I feel guilty that I can’t offer more
I wish I could offer my readers more specifics about making money online instead of ranting about smarties and the web 2.0 revolution.
I know what readers want. They want SPECIFICS. They want to know how to rank higher in google and yahoo and how to get more traffic for less money and work. They want to know which affiliate programs to promote, which have the highest ROI (return on investment).
Here is the problem. I don’t know the answers to those questions. If anyone does, they aren’t going to disclose them on a blog anyway.
I could write tutorials, but I woudn’t a very good job at it. Slightlyshadyseo has some great tutorials on improving your affilaite marketing efforts if you’re wondering where to find some.
Search engines are still hopelessly confusing. For example, I can rank my website coolonlinelayouts.com in Yahoo for the following semi-competitive keywords; Skinny Myspace Layouts and Default Myspace Layouts but in Google the site doesn’t rank well for any keywords. On the other hand, Myspace-resource.info doesn’t rank well in yahoo at all but ranks well in MSN.
Both sites have simlar content and similar domain age. Myspace-resource.info has many more inbound links than coolonlinelayouts but for some reason yahoo is favoring the later site while shunning myspace-resource.info. Makes no ****ing sense to me.
This is why I can’t offer more because the world of SEO and internet marketing is so confounding and dynamic, unlike physics and mathematics which has immutable axioms and laws.
A rough week …
Two weeks ago I wrote the third and final segment of my series on the web 2.0 smartist revolution, but it appears the revolution will have to be put on hold. In that article I recommended several stocks to buy to profit off the revolution, but in the past two weeks the stock market has cratered on economic fears and uncertainty. The Nasdaq has lost nearly nine percent since January and many of the stocks I recommended have fallen between 10-30 percent in that time.
As a result I have sustained a lot of losses.
The revolution is real, though. Web 2.0 isn’t a bubble. Th new era of smartism and spendism and consumerism and hyper capitalism ISN’T going away.
Romney will win in 2008
I repeat..
ROMNEY WILL WIN IN 2008
I don’t give a flying **** the boo hoo hoo-ers complaining of recession, decline in middle class, loss of jobs, outsourcing, insourcing, rising food costs, rising gas prices, or the Iraq war going on too long. Romney will win cause we’re in the new era. An era of hyper-capitalism and spendism.Massive consumer spending, credit cad debt, and global corporate growth. We’re NOT in the era of entitlement. The government won’t hold your hand or give you a handout.
Can’t find a job? Lose your job? TOO ****ING BAD.
Can’t make ends meat? Go **** yourself. Am I coming across as too crass? Insensitive? It’s the TRUTH. No one gives a **** about your predicament. The gov.doesn’t care and neither do the candidates.
Pain at the pump? Thank exxon, the Iraq war, and the global demand for oil.
Iraq war WILL continue. And then it will spread to Iran.
Hillary or Obama WON’T pull out even if they should win by accident.
And Romney and McCain support the war and have NO withdraw any timetable plan. As a result, oil prices, gas prices, and commodity prices will only continue to rise.
Web 2.0 is here to stay. The boo hoo hoo-ers who call it a bubble are jealous of the astonishing success of web 2.0 entrepreneurs. Facebook will go public and be worth 200 billion in two years. Google stock will double. The web 2.0 detractors are the same people who support Ron Paul or Obama ,-an anti- economic growth anti- free trade, isolationist candidate.
Hyper-Capitalism is here to stay. The minimum wage is here to stay. Rising gas prices and food prices are here to stay. We’re in a social, financial, and economic continuum.
Illegal immigration is here to stay. Regardless if your stance, in the globalist smartist hyper-capitalist, free trade society it is inevitable.
Get used to it.
I’m not throwing in the towel. I stand by these convictions.
Is Joe-Whyte.com a n00b SEO blog?
I was performing some google searches for various SEO related topics and I came across yet another morsel of stupidity and noobishness from another so called ’seo consultant’. Yesterday I had thought I have witnessed the pinnacle of SEO-blogger idiocy, but this entry takes the cake.
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.joe-whyte.com/2007/02/03/google-filters-how-to-get-around-them-and-exploit-their-loop-holes/
Although atleast 95 percent of the article is useless, erroneous garbage here are some experpts I found to be the most egregious:
Google Sandbox: The Sandbox Filter is usually applied to brand new websites but has been seen to be applied to domains that have been around for a while. Since most websites do not make it past a year Google implemented a filter that will prevent a new site from getting decent rankings for competitive keyword terms. Usually brand new sites can still rank for non competitive keyword terms though.
Ok this is the 5% of the article I agree with…
But he goes on…
How to work around the Sandbox: Google uses a system called trust rank. The idea behind trust rank is if authority sites link to your new site then you must be an authority site as well and since Google trust’s these older more respected sites it will trust your’s as well. Hence getting you out of the sandbox right away. That is not an easy thing to do so if you are not able to get these links then try expanding your content to rank for many more less competitive keywords and keyword phrases (long tail keywords).
Here is the where Whyte is dead wrong. YOU CAN’T BUY YOUR WAY OUT OF THE SAND BOX. YOU CAN’T. That is a big steaming load of bullshit. The whole reason why google created the sandbox and other filters in the first place was to prevent shady search engine spammers buying authority links from link brokers to buy their way into high rankings. Before the Florida update you could purchase high authority links and rank instantly for competitive keywords, but not anymore. If you do rank high with a new site it will only be temporary. Once the filters and sandbox kicks in your rankings will fall drastically.
Here is another example of Whyte’s noobishness:
Google -30: This Google filter is applied to site’s who use spammy seo tactics. When Google find you using doorway pages, java redirects etc then they will drop your rankings by 30 spots.
How to get around this: If you find yourself a victim of the Google -30 filter then usually just removing the spam elements on your site will get you back in. You can always fill out a request for re-inclusion is worse comes to worse. Here are some resources for the Google -30.
First he completely ignores the -950 penalty which is much more severe and possibly more common Google penalty. Second, why would anyone want to use a java redirect in the first place when they can use a PHP or a 301 redirect, which is search engine friendly? What a poor example. Most penalties are given for more less obvious reasons than careless redirects.
Also, the google reinclusion form is WORTHLESS. There is no proof that submitting such a request will undo a penatly because I doubt that a human actually reads them. It’s like writing a letter to Santa.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Overall, it is obvious that Joe Whyte is as clueless about SEO, and the internet in general. But since I want to end this article on a positive and constuctive note here is a book that I recommend to Joe Whyte. If that is still too advanced I suggest starting with the basics.
(www.seomegacorp.com) An example of gullibility and noobishness
I couldn’t help to point out this extreme example noobishness and gullibility exhibited by blogger Mandish Pandy. Recently she (he?) wrote this post about how it is easy to rank for competitive terms:
http://www.seomegacorp.com/blog/2008/think-it-takes-2-3-years-to-rank-think-again/
Excerpt:
started the designing work for it myself. Later in July we finally launched the site, and we ranked in October, for few of the industry’s toughest terms seo company (currently #16), seo services (currently #31), seo news (currently #17) and seo news blog (currently #4).
Sorry to bust her bubble but those are NOT competitive terms by any stretch of the imagination. Ranking on page three for the keyword “SEO” or “Search engine optimization” would be impressive but ranking number four for “seo news blog” and then bragging about it is just laughable.
A google query for “I am a dickhead” turns up over 1.3 million results but that doesn’t mean anyone actually searches for that phrase.
On the other hand a google query for “crab sandwich” turns up only 172 thousand results but this is a term that some people actually search for.
There is a stark difference between ranking for arbitrary useless keywords and ranking for keywords that humans actually search for. Pandy, who is a few cards short of a deck, doesn’t seem to realize this and is a legend in her own mind.
Even more outlandish and preposterous is that she offers SEO services on seomegacorp.com. But I think I’ll pass. I can rank for “SEO services company news blog” without her help, thank you very much.