Increase Youtube Video Rankings with Satellite Channels

Posted by Ben Sibley on Jul 30, 2012 | 133 comments This is a technique that I came up with to make my Youtube video rankings higher in the Youtube and Google search results. The idea is to upload a video to Youtube targeting a keyword of your choice.  Next, create what I call a “satellite channel” and optimize the channel entirely for that one keyword.  The purpose of this channel is not to rank for your keyword, but instead to...
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How I Got 6,000 Links in 1 Hour

Posted by Ben Sibley on Jul 23, 2012 | 172 comments Believe or not, I am going to show you how I got 6,000 links in under an hour (without spamming).  And it’s actually quite easy… Websites come and go online.  Webmasters build sites and grow their audience, and sometimes they stop for one reason or another and abandon their web property.  When this happens, there is a cheap (or sometimes free) domain available that has years of...
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The SEO Post You NEED to Read

Posted by Ben Sibley on Jun 11, 2012 | 116 comments Ranking websites requires lots of complex knowledge and link building skills. Or does it…? If you’re a blogger or a small business owner who can’t afford professional SEO services or spend hours on SEO, this is what you need: Content and connections. Here’s your two step audit for moving your site forward:   Only Big Sites Get Natural Links? Sites with exceptional...
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5 Killer Link Baiting & Viral Marketing Posts

Posted by Ben Sibley on May 30, 2012 | 74 comments Link baiting is a white-hat link building technique.  In short, it involves creating an exceptional piece of content (blog post, video, infographic, etc.) and promoting it through social channels to make it go viral.  This results in links and traffic. Here are five of my favorite posts on building links with link bait: 1) 7 Viral Marketing Strategies to Get Massive Traffic Spikes Jason Acidre...
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Tiered Link Building with Guest Blogging

Posted by Ben Sibley on May 21, 2012 | 47 comments Tiered link building is synonymous with link spam.  For those who don’t know, tiered link building is building backlinks to your backlinks.  Usually these are low quality links such as profile links, social bookmarks, RSS links, and article directory links that lead to crappy web 2.0 properties which then link directly to the main website. However, tiered link building can also be...
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List of 17 Document Directories

Posted by Ben Sibley on Apr 28, 2012 | 12 comments I’ve talked about submitting to document directories a few times on the site, but I’ve never compiled a list of sites to submit to… until now These sites are best for driving traffic rather than rankings because they are nofollowed for the most part. These sites all allow PUBLIC sharing of documents which is why they can drive traffic to your site and potentially be used to...
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Free Website Directory List 2012

Posted by Ben Sibley on Apr 25, 2012 | 66 comments Directory submission is an easy way to build links to your website.  You can use the following lists of free site directories to build your backlinks. There are 3 different lists:General Directories Local Business Directories Blog DirectoriesYou should also submit your site to niche directories which for obvious reasons I cannot list here, but I do have a post on how to find them and build...
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23 Unique Link Building Tactics

Posted by Ben Sibley on Apr 16, 2012 | 36 comments Why aren’t you #1 yet?  No excuses. Here are 23 different link building strategies you can use to start ranking higher today. Learn’em and use’em then do it again =  rinse & repeat rankings.#1 Guest Blogging What: Guest blogging is publishing a blog post on another blog in your niche. Guest blogging is my favorite link building tactic because it drives traffic right...
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70 Free Press Release Sites List

Posted by Ben Sibley on Feb 20, 2012 | 117 comments This is the only up-to-date list of working free press release websites on the internet. I have manually submitted press releases to every one of these sites.  They all work, are free to use, and accept PRs from any niche. Explanation of List: Editorial links means they allow links within the press release itself.  If it says “Yes(http://)”, that means you have to link with a full...
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Why I Don’t Like Comment Luv

Posted by Tyler Moore on Feb 8, 2012 | 36 comments I recently ran into a problem with a guest blog post I’d published on a blog that supported comment luv. Comment luv is a popular WordPress plugin that allows people to build a do-follow link back to their own site in the comments left on a post. So I’d published my post, with a link to the site I own in the author bio. The post became relatively popular, and I responded to each...
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