[cab322003]

I just bought AMR and I've managed to successfully sign up for about 700 directories. However I have about 400 that I'm signed up to but not confirmed. I tried selecting them all and clicking confirm but it doesn't seem to work.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[SniderDK]

got some ace advice.... stop spamming the internet with crap

[rallport]

People, in this day and age, still think spamming will help them in the least?

Makes me laugh how you say "managed" to sign up. That implies it takes tought and skill to press a button.

Total fail on you part OP.

[cab322003]

Wow sorry didn't know this post would upset people so much.

You need to get a life attacking me just for asking a question - tonnes of people use AMR, if it upset you go and suck on your thumb.

[SniderDK]

article marketing is spam, duplicate content gone viral and a problem for search engines who consistently try to filter news worthy articles and spam.

Mat Cutts head of the web spam team at google "Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy? "



same guy

Is there such a thing as building too many links?

This post has been edited by SniderDK: 30 October 2011 - 09:14 PM

[cab322003]

Thank you - watched the videos with interest.

Would it have been so hard to respond with information instead of sarcasm the first time around?

Some of you guys "with all the knowledge" need to realise that everyone has a different level of information, especially when it comes to the internet.

All knowledge is sequential

I didn't come here saying I wanna spam the web. I asked a simple question. If you don't like this software I'm happy to listen if you talk to me like a human being.

I've watched those videos and now have more information regarding article marketing.

Thank you

[Sogo7]

Cut through the hype and spin and SEO boils down to just two rules:

1. Google (and other search engines) are not stupid.
All the tricks have been tried, some still work but only on a limited basis. A word you here a mentioned a lot is 'Organic' and anything that looks like unatural growth for a site raises red flags. Such as having several hundred backlinks appear overnight with no new content being added is something of a classic and often gets a site pushed down the results not up.

2. Content is King
No amount of great artwork, design, typography, anchor tags, alt descriptions, keyword & meta tag stuffing, hidden text, cloaking, sneaky re-directs or even click-jacking can help some websites. If the content seriously sucks visitors will not be back and if they do tell a friend it will be so they can avoid it.

There are a lot of things that can be done to improve a sites ranking by a few places but these are merely fine tuning performance eg: page loading times, there is no 'magic' method to turn a donkey into a racehorse... at least not yet

[cab322003]

I was just watching that second video again about having too many backlinks. I totally get that the best sites get backlinks organically because people want to share them but what about start up ecommerce sites?

How would a person with an ecommerce site rank for particular keyword phrases without building the backlinks themselves?

[SniderDK]

e-commerce websites are admittedly hard for a few reasons.

first off there is a algo that figures out the area of the page that’s the layout and what’s the content area so if the page doesn’t have much content, lets say a product page the actual page is classed as a duplicate and not ranked well.

catagory pages typically also don’t offer much user benefit to the user, the way the product sorting on the category pages sometimes are done wrongly (in a SEM sense) meaning you get more duplicate/low quality pages

just wanted to point out that e-commerce is full of problems, one of the reasons i stop my SEO company and changed to a e-commerce programmer anyway i digress.

for links, there is nothing wrong with you gaining links, you just need to think first "is this spammy" or "is this of value if i was the customer" ... so getting listed on review websites and asking customers to review you in order emails, offering a discount for them and a friend, affiliate deals with customers using SEM friendly links on your website

thats a few link building ideas, but welcome to catch 22 of e-commerce and SEM

[rallport]

cab322003, on 30 October 2011 - 08:48 PM, said:

Wow sorry didn't know this post would upset people so much.

You need to get a life attacking me just for asking a question - tonnes of people use AMR, if it upset you go and suck on your thumb.

You posted the question, you got a response

People, including myself, don't like what you;re doing because it simply fills the internet up with yet more spam.

It's pretty common knowledge that spam is bad - what did you expect when you posted on an SEO forum???

[rallport]

SniderDK, on 01 November 2011 - 11:53 AM, said:

catagory pages typically also don't offer much user benefit to the user, the way the product sorting on the category pages sometimes are done wrongly (in a SEM sense) meaning you get more duplicate/low quality pages

..but depending on your niche, category pages can draw a lot of organic traffic. I've found clothing brands do particularly well.

As you say though, ecommerce is slightly different and your main enemy will be duplicate content and a very heavy template footprint.