11.27.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:46 pm by Miles
If you don’t already know, promosoft is basically a tool that automatically submits your software to around 800 software directories like softpedia, freedownloadscenter and so on. You can create something really basic and then use promosoft to submit it to all the directories in its database, and typically get a decent number of downloads in the next few weeks. Plus, you get a lot of one way links from software directories linking back to your site once they list your application.
When I tried this on my existing sites, this has worked really well. So when I made a brand new site (it’s about 4 days old right now) as a side project — it’s a minisite in a certain non-IM niche – I decided to make a few basic applications related to that niche, host them on the new site, and submit them with promosoft.
Somehow (I have no idea why) this seems to have completely f-ed up my Google rankings. Here’s a screenshot (scaled down again)…
That’s how my rank for a certain keyword changed in only a couple of days. The brand new site was on the second page, and then almost overnight, it’s gone all the way down to the ninth page. The same thing has happened with other keywords the site was ranked for.
Here’s what’s wierd — the only thing I have really done to promote this site is through promosoft submissions. The only links pointing to the site are one way links from software directories ranging from PR1 up to around PR7. This is OFFPAGE optimization. There is no content on the new site that would get it penalised by google as it is all unique, and I don’t link to any dodgy sites.
I know google will discard your links if they see it as spammy or un-natural, but the general rule is anything a competitor can do to your site won’t screw you over with google. In this case, anyone could use promosoft to mass submit the pad file on my site to hundreds of software directories, and have them link back to my site. So there is obviously something I’m missing here.
I’m not too worried because I only put about 5 hours worth of work into building the site and doing the promosoft submissions, but this is still pretty annoying because I have no idea why this is going on. It has to be something to do with the fact that the links are being seen as spammy by Google. Still, since it’s offpage, I didn’t think that would have so much of an impact. Either that or I’m just completely missing something.
But anyway, if you’re ever scared about some brand new competitor in your market, maybe you should try doing a few promosoft submissions linking to their site. Just kidding.
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11.19.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 10:01 pm by Miles
I just got to pick up a rebranded version of this really useful tool, which lets build keyword lists, see the number of searches for each keyword, and give the amount of competition for that keyword in Google/MSN/Yahoo. This is a huge time saver when it comes to looking at the profitability of a niche and what keywords you need to target.
(In fact, the only other thing I know of that does this is Niche Inspector which is $100+)
Because I have it with rebranded rights, like with every other piece of software, I have given it away free. Here’s the direct download link:
http://www.codingelite.com/downloads/KeywordAnalyzer.exe
Or, here’s the page where you can get more info…
http://www.codingelite.com/tools/KeywordAnalyzer.htm
I would say this is worth at least $27 and that’s an underestimate if anything, because there is no other free software that even comes close to this. I would sell it except I’m kinda busy with more important projects. You can go ahead now and download the software free, and that comes with resale rights so you can give it to anyone you want.
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11.04.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:43 pm by Miles
I was reading the NittyGrittyMarketing sales page and saw it mentioned how google actually has a free multivariant split test script, free for adwords advertisers. Even though I completely hate adwords — I have found way better sources of advertising – I went to take a look at the script because I’m interested in doing some multivariant testing for disablespyware.com to get the page to convert the best it can.
I have to say, this thing is pretty f-ing impressive. What’s surprising is that few people are even using it (I think its still in beta now). Until now, if you wanted to do multivariant testing, which is where you test several elements of a page all at the same time, you would need to get something like Muvar 2007 which is around $300. Google’s multivariant testing script is very easy to install (I set up a test in about 5 minutes) and works really well, even though its given away free.
Combined with google analytics, this is a really powerful thing to play with on your site. Even though adwords PPC is ridiculously overpriced and full of click fraud for advertisers, Google has definitely put together some great free resources for webmasters. They also have a basic A/B split testing script although I haven’t checked that out yet.
If you don’t already have Google’s multivariant split tester, this is what you need to do…
- Sign up for an adwords advertiser (adwords.google.com)
- When you login, go to the “Campaign Management” tab and the “Website Optimizer” subtab
- Pick the multivariant tester and insert the code on your page
From there on, you just need to pick what parts of your page you want to test. I recommend for a new site you make, install the script, and test everything — then send a bunch of cheap junk traffic to your site. From there you can test what’s actually working and start making a lot of money once you start marketing your site and getting quality traffic.
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