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9:42 pm
February 6, 2012
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Eugene Craig III
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So today I faced the fate of many after the last panda update. I saw my pr slashed. I am not going to just accept this, and build for the next update. I would like to know what tools you guys are using for link building and SEO. Also if you could let me know the cost of each that would be great. Thanks alot guys! – Gene
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8:59 am
February 7, 2012
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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Submit to carnivals. Contact Corey at 20s Finances for rates. Tell him I sent you and he'll give you a discount on already insanely low rates.
This has been most beneficial to me. Especially since most carnivals get scraped so you also get links back from additional sites.
I offer an SEO service where I do a customized evaluation of your site for less than 100 bucks. I'm kinda slammed at the moment though between work, new sites and studying so most of my side businesses are on hold but I could do a quick eval for half the normal price.
I also use Fiverr for building an outer ring of links but I've only done this for niche sites. One niche site that I've done all the experiments on just got PR 1. An outer ring of links requires more links to pass juice so I would recommend carnivals first.
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10:57 am
February 7, 2012
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Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz
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Post edited 11:00 am – February 7, 2012 by Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz
I don't do any extensive SEO on PFW other than writing great keyword optimized content and building relationships with other bloggers to draw natural links.
Now on my niche sites there are a couple of tools and services that have been helpful:
- KeywordStrategy for tracking keywords and links
- Build My Rank – link network
- PostRunner – link network
- Private link network from another forum
- My own private network of aged domains
- Article Marketing Robot – mass article submitter
- The Best Spinner – article spinner used in conjunction with AMR
Disclaimer: Some of those lean towards the darker end of the SEO spectrum. I'm willing to risk it on some of my niche sites, but would never touch PFW with most of those tools.
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11:03 am
February 7, 2012
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Sunil from The Extra Money Blog
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Eugene,
The tools don't determine your SEO outcome as much as the strategies you apply. The tools are just enablers (speed up tasks). I have a comprehensive list of resources I personally use to rank my niche sites on page 1. You can find this list on my blog's top header menu. Feel free to email me with any specific questions – I'd be happy to help. Maybe you can also email me exactly what you have done to date and we can play detectives and apply corrective action. I have recovered a lot of the traffic I lost earlier due to Panda. One specific site that was getting over 4,000 visitors a day was down to 2,000 (50%). I am hovering near 3,500 now with some tweaking.
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3:35 pm
February 7, 2012
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Mark D. Cook
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Does any know what some of the best keywords are for the financial niche?
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6:25 pm
February 7, 2012
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Jeff Rose
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Eugene…feel your pain. My traffic got slashed 70% on the first Panda update.
It's taken about 9 months, and I'm only 75% of where I was….it's been a long road. A few things I did:
1. Install broken-link checker plugin (see previous thread where I mention this
2. Went through old posts going back to 2008 and figured out the ones that were either just pure crap or offered little value to the blog. For the crap ones, I no-indexed them and then did a 301 redirect either to another post of similar topic (to pass on any link juice, if any) or just redirected to the homepage.
For posts that were still decent, but I've since written better content on the site, I also no-indexed those. I then spruced up the content and offered them as guest posts. That leads me to the next step.
3. Guest post, guest post, guest post. You have to continue show Google that your site has authority and I think guest posting is perfect for that. In the past 6 months, I've been able to get guest posts on Get Rich Slowly, Smart Passive Income, and Art of Manliness among several from the Yakezie network (thanks to all that accepted).
Carnivals are good to, but I still believe there's more weight getting quality links within a post than just a general roundup.
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11:52 pm
February 7, 2012
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Eugene Craig III
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Hey Guys thanks for all the suggestions! I am going to reevaluate my strategy and definitely guest post more. Time to climb back up in google! I had a goal of reaching a pr 4 by years end! – Gene
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4:21 am
February 8, 2012
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MoneyBeagle
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Jeff Rose said:
Carnivals are good to, but I still believe there's more weight getting quality links within a post than just a general roundup.
That's a great point. Carnivals are great but most carnival post pages have low, if any, page rank, whereas a good guest post could get a high individual page rank.
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5:09 am
February 8, 2012
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Tushar @ Everything Finance
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Ditto.
Jeff Rose said:
Eugene…feel your pain. My traffic got slashed 70% on the first Panda update.
It's taken about 9 months, and I'm only 75% of where I was….it's been a long road. A few things I did:
1. Install broken-link checker plugin (see previous thread where I mention this
2. Went through old posts going back to 2008 and figured out the ones that were either just pure crap or offered little value to the blog. For the crap ones, I no-indexed them and then did a 301 redirect either to another post of similar topic (to pass on any link juice, if any) or just redirected to the homepage.
For posts that were still decent, but I've since written better content on the site, I also no-indexed those. I then spruced up the content and offered them as guest posts. That leads me to the next step.
3. Guest post, guest post, guest post. You have to continue show Google that your site has authority and I think guest posting is perfect for that. In the past 6 months, I've been able to get guest posts on Get Rich Slowly, Smart Passive Income, and Art of Manliness among several from the Yakezie network (thanks to all that accepted).
Carnivals are good to, but I still believe there's more weight getting quality links within a post than just a general roundup.
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5:25 am
February 8, 2012
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Post edited 5:52 am – February 8, 2012 by Sustainable PF
How do you determine what is "crap" and what is not? Below a specific page PR?
How do you no-index an article? I don't see that as an option when I open an article in WP.
Jeff Rose said:
2. Went through old posts going back to 2008 and figured out the ones that were either just pure crap or offered little value to the blog. For the crap ones, I no-indexed them and then did a 301 redirect either to another post of similar topic (to pass on any link juice, if any) or just redirected to the homepage.
For posts that were still decent, but I've since written better content on the site, I also no-indexed those. I then spruced up the content and offered them as guest posts. That leads me to the next step.
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