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Full Members' Podcast #16 - March 3, 2010 (Audio)

by Leslie on February 28, 2010

Title: Full Members' Weekly Podcast #16
Date: March 3, 2010
Author: Leslie Rohde
Audio ID: SBT-Podcast-0016
Run Time: 6:32 (6 minutes, 32 seconds)

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Full Members' Podcast #13 - February 21, 2010 (Audio)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 25, 2010

Title: Full Members' Weekly Podcast #13
Date: February 21, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Audio ID: SBT-Podcast-0013
Run Time: 25:19 (25 minutes, 19 seconds)

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Full Members' Podcast #15 - February 25, 2010 (Audio)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 24, 2010

Title: Full Members' Weekly Podcast #15
Date: February 25, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Audio ID: SBT-Podcast-0015
Run Time: 11:47 (11 minutes, 47 seconds)

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Methods - Automated RSS Publishing (video)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 23, 2010

Title: Methods: Automated RSS Publishing
Date: February 20, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Video ID: Methods-Automated-RSS-Publishing
Run Time: 0:20:03 (20 minutes, 3 seconds)

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Link Liberation Q&A Call #13 - February 9, 2010 (Audio)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 21, 2010

Member Q&A with Dan Thies
Title: Link Liberation Q&A Call #13
Date: February 9, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Audio ID: LL-QA-02-09-2010
Run Time: 1:32:24 (1 hour, 32 minutes, 24 seconds)

Notes:

Please refer to the guide below to hear highlights of Dan’s comments.
(Approximated time marks are +/- a couple minutes or so….)

C’mon! When you seek something you want to hear, you might find something
you didn’t realize you need to hear, huh?

Time Mark
(approx.)
Topic
:45 Dan explains levels of member access to SBT content and discusses possible future direction.
8:40 Feed WordPress v. WPOmatic
11:40 Evaluating software and plugins via the keyword “driftnet” using Adsense and affiliate business models
15:10 Hosting companies, services, and cost variations. Chron jobbing.
20:00 Running chron jobs.
20:50 Using Curl.
28:00 Heading tags and SEO
29:00 A prospective business model for a one-person SEO business.
32:45 Remaining competitive in tough markets. Assessing dollar value of keywords.
36:00 Investing resources profitably.
37:20 The Hotels.com strategy and resources. Compensation as motivator.
39:00 Advantages of entrepreneurship. Performance, profitability. Focusing on core products and strategy.
42:00 Allocating resources to win.
44:50 Pay-per-click advertising v. organic traffic. When to implement PPC to make it pay.
49:00 Determining the value of leads.
52:20 Clarifying commission structure and setting a service fee schedule based on measurable results.
55:54 Payment arrangements for bundling services. Tracking leads. Measuring results with analytics.
1:00:00 Performance-based compensation as a percentage of increase in traffic or sales or other designated metric.
1:02:10 Tip Centers for websites = LifeTips.com
1:04:29 First link and anchor text.
1:05:30 Using Yahoo! Site Explorer to break down and analyze data by individual pages for external links. Consider relative weight.
1:08:10 Structuring site for depth on a blog or ecommerce. Setting up levels and categories in advance for link juice.
1:13:00 When splitting categories makes sense and tips to consider in the process.
1:18:00 Handling related posts.
1:21:00 Hints for interlinking posts.
1:22:30 Rapid Ranking System: linking to money site/page.
1:24:30 Targeting the long-tail. Evaluating cost-benefit. (see Serialization video) Setting price point and value for keywords.
1:31:00 Tools to estimate traffic and associated cost per click.

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Full Members' Q&A Call #22 -February 18, 2010 (Audio)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 20, 2010

Member Q&A with Dan Thies.

Title: Full Members' Q&A Call #22
Date: February 18, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Audio ID: QA-DAT-02-18-2010

Run Time: 59:01 (59 minutes, 1 second)

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Member Q&A with Leslie Rohde.

Title: Full Members' Q&A Call #21
Date: February 11, 2010
Author: Leslie Rohde
Audio ID: QA-LER-02-11-2010

Run Time: 2:03:07 (2 hours, 3 minutes, 7 seconds)

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Video: Core PPC - Ad Groups 2 (Ad Variations)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 18, 2010

The fifth video in the "Core PPC" course, on setting up Ad Groups. This is the second of two videos on Ad Groups, focusing on ad variations.

Title: Core PPC - Ad Groups 2 (Ad Variations)
Date: February 12, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Video ID: Core-PPC-AdGroups-AdVariations
Run Time: 26:39 (26 minutes, 39 seconds)

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Full Members' Q&A Call #20 -February 4, 2010 (Audio)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 17, 2010

Member Q&A with Dan Thies.

Title: Full Members' Q&A Call #20
Date: February 4, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Audio ID: QA-02-04-2010

Run Time: 1:29:10 (1 hour, 29 minutes, 10 seconds)

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Link Liberation Q&A Call #12 - February 2, 2010 (Audio)

by Dan "Right Brain" Thies on February 16, 2010

Member Q&A with Dan Thies
Title: Link Liberation Q&A Call #12
Date: February 2, 2010
Author: Dan Thies
Audio ID: LL-QA-02-02-2010
Run Time: 1:44:17 (1 hour, 44 minutes, 17 seconds)

Notes:

Please refer to the guide below to hear highlights of Dan’s comments.
(Approximated time marks are +/- a couple minutes or so….)

C’mon! When you seek something you want to hear, you might find something
you didn’t realize you need to hear, huh?

Time Mark (approx.)


Topic

:25

What is a “Mechanical Turk”? Guidelines for writing description for the “hit”, or work hired out.

2:17

Applying RSS feeds, Rapid Ranking (RR) and index
drivers to growing content on a money site.

4:30

How does the RR system affect keyword selection?

7:35

Adding value via building an audience vs. SEO w/keywords

9:34

Sub-domains and Michael Campbell’s mini-networks.
Affiliate sites as endpoints: worth the effort?

12:20

iPad implications for ecommerce

14:00

Priority targets – what page is the best page to bring a user into?

14:40

Distinction between pages and posts (WordPress) and
the advantages/disadvantages in templates and tags.

18:35

Explanation of tag pages

19:30

No-follow, no index configurations to minimize span on
site. Multiple paths to post do not constitute an SEO issue.

21:54

Blog: duplicate content and categorizing archives;
posts have permalinks

24:33

Metacontent configuration –- importance of meta description

25:00

The meta keywords’ tags effect on ranking factor. What
matters – traffic or rankings??

27:00

Titles and keywords

29:00

Link categories in WordPress categories and outbound linking

30:00

Using Permalinks to customize categories.

33:20

Keeping articles indexed. A single index driver or more? Consider the effort
involved.

35:40

News-type site that links to specific page. Need an extra resource or use one-post, one-link model?

36:20

Building authority to increase pagerank.

40:32

htaccess.
Redirecting and uploading old, active URLs to a new site. What happens to the
302s? 404s? Permanent redirects and benefits of scripts.

45:00

Using WebMasterTools to find 404 errors.

47:30

Effect of straying from keywords and themes for ranking purposes.

52:20

Google’s attempt to apply a topical ranking system. Bing’s impact on commercial search results.

55:00

Qualifying content and writers. Using Yahoo! vs. Google. Categorizing.

58:45

Steps to take to set up a new site – 90-day plan? Site launch.

1:03:30

Submitting to Yahoo & Dmoz.

1:06:00

Filters or subcategories?

1:10:00

Index driver: two URLs that point to (basically) the same site.

1:12:00

Categories that create duplicate content. Using xCart. Possible to automate SEO plugins? Possible to no-index? Dan proposes a couple “workarounds”.

1:16:30

Getting out of supplemental index.

1:17:00

Why are pages in the site not getting indexed?

1:19:05

How do you do bookmarking? Dan’s response might be surprising!

1:21:00

Reputation management – combating internal linking and backlinks. Competitor is using company name w/negative impact. (Note: technical difficulties on response; call picks up again around 1:37:00-1:40-:00.)

1:24:00

More on handling duplicate content and handling products that slot into multiple categories.

1:25:00

Using product descriptions to balance user experience and SEO. Strategies to change text on the page.

1:33:35

Title tags with limited space. Variations in title tags.

1:37:30

Applying internal linking to preserve pagerank. Value of automated plugins.

1:40:00

Canonical tools. WebMaster Tools.

1:41:00

Title links using WPomatic v. Feed Word Press and getting indexed.

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