supplemental index and/or relegate all your best keywords to the millionth position in SERPS!
This is supposedly normal for Google after 2-3 months for a new site but there does seem to be something else going on here. A lot of sites were sandboxed around the end of May/beginning of June as Google apparently made changes to their algorithm. there’s a long discussion about it at Digital Point Forum
Continue reading ‘Can you Live Without Google?’
Last month Google delisted all .info BANS sites (and other MFA* sites) Now it seems Google has it in for BANS sites with adsense.
Read this post by Mark Don’t Use Adsense on BANS sites
He’s had 23 .com BANS sites deindexed. All had adsense blocks. if you have adsense on BANS sites or MFA it might be a good idea to remove it.
I’ve never used adsense on my BANS sites as I believe it brings in very little commission and I don’t want to distract visitors from the auctions but I do have adsense on a blog in a subfolder of the site that was recently sandboxed by Google. Could this be the reason? I’m going to remove the adsense as it’s bringing in very little.
*MFA made for adsense - in other words thin affiliate sites
So we weren’t all imagining problems with the EBPN tracking! Check out this thread at the EBPN forum.
We have also found a discrepancy in the way ACRUs were attributed to affiliates on Commission Junction vs. now with eBay Partner Network. Although on eBay Partner Network we use the same underlying tracking system as on CJ (ValueClick’s MediaPlex), when we switched to eBay Partner Network a small issue was introduced where some ACRUs, specifically those where users were confirming their e-mails and then activating via a bid on different days, were not always getting credited to the right affiliate. 
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Although we did thorough testing of our tracking system before launch (by eBay engineers as well as two outside companies that helped us build eBay Partner Network), like most other major advertising systems, now that we have some data on eBay Partner Network, we are bringing in a third party not involved in the original development to do a full, independent end-to-end test of our tracking system. This outside company has already begun to work with our teams. Their plan is to test some of the more basic things quickly and then finish the full test sometime in August. We plan to share the results of that test with you when complete, and will keep you updated as they complete different parts of their analysis.
no idea if they can make good on the errors that have past but at least they’re now working on the problem.
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