Best Article Spinner For Mac - Spintax Made Easier
Filed in: Article Marketing
Looking for an Apple friendly, easy to use Article spinner for Mac OSX? Nothing is as {GRUELING |PAINFUL|AGONIZING} in a Mac internet marketer's life as Article Marketing. Unless you're an exceptionally prolific writer who can knock-out original content like a machine gun (most of us can't…) the alternative is getting drug into the world of {SPINTAX|USING SPINTAX|SPINNING TEXT} to create sufficiently unique article content to get your message out - while avoiding Duplicate Content issues and penalties.
Manually keying in Spintax code can become a real productivity time-pit in your website promotion efforts. So, any way you can shortcut the tedium and produce meaningful, highly readable variants out of a seed article quickly is the key to productive Article Marketing.
Unlike too many Windows PC only spinning tool applications, Spin Rewriter is a Safari - Mac FireFox friendly web-based spinning tool that's remarkably straight-forward, easy to use and most importantly, INTELLIGENT. It's very smart about grammar and is quite adept at word usage that leaves many other spinning tools in the dust. That said, I don't recommend their "I'm Feeling Lucky" 1-click Instant spin. You'll end up with articles that read like horribly instant-spun garp that will damage your Author credibility, Reputation, Brand. For best practices - use article rewriting tools to judiciously select the BEST phrase variants they offer as you move through your text - and let the rewriter handle the formatting details.
With a 5 day free trial - you got nothing to lose. And very affordable monthly subscription rates make Spin Rewriter a no-brainer tool for Apple website owners and Mac Affiliate Marketers with multiple sites and niches to target with various, more unique articles.
Manually keying in Spintax code can become a real productivity time-pit in your website promotion efforts. So, any way you can shortcut the tedium and produce meaningful, highly readable variants out of a seed article quickly is the key to productive Article Marketing.
Unlike too many Windows PC only spinning tool applications, Spin Rewriter is a Safari - Mac FireFox friendly web-based spinning tool that's remarkably straight-forward, easy to use and most importantly, INTELLIGENT. It's very smart about grammar and is quite adept at word usage that leaves many other spinning tools in the dust. That said, I don't recommend their "I'm Feeling Lucky" 1-click Instant spin. You'll end up with articles that read like horribly instant-spun garp that will damage your Author credibility, Reputation, Brand. For best practices - use article rewriting tools to judiciously select the BEST phrase variants they offer as you move through your text - and let the rewriter handle the formatting details.
With a 5 day free trial - you got nothing to lose. And very affordable monthly subscription rates make Spin Rewriter a no-brainer tool for Apple website owners and Mac Affiliate Marketers with multiple sites and niches to target with various, more unique articles.
Mac RSS Submitter - RSS Feed Submission Tools
Filed in: RSS Submission Tools
"Really Simple" Syndication? RSS is far from simple for many new Apple web masters. The notion of RSS and Feed vs. Website URL's and Syndication and RSS Aggregation is a tad bit complex and confusing. Many website owners enjoy successful sites and decent traffic without ever delving into the rather arcane aspects of RSS. But if you blog you _ought_ to have an RSS Feed enabled, and spend some time PROMOTING and SUBMITTING your Feed to some RSS sites to leverage it's potential to help you in your internet marketing efforts.
Simply put - an RSS Feed is a constantly refreshed URL that automatically appends and updates itself with your latest posts as you publish them. Unlike some of your other one-shot link building efforts - if you submit your Feed to a variety of RSS sites - you'll never have to do it again. Just keep posting to your blog and those new posts will get discovered and added to your listing at the RSS sites. One effort, long term payoff - if people searching for your niche or topic come across your entries in a Feed Reader program. At best it'll help drive real human traffic to your site. At the least - it'll help insure your new content get's crawled (and hopefully indexed) by the major search engines. Either way, a Feed works for you 24x7.
Apple webmaster's can leverage Safari or Mac Firefox to do a few RSS submissions themselves using some easy web-based RSS submitter tools - there's no need for standalone RSS submission software for Mac (which I don't think exists anyways.)
The simplest bulk submitter is at : http://tools.950buy.com/rss-submit/ -- You'll need TWO URL's - the actual feed itself, and the URL to your main blog page. BOTH will start with http:// (not feed://) and be sure to VALIDATE your feed URL in the first field to insure you got it right and most feed readers can understand the format. A few errors reported may be normal and nothing to fret about. Also give a title, a description of your blog, an email address and let it submit to about 2 dozen of the most popular feed sites for likely-possible inclusion. No guarantees, but it beats spending hours slogging to dozens of sites and manually registering and verifying an account before you can submit your feed.
For more assured submission, I recommend the free RSS Feed Tool at IMTalk.org. You'll need to register as a forum user first to get access, then go to the IMT TOOLS dropdown menu - IMT RSS SUBMITTER section and SUBMIT NEW FEED. You'll be able to instantly verify your feeds and posts are now live and have been pinged across up to 10 feed sites IMTalk supports.
If you own multiple sites and have a lot of Feeds, also consider outsourcing RSS Feed submission at fiverr.com - Some will let you submit five or more unique Feeds in each gig - and automatically handle the tedium of registering an account and doing the submit for you at 50-100 or more major and minor RSS sites.
RapidWeaver SEO Tips For Mac Webmasters
Filed in: Mac Web Design Software
RapidWeaver is a great Mac web design software package that's highly sophisticated
The key to search engine optimization of on-page content in RapidWeaver starts with the SITE Menu > SHOW SITE SETUP
In this dialog you'll see 3 key fields:
The Header TITLE:
This is the on-page Title across the top of your sites page banner. (Not to be confused with your BROWSER Page Title set elsewhere!) In ALL RapidWeaver templates, this is a H1 Header - usually in a large font. Make sure you include your #1 keyword phrase in the Header Title for that page.
Best Mac SEO Software : Apple Webmaster Tools
The Header SLOGAN:
Below the Title is a second line of usually smaller text. Whatever its size, this 'slogan' is a H2 header and very important space to use your secondary #2 and #3 keywords.
Mac Web Design software, Apple SEO Programs and Link Building Tools for Macintosh Website Marketing
The FOOTER:
Although footer content has been deprecated by Google, it's still an important place to put your copyright - and use important keyword phrase variants and optionally add an anchored text link to another related site or blog of yours - or to deep link to a subpage or blog post.
© 2012 - Mac SEO Tools - Mac SEO Software, Apple Web Design Programs and Backlink Building Tips for Mac Internet Marketing
The key to search engine optimization of on-page content in RapidWeaver starts with the SITE Menu > SHOW SITE SETUP
In this dialog you'll see 3 key fields:
The Header TITLE:
This is the on-page Title across the top of your sites page banner. (Not to be confused with your BROWSER Page Title set elsewhere!) In ALL RapidWeaver templates, this is a H1 Header - usually in a large font. Make sure you include your #1 keyword phrase in the Header Title for that page.
Best Mac SEO Software : Apple Webmaster Tools
The Header SLOGAN:
Below the Title is a second line of usually smaller text. Whatever its size, this 'slogan' is a H2 header and very important space to use your secondary #2 and #3 keywords.
Mac Web Design software, Apple SEO Programs and Link Building Tools for Macintosh Website Marketing
The FOOTER:
Although footer content has been deprecated by Google, it's still an important place to put your copyright - and use important keyword phrase variants and optionally add an anchored text link to another related site or blog of yours - or to deep link to a subpage or blog post.
© 2012 - Mac SEO Tools - Mac SEO Software, Apple Web Design Programs and Backlink Building Tips for Mac Internet Marketing
Website Banned By Google? SEO Smarter, Stronger, Longer
Filed in: Google Penalty
I'll be a Devil's Advocate here and tell you why getting a site banned by Google is a great SEO learning opportunity for multi-site owning Affiliate Marketers. For others, such as businesses with a single Life-Or-Death website or blog getting completely de-indexed by Google is nothing short of fatal: Your baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. If that happens, fix your site's problems (if you can), get on your knees and BEG for forgiveness at the Google Reinclusion Altar - and your livelihood may be given back to you. Maybe. Someday. Eventually. Never.
Cut Your Losses And Move On: Sometimes a new, clean domain may be your best strategy to rebuilding traffic and regaining lost profits. Even if you have a site that's not totally banned - and 'merely' under a Google penalty - there's a lost OPPORTUNITY COST that hurts you and your revenue stream twice over while waiting or hoping to get traffic again from Google. I wasted a year with a Google -50 Penalty before starting fresh with a new, and instantly profitable domain addressing the same niche.
Be Here, Now: De-indexing or Google Penalties happen in a split second. It may take you only hours - or days to realize it. DO NOTHING. CAUSE NO HARM. Spend your initial time assessing the depth and degree of your traffic loss before you take any action.
Enjoy The View: It's actually interesting to see where your remaining traffic comes from without Google 'overwhelming' and dominating your stat logs. Challenge yourself to envision and build a web empire, or business model, or traffic stream - that is steady and profitable without one iota of traffic from Goog's monopolistic grip. It's a noble and achievable goal - to survive the dependency you may have took for granted.
Lean into your Remaining Strengths: SO WHAT if Google dumped you? Your stat's CAME FROM / REFERRING SITES should soon be showing you much more clearly where your supplementary link-building efforts really did pay off. Revisit sites that drove intermittent traffic and figure out how to get them to drive more.
Refine and Improve existing blogs, Lenses, HubPages and Web Presences that already work. Build back links to those posts, articles, pages and profiles to keep them high on Google's radar - even if your own domain isn't listed anymore.
Thrive By Your Wits! Live lean and mean. This is no time for desperate Black-Hat, mega-backlink blasting on a soul-less Zombie who's already eaten your lunch. Dust the gray off your best White-Hat and move forward.
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Stop pining away for love lost and look to friends you do have. And that should start at Bing Webmaster Tools: Verify your site if you haven't, Review the site data if you have. These are your lifelines to free, organic search traffic at those #2 and #3 Search Engines - but also to all the PARTNER SITES who use Bing/Yahoo index data as well. That includes Search Aggregators like DogPile, WebCrawler and many, many others.
Perhaps most important of all, know that Bing and FACEBOOK partnered years ago. Don't underestimate the current - and future - implications of this alliance. This is a secret weapon that these two powerhouses wield discreetly - and may be more powerful in the internet's future than most realize.
Closer to home - Start spending A LOT more time with your website statistics. That means pouring over your StatCounter or G.Analytics or whatever you use to get a clear picture of what keywords are working for you NOW, what levels of traffic Bing/Yahoo/Ask/Etc is capable of sending you NOW. Look for traffic driving strength in all your tertiary site sources. That means Everything Else: From HubPages and Squidoo Lenses, Article Sites, Blog Networks, Directory referrals, Twitter, StumbleUpon, et. al.
Dump Google Back! If AdSense isn't your primary revenue model, remove it and STOP sending them profits if you can live without their nickel and dime earnings.
After studying your site's historical data: YANK Google Analytics and Google Webmaster code off your site pages so you CEASE to give them direct access to your site's metrics to continue to Reward or Punish you with.
Switch your search habits and don't look back. CHANGE your default web-browser search box to Bing or anyone else - and stop feeding the hand that bit you.
REBUILD from scratch. Say it and do it differently - and SMARTER - if you start a new domain targeting the same niche. In particular, be less aggressive with link building. Aim for fewer, higher-quality links initially - and let your keyword research and well-crafted on-page content attract organic search traffic more naturally.
Cut Your Losses And Move On: Sometimes a new, clean domain may be your best strategy to rebuilding traffic and regaining lost profits. Even if you have a site that's not totally banned - and 'merely' under a Google penalty - there's a lost OPPORTUNITY COST that hurts you and your revenue stream twice over while waiting or hoping to get traffic again from Google. I wasted a year with a Google -50 Penalty before starting fresh with a new, and instantly profitable domain addressing the same niche.
Be Here, Now: De-indexing or Google Penalties happen in a split second. It may take you only hours - or days to realize it. DO NOTHING. CAUSE NO HARM. Spend your initial time assessing the depth and degree of your traffic loss before you take any action.
Enjoy The View: It's actually interesting to see where your remaining traffic comes from without Google 'overwhelming' and dominating your stat logs. Challenge yourself to envision and build a web empire, or business model, or traffic stream - that is steady and profitable without one iota of traffic from Goog's monopolistic grip. It's a noble and achievable goal - to survive the dependency you may have took for granted.
Lean into your Remaining Strengths: SO WHAT if Google dumped you? Your stat's CAME FROM / REFERRING SITES should soon be showing you much more clearly where your supplementary link-building efforts really did pay off. Revisit sites that drove intermittent traffic and figure out how to get them to drive more.
Refine and Improve existing blogs, Lenses, HubPages and Web Presences that already work. Build back links to those posts, articles, pages and profiles to keep them high on Google's radar - even if your own domain isn't listed anymore.
Thrive By Your Wits! Live lean and mean. This is no time for desperate Black-Hat, mega-backlink blasting on a soul-less Zombie who's already eaten your lunch. Dust the gray off your best White-Hat and move forward.
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When Google Doesn't Love You Anymore
Stop pining away for love lost and look to friends you do have. And that should start at Bing Webmaster Tools: Verify your site if you haven't, Review the site data if you have. These are your lifelines to free, organic search traffic at those #2 and #3 Search Engines - but also to all the PARTNER SITES who use Bing/Yahoo index data as well. That includes Search Aggregators like DogPile, WebCrawler and many, many others.
Perhaps most important of all, know that Bing and FACEBOOK partnered years ago. Don't underestimate the current - and future - implications of this alliance. This is a secret weapon that these two powerhouses wield discreetly - and may be more powerful in the internet's future than most realize.
Closer to home - Start spending A LOT more time with your website statistics. That means pouring over your StatCounter or G.Analytics or whatever you use to get a clear picture of what keywords are working for you NOW, what levels of traffic Bing/Yahoo/Ask/Etc is capable of sending you NOW. Look for traffic driving strength in all your tertiary site sources. That means Everything Else: From HubPages and Squidoo Lenses, Article Sites, Blog Networks, Directory referrals, Twitter, StumbleUpon, et. al.
Dump Google Back! If AdSense isn't your primary revenue model, remove it and STOP sending them profits if you can live without their nickel and dime earnings.
After studying your site's historical data: YANK Google Analytics and Google Webmaster code off your site pages so you CEASE to give them direct access to your site's metrics to continue to Reward or Punish you with.
Switch your search habits and don't look back. CHANGE your default web-browser search box to Bing or anyone else - and stop feeding the hand that bit you.
REBUILD from scratch. Say it and do it differently - and SMARTER - if you start a new domain targeting the same niche. In particular, be less aggressive with link building. Aim for fewer, higher-quality links initially - and let your keyword research and well-crafted on-page content attract organic search traffic more naturally.
R.I.P. Yahoo SiteExplorer - Hello Bing Webmaster Tools
Filed in: Backlink Building
With the demise of Yahoo SiteExplorer last month, Mac website owners lost a really valuable, free tool for quick backlink checks. Several Safari SEO toolbar extensions and many free back link checking sites also became non-functional the day SiteExplorer was decommissioned.
Though by no means comprehensive, Yahoo provided a good sampling of many of your site's back links, generally ranked in order of site authority. It also allowed downloading a .CSV file of your current links for use in a backlink indexing tool for the added oomph of secondary link-building.
Bing's Webmaster Tools have had some significant improvements lately. Recently added is the ability to download their view of your backlink data - if you've verified your site with them. And I suggest you do. There's so much to learn from Bing's view of your site's pages, keywords and traffic. It's also helpful to your internet marketing efforts when you see what Authority sites Bing likes to use for ranking your pages. Those sites are very different from what GoogleBot, and even YahooSlurp tended to favor.
Own multiple sites and want to rank better in Bing? Note the referring sites you see in these link profiles. Many are good candidates for trying to get a link from for your other sites. Paying attention to Bing Webmaster Tools data can help all of us improve our sites rankings - and reduce our dependence on Google.
Because you MUST verify your site ownership with Bing - we now lose the ability to easily spy on competitor's link profiles - something SiteExplorer was great for. In that tradeoff, at least other competing site owners can no longer instantly see the highest ranking links BingBot tracks for your sites.
Though by no means comprehensive, Yahoo provided a good sampling of many of your site's back links, generally ranked in order of site authority. It also allowed downloading a .CSV file of your current links for use in a backlink indexing tool for the added oomph of secondary link-building.
Bing's Webmaster Tools have had some significant improvements lately. Recently added is the ability to download their view of your backlink data - if you've verified your site with them. And I suggest you do. There's so much to learn from Bing's view of your site's pages, keywords and traffic. It's also helpful to your internet marketing efforts when you see what Authority sites Bing likes to use for ranking your pages. Those sites are very different from what GoogleBot, and even YahooSlurp tended to favor.
Own multiple sites and want to rank better in Bing? Note the referring sites you see in these link profiles. Many are good candidates for trying to get a link from for your other sites. Paying attention to Bing Webmaster Tools data can help all of us improve our sites rankings - and reduce our dependence on Google.
Because you MUST verify your site ownership with Bing - we now lose the ability to easily spy on competitor's link profiles - something SiteExplorer was great for. In that tradeoff, at least other competing site owners can no longer instantly see the highest ranking links BingBot tracks for your sites.
SEO Review : 30 Minute Backlinks by Michelle MacPhearson
Filed in: Backlink Building
I don't know if 'Guruesse' is a proper term or not, but Michelle MacPhearson is a woman I absolutely respect above all others in the SEO and Internet Marketing field. Elsewhere, there's a raging sea of SEO Squeeze-Page Hucksters (mostly guys) that want your money to unleash a Backlink or Traffic Explosion, Tsunami, Tornado, Landslide, Tidal Wave, Hurricane, Fire Storm… or attach you to a Siphon, Race Track, Floodgate, Super-Highway, Fast-Lane or whatnot on your supposed 'Push-Button' road to riches.
And then there's Michelle, who over the years has sensibly packaged her Best Of The Best website Authority and Social Media participation knowledge into one of the most powerful How-To strategies that I've ever seen. 30 Minute Backlinks presents a step-by-step, process, all broken down into focused, do-able, 30-minutes-or-less daily doses that can take any blog or website - and YOU the human - to the top of Search Rankings and internet visibility. Gently. Powerfully. Effectively.
I had no reservations signing up for 30 Minute Backlinks at it's introductory price. And as I peruse the initial day-to-day and week-to-week sequence of sites she's laying out for the FULL YEAR ahead -- I find myself in new sites and places I'd never heard of, and returning to old stomping grounds I know are top-notch -- or never fully or properly leveraged to its full potential. Keep in mind I'm an OLD DOG who's been promoting sites since the dawn of the internet - and I've taken the loooooooooooooooong, hard road to learn what Michelle presents in bite-sized, digestible chunks. Stepping through the process will teach ANY website owner so much about WHERE you need to effectively be participating in this ever-changing landscape of Internet Marketing.
As I review 30 Minute Backlinks action plan, I'm excited about where it's all heading. The first weeks of content that's already available - are about Laying Tracks: From URL and Directory Submissions, to building a diverse and free Web 2.0 blog network, Profile building, submitting to Article sites, RSS feed submission. 'Staking out internet turf' I like to call it -- Here, there, and everywhere there's a QUALITY link worth building.
As the process evolves, this sort of 'back-fill' supports the Persona, Presence and Authority you're going to become in your niche. Leveraging Real-Time Status sites (like Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca, FriendFeed, FaceBook etc.) are going to be a huge part of a bigger 'Conversation' you'll be creating as more and more pieces of your content, persona and presence are skillfully placed.
I expect by the end of the 52 week plan I'm going to be rocking the web like I've never done before. Michelle's rollout will allow for new sites and opportunities to be added in the months ahead, and a chance to adapt and fine-tune to WHAT WORKS - TODAY as it evolves.
If, like me, your sites have suffered from the brutal Google Farmer, Panda, Fresh updates this year - It's clear we really need to double-down and get more things right - in more places than ever before. I can already see 30 Minute Backlinks is going to take my Mac backlink building skills back to the basics - and away from some of the low-ball krap-links I've futzed with as of late.
Tip: For those who take advantage of Michelle's offer: Get your copy-paste skills at the ready. Have a few short original articles prepared. Have profile photo/avatars sized and saved, a good 'About Me' snippet of text, Blog feed URL's ready to insert where needed. Yes, it's going to involve manually registering A LOT of accounts across the cyber-sphere. So create a '30-Minute' folder in your Safari or Firefox Mac toolbar - you're gonna want to bookmark EVERY site you visit along the way - so you'll have an easy way to return to them for updates.
And then there's Michelle, who over the years has sensibly packaged her Best Of The Best website Authority and Social Media participation knowledge into one of the most powerful How-To strategies that I've ever seen. 30 Minute Backlinks presents a step-by-step, process, all broken down into focused, do-able, 30-minutes-or-less daily doses that can take any blog or website - and YOU the human - to the top of Search Rankings and internet visibility. Gently. Powerfully. Effectively.
I had no reservations signing up for 30 Minute Backlinks at it's introductory price. And as I peruse the initial day-to-day and week-to-week sequence of sites she's laying out for the FULL YEAR ahead -- I find myself in new sites and places I'd never heard of, and returning to old stomping grounds I know are top-notch -- or never fully or properly leveraged to its full potential. Keep in mind I'm an OLD DOG who's been promoting sites since the dawn of the internet - and I've taken the loooooooooooooooong, hard road to learn what Michelle presents in bite-sized, digestible chunks. Stepping through the process will teach ANY website owner so much about WHERE you need to effectively be participating in this ever-changing landscape of Internet Marketing.
As I review 30 Minute Backlinks action plan, I'm excited about where it's all heading. The first weeks of content that's already available - are about Laying Tracks: From URL and Directory Submissions, to building a diverse and free Web 2.0 blog network, Profile building, submitting to Article sites, RSS feed submission. 'Staking out internet turf' I like to call it -- Here, there, and everywhere there's a QUALITY link worth building.
As the process evolves, this sort of 'back-fill' supports the Persona, Presence and Authority you're going to become in your niche. Leveraging Real-Time Status sites (like Twitter, Plurk, Identi.ca, FriendFeed, FaceBook etc.) are going to be a huge part of a bigger 'Conversation' you'll be creating as more and more pieces of your content, persona and presence are skillfully placed.
I expect by the end of the 52 week plan I'm going to be rocking the web like I've never done before. Michelle's rollout will allow for new sites and opportunities to be added in the months ahead, and a chance to adapt and fine-tune to WHAT WORKS - TODAY as it evolves.
If, like me, your sites have suffered from the brutal Google Farmer, Panda, Fresh updates this year - It's clear we really need to double-down and get more things right - in more places than ever before. I can already see 30 Minute Backlinks is going to take my Mac backlink building skills back to the basics - and away from some of the low-ball krap-links I've futzed with as of late.
Tip: For those who take advantage of Michelle's offer: Get your copy-paste skills at the ready. Have a few short original articles prepared. Have profile photo/avatars sized and saved, a good 'About Me' snippet of text, Blog feed URL's ready to insert where needed. Yes, it's going to involve manually registering A LOT of accounts across the cyber-sphere. So create a '30-Minute' folder in your Safari or Firefox Mac toolbar - you're gonna want to bookmark EVERY site you visit along the way - so you'll have an easy way to return to them for updates.
Google HATES My Blog : STALE-Mate Leads To Check-Mate
Filed in: Blogging Trends
Been watching your blog's traffic dwindle down a death spiral this past week? Google's 'Fresh' update may be cutting hard and deep - and it's your fault. Complacency may be killing your site's traffic - especially if you're in a trendy or newsy niche.
It isn't just neglected blogs that are seeing traffic drops. Even static pages can suffer for two reasons:
#1. Fresh, time-stamped content is being given more visibility in the top of Page 1 search results. As such, other formerly high-ranking keywords may be getting pushed further down the page - or off to Page Two.
#2. If you haven't tweaked or 'freshened-up' your static pages in a long while - GoogleBot knows that nothing's changed - and as such may devalue it and consider it 'stale' content that is no longer worthy of being included in the Zen of 'Be here, Now' search results.
I'm sure the SEO Gods and Pro-Bloggers are already coming up with 'What You Can Do NOW to Survive Google's Fresh Update' posts. And maybe you should too. Cuz unlike some other quirks to Google's algo that weren't fatal - this one seems to have sharp teeth.
If you don't have 'skin in the game' (especially if your sites don't have true SEO authority like the Top 1000 do….) and prove you're an ACTIVE participant in content generation, well down the ranks you'll go. With no changes to a page's checksum since last crawl, or clearly abandoned blogs revealed by last post time-stamp -- Googles found an elegantly simple and brutal way to separate the chaff from the wheat so to speak - and cast a million more websites into the dustbin of dusty irrelevancy.
Back to the drawing board kids. It's time to revive that old blog with a sequence of new posts. Time to go over some of those long-neglected static pages and give 'em a fresh coat of paint… 'Publish - or Perish!'
It isn't just neglected blogs that are seeing traffic drops. Even static pages can suffer for two reasons:
#1. Fresh, time-stamped content is being given more visibility in the top of Page 1 search results. As such, other formerly high-ranking keywords may be getting pushed further down the page - or off to Page Two.
#2. If you haven't tweaked or 'freshened-up' your static pages in a long while - GoogleBot knows that nothing's changed - and as such may devalue it and consider it 'stale' content that is no longer worthy of being included in the Zen of 'Be here, Now' search results.
I'm sure the SEO Gods and Pro-Bloggers are already coming up with 'What You Can Do NOW to Survive Google's Fresh Update' posts. And maybe you should too. Cuz unlike some other quirks to Google's algo that weren't fatal - this one seems to have sharp teeth.
If you don't have 'skin in the game' (especially if your sites don't have true SEO authority like the Top 1000 do….) and prove you're an ACTIVE participant in content generation, well down the ranks you'll go. With no changes to a page's checksum since last crawl, or clearly abandoned blogs revealed by last post time-stamp -- Googles found an elegantly simple and brutal way to separate the chaff from the wheat so to speak - and cast a million more websites into the dustbin of dusty irrelevancy.
Back to the drawing board kids. It's time to revive that old blog with a sequence of new posts. Time to go over some of those long-neglected static pages and give 'em a fresh coat of paint… 'Publish - or Perish!'
Mac MMO - Making Money With Your Macintosh Computer
Filed in: Mac Website Income
There's a 1001 places and ways for an Apple website owner to MMO - Make Money Online. Affiliate Programs, Pay Per Click PPC, CPA earnings for when visitors perform an action, good ol' Adsense graffiti sprayed across your site and blogs... the opportunities are endless. But for many, they're also fruitless. You can spend a lot of energy applying to programs, building links, trying to get traffic -- and be amazed at how LITTLE money you can actually ever earn from much of your efforts. Or, wait months to meet minimum payout thresholds such as the magic $100 mark to get your first-ever AdSense payout, or 60+ days to cash in on Amazon sales. Ugh!
Mac Computer + WordPress Blog + PageRank 1+ = MONEY
Monthly Revenue Generation For WordPress Webmasters
One sure-fire way of reasonably predictable income from month to month is by 'leasing' space on your site or blog for link placements. If you're one of the tens of millions of Mac WordPress bloggers there's some interesting opportunities to get paid for providing room for sidebar links or blog posts with embedded contextual links on a month to month basis. You get free Theme-Related content posts for your site AND get to watch the dollars add up.
Especially if you make serious efforts to increase your PageRank - the value of these link placements earn higher month-to-month income as PageRank increases. With programs such as PostLinks.com - IF you have a PR1+ PageRank you can sell text links on your WordPress blog. And as your PR increases, your monthly payments for each and every link and post grow along with it. A simple WordPress plugin auto-magically handles the monetized link placements for you.
For new WP blogs still at PR0 -- There's still opportunities such as those through BackLinks.com to sell text links on your site by providing space for sidebar links, blog post placements, and in-post contextual links that can still be quite lucrative if you own a half-dozen or more WordPress blogs you're willing to set up in partial or full AutoBlog mode.
Mac Computer + WordPress Blog + PageRank 1+ = MONEY
Monthly Revenue Generation For WordPress Webmasters
One sure-fire way of reasonably predictable income from month to month is by 'leasing' space on your site or blog for link placements. If you're one of the tens of millions of Mac WordPress bloggers there's some interesting opportunities to get paid for providing room for sidebar links or blog posts with embedded contextual links on a month to month basis. You get free Theme-Related content posts for your site AND get to watch the dollars add up.
Especially if you make serious efforts to increase your PageRank - the value of these link placements earn higher month-to-month income as PageRank increases. With programs such as PostLinks.com - IF you have a PR1+ PageRank you can sell text links on your WordPress blog. And as your PR increases, your monthly payments for each and every link and post grow along with it. A simple WordPress plugin auto-magically handles the monetized link placements for you.
For new WP blogs still at PR0 -- There's still opportunities such as those through BackLinks.com to sell text links on your site by providing space for sidebar links, blog post placements, and in-post contextual links that can still be quite lucrative if you own a half-dozen or more WordPress blogs you're willing to set up in partial or full AutoBlog mode.
Mac Article Submitter - Article Samurai Early Bird Launch
Filed in: Mac Article Marketing
The good folks at NobleSamurai - makers of the world-class Mac compatible SEO software MarketSamurai - launched a companion product this week with a cross-platform Article Marketing application and DISTRIBUTION SERVICE for Mac or PC. With all the marketing hype you could expect: A teaser of roll-out videos, a limited enrollment 'early-bird' beta test, a time squeeze 'Slots are filling up fast!' and a 'Sorry we're full...' race to get in -- Article Samurai WAS available to the paying public at a discount briefly, and is now closed - until further notice.So what's in it for an Apple webmaster? It goes way beyond being an article authoring program and spinner for OSX, it goes beyond being mere free article distribution software for Mac. It's tied into an article directory and blog network SYNDICATION SERVICE that goes out to a Partner Network of potentially 'over 50,000' syndication sites to virtually guarantee ArticleSamurai subscribers are going to get more eyeballs, traffic and link-juice than the open, free-for-all mish-mosh that blasting open article directories typically does.
The software offers Keyword Research, SEO Competition, Content Research, Article Creation and ContentBoss(tm) Semantic Spinning, Submission, and Tracking modules.
Did I say subscribers? Yes. Because what NobleSamurai is offering is a monthly SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE at around $197 A MONTH that provides the PC and Mac compatible article submission software, quality approval staff, AND content syndication process services all rolled into one. Those who got in on the early-bird squeeze locked in at $97 a month for life. When registration reopens, it'll be $197 month to month.
I have no doubt (and their reputation is riding on this) that Article Samurai will deliver a ton of sheer SEO ranking power for your article marketing efforts like no other. That is the idea: to give the average Joe access to a powerful Content Syndication Network. That's a strategy the 'Big Boys' of Internet Marketing set up in-house to promote multi-million dollar corporate clients. The real key to unlocking the value of Article Samurai will hinge on whether you have the wherewithal to generate or out-source to obtain the high-quality content needed to continuously feed the system they've built.
Safari SEO Extensions For Apple Web Masters
Filed in: SEO Toolbars
A continued dribble of truly handy and unique additions of Apple webmaster tools continue to arrive as the Safari web browser matures. Recently one of my favorite Safari SEO toolbar extensions for Twitter is Buffer - which lets you line up and schedule links you'd like to Tweet. Another is the TypePad extension which lets you select web snippets and send them to a new blog post at TypePad. SEOQuake continues to be the single best SEO plugin overall - and remains critical for PageRank and backlink assessment of competing domains as well as your own sites.
One of my faves - SaveTO pops up an overlay for most of the top services that have the most SEO power and clout on the internet. Proof that sometimes less is more - a focus on that matters. The only problem I have with SaveTo is it's large floating toolbar may interfere with some top-page content or banners and cause quirky behavior.
The Safari 5 Extension Repository at Tumblr keeps up with the literally thousand of Extensions written to date, tho scouring the blog for Search Marketing and Social Bookmarking goodies can be tedious. Apple recently gave a much-needed redesign of their Extensions page with a Sidebar By Category which is a better layout. However Apple isn't listing all, or most, or the supposedly 'best' extensions - it's more like a 'Featured' Extension listing that's a great starting point, but far from comprehensive.
