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Archive: February 2007

15 reasons why I don’t do link exchanges

1. I get 100’s of emails everyday from people wanting to do link exchanges, some of them are rather rude.

2. A lot of times people will remove your link after a week or so.

3. It is believed that the major search engines discount reciprocal links.

4. There are a lot better ways to get one way links without doing link exchanges.

5. If the site you have link exchanged with goes out of business you end up with a site full of dead links.

6. Most link exchanges will never send you any traffic.

7. A lot of link exchanges end up on small islands with no incoming traffic.

8. Link exchanges can end up on a page with thousands of outgoing links.

9. Link exchanges create a neighborhood and the people your neighbors exchange links with become associated with you. If they don’t do good it can affect you.

10. People will use nofollow tags in your link exchange.

11. Link exchanges are very time consuming.

12. A lot of people feel that link exchange emails are equal to spam. By sending link request emails people associate your company with spammers.

13. Maybe it is just me but I see sites that are listed on link exchange pages as being struggling small business and the ones sending me emails in even worst shape.

14. Link exchange software leaves a foot print and can get you banned.

15. There are a million ways to get both better and faster links than doing link exchanges.

I use to do link exchanges when I first started my business but have since learned to hate them.

Stupid People

I try not to get into debates with people but sometimes I just can not help myself. This guy is posting on forums and has a link back to his, “become a millionaire and never work book”. I am tired of these people that do not have a clue in the world how to make money but want to sell their full proof plans to everyone else.

If the plan is so full proof, than why waste time writing a book about it?

Why sell the book, you have already made your millions, why not help out the little guy for free?

There are no full proof plans and there is no one size fits all for every business online. But this guy is trying to sell to the really stupid and he posted on a thread I started, he must think I’m really stupid. I figure once you try and bull shit me, I have every right to out you, for what I think you are.

He has an ebook with only two copies left. I wonder if he realizes that an ebook does not run out, it is like The Energizer Bunny it keeps going and going.

He claims to have been in a top secret meeting with the top gurus from Myspace. I did not even know that such a group existed. But he says the group gave him permission to create this ebook but later says they are upset and want the ebook done away with so it will only last for a limited time. These secret Myspace gurus do not sound very smart. Why have a meeting and tell everyone about how you are making millions if you do not want anyone to know?

Here is a guy that spent 3 months of late nights and early mornings writing this ebook just to help me out. He did say “we” so I have to figure it was him and his team writing the ebook. They added in another $200.00 worth of bonuses and sell the whole thing for $17.00.

He and his team are not trying to help me out because they are selling it to me, which causes me to have to wonder who the book is for?

If he can make this money without having to do anything, than why spend 3 months of working almost 20 hours a day to write this book and to include his whole team means he has to split the money with them and once the book is written you still have to market it.

It does not make sense to me.

How about this.

Here is a guy that does not have a clue how to make money online but wants to pretend like he does. He spends a couple days writing an ebook and claims he went to a secret meeting and got the information. Maybe they all had to dress in black and were black hoods to hide their true identities. But he most likely found all or most of the information online.

He figures if he can make $17.00 a day it will be better than nothing. He claims that there is a rush because the Myspace gurus are hunting him down. He then guarantees that if you are not happy with the book after 90 days he will return your $17.00. In 90 days he will have a new user name and a new book to sell, so it is no big deal.

My theory makes a lot more sense for several reasons.
1. The top Myspace gurus had a secret black hood meeting that they let you in on.

Why upset these people by exposing all their secrets?

Maybe there is another meeting next month and I’m sure you want be invited back.

2. Why spend 3 months working 20 hour days to write a book, when you can do nothing and make thousands per day.

3. Why has no one else heard of the secret Myspace gurus society?
4. How did they find this nobody and why did they invite him to their secret meeting?

5. Will the guy that invited him be kicked out of the secret black hood Myspace gurus behind closed door club?

Video

I just made my first YouTube video for one of our clients.

I wonder if I can make it play here

Silicone Bracelets

Silicone Bracelets

I’ve been working with a silicone bracelet site for the last two months and I’ve had quite a time with it. The biggest problem is that none of the search terms will bring in enough traffic to amount to a whole lot. I’ve thought about this a good bit and decided to create sub-domain names and try and come up with a couple search terms for each of the sub-domain names.

A couple of the sub-domain names are a lot closer to being finished but I decided to start marketing the bracelet sub-domain name first because I felt it would be able to bring in more traffic then the others. Some of the search terms we came up with should be fairly easy to rank for like Buy Bracelets, Basics Bracelets, Attractive Bracelets, Create a Bracelet and many others.

I want to see if I can get the search terms showing up in the search engines in the next 7 days as well as get the sub-domain name to get 2,000 unique visitors per day in the next 7 days.