Things aren’t going as well as I’d hoped with the list building, but I’m a newbie that’s not going to give up and today I want to let you know what I’m doing to get things back on track;-

Alex Jeffreys says if you have a problem, you need to ask yourself a series of questions to find a solution.

My current problem is that nobody has signed up for the eBook on my “Profit Pulling Platform”.

So I asked myself why?

These are my reasons / excuses that I need to resolve;

• Visitors to my blog are primarily Alex Jeffreys students that are blog hopping; as such they have an identical product.

• My PPP is ranking on the third page of Google, so nobody is finding it.

I needed to find a product that visitors might want.

Well everyone wants to generate traffic and one of the ways to generate traffic if by creating a back link from a Squidoo lens.

Pot Pie Girl is a work at home mom that has become an authority figure in affiliate marketing ‘Clickbank’ products through the creation of Squidoo lenses.

She has written a fantastic Free 55 page step by step guide called ‘Squidoo 101′ which teaches newbies how to create a Squidoo Lens.

Contents include:

• Creating a Squidoo account

• Avoiding the ‘Magic Builder’ (an easy way to control how you build your lens)

• Adding content

• Adding links

• Publishing your lens

• Adding Pay Pal

I’m working my way through the guide now and will report back on how I get on both with the guide and the effectiveness of Squidoo for my Internet Marketing.

Now onto my other problem: How to improve your Google page ranking.

I decided to check out the what other students were doing on Google to see if I could pick up any tips.

When I searched on ‘List building with Alex’ I found a former AJ student and on their blog was an article explaining who won Alex’s Google Ranking competition.

The winner was Jim Gallagher from Ireland and on his blog, Jim outlined the importance of Google Page Ranking and by using a Page Rank Checker before posting on other sites how he was able to get a page ranking within 1 month.

Below is an extract from Jim Gallagher’s post, after winning the Alex Jeffreys traffic challenge with 41,152 visitors in 18 days (which led to 778 sign ups).

When posting your websites to a blog or website, try to find sites with a Google page rank.
Sites with a good Google page rank get crawled by the Google spider more often.
The higher the rank the more they get spidered, and the quicker they get indexed on Google.
So if your site URL is on one of these sites you will be indexed on Google quicker.
It will also help you to get a Google page rank of your own fairly quick.
This blog was set up on 5 December 2008 it was a new site with a new domain name.
By 3 January 2009 it had a Google page rank of 2. This now means I get spidered by Google many times a day, so new content will be indexed fairly quickly by Google.
You can check out websites Google page ranking on numerous Web resource sites.
There are many of these, below is a link to one, just enter the URL name and it will give you the rank for that site.

PR Checker is a Free tool to check Google Page rankings at any web site.

Needless to say, when I checked my blog, the page rank was zero.

Well, lets see what happens if I follow Jim’s advice.

If anyone has any suggestions for improving Google Page Ranking, please feel free to add them into the comment box.

Thanks
John

But not all sites are equal in the eyes of Google.

Back in 2005 Google’s “Webspam” team, came up with an HTML attribute (rel=”nofollow”), that tells search engine spiders whether the links in a webpage should be given credit or ignored.

So it is worth understanding the difference between “nofollow” and “dofollow” links.

 

“NoFollow “- Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site?

• Paid Affilliate Links
  The page rank of your site is taken into consideration when Google processes the links it finds and that kudos is passed on to the ranking of the link site.
  Google doesn’t like paid links, they see it as an artificial method of the selling site gaining a higher ranking.
  To hide paid affilliate links it is worth adding the HTML attribute “nofollow”.  

• Blog Comments
  Many authority sites are aware of blogging tactics to gain ‘link juice’ by simpley posting comments that add no value and wish to block it.
  This can be done through a widget such as ‘Delink Comment Author’ or by adding the “nofollow” attribute.

Is there a DoFollow Attribute?

No, basically by NOT using the “nofollow” tag, search engine spiders can crawl the content and evaluate the links. 

Why does this matter for linkbuilding?

If the reason for commenting on a person’s blog is part of a strategy to increase your search engine ranking, it’s important to know if the site uses the “nofollow” attribute before spending time commenting on it.

How to identify a “Do Follow” blog.

• Look at the blogs source code to see if it uses the ‘nofollow’ attribute.

• Find a “do follow” list similar to my previous post.

• Use Free software “The Real Link Finder” tool.

This free software allows you to find blogs specific to your niche. You enter your keywords and the software searches for “dofollow” sites with your preferred parameters. In addition, their is a useful feature that populates a blog with your name, email and website address, saving you valuable time.

For more information and your own copy of the software visit: http://www.reallinkfinder.com

But be aware; Just because a site does not use the “nofollow” html attribute, (which means that a  comment posted on that site will be picked up by search engine spiders), doesn’t mean you should add a lame comment like “nice blog” or “good idea”.

Your comment must add value.

It’s more than likely that the administrator of an authority site will moderate comments.

So if you add a comment  without adding value, at best your url may be stripped away and in many cases your comment will be marked as spam.

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