Recent content by hustle4dough

How do these auto blogs get traffic? Targeting specific keywords or just hoping something will stick? It just doesn't make sense how a blog with scraped content can rank for a keyword with significant traffic.

I've seen auto blogs mentioned in several places and I'm forced to wonder, where does the traffic come from? SEO? Because it's really hard for me to believe that an auto blog could actually rank well in the search engines for any keyword that would bring a decent amount of traffic. How on...

I've been writing content for a site I'm planning to launch soon in a very competitive niche. I have a .net domain ready that's aged about a month. However, I'm starting to think that my hard work will pay off more in the long term if I go with a .com instead. The short term results might not...

I'm pretty sure that you'll be safe as long as you stay small. Vero might remove your listings and Ebay and Paypal might shut your accounts down, but the cops won't get involved unless you've got a major operation going. If I were you I'd just be careful not to have more than an item or two in...

Thanks for sharing everyone. What I meant was, has anyone who sells watches, handbags, etc. on Ebay had any issues with the law? I read about a woman once who was selling replica purses advertised as replicas from a website she made, and the cops raided her house because she didn't even try to...

I'm not talking about getting your listing removed. What I mean is, have any of you or anyone you know actually been summoned to court or had ANY issues with the cops? Seems to me that they're too busy to be bothered with authenticity issues on Ebay.

I know a couple... the first one I learned is to type the keyword into Google in quotes. The course I learned this from recommended finding keywords with under 15,000 results showing up when you type the keyword in quotes. Of course, it's very difficult to find a keyword with that little...

With Senuke, a web 2.0 page with an article is called a "social nuke," while a web 2.0 profile with nothing but a link is called a "web 2.0 nuke." They make it kind of confusing for some reason, but web 2.0 pages with articles and submissions to article directories are given the same label...

Ok, ok. I don't have experience with link wheels so who am I to argue. I guess it was just the fact that I used the same anchor text in all my links that got my site banished to page 6.

I think I figured out what went wrong here. It may be that Google sees my link chain as a "link scheme" and penalized me because of it, or the link chain might be totally legit. I don't know. However, I was reading about Google penalties and I learned that using the same anchor text in all...

Thanks for the Pagewash tip. Using that I'm at position 7 on page 6, and I know I'd still be on the top of page 2 if I hadn't created the link chain. I'll keep adding links, but I'm sure Google is punishing me for such an obvious attempt to manipulate my rankings.

Thanks everyone! Now I'm at position two on page one sometimes and position four on page twelve sometimes. When I search normally I'm on page one, but when I use a free proxy to search I'm on page twelve. My keyword has low competition and only about 110 searches per month, which is why I was...

you could start building an opt-in email list either by offering a freebie to subscribers (like an ebook) or just promising good information. there are a number of ways to do this. some of them are annoying, like a pop up asking visitors to subscribe, and some are less annoying, like a spot on...

I have a site that's about a month old. After adding a few social bookmark links and pinging it right after I made it and each time I updated it, it ended up at the top of page 2 for the keyword I'm targeting. It's an exact match domain. A few days ago I created 4 web 2.0 links. It was sort...

I set 3 sites up 3 days ago and one two days ago. First I made a blog on Blogspot, then a Wordpress blog, then a Squidoo lens, and then a Weebly page. I linked the Blogspot page to my site, then the Wordpress page to my Blogspot page and my site, the Squidoo page to my Wordpress page and my...