Jan 25

I was thinking about blog comments spam for hard to cover niche (adult/casino/pharm) an others stuff like that where you can’t just put a URL like www.extracheappokerchips.com because you are gonna for sure being filtered by plug-ins like askimet or manually deleted by blogs admin. But there is a strategy you can use that could pass most of the filter.

First, you need a domain name that sound “legit” and that you don’t really care about. Once its registered you have 2 strategies you can use to bring some trafic / links to your domain in a harder to spam niche.

First strategy,  you simply 301 the new domain to your harder to spam domain. This way you get all the links and trafic directly to your domain and if the blog admin don’t take the time to click the link (and only see something like www.mypersonnalboringblog.com ) he will probably don’t filter it. So you will get the backlinks and traffic directly to your money domain, cool no ?

Second strategy is kinda the same than the first, but a little more evoluated. You just put up a real website/blog on the temporary domain than when you have the amount of links/traffic you want on it, you 301 it to your money domain. you can using this way add a couple social media frontpages and backlinks to the domains using word that you want backlinks on it without looking like a let’s say casino domains. So you make a  post about “chips” (as in “poker chips”), a post about russian roulette (as in roulette) etc… Than when you will 301 the domain to your casino website, all the links will sill be targeted ;)

Don’t abuse those methods but they are very hard to track black hat seo strategy that can give awesome results.

Jan 8

One of the biggest problem of the SEO business is credibility. So many people are ignorant about anything related to search engine marketing that they think they are offering a good service to client when they aren’t good at all and others are just pure scammers (yeah, the one that are promising top 10 results ARE scammers, not any serious SEO can promise something like this on serious keyword). For sure i can make you rank on “your company name” or “blue widget made of bubblegum” but real good keywords that are bringing a lot of visitors and/or clients to your website aren’t usually that easy. Otherwise any half-decent SEO would just make a quick website and bank on affiliate marketing or Google AdSense (yes I do it all the time). That’s why I found not funny at all that Wal-Mart is offering SEO services for 25$/month. The last thing this business need is major corporation entering the market, offering worthless services almost free. For 25$ a month, I sure can hire some third world country workers and make them submit your website to a couple search engine. The results will be equal to 0. So congrats, you will have lost money, lost time and more important lost confidence in SEO being a efficient way to market a website. The truth is good SEO aren’t cheap, and some very expensive SEO are not worth the money they are asking, sometimes some are even bad enough to hurt their clients website ranking by using shady tactics. I’m gonna write one day a guide about how to hire a good SEO company, not for my personal profit or to find more clients for the company I’m working for, but only to teach clients how to pick a good company, and at least don’t waste their money on bad SEO. Because at long term, the last thing I want, is people losing confidence in SEO.

Jan 8

Hi, My name is Francis Vallières and I am a SEO Consultant working for a company in Montreal called NVISolutions. I have created this blog with the purpose of making myself a little more known in the SEO Industry, as I’m usually a behind the scene worker even if i participate in some more known blogs and that I know a couple good people in this industry. I will also blog on my company blog soon so this blog will probably be way mroe personnal in the future than right now. As you may have noticed this far, my english is not perfect because my primary language is french and some posts on this blog will be in french as well. I just hope I’m not too confusing when I write in english and that everyone will be able to understand me well. The SEO industry is starting to get more professional and draw more mass media attention and I think that the future will be good for people who dedicate of making this industry more honest that it was before (and sadly sometimes still is) because it’s hard for clients to understand exactly what we do and how to make the difference between a good seo company and a bad one. I wish that this blog will help some people having a better understanding of this industry and that you will be able to learn about SEO and myself on this blog.