Creating Web 2.0 properties.
Okay, you asked for it, you're going to get it.
Creating Web 2.0 properties dirty and down way of doing it.
Firstly, get yourself a list of do follow Web 2.0 sites. I'm not going to give any specific URLs here, because that's bad form, but if I do say check out ?Target Hut?first, it will tell you exactly which ones are worth putting your content onto. Unfortunately it doesn't detail whether they do follow or no follow, and a couple of searches through Google should sort that out.
While we're on the subject of this, don't be afraid of the odd no follow the link. But do follow are a lot better. It's interesting that many sites change their policy on link following from time to time. If Or you are a newcomer, and have a low maintenance blog or page, many sites will automatically class all of your links as no follow.
I've noticed on sites like Squidoo and others, that link start as no follow, but if you are a good little boy, some may well become do follow in time. There's no science to it unfortunately, you'll just have to work this out for yourself, and it changes all the time.
Secondly, you're going to need content. I like to create a six spoke structure to the main URL of whatever site on promoting as my first port of call. This will have two pieces of unique written content and a video. For video, I use a site called Animoto,(free) it lets you upload your own still pictures and it turns them into a snazzy video. You can either cheat and use a product like Cam studio (free) to record what it makes, or for five dollars a month you can become a member and make some quite long and complex videos yourself. Making a video in Animoto, once you have the still pictures is a 10 minute job. You can edit out the animoto logo with Windows movie maker (free), and add your own titles if you want.
The written work I write using Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 ($30), and a decent USB microphone. The speech to text program cost about $30, and it makes that back for me every single day without fail. It is one of the best investments I've ever made.
I suggest writing completely unique content for your hubs, that means writing 12 pieces to go with your video. How long should that take? Well with speech to text it would take me about 40 minutes.
Next, comes the signing process to your Web 2.0 sites. They are all different, and some are quite awkward. Over time you will develop your favourite sites. It is best to perm about six sites from 10 or 12, so you never hitting the exact same set of sites with each link structure.
Over time, once you learn how this works, you will be prepared to make this signup process as quick and as painless as possible. Here are the things I use and how I prepare.
Firstly, I have a brand-new e-mail address is ready, not a Gmail or a Yahoo mail, as many sites reject these immediately as spam. (Yeah, Google rejected as spam oh the irony) if you have your own sites and host, it's easy enough to use your own e-mail addresses which you create.
Top tip, once a e-mail address has done its job, you can always delete it. I tend to delete any e-mail address over three months old and then can replace it with a new one.
Okay I also recommend having a form filling bot like a Robo form ,(free). The free version of this does a decent job of making form filling in quite quick, for instance I can sign up to a new WordPress.com account in about 35 seconds, that's actually quicker than SE nuke or magic submitter.
Another great tool is a programmable keyboard, ($12-$80) use the programmable function keys to put in stuff like your name or password e-mail address etc etc then just press the buttons in sequence, you can even include the tab to space down to the next item. I have a system where I always know my name is F1, my e-mail address is F2, etc etc.
Then, pop into your e-mail client and click the links to confirm the signup status with these Web 2.0 sites.
The first time you do all this, it may take you well over an hour. However, I've got to the stage now where I am here in about 10 or 12 minutes, again, that's pretty competitive even when rated alongside automated Web 2.0 is creation and submission tools.
Next, pop back into the sites you've created. Of course you have bookmarked your pages, and made a note of the URLs that you have created haven't you?
Fill in the profiles. To my mind the crappy incomplete profiles that Web 2.0 creation software makes must leave a rather large footprint for the anti spam bots to find.
No photograph, no user information, the standard background theme used every time, to me this stands out like a sore thumb. Filling in a complete profile (again with a programmable keyboard or simply cutting and pasting preprepared information) for six accounts will probably take you 12 to 15 minutes. But in the long run will save you having to remake some of those accounts when they are deleted as spam.
Okay, earlier on I mention having to written pieces of work, one is the bedrock, the other is the banker. Sorry for the crappy phrasing. The bedrock piece is about alter ego or who or whatever, doing, your interests.
I tend to make it general narrative waffle. Just speaking into the microphone about some fictional person and the sort of dumb stuff they get up to on a day-to-day basis until I have three or 400 words. That takes maybe two minutes to write. (remember to include the keyword at 2-2.5% density and any associated words at 1-1.5% density)
You post the six bedrock pieces in the six sites. Then, that's it for day one. No links. Important!
No Links!
Three days later, I logged back in and put in the ?banker? piece, and the video. The banker piece has three links in it. Two are self-serving (one to my main URL and want to and in a page of my website) and a third is to a general authority site in the field. You get away with three links as you have a multiple post piece
If you are posting to Squidoo or similar, then it's just a banker piece. You need to take a little more care over it, but you only need one piece. Put the video on at the same time, and you're done
The video must have text or a link to your main site in it. I know you Tube do not allow external linking, so make sure your main URL is prominently displayed in the video, have it up on screen for 10-12 seconds at the end of the video for people to catch it.
Okay, you've created a six spoke hub. Overall, once you are practised at this the actual account creation and posting (bearing in mind you are making multiple posts) will probably come in at about an hour may be a little more for the whole lot.
Of course, you have to create the content, but you have to create the content whether you use an automated Web 2.0 tool or not..
Here's the rub, this six spoke hub will be a complete cocking waste of time. You will not get much traffic from it at all..... until..... you power it up.
Get some links, some bookmarks, or whatever you can to get the hub noticed. Articles pointing to your hub sites,Xrumer blasts, social bookmarking, even the old favourite scrape box spamming.
Preferably do all of these things and a few more. And point them at your hub sites.
Good quality bookmarks and articles on high PR sites can point directly to your main pages,for those of you not afraid of writing a little, tools like ?build my rank? are also great to point to your main pages as well as the hub.
Getting thousands of different back links is where the real effort comes in. I made the mistake early in my Internet marketing career are falling for all the flashy lights and jingly bells of automated Web 2.0 creation software. Yes of course it has its place. But it does the easy stuff, and leaves you to do the hard stuff. A WordPress blog or a wiki page on its own will provide next to no linking juice for your site. Bookmark it and link it spam it and basically hammer it, then it will prove its worth.
I made a post yesterday about Xrumer. Saying that it has its place. And it certainly does.
As far as back links go nothing will create more faster. And contrary to popular belief, they aren't bad or poor back links, however the huge downside is the majority of them will be deleted. If you can retain 30% of them for six months you are doing quite well.
I suppose the point here is, decide whether you are technically proficient enough to host your own Xrumer setup, or just pay a service 100 bucks a month to supply you with tens of thousands of links.
Other services will also help, and sick submitter does more or less the same as Xrumer, but much slower. I have not found it unstable, but others have had problems with it. Both tools are all about profile creation really. Although the new version of Xrumer claims it will do a lot more. (That probably means it will be even more complex)
Don't underestimate the power of social bookmarking to get your good links found. When you create a Web 2.0 structure bookmarking it multiple times will get it found, it's only a temporary thing, but once it's indexed you can press on. After all, time is money.
I hope you find this post at least a little useful, there are some sites here and tools that aren't normally spoken about in the black hat forums, and remember folks when it comes to Internet marketing tools
Scritty
