Pros:

1. Has a massive database of words / synonyms for you to easily replace whole slabs of text in your articles
2. Easy peasy interface. Low low learning curve. Almost as easy as just hit the button and watch it roll
3. Cheap. Only $77 a year. If you don’t make that money back in a month.. you’re not using it properly

Cons:

1. It costs money to make money

My Affiliate Link to TheBestSpinner – thanks for the dosh

Previously had huge respects for Chris Pearson, starting from his Copyblogger theme and then moving on to purchasing the full developer version of his thesis theme.

Today, when I was researching some unrelated topic, I stumbled across the interesting debate between Matt Mullenweg and Chris. I thought this must be huge. The creator of wordpress singling out Thesis and sledging it publicly on twitter. In a war, there can only be one winner…

And after watching this Mixergy Interview, the winner clearly was Matt. I mean c’mon it’s like pitting some small time app developer against Steve Jobs.

Personified’s personality is down the gurgler and I have new found respect for Matt. Chris was obviously overly emotional and took it too personally – a big mistake going out in public when you are not in a calm state. On the other hand, I am very surprised at how relaxed and to the point Matt is. Kudos to Matt for staying rational even when Chris clearly was not.

Things that killed Chris for me:

1. He basically tells Matt to either sue or shut up – wtf?!
2. He has copied slabs of wordpress code and doesn’t know it (yet)
3. He thinks he is in the holy trinity of wordpress gods – seriously!

Selected comments:

The thing that has become most apparent from listening to this interview, is that Chris’ ego is at least the size of Texas. – Thomas Millner

After hearing this conversation, regardless of what I think about the topic I feel very turned off by Chris. I won’t be buying Thesis, and as a resident of Texas I can say his ego is even bigger than Texas. He won’t even close his mouth long enough to hear someone, and calls himself in the top 3 important people in WordPress.

I’m 100% on Matts side, software that requires another piece of software should respect the license of the parent software. GPL says all things running on WP should be GPL. Period. Chris’s business would not be hurt by going GPL, in fact I believe it would give it more credibility. – Jeremy Wilkin

It’s unlikely, but Chris, I want my $87 back. This interview underlines the manic, self-promotional crap that I’ve heard from Pearson before: After I bought Thesis, I subscribed to his twitter feed, then quickly blocked it, because he overshares and rants. And by manic, I do mean emotionally disturbed. He could have his premium theme revenue and show love to the WP community, but instead he obsesses on the WP dev team’s “ideology,” which he seems to think is preventing his success. To get more business from people like me—people running WP business sites—he needs to provide actual support, and communicate his dev plans on time and in detail. To get more revenue through affiliates, he needs to care about and invest in quality interaction with users. Who goes into interviews so unprepared, with no numbers, and says crap like “I don’t want to look that up right now.” Apparently, Chris Pearson. -Dale

Sue that jerk. I respected Chris until I heard this interview. What a prick. Why would you slander the guy who built the platform you are profiting from? Dude, chill out. Put your ego in check. Take an Ambien. Stop ruining your reputation. – Jacob

I can’t believe how many wordpress themes out their tag themselves as seo-friendly and some even have seo in their theme name and they don’t even do the #1 most important use of the h1 tag. Do yourself a favour if you’re a theme designer and use the following:

The h1 tag should be used for the blog title or blog description but only on the home page. On all other pages, we should relegate it to a h2 at most and put more relevance to the post titles by promoting them to a h1.

To do that, make use of the is_single and is_page wordpress functions in your header.php and alternate your h1 h2 blog title tags:

<?php if(is_single() OR is_page()) {
// On single post pages and static pages we use this code
?>
<h2><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h2>
<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
<?php }
else {
?>
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div class="description"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></div>
<?php } ?>

Now in you single.php and page.php, update your the_title() to h1

<h1 class="single"><a rel="bookmark" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"></a></h1>

Now because we are using the h2 and h1 tag in the header interchangeably, make sure you style.css caters for both and they look the same

#header h1, #header h2 { font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 25px; font-weight: normal; padding: 0em 0 0.2em 0; }

do the same for the post title h2 tags in the home page if you need to.

Did you know that Sylvester Stallone was dirt broke, with barely $100 to spare, and down for the count, before he rose to international stardom in Rocky?

March 1975, Sly watched the Mohammed Ali vs Chuck Wepner fight. Chuck was a nobody club fighter who went the distance with Ali – sound familiar? Sly spends the next 3 days and nights writing the screenplay that was Rocky I. He submits the script to United Artists who initially offered him $20,000 for the script only and apparentely Burt Reynolds was pinned for the lead Balboa role.

Sly instinctively knew that he was on a winner but for this to be his ticket, he had to be the lead actor. A few negiotiations later, United Artists up the stakes from $20k to $100k, and eventually $300,000 but didn’t want the risk of an unknown Sylvester Stallone playing such a crucial role. Sly didn’t give in, and eventually United Artists offered him the initial measly $20,000 and around $340 a week for the acting role (the minimum acting wage). Obviously, the rest is history. Best Picture, Best Director, Best Film Editing, grossing in more than $20 million, and propelling Sly to phenomenal success with Rocky I, II, III, IV, and V, and Rambo I, II, III, and IV.

The moral of the story? Listen to your gut, and hang in there.

I never liked the idea of article marketing. Spending my limited time writing articles for other people’s sites just for one backlink. There are many quicker ways to get backlinks. This was until I started using Link Farm Evolution. Now with each backlink I get from these article sites, I max out their link juice by pumping hundreds of blog posts to them. Some of this filters through to my money site and those that do are worth gold! I wish I could pump the links to my own ‘third party’ sites but these articles directories are already established and have the trust factor that I need for the mass linking to stay under the radar.

The List in Alphabetical Order

1articleworld.com
4rum.info
a1-articledirectory.com
a1-optimization.com
a1articles.com
ad-matrix.net
adwords-articles.com
alternativeenergybase.com
amazines.com
article-buzz.com
article-idea.com
articlealley.com
articleammo.com
articlebase.com
articlebeach.com
articlebin.com
articleblast.com
articlecache.com
articlecity.com
articleclick.com
articledashboard.com
articledepot.co.uk
articledoctor.com
articlefeeder.com
articlefever.com
articlegeek.com
articleinsider.com
articlesender.com
articlesfactory.com
articleson.com
boconline.com
businessnation.com
buzzle.com
easyarticles.com
easyezinearticles.com
ezinearticles.com
free-articles-zone.com
goarticles.com
guidemegreen.com
healthguidance.org
iguides.org
my-articles.com
powerhomebiz.com
prolinkdirectory.com
site-reference.com
theallineed.com
thewhir.com
webpronews.com

I read a great story some random blog that I can’t remember (I’ll insert link here if I find it again). I’ll summarise it anyway:

A businessman sees a fisherman at a small Mexican village coming in from sea with a small catch of fish.
The businessman asks, ‘Why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more fish?’.
‘It’s enough to support my family. I sleep late, fish a little, take a siesta, play with my kids, catch up with friends… I have a full life’
The businessman gets agitated and brags about his Harvard MBA, ‘I can help you become more successful. Just spend more time fishing to get yourself enough for a bigger boat. Hire more people to catch fish for you. Start a business and eventually you could have an empire and expand the enterprise globally.’
The fisherman looks perplexed, ‘How long with that take?’
’15, maybe 20 years’
‘And then what?’

Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take a siesta, yadi yadi yadi…

Classic! Moral of the story is, you may be where you want to be already. And also, don’t spend too long chasing dreams, climbing the wrong ladder, when you may already have all you need.

I don’t normally get excited about a product but Link Farm Evolution or L.F.E for shorts blows my mind. Commenting on Do Follow blogs is dead. Read that again. Commenting on Do Follow Blogs is dead. It was HUGE in 2008 and vandalised to oblivion in 2009. Google has caught on and now do not add much (if any) weighting to links in the comment section of blogs.

What’s the next best thing to blog commenting? Having your own BLOG FARM. No it’s not the next best thing. It always was the BEST thing. The only problem with your own army of blogs was that it took forever to manage. You could be good and carry 25, maybe 100 blogs but the time required was too much to justify the seo benefits. Especially if your farms get red flagged and sandboxed.

Enter Link Farm Evolution. This baby auto does just about everything except for writing the blog posts for you.

• It finds, registers, and authenticates your blog registrations (WPMU blogs, WordPress.com, Tumblr, Blogger blogs)
• It allows you to post to 1000s of blogs in one batch job
• It supports article spinning
• It has plugins to hook into Flickr, Associated Content, RSS Feeds, and Google Translator
• It auto-solves captcha’s – I don’t know how they do this but it looks like a monkey on the other end actually reads and types the captcha code!
• Submits news and comments to PLIGG sites
• It has total control of your blogs. You can click on one link and it auto logs into your blog for you to let you do what you like in the admin interface
• Auto deletes blogs that no longer work

Man, the list just goes on and on but you get the drift. This baby has the capabilities to register thousands of blogs for you with a press of a button. No more filling in forms and clicking authentication links in your emails. This baby keeps all your blogs in the database you so you keep track of and manage your blog farm with consummate ease.

All this may sound and look like black hat but it isn’t and doesn’t need to be. Think about it. Google actually wants you and instructs webmasters to go out and build more links to their websites. If you control all the websites and actively manage & keep them up to date, you will have control over thousands of juicy links that Google will absolutely love. Remember, these are real blogs on real sites – no footprint, no dodginess. Nothing to set it apart from the millions of blogs out there. That is because they ARE real blogs.

I’ve been using LFE since the new year and I now have 1803 blogs of which 229 have been marked as not working. The link juice going to my money sites have been awegasmic. My sites literally get crawled the instant I update it. I’ve NEVER seen that crawl rate before. I’m not kidding you, when I update my sites and then google for my own site, it has next to the serp – updated 26 seconds ago. How frickin sweet is that!

The only problem I have with LFE is that it is too fricken cheap. They should price this at way over $1000 so the newbs don’t come in and trash it.

Buy it through my aff link and hit me up if you’ve got probs with the software.

Next up, I’ll try and post some tips and tricks I’ve been using to manage your blog farm to keep it legit and passing juice long time. It automates a crap load for you but, yes, you still need to think and actually do work.

Arne’s google sitemap generator is the best sitemap plugin period so rather than use anyone else’s custom wpmu sitemap solutions, I’ve opted to hack Arne’s.

Way back in 2006, I used to hack the default InitOptions() function to use a manual file location. Nowadays, I find it much easier to just change what it thinks is the default location.


function GetHomePath() {
/* comment everything out and just have the following line */
return ABSPATH . UPLOADS;
}

Next, I need to make sure that the wordpress upload directory has already been created.

function BuildSitemap() {
global $wpdb, $posts, $wp_version;
$this->Initate();

...

That’s it. Simple. Now just redirect all requests for the sitemap to the generated file location. Here I use .htaccess files

#sitemap
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml$ wp-content/blogs.php?file=sitemap.xml [L]
RewriteRule ^sitemap.xml.gz$ wp-content/blogs.php?file=sitemap.xml.gz [L]


That’s it. Works for Google Sitemap Generator v3.2.2

Well, months down the track, I finally gave it another go and stumbled on an idea. I’m sure this is not new but I’m also sure that not everyone’s thought of this.

Here’s what I did.

1. Create a poll based on a contentious topic of the week. Use google trends or yahoo buzz for ideas.
2. Find a nice one field submit campaign. MaxBounty has heaps of these, more so than any other network I’ve seen.
3. Put the affliate link behind the poll buttons.
4. Here’s the killer. Add the text, vote and enter your email to get XXX!!!
5. Hit Adwords with as truck load of keywords related to the topic.
6. Bank!

Here’s an example of one of these pages. This example uses the $250 Free Grocery Gift Card campaign from maxbounty.

Interview with a Link Spammer

It’s from 2005 but it’s still really relevant. A few points of note:

• ‘Sam’ is a link spammer. He spams websites and blogs with text to pump up the search engine rankings of sites pushing PPC.
• He’s not some 16 year old kid. He’s 32. That makes him 36 now.
• He writes automated scripts to comment spam en-mass.
• He uses open proxies to avoid detection
• Apparently results 8,9,10 have better conversion rates than 1,2,3
• He earns a 7 figure salary doing this. That’s a MILLION up!
• It’s completely legal. Link spam is different from email spam. It’s hard to argue the difference between a person using a computer to post a comment, and a person using a computer to use a computer to post a comment

Me and ‘Sam’ share some similarities. We’re both in the SEO business. We’re both hunting for links back to our sites to increase their SERP. We both comment on blog posts. Here’s where this guy and myself differ tho. Sure it is legal, but ethically what ‘Sam’ does sux. The fact that it is all automated means that he leaves the same or similar comments on all blog posts.

• I take the time to read the posts
• I manually make my comments and try to add value. The way the blogger actually wants by allowing comments in the post.

Sure you can make a million bucks doing what he does, but I think he crosses the line between good and evil. Don’t be a bloody spammer that everyone hates. Be a commentor that everyone loves to have on their blog.

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