July 5, 2008
Google can detect [tag]paid links[/tag], but only some, not all. And Google doesn’t like paid links.
What is a paid link?
If you pay a website owner to link his site to yours, that link is a paid link. And it’s a one-way [tag]incoming link[/tag].
Why do webmasters [tag]buy links[/tag]?
Most experienced webmasters and internet marketers understand that incoming links can help improve their websites’ search engine rankings. But acquiring incoming links from other established websites with similar themes is slow and tedious, and an uphill task if your website is new. Therefore buying links from websites with high PageRank can be a quick shortcut to increase your website ranking and PageRank.
So, what’s so bad about buying links? Why is Google hostile towards buying links?
A part of Google’s quality guidelines says “Don’t participate in link schemes designed to increase your site’s ranking or PageRank”. Google considers buying text links for boosting PageRank purposes violates its [tag]quality guidelines[/tag]. Google likes websites to have their own organic quality that earns links from other websites.
Does Google view all paid links as potential violations of its quality guidelines? Perhaps not. But Google doesn’t like “paid links that flow PageRank and attempt to game Google’s rankings”.
Google is not able to crack down on all paid links that they don’t like. And so recently they ask people to report paid links.
You may have guessed by now who get very upset with Google. Yes, the text links sellers.
Here are a couple of comments:
“Google sells AdWords ads for companies selling text links. If they don’t like the practice why not start the cleanup at Google.com?”
“Google is still indexing those lolita preteen results, ranks all these .edu ringtone pages, and lets not forget that Google continues to deliver AdSense ads on sites they banned for being spam. If Google doesn’t CLEARLY mark their own paid links, encourages publishers to blend them into content, and doesn’t police their own network, why do they think they have the right to police other sites?”
SEO companies and text links sellers may hate Google. But we may love Google for creating money-making opportunities for us.
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July 4, 2008
Do you want to make sales but you don’t have a list? You’re in for a treat.
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You’ve been downloading free gifts from [tag]giveaway sites[/tag]. What if you become a giver on giveaway sites to build a huge list of subscribers?
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Your biggest problem is getting your giveaway item listed on top positions on giveaway sites. You’ll get more subscribers if your products are listed in the top sections.
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But competition is fierce. Usually the more visitors you refer to a giveaway site, the higher your giveaway product ranks. This is how you’re rewarded for bringing traffic to the site.
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You now have a Catch-22 situation: how can you refer more visitors to a giveaway site to get your product rank high if you don’t have a list? And how can you [tag]build a list[/tag] if your product doesn’t rank high?
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I have good news for you. You can indeed get your products listed in top positions WITHOUT having to refer visitors to giveaway sites.
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Now you can relax and grow a huge list because you’ll have advantages over your competitors, such as:
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* you’ll have the privilege of having your products listed in top positions without referring any visitors
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* you’ll be given great tools to create good-looking squeeze pages, book covers and boxes
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* you’ll be given a step-by-step guide for setting up your giveaway items
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* you can make money while building your list
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If you’re really serious about making money online, you must own a list.
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I’ve mentioned above that you’ll have the privilege of having your products rank high. But this privilege is restricted to only a certain number of people.
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Such privilege has to be restricted, or else it won’t give you a competitive edge. So you must lock in this advantage quickly before it’s gone forever.
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July 3, 2008
What businesses are suitable for paid membership sites? There are many. Here are 2 models for successful paid membership sites:
(a) Downloadable products
(b) Personality based/insider tips
The 2 subscription website models
(i) Downloadable products
There are many paid membership sites that provide their subscribers with a large library of digital products such as ebooks, software, scripts, tutorial videos, audios, PLR articles, products with resale rights and other materials that can be downloaded digitally. See Learn to Make Money Watching Online Videos
Such sites are attractive because their subscribers can save money and time: by paying an affordable monthly subscription, they have access to a large number of products. However, some sites allow their subscribers to download only the products of the current month and not of the previous months.
Obviously, to keep their subscribers, the site owners need to constantly add new products to their sites.
(ii) Personality based/insider tips
Many successful paid membership websites are run by people who are experts, or who have built themselves a solid reputation, in their niches. They provide their subscribers with their personal insights, tips, advice and opinions.
An interesting niche is commodity and stock market trading. Many successful traders set up paid subscription sites to provide their trade recommendations, trade entry and exit levels, their timing predictions, and other technical analyses. Some add value to their sites by allowing their subscribers to access their technical analysis software online.
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