A Question of Aged Domains and Google

Also, with regard to aged domains, do you believe there is still value in an aged domain even if there has been no site live?
When acquiring an aged domian do you think it is a good or bad idea to change the Registrant TAG, eg. if I bought a domain that was registered via enom in the US is it SEO neutral / better / worse to leave the tag there?

The question of the age of a domain first raised it's head around four years ago when the'Mystery of the Google Sandbox' first appeared on the IM scene.

This happened to coincide with a time when many people were using new domain names in nefarious ways. So it was believed that an older registered domain could help you avoid the sandbox trap.

Aged domains must be defined as 'Greenfield' never used as opposed to 'Brownfield' pre-used.

Prior to the Sandbox - SEO'rs seemed only interested in 'aged links'

Do I believe that there is an advantage in hosting an aged greenfield domain?

If it's a generic domain name - without doubt!

Google knows what the domain means and also knows that someone has been sitting on that property for ten years say. It knows they have paid the renewal fee....

Generic Domains names do give you an advantage if you stick to optimised website structures.

Aged domains give you an acceptable doorway into keyword authority in an otherwise overly competitive search market!

In regards to Registrars records affecting rankings.......

Hey just cos I'm paranoid doesn't mean THEY arent watching!!
Unless you are in a very local market and host your server there and don't wish wider visibility - it really shouldn't matter...

Tip: One surefire way to avoid any sandworms when registering a new domain is to pay for TEN tears registration.
This shows Google you mean business!


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Optimized Keyword Structures for On-Page SEO

Before you can start to build keyword optimised networks of inbound links utilising amongst other things, social media and web 2.0 properties, you need to ensure that you have a keyword optimised webpage on a keyword optimised website, otherwise when you come to constructing the network of links it will be like trying to fit the wrong pieces of a jig-saw puzzle together.

Although I'm not going to talk about networks of optimized links today, bear in mind that these networks are not static link structures - most of them are arteries carrying content in the form of dynamic RSS.

Optimised keyword networks are living growing dendronitic type organisms, rather like coral but multi-dimensional. They live in Cyberspace and feed on content! They grow through their virility. Each node or webpage in the network connects in star patterns to another node or website. At the end or root is the target page.

OK, a web page is a node in the hierarchical tree structure and in an optimised linking network, all nodes will have the same property - the one keyword that links them.

Yes that's right the ONE keyword.

You need to create these structures for EVERY logical keyword....

Which is a LOT of work!

However if you want it to be optimised and isn't that what SEO is about, then there are no short cuts!

So lets look at the structure of a keyword optimised page:



In the above example you will see that the website ranking in position 1 on Google has a logical connectivity to the keyword search term. In fact it is an exact match and that is why it is optimised.
It is fully optimised on-page and deserves it's place on the Google throne for being exactly what is says it is.

And here is why.....

On an optimised website the root or home page should be of the highest logical order of the subject matter of the page. In this example 'Car Insurance'

If you logically then chunk the root down into the next level of logical keywords, amongst that set of keywords is the qualifying term 'Classic Car Insurance'.

If you then combine two sets of keywords at this level , for example Classic and a lower order of 'Car Make' Citroen, you have the logical folder 'Citroen Classic Car Insurance', container, call it what you want for old citroens!

On an optimised website you would have the file structures and file nomenclatures that you see on the above example at Number One. They would be naturally sub-divided into their most logical relational sets and named accordingly.

We have to assume that Google data storage methods and spider robots collecting data appreciate the most logical underlying structures....and the results show us that they DO!

If you get your logical structures correct, the navigation flows naturally and in the most spider friendly fashion, and the use of Keyword anchor link text to connect the logical units completes the Internal network structures in the hierarchical, siloised, ordered, keyword containers called webpages!

To complete the task you need to have the following on page SEO tasks performed

1. Keyword in the Title
2. Keyword in the Header Description
3. Keyword on page body and in on page titles
4. Keywords in Tags if appropriate
5. keyword in the link to the next page in the chain or the target page.

Once you've got your site and pages optimised, you can start on the fun part of link building using optimised keyword networks..............

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The Matrix - Optimised Links Create Traffic Superhighways in The Matrix

Today I want to talk to you about the Matrix.

The fabric that it all hangs together with!

Matrix theory allows you to turn any relationship into a set of numbers. Databases and spreadsheets are examples of matrices. So for example is the Genome project. In theory, everything in time and space can be mapped into The Matrix by transformation into sets of logical numbers.

Matrix theory allows connectivity between entities to be expressed as numbers and used for multi variate analysis. We can take advantage of this to create optimized Keyword superhighways, semantic arteries within the cyberspace matrix.



Read this definition of Matrix Theory from Wikipedia and pay particular attention to the section labelled 'Graph Theory'

When you combine Matrix theory with Kanskian Network Theory you unlock the Google algorithm -

Links create the Matrix! Power Linking defines Authority!

If all this seems a little highbrow - you are right it is!

However all you need to know is - that if you create optimised linking structures for your sets of keywords you can dominate all the search engine results for the same keyword!

Next lesson how to build these keyword superhighways....

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The Dawn of the Marketron - The New Media Model Army of Expert Authority

Authors and Authority - think about that connection for a moment!

Cyberteers, Marketrons call them what you want!

They are out there and this is no episode of Dr Who or The X-Files

My last post about aliases got me thinking.

Probably a third of the authors, experts, and web personalities are made up personas. Yep they don't exist!

My take on it is this.

The art of the Internet Marketer is to promote websites to positions of authority.
One quite accepted method of doing this is to create information silos.

Another quick method is to promote yourself into a position of authority for a particular subject (set of keywords!).

The problem is this. Information and knowledge is 'silo'd as well and an expert in his field is just that - in his field!

To get around this it is necessary to create multiple personas.
In other words experteeism is silo'd!

here's how you do it

Get a name that hasn't been taken at Twitter, Facebook, Myspace etc etc - Grab those web 2.0 properties.
Invent a personal profile and stick to it.
Invent a glossy career in your chosen profession
List all your keywords as interests
Get a picture of yourself or a mate or someone from the public who is not famous and looks like they might be an expert in that field!

Write articles and post away in the buzz belt to your hearts content. Post RSS feeds from all your content and twitter etc to a personal blog and web 2.0 properties. Bookmark and ping all your posts and tweets!

Soon your new marketron will be the worlds leading expert in his field. Yummy yummy keyword rich link juice will be at your disposal!!


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Tagging and Keyword Classification from a computers point of view

Here's a very interesting old post that I want you to read about how Internet users decide to tag pages and the consequent new folksonomy or categorisation of computer data, that has grown up around it.

What it demonstrates from a marketing point of view, is that the most used search terms must equal the most tagged page with that term - folksonomy therefore depends upon the wisdom of the crowd! (which of course can be manipulated!)

Heres the post - Tagging and Naming as a new language

Through the pain barrier with the King of Content

EzineArticles.com were kind enough to send us ythis email which we think is worth redistributing here.
Ezinearticles.com is arguably the most important of all the article directories, it's only failure being it's Rss distribtion services are fairly non existant

This new article template is the perfect cure for your ideal customer's pain.

This template is based on the concept of pain. More specifically, the pain your ideal customers may experience and the pain reliever you can provide. Two simple questions form the backbone of this template:

1. What are some PAIN points that your ideal customers experience?


2. What are some STRENGTHS/BENEFITS your company delivers to remove or prevent those pain points?

Let's imagine you're going to write an article using this template. The article is targeted at small business owners who are curious about article marketing. Some pain points you might consider addressing would be:

• Pain of losing a competitive advantage


• Pain of not having traffic


• Pain of not being recognized


• Pain of not knowing how to get your articles & message out to the market


• Pain of not wanting to screw up when trying the article marketing process


• Etc...

You'd want to pick only (1) pain point for each article. For this particular example, let's say you pick the first one, "Pain of losing a competitive advantage." With that in mind, you then identify the specific ingredients (strengths/benefits) of article marketing that would help relieve this particular pain. Some ingredients (strengths/benefits) might include:

• Worldwide exposure of your articles, and hence your products or services


• Scalable marketing


• Combined benefits of increased website traffic and improved credibility


• Zero up-front cash investment


• Highly targeted

The next step is to build your article around the pain point and the prescribed pain reliever ingredients. Each of the ingredients is explained in terms of how it can help alleviate the reader's particular pain.

The article wraps up by summarizing how your suggested pain reliever has many of the ingredients necessary to cure your reader's pain. Then of course your Resource Box gives them a link to obtaining your suggested pain reliever. In the case of this example, that link would probably be http://EzineArticles.com/submit/ or perhaps to the EzineArticles home page.

In a nutshell, the Pain Points article template works like this:

1. Choose (1) pain point of your ideal customer.


2. In the first paragraph or two clearly describe the target niche and identify with their specific pain point.


3. The next paragraph introduces your particular brand of pain reliever and an overview of the ingredients (strengths/benefits) that pertain directly to the reader's pain.


4. In the following paragraphs, these ingredients are explained in-depth in terms of how each can help alleviate the reader's particular pain.


5. Before closing the article, be sure to give an example or two of how others have gotten relief from their pain by following this prescription.


6. The closing paragraphs pull all of the ingredients back together to reinforce your pain reliever as the right one.


7. Finally, it's important that your Resource Box provides the reader access to your suggested solution for their pain.

At the risk of totally overdoing our medicine metaphor... this particular article template should be an easy pill to swallow. It's targeted, fairly simple to understand and it shows empathy for your niche customers. Best of all, this one template can provide many, many articles. How many is only limited to the number of pain points you can identify.

Set a goal for yourself to write at least (5) articles this week using this template. Then leave a comment here about what you discovered along the way:
http://blog.EzineArticles.com/2009/06/pain-points-article-template.html

Googles Secret Search-based Keyword Tool

Our friends over at ContentDivas sent us this email this morning reminding us of a much unused secret google keyword spying tool which shows you just how many people are searching for what keywords in your region.

Now we'd usually make you join the system before we give you access to such good Internet Marketing stuff for free, but today we are feeling very generous and just want to show you the sort of stuff you are missing out on by not joining!

Remember if it's not being searched for - it doesn't EXIST!

Here's Shelby

"I just wanted to take a second to point
this long tail keyword suggestion tool from google.

Search-based Keyword Tool

Search-based Keyword Tool

The Search-based Keyword Tool generates
keyword and landing page ideas highly relevant
and specific to your website. In doing so, the
tool helps you identify additional advertising
opportunities that aren't currently being used
in your AdWords and marketing campaigns.

The tool goes one step further by tailoring the
keywords and other data (such as the amount
of competition for the keyword, the suggested
bid, and more) based on your language or country/territory
settings.

Based on your URLs, the Search-based Keyword
Tool displays a list of relevant user queries that
have occurred on Google.com (and on other

Google search properties, such as google.co.uk)
with some frequency over the past year; these
suggestions can be found under the Keywords
tab, in the New keywords related to (site) section.

In the Keywords related to your search section,
you can see a broad list of keyword ideas that are
also relevant, but aren't necessarily based on your site.

The keywords are also organized by category.
Click any category to expand and view its subcategories.
If applicable, you'll also see the keywords organized by
brand names.

I hope you find this useful!!"

Thanks Shelby we certainly found this useful - if you use the export to CSv tool you can create a great excel spreadsheet with every keyword that is searched for!


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