FastAttackSEO
Rank Your Sites At #1 And Stay There Effortlessly
Created By:
Craig Mako
mako@fastattackseo.com
Warrior Forum: CraigRC
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Table of Contents
Introduction - Nearly Missing the Boat 5
Overview - The FastAttackSEO System 12
PHASE I : Keyword Targeting 14
A. The Right Keywords 16
B. The Money Is In The Buyer 25
PHASE II : Website Creation 27
A. The Right Domain 28
B. The Basics - Wordpress 30
C. Essential Wordpress Tweak 31
D. Optimized Theme Selection 32
E. Essential Wordpress Plugins 35
PHASE III : On-Page Optimization 37
A. On-Page Optimization Checklist 38
PHASE IV : Building Authority 43
A. Keyword-Driven Content 44
B. Content Posting Schedule 47
PHASE V: Off-Page Optimization 50
A. Backlinking Master Guide 51
B. Backlinking Master Guide Explained 52
C. Preparing For The First Step 54
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Step 1. Unlimited Spinning Power 55
Step 2. Autopilot Social Bookmarks 56
Step 3. Traffic From Day One 58
Step 4. Relevant Backlink Networks 63
A. The Elite Blog Network Main List 66
1. Our Number One Honey: BMR 67
2. Amazing AND Free: ALN 68
3. The Network That Tries Harder: AR 69
4. Worth All The Trouble: FTS 70
5. Thousands Of Backlinks: AMR 71
Step 5. Feed The Winners: Private Networks 72
Step 6. Link Velocity Through Comments 77
D. Final Pieces Of The Off-Page Puzzle 79
PHASE VI : Scale Up And Expand 84
MASTER RESOURCE LIST 85
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Intro: Nearly Missing The Boat
"Someday We'll All Look Back To This Time And
Call It The Good Old Days"...
It may be hard to believe, particularly if you're struggling to make your digital
efforts pay off for you financially, but right now we are absolutely in the glory
years of Internet Marketing.
Think about it: At this moment we can choose from dozens of traffic platforms,
dozens of revenue models, and dozens of ways to create and promote products
to literally the entire connected
world.
From our homes, in our
underwear, and without a boss
hanging over our every move.
We're not breaking rocks in a
salt mine, or having to dangle
off a construction rig with no
safety wire 20 stories up in the
air to make a living.
What could be better?
If you're alive and reading this it
means you're at the tip of the Don't let Internet Marketing turn you into this guy. Get up and exercise a
bit to stay sharp. Health Body = Healthy Mind = Healthy $$$!
spear of human evolution. You
are the latest model, the best version of every version that came before you.
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You're the answer to the question "What does a MILLION years of evolution look
like?"
You have more tools at your disposal to attack life's challenges than any previous
generation in our history!
It still amazes me that we've come this far as a species, can you imagine what
Andrew Carnegie, or J.P. Morgan, or John D. Rockefeller would say if they
awakened from their eternal sleep and got a quick lesson in today's world?
They would be blown away by all the incredible ways to make money, to produce
income without having to own pain-in-the-neck things like inventory or a factory,
or having to raise massive capital to even open the doors on a new endeavor.
Honestly they would look at even the most driven of us and describe us as "lazy".
They'd say we don't
appreciate the fantastic gifts
we have at our fingertips.
And they'd be right.
These men built their
legacies by facing incredible
barriers, overcoming
poverty, social problems,
World Wars, the Great
Depression, and ever-
changing industry.
However, they also took
These men had to move mountains AND exploit humanity to make a buck.
Today we can make fantastic income while helping those around us.
advantage of the weak,
preyed on the unintelligent, and climbed up a social-economic ladder built with
the bones of both the innocent and guilty alike. Definitely not role models per se,
but we can learn from their mistakes and improve the model.
We're living in an age where genuinely HELPING people can make us infinitely
wealthy. Just by offering advice, or teaching a skill, or solving a problem, we can
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earn limitless amounts of wealth while improving the lives of our fellow human
beings.
Nothing is stopping you from adopting the same focus, intensity, and drive, that
successful men throughout the ages have used to create massive fortunes.
Financial Success, In Any Pursuit, Comes
Down To One Single Word:
PERSISTENCE
That's it.
Pretty simple when you think about it.
Famous inventor Thomas Edison had to endure the failure of 75 different light
bulb designs he developed over two straight YEARS before he finally got one that
worked.
He was persistent, he refused to give up in something he KNEW was possible.
You must adopt the same thinking.
Turn yourself into a solid piece of steel, nothing bothers you.
Bad day for traffic? No problem, there's always tomorrow. No sales on a new site
yet? Get in there, revise the content and create a new buyer experience. Always
be moving forward, motion attracts wealth.
I want you to apply the principals in the program I'm about to teach you every
single day. I want this to be the IM product that gets you to your financial goals,
to freedom, to a point where you experience incredible joy each time you turn on
your computer and log in.
It's all here waiting for you.
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My partners and I use this exact plan, step by step, to create a living for ourselves
that we'd only dreamed about previously.
I made more in 2010 than my Uncle, and he's a successful attorney!
It Wasn't Always This Way Though...
...We Nearly Went BROKE At The Start
From our start in the first half of 09, until we finally broke through, we survived an
insane amount of drama.
We had budget crunches, numerous tech issues and mistakes, a huge loss of focus
more than once due to shiny-object-syndrome (chasing every new SEO scheme),
cash problems thanks to investing in blackhat software schemes that did nothing
at best and sandboxed our portfolio at worst.
Generally the three of us wanted to kill each other most of the day. I honestly
thought we weren't going to make it.
But then we bought an awesome push-button Clickbank guru software program
that brought in tons of cash, woo-hoo, end of story!
Wouldn't it be nice if that
were true just one time?
Instead of that fantasy, it
took us reaching deep down
to figure out why our initial
efforts weren't working, and
localizing why we hadn't
produced the results we had
predicted.
I think the software we initially bought was programmed by these guys.
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After a review of our procedures, the answer turned out to be quite simple:
A lack of proper statistical tracking, combined with poor backlinking efforts.
These seem trivial, but they were killing us.
We weren't split-testing things properly, and worse, when we brought on new
backlink services or paid software solutions we didn't make enough of an effort to
track the performance of those services in terms of their impact on rankings.
We had little clue if our budget was actually producing results versus the cost, so
we couldn't establish a value rating for any of the 50+ products and services we
had paid for.
Starting Over Sucks, But It Led To Our Breakthrough.
So we regrouped, started from scratch the right way, and were immediately
amazed at how things started to change.
We doubled down on the services that led to our
keywords and sites seeing boosts in our SERP
rankings in our new stat-tracking model, and we
killed off the products and offers that weren't
netting us any actual movement.
We all financially re-invested in the business to
"catch up" from the mistakes we made during our
slow start (which was definitely no fun, my wife
still gives me grief about that time even though
she doesn't even have to work now, haha).
Jim Carrey lived out of his CAR before
finally making it. Persistence.
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Remember the lesson about "persistence" before?
Well we were within a few hundred dollars of losing everything in terms of our
investments in the business before it finally turned the corner.
That close!
It's shocking to me because one of the partners had
been pushing the other two of us to just throw in the
towel and sell the few sites we had of our own that
were worth anything.
We were at the edge.
But it taught me the lesson that I'm now teaching you.
You can't ever give us in this business, ever, or you're
not going to get where you want to go.
You've got to constantly be willing to learn, and be
willing to fail (often at the same time!) in order to
"Never give up, never surrender! "
finally break through.
Big $$$ Is Waiting, Go Get It!
Today we're now at the point where we've developed and used the
FastAttackSEO system for nearly a year and the results speak for themselves.
Our clients have no problem paying us thousands of dollars per month to boost
and maintain their internet presence and e-commerce sites, and we have enough
steady long-termers aboard that we've shut the doors on new SEO clients for at
least the next few months.
It's a great place to be, I can't believe it every time I log into the business bank
account and look at the numbers, it really is a lesson in persistence, and I hope
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you understand why I took time to cover this area before jumping right into our
method.
Nothing is beyond your reach and you CAN achieve the same "guru" lifestyle that
so many others have managed over the past decade. They're certainly not any
more intelligent that you are, despite what they may believe.
Are you ready to dive in?
To start your journey forward towards a new horizon?
To finally feel what it's like to create truly passive income that lasts for YEARS
while you enjoy vacations, toys, and the finer things in life?
Well, let's get started! :)
Craig Mako
mako@fastattackseo.com
Warrior Forum: CraigRC
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Overview: FastAttackSEO
What exactly is the FastAttackSEO
system?
It's so easy to explain that it seems
cruelly ironic that this single sentence
sums up what it took my partners and I
nearly 18 MONTHS of 80+ hour weeks
to learn while building our offline SEO
company up from scratch:
You're going to learn how to locate the RIGHT keywords, to build the
RIGHT websites, and to use the RIGHT SEO formula to drive thousands
of hungry BUYERS to your online portfolio every single day.
Our FastAttackSEO system allows you to build sites that use any type of revenue
method you prefer, from CPA offers, to Clickbank promotions, to AdSense
income, to Amazon sales.
It all works.
Anything works when you're ranking for the right keywords and doing it without
much stress or expense.
During the past year, my partners and I have built over 100 sites for clients using
this method, and have ranked over 350 keywords in the #1 spot in Google's
search results during that span.
This program is simple, yet it drives tremendous amounts of traffic your way once
you absorb and apply the techniques on a daily basis. The only limit is how far
you want to go.
Let's take a quick look at the entire FastAttackSEO program:
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FastAttackSEO Phase List
PHASE I - FastAttackSEO Keyword Targeting
Locate and identify the right keywords for any niche using our multi-dimensional
evaluation formula to isolate phrases that deliver thousands of unique visitors per
month without facing brutal competition.
PHASE II - FastAttackSEO Website Creation / Theme Selection
Create a website with an SEO-based on-page architectural foundation optimized
for fast indexing and permanent ranking power over time that is immune to
potential future actions (slaps) by Google.
PHASE III - FastAttackSEO On-Page Optimization Methods
The exact structure, guidelines, and procedures that will give each piece of
keyword-driven content on your site the best chance to rank within all search
engines in the shortest time possible.
PHASE IV - FastAttackSEO Building Up Authority Status Through Content
Installing high level content on the new site that not only draws in search engines
but also brings actual buyers looking to click the links you'll be presenting as the
solution to their initial search. Creating "mini-authority" sites that have credibility
to the visitor AND search engines without months of work.
PHASE V - FastAttackSEO Off-Page Proprietary Backlink Generation
The system's most important component: Our proprietary backlinking formula
that adds thousands of natural backlinks to your site over time on autopilot and
allows the site to rank for highly-desired competitive keywords.
PHASE VI - FastAttackSEO Rapid Duplication Of The Entire Process
Repeating the system with new sites in other niches, with the overall time to
completion accelerating as everything becomes more familiar and the process
flow improves.
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PHASE I: Keyword Targeting
"It's the little things that are the most important. Little
things make big things happen..."
- John Wooden, UCLA Basketball Coaching Legend
When it comes to SEO, and being successful financially from the ranking results,
keywords are THE most important component of the entire equation.
And this is why it's so easy to fail right at the start.
Keywords ultimately determine your site's success or failure...and failure is
something that can happen even with a #1 ranking in Google.
How?
Low conversion rates. But not because of the reason you think.
Just because someone hits your
sales or review page and doesn't
pull the trigger on a buy doesn't
mean you haven't mastered the
art of the successful pitch.
Despite what copywriters say,
filling your head with wonderful
stories of multi-million-dollar sales
pages that converted at 25% using
You don't have to be write copy like this guy to make money on the some magical blend of emotional
Internet. Knowing your customer will get you to the gold.
triggers and other esoteric points,
the truth is that when it comes to SEO-ranking your conversion rate isn't dictated
by the sales copy of the landing page.
It's dictated by whether or not the person who landed on your site is looking to
BUY something.
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It doesn't matter if it's to cure their athlete's foot problem or to find plans for a
wooden shed project.
Either way they've got to get to your page with their wallet half out of their
pocket otherwise you could be David Ogilvy himself and you're not going to close
the sale.
How do I know?
Because I'm the copywriter for our company!
Haha, yes, the secret is out, and as much as I'd love to believe how absolutely
critical I am in the process, the truth is that in terms of a site's revenue-generation
as it relates to SEO, the quality of your copy is just 10-15% of the total equation
when it comes to being successful or not.
Selecting proper buyer-keywords is another 45% of that same pie, and properly
ranking those keywords and thus driving traffic to the site is the remaining 45%.
Which means that even if
you're the worst writer
on the planet, if you just
follow the FastAttackSEO
methods in this guide
you'll still have an 80%+
chance of making money
from ANY site you launch.
You don't have to weave
threads of gold from your
keyboard in order to
achieve the high life, it's
not like the majority of
the IM Gurus in this field
ever graduated from
college (fact).
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A. The RIGHT Keywords
Our first step on the road towards
the keywords we're ultimately going
to rank for our site is to generate a
list of between 5,000-10,000 total
keywords, and then cutting them
down to the most likely candidates
to allow us to rank in the #1 spot
almost immediately.
It sounds intimidating, but it's pretty
easy with the right tools, and I'm
going to guide you step-by-step through the process.
The first thing I want you to do is to identify the common phrases that best
define your niche, basically the most popular terms to describe it to the common
person.
For a diet/fitness product for example, the most associated phrases would be
"weight loss" or "lose fat" for women and "build muscle" or "get ripped" for men.
For the Internet Marketing niche it would be "make money online" or make
money from home".
These saturated phrases will be the "seeds" we use to generate thousands of
lower competition keywords that we can rank for quickly using FastAttackSEO
methods.
Once you've noted three or four of these large seed phrases, it's time to use
automated software to do the hard work for us by generating related keywords
that people are actively searching for.
We use two pieces of software to accomplish this goal, along with Google's own
Adwords Keyword Tool.
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1. Keyword Ninja
This utility was coded by a single person from his home as a hobby, and it
continues to routinely blow us away by delivering DOUBLE the keyword output
that any other piece of software we've tested provides.
We've used Market Samurai for keywords, Mark's Traffic Travis, Wordtracker,
Brad's Keyword Elite, you name it, and none of them delivers as many related
keywords per search as Keyword Ninja (which also happens to be the cheapest of
any of them).
Sometimes you catch a break that makes life so much easier, and testing Keyword
Ninja last year when it first arrived was one of the best breaks we've ever had.
Click here to watch the demo video and get a feel for how it works.
2. Keyword Optimizer Pro
What a great little utility this is, created by Dave Guindon (who also created our
favorite exit-redirect script Exit Splash), Keyword Optimizer Pro quickly delivers
far more related keywords than Google's own tool, and it's 100% FREE.
You read that right, Dave is still testing it and during that beta period it will
remain free to use all of its features.
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We love how this utility provides direct pulls from the major search engine's own
suggestion box data, which gives a much more accurate look at what people are
actually looking for when they search within a niche rather than just barfing up
generic keywords.
3. Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Older and outdone by so many other tools now that it's become the equivalent of
your Grandfather talking about how "hot" Grandma was back in the day.
Meaning it's hard to believe that it was ever relevant.
This tool does still have its pluses
though, and once you sign up for a
free Adwords account it will spit out
800 results for your seed keyword
searches.
More importantly, it can also
provide us with the current
advertising campaigns that others
are paying for, along that the price
they're paying per click on the
keywords we're researching (as can
Market Samurai), which lets us see
buyer trends.
4. Market Samurai
The standard. You can't go a day in Internet Marketing without reading how
valuable MS is to many in our industry.
We use it for a variety of purposes, and in this particular case we're going to use it
to provide us with mass competition data (SEOC) for each of our terms.
Don't buy this one until you're generating some profits, you can use the free trial
version to accomplish what you need while saving $$$.
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Trimming The Fat: Step-By-Step
Now that we've lined up our Dyson Vacuum software pieces
to suck thousands of keywords out of Google's dirty carpet,
it's time to flip the switch and begin the process.
BEFORE WE BEGIN:
In order to not bog down this guide with boring "how to"
instructions that are available elsewhere, you should read
and watch the GREAT videos that are provided to help you
understand the Google AdWords Keyword Tool, Keyword
Optimizer Pro, Keyword Ninja, and Market Samurai by their
creators on their home sites.
They each explain their own products far better than we
ever could, and you'll learn some additional IM tactics as well She must break you.
as you learn the functions and options.
Now, on to the good part, this is the exact format our people follow each time:
1. Go to the Google AdWords Keyword Tool and input the first big seed
keyword on your list. Hit Search.
After the results are displayed, filter them down by clicking "Phrase" under Match
Types. Export/save the data in an Excel CSV (you can use Open Office Calc for the
same purpose if you don't own Microsoft Excel).
2. Load up Keyword Optimizer Pro, and input the same big seed keyword
as you used for the first step.
Set it to Google only, High Search Level, and run the program. Once finished save
results to a text file. Depending upon the keyword, this step will generate 2,000+
keywords for you just from pressing a single button!
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3. Go to wherever you installed Keyword Ninja and again input the seed
keyword.
Set it to scan Google/Yahoo/YouTube/Amazon, and check the "2nd Level" box.
Run the search.
Once it's done export and save the Excel CSV file. Usually Keyword Ninja will
provide another 3,000+ keywords for you depending again upon the popularity of
your main seed keyword.
4. Take the separate keyword results of all three services and copy the
results to a single Excel sheet, combining them in one column.
Use the "Remove duplicates" command to get rid of keywords that two or more
of the services found, usually just 15-20% of the list will be dupes (which is
amazing when you think about how you generated thousands of keywords in just
10 minutes and so few of them are copies of each other).
5. Copy all of the keywords from your Excel list into Market Samurai's
Keyword Research section.
Set Market Samurai to display keyword data for Total Searches, Adwords CPC
(AWCPC), and SEO Comp (SEOC). Set to Match Type: "Phrase" and Period:
"Monthly" with No Filters.
Click on Analyze Keywords and let MS do its thing. For 5,000 or more keywords
it's going to take a bit to get the results, around a half hour.
Once it's done, export the results in an Excel file and save.
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6. Open the exported Excel file of Market Samurai results, and sort data
by SEOC, ascending (from lowest value to the highest).
This is the fun part of the process. Scroll down the list to find the best 18
keywords that fit within our three FastAttackSEO keyword formulas:
A. 6 x "Dream Keywords" that have 5,000+ monthly searches, and
up to 500,000 SEOC phrase match competition results.
B. 6 x "Realistic Keywords" that have 2,500+ monthly searches, and
up to 250,000 SEOC phrase match competition results.
C. 6 x "Easy Keywords" that have 1,000+ monthly searches, and up
to 50,000 SEOC phrase match competition results.
ADSENSE TIP - If you're using AdSense to monetize your sites, make sure you screen all
keywords by another factor in addition to the above: Their AWCPC rating in Market Samurai.
It has to be a minimum of $1.00 and above, and preferably above $1.50.
Never waste time ranking keywords that have less than a $1.00 AWCPC rating as they won't
produce enough income to make your time worth it. Far better keywords out there to find using
the methods in this guide.
By manually screening the Market Samurai results by ascending SEOC, you're
basically cherry-picking the keywords that typically have the least amount of
competition combined with the highest search levels (1000+).
This magic formula isn't new, and it isn't rocket science.
It's the same principal that countless IM systems are based upon, including
Google Sniper and Niche Profit Classroom, and the reason why is because it
simply works.
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We had to find out the hard way, thinking we would reinvent the wheel and
revolutionize the way keywords are derived when we launched our company.
That was a mistake as the fundamentals work for a reason. Stick to them as we
do now.
"But why 18 keywords?"
The reason we've gone with these three categories (Dream / Realistic / Easy) for
the makeup of our 18 total keywords per site is due to a few variables in the
system:
First, the Google Keyword tool notoriously overinflates the amount of searches
that actually happen in reality.
We're not sure why this is the case, you'd think Google would know precisely how
many searches a certain phrase gets within its system, but who knows.
So we want to make sure we're going after keywords that have monthly search
volume that even if they come in lower than expected once we rank for them the
traffic will still be significant.
Second, we've chosen three different levels of difficulty to go after because
despite what anyone tells you, you never know what you're going to successfully
hit #1 for and what you aren't.
Occasionally we'll rank #1 for 3 or 4 out of 5 of our "Dream" keywords for a new
site (which produce the most traffic) while on the same site we only hit 1 or 2 of
the 5 "Realistic" or "Easy" keywords. Go figure.
Google is very fickle, and unless someone actually works within their algorithm
engineering division NO ONE knows exactly how the system works completely.
No Guru, no Warrior Forum self-appointed expert, no Search Engine Optimization
company like ours, no one, really knows the small details of how Google
prioritizes websites down to the nth degree from the outside.
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However, you DO learn from experience, and in our experience with the
FastAttackSEO method you shouldn't run from the "Dream" keywords as most
others advise you to do thanks to the power of system.
We've ranked for dozens of these lovely diamonds, and the moment we do we
know we've got that client for life because typically it means they're going to see
tremendous traffic immediately.
Now, This is the part where normally an SEO guide would insist you endlessly
examine the existing ranked competition for their PageRank and Backlinks...
And that's part of what makes FastAttackSEO unique, because we don't do that at
all as it's not necessary when using our methods.
SHOCK! HORROR! OMG OMG OMG!
Yes, despite the wonderful psychological effect of
mob-mentality, where a group begins to believe
something just because so many other people are
repeating it, our ACTUAL results in the REAL world are
far different.
Even if we spend hours combing over every single
listing we're up against for all 18 keywords in the 1-10
spots on Page 1 of a site, we're still not going to
accurately be able to predict the ranks we'll be able to
attack and defeat with total certainty.
Typical Google Rank "expert" at work...
Hard to believe, but true.
Often we'll only be done with Phase III of the FastAttackSEO system on a new
site and it will already be ranking for a keyword or two ABOVE entrenched mega-
authority sites like wikipedia, strong squidoo lenses with hundreds of backlinks, or
major high-PR article directories that are on Page 1.
And that's BEFORE we've moved on to Phase V, which is our own system of
generating backlinks for our keywords/sites that is the main ranking force behind
the system!
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Let me give you a quote from one of the bigger SEO experts of the past decade,
Leslie Rhode, who presented the following as his answer to a question regarding
how much analysis of competition someone should do for a given keyword:
“Who cares! Organize right and do the right things and success is
guaranteed in time. Measuring the competition is only about gauging
how long it will take.
Plan for the long term and competition doesn’t matter. Moreover,
your competition is likely lame anyway, so setting them as your
measure of success is in most cases aiming low.
Google is not your competition. Your competition is not your
competition. Your only competition is that part of you, your life and
your business that results in less of the right effort than is required to
get the results you want."
Very well said in our opinion.
Too many so-called SEO "gurus" are lecturing people to analyze, analyze, analyze
the top 10 Page 1 results for every keyword before going after it to "evaluate the
competition".
This is typically because they're trying to sell a $200 software program that does
just that function...
Ignore all that static. As we just told you, NO ONE can predict where or when
something ranks and for what reasons.
Instead concentrate on the fundamentals as presented in the FastAttackSEO
system, work, and stay focused. You will achieve the rank you're after, the
difficulty only affects the time it's going to take.
A better area that we DO want you to concentrate on however, is the difference
between a "buyer" keyword and a standard keyword.
Your objective isn't just to rank, it's to SELL, and we're going to discuss how
keywords affect that outcome in the next section.
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B. The Money Is In The Buyer
"Never Bring A Knife To A Gun Fight!"
- Sean Connery's character Jimmy Malone in "The Untouchables"
When we first started out doing SEO for local offline clients near us we made a
critical mistake:
We attempted to rank keywords supplied to us by the customer themselves.
This led us down a road towards failure right from the get-go, because the vast
majority of the keywords clients
will typically give an SEO company
don't lead to actual sales...
They're not "buyer" keywords!
A buyer keyword, loosely defined,
is a keyword that the surfer is
using to search for a particular
product or service with the
intention of purchasing it.
They're words that most of us Go the wrong way at the start and it's a LONG way back.
Choose buyer keywords to ensure success early.
typically use when doing our own
searches, whether it be for a digital camera, a weight loss product, or even
something as seemingly trivial as a preschool for our kids.
And this is where we found most people go wrong right from the step-one when
it comes to SEO, by not selecting the right keywords and not making sure that
someone using those keywords is actually looking to PURCHASE something.
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Even if they managed to locate, optimize, and rank for their keywords, the sales
simply don't happen because they weren't getting in the MIND of the potential
buyer and catering to their needs.
"OK, I know I need buyer keywords, but no one ever says what they are..."
Here are the exact keyword prefixes and suffixes we've used to not only
determine our keyword strategy as a whole, but also to make sure the sites we
build and upgrade for clients actually pay off through sales for that client:
FastAttackSEO
Buyer Keyword Guide
This chart is the same one we consult every time we begin a new ranking attempt
for a site, it's the basis by which we judge which keywords will, or will not, pass
our monetization test.
Any keyword that doesn't fit into at least two of these six categories typically gets
discarded unless there's some reasons it must stay, and really we shoot for hitting
four or five of the categories in order to make things really interesting.
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PHASE II: Website Creation
"Whatever good things we build end up building us."
- Jim Rohn, Business Philosopher
By this point you've now isolated 18 total keywords that you've identified using
the guidelines and parameters that were explained in Phase I of the
FastAttackSEO system.
Now it's time to lay the foundation of what will ultimately be a virtual ATM-
machine for you using those same keywords combined with a precise set of
building blocks that allow your site to rise up
the ranks right from day one.
Typically the industry refers to these types of
tactics as "On Page" optimization, because
you're altering exactly how your site is
presented to Google's spider (Googlebot)
towards the goal of ranking better for your
keyword-based content.
We follow our own version of these standard
rules with complete precision each time we
build a new site, and we don't deviate from any
of the guidelines we've learned.
This is a formula that has worked extremely well
for us in terms of getting a site ranked, and
keeping it in the good graces of Google
indefinitely.
Obviously we recommend you do as we recommend to the letter, now is not the
time to experiment with new methods. Do that AFTER you're raking in the dollars
and can afford to fool around a bit.
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A. The RIGHT Domain
Our first step towards our new website is the
selection of the main domain name.
Your domain name should be an exact match
to one of your 18 keywords, and though many
would advise you to go conservative with your
selection by choosing one of the six "Easy"
keywords to rank, we suggest you instead pick
one from the "Realistic" group...or even a
"Dream" keyword.
We do this for two main reasons:
1. The combination of the FastAttackSEO off-page and on-page ranking
tactics are strong enough to enable you to rank for a more
competitive keyword than is ordinarily the case.
And while it may take an extra few weeks to make it happen versus
going with a less competitive keyword, the payoff in the end will be
greater in terms of traffic, revenue, and presence.
Plus, if you ever decide you want to sell your domain/site in the
future for a profit, the fact that it ranks for a higher-traffic main
keyword is much more desirable from buyers (and typically leads to
higher purchase prices).
2. It isn't the norm, but if you strike gold right off the bat and manage to rank
quickly for a bigger keyword your income get a nice jumpstart.
Example:
We purposely haven't given examples of our own keywords/URLs in this
guide out of privacy concerns for our clients, but as an example we were
able to rank the keyword "top diet pills", which was one of the "Dream"
keywords for the site (5,400 global monthly searches with 124,000 phrase
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search results) on Page 1 of Google's search results within just 21 days of the
client's site going live.
This type of result is extremely rare, and it only happens once in a while, but
when it does it's simply fantastic how quickly a site can be blow up financially.
"Stick to Vanilla, Chocolate, or Strawberry. No Rocky Road."
We prefer to stick to keyword.com, keyword.net, or keyword.org if possible, but
we've also been able to rank for keyword.info as well (there doesn't seem to be
any difference for the most part to Google).
If your exact match domain is taken already, you can consider going two ways:
1. A variant of the main keyword using dashes within.
Example: If your keyword was "getting my ex back" and the exact match
domain of "gettingmyexback.com" was taken (along with .net
and .org), you could add dashes and register "getting-my-ex-
back.com" instead.
We've used dashes whenever the need has risen and been successful, but
we're now more likely to use the second option when the exact match
domain we're after is unavailable:
2. An additional letter at the end of the domain.
Example: We've really been ranking well lately by adding a letter "x" to
the end of a domain we're after, and using the example above
it would be "gettingmyexbackx.com".
Google reads the domain identically as it would to the root thanks to its
automatic spelling correction routines, and we prefer this method to
dashes now because the past few months have shown slightly superior
results for us.
Either way, the power of an exact match domain is still extremely strong, and it's
something you certainly want to make the cornerstone of your site's initial rank
attempt.
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B. The Basics - Wordpress
We're going to assume that you already know how to register a domain, setup
some hosting, and can install the basic version of Wordpress.
If you don't, here are a few great tutorials that will get you set:
1. We use HostGator for our sites and recommend them highly due to their
simple setup and fast response times.
Choose their "Baby" plan, stay away from the more expensive "Business"
plan as it's not necessary.
We're prepared a coupon code with
HostGator for you, feel free to use it for a
25% discount: fastattack
2. Due to the powerful plugins that make life so easy in terms of SEO work,
combined with the power of the theme flexibility, we do recommend you
utilize Wordpress on all your sites.
It's not mandatory for success with the FastAttackSEO system, we have
generic sites that do fine, but the workload is nearly double that of a
Wordpress-based site once our plugins are installed.
Tutorial on how to install a Wordpress blog onto your HostGator server.
Once you have Wordpress up and running on the domain of your selection on
your HostGator server, it's finally time to have some FUN.
And by FUN we mean tweaking Wordpress for superior SEO results, installing
our best high-click-through Themes, and activating a few amazing Plugins!
Ok, so it's not exactly as thrilling as riding a roller-coaster while covered in body
oil, but it IS fulfilling to think of all the clicks and work the theme and plugins are
going to provide for you...as if they're your Tron-like slave programs doing the
heavy lifting behind the scenes!
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C. Essential Wordpress Tweak
Even just out of the box via a fresh install, Wordpress has some great features
ready to go to make your SEO attempts easier. You'll need to change one of the
defaults though in order to really boost its power, here's how to do it:
1. Log in to the Admin area and go to the "Settings" drop-down box. Select
"Permalinks".
Under the "Common Settings" option, I want you to change it from "Default" to
"Custom Structure".
In that blank box after the Custom Structure button, type in: /%postname%/
This makes each article or post we do to the site actually use the article's own title
as the URL for the content, instead of that "/?p=123" format that is the default.
This is important because Googlebot loves it when a URL has the same keyword
as the actual content on the page, because it allows it to better "see" the
relevancy of that page for the search term!
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D. Optimized Theme Selection
Nearly any of the thousands of Wordpress-compatible themes that are available
will work with our FastAttackSEO system in terms of ranking and optimization.
However, the placement of your ads for whatever product you're promoting (or
your AdSense blocks if you're using it to drive revenue) can be impacted
negatively in a huge way if the theme you've chosen doesn't place them in the
most views spots on the page.
This is where the phrase "heatmap" comes
from, and it's important to understand that
even if you rank all of your top 18 keywords at
#1 it won't mean anything unless you're routing
all that traffic to where you want them to
click/buy.
You must put your biggest Calls To Action
(CTAs) in the areas on the page where most
people's eyeballs tend to be drawn to in order
to drive your Click Through Rates (CTR)
upward, which is how big money is made.
In the illustration on this page you can see that
the darker areas on the page are where Google
Google's Own Heatmap, the dark green areas has registered more clicks and overall interest
are the most-viewed/most-clicked on a page.
than the lighter areas.
This is data that has been accumulated from billions of views, clicks, and
navigation tracking studies they've done over the years and it's priceless
information for those us looking to put our ads and our products in the most
optimal spots for success.
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We've tested many Wordpress Themes over the past year and two stand out as
providing superior results in terms of both CTR gains and SEO ranking capability:
1. Clickbump Engine
Clickbump Engine-based sites first made a big splash with Internet Marketers a
little over a year ago, when it was found to be one of the top themes ever
developed to rank naturally within search engine results while driving Adsense
click rates higher than a stock Wordpress theme by nearly 300%.
Amazing proof that simple tweaks really can make the difference between
success and failure.
Clickbump has been expanded since those days and now offers an incredible
variety of theme looks that all perform amazingly. Click here to read about what
makes Clickbump sites perform so well.
2. CTRTheme
We absolutely love CTRTheme, which is a theme that hit the scene late last year
and has been fantastically successful for boosting click through rates as well as
successfully ranking.
While Clickbump Engine is more basic (which may appeal to you for simplicity
reasons), CTRTheme has more flexibility in terms of how it looks and behaves for
navigation.
This means that if you're technically sophisticated you can mold CTRTheme into a
flawless pro-looking authority site that looks like it cost $10k to create.
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Plus the usage of CTRTheme's "blended ads" feature helped us drive 250% more
clicks to our promotional areas versus a standard Wordpress theme, which is the
ultimate goal. Click here to watch a video on how CTRTheme works its magic.
NOTE: These themes advertise themselves as being for Adsense, but the same rules for Adsense
success apply to every other aspect of making money with a site. You want people to click on
areas of the page that MAKE YOU MONEY. That's what these themes do, and they do it well.
Both Clickbump Engine and CTRTheme are extremely well done, flexible, and
most importantly, will create double the income that an ordinary non-optimized
theme would produce for its owner.
It terms of which one is most right for you, we feel that it comes down to your
level of involvement or commitment to a site.
If, for example, you plan on creating just a few large authority sites (over 50 total
pages) about topics you're passionate about and are an expert in we recommend
CTRTheme.
It's cosmetically superior to the Clickbump Engine portfolio, offers greater
adjustments to the way the site can be laid out, and is just a little easier on the
eyes in general. If you're going to commit to a large investment of your time and
effort in just a few online properties, it's the way to go.
However, if you plan on just pumping out mini-authority sites (less than 25 total
pages) that are set on auto-pilot to generate income quickly using run-and-gun
tactics like we're laying out in this guide, then Clickbump Engine is your best pick.
Clickbump Engine is down and dirty, meaning you can install it, set it up, and
hardly do anything to it and it will perform amazingly.
It's not going to look as nice as a properly done CTRTheme site, but your goal isn't
to win a beauty contest. It's to make money.
Either way you can't go wrong, both of these themes are the net result of
thousands of hours of split-testing, conversion tracking, and layout optimizing.
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E. Essential Wordpress Plugins
We want to kiss the Man (or Woman) who developed the Wordpress platform to
be so open-ended on the programming front, it really is an amazingly powerful
platform.
The following is the list of essential Wordpress Plugins that we install each and
every time we create a new site, you can read up on their capabilities and how
they perform by clicking the links:
Wordpress SEO - Very cool and fairly new, we moved from the All In One SEO
Pack to this plugin and have been impressed by its flexibility and RSS support
along with its simple setup. It also handles Google XML Sitemap duties, which
means we don't need that particular plugin anymore.
Sexy Bookmarks - Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts,
pages, index, or any combination of the three. Important to Google for showing
that you're after social interaction with your site, we've seen a boost from just
having these buttons on-page.
WP OnlyWire Autoposter - Syndicates your blog
posts/articles to over 20 social networking sites
simultaneously using OnlyWire.com's infrastructure
when you publish a post. Increases your site's traffic
AND generates fantastic backlinks, what could be
better?
SEOPressor - An absolute MUST, it's our best time-
saver and most accurate on-page optimization tool
towards ranking. And I don't want to hear any
whining about what it costs, scrape some quarters
out of the couch cushions and make it happen...to
ease the pain, here's a free 7-Day Trial for it that we
made happen for you: SEOPressor 7-Day FREE Trial
SEOPressor turns even rookies into SEO
pros. Can't live without it.
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We love SEOPressor for the same reason ALL internet marketers do, because it
automates and illustrates exactly where our pages/posts/articles are weak in the
eyes of Google using our best on-page SEO optimization tactics.
We'll be discussing those exact tactics in the next section, as well as examining
the right way to make every page on your site a magnet for not only Googlebot,
but also the people who will be paying you for your trouble...your buyers.
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PHASE III: On-Page Optimization
"I have yet to be in a game where the most
prepared team didn't win."
- Urban Meyer, Multiple National Championship-Winning Football Coach
For as simple (and cheap) as on-page optimization techniques are to employ, it's
flat-out amazing how many internet marketers simply don't know what to do, or
do what they DO know incorrectly, or simply don't care enough to make the
effort.
Your site must be prepared prior to Googlebot
paying it a visit, and each new piece of content you
add that you want ranked must be similarly prepared
for success as well.
You never get a second chance at a first impression.
And while on-page optimization likely only counts for
25% of the overall ranking success of a keyword-
based page or site (off-page optimization is the other
75%), the reality is that 99% of normal people in the
real world are placing content online that doesn't
follow most on-page optimization methods.
This means a large percentage of all the current content that's online in the niches
you're pursuing is simply waiting for you to provide a superiorly-optimized page
to rank ahead of it!
Victory in SEO ranking always begins with content that can provide what Google is
looking for in relation to the targeted keyword you're aiming at.
What follows is our complete checklist for on-page optimization, we use it for
everything that goes online on our clients' sites, without exception.
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A. On-Page Optimization Checklist
On-page optimization begins with formatting your content properly so that
Google can clearly identify what keyword that content is relevant to, and how
strong that relevance is.
Every piece of content (articles/posts/reviews/etc) that you attempt to use to
rank a specific keyword for should follow this list completely.
For the following examples we'll use a hypothetical article with a main keyword
of "fat burning soup":
1. Articles/posts/reviews need to be 500+ words minimum - The longer the
better, this is part of the way your site will ultimately be rewarded as a
trusted authority destination for your 18 keywords .
Plus, longer pieces will make your content/site accidentally rank for a ton of
long-tail LSI keywords that you never planned on, which is fantastic.
Google wants you to invest time and effort in your site, luckily you can
accomplish that with just 500 words.
2. Target 2-4% for your keyword density - This is approximately 10-15
instances of the keyword "fat burning soup" in a single 500-word article.
SEOPressor will handle this calculation for you (along with almost
everything else in this check list), but if you're not in a position to purchase
it then use this utility to check the keyword density in your content:
SEO Book Keyword Density Tool.
3. Italics/Bold/Underline your keyword at least once - This is another
function that SEOPressor does for you, but if you're not using it then
manually make sure each article you write features the main keyword
bolded, underlined, or italicized at least once within the content.
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4. Use the Title tag properly () - This will be the main title of
your content at the top of the page, make sure to include the content's
main keyword within the first 60 characters of this tag, followed by an
LSI keyword. No more than 6 or 7 words tops!
EXAMPLE: Incredible Fat-Burning Soup Recipe | Weight Loss Plan
BREAKDOWN: (Main Keyword is "fat-burning soup", LSI Keyword is "weight loss plan")
5. Use the Meta keywords tag properly - Within the code of your page you want
to tell Google what you're attempting to rank using the following format:
This has very little power to help you rank in the grand scheme of the
FastAttackSEO system, but it's still worth doing.
EXAMPLE:
6. Use the Meta Description tag properly - Google still pulls the text of how it
describes your page to other people from this tag, use it to help draw the person
you're hoping to land into clicking on your page when they're looking at
Google's results by making it an irresistible offer:
EXAMPLE:
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7. Use the Headline tags properly - Similarly to the Title tag, these three headline
tags within the body of the content (H1, H2, H3) show Google that the text
within them is extremely important to BOTH the article's writer, and the
intended audience.
Rewrite the title of the article that you used int the title tags, again using the
main keyword + LSI keyword, but do NOT re-use the exact title tag sentence
(it's good to vary):
EXAMPLE: One Of My Favorite Fat-Burning Soup Recipes And Incredible Weight
Loss Plan
8. Use the image naming/alt tags properly - Whenever you place an image within
an article (and you ALWAYS should for SEO purposes), name it after a modified
version of the article's main keyword. And then also use that same modified
keyword as the Alt tag description:
EXAMPLE:
A few notes about why we're doing this exactly in this way:
a. Google has no idea what the picture's content actually is, which is
why we can help it figure it out by using our keyword as both the
name of the picture file itself and the ALT tag description. This
gives us more chances to rank for that keyword.
b. The reason we use modified keywords in our images is that it gives
us a more natural pattern to the keyword placement and doesn't
make us appear to be "keyword stuffing". Keyword stuffing is
the overuseage of a single keyword for the purpose of trying to fool
Google into ranking the content for it.
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9. Create a hidden external anchor text link to a high-PR authority page that is
related to your content, but not threatening (i.e., not a competitor).
This is an extremely powerful tactic that you don't see mentioned often, and it
works incredibly well...
By placing a contextual anchor link within our content's main body that links out
to a high-PR authority site like About.com or Wikipedia using our main keyword,
we show Google that we're not trying to be greedy and keep the reader to
ourselves.
This is important because Google's algorithm knows that a non-sales-driven
piece of content has no problem with external linking to information sources on
the main subject, while people trying to SELL something to someone DO have a
problem with that.
EXAMPLE: fat-burning
soup
BONUS TIP: If you're worried that your reader will follow the link to the external authority
site you've linked to and you'll lose them, use this piece of CSS code before the href command to
visibly "hide" both the underline AND color of the hyperlinked anchor text:
a style="text-decoration:none;color:black;"
This way the link is still visible to Googlebot, but totally INVISIBLE to your readers!
One final note: You will be tempted to make this a "no follow" link. DO
NOT. Leave it as a regular link. This is a rookie mistake being made by many.
Google knows when you're being cute, and adding a no follow tag to the
external authority site link is obvious to them as an act by someone trying
to game their engine to "preserve link juice" (which is bullshit anyway).
Leave this link in a natural state, do not add a no follow tag to it. Trust us.
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10. Improve your internal link power by using a "Related Articles Box" - Place
a "related articles" section at the bottom of every new article with 2-3 links
to other articles on your site that are for related content.
Have ONE of the links use an anchor text link keyword from the originating
article (in this case fat-burning soup), while the others use the proper
anchor text link keyword of the articles you're linking to.
11. Update your sitemap if not using Wordpress - Once the new content is
posted on the site, create a new sitemap using utility at XML Sitemaps and
upload it to the root directory of your site. Submit the new xml link file to
Google via Google Webmaster Tools.
This is only necessary if you're NOT using Wordpress for the core of your
site's code.
On-page Optimization Wrap-UP:
Pretty easy when you see it all listed so clearly (and even easier if you opt to use
SEOPressor) but amazingly it took us a looooooong time to get it all down at the
start, particularly the importance of having links to both internal AND external
pages.
Follow this checklist every time you post
any new content to the site in order to
guarantee a high success rate right from
the start.
As mentioned before, just this ALONE has
gotten us tremendous first page ranks for
sites without even beginning the Off-
Page Optimization Phase of our program.
It's pretty amazing.
Follow these instructions and make it a part of your routine
to supercharge your keyword ranking efforts.
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PHASE IV: Building Authority
"If my Doctor told me I only had a year to live, I
wouldn't be depressed...I'd just type faster."
- Isaac Asimov, Best-Selling Science Fiction Author
Few things are as intimidating to beginners in the Internet Marketing space as
having to write content to generate material for their sites.
by English, and so many hopeful marketers around the world having to use
English as a second language.
If that's you, I commend you.
Nothing could be harder in my
mind than having to write, and
SELL, in a foreign language as it
must be extremely full of self-
doubt and fear.
Luckily you don't have to be a
world-class writer, or even a
good writer, to succeed using
Internet Marketing Guru contemplates FastAttackSEO methods
the FastAttackSEO method.
The goal of our writing is simply to provide a basic level of knowledge to the
reader about whatever topic they were searching for, while slightly pre-selling
them on that topic or item enough to get them to click one of our links to an
affiliate sales letter, CPA offer, squeeze-page, or other marketing device.
You're going to let the sales letter or offer do the true heavy-lifting of the sale, so
don't strain yourself trying to write amazing copy that sells. Doing so will only
frustrate you and keep you from moving forward.
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A. Keyword-Driven Content
Content for your site can come in many forms, but most likely it will consist of one
of the following:
Authority Articles
Authority Blog Posts
Authority Product Reviews
The term "authority" is over-used in Internet
Marketing, but for our purposes it simply means
that both Google, and your potential audience,
would consider you an authority figure based on
the quality, depth, and structure, of your site's
content.
This is where our 18 keywords come into play
for the first time since our domain name
registration back in Phase II.
You're going to start by either writing an article
yourself, or buying an article from a freelance
writer, about your main keyword.
This is the keyword that you created your exact match domain name around, and
the purpose of this first article is to be posted on the site's main index page to
drive home the exact match domain keyword's relevancy to Google.
To continue our example from earlier, we'll hypothetically call our main keyword
"fat-burning soup" and your exact match domain name is www.fat-burning-
soup.com.
For the main page of this site we need an article that fits our On-Page SEO
guidelines from Phase III, which means it will need to be 500 words or more and
will need to feature the rest of our optimization techniques when posted.
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This article will sit on the main page in static form, meaning when you post new
articles to your site it will not be moved off and replaced by new content. It's
important that it remains there and builds PR over time from all the backlink juice
we're going to be feeding it later on in Phase V.
You're then going to generate the remaining 17 pieces of content,
each article being optimized for one of the keywords on your list.
Your articles only need to read decently to the average person in order to be
successful, I want to remind you again that you shouldn't be sitting there hunched
over your keyboard sweating every word, or every sentence's grammar.
To make it easy on yourself, I recommend outsourcing your content creation.
It's so much easier, saves tons of time,
and frees you up to do things at the
strategic level in terms of growing your
business.
Thanks to the wonderful collection of
great out-of-work writers over on the
Warrior Forum, there's no shortage of
people talented enough to knock out
your 18 total articles for less than $100
total.
Think about that...for a hundred bucks,
or less, you can save yourself from
writing 18 articles. All that drama and
work and writer's block GONE.
However, if you can knock out 500+ word articles in less than 15 minutes each
then we'd recommend you save the cash and just get done with them in a day or
two.
But if hiring someone to get the content portion of the system sounds good to
you, head on over to the Warrior-For-Hire section of WF and place an order with
someone who has a good track record and over 50 positive reviews.
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Here are a few Warrior writing services we've used and have no problem
recommending for FastAttackSEO content:
1 Cent Per Word Article Writing Service
99 Cent Article Writing Service
$0.75 / 100 Words Article Writing Service
You're not going to get writing quality that rivals Hemingway from these services,
but they'll provide you with English that's passable to both search engine spiders
and potential buyers alike.
Regardless of which direction you choose to go, eventually as you begin to make
more and more money from your sites you'll be forced to outsource in order to
scale up faster and hit seven-figures-per-year levels of income.
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B. Article Posting Schedule
Once you've got your content lined up, either through someone else or from your
own hands, you're going to post it to your site in the following timeline:
Week 1: Main article to the main page (Keyword 1)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 2)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 3)
Week 2: Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 4)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 5)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 6)
Week 3: Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 7)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 8)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 9)
Week 4: Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 10)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 11)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 12)
Week 5: Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 13)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 14)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 15)
Week 6: Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 16)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 17)
Sub-article within Articles section of site (Keyword 18)
That's the pace we want you to keep, do NOT be tempted to accelerate the
process and dump more articles into the site at earlier than scheduled. Our best
results have occurred at this pace and attempts to alter it are not recommended.
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Besides, you're going to be very busy those weeks with the next Phase of the
program (backlinking/promotion) and likely won't want to speed up the pace
anyway.
The beauty of the FastAttackSEO system is that extremely targeted traffic will
being almost immediately thanks to those same promotional efforts I just
referred to, and you won't have to wait until the end of Week 6 in order to begin
making money and recouping your time investment in the site.
Then once the promotional
phase is finally over, and all
the articles are deployed
on the site, and your
automated backlinking
process is running on full
auto-pilot, you'll be able to
sit back and watch the
traffic and sales roll in.
Forever.
We're finally getting to the
sexy-time portion of
What it feels like when everything is set-up and dialed-in correctly...
FastAttackSEO, the part
where we talk about just how
you can get both traffic AND ranking movement upward to happen for even
brand-new sites simultaneously.
But before we get into that, make sure you've gone over every Phase detail to this
point and understand your objectives clearly:
- Phases II, III, and IV, should be completely understood in terms of your
comprehension. If you're not wrapping your head around something, re-read the
sections and see if it begins to get clear.
If it's still vague, email me (mako@fastattackseo.com), I'm happy to help.
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- Get your keywords selected, your domain registered, your site up, your plugins
installed, and your content written / prepped / SEO-optimized using our On-Page
checklist.
- And be ready to go LIVE according to the Article Posting Schedule.
If you can answer YES to all of that, then you're ready for the final piece of the
puzzle.
The portion of FastAttackSEO that's
going to create the near-guaranteed
#1 ranks for your newly-created
virtual real-estate and allow you to
begin saving for that Ferrari, or
house, or whatever it is that gets
you up out of bed each morning.
Are...you...ready!
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PHASE V: Off-Page Optimization
"Individually, we are but one drop. Together, we are an ocean."
- Ryunosuke Satoro, Japanese Poet
Since the creation of Google's first version of their now wildly popular search
engine, their emphasis has been on backlinks for driving page rankings.
It was intended not as some way to artificially
game the system by savvy Internet Marketers
of course, but as a way for search results to
be displayed higher that had the perceived
support of other websites and individuals.
Outsiders would "vouch" for the site being
relevant to the search phrase the surfer was
The very first version of Google's search window,
hard to believe it was that long ago (1998). looking for, and that credibility gave a boost
to the pages that had links pointing to them.
Many things have changed since the early days of Google, but the core of their
search results still hang on whether or not your site has other people linking to it
using the right formula.
On the next page you will find the exact formula that we use to rank each piece
of content on our clients' sites for the targeted keywords we isolate for them.
We learned this exact flow over time, testing and monitoring the results of over
100 different programs, software packages, bulk link purchases, Xrumer blasts,
Scrapebox comment runs, SENuke linkwheels, and every other backlinking
procedure you can imagine being performed over time.
The FastAttackSEO Backlinking Master Guide on the next page allowed us to
successfully rank hundreds of keywords that fit into our Keyword Formula (Phase
1A), and generate thousands of unique visitors a day for those same clients.
Lucky them!
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A: Backlinking Master Guide
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B: Backlinking Guide Explained
We wouldn't blame you if you're looking at that maze of lines, arrows, and multi-
colored text in the Backlinking Master Guide and are thinking:
"What the heck have I gotten myself into??"
It may seem overwhelming at first,
but after we go through it together
you'll feel extremely confident in
your ability to make this powerful
backlink structure work to propel
your sites up into the high ranks
they deserve.
And you'll also understand WHY the
system works so effectively, as we'll
be explaining the power of each
particular component and how they This is easy compared to our backlinking master guide... j/k!
work together seamlessly.
The bottom line is that we have clients paying us thousands of dollars per
MONTH to implement the same strategy that you now hold in your hands.
If they weren't able to rank their keywords highly, and then convert those visitors
into dollars, they wouldn't be our clients for very long... ;)
You may read opinions from others around the web that run contrary or in conflict to the
content in our system, but we would challenge those offering a differing viewpoint on the
effectiveness of our methods to match our budget, our net ranks, our client success, and
our income, before dismissing the details of our procedures.
Our methods work, and they work well. And while we do love new ideas, we're going to
stick with what's working for us, and we feel you should as well.
Follow to the guide closely, expand your empire, and enjoy your growing cash flow!
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Before we begin the breakdown, a few notes to help you through the process:
1. Included in your FastAttackSEO purchase is the same Backlinking
Master Guide, but in a larger and easier to read format. It's also in
landscape mode, so it's easier to see the path of the backlink lines.
I recommend printing that larger diagram out and having it next to
you for easy reference, that way you don't have to keep scrolling or
flipping back to it within this Main Program Guide.
2. As you can see by the Diagram Breakdown in the lower left corner
of the page, we've made the Free and One-Time Charge backlinking
software and services the color Purple, while the more powerful but
more costly methods are in Aquamarine.
We've done this because most of the time you're not going to need
to utilize the more powerful paid backlinking services if you've
followed the keyword research section of our system correctly.
But occasionally you WILL want to get more of your pages on some
of your sites higher in rank because the niche performs so well for
you (you're making sales and want more visitors by getting the
content for all 18 of your keywords in the top spots) and in that case
you'll want to bring the full power of our entire system to bear.
3. If you get lost somewhere along the way or I haven't been clear
enough in a certain area, please don't be shy and email me at
mako@fastattackseo.com.
As you can tell from the wordiness of this guide, I love to talk haha,
and I have no problem writing or recording lengthy answer to
questions you may have. :)
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C: Preparing For The First Step
As you look at the Backlinking Master Guide, you can already see that we've
covered a bit of the top part of the diagram earlier in the guide.
We went over the internal linking structure we like to use on our pages ("Related
Articles Box") in the On-Page portion of the system, and we also mentioned how
we like to place a contextual anchor link out to a non-threatening high-PR
authority site for an added boost.
On the diagram you can see these methods at work by looking at the red and
green arrows coming from Original Article 1 and Original Article 2 in the center,
and travelling outward towards other Original Articles on the site, as well as the
Non-Threat Authority Article.
You'll also note that each of our Articles has a green arrow (anchor link) to our
main Index page:
This gives the Index page added power within the site, and allows all links to flow
from the bottom of the diagram up towards the highest part of the site...
expanding the Index page's own power and PR for all 18 of the keywords/articles
that we're hoping to rank for.
So you're ranking your pages themselves, each article, but you're also adding to
the rank and power of your main keyword (the exact match domain keyword) via
your Index page every time you backlink an article as well.
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STEP 1: Unlimited Spinning Power
Once you upload your first three articles to your site according to the schedule
(Week 1), and you've make sure their links match the internal/external structure
we've just defined, it's time to begin getting backlinks to the articles themselves.
The first step in this process is to utilize some simple software that takes our
original articles and alters them using replacement words (synonyms via an
automated thesaurus) in order to create entirely new articles WITHOUT having to
re-write them.
It's called "spinning" an article, and it is absolutely essential to the process if
you're going to rank your Original Articles for the keywords you're after, because
it allows backlinks to be generated with spun articles that Google won't dismiss
simply as duplicate content.
Our own process for this is simple:
1. We fire up The Best Spinner, which is the #1 spinning solution on the
market without question.
We've tried nearly ten of these types of
software and nothing else is even CLOSE.
Luckily we've managed to get you a free 7-day
trial by clicking here: TBS-7-Day Free Trial.
2. We spin Original Article 1 and Original Article 2 to 40% uniqueness.
The Best Spinner comes with fabulous instructional videos and guides on
how to use it, refer to them here if you've never worked with it before.
Be sure to use the "Remove original words for all spins" option, which
guarantees your spun articles will be extremely unique.
3. Save the new articles after you're finished spinning them.
These will be the foundation of our backlinks as we move through the
Backlinking Master Guide.
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STEP 2: Autopilot Social Bookmarks
With our spun master content in hand (raw "spintax"), the fun part can now
begin.
Our first step in this process is to submit your article URLs using spintax titles and
descriptions to Automated Social Bookmarking sites that will allow you to spread
your article link throughout many different high-PR social destinations:
1. Social Monkee
Social Monkee is a great service that allows you to submit your article URL to
over 100 different high-PR social services that will then backlink directly to your
page in less than a week.
It couldn't be easier, you simply type in a few details about the article and click
the send button. Social Monkee does the rest, taking care of all 100 of the
submissions and propagating the description and tags.
Social Monkee also offers full support for spintax (spun article titles and
descriptions), which is perfect for maximum ranking power.
The base Social Monkee service is free for ONE article a day, going to 25 links.
Purchasing a $47 one-time upgrade allows you to submit THREE articles per day
out to 100 links EACH.
300 links a day from high-PR sites is a hell of a lot better than 25 per day, and the
Premium submission service is the best bargain out of all of these Social
Bookmark Autopilot systems.
Go Premium for the advanced backlink power as soon as your budget allows.
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2. IMAutomator
IMAutomator works similarly to Social Monkee, but submits your article details to
another 15 social bookmark sites, each of which is different from Social Monkee's
portfolio.
IMAutomator uses a similar interface to Social Monkee, just drop your article URL
and details into the fields and submit. They're currently implementing spintax
support for varying the article titles and descriptions, for now just use your
originals, but vary them by re-writing the title and short description a little.
There's no cost involved with IMAutomator as it's still undergoing beta testing
(they've been testing for nearly a year), so submit your article URLs and enjoy the
benefits.
3. SocialADR
One of the best services available, SocialADR is the only Social Bookmark
Automator that has 100% natural backlink power, because the actual submissions
are done by other users like you!
They use a nifty submit-for-credits system that allows you to submit other
people's bookmarks to the social sites you're a member of (which earns you
credits), and they then return the favor and submit your article URLs and details
to their social sites using your provided spintax titles and descriptions.
It's a brilliant idea, and it works extremely well. To power up SocialADR without
having to do all that work, which is what we do, simply buy credits on the site and
you can slam a quick 100+ high-PR backlinks to your articles for less than a buck!
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STEP 3: Traffic From Day One
While you're going to get some traffic to your site from the Social Bookmarking
efforts in Step 2, it won't be enough to make decent money on a daily basis.
To jumpstart your income efforts even before your
site's content is properly ranked within the search
engines we're going to have you leverage your
existing content at multiple article directories via
manual submissions.
We're not going to use our spun versions of the
articles for these submissions, simply because the
highest traffic article directories often block spun
submissions using human reviewers who read the
content prior to it being displayed on the
directories.
Instead we're going to use the power of syndication, which is a term meaning
we're re-using the same content at multiple online locations, to power up our
traffic count by routing people to our site directly.
Syndicated content isn't a bad thing in Google's eyes, as their engine sees
thousands of the same Press Releases, News Stories, Movie Reviews, and
countless other content distrusted across hundreds of sites daily.
To not have all that repetitive content appear in their search listings they use
what they term their "Supplemental Index" to store identical content that has
already appeared more than one time online.
This Supplemental Index doesn't rank the second, third, forth, and endless
duplicates of the original article to avoid clutter, but it DOES pass 100% of the link
power through the links on those pages just as if they were in the main index.
This is great, because we can take our Original Articles (un-spun), and submit
them to as many Article Directories as we want, and benefit not only from the
large number of readers they bring to us as they get posted, but ALSO from the
strong backlinks from these high-PR sites to our own pages!
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Here's how we want you to submit your already-written content to maximize
visitors to your pages, and give you the best chance to make money quickly:
1. Take Original Article 1 and 2, un-spun, and submit it to the following
Article Directories:
A. Ezinearticles
B. Articlesbase
C. GoArticles
2. In the resource box areas of your article submissions to each of those
directories (the area where they allow you to link back to your site), place
anchor text links back in the following pattern:
Explanation: Each of the articles submitted to the Article Directories will
have 2 anchor text links pointing back to your site:
One to a different article on your site (using the source article's
keyword as the anchor text link, noted by the red arrow).
One to the main index page of the site itself (using the site's
main keyword as the anchor text link, noted by the green arrow).
The reason we're doing this is to drive visitors AND link juice simultaneously to
our site. This way we can get a boost from the high-PR of the authority article
sites while also starting to monetize your brand new site.
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"Original Article 1 and 2" are just the first two in the bigger batch, you'll be
following this exact pattern for ALL 18 of your Original Articles (1 article per
keyword) that you'll be creating for your site over the first month.
By the time you're done, the site will have had a tremendous amount of targeted
traffic from the directories, the content will have been indexed, cached, and will
be climbing the rankings, and your autopilot money-making site will create
endless passive income for you.
CAUTION: Don't submit your articles to the Article Directories unless they've
been indexed by Google on YOUR site FIRST.
We want your site to be perceived as the Authority on the subject by Google in
order to boost your ranking power, so we want to make sure all original content
always appears on your site, and gets indexed, BEFORE we then post the same
content elsewhere.
To accomplish this is easy.
First, thanks to the Social
Bookmarking steps we just went
over, you should be able to find
your original articles within
Google's search engine in less
than 24 hours after submitting
them to Social Monkee,
IMAutomator, and SocialADR.
But just in case this hasn't
happened, you can submit your original article URLs to Amplify.com. Amplify will
create a fast backlink to your pages and will get them indexed usually in less than
ten minutes!
It's a great free Social Bookmark site for our indexing purposes, and it also
provides a nice backlink that tends to last for years, which is never a bad thing.
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Between Wordpress' auto-pinging each time you upload new content to your
sites, the Social Bookmarking you'll be doing for those articles, and a final blast to
Amplify.com, you're guaranteed to get your pages indexed almost immediately.
After that, you're free to post that same content wherever you like for traffic and
backlinks.
Tip For Successful Article Submissions That Send Buyers To Your Site:
Your Resource Box Click-Through Rate depends on how strong your CTA is.
Here's an unannounced gift you can use, it's our answer to the question "how do I
get my CTR up in my articles on the article directories??"
The exact box we use is made to be a part of the article itself, at the end, and it
seamlessly leads into the resource box linking area.
We get 25-40% CTR on every article we post using this exact wording, while the
average CTR according to Ezinearticles' own staff is just 2%...think about that...
ARTICLE RESOURCE BOX EXAMPLE (this is for the get-your-ex-back niche, but the
fundamentals apply to ALL niches, just swap out the words):
What if you just can't get her back?
I know how hard it can be to try and make an ex understand just how special your
love was, but if you want to really make her heart sing for you again you'll need to
learn a single method that works amazingly well.
This method is simple to pick up and it doesn't take much practice, you can read
how to do it in my free report here: Get Your Ex Back.
Don't give up hope, it's NOT impossible. Learn more ways to Make Her Love You
Again by clicking the link.
Did you see what we did there?
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Just by relating to the emotional pain of the reader we made them much more
likely to click on one of the links within the box.
Also, the first anchor link (Get Your Ex Back) was directed towards another,
different article on our site.
This is why in the Backlink Guide we have
Original Article 1 link to Original Article 2, and
vice-versa, so the reader gets to our site after
clicking the link in the article directory content
we posted and is able to see different material
on our site versus what they just read.
The second link in our resource box goes to our
site's index page, using our main keyword for
the site (Make Her Love You Again, which would
be going to a site with that keyword in the
domain, www.makeherloveyouagain.com),
which sends both readers and link juice to the
top of our pyramid.
It's not that complicated, but it gets the job
done.
Any click rate below 30% is weak. Step your
game up by using our proven resource box.
If you want more traffic, simply submit the same
article to more directories.
The articles won't rank due to being in the supplemental index (which is good as
we DON'T want them to rank, we want the article they point to on OUR site to
rank), but they WILL send people, link juice, and all the other benefits that we
desire.
Here's a great list of the best directories by both PR and Alexa traffic rating, use it
as much as you're motivated to in order to keep pumping up the numbers:
Top 50 Article Directories
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STEP 4: Relevant Backlink Networks
Our next step in the process is leveraging the power of automation to get our
content distributed to thousands of blogs, each of which will take our spun article
(along with our anchor text backlinks to Original Articles 1 and 2 embedded within
it) and place it on their site forever.
While relevancy IS highly overrated (a
backlink from a weight-loss site has little
"extra" power to rank a diet article versus
a backlink from a non-related / non-weight
loss site for ranking) it DOES help a bit for
powering up the entire site's presence in
the SERPS as a whole.
Blog networks are extremely powerful
sources of backlinks AND traffic, so much
so that they've been responsible for
moving dozens of our article/content
pages up 50+ rank spots within Blog distribution networks drive thousands of anchor text
backlinks to your article pages on autopilot.
Google...often within just two weeks of
distribution! And more traffic is something that's always welcome to anyone
trying to create income as quickly as possible from a new site.
We'll be giving your our elite list of the best of these services momentarily, our
findings were generated from detailed rank analysis and actual SERP movements
of our portfolio of dozens of client sites and hundreds of keywords across 22
different blog distribution networks the past year.
We've whittled the list down through our results to the 5 best networks that
provided the most impressive rank improvements for us over the last 12 months.
Each provides a unique advantage that when combined with the others provides
an incredible boost to any keyword-based content we feed to it.
Before we get to our FastAttackSEO -approved blog network list, here's a quick
visual aid to help those of you who may not be as experienced with the concept
of how a blog network distributes articles and what the flow looks like:
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The challenge for anyone trying to find the best Blog
Network Distribution services is finding networks
that can successfully answer this checklist:
1. Have a large # of blogs within the article
distribution network that are PR2+ or more.
The higher the blog's PR ratings are, the more
likely they are to be indexed, and the more
authority Google gives them. This directly drives the rankings of YOUR
pages, because they're directly linked to by the blog network sites.
2. Have a simple user interface that's easy to use.
We can't stand a service that we can't log in to and track distribution counts
(how many times our submitted spun articles are being published within
the network). We also don't want to be slowed down by complicated or
confusing interfaces that leave us frustrated.
3. Provide a medium-level pace of article distribution.
We don't want to wait months for the spun article we submitted to land on
50+ blogs. That's the sign of a network that's slowly failing.
We DO love the drip-feed concept of blog distribution, where our single
spun article is re-spun automatically by the blog network provider and
submitted to just a few different blogs each day, but we want the bulk of
those submissions completed within 60-90 days total to impact our
rankings quickly.
4. Don't feature blogs in the network that offer XXX or Gambling content.
Google frowns on both, and we don't want any negatively-viewed backlink
coming from some rogue blog within a network.
It's the network's job to police their distribution sites, and we don't like
playing babysitter or policeman.
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A: The Elite Blog Network List
We're been through hell and back to locate, review, and finalize our list of Blog
Networks, and we've wasted thousands of dollars in the process to eliminate the
services that had no effect on our SERP rankings.
It was painful to lose that much money just
in the quest to learn, especially for what
was a new company at the time, but the
rewards we gained from that quest for
knowledge will last us a life time.
And now they'll do the same for you!
We're going to devote a full page to each of
the distribution networks we've selected in
order to explain why they work as well as
they do.
And we're also going to break down the value component of the process,
meaning how much they cost (if anything, amazingly some of the best are FREE),
how easy they are to work with, and how quickly they provided results for us.
You should feel a powerful shift begin to happen about halfway through this list,
particularly as you begin to put two and two together, realizing just how powerful
the synergy of these processes combined can be.
When it hits you, when you reach that level of final understanding, you'll feel
unstoppable.
And you'll never wonder "if" you can rank a page or site for something again...
Let's get it on!
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#1: Our Number One Honey: BMR
When we first began experimenting with BMR, which is the acronym for the best
blog network on our list "Build My Rank", we wondered why we should bother.
At first glance, this was a service that provided
the fewest backlinks, needed the most effort,
had the most restrictive content policy (your
spun submissions need to be output into actual
readable 150-word articles prior to submission),
and the least known network of sites out of
every service we had joined and evaluated
previously.
You can imagine our surprise then when our
very first test case all that time ago rocketed up
the rankings, taking a site from #44 in Google
for its main keyword up to #5 in less than 30 days!
That certainly got our attention, and since that time we've submitted thousands
of posts into BMR's system for our client sites, happily watching our results climb
skyward.
Build My Rank has a fee of $59 a month to use the service, and for that fee you're
allowed up to 10 posts of 150 words each (and one backlink each) per day.
That makes it an amazing bargain, even compared to the hundreds of backlinks
that other services provide, because the average PR rating of the blogs in their
network is the highest we've seen...which means it has the most power to blast
your content and sites up into the easy-money range on Page 1.
They've got a great 10-post free-offer going on right now, and they DO close the
service to newbies from time to time (at the time of this writing they're open), so
hurry over there by clicking this link and sign up for a free test.
If you only do one damn thing from this entire guide, let this be it. No joke.
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#2: Amazing AND Free: ALN
If I told you there was a blog network available to you that as of today (April,
2011), had FOUR HUNDRED blogs in it that have a PR3 or HIGHER Page Rank,
would that be something that would interest you?
What if I told you that the network was FREE to submit to? :)
The amazing service known as Authority Link Network, or ALN for short, is a gift
from heaven to anyone on a budget looking to leverage the power of a blog
network that should cost a hundred bucks a month MINIMUM.
It's available by invitation only, if you go to the root domain you'll see that it
closed long ago, but we've provided a somewhat unknown link for you here that
is still open for signing up.
There's no cost involved with ALN for a
reason...you've got to submit your OWN
blog site to their network to be allowed to
post your own submissions to other people's
blogs in the network.
The higher PR rating of the blog you submit, the higher the amount of submission
credits you get for your own spun article submissions...But you don't have a high-
PR blog to submit, is that what I hear you thinking?
Don't cry little one, we have your solution.
You can use GoDaddy's wonderfully under-utilized auction service to scoop up
and register expired PR3 and PR4 domains for prices typically under $25.
Then just install Wordpress on the domains after you point them to your
HostGator hosting account, and submit them to ALN with ZERO work being done
on them.
That's it. You only need two PR2-level blogs to be able to submit two articles a
day into the ALN network, and each of your ALN posts can have 3x backlinks back
to your site! Amazing, just amazing. Get over there and get started.
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#3: The Network That Tries Harder: AR
The wonderful blog network known as Article Ranks,(AR for short), is absolutely
one of our favorite content distribution sites, and it's easy to understand why.
From their robust and detailed statistical
tracking, to their wonderful quality control
standards (which filter crap out of the system in
order to keep ranking-power high), Article
Ranks has everything we want and need from a
blog network.
Most importantly, it drives our sites higher in
search engine results, and it does it quickly.
We've run test after test with AR, submitting
client content from every possible major niche
you can think up, and each has performed well
over time.
You'll need to format your spun content properly in order for their system to
accept the article, but their interface is easy to navigate and their preview final-
section allows you to double-check your backlinks before the article goes live.
One feature that Article Ranks provides that most other blog networks don't is
support for embedded video.
This means that if you create video content for say, YouTube, you can embed the
links for those videos within the spun article body using the same anchor text
backlinking format that's used for a normal article backlink on your site.
This drives strong ranking power to the video itself, and allows you to use one of
the maximum 3 backlinks AR allows to go towards another boost you can make
use of.
Article Ranks offers unlimited submissions per day for just $39.95 per month, and
that includes additional automatic submissions to Social Bookmark sites for free.
Just an incredible service, we can't speak highly enough about it.
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#4: Worth All The Trouble: FTS
We have a soft spot in our hearts for blog networks that not only produce results,
but do it for a low price.
This is certainly the case with our friends at
Free Traffic Service, or FTS, because you can
distribute your spun articles to as many as
30 relevant niche-blogs in their network AT
NO COST.
Yep it's 100% free, you read that correctly.
There's a catch though, and it's definitely a
big one.
Their user interface is a major pain in the
neck, it's tough for newbies to figure out, it
often glitches while you're using it, and
worst of all you have to manually select the
blogs you want your article to go to by individually checking them.
Free Traffic Service is worth all this hassle though, because the ranking power of
the blogs is extremely strong (stronger than most PAID services!) and the price is
certainly right being that it's free.
Plus, they're working on FTS 2.0 currently, which will bring a brand new interface
(thank god) along with several other improvements we can look forward to.
Definitely not one to leave off your list, head on over and sign up for a free
account now.
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#5: Thousands of Backlinks: AMR
Recently the service known as "AMR" to its fans went down for routine
maintenance for a couple days.
Within an HOUR of it going down there were
already 10+ thread on the Warrior Forum's
main page from people crying their eyes out
thinking that AMR, or "Article Marketing
Robot" might be gone forever...
While this caused us to smile since the owner
had emailed everyone warning them in
advance of the maintenance period, it was
probably the best testimonial that a product
could have had as it was immediately clear
just how MANY successful marketers are using
Article Marketing Robot on a daily basis.
AMR isn't a blog network. It's an automated article submitter that takes your
spun content and distributes it to over 6,500 different blogs, directories, and
other destinations, all using YOUR keywords, YOUR anchor links, and YOUR
details.
Did we mention that it's free to run as often as you like?
There's a one-time fee for the software, but once you own it, you own it.
Inside tip: We actually keep a full PC dedicated solely to running AMR
submissions night and day for the purpose of backlinks, that's how impressive it is
for actual rank improvements. We've set up multiple Author accounts within it,
and we just have it rotate through them to the tune of 50,000+ individual
directory submissions per day...shhh, don't tell anyone! ;)
Get your free demo-trial of the software and fool around with it by clicking here.
Once you upgrade all your settings save and carry over so there's no delay in
submitting.
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Step 5: Feed The Winners: Private Networks
The five services we just outlined, combined with our On-Page SEO efforts and
overall keyword research strategy, is responsible for $25,000 a month in income
to our small SEO firm, as well as god-knows-how-much money per month to the
actual clients themselves who PAY us that $25,000.
And as we've mentioned before, with the experience in getting to that point have
come painful lessons along the way.
Once of the best things we could ever hope to teach you is that you
MUST re-invest in your WINNERS, and ignore the LOSERS.
This is an old Stock Market investing lesson that we wish we had learned earlier,
and when we apply it to SEO work we mean that after you build a half dozen sites
using this method you're going to see definite winners and/or losers in the group.
You'll follow our system, install and promote
your sites, and a couple of them will literally
blast off in terms of conversion rates, earning
you 3-4x as much money per visitor with the
SAME levels of traffic as your other sites do.
Do NOT then go to your weaker sites and start
spending time and/or money on trying to
figure out why they're not working as well as
Reward your winners and watch them perform.
your best sites.
Don't give your most precious resources to the weakest of the group...instead
feed more to your best race-horses that produce the best results!
It's tough to predict ahead of time which goldmines will appear for you as usually
ALL niches/markets look great before you actually get into them. But every once
in a while you're going to find those diamonds, often without even realizing it
beforehand.
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When this happens you want to seize the moment, invest more time and effort
into that particular site, and get all 18 of your keyword-articles as high up in the
ranks as possible.
To accomplish this, we turn to the greatest rank-booster in our arsenal, one used
by every single seven-figure-a-year Internet Marketer we know:
PRIVATE Blog Network Backlinks.
We've already gone through our best PUBLIC Blog Network resources, and they're
all spectacular.
But when you want to really invest in a site
that's already making you money and drive all
of its content as high in the rankings as
possible, the fastest and most practical way to
do it is through contextual anchor text links
placed on the MAIN pages of PR3+ blogs.
And the way to obtain those extremely
valuable links is to pay for them, via a monthly
"rental" or "lease" arrangement.
Private Blog Networks work because the
power of a site's PageRank is disproportionate
and non-linear between levels.
The numbers are exponential, meaning that
each higher level isn't just twice as powerful as
the level that preceded it.
Instead, each higher Google PageRank numbers is somewhere between 6-10x
more powerful than the last level that came before it, which is a far greater jump
than a linear "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc" scale would represent.
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A single PR5 backlink to your page is worth as much as 10,000+ PR1
backlinks in terms of authority/power for increasing rank placement.
Google doesn't disclose the exact formula they use for PR for good reason, but
most rely on the figures in this chart to get a handle on just how powerful high PR
backlinks can be:
After looking at these numbers you can understand why we prize high-PR blog
networks so much to supercharge our rankings on pages already making us
money...
Locating the best Private Blog Networks available isn't easy, and that's a good
thing. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy, particularly when it comes to backlinking
or ranking your site.
Also, the best private networks open and close very quickly. Meaning they'll
advertise availability of open spots as they pop up, those spots will get taken, and
they'll then close down the offer to anyone else until more vacancies happen.
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Here are a few networks that offer high-PR home pages at the appropriate
market pricing levels.
At the time of this guide's writing these networks were open to new renters, but
if you should go to their pages and find them to now be closed, simply bookmark
the page and move on to the next one.
A. RealEcon's 30x High PR Home Page Backlinks Network
5 x PR5 Sites
10 x PR4 Sites
10 x PR3 Sites
5 x PR2 Sites
Cost: $47 a month for a single backlink on all 30 pages.
Comments: We like seeing our private link rentals being PR3 and
above, and RealEcon's breakdown has 25 sites that fit this category.
Remember, you only need 1 or 2 of these links to each page on your
site that you're trying to rank for to be effective, use our PageRank
Analysis Chart on the previous page as a guideline for your strategy.
B. BacklinksInSanItY High PR Booster Net Contextual Backlinks
1 x PR6 Site
3 x PR5 Sites
6 x PR4 Sites
Cost: $27 a month for a single backlink on all 10 pages.
Comments: Pricey, but worth it with the high average PR of the
network itself. That PR6 backlink is gold, certainly an easy fix for any
site/page that needs a steroid rank boost.
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C. Fraggler Budget Homepage Backlinks High PR Contextual Network
4 x PR5 Sites
10 x PR4 Sites
8 x PR3 Sites
Cost: $35 a month for a single backlink on all 22 pages.
Comments: Good overall network with Class-C IP variance, isolation
from other networks to avoid footprints, and strong security.
D. Asharam 20 High PR (2-4) Homepage Backlinks + Twist
5 x PR4 Sites
8 x PR3 Sites
7 x PR2 Sites
Cost: $25 a month for a single backlink on all 20 pages.
Comments: The average PR of the network is a little low, but the
owner is creating more content to keep driving it up over time. Good
for its price as we like paying around $1 per PR3 backlink for value
reasons.
The four Private Blog Networks we've listed here are just the start. You should
make use of The Warrior Forum, Backlinks Forum, and Digital Point, to locate,
test, and utilize Private Blog Networks as your empire expands.
Don't worry about the cost, remember, you're only doing this when a site is
ALREADY profitable and creating great income for you. You'll be happy to invest
more in the sites that are working for you when the time comes, believe me.
This is the best way to massively accelerate your site's ranking, traffic growth, and
monetization over the long haul, but don't do it until you're got money to play
with.
Stay safe and protect your resources until that point.
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Step 6: Link Velocity Through Comments
The concept of "Link Velocity", which is defined as the PACE at which backlinks
are established to your site, seen by Google, and then fall off over time, is critical
to the long-term success of your rankings.
First implemented in late 2009, link
velocity brought a component to Google's
search algorithm that rewarded sites for
consistently having NEW backlinks point to
them on a positive basis as time passed.
To achieve positive link velocity simply
means you have more links coming in to
your site each month than the amount
that are falling off for natural decay
reasons.
In order to make this happen and get your sites to #1 (as well as to keep them
there) we want to use backlink systems that drop your backlinks in over time by
"drip-feeding" them to their targets.
Luckily for you, all of the services we've already mentioned in the FastAttackSEO
Off-Page Phase V section are drip-fed purposely for link velocity reasons over
time, and to not arouse the suspicion of Google that you're somehow blasting
your site with artificial links.
One of the other ways we get great link velocity scores as time passes is to utilize
the power of blog commenting and forum posts, including those that are no-
follow sites.
Yes, a NATURAL human-like backlink is always our goal, and blog/forum
comments achieve that purpose well.
Commit yourself to doing blog/forum comment maintenance for your better sites
each month by seeking out high-PR sites in whatever niches your site itself falls
into, and post informative comments in open discussions.
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Do NOT just post bot-link Scrapebox/Xrumer spam-style comments as they'll
quickly be deleted.
Comments like:
"You have a nice site here".
or
"Good topic, I agree".
Instead of this generic route, take the opportunity to drop some wisdom in the
thread on the topic your site covers, because these comments will send you
TARGETED TRAFFIC over time.
Not a ton of it, but certainly enough to make it worthwhile as you get the dual-
benefit from the backlink itself.
Both of these can be automated and/or paid for in ways that are human-driven
(never resort to software for this), and you can find/hire services to manually
perform the work for you in the usual places (WarriorForum, DigitalPoint, etc).
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Final Pieces of the Off-Page Puzzle
There are a few other master guidelines we want you
to follow as you use the various methods and services
we've just highlighted in the Off-Page section of our
guide (Phase V).
This is to give you an edge over both the other
marketers using them as well as to maximize the
return on your investment with maximum results.
1. Embed THREE contextual anchor links in your submissions to ALN, but just
TWO links in your submissions to (AMR, FTS, and AR).
We've noticed over the long term that while AMR, FTS, and AR all allow you to
place three links in your spun content back to your site, the actual acceptance
rate is higher when you only opt for two.
The reason for this is that each of these systems places your spun content on
blogs and in article directories that are owned, moderated, and reviewed, by
actual people...the owners of the sites.
This means they're free to reject content that they feel is spammy, or has too
many links in it, or just isn't at the quality level they require.
Whenever we've submitted content with only two links within the body of the
text we've had a 25% higher acceptance/publish rate versus the SAME content
with three links.
This is a hidden tactic that we've never seen talked about previously, and you can
benefit from just using 2x links for each submission.
This is why the FastAttackSEO Backlinking Master Guide only shows 2 red arrow
lines coming from AMR, FTS, and AR...because they represent the 2 anchor text
links you'll be pointing back to your own site content.
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2. There's a nasty problem with Article Marketing Robot, and it's a big one.
Less than 1% of the people currently using the system are aware of it, and it's
limiting their ranking ability with the program by -95% of what it should be.
That problem is indexing. Or to be more specific, a lack of indexing.
As I mentioned previously, we produce somewhere on the order of 1-1.5M
(million) total individual directory submissions through AMR a month, which
when all the dust settles leads to around 200,000 to 300,000 actual live articles on
thousands of article directories.
Why the big difference in the two figures?
Well, you lose the majority of your submissions to a variety of nonsense, from
directory owners shutting down their article submissions pages as they do
maintenance, to smaller directories simply going offline or out of business, to
your own niche categories of the article you're submitting not being applicable to
some of the directories tighter focuses, etc, etc, etc.
Not much you can do about it, so figure that for every single article you run
through AMR to the 6,500+ individual sites it submits to you'll get between 1000-
1500 actual live articles online after a few days have gone by and everything has
been posted.
But...this isn't the real problem.
The real problem is that early on we realized that 95% of those 1000-1500 live
URLs we were getting after each submission were NOT being indexed by Google.
A month, two months, even three months later, no dice. Still no indexing.
Which means that only 25-75 net live article URLs per each 6,500+ submission
were being seen! Yikes.
To solve this problem we got together with a few outsource services running
truly massive Backlink Energizer and Backlink Index Express clusters that could
power through our monthly volume and produce a 40-60% index rate for our
submissions.
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Reflect on that a moment.
We went from approximately 5% of our 35,000 to 50,000 live links per month
being indexed and counted by Google for our backlink rankings, which is just 750
to 1,000 total links, to around 50%, or 15,000 live/indexed/counted articles.
Hmmm, 750...or...15,000...Pretty easy choice right? :)
What this all means is that routinely indexing
your AMR live-links once a month (Live-Links is
the name of a report AMR generates for you that
shows you the URLs of your articles) is
mandatory to get value out of the articles and
backlinks.
To help you, here's the public face of one of the
behind-the-scenes indexing services that we
actually use, a great guy named George runs it.
He's cheap, and you only pay for the actual links
he successfully indexes, which is unheard of
(most charge just for the attempt):
UltraSEOBacklinks
Submitting your URLs to be indexed is simple, all
of these services just ask for you to dump a master list of everything you want
indexed to them in a text file or through their submission interface. They take it
from there and then send you a success/failure report.
Run your AMR live-links report monthly, cut and paste all the URLs into a text
file, shoot them to your indexer, and call it a day. Very simple.
Just for that, you'll gain thousands of extra backlinks that help you get power to
your pages.
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3. Elaborate "Link-Wheels" are useless AND dangerous.
They work no better than just directly linking high-quality sites directly to your
pages/site.
Right about now I'm sure some of you are choking on your Rockstars and Red
Bulls, spitting it allllll up on the keyboard, so upset at what we just said.
The truth hurts.
Seriously, haven't you ever wondered WHY so many "Link-Wheel" services have
popped up and flourished over the past year?
Simple human sales psychology.
We all WANT to believe that Google is an
incredibly complex system, thus it must
take another incredibly complex system
to defeat their algorithm.
And we then believe we need to pay
extremely high prices for those elaborate
systems to attack Google, so we
rationalize ridiculous outsourced
backlinking systems that have price tags "The Link Wheel v7.4 Ultra-Juice Deluxe Mega-Blaster
will cost you just $499. Nope, no refunds sir."
that are worth more than the total value of
the site itself.
The bottom line is that Google simply wants to see the following happening in
order to give your page ranking ability for the keyword you're trying to hit:
A. A high amount of diverse sites that are respected, aged, and high-
PR, linking directly to your site via one-way links, and using your
keyword as the gateway.
That's it.
Again, we've tried every paid service under the sun, and paid the price for it.
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We experimented with multiple 5-tier linkwheels comprised of over 50,000
directed backlinks across dozens of 2.0 hubs, each having its own backlink wheel
with 10,000+ backlinks firing at it, and, powered up the entire way with actual
spun content and indexing efforts.
And do you know what happened?
We got just as much rank improvement out of simply pursuing good, relevant,
high-PR contextual anchor text links within the right blog networks and article
directories at our main properties using drip-feed methods over time.
Everyone from Terry Kyle, author of the popular Backlinks Hydra, to Google's own
Matt Cutts, laugh at the endless pursuit of link wheel "nonsense".
Worse, not only has Google personnel confirmed on many occasions that
evidence of this sort of manipulation will be punished by de-listing/de-indexing,
we've experienced it for ourselves!
Never again. We learned our lesson, learn yours by sticking to the fundamentals.
Use HUMAN backlinks by taking advantage of blog networks and article
directories, provide GOOD CONTENT on your site, and let TIME be your friend as
you outlast, outrank, and outperform your competition!
The best way to make your online portfolio immune from the punishing Google
algorithm changes (slaps) that come down a few times per year is to not play the
game.
Stick to non-manipulated backlink sources that don't involve shenanigans.
No "forum profile backlinks"...no "multi-tiered link-wheels"...no "blackhat
software routines".
Just the basics will get you everywhere you need to go if you've done your niche
research, your keyword research, and your backlinking strategy properly.
We want to have a long-term business that makes money forever, and so should
you!
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PHASE VI: Scale Up And Expand
" Growth depends on being always in motion just a
little bit, one way or another"
- Norman Mailer, Best-Selling Author
The first time you go through and accomplish every piece of the entire
FastAttackSEO system, from your initial keyword research to your blog network
submissions, to your final piece of content for the site, will seem like it takes
weeks to accomplish.
You should not be discouraged by that fact...You should be elated.
Just by getting to that point where a site is completed
and you've actively promoted it by generating over
50,000 backlinks to your 18 pages of content almost
entire by autopilot means that you have a 75%
chance of making incredible money from it as time
passes.
The other 25% chance comes from the niche you've
selected and the way you're funneling visitors to the
programs or ads you've chosen to run, but the
majority of whether you succeed or fail with a site in
entirely in your own hands.
See, time is your friend. You're creating links to all 18 pages of the site daily,
even if you never turn on your computer that day.
The drip-feed nature of the distribution services is taking care of everything FOR
you, which is part of the reason why we do it this exact way.
We want to be free to GROW and EXPAND, not be stuck babysitting a site for
months as it climbs up the ladder of success.
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Once you've finished the first site, begin the second immediately. Once that site
is finished, we then want you to start TWO more sites at the same time.
Don't worry, by this point you'll be a machine, you can handle it.
Soon you'll be able to do even more, by pursuing outsourcing for all your articles,
and getting faster and faster with deploying your blogs.
Because this system is so robust and works so effectively, we expect that you're
not going to need more than 5-10 sites to hit spectacular levels of income.
You may become a bit lazy at that point and decide that $10,000 a month is
enough for you. You'll start taking vacations while the autopilot money rolls in,
everything will be fantastic.
However...Make sure you're always in motion, moving your income and online
presence higher and higher, creating more traffic, more revenue, and more
opportunity.
You never know what the future holds, and as I mentioned at the start, we are
living in the golden age of internet marketing...without question.
Make hay while the sun shines is the old American saying, and it means you need
to take advantage of this opportunity while it still remains. Don't put off for
tomorrow what you can do today to make yourself, and your online properties,
stronger and stronger.
How far will you take what you've learned in this guide? What new heights can
you reach? How will your family thank you for what you've accomplished just a
few months from now?
Only you hold those answers. Get to work. :)
Craig Mako
mako@fastattackseo.com
Warrior Forum: CraigRC
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MASTER RESOURCE LIST:
KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOLS
Keyword Ninja
Keyword Optimizer Pro
Google AdWords Keyword Tool
Market Samurai
PREFERRED HOSTING
HostGator
Wordpress Installation On HostGator
WORDPRESS THEMES FOR HIGH CTR
Clickbump Engine
CTR Theme
WORDPRESS PLUGINS
SEOPressor
Wordpress SEO
Sexy Bookmarks
WP OnlyWire Autoposter
ALL-IN-ONE NICHE TRAINING COURSES
Google Sniper 2.0
Niche Profit Classroom
BLOG NETWORK CONTENT SYNDICATION
Build My Rank
Authority Link Network
Article Ranks
Free Traffic Service
Article Marketing Robot
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OUTSOURCE ARTICLE-WRITING SERVICES
$1.00 / 100 Words (1-Cent Per Word Article Writing Service)
$0.99 / 100 Words (Article Writing Service)
$0.75 / 100 Words (Article Writing Service)
SITEMAP/WEBMASTER TOOLS UTILITIES
XML Sitemaps
Google Webmaster Tools
INTERNET MARKETING FORUMS
Warrior Forum
Digital Point Forum
SPIN SOFTWARE
The Best Spinner
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING AUTOMATION
Social Monkee
IMAutomator
SocialADR
ARTICLE DIRECTORIES
Ezinearticles
Articlesbase
GoArticles
Top 50 Article Directories Master List
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