Comments on: 70 + Free Webmaster Tools – Free SEO Tools http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/ For The Dot Comer In All Of Us Thu, 09 Sep 2010 07:27:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: blue2x http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-60414 blue2x Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:05:02 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-60414 awesome list you have here ! especially the backlink builder website you mentioned awesome list you have here ! especially the backlink builder website you mentioned

]]> By: JR http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40702 JR Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:31:00 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40702 @ Harmony I always need inspiration for posts, and I think you may have given me several. Yes you can use any other monetazation for BANS sites, it's your site, you can do whatever you want with it. I use Adsense, CJ, Pepperjam and other venues to monetize my sites and I just love BANS, it is how I learned affiliate marketing and started making a full time income. You can even ignore the eBay portion of BANS and use it to easily build any kind of site you want, as it is super easy to use and build sites with. @ Harmony
I always need inspiration for posts, and I think you may have given me several. Yes you can use any other monetazation for BANS sites, it’s your site, you can do whatever you want with it. I use Adsense, CJ, Pepperjam and other venues to monetize my sites and I just love BANS, it is how I learned affiliate marketing and started making a full time income. You can even ignore the eBay portion of BANS and use it to easily build any kind of site you want, as it is super easy to use and build sites with.

]]> By: Harmony @ New Green Gadget http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40698 Harmony @ New Green Gadget Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:37:05 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40698 Oh I see. so it's the same thing: you must have relevant content. To be honest, I feel the same when I am on a search engine. I get the reason for the guidelines. Well I should take a look at that then as I understand they are very easy to use...with Ebay of course. I am accepted my many others, incl pepperjam and such. Can i use those with a BANS site? Well don't bother answering, I can do my research on that. I have taken enough time! IF you ever need inspiration for a new post though...I am happy to supply the relevant topics...:-) .-= Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.newgreengadget.com/crank-flashlights-%E2%80%93-wind-up-the-light.html">Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light</a> =-. Oh I see. so it’s the same thing: you must have relevant content. To be honest, I feel the same when I am on a search engine. I get the reason for the guidelines. Well I should take a look at that then as I understand they are very easy to use…with Ebay of course. I am accepted my many others, incl pepperjam and such. Can i use those with a BANS site? Well don’t bother answering, I can do my research on that. I have taken enough time! IF you ever need inspiration for a new post though…I am happy to supply the relevant topics…:-)
Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: JR http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40697 JR Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:29:29 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40697 @ Harmony Many BANS users lost rankings and their sites died in Google because they were just very thin affiliate sites, all they added were the store pages without any written content and that is against Google's Webmaster TOS, whether it's BANS or not. From their viewpoint, why should they present their users, the searchers, with sites that just mirror what is allready on the merchant's site without any additional value. That is the reason I always add at least as much or even more content pages than store pages to my BANS sites or any platform I use to build affiliate sites. I am not sure why eBay rejected your site, they have recently changed their payout to pay for quality traffic so that could be the reason, they are looking for the overall traffic levels of the site as well as precise targeting for the products that are sold on a site as related to the overall content of the site. @ Harmony
Many BANS users lost rankings and their sites died in Google because they were just very thin affiliate sites, all they added were the store pages without any written content and that is against Google’s Webmaster TOS, whether it’s BANS or not. From their viewpoint, why should they present their users, the searchers, with sites that just mirror what is allready on the merchant’s site without any additional value. That is the reason I always add at least as much or even more content pages than store pages to my BANS sites or any platform I use to build affiliate sites.

I am not sure why eBay rejected your site, they have recently changed their payout to pay for quality traffic so that could be the reason, they are looking for the overall traffic levels of the site as well as precise targeting for the products that are sold on a site as related to the overall content of the site.

]]> By: Harmony @ New Green Gadget http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40695 Harmony @ New Green Gadget Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:52:14 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40695 Very helpful indeed. Funny I had read that the BANS sites were not producing much anymore and overused. But I guess it doesnt matter because Ebay took a look at my site listed here, and sent me a decline. :-( REJECTION I think I should write an ebook on Ebay rejection. :-) My understanding is that BANS is limited to Ebay but I remember seeing it in the scores of stuff I have read here...so i will go to those posts and refresh. No doubt, you will hear from me there. :-) Again thank you JR. .-= Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.newgreengadget.com/crank-flashlights-%E2%80%93-wind-up-the-light.html">Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light</a> =-. Very helpful indeed. Funny I had read that the BANS sites were not producing much anymore and overused. But I guess it doesnt matter because Ebay took a look at my site listed here, and sent me a decline. :-( REJECTION I think I should write an ebook on Ebay rejection. :-) My understanding is that BANS is limited to Ebay but I remember seeing it in the scores of stuff I have read here…so i will go to those posts and refresh. No doubt, you will hear from me there. :-) Again thank you JR.
Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: JR http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40691 JR Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:03:53 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40691 @ Harmony LOL, no problem, ask away and thank you for your purchases. Yes you are exactly right, balancing is very common. On this blog I have my affiliate banners in the sidebar, sometimes I will add affil links within the post for a product I am speaking about or recommending and then I have affiliate sites, like BANS (Build A Niche Store), those are where there are the full affiliate pages, like the eBay auction listings and then separate content pages. It really depends on the site and the platform I am using. I have several blog Wordpress money sites where I have Adsense within the content, that is still affiliate marketing. So yes there are many ways to affiliate market a site, and many ways to add those links to the site and structure the site itself, really it depends on the audience, the affiliate products and also the platform. But a site can be an affiliate site, no matter how the ads are displayed and they should be interchanged appropriately for the particular site itself since not all placements will be right for all sites. You would think that this site would make more money than any other, because it has built up a lot of authority and has a large readership, however, it is my least money maker, in fact, BANS makes the bulk of my monthly income. The reason for this is that this blog caters to marketers, who are not big buyers for the most part, and also because it is so content focused that that is its main purpose and I have not yet built a list, which is usually the main money source for flagship marketing sites like this. On the contrary, my BANS and other affiliate sites are getting most of the traffic from the search engines and that is the traffic that buys, especially for BANS because they are product stores and I am targeting money keywords, like <em>buy something</em>, <em>cheap something</em> and other of the like. @ Harmony
LOL, no problem, ask away and thank you for your purchases.

Yes you are exactly right, balancing is very common. On this blog I have my affiliate banners in the sidebar, sometimes I will add affil links within the post for a product I am speaking about or recommending and then I have affiliate sites, like BANS (Build A Niche Store), those are where there are the full affiliate pages, like the eBay auction listings and then separate content pages. It really depends on the site and the platform I am using. I have several blog WordPress money sites where I have Adsense within the content, that is still affiliate marketing.

So yes there are many ways to affiliate market a site, and many ways to add those links to the site and structure the site itself, really it depends on the audience, the affiliate products and also the platform. But a site can be an affiliate site, no matter how the ads are displayed and they should be interchanged appropriately for the particular site itself since not all placements will be right for all sites.

You would think that this site would make more money than any other, because it has built up a lot of authority and has a large readership, however, it is my least money maker, in fact, BANS makes the bulk of my monthly income. The reason for this is that this blog caters to marketers, who are not big buyers for the most part, and also because it is so content focused that that is its main purpose and I have not yet built a list, which is usually the main money source for flagship marketing sites like this.

On the contrary, my BANS and other affiliate sites are getting most of the traffic from the search engines and that is the traffic that buys, especially for BANS because they are product stores and I am targeting money keywords, like buy something, cheap something and other of the like.

]]> By: Harmony @ New Green Gadget http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40689 Harmony @ New Green Gadget Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:25:50 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40689 I will venture one more question and a comment This site may not be considered affiliate, but I have clicked from here and bought a few items over the past few weeks, because of the content, and the email exhange we had where you answered a couple of questions. So, my point is: it would seem to me that the conversion ratio of this site, although only one, would be much higher due to the incredible and authority ranking content. My question would be then...when you speak of balancing the pages...an affiliate page does not need to be seperate really, right? Meaning, if you weave the products into the text, that too is Aff. Mktg Or for your other sites, do you provide a review or state a problem and a solution and make it about one product or series of products. Finally, I promise to leave you alone ....(wink wink) if you promise to quit offering so much great material to learn from! .-= Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.newgreengadget.com/crank-flashlights-%E2%80%93-wind-up-the-light.html">Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light</a> =-. I will venture one more question and a comment

This site may not be considered affiliate, but I have clicked from here and bought a few items over the past few weeks, because of the content, and the email exhange we had where you answered a couple of questions. So, my point is: it would seem to me that the conversion ratio of this site, although only one, would be much higher due to the incredible and authority ranking content.

My question would be then…when you speak of balancing the pages…an affiliate page does not need to be seperate really, right?
Meaning, if you weave the products into the text, that too is Aff. Mktg
Or for your other sites, do you provide a review or state a problem and a solution and make it about one product or series of products.

Finally, I promise to leave you alone ….(wink wink) if you promise to quit offering so much great material to learn from!
Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: JR http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40688 JR Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:18:04 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40688 @ Harmony, Thank you and welcome to the blog! Tiny URL is useful for somethings, like for putting links in Twitter messages, since they give you a limit on the number of characters in the message. This site is for my readers as opposed to being a money site, so it has the most content. My affiliate sites overall have less content than this one, BUT, I usually try to balance the affiliate pages and the content pages equally, seems to work best, at the least my affil sites have about 20 pages of original text content. I have never tried those mini review sites, only because just never got around to them, though I have heard a lot that those sites are very thin and not usually favored in the SERPS by Google. If I was to do a mini review site, I would add some other articles to it, especially since they often constitute a thin affiliate sites, as they are built by afffiliate sites. @ Harmony,
Thank you and welcome to the blog!

Tiny URL is useful for somethings, like for putting links in Twitter messages, since they give you a limit on the number of characters in the message. This site is for my readers as opposed to being a money site, so it has the most content. My affiliate sites overall have less content than this one, BUT, I usually try to balance the affiliate pages and the content pages equally, seems to work best, at the least my affil sites have about 20 pages of original text content.

I have never tried those mini review sites, only because just never got around to them, though I have heard a lot that those sites are very thin and not usually favored in the SERPS by Google. If I was to do a mini review site, I would add some other articles to it, especially since they often constitute a thin affiliate sites, as they are built by afffiliate sites.

]]> By: Harmony @ New Green Gadget http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40682 Harmony @ New Green Gadget Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:25:04 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40682 JR Thanks for this. That is exactly what was taught was not to let Google know it was an affiliate site. In my readings (hours of them) I have discovered that what you say it true, the minute you redirect, the redirects can become prey to someone else. If your site is ANY example, I would say content works. :-) I see you mention using the tiny url above. Do you do that? Also, re the New FTC rules, thank you. I do need clarity on that. Will follow through. JR, do you have other sites that you build this much content into, or do you also employ sites with say 10 pages for affiliate sites? Or, as seems extremely poplular...the one page mini site review? Thank you again for your time. I am an avid fan. .-= Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.newgreengadget.com/crank-flashlights-%E2%80%93-wind-up-the-light.html">Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light</a> =-. JR
Thanks for this. That is exactly what was taught was not to let Google know it was an affiliate site. In my readings (hours of them) I have discovered that what you say it true, the minute you redirect, the redirects can become prey to someone else. If your site is ANY example, I would say content works. :-) I see you mention using the tiny url above. Do you do that?
Also, re the New FTC rules, thank you. I do need clarity on that. Will follow through.
JR, do you have other sites that you build this much content into, or do you also employ sites with say 10 pages for affiliate sites? Or, as seems extremely poplular…the one page mini site review?
Thank you again for your time. I am an avid fan.
Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: JR http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40664 JR Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:18:31 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40664 @ Harmony I never cloak my affiliate links, while many marketers do. I do not because I suspect that sales may get lost because of this as I have heard from others. I think one of the main reasons that marketers cloak is to hide from Google so that the site, if it has a lot of affiliate links does not appear as an affiliate site, again, for me a better alternative is to add a lot of fresh and original written content along with the affiliate stuff, and Google is perfectly fine with that. Cloaking is something that most people need to check out for themselves and decide. You do not have to tell people that your links are affiliate links, that is totally up to you and depends on the situation. You might be thinking about the new FTC rules about paid reviews of products, which does not apply to affiliate sites, exactly, you can learn more at this post: <a href="http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2009/10/ftc-to-fine-bloggers-for-non-disclosure-on-blog-posts/">New FTC Rules</a>. @ Harmony
I never cloak my affiliate links, while many marketers do. I do not because I suspect that sales may get lost because of this as I have heard from others. I think one of the main reasons that marketers cloak is to hide from Google so that the site, if it has a lot of affiliate links does not appear as an affiliate site, again, for me a better alternative is to add a lot of fresh and original written content along with the affiliate stuff, and Google is perfectly fine with that.

Cloaking is something that most people need to check out for themselves and decide.

You do not have to tell people that your links are affiliate links, that is totally up to you and depends on the situation. You might be thinking about the new FTC rules about paid reviews of products, which does not apply to affiliate sites, exactly, you can learn more at this post: New FTC Rules.

]]> By: Harmony @ New Green Gadget http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-40640 Harmony @ New Green Gadget Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:09:37 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-40640 Hi JR, I have so many of your pages indexed on my computer, I might as well be your FTP client. I have bought several products through your links lately, and that tells me the awesome power of authority sites. I have a question about link cloaking. Many of the affiliate teachings suggest that you don't want Google to know, (nonetheless the readers) to know it's an affiliate link. So you offer above in your list a couple of ideas, which are fine for hiding from the readers, does it do the same with Google or is that as important? Finally, I hear we are to indicate that the links are in fact affiliate. Is cloaking then still a good thing to do? THANK YOU for any help you can offer. .-= Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.newgreengadget.com/crank-flashlights-%E2%80%93-wind-up-the-light.html">Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light</a> =-. Hi JR,
I have so many of your pages indexed on my computer, I might as well be your FTP client. I have bought several products through your links lately, and that tells me the awesome power of authority sites.
I have a question about link cloaking. Many of the affiliate teachings suggest that you don’t want Google to know, (nonetheless the readers) to know it’s an affiliate link. So you offer above in your list a couple of ideas, which are fine for hiding from the readers, does it do the same with Google or is that as important?
Finally, I hear we are to indicate that the links are in fact affiliate. Is cloaking then still a good thing to do?

THANK YOU for any help you can offer.
Harmony @ New Green Gadget´s last blog ..Crank Flashlights – Wind up the Light My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Ant-Lion @ URL Shortening http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-21815 Ant-Lion @ URL Shortening Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:46:05 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-21815 Thanks for all this info, I have added the page to my bookmarks so that I can refer to this infomation again in the future. Thanks for all this info, I have added the page to my bookmarks so that I can refer to this infomation again in the future.

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]]> By: SEO Horror http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/2008/06/69-free-webmaster-tools-free-seo-tools/#comment-1062 SEO Horror Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:43:07 +0000 http://getinternetmarketingstrategies.com/?p=26#comment-1062 This is a very complete list JR, thanks for sharing this! SEO Horrors last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SeoHorror/~3/374859522/" rel="nofollow">Do you give your posts the time to live?</a> This is a very complete list JR, thanks for sharing this!

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