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Charles Heflin
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 Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:28 am Post subject: SEO 20/20 Follows Member: Steve Randall |
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Here is a short note from Steve Randall:
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I had to take the time to let you know how much I appreciate what you’re doing and the difference it’s made in my life.
Allow me to give you a little background, please. I’m 63 years of age and have been on the internet since before the web existed (the ol’ Unix shell command days and then the big move to Mosaic and Netcom!). Ironically, I never really gave any thought to the net’s income potential.
About a year ago I was involved in sales in an industry that had Internet generated leads available for $7-10 each. After trying them and being convinced of the veracity of the concept I decided to see if I could save some money by doing my own lead generation.
I started with “Good Keywords”, a rudimentary, barely passable landing page and Google Adwords. In less than a week I was generating my own leads at an average of $1.25 each.
Hey! There really is something to all of this Internet marketing hyperbole. This could be the answer to overcoming my less than stellar retirement preparation (gross understatement).
To make a long story short, Charles, I spent the past year buying ebooks, software tools of every ilk and tried a little of this and a little of that -- made a little here and lost a little there. I simply could not get my arms around a direction -- a “system”.
About two months ago I was meandering around the net and landed at SEO2020.com. I DL’d the plan and read it. It was a Eureka event. I was no longer adrift in the rocky but seductive sea of Internet marketing. I had a direction!
Your plan makes so much sense, its fundamentals so logical, that there are no “leaps of faith” required. Simply put, what you’ve done is show how the very best way to create long term “assets” is to give the search engines what they want -- original, quality, tightly targeted, fresh content. Plus, Charles, your concepts for website structure, site map, directory and article submissions and when to insert the Adsense code are so wonderfully sensible.
As you know in computer programming the accepted definition of “elegant” code is that which achieves the task in the simplest manner. Without doubt the same analogy applies to your efforts.
The bottom line, and the reason for this note, is thanks to you, Charles, I am convinced that I will soon be enjoying $300-500 a day PASSIVE income. For me, I now enjoy infinitely better prospects for my future than working until I drop dead!
Warm regards,
Steve Randall |
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Charles Heflin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 11:32 am Post subject: |
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Steve has agreed to let SEO 20/20 follow him as he follows the basic plan called The Plan (the first release).
He has constructed his first site according to the plan and you can see it here:
http://conference-calling.mustsee.info
He is going after the conference calling market. His site has not yet been indexed.
Upon review of his site, it looks good and is ready for directory submissions.
I will keep you updated on his progress as we follow his site from ZERO to Indexing to Rankings.
All the best,
Charles |
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tonystai
SEO Yellow Belt
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:42 pm Post subject: Site Map Looks Spammy |
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Charles,
If I were a search engine and I parsed the content of the site map, I would think that it looked spammy. It looks like keyword stuffing.
I expected a link with snippets of the first xx characters of the article or just a list of links.
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Charles Heflin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: Re: Site Map Looks Spammy |
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| tonystai wrote: | Charles,
If I were a search engine and I parsed the content of the site map, I would think that it looked spammy. It looks like keyword stuffing.
I expected a link with snippets of the first xx characters of the article or just a list of links.
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You're right Tony... I completely missed that. I will contact Steve ASAP to correct this.
Thanks,
Charles |
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tonystai
SEO Yellow Belt
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject: |
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Whew...For a second there I thought I had missed the boat on something important.
This will be a fun category of threads to watch. Hopefully it doesn't take 6 months to see results.
Tony |
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Charles Heflin
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Looks like he has fixed the issue... he is now on to directory submissions to gain indexing... |
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tonystai
SEO Yellow Belt
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: Still a problem on the Alphabetical sitemap |
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Charles, it looks like he still has a problem on the Alphabetical version of the sitemap.
Is the alphabetical version really necessary for the initial indexing? I would think that it really could/should wait until later so as not to confuse the spiders.
Tony |
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Ahri22
SEO Blue Belt
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
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Location: Australia
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Hi Charles,
I've noticed that this site is a subdomain rather than a domain, and I know from experience that many directories won't accept subdomains. Do you see this as being a problem? Obviously, it won't affect some directory submissions, but it will get fewer backlinks over all.
Cheers
Fiona |
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tonystai
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Very good point Fiona. Not only that but the primary www domain index page comes up with a Mesothelioma site (spammy one at that). That could spell real trouble for the indexing with Google. Any thing with Mesothelioma is pretty much sandboxed immediately if not rejected all together.
It would be much better to use an add-on domain rather than the sub-domain in this case and for sure get rid of the Mesothelioma pages.
Just my .02
Tony |
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billwilson99
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Joined: 11 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| Ahri22 wrote: | Hi Charles,
I've noticed that this site is a subdomain rather than a domain, and I know from experience that many directories won't accept subdomains. Do you see this as being a problem? Obviously, it won't affect some directory submissions, but it will get fewer backlinks over all.
Cheers
Fiona |
I was thinking the same thing Fiona.
I think the site being a subdomain is going to hurt its progress.
I know from experience some directories will not allow subdomains. |
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