You know how I know someone’s stealing your Top Commentator’s link? I constantly catch people doing it on my blog and then I do some research to backup up my theory with hard evidence. Well, it seems people have found a loophole to the Top Commentator’s Wordpress plugin and they simply benefit from it. Of course, when someone benefits from it another person gets their benefit taken away from them. Let’s work on getting this problem fixed.

How To Steal Someone’s Top Commentator’s Link

This information is only for educational use to build awareness and not intended on promoting hijacking of links.

For the record, I think this is unethical and a very cheap way of stealing someone elses’ work of commenting with their thoughts. But to do it, essentially you would find a name on someone’s “Top Commentator” list and simply comment using the same exact name and just enter in your website information.

Of course, that same person will probably be back to comment again but say it took them 20 comments to make it on the list, all the hijacker has to do is comment once and then they’ll be on the list in no time. Now all the hijacker has to do is just make a new comment after the original commentator makes another one.

Example of A Top Commentator Hijacker (With Proof!)

I’ve seen this done before, by accident and on purpose. You can hijack by accident if someone comments with their generic name. For instance, if I commented with “Jason” or “Jay”, I’m sure I’m not the only ones with that name that could possibly have commented. Though, some people obviously steal and hijack on purpose.

Here’s an example:

As you can see from the screenshot above, it doesn’t look like anything special, right? But why would someone try to rank in search engines for “how to articles” that leads to a health blog? Luckily, I spotted that from a mile away because the person who comments regularly on this blog with the anchor text “how to articles” comes from firehow.com. That would make more sense too… “how to articles” leading to a “how to” website.

Check out the screenshot of the real commentator with that anchor text above:

More Evidence This Person Hijacked Intentionally

So, I actually did some research because this type of thing kind of pisses me off. I mean, someone is taking the easy route and intentionally hurting other people’s hard work.

There’s this website called backtype.com and which you can look up where people are commenting and which website they are linking to. Of course, I checked them out there and it looks like they have been hijacking for quite sometime.

You can check out some of the comments, anchor texts they’ve been stealing and which blogs they have been commenting on here.

Let’s go over a few examples on other sites that support top commentators in which this person has been stealing from.

On Cashtactics, this person managed to comment as “Laptop Carrying Case” which looks like it belongs to Mezzi.com.

On Uberaffiliate, this person managed to comment as “Net Age Web Design” which looks like it belongs to netage.co.za/.

On Feedflare, this person managed to comment as “CB Predator” which looks like it belongs to cbpredatorreview.com/.

On Entrepreneurs-Journey, this person managed to comment as “Nicole Price” which looks like it belongs to Greatpriceshare.com.

On Jonathanvolk, this person managed to comment as “AffiliatePaying” which looks like it belongs to affiliatepaying.com/.

On Tylercruz, this person managed to comment as “SEO Tricks” and I would link to the original commentator but I couldn’t find it.

But you guys get the point, right?

How We Can Work Together To Stop This

I have to give some credit to this person (and any other people who hijack) because they found this loophole and they actually do take time to comment. Unfortunately, what they’re doing is still unethical.

So, what can we do to stop this?

Well, there’s only so much one person can do… but if we worked together then there will be a bigger impact. I already e-mailed this person informing them that I think it’s unethical what they are doing but never received a response. I mean, why would I? But here’s a few things we can do:

Remove Their Link – By simply deleting their comment is a great start so you’re not supporting their unethical link.

Blacklist Their Site On Top Commentator’s Plugin – All you have to do is add their URL to the Top Commentator’s “Filter URLs.” In case you don’t know how to do it, all you have to do is go to plugins – “edit” top commentators – and enter the website in the “filter_urls” section. Here is a screenshot below:

Spread The Word - Spreading the word simply helps fight against spammers and people who basically steal. Write a post about it, inform the blog owner’s that your link is being stolen, etc.

Fix The Loophole In The Plugin? – I personally don’t know how to fix it and have yet to contact the person who created the plugin but I’m not exactly sure if there’s a way to fix the problem. If there is, feel free to help out!

I’m sure there is a lot more we can do to work together to fight against thieves and if you can think of any, feel free to add it my list.

Conclusion

Again, I’m just speaking out on what I think is fair and obviously when people do this, it is equivalent to stealing. Don’t get me wrong, they are all legit comments and that’s probably why no one has really noticed but I’m just supporting the cause to help out.

If you had this done to you and have proof, let me know and I’ll add you to this post and give you a backlink to your website. Of course, please show detailed proof because I’m sure there are some people who will want to try to get a cheap backlink from me.

Hey, I’m just saying… it has happened before!

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Before I continue, if there are any authors who are interested in joining our team then feel free to drop me a note. We do have Adsense revenue sharing which appears on your individual posts. Though, to be fair to our current team members, you would have to post 10 posts before you are able to add your Adsense information.

Our site was running for a little over a month before we were accepted into Google News. We were building links and our traffic was steady but not extremely impressive. I think we eventually starting averaging around 100 visitors daily with a mix coming from search engines and other websites. The day after our site got indexed in Google News and our posts started showing up our traffic spiked to around 3,200.

Was this a fluke? I wouldn’t say it’s a fluke because if we post consistently like we should be doing then I would say the traffic should continue to climb.

The interesting part of all of this is every post that I manage to write gets instant traffic. And when I say “instant”, I mean we would probably get at least 100 visits to that one post within a couple of minutes, if not more.

Of course, it depends on the topic and if its actually appealing to readers and if its being searched for.

I know a few thousand unique visitors isn’t much to brag about but that number was based on the first day which I think is a very good stepping stone. It’s definitely far from the 50k daily but small steps will eventually get you where you want to be.

Anyways, that was just a simple update in case you guys were interested.

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It was a little bit of a relief but this morning I received an e-mail from “The Google Team” that started off like:

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your note.

Great news! This message is to confirm that we’ve reviewed and added your site to Google News. The inclusion of your articles should be processed within the next few days. Please retain this message and refer to it should you have any issues with your site in Google News.

Of course, the rest of the e-mail went into technical stuff that I need to do to make sure my articles are getting picked up.

So, what did I do to get accepted into Google News? Well, if you didn’t read my previous post that I linked to above, here’s a quick overview on what I did.

Quick Outline On How To Get Into Google News

- Created a professional looking news site
- Created an “About” page showing a list of writers
- Created a “Contact” page
- Created a “Privacy Policy” page
- Recruited a team that would post articles
- Posted at least three times a day
- Submitted to Google News to inclusion

Although, there are more details than that, this is just a quick outline on what I did. Eventually I’ll end up writing an eBook or some sort of case study going into every detail/step-by-step once I’m getting the traffic and revenue from Google News.

It’s funny because I know a few people who have their sites included in Google News and they have told me nothing but good news from it. Recently I had a discussion with a buddy of mine who probably just got his site included into Google News a month or so ago and he said he has been receiving around 50,000 unique visitors on a daily basis ever since.

How I Plan On Quadrupling My Adsense Income

Based on my stats on how to make $100/day from Adsense this should at least quadruple my earnings on that site alone.

Here’s how I estimated… first, I took an estimated 50k unique visitors on a daily basis (based on a friends similar site) and say three percent of those people click on Adsense ads. That would mean 1,500 have clicked on the Adsense on the site.

Now each click can vary, as we all know, but I’ll just take an estimate on the clicks that made me $100/day. The last time I went over that amount was on Sunday (I didn’t check yesterday’s stats) and it was around 400 clicks.

Now if I divide 1500 (estimated clicks per 50k visitors) by 400, I’ll get 3.75. If I multiply 3.75 by 100, I’ll get 375 which could potentially be my daily Adsense revenue. And if you multiply that amount by 30 days in a month, that would equal $11,250!

I know this is all estimates but you can always set your goal you should be hitting. On top of that, I’m not even including any other streams of revenue such as CPM ads, affiliate links or whatever else.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure I won’t be making over five figures monthly just off that one site but not only can I hope, I can actually work to hit that goal similar to getting the site included into Google News.

But I’ll keep you guys updated and if it becomes successful, then you’ll probably see a case study/eBook in the near future!

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Why Start A Channel On Youtube? Benefits?

Technically, I already have a personal one but I don’t use it. I think I created one years ago but forgot about it. But why should I start one for DatMoney? Well, there are a number of reasons and a big part of it is to take my blog to the next level.

If you’re an internet entrepreneur, you find ways to expand your business, take advantage of the opportunities that are in front of you as well as experiment on what works and what doesn’t. For instance, everyone takes advantage of social media sites like Digg and Reddit, social networking sites like Facebook of Twitter and social video sites like Youtube.

So, what are the benefits of starting a targeted Youtube channel for DatMoney? Well, it’s simple – money, traffic and subscribers.

Money/Additional Revenue Source – I’ll get more into it when and if I decide to go about this but you should be able to make money from both the Youtube videos as well as your own website. If you know me, you know that I try to have multiple revenue sources incase one dries up then I have a backup.

But again, I’ll go into full details if I actually do it for DatMoney.

Traffic – In the big picture, traffic equals potential money and subscribers. Not only that but you can brand yourself even more with videos and a expanded audience.

Subscribers – Everyone tells me that building a list is good and people always tell me how it will benefit me if I do it right. Well, let’s save that topic for some other time.

But you’ll want to get subscribers for your website but also for your Youtube channel. The reason why you’ll need it is to make money with Youtube directly in the future.

Downfall For Setting Up DatMoney’s Youtube Channel

There are a few downfalls I can think about if I were to set up a Youtube channel for DatMoney.

Lack of Time on Time Consuming Project – Believe it or not, you’ll probably have to spend a good amount of time with making videos. I mean, it’s not just point, shoot and upload. You have to know what you’re saying in the video, give examples and keep it interesting, edit the video, upload it and also get people to view it.

I’m sure there’s more to it but only if it were that easy.

Not My Ugly Mug – Personally, I don’t think I want my ugly mug on all these videos and there are ways around this but it makes it more impersonal.

Of course, one of my thoughts was to get a good looking woman to discuss my topics for me. But there are a bunch of downfalls for that in itself.

Providing Videos People Want to Watch – The whole point of this project would be to make money, get subscribers and get traffic but if the videos aren’t up to par then that would be strike one, strike two and ssstttrrriiikkkeee out!

If I were to set up a Youtube channel for DatMoney, more than likely I would go into full details and examples on how people can make money online, get traffic, build a website and a bunch of things most people aren’t aware that you can do online. I wouldn’t discuss everything I discuss here like site updates, personal stuff like rants and dedicated web hosting, etc.

So, Will I Start a Youtube Channel?

It’s hard to say because of the time involved in it. I’m actually considering doing it for something completely separate from DatMoney but the potential is there. The reason why is the fact that you actually don’t have as much competition in this niche on Youtube if you become a trusted source and separate yourself from spammers.

Of course, the hard part is to build that trust and, well, separate yourself from all those spammers.

But I had a chance to watch a couple of the “make money online” videos and they aren’t really helpful at all. If I can separate myself from them by going get full details then I’m sure it will be just fine.

Anyways, what do you guys think? Does anyone else have a somewhat popular Youtube channel?

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I have a relatively new site which is focused on entertainment type stuff. Of course, the site covers more than just that but the main theme surrounding it is entertainment. The reason why I started this site is to get included into Google News as well as blog about things I’m interested in, work with a team and hopefully make some good money along with it.

But in addition to that, it’s always good learning the process and gaining knowledge and experience in case I try to do this with another site.

Why Google News?

There’s a couple of simple reasons why. Obviously, Google is the majority of the internet and just getting into Google News would help just about any site spike in traffic on a daily basis… If you do it right. Basically, our team will focus on blogging on main topics people are searching for on a regular basis.

For instance, everyone seems to love celebrity gossip. We will blog about those topics daily and if you happen to search for that in Google, you may very well appear as the first search result in the “Google News” section.

And everyone should know that being one of the top three search results for a popular topic is gold.

Traffic gold = money gold.

Though, I read Google News only indexes your past two days worth of content so our team would very well blog daily to make our money and keep busy.

Plus, I have a few friends that have sites listed in Google News and tell me it’s definitely worth it if you put time into it. Also, a friend tells me that if you get the number one spot, the traffic spikes so much that it would crash a dedicated server!

I guess it may be worth it to crash my dedicated server for a little while because if the traffic spikes like that, I’m sure in that one day I would have probably made enough money to pay off my dedicated hosting for the entire year.

How I Plan On Getting Accepted Into Google News

Basically, you have to read their entire list of things to do to get accepted. There’s a lot of details and you can find it on their site. But these are some of the main things I’m going to do to get accepted. It’s nothing new because everyone is on Google’s site but some people just tend to overlook a few small things that may get you rejected.

Professional Website – I found a very clean and professional looking theme that fits what I’m doing with my entertainment site. But not only that, you also have to make sure you have an authors page, contact information, privacy policy, sitemap, link to Google, adjusted permalinks and so on and so forth.

I think those are the main ones but you also need a sitemap specifically for Google News. Luckily, there’s a simple Wordpress plugin for that.

A Team Of Authors - Google News will not accept individual author websites and I believe the more authors you have that post good content regularly, the higher your chances are with being accepted.

I have a few people on my team already who are working on this site with me but if you are interested, shoot me an e-mail. Though, I’m only looking for a few dedicated bloggers who are willing to blog about interests related to entertainment. It could be just about anything, really, but I would need some people are can post at least a few times a week.

Your Google Adsense would show up on your own posts so if you write about something that gets on the top search results then I’m sure you’ll make some damn good money.

Showing Our Authors On Site - Speaking of a team of authors, I heard it’s key to highlight who’s blogging on your site. For instance, you have to create a page listing all of your authors. In addition, I believe you have to make sure the name of the author has to be displayed on every post they write.

Again, GN doesn’t accept sites without a group of authors and I’m sure they have plenty of ways to check if you’re trying to trick them.

Lots of Content – You need lots of content and I believe each post should be at least 200 words. On top of that, there should be at least three posts being published on a daily basis.

Backup Plan

You know I always say “never put all your eggs in one basket” and although this site should have no problem getting into Google News (whether it’s the first time submitting it or second), you always have to have a backup plan.

I mean, I plan on making money by hoping to win the lottery but just incase that doesn’t work out right, I also have a job and I’m an internet entrepreneur.

But right now I’m also paying someone to build links for the site. And I mean, a lot of links and so far it’s working out pretty good. Well, as good as it gets for a pretty new site.

Conclusion

Again, I’m pretty confident that this site will get into Google News. Even if it doesn’t the first time around, they should tell us what to change and resubmit it.

If anyone is interested in joining the team with potential of making lots of money, feel free to contact me and we’ll see if you’re a right fit with our current team.

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Have you guys ever heard of rapidshare or uploading.com? They are basically file sharing networks in which you can get programs, TV shows, movies, etc you’ve been looking for. And there’s an easy file search engine that can help you find those exact things.

I was actually introduced to General-Search.com recently and their website has actually helped me in more ways than one. Besides being able to search for potential programs, shows and other files that I’d be interested in downloading for free, they’ve actually helped with getting lots of traffic. But we’ll get to that in a minute.

How It Works

If you’re looking for a file sharing search to conveniently find files from uploading.com, rapidshare.com and a few other sites then it’s made pretty easy for you. All you have to do is type in a specific keyword and it’ll pull up everything related to it and tell you which website the file is hosted on, the name of the file as well as the size.

Of course, if you happen to draw a blank on files you’re looking for then they also have a “top searches” and “latest searches” section which shows you the main keywords people are searching for. And this is how they helped me get tons of traffic.

How They Helped Me Get Traffic

Since this is a search engine directed specifically for files people are looking for, that means no matter what, someone out there is searching for where to find these files. And since they have the “top searches” and “latest searches”, the keywords are given to you right there. You could easily write some posts related to those searches because we know people are looking for them and it can help increase your traffic drastically as well.

And it’s definitely an interesting mix of keywords because some of them seem to be in other languages or something. Also, a bunch of them seem to be abbreviations that I never even heard of but like I said, it should definitely help regardless.

Suggestions

There’s basically one main thing I would consider changing about the site and its adding a sort option. I tried searching for different files but there was no way to sort by name, size, etc. I like things to be easy as possible especially since I’m lazy. And since its a search engine of files I’m looking for, I like to narrow down my selection if at all possible.

Conclusion

So, regardless if you’re looking for the right file to download or where to get those files from or maybe because you’re interested in what people are looking for then you should definitely check out general-search.com. Personally, I wish I knew about these type of search engines for files previously because its a hassle trying to search for them in regular search engines!

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As you know, there are only 10 search results that appear on the front page of Google when you look for something. So, occupying 3 of the top 10 slots are pretty valuable especially given the fact that almost all of the search engine traffic comes from that first page. And even more come just from the top 3 search results.

So, what if I told you there’s a way to get 3 of your sites… better yet, what if I told you there’s a way to get one site to rank on the first 3 search results? That would be pretty damn good, huh?

But in my instance, I would suggest using 3 different sites as it will probably be more profitable. The reason why it will probably be more profitable is because visitors who visit 3 different sites are more prone to clicking ads on each site. If they all come back to the same site and notice that, more than likely they will just click back on their browser and go to the very next search result… on a different site.

Okay, so how do you actually do this? Well, I mentioned that it was an “interesting” way and some people may not agree that this should be done. If you don’t want to read it, just don’t continue…

First of all, this does require some work and I would suggest staying away from keywords that have like a bazillion search results. And it’s much easier if you already have at least one blog with lots of backlinks, already ranked in Google, etc.

Well, let’s assume you already have one blog that is ranked in Google, has backlinks and so on… we’ll call that “blog A.” You create another blog (blog B) and or two (blog C) and write similar posts to the blog that is already ranked in Google, etc. If you’re lazy like me then I would suggest reading How to Get Free Content for your Blog for the content of the other blogs.

Now, within the post of blog A that is already ranked in Google, add a link with the keyword anchor text to blog B. Now use blog C to link to blog B as well.

Submit all of these social news and bookmarking sites. I wrote an article on how to submit to 47 social bookmarking sites in 15 minutes but you don’t have to submit to all of them, just a few.

Now for the next post, you don’t want to do the same linking process. You want to change it up. You should then use blog A and B to link to blog C… then blog B and C to link to A and so on and so on. And make sure you use the anchor texts.

I know this requires some work but say you’re making $50/day from blog A, you could very well make $100/day+ with the other blogs too.

Again, I’m still in the stages of testing everything out but I have done this with two sites and it has worked out pretty good for the most part.

I hope I explained this somewhat clearly. I’ll try to write a step-by-step detailed process with examples in an eBook… but well, I’m lazy so let’s hope it eventually gets released.

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This topic gets discussed quite a lot but a lot of people still don’t know how to get ranked higher on Google. Although, no one knows exactly how Google functions, a lot of us have tested out different things that have worked and just took it and ran with it. Of course, some of the testing that I have done seem to contradict in some ways which leaves a question mark for myself. But either way, search engine traffic has been key to a majority of my online income.

Before I go on, I would just like to point out that your sites layout and design really have nothing to do with you getting ranked higher in Google. I have built some of the ugliest sites just to get something out there and ranked and surprisingly, some of those ugly ass sites rank a lot better than my well designed ones.

Anyways, let’s get to the things that I know have worked and then I’ll follow with things I didn’t know before which seem to work now.

What Has Worked in Getting Ranked Higher in Google

Picking your Keywords – I always try to use keywords that I know will be searched for and the less competition that keyword has, the better. If you want to know how I do keyword research , check out that post. If you want to know the easy way of seeing how much competition a keyword has, just do a simple search in Google and put quotes around it.

For instance, “make money online blogging” and then you would see how many results you get back. It’s not always accurate but you can get a rough idea just based on that.

Titles – If you’re making pages, posts or whatever, those specific keywords you’re trying to target within that specific post should be included within your title. Personally, I try to put the specific keyword as the entire title rather than just the main ones. And so far, it has seemed to work just fine.

For instance, if you wanted to rank for “make money online blogging” then I would just use that entire keyword phrase as the title rather than something equivalent to “I make money online blogging doing some easy things!”

Both ways work but the second way would probably need a lot of more link building than the first. And in my experience, it’s a lot easier just putting the keyword phrase as the entire title.

Permanent Link Structure – Speaking of putting the keyword phrase in the post title, you should probably have your title included within your URL as well. In the instance given above, it should look like “http://www.datmoney.com/make-money-online-blogging.html” or something equivalent.

Text and Content - Usually if I’m trying to rank for a specific keyword on a post, I include that keyword phrase within the first sentence and I try to bold it. The reason why is if you have an auto generated description for search engines, it usually takes the first 160 characters and uses that.

For instance, I would start a sentence off like “I have used various ways to make money online blogging by doing X, Y, Z…”

In addition to that, I try to put as much content within the post without sounding completely repetitive or spammy. I set a 200 word weight as my average word count. Of course, I do this in addition so the correct Adsense ads show up.

Meta Tags – Meta tags do still work and if you use Wordpress and have SEO plugins installed, you can have it auto generated for you. But just make sure you choose the keywords specific to your website/post or else it might hurt you more than anything.

Headers – If you get a chance to use a header within your post, use that instead of bolding it. The reason why is the header tags get picked up by search engine bots a little better than just bolding it. And when I say “it”, of course I’m talking about your keywords.

Link Building is Key! – There are tons of ways to build links and it’s pretty important for you in terms of getting ranked for a specific keyword. The more backlinks you have, the more search engines look at your site as “important”.

Google Pagerank Doesn’t Mean Anything! – Don’t fall for these rumors on having a good pagerank means your site will get ranked better. Just as long as your site being indexed in Google, that’s all that matters. And yes, I know PR0’s getting hundreds of thousands of visitors…

Create a Sitemap – If you haven’t done it already, I would suggest creating a sitemap for your site. It’s not hard and if you’re using Wordpress it just takes a simple upload of a plugin to do it automatically for you. On top of that, I would suggest putting a link to your sitemap on your footer so search engines know to check it out too.

Things I Didn’t Know About Getting Ranked Higher in Google

Keywords in your Domain - I actually found this out earlier this year, if not, last year and it has worked miracles for some of my smaller sites. If you can manage to find a domain name that is still available with a highly searched for keyword phrase then buy it now! You can easily get ranked on the first page of that keyword phrase… or instance, if you had makemoneyonlineblogging.com, I can almost guarantee that if you did just the basic link building, you would probably outrank a lot of those bigger sites.

Google Dance – I actually didn’t know this and I found this out later. But there’s a thing called “Google dance” in which you’ll see a brand new site getting ranked higher than most sites. And the reason why it’s called that is the fact that the ranking dances up and down because it takes some time for Google’s updating system to process everything. So if you’re ranked first for a keyword and than 9th the next day, you might want to build some more backlinks.

Private Policy Page – Now I’m still in the middle of testing this out (I think its been about a couple of months) because it takes some time but supposedly private policy pages may help you rank better. I can’t back it up yet but either way, if you’re using Adsense ads on your site (which I’m sure you guys are) then you need to have it anyways.

Misspelled and Misleading – Although you can get lots of traffic from misspelled words, you can also tend to get in trouble as well. I used to use misspelled words to get search engine traffic but decided to stop especially since one of my keywords just cut out dry from any traffic. Though, I read that if you mislead with a misspelled word, you can easily get in trouble.

For instance, say you typed in “Gogle” and you find another site that’s claiming they’re the biggest search engine, I’m sure that will hurt you in more ways than one.

So, there you have it. I tried to cover the things that I reminded off the top of my head. I’m sure I missed a bunch but feel free to add whatever you guys know has worked as well!

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I can openly admit that I won’t understand search engines and I’m sure I’m not the only one. As of right now, my new posts are not getting indexed in Google for a lot of my sites and I’m now questioning why. But like I said, I won’t understand search engines fully and no one really will, but they can assume things by testing.

See, the thing I won’t understand about search engines are their algorithm and as I was doing my research, it seems as though no one except for Google will know how Google officially works. Let me give you a few examples…

People say duplicate content will get you penalized with Big G. But with testing, it seems as though you will only be penalized if the duplicate content is on the same website. So, if people are copying your content and putting it on their own page and they have a higher pagerank (or something that tells them their site is more important than yours) then their post will probably rank higher than yours.

Speaking of Pagerank, that’s just another topic that is meaningless. Supposedly, Pagerank (which I heard they’re kind of getting rid of, in a way) is used to determine how important a website really is; which is completely false.

A friend of mine was rocking a PR0 loud and proud and was killing with his traffic. I mean, he was probably getting tens of thousands of unique visitors, if not more, everyday. And then I hear so many people with PR3-PR5 complaining how they’re not getting a lot of traffic. Well, it has more to do with your link building and not really the Pagerank. Well, nothing to do with the Pagerank, actually.

Anyways, I didn’t mean for this post to turn into a bitching session but it seems as though a lot of my posts on various sites aren’t getting indexed in Google fast like it usually does. A lot of my posts usually get indexed within a day or two but it seems as though a few haven’t been getting indexed for the past week or two.

Matter of fact, one of my posts from a couple weeks ago was indexed and on the first page for a popular keyword and then the next day it seems as though it just dropped out of there.

I was doing a lot of research about this and the overall theme seems to be to just wait it out and eventually everything will fall into place. Just because it’s not getting indexed as fast, doesn’t mean its not getting indexed. And just because your post disappears after a day or two doesn’t mean it won’t show right back up sometime later.

Anyways, like I said, I don’t understand search engines because of how they work. I go with what has worked for me and build off of that. The bad thing about this is the fact that I sometimes rely on search engines too much… I mean, search engine traffic is essential when making $100/day from Adsense, you know?

Has anyone else experienced these problems of not getting indexed in Google or has your posts been on the front page for a popular search term and then disappeared sometime after?

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There are a lot of ways on how to get long tail keywords easily and you can use all these keyword programs for free or you can pay for them but they aren’t reliable all the time too. And if you definitely pay for those programs, there’s a easy and free way of getting these long tail keywords.

Did I build up the hype for it yet? Probably not. So, let’s continue…

What Is a Long Tail Keyword?

You know I realized that a lot of people who come here or are subscribers of mine are brand new to the online entrepreneurship stuff so they don’t know all the terms and stuff. So, I’m going to try to explain things a little bit so people can follow along without having some sort of blank stare at the computer screen (or iPhone or whatever nice gadget you have).

Long tail keywords are phrases surrounded by a specific keyword. Long tail keywords are specific phrases that people search for. They are generally more targeted than the generic keyword itself which could lead to a higher conversion rate, more subscribers and simply more traffic from search engines. Let me give you an example…

Say your generic keyword is “money”, then your long tail keywords could be something like:

- make money online
- money making ideas
- how to make Adsense money
- DatMoney is the best website ever

Okay, maybe people won’t be searching too much for that last long tail keyword but I figured I’d toss that in there anyways.

How Can Long Tail Keywords Help You?

I quickly mentioned it already but long tail keywords can help you in numerous ways. Long tail keywords will help you get more traffic, particularly targeted search engine traffic. Of course, not only will you get more traffic but since it’ll be more targeted, it will lead to higher conversion rates on whatever you’re selling (if anything), possibly more clicks on your ads and or a increase in your subscribers.

In addition, long tail keywords are generally easier to rank in search engines because they have less competition and search results compared to the generic keyword.

Either way, you should benefit from this and hopefully get some more money in your pockets.

So, How Do You Get Long Tail Keywords Easily?

Well, I hope I built up the hype for it enough. I’m sure a lot of you guys are going to be extremely disappointed with what I’m about to tell you but its something people tend to overlook or not take advantage of. But it’s basically taking advantage of any search engines auto-fill features.

See, that was easy. Disappointed? You shouldn’t be because the search engine auto-fill features give you tons of long tail keywords and if there is any auto-fill long tail keywords, that means people are searching for it.

In my example with money, I started to type “make money” into Google and this is what came out:

So, just based on those few long tail keywords I got, you can make a specific niche just off of that.

Or you can implement that same strategy and apply it to what I wrote in How I Increased Adsense Earnings by 40 Percent.

There are a lot more ways you can benefit from it, just have an open mind and again, just take action.

Any questions? Feel to ask!

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