The Lazy Lover – Spammers Getting Slapped

You ever go to bed with someone really selfish? Someone who expects you to do all the work? I can tell you I have. Of course I have. I’m a woman.

What do you do when that happens? Do you actually do all the work and sacrifice your own orgasm to give some lazy bastard theirs? If you’re like me, you say ‘hell no’ and pack it in.

Spam comments work the same way. If you’ve been blogging for awhile, you’ve probably noticed that the more popular you get, the more spammers you have attacking your blog and leaving comments. Most of these spam comments are obviously written by bots. Check out the below example. You can tell its spam from a mile away, because it’s completely generic and poorly written.

If you have a decent spam blocker set up, these should go right into your spam folder. Most of these pieces of spam will be associated with known spammers, so you won’t really need to do anything but dump them in your trash once a week.

However, how do you deal with the individual spammer? An individual spammer is some random idiot, usually new to blogging, who only comments on your page with the intention of slipping in their own link. The below is an example of an individual spammer.

This person is no one I know. They came to my page after I got publicized on the WP Freshly Pressed platform and randomly slipped a link for some of their shitty cartoons into my article.  Their cartoons had nothing to do with my article. In fact, it’s highly unlikely that they even read the article. Instead, they saw I had a high amount of traffic and decided to sneak a link in to get referred traffic from my page.

 In short, they were being a lazy lover, expecting me to do all the work while they reaped all the benefits. Um, no, I don’t think so.

When I get a link from someone I don’t know, who doesn’t regularly interact on my page, I either delete the link or delete the entire comment. I do this for a number of reasons.

First, I want to discourage other lazy lovers from doing the same thing. If someone else comes to my page and sees my comments, they might think that I’m ok with links because I let someone else do it.

Second, if someone is doing this, chances are someone will eventually report them as a spammer. The last thing you want is for people to associate you with a known spammer. When a known spammer puts a link on your page, you’re associated.

Don’t let that happen.

Don’t be impressed by a token effort either. You might have seen something like a ‘pingback’ or ‘trackback’ on your page. In this case, that means a person linked to your post on their own page. If you accept the pingback or trackback, a notification will be added to your comments that works just like a comment.

This is often just a tricky way for spammers to get into your comments section and insert their own links. Once you approve a trackback or pingback, you are linking from your blog to another site. This means that you are telling Google that site is relevant. If it is a spam site, then you could be penalized by Google for it.

However, if you delete the pingback or trackback, they are still sending a link from their page, to your page. You will not be penalized by Google, even if spam sites send links to your page, because you have no control over it.

In short, if someone wants to be a lazy lover on your site, don’t let it happen. Either delete the comment entirely or remove the link. If you don’t know the person, don’t let them get away with using you for their own means. Instead, get up, put your pants on and find a blogger who knows how to return the favor.

The 68 Strategy – I’ll Do You and You’ll Owe Me One

Do you keep track of how many times you’ve gone down on your partner? I think deep down, everyone does. There’s a reason they call a blow job a job, and that’s because its work. By why to women do it? To build goodwill equity. Maybe their partner will return the favor later, maybe they won’t, but they still have goodwill equity built up.

An interview is a great way to create goodwill equity on the internet. It is your internet blowjob. Even though it looks like your being altruistic, you’re actually doing something to get something. You make out on two fronts. You look like a saint, but you’re secretly getting off.  

On my personal site, I host something called Friday’sFeatured Bloggers. Every Friday, I post an interview with another blogger asking them weird, invasive questions about their sites. I accept guest blogs from a large range of bloggers, from religious types, to dating experts, mommy blogs and more. There is virtually no subject I won’t write about.

Once a week, I pick one of these bloggers and I go through their sites, asking them questions about their page.  Then, on Friday, I post a funny interview with them. I put a humorous slant on everyone, regardless of the blogger, because my site is above all, a humor site.

Then, I wait for the hits to roll in. See, people love being interviewed and most of them will want to show it off. They’ll reblog my posts on their pages. They’ll share it on Facebook and Twitter. Even though the interview is about them and it is designed to increase their exposure, it increases my exposure as well. 

Both I and the featured bloggers make out on two fronts. They have my followers going to their page, and I have their followers coming to mine. They average about 100 site visits per interview (give or take) and gain a few followers. I get around 500 hits per interview and gain at least 10 new followers.

And the whole time, it looks like I’m doing something selfless and nice. I’ve built up my internet blowjob equity.  

Of course, the trick is being the type of page where someone would want to do this. Remember, you only want to play with nice pages, not the sleazy barfly pages that will post everywhere. So if you want to set up your own interview campaign, you need to know how to make it work.

1. Be established. By established, I mean have a regular following of 200 or more. These 200 should be quality followers who actually read what you write and who interact on your page. Otherwise, it’s a waste of time to do an interview marketing campaign. The sites you interview don’t have to be established to do this, but you do. Otherwise, no one will ever read the interviews and you won’t attract quality bloggers to interview.
2. Have a clear set of guidelines. You can do like me and allow everyone in, or you can pick only a niche topic. Regardless, you must have standards. For my interview campaign, I don’t do sites that are obvious spam sites or are poorly written. I don’t do sites that are more than 20% reblogs. Finally, I don’t do sites that write about writing. The first two I don’t do for obvious reasons. The last one I don’t do because I’m a writer. I’m not going to sent traffic to my competitors’ page. That’s just stupid. Also, I find writing about writing pages boring. There, I said it.
3. Have a posting schedule. Let people know when their interviews will posted and give yourself some time. I would recommend only doing one interview per week. Unfortunately, most people don’t really like reading interviews, so if you do too many, you’re followers will get bored.
4. Have a slant. Because most people aren’t crazy about interviews, you have to give them a  reason to read. For my interviews, I ask normal questions, then I toss in a few weird ones. I also do made up intros where I pretend to meet my bloggers for in person interviews in places like rehab, prison or a men’s locker room.
5. Archive your featured blogger so you can keep gaining equity into it for the long term. I have a separate featured blogger page set up where all my bloggers are archived. This way, people can click on their picture and get taken to the blog post about them. This is also where all the people who want to be featured bloggers can sign up. If you choose not to do that, you can always put them on your blog roll. The point is to keep your pages transparently connected.Above all, only interview people who have something to say. I only pick interesting individuals to feature because, again, interviews are not popular. The more interesting the person, the better a chance I have of getting people to read the interview with that person. 
6. Make sure to link. If they’re going to the trouble of answering your question, be sure to throw in at least 3 links in the bargain. I allow unlimited links, as long as people don’t get crazy.

 

A featured blogger campaign is a great way to build goodwill among a quality audience on the internet. Everyone likes oral, whether its receive it or talking about themselves. Give them a chance and you can increase your page views as they increase theirs. Much like Deep Throat, you’ll be quietly getting off while they think they’re getting all the attention.

The Hub and Spoke – Or Turning Your Site Into an Internet Orgy

Ever had a three way? If you have, then chances are you noticed something. They're only good if you know what you're doing.

The hub and spoke strategy is your internet orgy. If you do it right, you'll soon be seeing multiple climaxes in multiple areas. If you do it wrong, everyone will be flopping around, self conscious and there will be one guy with his dick hanging out, not doing anything at all. No one will get off.

If you want to get off, you need to know your internet erogenous zones. i.e. niche topics.

A hub and spoke works like a bicycle wheel. There is one main page, or hub, that all the other pages, or spokes, branch off of. For example, this page, The SEO Slut, is a spoke page to my main page, Essa on Everything.

The hub and spoke works really well if you can break your topic down into niches. On my main page, I write humor on a very general range of topics, from sex to internet scams. However, my target audience there generally doesn't have the desire or the knowledge to care about SEO. So I turned that into a niche page and started writing here.

This is the first spoke in my hub. This gives me multiple benefits. I get more incoming links for my main page. I get internet traffic and I get my name out there. In addition, its not hard, or expensive to do.

I run my main page off a wordpress.org platform hosted by Blue Host. However, for my spoke page, I have a 100% free blogger account. When I set up another spoke page, I will do it on a web 2.0 platform like Squidoo...also free.

This gets my name in multiple platforms as well. When you get started on any platform, the majority of your initial followers will be from that platform. If you can get multiple followers on multiple pages, you're going to climb in the rankings. Eventually, your page get most of its searches from organic traffic.

Plus, with a niche, you can really target your SEO.

Finally, these free websites are pretty easy to maintain. I'll post generally 1-2 times per week on this page, and 3 times per week on my other one. And I don't interact on my spoke page. On this page, I have comments disabled. This is for two reasons. One, answering comments on multiple pages would be too much and I'd soon be ripping my hair out. Two, anyone who is interested enough to try to contact me will head over to my main page and I stand the chance of getting a high quality follower.

High Quality Follower = someone who actually reads the shit you write.

I would recommend starting off one spoke and adding on as you get more time. Take a look at your general overall topic and break off one small, specific piece of it. If you run a dating site, create a spoke page just about dating online or something like that. This will allow you more target SEO and will expose you to a new audience.

God knows how I love to expose myself to audiences.

For a Good Time CLICK HERE…The Relevance of Relevance

Whenever you hear the phrase, ‘for a good time call...’, don’t you want to call Jenny?

Even though there was no real Jenny, this song actually caused a fad, with people calling the number 867-5309 and asking for Jenny.

Why? Referrals of  course! Apparently, someone was satisfied with Jenny's ability suck the chrome off a trailer hitch. He wanted to share his pleasurable experience, so he wrote her name and number on a bathroom wall. Jenny became the authority on having a good time. 

So when it was time to have a good time, they called Jenny.

Backlinks are your name on a bathroom wall. They get your name out there as an authority on something; whether or not it be your lack of gag reflex. They make people go to you for advice when someone searches a keyword.

If someone finds your page, they might decide to link to one of your articles on their page. This creates a credibility bump, because someone thinks you’re relevant enough to link to you. This can also help with keywords, as long as they use the right anchor words.

Anchor words are the click-able words that redirect someone to your site. For example, the phrase ‘conservatives like to be dominated in bed’ takes you to Rush Limbaugh’s page. Then, he becomes bit closer to being on authority on the subject of rich white men who like to be spanked during sex. .

You’re welcome Mr. Limbaugh.

Of course, you have little control over getting people to link to your page. For that, you need a cross link marketing campaign and friends.

Sorry if you don’t have any friends. For that I can’t help you. You could always do like I did and buy a gimp on Craigslist.

Just don’t buy backlinks. Site that offer to place your link if you pay them are generally lower quality sites. If you’re linked up too many times with known spammers, then your rank will actually go down. Sites that sell links are usually known spammers.

General rule, the more important a page, the more important they make your page when they link to it. Make friends with the right people and get them to give you a shout out in their blog.

You can also check to see how you’re doing by looking at your Alexa ranking. This will tell you the keywords commonly associated with your site, as well as how many web pages link to yours.

Just go to the tab site info, then enter your page name;

Then, you’ll get results that look like this.

Right now, I have 57 backlinks to my site and my rank indicates that while I’m a blip on the web, I am not completely invisible. You can click on the link number to see what sites are linking to your page.

This will also tell you the most common keywords found on your page. Mine suck, because they’re way too competitive, or completely obscure. But this is about backlinks, which I’m not doing too bad in

Other ways to increase your backlinks, beside making friends, include a hub-and-spoke web site up. This is where you create a main webpage, and several other mini Web 2.0 pages that link to it. This is a pain in the ass and I don’t have the stamina to go over it for now.

But at least you know why backlinks are important…and you can’t get that fucking Tommy Tutone song out of your head. .