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I have finally released my first clickbank product in the health niche. The website is online from 2007. It was using paypal previously. After doing different kind of optimizations, I have finally moved it to clickbank. With all that testing, now it is converting quite well.

Product Page: http://www.goawaystretchmarks.com
Affiliate Page: http://www.goawaystretchmarks.com/affiliates.html

Product is priced at $19.00 and affiliate gets 75% of it.

Now, here is the best offer
I have three offers here.

1. Create a squidoo or a hub page to promote this product with your own affiliate code and promote it through at-least 2 ezine articles. I will pay you $5 for just doing that. This is valid for very limited period of time. So, do it today.

2. For first 5 sales, get 100% of earnings. I get nothing.

3. For people who are willing to promote it though PPC, let me know. You will get 100% of the earnings for your first 10 sales. Let me know before hand.

4. The person who will make highest number of sales in next 30 days will get $100 cash.

Now, do you think can anybody beat this offer? Go, get it!

Welcome back!

I have been asked this question many times and all the time I provide the same answer. The question asked is “What are the major search engine ranking factors?” So, what do you think are the factors which decide the ranking of the website in the search engine ranking?

Here are some of the factors (in no specific order) which can help gain your website a better ranking. Just make sure that you are not missing any of them.

This is the list of 50 such search engine ranking factors. These is the list which came to my mind right now. I may have missed on some of them. So, if you know of any and can add to the list, please comment it. I will add it in the list.

50 Search Engine Ranking Factors
1. Keywords in the title of the page
2. Keywords in the headings of the page (h1, h2, h3, etc.)
3. Keywords in domain name
4. Keywords in the file names of the pages, images or any other content
5. Keywords in bold, italics and underlined text
6. Keywords in alt text for the images
7. Keywords in the text of different color/size
8. Variations of keywords on the page (Eg: eat, ate, eaten, eating, eater, etc.)
9. Keyword density on the page
10. Appearance of the keyword in the above half of the page
11. Keywords in the description meta tag
12. Keywords in the keywords meta tag
13. Uniqueness of title, description and keywords with other pages of the site
14. Age of the domain
15. Age of the page
16. TLD of the domain (Eg: .in domains will rank better in google.co.in domain)
17. Hosting location
18. Pagerank of the site
19. Quality of the content (well written, informative, not duplicate)
20. Number of backlinks
21. Quality (PR) of the backlinks
22. Anchor text used for the backlinks
23. Title text (if any) used for the backlinks
24. Age of the backlink
25. Where the backlink appears on the page (top of the pages, bottom of the page)
26. Is the link in-content or exists with other links (pointing to some other site and separated with some specific text [like “,” or “|” ])
27. Number of total links on the page which is linking to you
28. Is the theme of the linking page is same as the linked page
29. Relevance of the keyword with the primary subject of the overall website.
30. Website load time (server response time and the size of the page)
31. Availability of the server (those 99.99% uptime things)
32. Outgoing links (to whom are you linking? Are the related?)
33. Number of pages in the site
34. Website navigation and accessibility (reach-ability of all the pages easily)
35. Links to the internal pages (yes, this will improve the ranking of the main page as well if the navigation is correct)
36. How many people come back from the site to the search engine after searching for the keyword (my be Google tracks this with toolbar)
37. Number of internal page links on your pages (not more than 100)
38. Number of external links on your pages (try to minimize)
39. Backlinks from .gov, .edu links (some thinks, its not a factor)
40. Using “-” hyphen (and not “_” underscore) in your file names wherever space is needed.
41. How often the site is updated
42. Duplicate content from other sources (negative effect)
43. Linking to bad sites (called bad neighborhood) (negative effect)
44. Keyword stuff on the pages or over optimization (negative effect)
45. The speed by which new links are building up for a site. Is it consistent over a longer period?
46. Backlinks from DMOZ and Yahoo directory are considered quite valuable.
47. Avoid session identifiers (SID)
48. Deletion of the pages (dead links on the site) without proper 301/302 redirect (negative effect)
49. HTML validation of the document (I am not sure how much effect it makes)
50. History of the domain (did it do anything bad in the past?)

Did I missed on something? Add them in the comments and I will add it here.

In an email today Mr. “Sam Gastro” asked a question about 301 redirect and how it works.

This is the email he sent me:

Something I have been wondering about (and scared to actually attempt) is to merge sites into one domain. One of my sites has been around for 5 years, and ranking well with a PR of 4, my other domain is a PR0 with only 6 months of age. The point of creating the new domain and site was to try new marketing ways and also SEO techniques. Well now I think my new site converts much better on sales than the old one, and has a more appealing and understanding domain name, although only 6 months old. I have heard a 301 redirect will transfer all the rankings and backlinks and all that good stuff, but I am afraid to try it in fear of loosing all the sales on my old site. I think this might be a problem for a lot of marketers. I hope you have some insight on doing things like this. Is it too risky to do a 301 redirect on the old site?

What he is asking is how th 301 redirect actually works. Does it retain the backlinks and rankings to new site from old site. I have seen many people asking in forums about how they can move an older site of theirs to a new domain without loosing their backlinks and rankings in Google. Can that be done at all?

The answer is, yes, it can be done but not completely (not 100%). There are many factors in the ranking of a website and the age of the domain is also one of them. In a 301 permanent redirect, the backlink juice is surely transferred to the new domain, but backlinks are not the only reason for your ranking (though it is one of the major reasons).

So how does it goes in reality?

Let me give you with an example. I had a HIV symptoms related website called http://www.hivsymptoms.org. For some reason, I had to move it to a new domain http://www.hivsymptomsonline.com. I used the 301 permanent redirect. I put the following in the .htaccess file in the main folder of the domain:


Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.hivsymptomsonline.com/$1 [R=301,L]


I replicated the site on the other host with EXACTLY SAME directory and file structure. So all the traffic from this site was redirected to the new ‘HIV symptoms online’ website.

But how did the rankings for the old and the new site do?

HIV symptoms .org site was ranking number one for “hiv symptoms” keyword before this move. After the redirect the same site stayed number one position for next 15 days or so. Then the site vanished from the SERPs and new site did no appear. After the next 15 days, the new site hivsymptomsonline.com came up in top 10 rankings. Then in the next 3 months the ranking of the site is increasing slowly. As of this writing (around 4months have passed), the rank for the new site has reached at number 2 for keyword hiv symptoms in Google.

I have not done any extra link building or anything special. I just did the redirect as stated above. It has reached number 2 in 4 months. I expect to reach number one in next 3 months or so.

So, with the help of this example, you can see that how the 301 permanent redirect works for the backlinks and the ranking of the site.

When starting a new website, its always better to start your work with the keyword research. I do the same. Most people do their keyword research at Google adwords keyword tool. Some people also use other tools like like wordtracker. I use them both extensively.

Many people face a dilemma when doing the keyword research and deciding on what to create a website on. They are not very sure whether to go for a more generic keyword with very high ‘average search volume’ or go for a more targeted keyword but with lesser average search volume numbers.

My suggestion? Its always better to go for a more targeted keyword. Not many people will actually search for that so generic keyword.

Does that mean what Google shows in that tool is not correct? Well, the answer is a yes and no. Lets understand with an example:

Have a look at this screenshot below:

The above screenshot shows that the first keyword (resume) in the list gets 6 million+ searches per month while the second keyword (sample resume) gets around half a million searches only.

Does that mean if you site is ranked very high (like first or second position) for the first keyword, you will get 6 million visitors to your site? The answer is no. In this particular case, if you site is ranked at the top positions for keyword like resume, then you will get around 100,000 visitors from Google for this “specific” keyword. Similarly for the second keyword (sample resume), your site will get around 65,000 visitors from Google. I am telling you this with my experience.

Now if you compare the results for the generic keyword (resume) and the more specific keyword (sample resume) you will think that the keyword resume will send around 12 times, that is 1100% more traffic. But the truth is not that. It will just send you around 50% more traffic only.

Why is so?
The reason is that Google has a typical way of showing the numbers in this tools. For example in our case, the number for keyword ‘resume’ include all the number of searches which has resume in it and not just the resume itself. For example the number of searches of other keywords like ’sample resume’, ‘resume objective’, ‘free resume’, ‘education resume’ (all without quotes) etc. are included in it. So the number shown in the tool is very very different than the number of visitors you will get for that keyword.

Again, coming back to our main question, whether to go for a very generic keyword or a more precise and targeted keyword? I would say, do your research but remember the numbers for the generic keywords may not be what you see in the tool. My advice (again), is: “more targeted, the better.”

Hello friends. First of all, sorry about the last post. Actually, I was getting stuck up in my work too much and was not able to update the blog with the frequency I wanted. I was not able to provide the much needed time to the blog. That is why I decided to stop writing for it.

But it seems, people are using my blog for more than what I thought they use it for. I am really happy to see that. Seeing the comments in the last post I really felt like a celebrity (which I am not). ha ha ha! So, I am back on track again for writing. This time I will not keep any commitments about writing. I will blog when I am feeling like blogging and not just because its been days since I have blogged. I hope that is fine.

Ok, so now coming back to the topic of the subject.

These are the bad times for the economy. And so are for the online advertisers and publishers. Advertisers are trying their best to reduce their costs. Some of them are reducing their advertising budgets as well. This is what affecting the publishers. Publishers are being hit for two reasons. First, the advertisers are reducing their advertising budgets, hence reducing the advertising revenues from advertisers for publishers from networks like Google Adsense. Second, the consumers are trying to save more money and spend less and less. This is what making the publishers less money from advertisers like commission junction, clickbank, market health, leading edge cash and similar other sale based advertising networks.

So, what can publishers do to stop their earnings from dropping day by day.

There are many things which you can do. I have talked about them in my previous post earnings down! what to do?.

Other than this you can do one more thing to earn some money. If you have a site with good PR like PR5 or above then you can appoint somebody to sell links for you on monthly basis. You can find such members in forums like DP and others to sell your links. If you don’t have such high PR sites then you can sell such links for others. Yes, you can contact people and tell them that you can buy so and so links from their so and so pages for so and so price. Then you can sell these links at a higher price in the market places like webmaster forums.

I am also offering such an offer for one of my big and reputed site where I am planning to sell some good links. I will be giving $5 for each link that a person sells for me at $19.90/month. If you also want to sell these links, just contact me for the details. The links are PR4 and available in every niche possible on more than 100 web pages.

So, just sell them at forums and make some money to compensate the downturn. This is the way I am making money. By leveraging.