Posts Tagged ‘market samurai’

Posted on October 16, 2008 - by admin

What I’ve Been Up To - Trackbacks For Backlinks

I've mentioned this in the past and it's not anything new but a lot people put links to related blog posts at the end of their posts. Why? Because with a bit of luck, they will get a link back from the post they link to, over to theirs. If the author of the post you are linking to approves the trackback then a link will be created within the comment area with a link back to your post, often using the title of your post.

As you may know, Market Samurai has a feature that allows you to gather links for trackbacks based on a particular keyword. It's a cool feature and I've spoken highly of it before. But while using it I actually didn't get worthwhile results a lot of the time. Sometimes the results weren't even blogs at all. I just figured, not knowing any better, that I saved a bunch of time from doing it manually even if I didn't get anything back worthwhile...I figured the result would've been the same doing it any other way...this way is just quicker. Well, I was mistaken.

Don't get me wrong, Market Samurai is a great product. The trackback feature is kind of just a sub feature of a sub feature so to speak, so it's not a big deal to me if it doesn't work the way I had hoped. The rest of the features more than make up for it. Anyway, I recently won a software package called Trackboost. It is used solely for gathering trackbacks for backlinks. I tested it for the heck of it even though I thought I had the only software that I needed for trackbacks. Here's how it works...

It connects to your blog through XML-RPC (turn it on from Settings->Writing) and downloads your last 10 posts by default.

You click the title of the one that you want to work with and it will show the post in the bottom frame.

You move to the next screen and enter keywords to find related posts. Several blog posts will show up, I think it's 20 by default. And the results are often right on! When compared to Market Samurai for some of the same keywords I get a much better result set with Trackboost.

Now you click the title of one and you are able to see the post in the bottom frame, as well as the PR of the main page, the Alexa rank, etc. Checkmark the ones that you want to include in the related info section of your posts.

Now on the next screen you will see a WYSIWYG editor with your post in it and off to the right side will be the HTML for you list of links with summaries. You can choose things like No-follow, unordered list, table, etc. You can then copy and paste the list over to your post and click Publish. I use the Trackboost publish feature with caution though...it rewrites your post slug which isn't always desirable. If you customized your post slug so that it doesn't match the title, this software will "fix" it, thus making a broken link for the post if it has already been indexed. Usually I just grab the HTML and paste it over to my blog and Save the post form there.

After that, you want the spiders to come to gobble up the updates. 2 screens over is a customizable list of sites you can ping to start sending spiders to your post. It will use the original URL so if you let Trackboost publish your post and it changed the URL you will be pinging a 404. I emailed the programmer to fix that bug. However, he hasn't got back to me yet.

The screen in between the publish screen and the ping screen is a screen you can come back to later to see if your trackbacks have been published. It checks the other blogs to see if the author approved the trackback, in essence, if you've got your backlink. Really cool...and super fast. It is a very good tool when used properly.

Posted on August 30, 2008 - by admin

The Biggest Takeaway from the 30 Day Challenge

On day 23 of the 30 day challenge there is a podcast. I may be reading more into it then it is but I doubt it. Why do you suppose a podcast was slipped in there? How many of you use podcasts for traffic or have seen it suggested on the guru blogs? You can imagine that Ed and Dan and the boys are doing some market research throughout the 30 day challenge for material for the Immediate Edge members.

I read a traffic course ebook just the other day that suggests podcasts for traffic. It suggested taking one of your 500ish word articles that you had previously submitted to the article directories (free software for article submitting)...and read it into a microphone and record it into mp3. Then you could submit the thing to a ton of podcast directories, including iTunes. Apparently there is podcast submitter software to do that too. I plan to do this on a new site that I started a couple of days ago. I'll likely outsource it though. (outsourcing is cheaper than ya might think) Oh, the ebook also gets into using your newly created mp3 and creating a PowerPoint (or similar) presentation and make a video. You can then use TubeMogul.com to blast it to all of the video sites for free. Tip: Use your domain name link (with http) at the beginning of your description for the video and use your keyword in the title.

Anyway...podcasts for traffic seems like a decent idea and maybe the 30 day challenge folks are testing the effects of it. If you listen close enough to the podcast it's really just Ed and Gurubob arguing about who's marketing method is best. They don't seem to like (or respect) eachother. If you listen close enough you'll know what I mean. Also gurubob, I'm sure, is monetarily affiliated with Market Samurai in a big way.

I've been researching way to get organic traffic very heavily lately...so I thought I'd tell ya what I was up to.

Have you ever tried podcasts to drive traffic?

Posted on July 31, 2008 - by admin

Last Day For…

There were a couple of date sensitive things I brought up recently. Today is the last day for the following...

Get $10 For Signing Up With PepperJam

PepperJam is offering all new members that join their affiliate network a $10 signup bonus. This network has lots of great offers, including MMO offers. They have great payouts, and it's free to signup of course.

But it will cost you $10 if you don't sign up before the clock strikes 12 tonight. Use the banner to the left to signup to assure your bonus is added in the morning.

Get A Free Copy Of GoodSync Pro

GoodSync, a slick file synchronizing and backup software package worth almost $30, has been sponsored for my week long giveaway and it ends tonight.

There have only been 3 people that entered so far so your chances to win are great. If it's not something you would want, the product is transferable so you could offer it as a prize in a contest that you are having perhaps.

To enter, all you have to do is add this blog to your Technorati favourites then leave a comment on the contest post so that I can verify it (and so I know you are entered).

Get A Free Copy Of Market Samurai

You must sign up to The Immediate Edge by the end of the night to get your free copy of Market Samurai. You can also scoop up a 40-day copy by joining the 30 day challenge which starts tomorrow.