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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 8 – Gaming your own networks.

You should be using every opportunity to get links pointing to your sites, and to be honest it gets harder everyday.  Between human reviewers, advanced spiders looking for black hat sites, and your competition willing to report you to improve their rankings.

You have a few choices to keep up with the game.  Massive trickery – or you just give up and spend a few weeks building up your own pretty much undetectable link farms.

(personally I like both ideas – cover all the bases).

So how do you create you own little link farm?   I’m building a tool that’s going to help you with your linking in day 9 – but in the mean time there is plenty that you can do.

Idea one:  Datafeed sites that focus on just a certain product (or even just sites or blogs that review certain types or brands of products).  Pull in a couple rss feeds from your other sites and just sit back.  Do some minor link building to get it indexed.  It’s there and waiting for you to add your links to it at any time.  Nothing wrong with it either – and the good news is that those rss feeds might just help you stay out of the supplemental index.   Put up a comment system so others can leave reviews or some way for others to add some comments.  Hell – even if you pay someone to leave a comment on every page it will help.

Idea two:  Set up your own social network sites.  Scuttle is one option but I like ELGG. http://elgg.org/  It takes about 10 minutes to set one of these sites up – and you can pull in your rss feeds to make additional pages.  I threw one up a week ago to support our reality sites, and I’m already getting a few dozen visitors a day.  My link building?  One blast with Bookmarking Demon.  I’d talked about this in the past over at black hat white hat - but I hadn’t done anything ’serious’ with it because I had been using the dolphin social network and it was a pain to install and customize.

However, I’ve built up hundreds of links (that have been spidered) that point to just about all our reality sites between the two systems and since elgg is so easy to install I am going to be stepping up on this big time in the next few weeks.

I’ve even got a few other people to start up and use the system…. so far they all look legit.  Either way they are helping to hide my spam.

Combine the two methods to push links from your datafeed sites to your profile pages on the social networks and you are good to go.  Just remember you need outside links as well – with out outside links coming into your network it’s just going to sit there.

Nothing ground breaking here – and I’m sure if you put some thought into it you can find dozens of ways to make sites that don’t look spammy, allow others to add content, and of course make you some money while it’s all happening.

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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 10 – MICRO SITES Samples

I’ve already gotten a few questions about day 10 and the micro sites.  I put this package up a few months ago – but it might help you guys who want to put up sites fast.

Here is a sample:

http://adverev.com/sample/photo/

Here is where you get them:

http://adverev.com/sample/ 

Nothing fancy — but they are made to target the categories in Commission Junction.

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30 Days to a Kick Ass Foundation: Day 10 – MICRO SITES

Day 10 sites can really be either foundation level sites or White Hat sites.  I call them Micro sites because they only need 5 or 10 pages to work and they are targeted to a particular product, service, or something fun.

The goals for these sites are either just pure link bait (fun stuff) or to sell individual products.  The types of affiliate networks you want to be dealing with are things like walmart, sears, or merchants.

(It helps if they also offer a feed since you can use the day 9 stuff to crank out large sites on top of these mini sites.)

I tend to use a number of different things to make them.

1.) FUN SITES:

If I’m making a fun site I just use dreamweaver.  I end up with something like this:  http://www.yesitsfunny.com or SEO SUCKS .  Don’t spend a lot of time on these – make them good enough to get stumbled or dugg and just let them sit.  Make sure you put some links in there – and you can always monetize anyway you want.

If you are looking for ideas for a funny type site there are dozens.  The easiest way though is to take pictures and throw funny words up on them. Then you digg, stumble, etc.. and just let the social networks do their jobs.  Think of LOLCATS – or even just pictures to put up when people ask stupid questions on forums.

The important thing with these is to just get a kick out of them – and just have some fun for a few minutes.  If it’s something that takes off put more effort into it then.

2.) Article Sites to Promote Products 

If I’m concentrating on articles and I’m in a hurry I’ll use Xsitepro.  Usually when I use this method I make the sites about 40 pages bigger because I use the method and scripts we gave you in Black Hat Xsitepro.  When I do this method I just take other peoples articles, and well pretty much do just what I teach in BH Xsitepro.  If your a NSS 2 member it’s in the “black hat section”.

3.) Product  Sites:

Think toasters – a site all about toasters.  Toasters from walmart, sears, etc… Custom toasters, painted toasters, etc..  Your goal here is to rank for brands and model numbers.  Of course it doesn’t have to be about toasters – just a single type of product.   Want some link bait for it?  Make a PDF or page with the prices of toasters in 1911 or something -  I’ve got a site that lists all the “old time” computers we had when I was a kid – it gets linked to all the time by folks.  Took me all of 20 minutes and a forum post to make.  (thanks to all who answered my question about their first computer).

4.) Wordpress MU – And Parasite Pages 

However, my favorite way is to use Wordpress MU, squidoo, blogger, and my existing sites to rank VERY well for individual products.  Instead of re-writing it all – I’ve already wrote it in another blog.  Here is the link:  Wordpress – Squidoo, Blogger = $$.

The wordpress MU method gives me dozens and dozens of micro sites.  The promotion is done fast – and you end up with sales through blogger, squidoo, and your own sites.  The best part is you are using OTHER sites to increase the value of your own while you do it.  Game up your squidoo site and you will probably make a couple sales before google even ranks you.

 Final Word on it:

These sites can all be made in a matter of minutes.  With a small amount of link building and some smart “bait” for each one others will be building links back to you for years.  That means affiliate sales for years – it’s a good thing.  While some of them might only take you 15 minutes to a couple hours to build and set up you will benefit from a place to link from, and affiliate income for a LONG time.  Doesn’t matter if your promoting toasters, paintball gun, fishing rods, lures, hats, gloves, spices, etc…  people are searching for that MODEL number.  You don’t need PPC to get traffic for those items either.

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