Make Money – The Power Of The Anchor Text
Well, those of you that have been reading daily already know that I am attempting to get listed on the first search page via Google for the term “make money.†I have not yet accomplished that but however yesterday I noticed that I had made it into the top three for another term “linkback review†on the first page.
I am on page 1 of Google for the term “linkback review†in the position of three and four. Yes guess who I am directly behind for the first position and second position “John Chowâ€. Not bad I say since I’ve only been at this for two months now and already third in the race for this Google search term.   Â
So how does this translate as far as getting more traffic flow? I checked with overture keyword search program and there are no static’s for this search phrase as of now. I am thinking though that maybe eventually when this linkback review catches on with more people across the net that maybe the static’s will increase for searches of this term.
When choosing an Anchor text the best way to find out is by using a keyword tool like Overture and with a little research you can find a suitable anchor for your site. If want to try out Overture it’s free but doesn’t give you much information other than how many times that keyword was searched over the previous month. Another way to choose an anchor text would be to look at what terms are being searched for your site now by using Google Analytics and using different variations of those terms to improve your search page rankings. There are others out there but you have to pay for them, so I’m assuming you like free stuff like me.
How ever if did want to pay for a keyword research service then Wordze is designed to give you the ability to analyses the entire net universe and see what people are searching for everyday. They have a one day trial membership for $7.95 or monthly will cost you $35.
After you have decided on an anchor text for you site you must ensure that some of your posts on the front page have the targeted term keyword in them. Although I have not successful come on the front page for “make money†I have come for “linkback review†and that is because my front page almost always has at least one linkback review on it. I think with the “make money†term there are more people fighting for it so it will just take some time before I am able to beat out those other make money hungry people out there.
Also if you have not already noticed it’s a good idea to have your keyword choice somewhere in the title of your site: Make Money with Ja Kel Daily Dot Com. Remember always strive to take a creative approach to all your blogging efforts and the rest will eventually follow.
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I’m going for the anchor text “web development”. It’s very ambitious as I currently can’t find myself in the first 20 pages – but give it a year or two and I think I should be listed.. somewhere
I’m lovin’ that Overture tool. I hope they’ve updated it with the March 2007 search terms. How long does it take them?
Guess I’d better choose my anchor text for something interesting.
Does anchor text count if we link to ourselves with the chosen anchor text?
Happy Good Friday to you,
Paula
Hey there!
I took you up on the linkback review offer and did a review of your site. When you do my review, I’d like the keywords:’cool hack’
I did your review here:
http://iexplor.blogspot.com/2007/04/make-money-daily.html
Nice job, Jason.
I noticed you put in a feedback plugin. Get that idea from me? >:-)
One more comment in the interests of constructive feedback… I feel like the celeb gossip blog and the making money blog on the same url diminish one another.
I hit up http://www.jakeldaily.com earlier today and was thoroughly confused. Of course, I ended up reading (and even commenting!) for a couple of minutes, but I actually had to be looking for this page (the making money blog) in order to find it. I know… you have a nice huge banner ad at the top, but I ignore those by default.
I’m not sure I have a better suggestion, other than registering a new domain, but…
Just my $0.02. Keep up the great work.
good luck with that Jon!
I didn’t know anything about anchor texts until I ran across John Chow’s webpage and my brother was telling me about it. Since then I have created mine as Lose Weight & Make Money. Do you think I should keep the ‘&’ in there or switch it to ‘and’?
If you do a 301 redirect on all links, you wouldn’t lose the links or pagerank.
You would just need to capture the URL and parse it properly to formulate the new destination URL. Cross reference it against your sitemap so that only the old links get referred.
So http://www.jakeldaily.com/one/of/kellys/articles/ would redirect to –> newsite.com/one/of/kellys/articles, but
http://www.jakeldaily.com/a/brand/new/article would not redirect.
Make sense?
It’s a couple hours of work, though — not sure if its worth it. It might be.
One thing is for sure: if you think you want to do it someday, the sooner the better.
hth.
Well, one more thing to add it’s hosted on Blogger and I have the domain (www) pointed to there hosting. Is something like that still possible?
I know, I caught that. Us web developers *try* and pay attention.
Yours (the making money blog) has to be hosted WP, though, because of all your plugins, so that becomes your “master” — you have to keep jakeldaily for that one unless you export kelly’s blog to a self-hosted version first.
Switching an entire domain is the easy part, so the blog being moved is pretty simple. It’s the “master” — the one that has to handle the redirects — that has to be hosted, because you need to use a server-side scripting langauge (I’d use php for this) to process the redirect.
I talk about redirects and have some sample code that might help you out over at Smart Guy. The post is geared towards affiliate tracking, but the redirect logic is the same.
Ok, thanks Johnny, I will start looking into it then. One question would people still be able to type in http://www.jakeldaily.com and get my wife’s blog because she has one year contracts with advertisers already with agreements to that address?
Ewwww. Not a happy place.
If you do an all-domain redirect, that’s basically what you have now.
You can do some interesting things… like redirect, then detect the incoming referer (misspelling intentional — it’s in the HTTP spec) and open a pop-up on kelly’s page… no, screw that, because blogger means no scripting.
Ummm. You kinda want to make Kelly the queen then (I know, she already is, but in terms of who gets the jakeldaily domain
), and transition to a self-hosted blog there. Then move the making money blog to a different domain and add the redirects to the new hosted Kelly-blog.
Which means loads more work. It would probably take me 4 hours, but I’d budget a whole day of time to make sure all the kinks were ironed out and make sure downtime were minimized to as little as possible (probably only a couple of minutes with good planning). With significant readership, you really don’t want to have much downtime.
er… “add the redirects to the new hosted Kelly-blog” means adding the redirect logic to Kelly’s new blog host so that the jakeldaily links flow to your new domain set aside for the making money blog.
gonna go try this