Comments on: Blogging Response Rate (Part 2)

By: Haydn

Haydn — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:30:09 +0000

massively appreciated. on the case to fix pages now.

will have to let know you know how it goes, and suggest a course your mother in law would love!

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:32:34 +0000

First lesson to link building with comments, use your name, or make sure the site you link to tell me something about you.
It seems you are working hard to build a useful resource.

Here is an idea

“Top 10 wacky training courses for your mother-in-law”
“10 Courses You Wouldn’t Recommend To Your Wife”

Create a blog, create linkbait articles, try to do angles that relate to the more serious courses you have listed.

Starting with any kind of directory business if you have little SEO experience might not be the best idea in the world, unless that fits in well with your core business.

Make it a priority to fix your about page, and get rid of stub pages until you can fill them with content.

By: Training

Training — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:58:41 +0000

Im pretty new to this SEO game, and like everyone else getting links is proving to be a real nightmare.

To be honest, much of the post is still going in one ear and out the other. Though i have subscribed, and hope to be trying to get involved, without posts being put down as spam.

Appreciate the StomperBlog link too. More grade A quality information i had no idea existed.

By: Cyn Jefferson

Cyn Jefferson — Tue, 13 May 2008 23:54:27 +0000

Initially, I found the reverse squeeze page idea really counter-intuitive. The idea of handing over the bait without a hook just didn’t feel right.

The more I read and consider it, though, the more I like it. Your observation about list cannibalization really drove the point home.

I think it has some real potential and I’m going to hold my breath and test it with at least one of my current projects.

Cyn

By: Megapixels

Megapixels — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:44:03 +0000

Hadn’t heard the phrase reverse-squeeze before, but I have been marketed to that way, and didn’t even realize it. I was watching one of the natural 2.0 clips from the stompernet guys, and it worked on me. It was the one with the wharehouse and tanker ship in the intro. It worked pretty good on me, as they got my email for the next clip.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:09:38 +0000

Well, I couldn’t call some of the sites I plan on building “quality” compared to my main blog but they aren’t exactly MFA sites either. And there is no probable way that I will have 500.
The automation I plan only goes so far, nothing spammy. I will be mainly taking out bottlenecks. The writing will be real although some will begin with PLR articles. And the subjects I am covering , I will have knowledge of. So I guess I have lot’s of options.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:23:54 +0000

I think with high quality sites, you can get away with as many as you like, even with some logical interlinking.
I have read Matt Cutts say something similar.

The problem comes when Google can easily detect if you have 500 sites, and they are all crap, even if split apart.

It is probably best to totally separate quality from junk, and junk from junk.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:08:54 +0000

Cool, I will look into that. I will probably use MU on subdomains for smaller niches. I have never had “same IP” issues with Google, but I don’t want to. So for potentially higher traffic sites, I will use separate installations. But I guess a server can run multiple IP’s which would allow me to run one MU install. But for now, Dreamhost is a good test host and really breaks the IP’s apart.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:47:25 +0000

They appear to be updating though it is not so heavily customized that you couldn’t just look at how they do it and outsource people to maintain your own version working in a similar manner ;)
Alternatively go the direction you have been thinking about with WPMU – WPMU does have some unique interconnection possibilities not easily done with standard WP installations.

It might also be possible to include some of the features of Jeff’s version within WPMU

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:40:08 +0000

Andy, I was just cleaning my email address of lists I no longer want to subscribe to. I guess there is room now. I signed up. I am also waiting on the followup on Jeff Johnson’s software. I haven’t installed it because who know when WordPress will update and if this is a proprietary adaption of WordPress, it won’t update with WordPress. Am I making a correct assumption?