#1 Genoa from Japan

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

I'll level with ya.
Me, I come off as a seo bh, but I am not. But I love bhters & seo people because they make me money. How so? Unethical ways.

I can't become a good BH because of my full time job. And when I say, full time; I mean like, my job entails me to have to run through the streets of Fallujah and engage enemy fire. Get my drift?

But, I do enjoy BH & SEO. Its more of a hobby but I want to learn to do it myself vice the way I am doing it now.

A buddy of mine got me semi-started but hes off in his own world now and I can't really get in touch with him like I use to. Our 1-on-1 sessions were a lot better then trading emails.

1. The best software he gave me was Keyword Elite. It allows me to quickly find keywords. I've read about a bunch of other places to get keywords, but he advised me to hit the long tail keywords first. So I have with a few YACG sites I set-up. They work alright. I get index, rank high on uk and other versions of SE, but as for the main 3, g, y and msn, I am having trouble. I need links. I could go my unethical way, but I want to do this the SEO/BH way. So I am still reading on that (linkbuilding) as much as my job allows. Which brings me to...

#2 XRUMER. I heard, read, and was told in person that this is the best of the best when it comes to building links. Automated, fast. Top notch program but for top dollar that I really can't afford right now since Bush veto'd our little .5% raise. I want my BH funds to pay for it and so far, I haven't made enough on my own to get it.

#3 As a beginner, I don't know how to answer this because I really don't have a full fledge operation going like most people in this circus. But now that overture is taking its weekly dumps, my keyword tool isn't as great as it could be. I guess one script I need to have someone write me is a tool to find long tail keywords and give specific information about; ie: density, daily searches, adsense bids, and if it has related products on cj or ebay. Yea, not a good tool, but its what I need.

Sorry for the long post, just had to explain a lot. Adios!

#2 vjstar from Canada

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

any seo is always looking for links!!! that's my biggest problem right now. I can get my shit indexed in no time, but getting it to rank is the problem.

I am also having problem with template generation.

#5 Quit your Dead End Job from United States web

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

Hey 5ubliminal - what are you using to publish this exclusive content to your RSS subscribers? I've been looking for something similar - everybody recommends the Feedfooter plugin (i've got a WP site) but it rewrites posts after the tenth one. Not good for me cos my post will be a case study over a few months - thanks!

#7 Dan from United States

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

@Quit your dead end job: What you need to do is employ a little custom php on your homepage to keep certain categories off the home page. I do it with my blog, then you use the same code to keep that category off your sidebar and you're done!

Or you can just use this excellent plugin Category visibility

@5ub - I think a really good crawler, robots.txt and sitemap generator are still lacking. A1 is a resource hog and you can't change rules on the fly, Xenu doesn't give any options when outputting a sitemap and doesn't generate a robots.txt. Sitemap generator for Mac (cool software btw) lets you change filters on the fly to modify the sitemap as you go along but won't generate a robots.txt (I know it's easy to make one once you have the filters but it's an extra step that I shouldn't have to do).

All of these generators fail when dealing with really large sites (+10,000 pages) and then I usually have to use a php generator that will split it into gunzipped files for me but lacks all the other options.

Plus user-agent spoofing and following current no-follow rules? Those work in A1 but nothing else does heh.

As for link building tools, cool sure but any automated linking scheme will breakdown with the masses using it. The juicy link finder over at SEOmoz is pretty cool but it doesn't really do anything to filter out unusable websites.

#9 Dan from United States

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

http://ryowebsite.com/?p=46 - thats the wp plugin I was talking about, sorry, forgot to put it in my last post

5ub: done and done

#10 Paul from United States

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

Something I've been working on myself (for private use) is a "deep sight link" (DSL) examiner.
Basically, most tools will look at a websites back links and that is great (sort of..) but why not take it further and look to see where the sites linking to your competitors are getting their links. You can easily map a niche/informational hub hierarchy from this data to get a much stronger idea of where you need to get links from (all other things being equal)

Of course, at the end of the day-- what I would like to see and what I am building for myself is a single control panel I can manage both of BH and WH sites from and the tools I use to build and promote this properties.

#12 Quit your Dead End Job from United States web

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

Much thanks Dan!

#13 Paul from United States

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

I agree on the backlink tool. I was looking at various methods for finding the proper sites-- PR and age were two. The ability to rank for the title tag was another-- though I suspect I will still have to use proxies to make this work.

Yeah-- of course. I suppose I was speaking more of tools I wanted for myself rather than tools that would be useful for the entire world. And while there are various tools and methods, I can't help but thing something modular could be created that would deal with 80% of "common" tasks-- with some sort of opened ended system that could play off peoples custom tools. I am taking in vague sort of lofty terms because I am still trying to wrap my head around "how the fuck would that even work"

#15 Genoa from Japan

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

@5ubliminal: You think you hate Bush? I have to watch my buddies get in a truck and then hear about how they got ambushed over a fucking radio.
I hate this war...and we all HATE him.

Thanks for the help! Looking forward to the email.

#17 Genoa from United States

Posted on Tuesday, 05 February, 2008

I wonder where this one resolves ;)