SEO Project #1 - Ranked #1 For My Top Keyword - Update #21

29 December 2008

A few weeks ago, I noticed an increase in traffic from one of my project sites TaxLienProperties.net.  After some checking, I realized my site was now ranking #1 for my primary keyword in Google. At first, I thought it was no big deal. I’ve had my sites bounce all over the place [...]

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Tracking Clickbank Conversions From Google Adwords And Other PPC

14 December 2008

Google AdWords is the “King of the Hill” in the PPC arena.  Every year, I spend north of $150,000 in PPC ads with 80% of my spend going to AdWords.  For those around  less SEO savvy, (myself included), AdWords is an excellent medium to drive targeted traffic to any site.
To be successful with AdWords or [...]

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Barack Obama Birth Certificate - Is President Barak Obama A U.S. Citizen?

09 December 2008

I’m a sucker for political discussions. I try and stay as educated as possible on current political events. I wasn’t a huge fan of either Presidential Candidate. It was another year where I was left voting for what I perceived as the lesser of two evils.
When I ran across this post, How [...]

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Computer Virus - Lost Access To Control Panel And Shell.exe Error On Startup

07 December 2008

I did something stupid the other day, I downloaded software from a site that was questionable at best. I should have listened to my first instinct and not done it. If I would have, I wouldn’t have got the computer virus that caused my system havoc.
The virus took control of the administrator’s access [...]

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Mozilla Firefox Locking Up Frequently and Slow At Times - Download Upgrade

07 December 2008

I’m a Firefox user.  I was very frustrated with Firefox for a while. One of the releases I downloaded was frequently locking up and using all my system memory. It would never fail, I’d be in the middle of an important task and Firefox would lock up and I’d lose my data. [...]

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JC Penney Site Hacked With Porn Redirects

07 December 2008

Yesterday, I was searching for some software and Google showed me a listing for the national retailer J.C. Penney.  I was a little curious why J.C. Penney would have a listing for software and when I clicked the link, I was redirected to a porn site!
I’m not sure how this hack works, but the redirects [...]

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Forum Post Robot Review

03 December 2008

Last night, I built a new forum site at http://www.taxlienstrategies.com/. By this afternoon, I had over 200 posts and just as many members. I’d love to say I’m an SEO genius and had ranked the site for some high traffic keywords in less than 24 hours, but that isn’t the case.
I’m trying out [...]

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Building Page Rank With BackLinks - Sprudio.net - Site Review - Part 4

03 December 2008

One of the most important aspects of SEO is off site optimization. This comes in the form of backlinks from other sites. A backlink to your site is like a vote. Theoretically, the more votes your site gets, the higher you will rank in the search results.
In Google’s eyes not all backlinks [...]

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