[3/3] - ASK ME ANYTHING - Q&A Leith

[VinceC]

What do you think of the stocks market in near term?

 

[techblog]

Did you scrape BHW and use the email list for sending your SEO promotions for your business using mailchimp and made it appear as if the list is opt-in?

 

[Leith]

I think you may be right that it's just a delay in google, this is something I've noticed happening more so as of late.

The site continues to rank for about a month to 1.5 months after the redirection is taken down. I've been using this to take advantage of a slight "double ranking" effect. I simply redirect site A to B, once B is on the first page and stable, I remove the redirect and and soon after, both Site A and B continue ranking at the same time. Most of the time I redirect A to a new site C instead because it seems to get the ranking back faster. It seems to do this when I don't use the same content on the two sites. Also the niche I was doing it in is pretty low competition too so maybe it's not being updated as fast. Thank you for your answer/explanation!

Yeah, it may be a matter of time. Keep me updated anyway!

For people who want to run multi sites wether it be micro niche or full blown, what is your set up. Meaning do you have or set up all social media to the site (start a twitter account, facebook p[age, pintrest page) or do yo just add content and build links.

So far I have 3 main sites and was just wondering how people handle 50, 100, 500 sites. What is your breakdown of starting a new site AND personally how many do you operate.

Respeck

Yes, with all my new sites I set up full social media and this is usually twitter, Facebook, and youtube.. sometimes Pinterest.

I have a VA who does all the managing for me as for me to do it myself would be too time consuming. However I make sure that I myself create the sites as I need them made perfect to my standards.

There are a few tools out there for bulk wordpress installation, etc. I've used some in the past but again, I just prefer getting a team to do the sign up process for me before I begin work on the sites.

Did you scrape BHW and use the email list for sending your SEO promotions for your business using mailchimp and made it appear as if the list is opt-in?

You can ask my partner and Im sure he will be able to give you the answer as I don't manage email marketing campaigns.

What do you think of the stocks market in near term?

Stock markets. To be totally honest with you, I have not done much stocks yet and I've been told not too but who knows? I might start looking into it soon. Have you had success?

 

[miedy]

Best question on this thread everyone will read.Whats your money making method? LOL

 

[SysFailure0x5a]

What are the plugins you use when you turn up a WordPress website? Why do yo use these? Do you have any favorites out of that list?

 

[jairathnem]

You run some well known SEO services in BHW. How do you manage all of it? do you do full time IM?

 

[Leith]

Best question on this thread everyone will read.Whats your money making method? LOL

Haha

can you teach me how to make the moneies on the interwebs?

Sure, the first step would be to use the search function on the top left of this site, lol.

Also when setting good foundations for new money site ( 301 a few prefably aged domains an push links too) a) is it fine to just send as many crappy links as possible to those buffer sites, or does quality make a difference? B) would a penalty carry through on a 301 domain if it has had one in the past?

1. It's fine to send huge quantities of links in my opinion as these are just buffer sites. If you wanted to be super safe, then go for quality links but if you just wanted something fast then just go with quantity. In case of penalties, that might also flow through if you start building shitty links (although this is rare) but that is also something to consider.

2. Yes, the penalty will eventually flow over. The reason why I say eventually is because Google takes longer to transfer over the penalty these days compared to the time taken for it to transfer the link juice.

When is the updated Seo envy network being released?

On a day sometime next week. We're all ready to launch and just need a selected date sometime next week.

First of all thank you!

I have a site with PR 2 Travel site also my targeted keywords very low competitive site monitinzed with chitika .. unique contents i build backlinks to it by using GSA SER .. t 1 t 2 t 3 . But problem it never ranked ..its on page 3 and it jumps to 38 38 positions and again up to 32 and never increase more than that.. can you help me . Also i just create twitter and facebook and just added likes and tweets too.. any sugestion accepted .. if you can give me Quality tips will be great

I can't really help here without seeing the site, its on page, link profiles etc. Send me a PM with the URL and I can take a look at it later on mate.

I have a question : Many people are good at making money but when it comes to investments they take bad decisions. Can you tell us how do you invest your money which you earn online(How much percentage goes for reinvestment and how much you spend on liabilities or luxuries)..do you have any plans in future to invest the money earned online into some offline business?

Thanks

Usually, from all my earnings about 20% (depending on which campaign I run) is my reinvesting fund. This goes back into my business for later on and any money that goes into my bank is mine to keep. I don't mix the money from my bank with the money for business.

The reinvestment funds are strictly used for business purposes and not for anything luxurious or for personal satisfaction. I do not waste all the money that comes into the bank obviously. Saving is key and that's what I'm doing now. There's going to be months where you may not make anything or you may start making 50% less than usual, so its good to have some funds saved up just in case of these sudden emergency situations.

Wow! I appreciate the time and effort you have put into creating these threads. I actually do have a couple questions:

1. You mention Hostgator. I've been keeping my couple projects on shared hosting there for years, and have only good things to say about them. The question: what do you think about multiple sites and hosting? Common sense says don't host too many related sites in the same place. Have you set up sites on multiple hostgator accounts or something like this?

2. Do you have any advice about organizing and collaboration? An excel sheet is fine for one person, but I'm starting to work with others and I wish google spreadsheets weren't, you know, owned by google. How do keep track of logins, etc across partners or people you hire?

1. Yep, don't host all the sites inside one shared account. I usually do about 3-4 and have never had any issues. You can try different hosts. My VA's manage all these so I just give them the instructions. The hosts I use the most are Hostgator and Bluehost. I switch from the two from time to time.

2. I go the old fashioned way and use Excel. I know it takes more work and can sometimes be messy but that's the way I like to keep things. As for payments, I prefer to use something similar to Freshbooks for keeping account related stuff organised. I have tried a few management softwares in the past but they all were complicated, and didn't really do the job so I just do it the old hard way. Of course, remember to take regular back ups if you're going to be using Excel. I have a hard drive taking automatic back ups every few days of the particular drive just incase of things go wrong.

In regards to web2.0s, would creating huge amounts of backlinks quickly cause problems, or would it be better to 'drip-feed' them?

You don't want the web 2.0s to get deleted so its better to do them over a set period of time. Do not blast 100,000 links on the first day and then simply leave it. Instead, you could do 5000 or so links a day for the month or something. Keep the link velocity steady and the link quantity numbers reasonable.

 

[Leith]

You run some well known SEO services in BHW. How do you manage all of it? do you do full time IM?

It is a lot of hard work but I guess I am managing it all okay.

I don't set my self particular working hours. I do anything related to BHW service threads, such as customer support etc at random times. Being organised is key to run quality, multiple BST's.

No, at the moment, I am not into Internet Marketing full time but I hope by my next birthday in March, Il be ready to go full time with all this and boy am I excited!

What are the plugins you use when you turn up a WordPress website? Why do yo use these? Do you have any favorites out of that list?

Has to be Yoast's all in one SEO plugin and WP Super Cache.

These are the 2 plug ins I immediately install once I get a site up and running.

Other plugins I also install are social plugins for facebook, twitter, etc. My favourite as of now probably has to be Yoast's plugin.

 

[WhitePassion]

Good question and I'm not sure if there is an exact answer but this is my answer anyway.

It works just like a bridge. Imagine a bridge. Now imagine 2 sites. Site A and B. Obviously your links are going to be pointed at Site A (which has been redirected to Site B). If you started building links to site A, it will flow through to site B via the bridge in between. Got me so far? As long as this redirect remains active, the link juice will simply keep flowing across the bridge into site B and you should rank well.

As soon as you remove this redirect, you're pretty much destroying and removing this bridge which is transferring over the juice. Generally speaking, your site B should drop and not rank anymore. Why? Because the links and link juice you pointed to site A are now no longer being moved over to site B because of the broken bridge (no more redirection).

So again, the link juice will be taken back to site A. The reason your site B may still be ranking is because these days Google are so slow in making these changes effective. This is what I believe anyway but again, it's not an 100% correct answer. It's just what I think and how it works.

How does the link juice get back if there is no bridge? :l (Just poking at'cha..)

What car did you end up getting, any pics for us?

Keep up the good work, +rep yet again

EDIT:

Oh and since you're not full-time, what do you do the rest of the time?

 

[TheAdvertisingMan]

Good question because there's times where I just want to jump out of my window.

Thanks for long answer! It's always inspiring to see how the pros think. Great.

 

[derpingboy]

Hi Leith,

I think you're the Jedi Master that I'm looking for

Can you give me a list of your personal preference tools for the sake of:

-Blasting (Blogs, YT and Forum)
-Spinning
-Rank Checking
-Vote increasing (Youtube or Facebook)

It's dangerous to go out there alone, now I have about 500$ budget, what tool would you suggest me to get for those purposes ?

 

[PrinceVisi]

Hey Leith

Sorry to bother you again, but would you mind helping me with the keyword researching tool from your friend and the links you said above?

 

[forvenz]

Hi mate thanks you for this thread , I got question about landing page something I never understand.
Why people said that when you use landing page the offer is more convert , lets say I do ppc with facebook I got cpa offer , 10 people click on my ads if i would do direct link : 10 people will see my offer but if i'll use landing page so 10 people will go to my landing page and some % of my 10 people will click on my landing page and go to the offer - for sure less then 10 people where I go wrong? why people say landing page is more convert?

Why you skipped my question ?

 

[kennyk3]

Hi Leith, thanks for taking questions like this.

If you were working for a company and your job was to do SEO just for their website, how would approach it?

I'm working for a company now, doing front end development and SEO for their website. The site is absolutely SEOless, but is a very successful website through other means of traffic. I've been doing some good research on the competition and fixing On-Page crawl errors. The good thing is, I can get whatever software I need through the company!

Thanks again!

 

[Sykeya]

Hi Leith,

I recently brought a URL for a YT/CPA Content Locking site.

Ive just started setting up the site with OptimizePress and just published a default front page with an email collect and GetResponse Back-end.

I plan on having separate landing pages per video.

I also had a Fiverr gig record me an intro for the videos that mention the URL.

My problem is that when I go to the site with IE I get the following:

[TABLE="class: innerbox"]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="align: left"]This website has been reported as unsafe
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="class: errorCodeAndDivider, align: right"][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]We recommend that you do not continue to this website.
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="align: left"]This website has been reported to Microsoft for containing threats to your computer that might reveal personal or financial information.
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

I get similar warnings if I search for the URL say on McAfee etc.

I can see in the Waybackmachine that this URL has been active before, so either its because of the URL's past or because of the email collect or Keywords on the front page like "Full Working Downloads"

Questions:
- Have you seen this before?
- How can I delist the site so that people wont get this warning?
- Should I just dump the URL and go for another?
- Your Suggestions?

Thanks

 

[kinlee]

I have a question.

What's your favorite or most useful tools you've found for automating SEO campaigns?

Thank you Leith!

 

[Leith]

I have a question.

What's your favorite or most useful tools you've found for automating SEO campaigns?

Thank you Leith!

Scrapebox for life!

Hi Leith,

I recently brought a URL for a YT/CPA Content Locking site.

Ive just started setting up the site with OptimizePress and just published a default front page with an email collect and GetResponse Back-end.

I plan on having separate landing pages per video.

I also had a Fiverr gig record me an intro for the videos that mention the URL.

My problem is that when I go to the site with IE I get the following:

I get similar warnings if I search for the URL say on McAfee etc.

I can see in the Waybackmachine that this URL has been active before, so either its because of the URL's past or because of the email collect or Keywords on the front page like "Full Working Downloads"

Questions:
- Have you seen this before?
- How can I delist the site so that people wont get this warning?
- Should I just dump the URL and go for another?
- Your Suggestions?

Thanks

1. I have seen something similar to that before but not the exact message.

2. It looks like this issue only happens with IE. Why not submit a reconsideration request by clicking here?

3. Not yet.. try and follow through with the link above.

4. I don't know if this will be of any help but also try checking if your plugins are clean. Install a plugin to check for viruses in your existing plugins.

Hi Leith, thanks for taking questions like this.

If you were working for a company and your job was to do SEO just for their website, how would approach it?

I'm working for a company now, doing front end development and SEO for their website. The site is absolutely SEOless, but is a very successful website through other means of traffic. I've been doing some good research on the competition and fixing On-Page crawl errors. The good thing is, I can get whatever software I need through the company!

Thanks again!

If its a big site which I assume it is, I would be very careful in the techniques I employ to get them ranking. I'd focus more towards the social signals side of things. Again, if it is a big company then stay away from anything you learn on BHW as it may not be the most reliable source of rankings in the long run.

Instead, go for something more slow and natural. If they are a big company they will understand that SEO takes time and not something which can be done over night. Build guest posts on legit sites and build relationships.

Sort out their on page first and internal links and make sure everything is perfect. When it comes to the SEO you really need to be specific in what you do as you don't want any black hat stuff going on with a big companies site.. it usually won't end well.

If it was me Id start of with some natural guest posts dripped on some good, popular sites. I'd then move onto something like infographic promotions and obtaining links from the infographic, etc. (This depends on the type of company you're working for though as some techniques may not necessarily suit them).

Hey Leith

Sorry to bother you again, but would you mind helping me with the keyword researching tool from your friend and the links you said above?

Shoot me a PM. I currently dont reply to PM's until later on tonight so you may not get a reply straight away.

Hi Leith,

I think you're the Jedi Master that I'm looking for

Can you give me a list of your personal preference tools for the sake of:

-Blasting (Blogs, YT and Forum)
-Spinning
-Rank Checking
-Vote increasing (Youtube or Facebook)

It's dangerous to go out there alone, now I have about 500$ budget, what tool would you suggest me to get for those purposes ?

When you say blasting, you mean link blasting? If so, then its definitely Scrapebox which is perfect value for money.

For spinning, go with Spinnerchief in my opinion. Also check out WordAI.

For rank tracking, we use Micrositemasters but Serpbuddy and Serpbook are also good alternatives. Rankcheckerace is also completely free and it works pretty good too!

For vote increasing I am not sure as I usually get that done through services.

I want to start clickbank business, is there any difference in blog in blogspot and website with hosting? I mean mainly in SEO. Is website with hosting worth more work and money just for one clickbank product?

You would be far better getting a proper domain and hosting compared to a free subdomain. Is there a difference? Yes, I'd say so.

wow good thread!!!

"have you ever sent your CV to google / yahoo / bing ?"

Haha, not yet.. maybe in the future!

Hi mate thanks you for this thread , I got question about landing page something I never understand.
Why people said that when you use landing page the offer is more convert , lets say I do ppc with facebook I got cpa offer , 10 people click on my ads if i would do direct link : 10 people will see my offer but if i'll use landing page so 10 people will go to my landing page and some % of my 10 people will click on my landing page and go to the offer - for sure less then 10 people where I go wrong? why people say landing page is more convert?

I don't quite get your question to be honest.. can you rephrase it?

Landing pages work better than standard full sites because they're usually appealing to the eye, pretty straight forward and straight to the point and they're designed well with good CTA's.

What's been you biggest failure in IM/Life? and How did you deal with it?

My biggest loss has to be losing out on a potential client who was ready to go into a 5 figure monthly contract. We agreed to have a phone call at a given time to which I completely forgot as I was away at the time and could only get a hold of him the next day. Worst thing was the client ended up miss calling me twice or 3 times.

He wasn't happy with moving forward and he kindly rejected the offer / proposal. This did feel real bad and I was gutted that I lost a potential low 6 figure/year deal. These things happen and without making mistakes you aren't going to improve. I know now to stay more organised and get things done faster so that I don't play catch up in the last 2 minutes of the due time / date.

 

[auxiliarus]

Scrapebox for life!



1. I have seen something similar to that before but not the exact message.

2. It looks like this issue only happens with IE. Why not submit a reconsideration request by clicking here?

3. Not yet.. try and follow through with the link above.

4. I don't know if this will be of any help but also try checking if your plugins are clean. Install a plugin to check for viruses in your existing plugins.



If its a big site which I assume it is, I would be very careful in the techniques I employ to get them ranking. I'd focus more towards the social signals side of things. Again, if it is a big company then stay away from anything you learn on BHW as it may not be the most reliable source of rankings in the long run.

Instead, go for something more slow and natural. If they are a big company they will understand that SEO takes time and not something which can be done over night. Build guest posts on legit sites and build relationships.

Sort out their on page first and internal links and make sure everything is perfect. When it comes to the SEO you really need to be specific in what you do as you don't want any black hat stuff going on with a big companies site.. it usually won't end well.

If it was me Id start of with some natural guest posts dripped on some good, popular sites. I'd then move onto something like infographic promotions and obtaining links from the infographic, etc. (This depends on the type of company you're working for though as some techniques may not necessarily suit them).



Shoot me a PM. I currently dont reply to PM's until later on tonight so you may not get a reply straight away.



When you say blasting, you mean link blasting? If so, then its definitely Scrapebox which is perfect value for money.

For spinning, go with Spinnerchief in my opinion. Also check out WordAI.

For rank tracking, we use Micrositemasters but Serpbuddy and Serpbook are also good alternatives. Rankcheckerace is also completely free and it works pretty good too!

For vote increasing I am not sure as I usually get that done through services.



You would be far better getting a proper domain and hosting compared to a free subdomain. Is there a difference? Yes, I'd say so.



Haha, not yet.. maybe in the future!



I don't quite get your question to be honest.. can you rephrase it?

Landing pages work better than standard full sites because they're usually appealing to the eye, pretty straight forward and straight to the point and they're designed well with good CTA's.



My biggest loss has to be losing out on a potential client who was ready to go into a 5 figure monthly contract. We agreed to have a phone call at a given time to which I completely forgot as I was away at the time and could only get a hold of him the next day. Worst thing was the client ended up miss calling me twice or 3 times.

He wasn't happy with moving forward and he kindly rejected the offer / proposal. This did feel real bad and I was gutted that I lost a potential low 6 figure/year deal. These things happen and without making mistakes you aren't going to improve. I know now to stay more organised and get things done faster so that I don't play catch up in the last 2 minutes of the due time / date.

I have a question too, a pretty dumb and useless question but still...
WHY DOES YOUR THREAD NAME HAS A "3/3" IN IT?
Thanks for reading, hope you answer .

 

[Leith]

I have a question too, a pretty dumb and useless question but still...
WHY DOES YOUR THREAD NAME HAS A "3/3" IN IT?
Thanks for reading, hope you answer .

Haha, not a dumb question.

I made 2 other posts this week out of the 3 I was going to do.

The first post here and the second post here.

 

[auxiliarus]

Another question, what's your thread doing in IM journey FORUM? This doesn't look like a journey?