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by in / Personnal

SEO by the cows

It’s been a long time since i’ve writed in this blog, was really busy and didn’t have time to update it. I will try to update this blog way more often in the future. On a more personnal note, i’ve bough an house in a rural area (yeah i’ve a real milk farm in front of my house with cows and everything) and i’m taking a week off the job to clean the place who is still looking like a big piles of boxes everywhere. I may not post very often in this blog because I’m allready contributing to many blogs (NVI’s one, who also need to be updated more often, Go-Referencement and MazNetwork where i post in french) and many others on various subject excluding SEO. I’m presently building a project involving the new Ebay affiliation, gonna be huge but i’m not disclosing any details in public because i don’t wanna create more competition in the niche I’m targeting, but moving from CJ was the greatest thing Ebay could do, even if they still a not really good company. I guess I’m not the only one having tons of projects in mind but so little time to do half of them, it must come with the seo / webmaster job. And bu the way, please don’t complain about the horrible quality of the english on this site, it’s not my first language so it’s sure i will make mistakes.

Anyway, have a good day and let’s hope the Canadiens win the cup this year !

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Advanced Strategy for Paid Blogging

I will explain here one of the easiest strategy to make some money with the paid blogging stuff. It’s not very hard to do, require almost no skills and on the top of that, it’s not time consuming at all. In a couple easy step, you will learn here how to make a good amount of money without doing much effort, and even better, it’s recurring.

This post have little to do with SEO, but it’s more focused on a global marketing strategy.

Ok, first you need to buy expired domains with a good PR on http://www.freshdrop.net/. You wanna grab them here because they are cheap (5$ + registration cost) and they will keep their Pr because they are not deleted, only transfered. You may want to try the one with Fake Pr but I would prefer real PR. Also, you can go on the original GoDaddy domain resell site to get some more expensive domains with PageRank. The only point of the PageRank anyway is to be able to charge more by blog review later. You need to buy a lot of domains to make it worth it, so buy at least 15-20. Buy at least PR 3 and more.

Cool, so now you have 15-20 domains with PR3, you need to install wordpress with a theme (you can grab free ones, just search on Google for free wordpress templates or something like that). Now that you have all your domains and blogs installed, you need some content on each one.

Hire some cheap writers, you don’t want to pay more than 5-6$ an blog post. you will need a lot so you can ask for a discount. You can find some good cheap writers on forum like WickedFire or any webmasters forums. Buy at least 5-10 blog post by domain, so you need something between 75 to 200 blog post. Yes it’s start to be a little expensive but don’t worry, if you are short on cash on can start with less domain, it will only take more time to make some good money. Let’s say you have invested in 20 domains at 10$ each + 5$ for the auctions. You have now pay 300$ for the domains and you have filled them with 10 articles each at 5$ each, so you have paid 300$ for the domains and 1 grand for the content. So you have now spended 1300$ to get ready for the next step.

Register on a website like Sponsored Reviews , who pay bloggers to write for their advertisers. There is others services like that, just look on Google. But i strongly encourage you to use SR, they are harder to catch so you blogs are less likely to be penalised/banned from Google.

Now the fun start, add your blogs to SR, get them approved and than, be sure to have your cheap writers ready for a lot of action. You want to bid on every single advertiser request possible. You want at least 15$ per blog reviews, after the SR cut, you will have 9,75$ minimum. If you can charge more, do so. The maximum price yo ucan charge depands on a couple criterias, but PR and a good Alexa rank should help. So, if you pay 5$ maximum per blog review and you get minimum 9,75$, you make a wonderful 4,75$ of pure profit. Don’t forget you hav 20 blogs, so 20 x 4,75 = 95$. and there nothing retaining you to do only 1 post per blog a day. So let’s say 3 post a day = 95 x 3 = 285$ a day ! Start to sound good no ? So, with a 1300$ investement, you are now making close to 300$ a day. And closer than you think, you can add let’s say Google AdSense to the blogs, making maybe 0,10$ a day each (or way more, depands of the traffic but we are guessing almost none) so you add 2$ a day here from your 20 blogs. And if you like to live risky, you can sell links on all of those blogs for a couple hundreds/thousands more a month. Not bad for a 1,3k investment no ?

Also, because you want to create some real traffic to the blogs and have them well listed in the search engine, you can make a post yourself from time to time sending contextual links to your others blogs from one of yours. It’s better to do it this way than link them all together to avoid Google Penalities.

Also, you can build up a directory with all your blogs in it, plus others websites you may own, and use it to send some linkjuice to your blogs. And finally, you can use them to make some three way link exchange for your regular websites that making you money too.

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by in / Black Hat SEO

BlackHat SEO Strategy

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.

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by in / SEO

SEO optimization from Wal-Mart ?

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.

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by in / SEO

Welcome to my SEO Blog

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.

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