As it turns out, my humble little blog about search engines is starting to get some feedburners subscriptions despite having no activity for an extended period of time. This should be a clear sign for a lot of you web 2.0 bloggers that the secret to building your feedburner count is not constantly posting. The secret to getting traffic is not constantly posting. Instead, the secret to getting good targeted traffic is dominating the search engine rankings.

Most of you have heard this already. You’ve read this information before and it’s nothing new to most of you. You know that you need to rank at the top of the search engines to get traffic. You know you need this targetted traffic to make money.

You even know how to get to the top of the search engine rankings. You’ve read over and over that it’s all about seo and links. You even know that you need the right kind of links–links that use the anchor text of the term you are trying to rank for and several variants.

So if you’re trying to rank for search engine optimization then you will get links with the text seo, search engine optimization, seo strategies and many more long tails.

Put here’s where you get stuck–where in the hell do you get these links? Well that’s a good question. There are several places where you can score good links which allow you to control the anchor text, however most if not all are frowned upon heavily by Google. Therefore you won’t see me linking out to any services, and for that reason I also need to add the disclaimer that you should use these at your own risk and know that they go against the Google TOS.

I’ve seen 3waylinks in action and I know it works. I should warn that because you need to link to sites, it puts you at danger as well and for that reason I don’t use it. However, it is a good way to score dozens of low quality perfectly optimized links. Even better is 1waylinks, which is very cheap, gives you fewer links but gets the job done.

Private links works are a step up because they have blogs with some juice, so you get your hands on pagerank 1-3 links (although over time these turn into PR 0 links). The next thing is an article marketer that gets your spun articles all over the net, more low quality backlinks.

The next method is building your own sites to link to yourself, high pagerank and permanent but require a load of work.

Hopefully this short list helped,  I’ll break it down further when I have more time,

MJ

I’ve found in the past months that applying search engine optimization strategies to BANS (build a niche store) sites has had fantastic results. Search engines love BANS sites because the content auto-regenerates and search visitors fill their need by making use of a BANS store.

In recent weeks, one of my proficient BANS stores got a pretty hard Google slap. There are some things going around on the regular mmo blogs so I wanted to take a second out of my usual program of helping you learn seo to instead talk a little bit about BANS stores. If you’ve had trouble with your BANS stores and seen your search engine rankings fall, then here are some steps you might want to take:

1. Evaluate your rankings: Did you get a Google slap or were you removed from the listings? Going from page 1 to page 3 could just be the algorithm deciding you built links too quickly. Having a certain page removed from the index, or your site altogether gone from the rankings is a sign you were classified as spam.
2. Fix any keyword stuffing you may have. One of the strategies people employ with BANS is to keyword stuff their posts like crazy. Well, this is a nice and easy way to get classified as spam in Google’s eyes. Tone your stuffing down.
3. Go to Google Webmaster Tools and file a reinclusion request. Apologize for your keyword stuffing and wait anywhere from one to three weeks. Google receives so many requests that it will be a while before you’re included.
4. Forget about it! You will need to wait to see if anything happens so take the time to work on your other websites.
5. If all else fails: If up to a month later your site is still in the dog house, you’ll need to get creative. Try adding a contact page, an about page and a privacy policy. Then stick a blog on your BANS site and point some links to the BANS pages. This is a nice way to get noticed by the search engines.

Search Engines loves BANS

In my experience, search engines are all about what’s best for the user. Yes, building links is the most important aspect of search engine rankings, but be smart–if your site delivers the best experience for the user then you’ll never have to worry about a manual google spam label. My review on the home cash course fills a need for those looking for this product. It has audio and a whole lot of text. A BANS site doesn’t need all that flash to fulfill a search engine visitor’s need–the ebay program does that for us.

Hopefully you can employ these search engines strategies to get your BANS stores back on track.