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Re: Internet marketing experiment update!

kelly — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:18:37 -0000

I HUG my Twitter! I heard that Twitter is going to take over Google.....now, where did I hear that from? Regardless, although I am not blacklisted, I pissed off the Almighty Google too - by not updating removed blog links in my robots.txt >,<

Re: Internet marketing experiment update!

Gail Gardner — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:58:49 -0000

Have you looked at the new incoming links and the anchor text they use? I know there are sites that list blogs with DoFollow policies but that probably wouldn't account for all of them.

It would be interesting to know what the increased links are targeting on your blog.

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ALRADY — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:42:31 -0000

I am wondering if perhaps I am getting BETTER traffic. Maybe people that follow links like yours are more prone to pay their authors (bloggers) with ad investigation and remarks and checking out the sites more, digging or saving links????

Just a thought that occurs. I know I get some google traffic but I am not sure how many actually stay around long enough to comment on articles. Tracking is out of my control on ehow.

I would like to experimient sometime after I reach my next moentary plateau. ALRADY

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Jim — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 12:32:34 -0000

I've been reading a lot about this lately and it seems it's been working well for lots of bloggers. Well done.

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virtual millenium — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:45:43 -0000

"The Internet is actually about PEOPLE and not about Google or any other company!" that exactly what it should be. Good article!

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Cindy Martinusen Coloma — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:12:26 -0000

Thanks Jim - very helpful guidance. Now if I only have hours to keep exploring your site today. I'll read bit by bit or blog by blog.
Thank you! Cindy

http://www.twitter.com/Meth... http://www.twitter.com/Cind...

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Mark Tosczak — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:36:23 -0000

You definitely have lowered your executional risk by going with a strategy that isn't dependent on the largesse of search engines.

I'm curious about your change in Google traffic. Are you measuring that in absolute numbers or as a percentage of total traffic sources? Just wondering if do-follow is increasing traffic from other sources, so Google as a percentage is down.

Even if the absolute numbers are down, that's not entirely surprising. Commenting for link juice strikes me as one of those practices that Google would like to stamp out, even though they'll take many good, legitimate comments with them.

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Mitch — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:52:08 -0000

I was never receiving all that much traffic from Google to begin with, or any traffic at all, so I went on my campaign of first commenting on other people's blogs that I had an interest in, then adding CommentLuv for dofollow links. Since then, I've had a drastic increase in followers and commenters, and my Google traffic has remained the same. This works for me.

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Jordan Pearce — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:39:17 -0000

This is a great post since there is lots of debate to 'nofollow' or not.

It raised a good question that I hadn't pondered yet and that is if backtrack and linkbacks count in the do-follow process?

I suppose if the blog is entirely do-follow than that is an extra incentive to get others to link back to your site.

Twitter/Stumble: jpearce01

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Jason — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:41:32 -0000

Hi Jim,

Interesting post and experiment, what I am not sure is exactly why you would want to have do-follow links when it there is the possibility of them harming your site, should it link to any site that Google or indeed some of the other search engines do not approve of? I guess the fact that you are getting more people linking back to your blog could more than compensate for this and if you manually weed out the bad eggs it could really pay off...

Think I have talked myself into the answer here!

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Lynne Lee — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:23:17 -0000

Links are very important, and I really appreciate that you have chosen 'do follow'.

Some links are better than others. Links from high page rank sites are more 'valuable'.

I use seo and articles and forum comments to drive traffic to my websites and blogs, recently I've added Twitter to my arsenal.

Daily effort to create links to your site really does pay off.

Glad I found you.

http://www.twitter.com/lynn...

@lynnelee

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Robert — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:29:33 -0000

Jim, I follow your blog daily and follow you on Twitter. Just really getting into all this and feel like I found the leader right away. Thanks.

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Damian Davila — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:25:36 -0000

Hello Jim,

Thank you for following me on Twitter at @idaconcpts. Your blog writing style is very down-to-earth and down-to-business. Congrats on making points in a simple, concise manner.

Regarding your marketing experiment. My experience at my web analytics blog is:

1. Stumbleupon
In just one day, I received more than 400 hits, which is a lot for my humble blog with a total of 3000+ readers to date.

2. Search Engine Optimization
Having a blogroll of relevant blogs of marketing and web analytics; linking keywords to relevant websites; tagging and creating keywords, are just a couple of the ways that I am able to make Google like me.

3. Referrals from friend blogs.

4. Links from social networking sites such as Twitter, Linkedin, Techhui (local Hawaii IT association).

Please keep us posted on your experiment.

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Lisa Nardi — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:20:25 -0000

Hi Jim,
I hope that I'll be able to follow suit. I am going to look at your previous posts to find out how to fix the no-follow in my blog. I'm so glad that this is working out for you and hope that I will also have similar luck, but I have only just begun and won't have any results for a while.
On Twitter, I am aptly lisanardionline. Talk to you soon.
Lisa

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Judy Rey Wasserman — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:22:58 -0000

I just StumbledUpon this article with a thumbs up. Seems like a good idea to me!

Isn't sharing ideas and what we find of interest a big part of social media?

Google will adjust, they are smart and fast folks.

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Digital Photography — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:42:20 -0000

Very cool experiment.Link are huge for website and if you can find no-follows, increased awareness will result.

@andrewosterberg on twitter

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Adam Shake — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:15:02 -0000

Thank you for pointing out what the "follow" vs. "do not follow" is really all about.
I've only been doing this for about six months, and I'm learning everyday that I have a lot left to learn.
My specialty is the Environment, but I'm learning more about blogging than I ever knew possible. Thanks for the great article.

@TwilightEarth on Twitter

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Kate Klingensmith — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:29:33 -0000

Interesting experiment! I'd never even heard of 'do-follow' before, so we'll see what, if anything, it does. I'm a fairly fresh blogger and am more excited about writing and reading others' blogs than SEO - this certainly can't hurt anything!

Oh, and I'm @kate__k on Twitter

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gail — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:23:01 -0000

Interesting post! I'm from Twitter:
@gailkonopbaker

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Staci J. Shelton — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:22:38 -0000

Jim, this is an absolutely GENIUS idea! It's not about site rankings, it's about people, and your idea clearly illustrates it! Great job and thanks for sharing so many wonderful ideas!!!

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Marketing Specialist - Jim Con — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:15:33 -0000

Some great comments here - Thanks for contributing.

It's also great to see so many familiar @usernames!!!

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Kyle Reddoch — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:45:35 -0000

Although Google runs most of the internet out there and continues to expand, Google isn't that only option to dominate on the internet. I do have to agree that quality people make the difference and not traffic. If you are well known from "word of mouth", in my opinion, that is using the internet!

@iKyleR

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Susan Milner — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:15:22 -0000

That is truly amazing. Google still accounts for the majority of my visitors. As a real estate agent though I think many people are searching through gooogle (or other search engines) to find real estate.

@floridafuture

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matt mernagh — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:51:03 -0000

fascinating follow-up.

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Trish Jones — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:06:56 -0000

Hi Jim,

I've been using do-follow on my blog since I started blogging for the very reason you mention above - the Internet is about people and not Google. Also, this posts fits well with your previous post about people not hits.

I'd rather have less traffic but some quality readers who want to consume my information than a load of traffic taking up my bandwidth who don't want to be on my site.

I think that was an excellent idea to write a post outlining the fact that you allow do-follow on your blog.

Good on ya!

Trish