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Aside from hitting the 6 month blogging mark, Google has finally given my blog sitelinks for my blog’s name: Mixed Market Arts.

While this may seem like a lame reason to post because there is nothing special about ranking for your website’s name, but it is a little more than that. Sitelinks are an automated feature of Google’s algorithm that gives a website an authority status for a specified keyword. This means that unless I do something extremely stupid, there is no reason I should ever stop ranking for that name. This also means that Google is now giving my domain, with my newly acquired pagerank 5, a good amount of trust in the eyes of the search engine, which should be later reflected across every page of the site. In simple terms, sitelinks are basically Google reminding you that you are slowly but surely growing into a ranking powerhouse, and that there is no denying that you are the only one who should rank for that term.

So now that I am an “authority listing” for Mixed Market Arts keyword, I will move onto “MixedMarketArts” and then later “Collin LaHay,” and ultimately, “Website Marketing Strategies.”

When I finally got around to getting this awesome theme released back in January, I redid all of my advertising prices as well as the way I did things. Since then, every advertisement link mentioned had the “nofollow” tag added to it, stopping Google from passing authority to the advertisers. I forgot one small detail though, back in my first month I had sold a few text links for $100 and forgot to add the nofollow tags to those, and some kind fellow decided to report my blog.

Long story short, Google found out and lowered my pagerank from 4 to 2. I wasn’t too worried about it, because my search engine traffic has actually gone up since then, so I knew it was only the toolbar number that went down. At any rate, I did a few very simple steps to getting my pagerank back that I thought would be very helpful to the thousands of blogs that got hit as well.

This isn’t rocket science, but I wanted to make this post to tell the thousands of blogs complaining about pagerank that they can stop complaining and get their pagerank back in TWO DAYS.

Getting Your Pagerank Back

1. Fix your mistakes. Add a rel=”nofollow” to every advertisers hyperlink.
2. Log your mistakes. Jot down the URL to every link that you fixed.
3. Change your policy. Make sure on your advertising page that you DO NOT pass pagerank.
4. Submit a reconsideration request through Google Webmaster Tools.
5. Make it short and professional.
6. Learn from your previous mistakes, don’t do them again!

When you are submitting your reconsideration request, you want to make it as precise as possible. It is going to be manually reviewed by REAL people, so you want to cater to them. For your convenience, I have documented/saved my exact reconsideration request that resulted in a manual review and me earning my pagerank 4 back. Please use it as an example, or a starting point, and not as word-for-word copy paste. You should want to personalize your own request, and make sure to mention all of the flaws you corrected and apologize for them, and promise not to do them in the future.

My Google Reconsideration Request:

To whom it may concern,

I have been blogging for a nearly 5 months, and about three months ago I completely redesigned my entire blog and made it fully compliant with the Google webmaster standards. All of my text links and paid reviews have “nofollow” on them. I did however, make the mistake of selling links inside posts in the very early days of my blog, which have resulted in my pagerank being reduced. I do apologize for that, and I have since “nofollowed” all of the external links in them. I have done the necessary changes to make sure that MixedMarketArts.com meets all of Google’s requirements, and I will continue to comply with the Google webmaster standards in the future.

You may see here ( http://mixedmarketarts.com/category/reviews/ ) that all reviews that are paid now have a notice at the top, and all the links inside those posts are nofollowed. This will let my readers know which posts are paid, and also it will let Google know which links to not pass pagerank too.

I appreciate you taking the time to read this, and I hope you can see that I comply fully with the Google webmaster standards. I would be very greatful if you could return my pagerank to my blog. Thank you!

Sincerely,
Collin LaHay
http://mixedmarketarts.com

I anticipated that Google would have thousands of requests to review, and it would take at least a month to get someone to take a look at it, but I guess I was wrong. It is now less than 48 hours since I submitted the request and my blog has had a manual review and it has passed the exam. My pagerank has been returned to a 4 and as far as I know, any penalties have been removed.

I hope this quick 15 minute guide will help you earn your pagerank back, and on a more personal note, I would like to thank BloggingMix for the initial inspiration of telling me to take 15 minutes out of my day to submit a request. Without that blog post, I wouldn’t have even cared about my pagerank because the traffic was still there. While I won’t get any more traffic now that my blog is a PR4, it is still nice to know that I don’t have any penalties on my domain.

I hope this quick guide helps you, and I look forward to everyone fixing their mistakes and getting their pagerank back. Good luck!

Everyone is familiar with search engine optimization (SEO), but I have just stumbled across some people who (accidentally) have optimized their videos to be heavily promoted. Have you ever considered making an advertisement/commercial video and submitting it to the video sites? Sure, everyone has. The problem is getting people to see it.

Well, have you considered registering a username for a typo of the site you are submitting to? Just looking at popular typos of youtube (such as youtub). — People’s videos have received literally MILLIONS of views. Imagine if instead of their stupid video it was a 5 second video advertisement… you would see a nice burst of traffic and sales!

For the visual learners, here are a few examples of accidental, video engine optimized pages.
http://www.youtube.com/hanggliding
Info: Ranks #1 for youtub
Result: Channel Views: 2,837,297

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgA1nAWhLQ
Info: Ranks #1 for youtoob
Result: 112,872 views, useless video

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.Channel&ChannelID=88331292
Info: Use to be #1 for Facebookk, has since moved to #3
Result: 2500 views in a week.

(NOT SAFE FOR WORK) http://www.dailymotion.com/daily-motio (NOT SAFE FOR WORK)
Info: #1 in google for “daily motio” a typo of dailymotion.com
Result: 119663 views, 95 fans, 1328 favorites

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghn4-uFOjnk
Info: #1 in google for youtuube
Result: Views - 10,000+

This is only a sample list of the many possibilities…

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Here lies the real question… if these accidental videos can receive 5000 to 3,000,000 views… just imagine what making 10 of these videos and PURPOSEFULLY optimizing for these keywords could do. Think of any typo you can for your favorite video upload sites (youtube, revver, metacafe, dailymotion, etc), and create a username for it. Upload the video and call it the typo. You now have a powerful domain, related page, and related video that keyword and have a good chance at ranking #1 without even building any links.

Now, I do not have time to experiment with videos, but I thought I would give away a pretty ingenious way to build traffic for those that are interested. Who needs viral marketing humorous videos when you can appeal to the massive amounts of stupid people?

I have recently discovered an untapped pagerank 7 blog that has an authority status in Google. The blog is extremely popular and comments inside the blog posts receive a backlink that is followed by the search engines. Every single blog post turns into a PR5 or PR6 link after the next update, and there are over 500 PR5+6 links already indexed by Google.

Unlike everything else in the link building cookbook, I have chosen to only allow 20 people access to the location of this blog. This PR7 blog is so untapped that I have not seen a single spam dofollow comment on it yet, and I fear that by giving the URL away it will receive a lot of spam and then the owner will turn off the links, making this a worthless cause for all of us.

After giving it a lot of thought, I have decided to sell the location of the blog for $25. I will only be telling 20 individuals the URL, so that all 20 of us may benefit without the risk of losing these links later. I have written a full detailed thread on the DP forums for those that are interested.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=7061625

The first 20 people to pay me are the ONLY ones who will receive the URL. The reason I am charging is to lower the amount of people that are interested in this, so only the very interested link building parties remain. If you are interested in 500+ PR5+6 links (instantly making your site a pagerank4-5), then read the thread on DP.

For those that do not have a DP forum account, my Paypal address is raithe [at] gmail [ dot] com. Please leave your contact email inside the paypal description so that I may send you the information.