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This method is useful for getting hundreds and thousands of anchor targeted links from forums that usually do not allow links in there.

The method is based on writing a normal looking post, and then, using html/bb code write a backlink to your website using the same color as the forum background. You have to do a little bit of editing in order to completely hide it from the mods, but that’s it.

The editing depends usually on the forum , but this is the most general format for getting invisible links:

You need to use the underline option (see the [u] tags above) because by default vbulletin adds an underline to a live link when someone hovers over with- and this underline is a different color which will be easily observed. By coloring the text, and the underline, even if someone's mouse points over your link, the underline which will appear will have the same color as the background and will not be noticed.

Several observations:

- try to put your invisible backlink in the right side of a post, such that the probability someone will hover over it is minimal.

-use this method with forums that do not allow signatures. With forums that allow signatures, it won't be as effective, because there will already be 50-60 links on a page.
By spamming educational forums, high quality forums that allow to link only to trustworthy resources, you can be the only one with a backlink on that page, which means that all the pr juice and se juice will go to you, especially since you can use your dream anchor text.

This is a collection of forums to get you started -> big-boards.com

You can also find high pr forums thread and post it only in those, i ll explain this in another post.

-in order to find the color of the background for forums that do not use standard colors (most forums do not use the standard white black blue etc.. but some different nuances), i use the firebug firefox plugin which inspects the html of the page. You can download it for free, and use it in order to find the corresponding code of any nuance of color a forum is using.

Hey guys just thought I would write up a real quick step by step method to post using the Home Business method manually. I use this exact method and get about a 90% post rate. I only post about 15 ads a day but I usually make around 30-50$ using it. I hope this helps somebody who is new out here.

Step 1) Get a new gmail email account. I usually make a new gmail account everyday just to have a few backups. And remember to use the “+100@gmail.com” trick that was taught.

Step 2) Copy and paste some random famous quotes into a Open Office Writer file. I do this so that all I have to do is copy and paste a random famous quote into my CL post. This helps to keep the post look random to the bots. I use:

Step 3) Write up your ad and encode it. It doesn’t have to be anything that would make Tolstoy happy but make it look like a real job offer. I Then use the below address to encode the ad because whenever I would open the site that was in the Home Business method in IE my AV would pop up and tell me there was a trojan on the page. Who knows, but I do know this site works just as well.

Here’s a method I’ve had some success with on a couple of things…in the example files, I’ve used a dating offer (I’ll admit it, tried my hand at ewhoring) but I’ve also used it for a game release and a couple of other things.

Basically, it simulates the Zango/CPALead Content Protection systems using a lightbox. All the code is taken from these two pages:

particletree.com/features/lightbox-gone-wild/
webfoundation.net/downloads/lightbox_gone_wild_tutorial.html

Here’s the code for the index.php file -

Article Marketing :: $4K Monthly :: EASY!

As mentioned in some of my previous posts, my main income is from PPV and Article Marketing. Now, the majority of my Article Marketing ventures have been done the usual way. Write or pay for articles, submit them to random sites, do some linking and hope for the best. It works, and Ive made a nice amount of money doing it. However, you can always improve something. And, thats what I did.

The top two goals of any marketer are more money and more time. At least they should be their two top goals. That being said, I wanted to integrate both of these things into my Article Marketing business. And, thats exactly what I accomplished.
I developed this method a little over a month ago. However, I wanted to actually test it for a month before I released it. Here are my final results:

$4,300 revenue (Roughly)
4 hours worked (Roughly, excluding time you wont have to spend)

Id say thats pretty damn good if you ask me. Would you work 4 hours (of easy work) for $4k? And, its passive residual. Meaning, it keeps flowing in (passive) and it grows (residual). I guarantee that from the work done in December, Ill keep seeing income from the articles submitted for probably over a year.

This method is going to be a bit detailed, as I dont want any people attempting it coming back and complaining it doesnt work. Even if you dont complain, I still would like it to work for whoever goes and does it. Its definitely worth it. If youre having problems funding PPC/PPV campaigns, this can be your funding money
In a nutshell, youll be getting free articles by splitting your commissions with freelance writers. If youre rich already, paying for articles may be worth it to you. However, most of us arent that rich. And even if I was, I dont know if Id want to buy 1,000 articles at $5 – $15 a piece.

Ive also tried Scamming people out of articles. That doesnt work that well, and is definitely NOT a long term solution. You risk the hot headed freelance writers getting too pissed off at you and reporting you. Trust me, not a smart thing to do for a long period of time.

So, splitting commissions is the best way to go. Everything is free, so this shouldnt be a problem. Youre doing very, very little work.
So, lets get started:

1. Youll obviously be getting freelance writers for classifieds sites. Craigslist is all that is needed, as its a little difficult to work with a large amount of people. I personally only worked with 2 people. However, Ill be developing my own personal system that will allow me to work with over 100 500 people, easily. So, what youre going to want to do is make a Craigslist ad (preferably in your own area if you live in the U.S.). Always, always keep your ad professional. Proper structure, grammar, use of words, etc. Nothings worse than a poorly written ad. Be honest and straightforward in your ad. Im not going to post the exact ad I used, but its fairly simple. Youre looking for a few article writers to write articles for you based on a revenue sharing commission structure. You can lie and tell them that previous writers earn roughly $2 – $5k a month. No cost to get started, and will be able to see their articles published on the web. Keep it short and simple.

2. After the posting, if youve done it right, youll get a few hundred emails. At least I did. Instead of having an auto-responder, I just copy/pasted a pre-written response. All I did was replace their name at the top and bottom. (Eg. Hey ____ and Talk again soon _____) Obviously, the email response will detail the project more and then ask if they have any questions.

3. After theyve responded to the first email response, I have a pre-written 2nd response to go with it. Along with that response, Ill read over their first email and answer any questions they may have. The 2nd response starts with questions they have, and then a Heres a little bit more detail about everything. And again, will ask them if they have any questions to get started.

Today i want to talk to you guys about advertising in local online portals.

Local portals for anyone that doesn’t know are directories specifically for residents of a certain region, so if you live in say Tampa Florida for example, there’s more than likely a Tampa Florida online portal for everything from doctors offices to restaurants.

Portals are kind of a combination of the yellow pages, and a local newspaper all rolled into one and in an online format.

To date I’ve purchased ad space on over 70 portals around the country, and what’s most important is that I was able to profit off a very significant number of those deals.

If I could get the same success rate I do on local portals with all of my other advertising campaigns, my job would be a lot easier.

Unfortunately, the reality is, you’ve got to go through a lot of losing campaigns to find winning campaigns, however there are certain types of traffic targeting you can do to stack the deck in your favor.

One of those types of targeting I’ve found is local portals, many times I’m the only direct response advertiser buying traffic from them at a given time, or worst case, one of just a handful at best, so the audience isn’t being saturated with these types of offers, and the demographic, if you choose your portals correctly is extremely targeted.

So here comes the broken record, it’s all about understanding your demographic, who’s signing up for this kind of offer, and cost effectively sniping that traffic anywhere you can find it.

If you can do that, stay focused, and buy your traffic intelligently, you’re going to be successful.

Now when it comes to local portals there are a few inconveniences that you’re going to need to address:

I stated a minute ago, that one of the great advantages of local portals is that I’m often the only direct response advertiser, the reason for that is that 99% of all ad buys on these sites are typically local small businesses in the area.

Many people ask me on a regular basis what is one of the best methods for taking a domain to a new server without loosing anything. Ive taken the time to develop a list of things you should do, and trust me I figured this out the hard way.

Since you will be moving your domain you will be also getting a new IP address. Dont go ahead and assume that its actually a brand new IP address. It may be new to you, but it could be someones old IP address. Ensure that you do a check to verify that this is a clean IP address. I use the service known as Black List Monitor. This is one thing you will not want to mess around with, spend a few extra dollars and avoid cheap services, you want to ensure its clean or you may run into problems in the future. There are other IP monitors out there, but I prefer to use the Black List Monitor myself.

This will not check to see if the IP address been banned from the search engines, since they dont actually publish a list, but I do know that search engines dont have a permanent ban on IP addresses. Some search engines like Ask tend to be the ones that do long period bans, but the big guys tend to only do a ban for approximately 72 hours, since the bad guys can easily just get another IP address to do what they want to do.

For those that are still a small business dont worry too much as they will check four IP addresses. We actually use Pro Plus to check 25 different IP addresses against the 66 spam lists. Beware though AOL seems to ban just about anyone if they receive a complaint, without even checking things.

I have yet to have an issue with the use of static and dynamic sites, so by going through to following information you should find yourself in good shape throughout your move. I recommend that you attempt to do the move on a weekend if you can have support from your host. If not do it during the time where you can get support from your host. Dont let yourself get stressed out waiting for an email reply, do it when they are available for you. You should try getting a host that does work weekends, just because its a weekend doesnt mean everyone should be off, youre working why arent they.

Step One: This is one of the most important steps and needs to be done. Check the IP address to ensure its clean. You dont want an IP address that has been blacklisted or you will find yourself running into many problems. Make sure you do this step or youll regret it.

Step Two: Get yourself a web host that can meet your technical and financial needs. Avoid companies that make you go through those annoying phone prompts before you reach someone. Setup your account with them. One host provider that I would is pugmarks.com. They happen to be the parent company for our admins.

Step Three: Create a physical backup of your website. You want to avoid any risks of losing your website and by having backup you can rest easy knowing its there.

Important note: Do not rely on the server admin to have backup for you. When you hit this critical moment that last thing you want to hear is that they forgot.

Step Four: Now you will begin creating the domain account in your new server configuring it to match your needs.

Step Five: Now is the time to upload your site onto the new server. Static pages are much easier, all you need to do is click upload and go for some lunch. Now dynamic sites are different, there is database work involved with them. Blogs are even more complicated due to the MySQL components. If you arent familiar with what to do, get someone who is. Dont lose money because your website is down for a few days, pay the extra cash and get things rolling much faster having someone experienced doing it. One of the major pains is ensuring that you have the databases synchronized through the transition.

I shared this recently with a colleague and he suggested I pass it on. Often, when you are looking to get into a market, you get in without doing some quick math in your head and a few searches to determine if you should do that $500.00 ad spend in AdWords as a test. When you find a potential market, spend ten minutes to determine if it can be profitable. If it can be, then turn on the PPC test to see if it can convert well for you. Sometimes, a great market just wont convert well for you it happens and it is best to know as soon as possible if the market is a dud. But make sure you do these steps first:

In this example, I will use ClickBank, which sells mostly eBooks. You can apply these steps to any affiliate program or network.

Step One: Write down the industry, exact eBook name and author.

Step Two: Write down the commission per sale.

Step Three: Based on a conversion ratio of 3%, project revenue. (while I realize that 3% seems high, it is what you should expect with the right targeted keywords, the right product and the right landing page).

Step Four: Write down your break even point in terms of Cost Per Click (CPC).

Step Five: Open the Keyword Tool in Google AdWords

Step Six: Enter the main keyword or the merchants site

Step Seven: Show Estimated CPC, Search Volume Trends and Highest Volume Occurred In (drop down Choose Columns to Display)

Step Eight: Change Match Type to Exact (we dont want non-qualified clicks)

Step Nine: Sort by Estimated CPC (highest first)

Step Ten: Scroll down to the range of the break even point you wrote down in Step Four. You must have at least 300 in Search Volume from the month prior to consider using the keyword phrase. This will give you ten potential searchers per day.

Step Eleven: Verify that at least 100 clicks per day can be had with the keywords which match the above criteria.

Step Twelve: Re-run Traffic Estimator and target the actual product name and the authors name and look for traffic estimates of ten clicks or more.

Lets do an example together:

1. Dog Training. Kingdom of Pets: SitStayFetch by Daniel Stevens

2. $31.23

3. $93.69 ($31.23 x 3) 3 sales is based on 100 visitors at 3% conversion (most will state that this conversion ratio is too high, but because we will focus on the keywords that sell, this is the minimum that you should expect).

4. $0.94 ($93.69/100) Paying $0.94 per click would break even on the campaign.

5. N/A

6. I prefer to target the merchants site, as it often gives me a faster pull of effective keywords. I can also use SpyFu as outlined in yesterdays edition. So I put in: http://www.kingdomofpets.com/

7-9. N/A

10. The first section are keywords related to how to train which is the focus of the site and the keywords we want to focus on to sell the guide. Here are the ones that I selected:

how to train dog ($0.96) 74,000. Yes, this is above the range, but just barely and it is highly focused.
how to train my dog ($.90) 3,600
how to train a puppy ($0.80) 27,100
how to train puppies ($0.56) 3,600

The other sections? You can target them, but you will need to create a new landing page for each because each has a different market and we want to keep our conversions as high as possible.Here are some ideas:

dog training collar – this would be an eCommerce product sale rather than an informational eBook.

dog trainer – with the slumping economy, many could be looking to moonlight to help make ends meet. This could spur you to create your own product on how to make a career out of being a dog trainer. There is plenty of information to pull from on the web and being the merchant often is the ticket you have been looking for.

dog bark – this is a problem. By targeting your landing page to show how the problem can be solved quickly, easily and affordably is what the prospect is seeking.

This is where out of the box thinking comes in. Business opportunities can come anytime and anywhere, but you must seize the opportunity.

11. Verified. On the conservative side, 3,000 searches per day should result in at least 100 clicks.

12. Searching for kingdom of pets, sitstayfetch, sit stay fetch and daniel stevens did not return results which were usable.

With the above, it can be assumed since we can get over 100 clicks per day at around the break even point that this would be a product worth pursuing. A $50-$300.00 PPC test would be worthwhile.

PPC Tip: I learned this one from Dan Thies over at SEOFastStart.com and StomperNet Faculty member. Make your bids half of what the top bid is, so if you do this, then you can target keywords at DOUBLE your break-even point to gain more qualified click throughs.

I once had an idiot webmaster who hijacked my website and passed it off as his design. All in the hope of landing him a good account. Now I know I should be flattered but it really just pisses me off. The way I have caught these people in the past shows how stupid they are. But then again, what can I expect? If they were smart, then they could have just created their own design.

So how did I catch them? Simple. Log files. I know I have previously discussed this but I will say it again. Analyze your log files. You will discover a lot more about your site from this than through any other ranking report. Reviewing your ranking reports without analyzing your log files is like running your business with blinders on. Look at the details of your log files and regularly stress its importance to your best people on a weekly basis.

One of the most important detail on your log files that you should always review are the page views. This indicates which pages have been viewed. If you are going to be stupid enough to hijack someones code, at least be smart enough to strip out the web log code. Those who hijacked my site apparently arent smart enough to do that. They didnt strip it off and it led me right to them.

When reviewing your page views, always look for strange sites. Check out your referral logs too. You can also catch those who hijack your images and references your site that way. It is important to protect your brand on the internet. Now, how would I shut them down? Simple. Call their web host.

However, before I call their web host, I scrutinize their site first and check if I can gain something from them. As the saying goes, Dont get mad, get even. I checked DomainTools.com and found that there are 188 sites on the IP their domain is assigned to. Now, it doesnt matter whether these are all their domains or whether they are virtual hosting. The important thing is to find at least one piece of information that would introduce me to a niche that I didnt know existed. And that is key in this business. Let others do the research for you so you wont have to do the hard work all the time. All you need to do is to connect the dots.

As I have previously said, always protect yourself from prying eyes and have your own IP address assigned to your domains. I will now share something with you that I have never shared before. Like all other information that I give to you, I ask that you do not share this information outside this circle.

If I am researching and I find a power affiliates website, I will use various tools such as DomainTools.com to find out all the domains assigned to it. Now, if I see that there is only one domain assigned to it, then I know that you are hiding domains. Why? Because no one owns just one domain in this market. This will prompt me to search and search until I find them. And you can bet that I will find them. You will be found out and I will know what markets you are in.

So what do you do? How will you protect yourself? Leave a trail. Leave a trail that you dont mind others to find. For example, on one IP, I have my main site, webmarketingnow.com, a sister eCommerce Consulting site, a web design site, and a handful of others. Nothing of significance to me. But, if a competitor looks and they see some good sites, theyll think that is all that I have. They will be content with what they find because they think they have found something and will search no more.

This reminds me of the movie Quick Change starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid. They hold up a bank and then, got lost trying to find the freeway in New York during their getaway. They chanced upon a tourist and decided to stop to ask him for directions. The thing is, he isnt a tourist and ends up holding them up at gunpoint. He cleans out their wallets, but misses the bank money strapped around Bill Murrays waist. As the robber drives away, Bill Murray yells, Excuse me sir, you forgot your map, and my million dollars.

Classic.

They pacified the robber with some spare change when the real money was right there, but just out of sight. This holds true on the web. To protect yourself, I would advise that you take your key URL, assign it a unique IP and then grab four to five other domains. Build them out as dummy sites to throw off the dogs. This is what I do and it is very, very effective. You can see my ten domains, but you will never find my 300+ test domains. Protect your assets and protect your business.

The directory list has been updated and posted in the back office. And here is a comprehensive list of all the directories that had their PageRank change in this update.

Dropped in PageRank

A Web Directory (-1) 0/10
All Web Directory (-1) 3/10
Art Weblinks (-1) 2/10
Clasione (-1) 3/10
Cluboo http (-1) 2/10
Cream Directory (-1) 0/10
Demotte Directory (-1) 1/10
Directory Buddy (-1) 1/10
Directory List (-2) 0/10
Go Guides (-1) 5/10
Gooony (-2) 0/10
iBrain (-2) 0/10
King Bloom (-3) 0/10
Links Match (-1) 3/10
Most Popular Sites (-1) 3/10
Objects Directory (-1) 3/10
Open Here (-4) 0/10
Seek On (-1) 4/10
Seek Pick (-1) 0/10
Shoula (-1) 2/10
Site Folders (-1) 1/10
Starting Point (-1) 4/10
Sun Steam (-1) 3/10

Increased in PageRank

A1 Directory Search (+1) 3/10
AbiLogic (+1) 4/10
ABiz Directory (+2) 2/10
Absolute Directory (+1) 5/10
A Direct 2 Z (+2) 6/10
Around the Web (+2) 2/10
Business Directory (+1) 1/10
Click 4 Choice (+1) 5/10
Clickey (+1) 6/10
Cyborg Info (+1) 4/10
Velnet Search (+1) 3/10
Directory One (+1) 4/10
Directory Storm (+1) 4/10
Euro Find (+1) 3/10
Fast Paths (+1) 1/10
Gokodo (+2) 2/10
Goongee (+1) 5/10
Info Web World (+1) 3/10
King of the Web (+1) 3/10
KwikGoblin (+2) 2/10
Link Now (+1) 4/10
Little Directory (+1) 3/10
Managed Names (+2) 4/10
Network Room (+2) 2/10
Nintra (+1) 3/10
One Way Link (+1) 4/10
Portal Boost (+2) 4/10
Red Reach (+1) 2/10
Search Ave (+2) 2/10
Seek On (+1) 5/10
Seekzap (+1) 4/10
Sezza (+1) 5/10
Smart Links (+3) 4/10
Spheri (+2) 6/10
Sporge (+1) 5/10
Way 2 Find (+1) 4/10
Web 10 (+3) 3/10

Over the last week or so there has been a TON of press about the new Google algorithm change with brands – even some going as far as to saying it is bigger than Update Florida. I wouldnt go that far, because that update literally killed many markets. This one, not so much. But lets break this down as I have had a week to really hammer on it in my testing lab.

So what changed?!?!

Report: Google has flushed their index and rebuilt it again based on brand strength. Last fall Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, was quoted as saying Brands are the solution, not the problem and now brands are shooting to the top of the SERPs.

Reaction: Everyone who is not a brand is freaking out that SEO is now dead again.

What You Should Do Right Now: Sit back, take a deep breath, and know this: the sky isnt falling. And Im going to show you why you dont need to panic. SEO is far from dead.

Lets start out by defining a brand.

Definition of Brand: A company that is well known in certain markets. Examples:

Running Shoes: Nike
Photocopies: Xerox
Tissue: Kleenex
Jeans: Levis
Bandage: Band-Aid
Coffee: Starbucks

The sheer power of brand awareness is when the actual competitors product is called by the name of the branded company. For example, you dont ask for a tissue if you are going to sneeze, you ask for a Kleenex. If you get cut, you dont say, Do you have an adhesive bandage? No. You ask for a Band-Aid. And if youre old enough, making a photocopy was referred to as Making a Xerox copy.

With that out of the way, we can agree that branding is important and nothing will change that. Lets now look at the actual algorithm change. Well use RankPulse to track these changes as it has been the choice tool in all the Blog posts online.