I’d like to rank for the keyword but using white hat methods or at least grey hat.    

At first I didn’t see any way but now I think I was a bit hasty.

There is a way.    

If the site became popular really fast or gave the appearance of that being what was happening.

It would be a matter of either getting people to talk about the site or giving the appearance of people talking about the site.

Again, given enough time you could create 100’s of what would appear like real profiles and have those real or at least real looking profiles start talking about and linking to the site.

Normally a site that is 100% on topic will push pass authority sites like Amazon and sometimes even Wikipedia but seeing as how I’ve already got sites like that in the top 10 me creating another one isn’t going to help out very much.

I could do a redirect and build links to the redirect and try and use that as a buffer to somehow protect the site.  By doing that I forfeit an aged, good domain name for a domain name that is really good for nothing once all is said and done.

And if that isn’t bad enough it might not even work so you forfeit everything for nothing.

If we are going to do that we would need to combine it with something else to increase our chances of being able to pull this thing off.

We could post 20 unique articles a day on the site.   

Each article posted could automatically set into action a certain set of things that would happen throughout the social media sites.

For example I could automatically pin my photo, like the page, and tweet about it the second it was posted.  If I sprinkle this out into the web 2.0 properties it could give me a little boost.

I’ll then build links back into those web 2.0 properties.        

The problem is duplicating the content on the social media sites and the lack of desire for putting out content that looks any crazier than the way I normally write.

I need a way to filter out exactly what is being posted and how much of it is being posted.  It needs to work in the backend of WP and appear under every post.

I’ll look into this and see if someone has already made one.

But all that is nothing more than the icing on the cake.  That alone isn’t going to make this site rank for midsummer and I am not willing to sacrifice a good domain name for nothing more than a hope and a dream.

Now one site that does bring me hope is http://www.midsummer.se/.  As a matter of fact there are three week spots that I see and that is in results number 5, 6, and 9 and all these are exact match domain names.

As a matter of fact those results look more than doable.  Let me do a little more research into those three sites.  Okay, so if we don’t get banned I think I can get us in the top ten fairly easily but a number #1 ranking is a whole other story.

I’d like to see if I can’t push by Wikipedia.

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But what’s everyone else saying?

Well…it looks like Shoemoney let his midsummer competition post go with unanswered questions.  Maybe he’s got some insider information, his post would sure lead you to believe so and there is a way to rank for midsummer if you had some inside knowledge and information on what was happening.

When I found out about the competition I went looking for answers and checked out a couple forums and blogs but was unable to find out anything.  So I wrote this post here and waited.

Nothing…

So I did a little research and found out there are a lot of people in a lot of different languages talking about this competition and most of them seem to have a lot more knowledge about what’s going on then what we’ve been given.  For example, they knew we were going after a competitive keyword last week.

So…it would only make sense that if small groups of people in different languages have different information, there would be small groups of people with access to even more private insider information.

As you and your buddies start to put together the impossible SEO contest you decide that what would be even better if you and your buddies where to win it. 

The contest was most likely a year or so in the planning. 

Once the keyword was chosen you could go ahead and start purchasing some domain names, building sites and begin the slow job of ranking those domain names for those keywords.  Your not looking for a top ranking just some good solid link juice.  Let’s say you’ve got 100 of these types of domain names building up back links and becoming an authority in Google’s eyes.

When the competition rolls around you just do a 301 redirect on all those sites and your home free.   

Of course I don’t really believe that’s what’s going on.  People like Shoemoney wouldn’t be willing to put their reputations on the line for that kind of game.

But it does seem a bit strange that they are looking for black hat SEO’s.   

The only company I can think of that would be looking for black hat SEO’s is Google.  With that being said if I did mess around and get the formula just right to rank for the keyword midsummer in the month or so this competition last I am not sure I would advance to the next level as I would be too busy building affiliate sites and ranking them.

Being able to rank for a competitive keyword in just over a months time from start to finish, with a brand new domain name would allow you to make your own money where you could purchase your own Porsche.

And that’s pretty much what I heard the finial round was. 

Translating from one language to the next isn’t easy but from what I could understand the finial step has something to do with affiliate marketing.  Maybe it’s who can sell a certain amount of the clients product.  If you can sell $200,000.00 worth of hair pieces in 30 days you win the Porsche.

These people should be ashamed of themselves.

But at the end of the day it comes done to your reputation and I believe that Shoemoney cares more about his reputation then to get involved in or at lest vale-ch for some kind of shady deal.

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Dun dun dun dum …

It tells a story that is furious, has a champion, but is mystifying.  The amazing part is it does it with only four notes and that’s what makes it so easy to remember.

It’s what we have to do with every piece of content we write.  But we need to take a look at a couple onsite things because Google is using how someone interacts with your site to determine rather your site should rank were it does or not.

I normally like to use this tool here for testing the site out http://gtmetrix.com/.

I am looking at things like;

1. Keyword Density – is how often a word or phrase appears in the content.  If you’ve got 1,000 words of content on your page, and your target key phrase appears 30 times, the keyword density for that page would be 3%.  If you’re trying to rank a page for a certain term, make sure to keep the keyword density around 2%.
2. The <title>tag – is one of the most important tags.  Every page should have its own unique title tag.    Even though the title tag is not part of the visible content it can be seen in the tab of the page.Keyword density and length do matter.  You should keep the language natural and try not to repeat keywords.  Google only sees the first sixty characters.
3. The URL is also important.  Using the key in the domain name, path, or in the filename, will help with ranking the site.
4. H1 – every web page should have one <h1> tag.  This is the tag used for the title of your content.  This is the content that tells the web visitor what the page is about.  Since the search engines also use this tag to better understand what your page is about you want to make sure and use your keyword in the tag.This tag should be meaningful, interesting, and only as long as it has to be.  It should also come along with the <h2>and <h3> tags.  These tags are the titles for your subsections.  Keeping the content read-able and useful while trying to repeat your search terms, or variations of them in the <h2> and <h3> minor tags can be difficult some times.
5. Body Content – You want to use your keywords on the page in a natural way.  Just keep in mind that content that is higher in the code will be weighed higher.This of course means the content at the bottom of the page carries less ranking weight than the content at the top of the page.
6. The alt – The alternative text should always either be descriptive or should provide information and the act to be performed for a clickable image.  It helps if you can use your keyword, or some part of your keyword.
7. Internal links – are links that come from other pages on your site.  You could have a page called cars and link the keyword cars to that page.  Of course you would want to set it up to alter the anchor text.  You might use something like cars for sale, newest cars on our site, cars and so on.Internal links can boost the link juice flowing to the page.  If you were going after a moderate competitive keyword, had some decent site wide link juice, over 3,000 pages you could dominate the search results, using nothing but internal links.  Of course a better way to do this would be to group pages together and have each group supporting a different page with a different search term.
8. Meta Tags – go in the <head>section of the page.  They are not seen on the web page.  They tell the search engines certain things about the page.  The most common are the keywords and description tags.These tags don’t seem to help any with your rankings, at least not on Google.  Google does however use the meta description in the search result.  So…make sure it gives an accurate description of what’s on the page and what it’s about.
9. Images, - videos, audio and pdf files should be self-hosted with keyword in the name of the file.
10. Pages – have an about us page, contact page, privacy policy & terms pages.
11. Code – is clean and error free.
12. Everything – is compressed.
13. Sitemaps – for landing pages, images and videos.
14. Redirected – non-WWW to WWW.
15. Internal – links from articles or pages where appropriate and vary in anchor text.
16. Social Media Pages – (twitter, Facebook, Google+ twitter etc.).
17. A nofollow – link to an authority website in niche.

This will be the first steps in my on site optimization, the rest will be done while split testing.

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“I hate writing. I enjoy having written.”

Unlike Dorothy I love the act of creating, rather it’s content, a logo, background color, or a presentation.

But when creating content it’s a good idea to remember the Bible when God said there is nothing new under the sun.  While I can approach a topic from a different angle, different idea, different thought pattern, and different background, I am still rewriting someone else’s idea.  The reason I bring this up is because I am thinking about joining a contest that is being featured by an unknown source.

It’s a BlackHat contest and if I draw up enough courage to go through with it this will be my site.   

I did a crazy monkey logo with the idea of being able to buy a domain name that has the keyword in it by just adding monkey to it.  Then my logo is unique and relevant to the keyword we are trying to rank for.  This allows me to hit Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn while everyone else is fighting for their domain name.

I really can’t do a whole lot at the moment because I have no idea what keyword they are going to use.

What I can do is set me up a generic template that is loaded with all my content and ready to go live.  Then all I’ll have to do is tweak the content for what ever topic we are going after and set up my social profiles and it can go live in the first 24 hours.  I do believe that Google is the one behind this contest so I am not sure if putting the content online is such a good idea at the moment.

Of course when I say I think Google is behind all this it is only because I can’t imagine a big company wanting to find the best Black Hat SEO’s in the world.     

Black Hat (when it comes to SEO) is all about automating.  When you start automating everything the quality rapidly goes out the window.  It’s the reason I can’t imagine why a company would be looking for a Black Hat SEO.

Either way they are giving away a Porsche and I’d like to have it so I entered the contest.      

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It has mystified musicians, historians and philosophers for over 200 years.

Dun dun dun dum …

Short enough to be remembered and just enough of a hint of something sinister, violent, and mysterious to be memorable.

Those four notes are what I look at when creating websites, profiles, links, and content for clients.

Search engine optimization is what I call it and it’s a full contact sport, complete with a web of lies, shattered dreams, and a wake up to reality.

The guys that are good at it can make a hacked site feel like a bowl of soup after they finish with you.  I guess what I am trying to say is if it’s not legit, I would find another group to poke a stick at.

This brings me to this 2013 Blackhat SEO challenge.

I don’t see very many people talking about it.  Shoemoney did a post on it with the last comment calling the post a fake.  Shoemoney didn’t respond to the comment but maybe that’s because it’s the weekend.

The site appears to be hosted in Germany and getting most it’s traffic from Poland.

Now that seems strange!

There are no sponsors on the site nor is there a forum or blog.  Despite all this I think enough of Shoemoney to believe the contest is legit but a couple things to think about.

• Why no sponsor listed?
• Why a Porsche?
• Why a point system?
• And most of all why Blackhat SEO’s?

Blackhat is giving a green light to every program, link building scheme, and automated piece of software available on the net.  Blackhat is saying we want you to get dirty.

Now…why would any legit company want someone to play dirty?

I can see wanting the best but why would they want you to get down and dirty?

Hmm…there is one company that would like to see you get down and dirty and it would make sense they wouldn’t want to tell you who they are.

I want mention any names but their initials are:

Google!

But then why a point system?

They want to watch us manipulate Facebook, Youtube, Google+, Twitter and so on?

You get a point for each platform you manipulate?

Or could it really be a legit company behind it?

I mean…why a Porsche?

Shoemoney says we get a job offer and a Porsche at the end of this thing but could you imagine the SEO community if it turned out to be Google?

Could Porsche be looking for the best of the best when it comes to SEO’s?

Maybe they want to market a new Porsche and want to see how well it can be marketed through the search engines.  Maybe the point systems are certain things they feel the SEO should be able to do…like write.

But then why BlackHat?

Does Google want to know how we are still getting around their system?

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Since we are doing SEO I want get into all that, other than to say that I’ve made a lot of money with social media marketing and I think not taking advantage of it is a disservice to your business, employees and customers.

If that is not reason enough to take advantage of social media marketing then Google forces you into SMM for SEO.

When using social media marketing along with search engine optimization your able to do so much more with your linking.

Here’s what the first round of links will look like.

This will be the initial run.  After this we will set up a Facebook Page, WordPress blog, and so on.  Now keep in mind that these sites don’t need long lengthy articles about the product.  I can write one sentence that says, “has anyone tried this?”

While “this” would be the anchor text in this sentence, there would be another couple thousand that will use your keyword as the anchor text.  For each of these sites there will be another group of sites linking to them.

WordPress is one of my favorite sites so let’s look out how WordPress will look.

Manager Your Online Reputation With Off Page SEO

Once all the onsite SEO is done you will most likely not see any increase in traffic, unless you’ve already done some offsite SEO.  On-page SEO counts very little in the big SEO picture.

For a web page to compete it has to have links pointing to it from reliable sources.  This is where off-page SEO comes in.

If you Google the search phrase, “Computers” you’ll notice both Apple and Dell fighting it out for the #1 spot for a very competitive search term.  What is interesting about this is that neither Dell nor Apple mentions the word “Computers” in their content!

So why do they rank #1 and #2?

The answer is inbound links.  This ranking shows the Power of Inbound links.  Inbound links are nothing more than links to your web page from other pages.  Incoming links are seen as votes for the page they link to.  And the content of the link, such as “I love SEO” provides the content for the vote.

To rank high in the search engines we need the Internet to validate the on page content by voting for the page with anchor text that lines up with the content on the page.

Four factors that are involved:

1.   Number of inbound links
2.   Relevance of linking pages
3.   Link juice
4.   Anchor text

The value of inbound link can vary big time.  For example a link from a page on the same subject is worth more than a link from a page that is on a different subject.  Of course the most important factor (at this time) is the amount of link juice a page has to give.

Google Gives Each Page a (PR) Value

In most cases the more inbound links a page has, the higher its PageRank.  The higher its page rank the more link juice it’s able to pass to our page and the higher our page ranks.  Of course the link juice is divided between all the outbound links from that page.

More On PR

A “nofollow” HTML markup tells the search engines the link is not trusted and not to pass any PR to it.  So there is more value in getting the followed links then in getting the nofollowed links.

Just to break it all down for you;

1.  The higher PageRank is better than the lower PageRank.
2.  Links from pages that are relevant are better than links from a page that isn’t relevant.
3.  The less links on the page with your link the better.
4.  The Higher you link is on the page the better.

Link Building

I guess you can tell that links are pretty important to your success.

It’s the reason so many companies pay people to do nothing but find and create links for them.  Link building is nothing more than trying to get other sites to link to yours.

Here are some of the methods they use:

1.  Contacting the owners of other websites and asking for a link.
2.  Offering a link, in return for a link.
3.  Creating other sites on similar topics and placing a link back to your page.
4.  Adding comments to articles or blog posts
5.  Posting messages on social networks (like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Digg, del.icio.us, Reddit, and so on) with links to your page.
6.  Submitting articles to sites that contain backlinks.

The best way to do this is to play the game the search engines want you to play.  It’s all about putting out awesome content and using that content to drive traffic back to your site.

People want to read content that is valuable, interesting, and original.  Of course people are more likely to link to and share content that is valuable, interesting, original, and talks directly to them about a problem they are experiencing.

It wouldn’t need to be long thousand plus word article.   A short bit of content written directly to someone with an answer to a problem they are experiencing is all you need.

This would require creating landing pages with a wide range of pages that are written on different subjects, each one short, punchy, unique, and genuinely valuable: all useful factors for making good link bait.

At its highest level, SEO actually becomes PR.

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This is my full time job and I no longer do SEO…well other than for myself and a small select group of clients.  I do this 7 days a week 15 hours a day, so I deserve a little break.  And there is this SEO competition that just staring me in the face.

There are a lot of reasons not to compete in this competition.

For example:

Who knows if it’s legit?

We’ve got no sponsors or for that matter no way to talk to the people who are putting on this competition. The task should be impossible.

To take a brand new domain name and rank it for an extremely competitive keyword in 45 days.

It’s not possible and the people putting on the competition know it. Links don’t pass the full link juice for months.

So this means;

1. You need more links then the competition.
2. You need better quality links then the competition.
3. Those links have to appear natural.
4. You have to make the anchor text appear natural.

Now…because the anchor text has to appear natural you have to use some anchor text like “click here”.

Of course none of that can start happening until after the site is finished, optimized and set up with unique content.

I’ll get into all this a little more later but has you can tell there are a lot of reasons not to enter this competition.

So why am I entering?

What if I am wrong?

What if there is a small bit of space where just the right website, with just the right amount of link diversity, with just the right amount of social signals and link juice can squeeze in?

It’s not about the competition. It’s not about who wins and winning doesn’t mean I am any better than the next guy or gal but what if someone does everything exactly like I would and they win?

Can I live with knowing I could have won and didn’t even try?

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This is an incredible piece of software designed to get your website a top ranking and protect your reputation with social media sites.  Every website that is ranking for a competitive keyword currently shows social signals from sites like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn…

We’re not alone in this realization.  SEO experts from Search Engine Watch to SEO Moz are saying social signals are a ranking factor.

Here’s how it works. 

Step 1:

We purchase a domain name, set up hosting and design a custom designed WordPress blog.  This blog is not associated with the business, it’s just a guy or girl that has a blog and from time to time link out to your site.

But every time a post is made it links out to social media profiles on social sites like:

Social shares are the New SEO.  By creating these social sites with names that include your business name they not only rank for and protect your name but it gives your website access to these very links that allow you to go after and rank for the most competitive keywords in your industry.

The process of automatically posting on these social sites is a built in feature of the blog we design for you.

Step 2:

We use an automated program to create 50 social media sites all with similar names to your business.  We then log into these sites and remove the scrapped content and replace them with an original design and original content.

We optimize these social sites for your main keyword and your business name.   

Step 3:

We need Google to find these new social sites so we create some links from:

1. High Pr Approved Article Submission
2. High Pr Bookmarks
3. High PR Profiles
4. Social Signals
   Twitter – retweets
   Google+ – likes and shares
   Facebook – shares
   Pinterest – likes & repins
   Stumble Upon – likes
5. High Pr Wikis
6. Tumblr & Weebly Blog Submission
7. Hi PR Manual Web2.0 Submission

These links will makes these sites start to rank but to speed up the process we need Google to find the links going to our social profiles as fast as possible.

Step 4:

We’ve got our 10 main social sites that are currently getting links from:

• 20 Manual Web 2.0 Submission (PR 4)
• 150 Approved Article Submissions (PR 1)
• 150 High PR Wikis (PR 2)
• 150 High Pr Profiles (PR 1)
• 1 Tumblr Blog Submission (PR 8)
• 1 Weebly Blog Submission (PR 8)
• 20 Retweets
• 20 Google Plus Likes & Shares
• 20 Facebook Shares
• 24 Pinterest Likes & Repins

Now what we will do is for each of these sites we will get links from:

• 10 Bokmarks per site
• 3,000 Wikis
• Linklicious.me
• Ping

This system not only protects your reputation but it puts an end to fighting for new customers, more traffic and higher rankings and does it all with very little effort on your part.

Let’s say you decide to launch a new protect, being able to go to a blog and post information about it from an outside source that’s able to reach thousands of potential clients would be a powerful tool.

From an SEO side – having several accounts that can all be controlled from one location is also a feature.

Basically, every time you or I write a post it submits that content automatically to up to 18 social networks, with just a single click!  In turn this allows lightning fast indexing and gets you the backlinks Google, Bing and Yahoo love.

An even bigger benefit is the free traffic that comes from the social networks with every new post! 

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Want to know a powerful secret weapon you can use in your quest to protect your online reputation?

This amazing secret weapon is called a habit.

Developing better creative habits is one of the most valuable things you can do to protect your online reputation.

One afternoon after work I stopped by my attorney’s house to say hi.

As I walked in I could hear him yelling to his wife, “I’m not hungry.”

As I walked in he sat with a blank, vacant stare, but I could tell his mind was running a mile a minute.  He picked up an ashtray and slung it across the room and his eyes caught mine.  He threw his hands up and yelled,

“I’ve worked months on this project.”

Then he said with a slightly lower tone, “I’ve spent thousands of my own hard earned money.  This was the job I would retire on.  But it’s all lost.

Not because of an upset customer, upset business partner or even upset friend.

“No!”

This job was lost because of my daughters x-boyfriend.

Can you believe that?”

I was shocked and unsure of how to respond.  As we talked a bit longer I would come to learn that the daughter had broken up with the boyfriend after being instructed to do so by the father.  The boyfriend being unhappy about the new arrangements lashed out and accused the father of all kinds of untruths online.  On a site called RipOffReports where anyone, can say anything, about anybody.

The deal was all but done…up until the potential client did some last minute background checking and came across some disturbing information.  But the damage is done.  The client is lost and it will take months to repair the damage that has been done online.

My friend had to change his habits!

He no longer comes in, after a long day of work, and cuts on the TV.  He now has to come home and hit the Internet, making friends and increasing his reach for his online social media profiles.  In the process of my friend changing his habits he slowly feel in love with the social media sites.  He loves helping people with legal problems online (at no charge) and it has become his passion.

His business has grown larger than he ever dreamed it would and he has found an old passion that he had once lost.

You don’t have to wait for someone to start posting bad reviews about you online.  By starting now your able to drive businesses to your website, improve your customer service, products, website and build a wall of protection against bad reviews, misinformation, and misunderstandings.

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Srinivas Rao graduated from business school in 2009, into one of the worst U.S. job markets since the Great Depression.

His intelligence and knowledge of his subject matter allow him to extract the very best out of every interviewee, and he has built up a rabidly loyal audience who can’t wait to get his next episode.

That came from Copy Bloggers website.  Those guys are really awesome but I think they missed the boat on this one.  It takes more than just a knowledge of your subject matter.   You’ve got to be able to package it up and give it away.  And the packaging is what really matters.

I write better if I am confined and forced into being creative.

So I like designs that force me into being creative.  The design I am using for the SEO competition does just that while keeping it simple and easy to work with.  I originally started off with the idea of building the website around midsummer.

I was going to have a page for different famous people that where either born on or died on midsummer.  I spent a full day laying out the content before I started getting depressed at the thought of all the time I had lost and hadn’t accomplished anything.

I was writing about a lot of stuff I knew very little about. I felt like time spent researching information, I would never need again, for a competition I would never win, was more then I was willing to risk. So I decided to change the topic and make the website about the competition and not about midsummer. It hit me when I saw Midsummer House rankings for the keyword Mid Summer.

Good thing Google doesn’t grade on design because if they did I don’t think MidSummer House would be ranking there.

Their website looks more like a menu.

They have no idea of the amount of money they are losing by not using their website to it’s full potential.  But then who knows maybe they don’t need the money.

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