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My French Bulldog and SEO - FrenchieTink.com

I just thought I’d inform my readers on what’s going on with my blogs and I.

I just went on a cruise to the Bahamas, San Martin and St. Thomas. I had the time of my life and enjoyed every minute of it, even though I couldn’t wait to see the new addition to my family. Prior to leaving for my cruise I had to puppy-proof my home because I was going to pick up my French bulldog puppy the day I got back to San Diego.

Last month I started a blog FrenchieTink.com for my frenchie in hopes to gain tips and advice on raising a French bulldog and to keep our breeders, friends and family updated on how Tink is doing. Well, I already have some haters visiting the site. Even one of the commenters (I feel) threatened me.

Here’s a piece of his comment. Full Post: Mean French Bulldog Owners

“If you continue to delete the truth from your blog by erasing honest, considerate and polite reply’s I can assemble 100’s of loving French Bulldog bloggers which will inundate this site and every posting it holds!! So be carefull.”

I’ll take 100 frenchie-loving bloggers. Send them right over.

This guy can’t even spell careful, is he serious? I wanted to laugh when I saw this, but a series of comments prior to this one made this a very serious and touchy reply. All these guys are frenchie owners that hate breeders they don’t know. I found out my puppy’s 3 generations and she even has champion in her blood. But, since the breeders I got her from don’t pay to show Tink’s mom and dad in shows, they decided to spread hateful comments across my blog.

So what James? What does that have to do with internet marketing? You may ask.

Well these guys have given me a reason to learn everything their is about French bulldogs and frenchie breeders. They have forced me to further research the industry so I can reply to them with knowledge. Plus, he said he’s going to assemble 100 bloggers to inundate every post FrenchieTink.com holds. This guy doesn’t know that I can go get 3 times as many links (frenchie ones at that) pointing to my site before he could even email all of his frenchie companions to “inundate” my site. I love SEO and website marketing. My favorite part is competing with other websites. This guy’s comment pretty much sent FrenchieTink.com to the top of Google for the term “French Bulldog”.

Google “French Bulldog” now and see where FrenchieTink.com is located on the SERP’s and then check back again a month from now.

On my ip address and with my sign-in, FrenchieTink.com isn’t even in the 1st 100 sites for the terms “french bulldog” and “french bulldogs”. But, I am number 61 for the term Frenchies, which was the original term I was targeting.

Who caught that I was using this post to create a good french bulldog link to my FrenchieTink.com? I plan on doing a little link tunneling with this post too. ;)

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Internet Marketing Time Management

My girlfriend wanted me to spend some quality time with her last night. I told her “tonight might not be a good night for us because I wanted to knock out some tasks for one of my personal sites“. She asked with impatience “how much more work do you have to do until that site to will be done?” I laughed… She asked “What else do you have to do? Maybe I can help.” So I just blurted out some tasks to her…

I have to upload all my pictures, videos and html files to all the torrents. Before that, I must make sure the files are watermarked and have keyword-rich file names so they show up on searches and get downloaded.

I have to go into one of my flickr accounts and find all pictures related to my site and comment on all of them to get internal links (build pr) back to my profile. Maybe even comment with a link to the site that I am promoting.

I have to go to socialmarker, start a profile, submit my site and other resourceful sites to every site possible.

I have to create various ads to post in various cities on free classified sites like craigslist and kijiji to build a some awareness.

I have to create some type of press release/top 10 tips/tutorial and distribute it to every press release/content site and hope for it to get picked up.

I have to convert the press releases to PDF files and submit them to PDF directories, then convert all PDF’s to PAD’s and submit them to software directories.

I have to start a ebay profile with keyword-rich, website related content with links back to my sites and create an Amazon account and recommend some books I have read relating to the industry.

I have to go and comment on every blog related to my site that I’ve found interesting.

I have to create a banner to add to banner exchanges.

I also have to submit my site to every free directory on the net…

She got the point immediately.

It’s an on going process that can’t be done tonight.

Before she could say anything, I remembered what my co-worker Jeff said to me. When creating a list of all the tactics you plan to implement, estimate the time each tactic will take, determine the projected impact/results you think they will make and the cost. Use these metrics to determine the urgency and importance of each tactic. This way you can see what’s fast and free, then what takes a little more time but still free, what’s fast and cost money and so on. Or you can sort it by impact results. What’s fast and will have the greatest impact, what will have the greatest impact and is free, then what will have the greatest impact and take the shortest amount of time and so on. All this is based on your own goals.

I said to my girlfriend, “just you asking me that question definitely makes me realize that my internet marketing time management is all out of whack“. So instead of actually working on a tactic last night, I created a list of all the tactics I wanted to do and carefully thought about how important each tactic was compared to the other. Based on cost, time and projected impact.

I learned very quickly that my time estimates were off and that my tactic order was all wrong. This was also great to do because I was forced to think about (research) how much of a difference ‘tactic A’ will make compared ‘tactic B’ and ‘C’.

So I wrote this just to remind myself that taking the time to properly plan out my strategies can actually save me more time and can help me achieve my goals faster.

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Link Tunneling Explained - Link Building SEO

define:link tunneling

Get links from all the sites linking to your competitors and from all the sites linking to the sites linking to your competitors. Then if you can’t get links from your top competitors, seek to get links from all the sites your competitors are linking to … Link Tunneling.

Here is the JameSEO way of describing link tunneling…

The main point I’m trying to make is, if you can’t get links from the big boyz in your industry, try to get links from the sites they are linking to. SEO Chat has a great tool called the Site Link Analyzer. Use this tool to see who your competitors link to. You’ll be surprised how easy it is to get one from those sites.

Join the community…

Hope you enjoyed my definitions of link tunneling.

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SEO Video - Keyword Placement

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A few places to place your keywords on a webpage…

Then I remembered more places…

“The search engines look at many factors. They look for the words throughout the page, both in tye visible page and in the HTML source code for the page. Each time they find the word, they are weighted in some way. A word in one position is “worth” more than a word in another position. A word formatted in one way is “worth” more than a word formatted in another”….

“You’re putting keywords into your web pages in such a manner that the search engines can get to them, read them, and regard them as significant.”

“If a search engine finds the relevant keywords on your page, that’s good. If it finds the keywords in the right places on the page, theat’s a really powerful thing that differentiates your page from your competitors’.”

Peter Kent: Author of Search Engine Optimization for Dummies

I can quote Pete all day, but that wouldn’t be fair to his book. If you haven’t read it yet, it’s never too late!

background image could be named a keyword too. 

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