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A new free article linkbuilding system

February 22nd, 2010 by Henrik Flensborg

I’ve always loved systems; not the guru-type systems where all they do is rehash a technique that’s been working for years and launch it under a fancy name, but systems that somehow automate a normally manual process.

Another thing I like my systems to have is transparency; I like to know upfront what I’m getting into so I can evaluate the potential of the system before handing over my money.

Today I got an email about an article link building system that just immediately clicked with me.

I could see what it did, and the priciples of how my articles and links would be distributed within this article directory network made sense to me.

I’ve yet to put it to the test because I wanted to let you know about it as fast as I could since there’s a chance of getting some nice launch discounts.

Personally I’ve gone for the free version, but they also have a paid version that have some nice features compared to the free version.

I know that I’m not likely to take full advantage of the paid version, but if you’re currently doing a lot of article marketing either through your own writing or through rewritten PLR content, then the paid version might be suitable for you.

I’m currently launching a new niche site, so what better way to test the potential of this linkbuilding / article marketing system.

The only backlinks I have at the moment are from a dozen domain stats pages, and none of them are indexed by Google yet, and only one link is indexed by Yahoo.

So I’m really starting from scratch with my linkbuilding.

The success of an article linkbuilding network lies in its ability to distribute the articles to a wide variety of IP addresses, and doing it gradually so the linkbuilding appears to be normal.

This is especially important for a fresh domain where hundred or thousands of inbound links in a very short time is almost certain to get your site sandboxed.

It’s the perfect scenario to set up a controlled test, so remember to check back later for progress reports.

The link I provided is an affiliate link, but it’s not just like any other affiliate program.

Normally you’ll only benefit if people you refer go for the paid version, but here you also earn link credits from people you refer and people they in turn refer when they post an article.

This is a brilliant twist from a system point of view since this encourages people to spread the word and this in turn helps create the much needed IP diversity.

SEOPivot Review

October 21st, 2009 by Henrik Flensborg

Today I’ve given SEOPivot a test drive.

The idea behind SEOPivot is to take a look at the indexed pages of your site, see where they rank in a gigant database (500000 commercial keywords) of SERPS and then estimate how many visitors each page would get if it was ranked #1 for the keyword.

When you have a SEO optimized niche site you have researched a collection of keywords you want to target.

You have then created SEO optimized pages targeting these keywords – one targeted keyword per page.

But there might be long tail keywords that you haven’t thought of.

Or your site might have a more organic feel to it – a blog or a forum – where you are not targeting specific keywords.

A good SEO practice is to go through your server logs once in a while to see if you can spot any of these long tail keywords and then either optimize an existing page for them or create an entirely new page.

But what about those long tail keywords that you currently rank so low for that you newer see a hit in your server log?

Well, this is where SEOPivot enters the picture.

If any of your URLs are listed in the top 300 positions in Google for any of the 500000 keywords they will show up in SEOPivot.

From there it’s just a matter of going through the results and see where you have some low hanging fruit.

Long tail keywords generally have little competition (at least compared to keyphrases made up of just a few keywords), so any URLs ranked will be relatively easy to optimize for the long tail keyword.

I just tested the free version which allow you to check 10 websites per day. The downside to the free version is that it will only list the 5 URL’s with the highest traffic potential.

There is a 1-day option which in my opinion is suitable for most webmasters – it will let you check 100 websites, and will bring back a list of the top 1000 URLs from that site.

The last option is a 30-day option which will let you check the same number of websites per day as the 1-day option and with the same number of URLs reported. This basically boils down to checking 1200 websites in 12 days before the 30-day option is cheaper than 12 1-day accesses.

I put SEOPivot to the test with this website just to see what it would show me.

So I entered henrikflensborg.com in the search box and hit ”Search”

SEOPivot listed 3 URLs – or more precisely – 1 URL but listed for 3 different long tail keywords.

It turns out that my blog post about an article by Alex Cleanthous about split testing has the potential to bring in around 600 hits per month for 3 different long tail keywords. This will most likely not translate into 1800 hits per month since it’s likely that these 3 keyphrases will be used by one person and they will probably only visit my URL once.

There were absolutely no thoughts put into any keywords when I made that blog post – I just read the article by Alex and decided to share it. So if I with minimal extra work can get several hundred more visits to my site per month then it’s all worth it.

So, how about your own websites? – go check them on SEOPivot and find out.

Brute Force Keyword Generator not working for me

October 9th, 2009 by Henrik Flensborg

I’ve been trying to get BFKG to work since yesterday without any luck.

Version 1.2 is out, but I still can’t get it to work.

I’ve tried disabling my firewall (COMODO), my anti-virus (AVG), my anti-malware (SpyBot S&D) and the firewall in my Router (Belkin) – and still can’t get it to work.

I’ve tried installing BFKG on another computer – with the same sad result.

There are no errormessages from the program, so I have no close why it’s failing.

I truely hate it when an otherwise promising program fails like this – it just starts, seems to chew through keywords or URL’s and then end without producing neither results nor errors.

I’m testing Brute Force Keyword Generator by Peter Drew

October 8th, 2009 by Henrik Flensborg

I’m currently testing Brute Force Keyword Generator by Peter Drew – will let you know how it goes.