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Testing out Submit Edge for directory submission

Published on June 2, 2007 in Link Building and Search Engine Marketing. 2 Comments

Up until now we have done more or less everything ourselves when it comes to building links for our sites and our client’s sites as well.

So, when we (Devenia that is), decided to test one of the directory submission services around, we landed on Submit Edge. We are currently testing their “submit to 600 directories” package, and it will be really interesting to see the results over the next few months.

Using a service like this really is a big time saver, because finding and submitting to directories manually is really, really tedious.

What is your experience with manual directory submission services like the one Submit Edge is providing? Do they submit to the number of directories they promise?

Exact key phrase ranking quickly

Published on January 19, 2006 in SEO Contests and Search Engine Marketing. 2 Comments

I have seen that the first 3 positions ranking for v7ndotcom elursrebmem is domains containing the exact key phrase. This is another indication that the 3 phase theory in my last post has some viability. It seems that the first dataset for a new key phrase is more or less raw data.

What will be interesting to see is how it will change over time.

Thanks John for this wonderful contest. It gives so much interesting data regarding what is going on under the hood of Google’s search engine.

But, on a side note: Would I ever work with a key phrase based sitename? No way! How can you build confidence and credability for a site named v7ndotcom-elursrebmem-some-other-keywords.com?

Google’s “washing machine”

Published on January 18, 2006 in SEO Contests and Search Engine Marketing. 3 Comments

It looks like the contest pages fluctuates quite heavily still when I search for v7ndotcom elursrebmem. Yesterday I saw from zero to 32k results. Today I can see 11k results when searching through www.google.com

This tells me that it is gonna take some time until the results could be considered reliable.

I have been working quite hard today, on four different sites, to get them up in the rankings. So far, I have seen one of my sites in the top 400 range. Oddly enough I did not expect this site to rank at all yet.

To me it looks like the first set of data that has been gathered by Google is getting spit out more or less in a raw format.
This also indicates something I have seen earlier, that Google works with the data in several phases.

First phase:
Gather as much data as possible. Spit out the results more or less raw.
I base this observation on the fact that I have a site with a feed from this blog. Look at the feed section on the right side of http://euroheadline.com

The site ranked at 230ish place when I saw the first dataset. At that moment the keyword phrase was only mentioned one time - in the feed text. No title tag, no inbound links. Key phrase in the text one time.

If what I see here is correct, Google does not put much weight on ranking in the first set of results. I have made a similar observation on another occation.

Second phase:
Run data against historical data. Sort the results based on inbound links and the PR they have been given.

In this phase I believe Google starts looking at the dataset through their filters. They wash the set against different filters, and takes out the results that does not belong there. Finally they sorts the records and spits out a “washed” set of data.

Third phase:
Rinse and repeat the second phase.

If my observations are correct, this means a few things.
It means that it is outmost important to be careful on the linkbuilding. If you throw too many links at an url, you will later be cought in a filter when the url is “washed”. It also means that you have no control of knowing when the url will be released from the filter applied to it.

In my understanding of the algorithms, the rulesets of the filters works like a loop. And the url will stay in the loop until it does not trigger any new “if” sentences.

I have seen this happen on on site, that keeps getting thrown back of the resultset as long as I keep throwing new links at it.

So my advice here is simple. If your site is cought by the sandbox, stop generating inbound links for it untill it starts moving upwards in the serps.

OK. That was todays observations.

What do you think? Am I onto something here?

SEO contest starts in 1 day and 3 hours

Published on January 14, 2006 in SEO Contests, Search Engine Marketing and Sitenews. 0 Comments

The search engine marketing contest of v7n starts tomorrow january the 15th at noon standard pacific time and I feel well prepared for participating. I have decided to use this blog for the contest, and have teamed up with my wife Ania to blog about it - and whatever else we might come up with that might help our rankings as soon at the key phrase has been released by John.

It is a long time since I felt so excited about anything web-related. And frankly, I have never won anything in my life, except my 3 children and my beautiful and clever wife of course :)

This contest will be really interesting, since it looks like quite a few people from DigitalPoint’s forums has decided to participate.

A controversial and honest search engine marketing article found by Compar

Published on January 12, 2006 in Search Engine Marketing and Sitenews. 0 Comments

Being a member on many forums and sites, I see a sea of bullshit when it comes to what works, and does not regarding the marketing of your site. I just read a very interesting thread posted by Compar on DigitalPoint’s forums.

Read the thread and judge for yourself.

Especially the line … “Just set out to link as if your site traffic depended on
it, and that Google did not exist.”

Makes sense to me.

Online Casino BTDino

Published on January 8, 2006 in Online Casino BTDino, SEO Contest Pages, SEO Contests, Search Engine Marketing and Sitenews. 7 Comments

I thought I’ll give it a shot to see if I can rank well for Online Casino BTDino in MSN. This is a competition with USD 1.500 for the top spot in MSN.

To participate you have to have the text under on the page you compete with.

It will be interesting to see if it is true as I think that it is not really needed to have many incomming links for this page to be able to rank well. Oh well. There is a comming up more and more of these competitions. Maybe this is something that will be possible to make a living out of?

What do you think? Will these contests enter the olympic games one day?

I participated in the challenging search engine optimization competition
organized by BeTheDealer online casino gambling. I won the competition :)

Actually it seems like Online Casino BTDino is not so dependent on incomming links to climb in MSN, as this post now ranks at the third page in the serps. Not bad for just a few days, since I created this Online Casino BTDino page.

I’m experimenting a bit with the onpage content to see how it affects my rank. We will see in a couple days or so.

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SEO Contest now with $10.200 in price money!

Published on January 5, 2006 in SEO Contests and Search Engine Marketing. 0 Comments

The Search engine marketing contest of v7n now has grown to more than USD 10.000 in price money. The contest starts the 15th of january and ends the 15th of may. This will sure be interesting, and it will definitely show who knows what they are doing, and who the big talkers are! I really look forward to participate, even if I have big doubts that I have the slightest chance to win it.

The winner currently gets more than $ 7.000.

John Scott at v7n is responsible for the contest, and there has now even been proposed another contest with $ 20.000 to the winner in this thread.

Oh boy, oh boy.. I sure would like to win it - and I’m sure many of you do :-)

SEO Contest with $5000 in cash to win

Published on January 3, 2006 in SEO Contests and Search Engine Marketing. 0 Comments

John Scott of the v7 Networks is launching a contest where the price is $5000 in cash. The contest is about ranking in Google, and the winner gets at least $5000 + an iPod. Anyone can compete, and there are hardly any rules. Really my kind of contest, so I have decided to give it a try, and see how it goes.

Let the games begin!

Father Google, please forgive me

Published on December 4, 2005 in Search Engine Marketing. 0 Comments

Forgive me for using tools and techniques for bending your will, oh father Google allmighty.

I have used both the Coop ad-network, and Link-Vault to accomplish my dark deeds, and get it my way.
It has worked out quite well for me father, so how can I ever stop doing it? It keeps the bread and butter on the table, and my wife and our cat needs food too you know?

Was it wrong of me to join the forums of DigitalPoint to suck in even more dark secrets of search engine marketing techniques?

I think not.