GPWA Times Magaine - Issue 23 - February 2013

auto-log-in and auto-post features. In- dustrialize your Twitter and Facebook promotions with TweetAttacks, Tweet Adder and Facebook FriendAdder. These tools even allow you to scrape your competitors’ followers. • If you choose to use this tactic you will also need to use OverPlay for Tweet Adder to rotate your IPs. You can also hire people on Five IT for $5 to create Twitter accounts. • If you use Facebook FriendAdder you will need the phone numbers for verification that Facebook requires. I buy “tokens” from Vodafone. 12. If you are targeting a brand (term/ name) the maximum ratio of inter- nal links and external back links for the brand as the anchor should be 20 percent. New Press Time Update – Super Bonus SEO Tips I was testing this technique when I initial- ly wrote this article, and therefore did not include it. I have since received definitive results and must share it because of its di- rect relation to affiliates. Super Bonus Affiliate Tip 1. Create a Google RSS reader to target terms you set up to monitor target key- words in Google Alerts. For every keyword you can create an RSS feed by sticking the “&output=rss” to the end of the URL. Like this: http://news.google.com/news?um=1 & ned=us&hl=en&q=google&output=rss What you end upwith is a relative content feed that can be used to populate your website/blog with widgets/plug-ins. 2. I use WordPress, Drupal and Magento, and most other popular CMS templates have a utility like the “juggernaut” for WP. This is the tool mentioned earlier. It changes your preselected keywords in the content and changes them into a link that goes to a page on your website that you designate. 3. Install the plug-in “RSS to Post” or “WP-o-Matic.” This pulls the content from your RSS reader and posts it as if it were a post. These posts have links. These links go to your site. 4. Speaking of following, the next thing to do is to buy Tweet Adder. This tool is cheap and powerful and I won’t be cov- ering it in depth but this is a tool that builds followers and hosts tweets auto- matically. You can target followers of related groups or people. In my indus- try I would target Webmaster World’s followers. I auto-follow 100 per day, and 20-30 will follow me back. I have Twitter accounts with thousands of fol- lowers using this tool and technique. 5. Okay, so you have your “to follow” lists uploaded into Tweet Adder. From here you can add lists of auto-responders that you create such as tweets, retweets, re- plies and thank yous that also have links and references to your product/brand in them. What I have done is to set up the RSS feeds (from the blogs that are being fed by Google Alerts) to auto-post to my Twitter accounts. Extra WP Tip Add optimized images to your posts (“featured image” option on WP) and tags with the keywords that you used in your Google Alerts. You will very quickly show up in the top results where you see everyone else’s images showing. Endgame So what you have now is fresh content being automatically fed to your website. This fresh content (Google News, for instance) is being pushed to your tweet list members that are interested in this content. The content being pulled from your site also has links from the jugger- naut plug-in. These go out in your tweets and also get republished on sites that scrape other website RSS feeds. So, more links! Oh, and it’s all automatic. Conclusion We will continue to see major changes to Google search results andGoogle will contin- ue to “move the goal posts” on a regular basis. Although our jobs are in SEO and our will is to rank well, as SEOs we onlymake up a frac- tion of a percent of the people using Google. Is Google intentionally making it harder for SEO and SEO tactics? While they do engage in ongoing dialog with SEOs and webmasters, this dialog is more about improvements to the search results. Bad sites are removed from your results, and that gets you the relevant results that you searched for. So Google does not have it in for SEOs or affiliates; they are just trying to do a little clean-up. Good content, regular content, relevant links and applying latent semantic analy- sis to all of the above is what will work. There is no easy way around it, either. It is all about your unique, relevant and valuable content. And these days, content is more than just written words. If there were an easy way, everyone would be doing it! Gary Beal (a.k.a GaryTheScuba- Guy) has been doing SEO since he was a super affiliate in the gaming industry. He has spoken at over 50 confer- ences, published dozens of articles in affiliate and gaming industry publications and is best known for his “Top 12 SEO Tips.” He has worked with most of the big players, but he is known by most affiliates as the Gaming Guru of SEO. 35 Top 12 SEO tips for 2013