SEO Case Study: MyBallCap.com 

I have started a new case study on the domain name http://myballcap.com

I have started this case study on the website http://www.salesandmarketingforums.co.uk which is a great website that deals with marketing and SEO.

I am just going to be duplicating the data that I post there to here, but the orginal content can be found here: http://www.salesandmarketingforums.co.uk/forums/seo-and-online-marketing/i-want-to-learn-seo-and-web-design/view.html

 So here is the first post I made:

Hey cool!

Basically, I would like input if possible.

I have a domain and I have done nothing other than register it. Oh, actually I submitted it to dmoz but that will take 4 - 6 months to get listed there.

Here is the kicker, I don’t really know yet what I am going to put on it. I am kind of just using the domain as a case study. When finished, if I could use it as an authority type site for either information in general or as a conduit for buyers / sellers as well as earn some extra from PPCs like Adsense, bidervertiser, etc. I would be happy. Or, if I could sell it to a company related to the content industry of the website that would be OK as well.

Choose Type of Site

I am thinking of two possibilities in regard to the website. The name of the domain is myballcap.com which is a term in the US that refers to baseball caps. I purchased the domain name for $8.99 US from a site which I own called yesitisavailable.com. The two types of sites I am thinking of are:

1. Just a straight eCommerce site selling Base Ball Caps, perhaps osCommerce as I have some professional templates for that shopping cart. I can also use cubecart or zen easily as it is in my domain hosting control panel in the Fantastico (Opensource software) installer. I don’t mind doing an upload and manual install for some other package as well.

or

2. An eCommerce site that connects people that want to purchase bulk ball caps with wholesalers from anywhere. If I go this way I was thinking of installing a CMS, I like joomla and I have done hundreds of installs as well as plugin mods and general maintenance. However, any type CMS such as Xoops, php-Nuke, Drupal, Geeklog, etc… This type of site I would imagine eventually putting a blog such as a local install of wordpress or whatever and some flavour of forum install.

or

If some of you can come up with some cool idea for the domain name itself I am open to that as well!

Currently the domain name is parked on my company DNS package. To point it to my webhost DNS and to create a webhost package for it takes around 20 mins.

I use a tool I got from SEOBook that I installed on my own website to give me a minor summary of my PageRank, Alexa Rank, Backlinks and SERPs. Not many people use it so I find it fast for me. I have a bunch of ads on it so I am sorry about the blatant backlink… http://seo.peuan.com/al2/

But other than that here are its current stats: http://www.myballcap.com

PageRank 0
Alexa Rank 0
Back Links 0
MSN Search Results 0
Yahoo! Search Results 0

So, the next step after these questions are answered is Keyword development before I start any programming or installs.

But, first to recap I need to decide on the answers to these questions:

1. What type of site?
2. What type of software Package for the site?

I ask for your input.

Thanks,
Sincerely
h20ho

SEO Case Study: cheap-electronic-gifts.com 

Today I purchased a new domain name to see how well I can do with PageRank, Back Links, Alexa Ranking, MSN and Yahoo Results. The domain is a newly created domain so I will have to start from scratch. The content will be an eCommerce site focusing on discount electronic gifts with a focus towards wholesale. The Software package on the domain is osCommerce, Which I find difficult to search engine optimize. I installed the software in a subdirectory on the domain called /4u/ so the full URL will be http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com/4u/

I have setup the domain, email server and software package. I have created a permanent 301 redirect from http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com to http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com/4u/ and set up my keywords, phrases and description meta data.  I must admit that I did not spend alot of time developing keywords. I found a top ranker in google for where I want to be and did what they did.

I have also submitted the domain to a couple of search engines using http://submitexpress.com and http://freewebsubmission.com/ to get the domain indexed and spidered…. I will submit this article and ping this blog via one of my favorite pinger sites http://pinger.blogflux.com/ .

Current stats:

PageRank                             0
Alexa Rank                           0
Back Links                            0
MSN Search Results           0
Yahoo! Search Results        0

My next task is to get some back links from some electronic wholesaler type sites.

I will keep you posted.

In the past SEO was shrouded in mystery. As more and more website owners become more aware of thier websites and how to benefit from them, website owners are gaining more knowledge as to what they have to do to make their websites seen. In lieu of this you see more and more SEO tools become available for free on the internet as they become useful resources that are used more frequently.

I, myself, have my own tools on the Internet for my own personal use and so I can access them no matter where I am. One of my favourite or most used tools is something I call simply ‘PageRank’ found here http://seo.peuan.com/al2/ it is a tool I got from http://seobook.com which is a definite authority website on SEO.

No only does this tool give me current publish PageRank of any page on any domain, but it also gives me a quick tally of backlinks that a domain has as well as Alexa (http://alexa.com) traffic rank,  Yahoo search results and MSN search results tallies.

This tool is free and because I have it on a site that does not have a great deal of traffic and good bandwidth, I feel it performs quite quickly. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

 Thanks for reading my post. If you need a domain try http://yesitisavailable.com for domain names at a great price.

Why Owning your own Domain Name is Important!
 
Would you buy a car and put it in a strangers name? Of course not, that’s just silly. Well, would you buy a house and put it in a stragers name? C’mon that’s insane! Well, would you buy a domain name and put it in a strangers name?

Well, would you? … The sad fact is the answer to this is YES. This, to me is one of the most frequent mistakes business owners make. Why would they do this? There are many reasons. Here are a few I hear daily. “I am too busy, can you do it?”, “I have a web person and they handle everything”, “It only costs $10 a year, no biggy if I loose it”, “I don’t know how to buy a domain name”, “What’s a domain name?” and “I don’t like using credit cards on the Internet and this guy had a paypal account so I just….”. These are just a few but you would be amazed at some I hear.

I sell domain names from http://yesitisavailable.com for $8.99 a year and I must admit some of the horror stories I hear from people that have let their friends, wives, husbands, husband’s dogs, Tyrone, their web developer, etc.. purchase and own their web domain names is sad.

One client allowed someone that worked for them who was also making their website get a friend who was hosting the site purchase the domain name. Did you follow that, an owner’s employee’s friend that hosted the site owned it. Well thats cool from a stand point of getting things done! kudos there. Here is what happened, this friend went through a hard time and sadly ended up committing suicide. BTW, this is the third time I have come across a sad story like this. I think you know where this is heading, when the renewal for the domain name came up there was no one around to renew it. Here is where it begins to get worse. The website domain went up for purchase and the expired web domain name porn kings quickly had the domian purchased and pointed to porn sites in a matter of minutes from purchasing the domain name. Now, not only did the client loose thier domain name that they spent thousands of dollars on marketing such as business cards, yellow pages, let alone online Internet marketing, but all the programming and web development, marketing, search engine placement and personal client bookmarks and backlinks from their wonderfully happy clients now pointed to porn. They lost their reputation and many of thier clients. What a horror story! Not only is this true, but trust me, this happens all the time!

I have more horror stories and would be happy to share them with you if you are not yet sold on being owner of your domain name.

As a developer I do understand that the whole Internet website thing can be a bit overwhelming. If you have a developer and you entrust them to purchase your domain names for you make sure they transfer the domain name after purchase to you. If your developer does not suggest this in the first place, get a new developer. If your developer has a problem with this, get a new developer. I have purchased domain names for clients. Once I recieve payment for the domain name in one form or another I transfer the domain to the client. I usually keep my name as a technical contact (one of four contacts for the domain name) incase there is a problem or upon renewal if the owner of the domain can not be contacted.

One other piece of advice when purchasing a domain name is to use a public email address such as a yahoo, gmail, msn, etc email address for the contact email of the domain name. If you use one of your domain emails such as bonnie@mycooldomainname.com as the contact for the domain name and your webhost provider goes out of business you will not receive emails and might not be able to renew your domain name.

Here is an article by Trish JOnes on this subject as well.
http://www.trishjones.com/own-your-domain-name-or-else/

Here is another helpful document as to why you should have a domain name.
http://www.ecomhelp.com/KB/internet/kb_your-own-domain-name.htm

Hope this helps.

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How to get high PR for your website

Having high PR is not going to put you on search engine result pages. Having SEO’d pages is. High PR means Googles thinks your links from and too your site are relevant. Having high PR means when you ask someone to share links, especially someone with lots of traffic, SEO’d pages, someone that has taken the time to make sure their site performs well, you get a much higher percentage of people say yes. Then you have a lot of pages that link to your site that each have a lot of traffic. You have a greater opportunity to get traffic to your site. If the links (back links) to you are from similar type sites then your traffic will be more targeted. So, in effect, having high PR can bring you more targeted traffic, but, it will not increase your SERP ranking.

PR is all about who links to  you. Full stop. No links, no PR.

To get any PR you need link partners. So, you either go to blogs, forums, social networking sites, etc.. and post comments, articles, reviews and/or  help people on the sites OR go ask for links and offer links back to select websites. This article will deal solely on contacting websites and asking if they want to exchange links.

What Is A Good Link Partner:

• Look for sites that use the same keywords or keyword phrases that your site does.
• Check their PageRank and make sure it’s OK or higher than yours.
• Check to see if the page their links are on is accessible from the their site’s first page of the domain. On this page look at the source code and makes sure this <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”>is not in the meta tags.
• Check who they are linking too. Keep away from sites that link to tobacco, drug, alcohol, gambling or adult sites. Well, if you are one of those sites then that is exactly who you want to link too. So make sure you know who your link partners are linking too.
• when linking to them make sure you use a natural phrase using your keywords in the anchor text linking to them.
• When they link to you make sure they use a natural phrase using their keywords in the anchor text back to you.

That’s it. At this point you are poised to have increased PageRank the next time Google releases an updated PR which is around 3 times a year.

Now that you have links you need to :

• review them every month
• check to make sure your link is still on their page
• then check their links to make sure they are not linking to any of the bad neighbour websites.

If you follow this simple guide you will get high PR.

Thanks for reading my post.

My background is in Engineering and Programming. I have been developing on the Internet since 1993. Currently my primary focus is on SEO, Internet Marketing, web development and Social Networking.

How I currently make money on the Internet is by empowering others to make money on the Internet. No, I do not want any money from you. I want you to make money. If you make money, then I make money. If you do not make money, then I do not make money.

So, how can you make money? Well, if you are reading this you probably have a bit of an understanding as to how to earn on the internet. What I have found is that I can make $10 here a month, $25 there and $100 over there. I call these income streams. But when you add it all up, it all adds up to $1300 or more each month. Some months more and others less. The trick is to be persistent, consistent and surround yourself with the same types of people that help keep you motivated. If you do this you start seeing your paypal and bank accounts growing and activity increasing.

I make income from PPC (Pay per click programs). PPC are responsible for those ads on all those websites. I am not going to get into that much write here. The bottom line is big companies into PPC. Google is and they are a multi billion dollar company. Yahoo is and they are a multi billion dollar company. I use various PPC programs. If you want to see a few I use then open this page in a new tab http://seo.peuan.com/ppc.php .  I actually make fair money from these programs each month. I make a minimum of $15 upto over $200 per agency each month.

I also make money from those companies that want you to download a program to your pc and they pay you to run it when you are on the Internet. For the most part these programs are unobtrusive but they really do not pay that much unless you have 10 or more pc’s running their software for 10 or more hours a day.

I make money from affiliate programs. That’s where I sell other people’s products or I promote them with my ID and get paid for people signing up, buying products or just visiting their site. Some of the products I sell are website templates (http://khrab.com/templates/) I get as much as $40 for the sale of one $125 website template. Here are some of the templates http://peuan.com/dev/ but there are literally thousands of these templates and there are lots of people with websites that want facelifts.

Another affiliate I use is clickbank, I sell products that I own or create on clickbank but that costs you money to be able to sell on clickbank and you need something to sell.  However, you can make upto 80% commission promoting other peoples products on clickbank. Take a look and see what I mean. I personally pay people 75% if they promote and sell my eBooks. Some of my eBooks cost $37 so you get $7.50 per $10 product of mine you sell. You get around $30 of the $37 product you sell of mine.

As I mentioned earlier, I am into web development. So, I sell domain names (http://yesitisavailable.com) and I sell turnkey websites that enable others to sell domain names (http://roireseller.com) so, my clients pay to sell websites to others, in real-time, and that enables them to sell domain names or sites that let their clients sell domain names. I get a piece of every domain name that is sold as they do too. These sites also sell other services such as webhost packages, SSL certs, email packages, etc…

I also sell web host packages. I charge monthly and this gives me a passive income stream. Because I want people to make money I sometimes give these away and help develop them. Once again, if they can make money, then I can make money. It’s in my best interest to help others make money.

I am affiliated with services that pay me when I send someone their way that use their superior FREE services. There are thousands out there. One I use is http://peuan.com/tr/owhb.php, which is FREE web space for your website. They have no ads, good bandwidth and a great control panel with fantastico, statistics, email servers, etc… all in one package and totally FREE! If you go there and get 250 megs for webspace free I get paid $5. This is a total win-win-win situation. I win, You win as you get FREE space and they win because once you have a website and you start becoming successful, you upgrade services to $5 a month or something and they get more clients.

This is my favorite http://peuan.com/tr/h4p.php because it is so simple and only takes 2 minutes a day. If you visit this site, please read the overview as all the details are there. I get paid every month from them. My monthly pay increases every month and has ever since I started. The really nice thing is this. If you go there and sign up (it takes two minutes and is FREE) and you start making money monthly, which is easy. Then I get paid half of what you get paid. If you make $20 a day I get $10 a day. But, here is the kicker, as you realize this is easy, you start promoting as I do to get others to sign up. It’s easy and who doesn’t want to make a small paycheck each month for 2 minutes a day. When people under me get others to sign up they start to make half of what people under them make. Then they promote more, etc. For each person that they are making half from, so do I. You can see how this starts to really add up. This is why it’s my favorite.

I make money just helping people (I call them clients) on the Internet. No real skill is needed other than being able to use the Internet. I write intelligent comments referring to these clients on other people’s reviews, articles, blogs and forums. I use signature files to drive traffic to these clients’ websites and they pay me. Why? Because they care about PageRank. Search Google to find out what PageRank means if you don’t know. Here is a tool (Free) http://seo.peuan.com/al2/ I have on one of my websites that I use to find out webpage’s PageRank. I contact people doing business on the Internet and ask them point blank if they will pay me via Paypal to promote them and increase their backlinks and PageRank. You will be surprised at how many say sure. They will pay you $5 a comment, article, forum post or blog for this promotion and usually will track your traffic and pay you $0.10 per visitor. Here is one of many of my clients http://rihey.cc/home.htm . They are a Wholesaler / Manufacturer / Distributor of electronic products. Some of the Products are really cool and inexpensive and others are big ticket items. The important thing is to find clients that are reputable, have buyer protection, warranties and quality products.

Wow, this blog entry is getting long! I also, use many other techniques to create monthly income streams as well I sell my services and skill set. I like to do SEO (search engine optimization) and I can make substantial income from this alone. I program, maintain, update and host websites. I also do graphics but I am not a graphic artist. I can make wonderful graphics but for really professional sites I just hire professional graphic artists.

I think I am going to end this blog here and continue on another day. I would like to thank you for reading this blog. I appreciate it. I hope you found it interesting and useful. Feel free to send me emails or comments to ask questions, add advice or opportunities of your own or just say hi.

If you would like to visit my blog or sign up to some of my income opportunities you can find them here http://peuan.com/seoblog , http://peuan.com or http://seo.peuan.com Please remember what I mentioned earlier about the ads and how I make money from them if you do visit my websites and see an ad that interests you… Clickity click click click

Hope to hear from you soon!

h20ho