I’ve recently learned a little trick to getting some good strong links.
I haven’t done any link building on this site as you will see in the image below so I figured this site would be perfect for the experiment.

this site is also good for that because quite frankly, I don’t really care too much about this sites ranking in the search engines since it’s not really monetized.

Anyway, Here is the current status of my site. I’ve cut it down to just the stuff I’ll be working on. If you have the SEO for FireFox Extension you can look it up yourself so you know I’m not making it up.

So here are my current linksaccording to the plugin.

Pretty pathetic huh?
What I’m going to be concentrating on are the coveted edu and gov links. Some people don’t think they really mean a whole lot, I don’t know, I guess that’s up for debate. The reason I want to work on those is the challenge I suppose.

Basically that’s about as far as I’m going to go here. If I don’t fail miserably, I’ll give a more detailed description of how I’m doing it… maybe. It’ll probably be a few days for the links to show up if they do at all. It will just be a few but I’m only trying to see if it works, not build a million links.

So check back soon for the results.

Well I haven’t been updating this blog as often as I had planned. I’ve been very busy working on my affiliate sites lately.

Get Clicky may be old news to some but I just discovered it and I gotta say, it’s pretty cool. I’ve complained in the past about how Google Analytics reporting is off. And I’ve been searching for a new analytics solution for a while.

I just installed this on a few sites today so I’m gonna give it a week or so and then I’ll post a more thorough review. If you’re looking for an alternative to google though it’s worth checking out.

So check out Get Clicky or check back here in a week or two and I’ll put up a full review.
Maybe it’ll end up sucking. I just don’t have enough information to really talk about it at the moment though.

On one of the forums I frequent I came across this post. Apparently Google is taking away account managers from affiliates.

While I certainly don’t spend enough to warrant one anyway, It’s still a little disturbing to me. With the “leaked” ranking guide and now this, it seems Google really has it in for affiliates.

Here is the gist of the post…

“This afternoon I got a rather disturbing phone call from my team manager at Google. As from April the 1st Google is changing their Account manager policies, and affiliates are not longer entitled to an account manager. Google is pulling back their account managers from all affiliate accounts. Doesn’t matter if you do direct linking or through comparison.

My team was in Dublin (Ireland) and I am spending about 20k USD a day.”

I don’t really use AdWords all that much. I spend a little but that’s it. It’s just a little scary to think that the Google has declared war on affiliates.

Guess it’s time to start concentrating on Yahoo!

I may have found my niche. This is the first time, after many failed campaigns that I’ve gotten this kind of score. It’s cheap and has a pretty good search volume which kind of surprised me considering it’s in the “fashion” niche.

A really interesting story about a guy that built his $100 Mil per year company entirely on PPC Arbitrage.

A record $160-million VC investment. A rich Web strategy. A quirky founder. For a few weeks last spring, Guelph, Ont.’s Geosign had it all. Then mighty Google stirred. And it was over.

You can read the whole story here.