No more ****ing ShortcutsDate:August 21, 2011Author:Wil Reynolds (@wilreynolds)
Think of a mentor2
whom you admire3
Real superhero4
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“Douchier” Hero6
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“Regular” Hero8
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Now10
Their journey11
Words?12
easy, shortcut, painless, 4 hour work week, effortless13
Any of your heroes ever build a business “sculpingpagerank”14
15Fall in love with easy
16Fall in love with hard
How I got HERE17
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The story19
1999 - 200520
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12 Affiliate Summits22
Took the hard way to get here23
I am sick24
Shortcut tactics that win 25
26Luke, I spin articles and whoop your ass!
272 Devious Examples to get .edu’s
Pollute the web28Find a web issue ticketing systemSearch for .edu’s onlyFind the footprint & submit a ticketBuild links to itRepeat
Pollute the web29
30Find a CMS/wiki Search for .edu’s only using that CMSFind the footprint (inurl)Submit public contentBuild links to itRepeat
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I Got .edu spam links32
33Links on an accounting club to:Shoe PolishDirect TVMoving companiesPsychics
It was working!34
How do I get .edu’s?35
In an “Angelic” way36
37I can beat the Dark Side!!!
Sparked an idea38
39Find clubs on topic that you could sponsor:Snowboarding Clubs – Give a snowboard away, with a badge – supported by [client]Wine Clubs – Time with a top sommelier- “the science of wine”
Raise Funds for Injured Snowboarders40
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43Help w/ CurriculumProfessor Focus Group?What would you link to?
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Today we strike back46
Use Social to drive SEO47
Long term assets48
Value of“1”49
1 Person1 Session1 Retweet50
18 = 4,00051
What are you doing10 = 10,00052
What VALUE are you adding?53
Do you believe in the power of one touch?54
Yes = stayNo = leave55
Let’s talk social media…56
Google will eventually figure it out57
25%of their bonus depends on it58
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More / LessLikely to click?61
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Structured Data+Trust65
Follow @matthewjbrown66
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No structured data68
No investment in building TRUST69
New Circle of Trust70
NOT about…71
72Fake profiles & AUTOMATED bots!!
Is this you?73
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Why track this?76
What can you do with this data?77
78REVENGE?
Opportunity to improve, connect, touch79
Improve ConnectionsGain TrustGain SEO Results80
Underutilized assetBadges, Giveaway, Social Votes81
Underutilized assetBadges, Giveaway, Social Votes82
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We will make buttons supporting your org85
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Are you going to wait until Google gets it right?87
How to get quality .edu linksPart II88
Find .edus listing scholarships – make one ($1000)89
Better than spending $1000/month on crapy .edu’s90
Name the scholarship with your keywords91
15% to use the anchor textPeople are lazy92
100’s of .edu’s93
94W/O Polluting the web
Blogroll links95
96Pay feeble bloggers for links in blogrolls!
Or you could…97
Badge Strategy98
99Lulu.com
100Lulu.com
101We have a problem…
102We have a problem…
103Rand FishkinPicanha in Brazil
Growing a company
Building tools
Raising money104
Reverse Engineer A Badge Strategyw/ Google Image Search105
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Great time to use SERP overlay…107
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Tomorrow?109
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Connections are always valuable111
STRONGConnections are always valuable112
Are your ready to build…113
114Army of little helpers
Friends or Strangers?115
116This “asset building” / “1 touch” thing sounds hard
Once you have a strong social following…117
118Export.lyRowfeeder
119SEOmozMajesticSEO
120export.ly Twitter followers URL in their profileLocationFollowers/Followeds
121export.ly Twitter followers URL in their profileLocationFollowers/FollowedExtra Credit:Rapportive – find all other profiles
122All FollowersLinking InfoNerd power!
123Boring
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125Boring
126Export.lyWho follows me?+SEOMOZWho is NOT linking to me?
127MAGIC
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129WORK!!
130Vlookup
131Flaw:People sometimes link to personal sitesLots of blog commenting can throw this (filter nofollows)
Still a great way to get started132
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134GA Certified company!!
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136RowfeederWho RT’s me?+SEOMOZWho is NOT linking to me?
I control you, Retweet me!137
138Rowfeeder“RT @wilreynolds”
139Bring it into excel
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141When a high value account RT’s me but is NOT linking…now is the time!
142Would you like a link from those trying to rank for your keywords?
143Export.ly(follower info)URLs in profileScrape / Import RankingsURLs in top 50/100
144Lookup rankings vs. URLs in follower profiles
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147Help us make this better@ethanlyon
A whole new approach to content148
149How Long?
250 dollars for an article?150
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site:amazon.com"most recent blog posts from" [keyword]155
They BlogActive Following156
Authors are promotional157
Use Google Tools for ideas158
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Phone interviewGoogle Voice160
Press 4 161
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Willing to pay to build some truly authoritative content?163
Keep spinning articles?164
Who’s going to win in the long run?165
SPEED ROUND!!166
Building content that converts167
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Do PPC?170
SQ ReportWith conversions171
That is what you write172
When is the last time you got sales from a spun article site?173
Blogging?174
Years?175
I bet you got some broken links176
I bet you got some quality broken links177
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Buy the domainRe-build the resourceBuild links179
180Lets Go & Make Darth Sad
Build assetsBuild an armyNO Shortcuts181

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