Links are Blue Newsletter 02.14.2007

Of course everyone has been usieng Site Maps forever. The xml format for Google and the text file of url's for Yahoo and an html format for all the rest. Well.... Yahoo and MSN are supossed to be supporting the XML format but I am still reccomending to my customers to put in the text file listing also and an html version for your visitors.

My biggest problem always was that I had a php/sql/cgi based sitemapping program but it only formated in the XML format. Also it ran server wide and not all servers supported the calls and commands it made. For me it worked fine but for some customers it just wouldn't run on their servers.

Well I was doing some searching and found what I think is the best Site Map Maker out there.... no I am not an affiliate of their site and I do not believe they even have a program but I should email them to see. It is called A1 Site Map Generator and it is pretty amazing. It runs in a windows enviorment and lets you create all 3 formats of maps.

You put in the url and it will spider it and then you tell it which maps you want created. They have a 30 day trial on it that is a full version of the software. Their website is located at: http://www.micro-sys.dk/. The other neat feature is that I have used it on stites of over 90k pages and even though it takes a long time to run it does run and creates the maps. The only thing it doesn't do as far as I have seen is split up the maps to groups of urls less then 50k. If your site is larger then 50k pages you will need to manually split the site in your text processor.

Links are Blue Memberships

Well since I have been building tools for the mine and my customers sites I decided to open a members section where they can get access to these things for one low monthly fee per domain registered. It is 9.95 per month per domain so take a look here. LINKS ARE BLUE MEMBERSHIP
What is included in the monthly membership?

1. Descriptive Text Links on over 200 of our sites

2. Adding your Blog to our database and pinging it out once a week for free.

3. Putting your RSS feed out on over 200 of our sites and pinging them out once a week.

4. Your URL placed into our submission list and submitted once a month!

5. 1 hour of free email based consulting on SEO improvements to your website. This in itself is worth more then then total amount of annual membership. It can be used anytime you would like while you are an active member.

6. Access to special tips and Members Only downloads in the Member Only Area.

7. 30% off the normal price of any of our downloadable or CD products.

8. 10% off SEO or Web Site consultation on the phone or at your site.

9. First Access to any new Search Engine Tips, SEO Downloads, Products and New Courses.

If you do your own SEO or SEO for other people this is a great way to rid yourself of some of the mundane tasks involved and save you a lot of time. You can get the membership through the PayPal Logo above.

DOMAINS FOR SALE:

I have a few more for domains for sale yet. They are all listed at my EBAY STORE, but I would be happy to accept offers on them. If anyone is interested please email me at joed@joed.com Then make me an offer I can't refuse!

YOUR-FANTASY.COM

Just a parked domain with a holder page there. Great name though just never did anything with it. I may turn this one into one of the new format sites if I don't sell it soon.

DARKSIDEOFTHENET.COM

One of the oldest and most respected web sites out there. It has a huge following with the Gothic crowd. Lots of hits but I have left it set dormant for close to 2 years. The existing site is included with the name. I will zip up the site and email it to the buyer.

FOXXII.COM

This has a great name that will be well rememberd no matter what site you put there. It would be great for a pic post site. Am I Foxxii?

BIKEZINE.COM

Another old site that is really in with the biker and harley crowd. The site is included in the sale price and once again I will zip up the site for you. .

Well thats it for this week. Thanks for reading.

Joe
http://www.linksareblue.com

Making Blogger Work for You

I have been playing with blogs for about a year now and have found one really effective method of getting things indexed well there. So I decided to give you the short course on what I do for my SEO customers there.

I have tried a variety of automated posters at blogger but it seems that they are getting more strict as time goes on so this is what I have done recently and to this point have not had any problems what so ever.

One thing to remember is this. I am not doing this for adsence revenue on the blog, although I do put the ads there, I am doing this because the blog gets indexed fairly fast and of course the spiders follow the links on the blog back to the site. This can jump start some slow sites that aren't being indexed for some reason.

So lets talk about what DOES NOT work first. Of course if you know of something that does work please email me and let me know so I can publish it here.

WHAT DOESN'T WORK

Automated crawlers and submitters
These crawl your site and take a certain portion of your page. Possibly the title and description from the meta tags or the first 500 words or whatever the current Blog Guru decided to use. The every 15 minutes or 10 times a day or on some timed period post each page with the title linked back to your sites relating page.

When I tried these I saw my blogs being deleted with surprising regularity.

Mass Spam Bloggers
These do a similar operation but they then SPAM the world with your pages. They post to every blog they can get into using a similar technique. At one time it seemed like a great way to get exposure but the down sides were the blog sites can catch the patterns and they just delete the blog. that's not even counting the problems of duplicate content.

Mass Spam Bloggers that STEAL content
These work just like the 2 above but instead of using your own content then grab what they feel is related content from other web sites. This is just wrong. Now with all the duplicate content checking it doesn't work at all.

WHAT DOES WORK- A Real Blog
That's right. A real blog the way it was meant to be. Isn't that nuts. Use the features the way blogger wants you to and they don't delete your blog, it gets indexed fast and if you set it up correctly it will even let the spiders follow your links so that your site.

Unfortunately they don't make this easy so here is the step by step to making blogs work for you.

1. Got to http://www.blogger.com --- Then set up a new account. Use a REAL email address that is always deliverable... not a throw away.

2. Start your Blog --- Then set up a blog. The first thing it will ask you is for a name. Use your primary key phrase. Lets set up a fake one called CASINO

3. Set up your blog address --- This can be tricky because the blog address is something like. http://YOU.blogspot.com/ One thing helpful is to try and make your primary key phrase as a part of that address. So.... try all the normal variations but remember you can use - as a part of the name just like a domain name. So even though after I tried Casino and CasinoGambling and CasinoGaming I tried -Casino- and guess what... it WAS available. So my new blog address for this site is: http://-casino-.blogspot.com/

NOTE: After changing each setting below you will want to SAVE and then REPUBLISH your blog. That way you are sure it is saved.

4. Modify your SETTINGS --- So click the SETTING tab from the blogger dashboard and the BASIC option there. Now look down through the options. The first thing you will see is the title and description. Of course fill these in using the primary keyword as your title and repeat it at least 3 times in the description. You can also make the title a link back to the main page of your site.

5. PUBLISHING Option --- You will want to change the default NO to YES for Notify Weblogs.com.

6. Formatting Option --- Under SHOW I usually change this to 3 posts on the main page. Down the page further is an option called Show Link Field I change the default on this to yes. That way when I am doing a new post I can just paste the URL in and not have to deal with typing in the full link html into the title block ... ok ok so I am a tad bit lazy....

7. TEMPLATE TAB --- There are basically 2 things to change here. First is there is a tag in the html that looks like this: rel="nofollow" Change it to rel="follow" or to rel="all". This in my opinion allows the spiders to follow the backlinks. The other change is to the Links that they allow you on the page. The lines look something like this normally:

http://news.google.com/">Google News
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=110">Edit-Me
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=110">Edit-Me

You can just change them to be whatever you want or even add more links there. I usually change the first link to my main site page and then put in 3 or 4 links to the most important pages of my site. Like the articles directory and the users sitemap, especially pages that change a lot and I want them indexed constantly by the search engines.

The next thing under the TEMPLATE TAG is adding adsense. They make it really easy just click the adsense option and you are ready to go. Just click that tab and log into your adsense account from there and choose the ad type. I usually go with the big block one the 300 X 250 rectangle but you can use whatever suits your blog.

8. Start Posting --- Click the posting tab. And then enter the url of where you want the title linked to and paste it in.

Next enter you post, you can either type it into the block there or cut and paste it in. If you are having problems pasting it in you can use the EDIT PASTE option on your browser or just place your cursor in the block and hit a CONTROL V. Then enter the security code blogger gives you and click Publish Post. The system will then publish your post and you will be able to see it there. When you are posting, just post one or 2 articles at most a day and even better is maybe 3 times a week. That way you have fresh content and it doesn't appear that you are just doing it to spam the blog or search engines. 9. Let the world know --- Now all you need to do is go to ping o matic and the other sites out there and let them know your post was updated. I have a service where I Ping out blogs at least once a week, so if you post regularly and do not want the hassle of pinging out all your posts for FREE well its not actually FREE but it is included in your membership fees. Just email me the url of the BLOG. I will ping your blog out for you. Currently I am posting to 31 places.

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