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Hi Tim

Thank you for your response regardless of time frame. I always enjoy hearing back from you.

I must be doing something wrong with Feedagg. They approved it but it didn't show my complete page just one paragraph worth of text- wonder why is that?

By the way I was very mad today. They FLAGGED my Hub page for being overly promotional and pointing to ONE site. They stopped it , it does not show on google anymore and that was my MAIN traffic page. My traffic decreased by 200% today because of it. Apparently no more than 2 links to one site are allowed on that hub page...

I will try to register again and link them all up with different keywords and the only problem is this takes a lot of time. Its okay to do copy paste with text but obviously I need to test things so the mistake I made with Hub page does not repeat itself.
Also I will consider paying ADWORDS campaign (50$ maybe to test it out) and perhaps even buying new domain just for lessons (so it could be something like videolessonsguitar.com etc).

Your advices have been very usefull Tim and I thank you for that very much. Just the Feedagg is not working out for me and as I said video on that would be awesome tool for me.

Also if you have some experience about Adwords campaign I would love to hear it , and also if you recommend that I need to buy a new domain and make specific sale page just there.

I think right now my site gives people "warm and personal" touch rather then generated page (white with lots of false testimonials , bolded letters and paypal buttons with "special offers" ) . So I am hopping in a long run that will WIN people over because I do care to make my students happy and the intention of my web site is just that. The down side is the generated pages sell way better :)

Thanks again Tim and I look forward hearing from you !

Pedja

takeoverpageone said:
Sorry for the delay, I've just been so busy making new videos, etc for the website (got some more great methods being posted soon to get great ranking in the search engines and visitors).

How did you go with the RSS Feeds?

I've never been asked for approval before, so I think maybe you accidentally posted the wrong url or something?

What your talking about (paypal) is an option, and I do a similar things sometimes, but you have to be careful because some websites will not like that.

What I generally do most of the time is use the social sites as a funnel to get traffic to drive to my own domain (money page).

This works well, however I also suggest you mix things up and sometimes have a promotion right on the page can help.

I would suggest you get yourself to page one and once there then start testing with things like this.

You should be focusing all your efforts on getting decent ranking and traffic first in my opinion.

Regards



Tim
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Hi again,

I saw your quick reply so thought I should quickly get back to you.

Firstly Feedag is about backlinks, all it does is rank very well in Google and give you good backlinks, it's not always pretty but it gets the job done.

So if it has a link and the link is not a "nofollow" link it will be benefiting your website.

Also with hubpages, yes they do take hubs offline, however you can edit it and re-submit it (put more content, less links, etc) and they will re-approve it.

I've done that before. You've got ranked for it, so you may as well make the most out of it.

As for adwords, I am not a guru in it. I suggest you visit my brothers website (well my name is on there, but he runs it as he does a lot of adwords for his niches).

PPC Campaign Management & Advice

He has a free adwords ebook which gives you free tips.

Don't worry he is not trying to selling you any ppc products!

And good idea about the approach you have taken with content.

I always tell people to pretend your the visitor arriving at your website.

What does it look like now?

Happy you found the site?

When I think along those lines, I often realise I have to make it better.

Best of luck

Regards



Tim
Pedjazz said:
Hi Tim

Thank you for your response regardless of time frame. I always enjoy hearing back from you.

I must be doing something wrong with Feedagg. They approved it but it didn't show my complete page just one paragraph worth of text- wonder why is that?

By the way I was very mad today. They FLAGGED my Hub page for being overly promotional and pointing to ONE site. They stopped it , it does not show on google anymore and that was my MAIN traffic page. My traffic decreased by 200% today because of it. Apparently no more than 2 links to one site are allowed on that hub page...

I will try to register again and link them all up with different keywords and the only problem is this takes a lot of time. Its okay to do copy paste with text but obviously I need to test things so the mistake I made with Hub page does not repeat itself.
Also I will consider paying ADWORDS campaign (50$ maybe to test it out) and perhaps even buying new domain just for lessons (so it could be something like videolessonsguitar.com etc).

Your advices have been very usefull Tim and I thank you for that very much. Just the Feedagg is not working out for me and as I said video on that would be awesome tool for me.

Also if you have some experience about Adwords campaign I would love to hear it , and also if you recommend that I need to buy a new domain and make specific sale page just there.

I think right now my site gives people "warm and personal" touch rather then generated page (white with lots of false testimonials , bolded letters and paypal buttons with "special offers" ) . So I am hopping in a long run that will WIN people over because I do care to make my students happy and the intention of my web site is just that. The down side is the generated pages sell way better :)

Thanks again Tim and I look forward hearing from you !

Pedja
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Hi Tim
Thank you for your quick response!

I just edited the Hub page leaving only 2 links (different ones) in a text , and lots of different links at the end of the page in the links section.
Check it out and let me know if you think I need to polish the page more
http://hubpages.com/hub/Pedja-Simovic-Guitar-Lessons

I will also check out your brothers page but tomorrow because its 2:30 am and I need to teach in the morning :)

When it comes to Feedagg are you saying that it does not ever display your full page??? If that is the case , then I need to make sure that my one paragraph has link that leads to money page.

Adwords use to work for me when I was in states but I never tried it here in Serbia - there should not be any differences I imagine.

I look forward to more of your videos , keep them coming its a joy to watch.
I just hope my competitors won't find out about this before I start getting ranked on page 1 !

By the way, huge success already in less then 3 days. My actual lesson page at my website is now on Google on page 7 when you type in guitar webcam lessons. It just shows that this stuff works great and when I create 10 more pages or so with different keywords I can see only sky as a limit to what all this can do.

Any advices on Digg and Prosper?
Should I publish all my pages + videos on prosper?
Any hints or shortcuts how to make this in shorter time period ?

Thanks Tim

Good night for now :)

Pedja
takeoverpageone said:
Hi again,

I saw your quick reply so thought I should quickly get back to you.

Firstly Feedag is about backlinks, all it does is rank very well in Google and give you good backlinks, it's not always pretty but it gets the job done.

So if it has a link and the link is not a "nofollow" link it will be benefiting your website.

Also with hubpages, yes they do take hubs offline, however you can edit it and re-submit it (put more content, less links, etc) and they will re-approve it.

I've done that before. You've got ranked for it, so you may as well make the most out of it.

As for adwords, I am not a guru in it. I suggest you visit my brothers website (well my name is on there, but he runs it as he does a lot of adwords for his niches).

PPC Campaign Management & Advice

He has a free adwords ebook which gives you free tips.

Don't worry he is not trying to selling you any ppc products!

And good idea about the approach you have taken with content.

I always tell people to pretend your the visitor arriving at your website.

What does it look like now?

Happy you found the site?

When I think along those lines, I often realise I have to make it better.

Best of luck

Regards



Tim
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Hi again,

I could not check your site, because of course it was not published....

Well I did not check it yesterday, but I can see it is back online now.

Well done.

You could always add more content and refine it, it probably does not need too many more links.

You might want to use the correct anchor text for linking to your youtube video's instead of just the url. This can help your youtube video's rank.

Of course having some random anchor text can also be good sometimes.

Remember to create multiple levels of links.

So some pages will link direct straight to your videos, etc as they are now.

But some other pages should only link to the pages that link to the videos. Get the idea?

By doing that, you give power to the links and their links as well, and it makes it harder for competitors to figure out what you are doing.

Keep up the excellent work.

I am doing another video today on friendfeed, or rather a better alternative to using that for rss backlinks. I see other people promoting this as a good product to use for backlinks (and in fact when I originally checked it was).

But now friendfeed has "nofollow" tags, meaning it is almost useless for backlinks (but still an option for traffic purposes).

Note you can just subscribe to my rss feed on my blog, and be instantly notified when a new article is posted.

I hope this helps.

Cheers


Tim

Pedjazz said:
Hi Tim
Thank you for your quick response!

I just edited the Hub page leaving only 2 links (different ones) in a text , and lots of different links at the end of the page in the links section.
Check it out and let me know if you think I need to polish the page more
Pedja-Simovic-Guitar-Lessons

I will also check out your brothers page but tomorrow because its 2:30 am and I need to teach in the morning :)

When it comes to Feedagg are you saying that it does not ever display your full page??? If that is the case , then I need to make sure that my one paragraph has link that leads to money page.

Adwords use to work for me when I was in states but I never tried it here in Serbia - there should not be any differences I imagine.

I look forward to more of your videos , keep them coming its a joy to watch.
I just hope my competitors won't find out about this before I start getting ranked on page 1 !

By the way, huge success already in less then 3 days. My actual lesson page at my website is now on Google on page 7 when you type in guitar webcam lessons. It just shows that this stuff works great and when I create 10 more pages or so with different keywords I can see only sky as a limit to what all this can do.

Any advices on Digg and Prosper?
Should I publish all my pages + videos on prosper?
Any hints or shortcuts how to make this in shorter time period ?

Thanks Tim

Good night for now :)

Pedja
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Hi Tim

Sorry for this late reply I have been busy last couple of days and didn't get to online work at all.

I saw that my Hub page is published, I am happy about that. Whats not so great is that I lost my rank on page one. That page decreased traffic so that was obviously reason I lost it on page one.

I will redo all the pages like you said, with direct and indirect links , that makes total sense by the way.

Feedagg still doesn't do anything for me and my wordpress blog hasn't been getting much attention either.

Quick question

How do you edit your Tags in Wordpress so that your same article shows on multiple ways of searching the google?
I think I did this but I still dont see my wordpress blog getting traffic or being on page one.
Here is my wordpress link
Pedja-Simovic-Guitar-Lessons « PedjaSimovicGuitarLessons’s Weblog

I look forward hearing you about this and any other tips you might have.
I will now get to doing all the accounts again.
Quick question - I don't need new propeler and digg account or do you suggest doing that as well ?
Thanks

Pedja


takeoverpageone said:
Hi again,

I could not check your site, because of course it was not published....

Well I did not check it yesterday, but I can see it is back online now.

Well done.

You could always add more content and refine it, it probably does not need too many more links.

You might want to use the correct anchor text for linking to your youtube video's instead of just the url. This can help your youtube video's rank.

Of course having some random anchor text can also be good sometimes.

Remember to create multiple levels of links.

So some pages will link direct straight to your videos, etc as they are now.

But some other pages should only link to the pages that link to the videos. Get the idea?

By doing that, you give power to the links and their links as well, and it makes it harder for competitors to figure out what you are doing.

Keep up the excellent work.

I am doing another video today on friendfeed, or rather a better alternative to using that for rss backlinks. I see other people promoting this as a good product to use for backlinks (and in fact when I originally checked it was).

But now friendfeed has "nofollow" tags, meaning it is almost useless for backlinks (but still an option for traffic purposes).

Note you can just subscribe to my rss feed on my blog, and be instantly notified when a new article is posted.

I hope this helps.

Cheers


Tim
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Hi again,

Don't be too worried about rankings in the short term, you will find your rankings go and go down.

Sometimes you will disappear maybe for 24-48 hours, and then come back.

If you keep doing the same thing (building links, etc) eventually it will stabilize.

Feedagg will help you out, but 'behind the scenes'. Using this is giving you backlinks, particulary if you do it for each web 2.0 site you use.

If the web 2.0 site does not have an rss feed, then use dapper.net to build a rss feed for it, and submit that to feedagg.

Checkout my blog, I posted a new video today showing how to use yahoo pipes to merge , filter, and sort 3 rss feeds into one.

You should try doing that as well.

Just using tags in wordpress is enough. You will find they get indexed, especially if you have a tag that has pagerank already.

Do a bit of searching in wordpress to find these tags.

I recommend you do use a new digg and propeller, but also post other stuff in the first ones from time to time as well (not the same link).

Good luck with it!

Cheers



Tim

Pedjazz said:
Hi Tim

Sorry for this late reply I have been busy last couple of days and didn't get to online work at all.

I saw that my Hub page is published, I am happy about that. Whats not so great is that I lost my rank on page one. That page decreased traffic so that was obviously reason I lost it on page one.

I will redo all the pages like you said, with direct and indirect links , that makes total sense by the way.

Feedagg still doesn't do anything for me and my wordpress blog hasn't been getting much attention either.

Quick question

How do you edit your Tags in Wordpress so that your same article shows on multiple ways of searching the google?
I think I did this but I still dont see my wordpress blog getting traffic or being on page one.
Here is my wordpress link
Pedja-Simovic-Guitar-Lessons « PedjaSimovicGuitarLessons’s Weblog

I look forward hearing you about this and any other tips you might have.
I will now get to doing all the accounts again.
Quick question - I don't need new propeler and digg account or do you suggest doing that as well ?
Thanks

Pedja
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How's your progress going?

Still at it?

Don't give up now. If you do, you will be the same as most of the people I compete against.

You would not believe how many people you see coming up through the rankings, doing pretty well all the right things, but giving up before they have giving it a red hot go.

You will get to page one if you persist.

So let us know where you are at with this, and if you need any help.

Cheers


Tim
 
Hi Tim

I haven't done anything in a week or so. Been very busy with recording video lessons and editing them. I barely get any free time its that crazy.

However, if you type guitar webcam or guitar webcam lessons , my real website is actually on page one of google which is great. All the other sites I registered gave the power to my main site and now it ranks great by itself, good stuff.

Last night I got 2 students for customized video lessons so things are definitely moving in right direction. For time being I will accept only 3 more people and see how I can handle the work load. If I get 10 and more requests for video lessons I will simply increase the price a bit and do it full time.

Thank you for the advices I have lot more keywords in mind but one of them I covered perfectly now I need to get to most competitive ones (guitar lessons and guitar video lessons) which will take lots of work to rank anyways.

Pedja

takeoverpageone said:
How's your progress going?

Still at it?

Don't give up now. If you do, you will be the same as most of the people I compete against.

You would not believe how many people you see coming up through the rankings, doing pretty well all the right things, but giving up before they have giving it a red hot go.

You will get to page one if you persist.

So let us know where you are at with this, and if you need any help.

Cheers


Tim
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Fantastic news.

Well done!

Glad to hear you have reached page one.

And you got some actual sales out of it (visitors signing up).

Great work.

Please keep us informed of your progress.

If you keep it up you will continue to get excellent rankings.

Cheers



Tim

Pedjazz said:
Hi Tim

I haven't done anything in a week or so. Been very busy with recording video lessons and editing them. I barely get any free time its that crazy.

However, if you type guitar webcam or guitar webcam lessons , my real website is actually on page one of google which is great. All the other sites I registered gave the power to my main site and now it ranks great by itself, good stuff.

Last night I got 2 students for customized video lessons so things are definitely moving in right direction. For time being I will accept only 3 more people and see how I can handle the work load. If I get 10 and more requests for video lessons I will simply increase the price a bit and do it full time.

Thank you for the advices I have lot more keywords in mind but one of them I covered perfectly now I need to get to most competitive ones (guitar lessons and guitar video lessons) which will take lots of work to rank anyways.

Pedja
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Tedel said:
I'd add that #5 (AdWords) is not necessary if you can be patient and do normal SEO ranking for a few months (usually around 6).
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Hi,

If you check out what he has done he has got to page one in a matter of days. So 6 months won't be required.

Do a combination of web 2.0 and SEO for best results.

e.g. Based on this post

http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-questions/41546-help-noob.html#post381262

Sure more competitive keywords are going to take longer, but knock off a heap of long tails, and over time your more competitive keywords (with some work from you) are going to take care of them selves.
 
Hi Tim!

Thank you very much for everything. From very beginning it sounded too good to be true but the way you explained it in your very first post it made total sense to me how it would work. I knew it was all in social networking sites but never figured out the power of Prosper, Digg, Friendfeed Feedagg etc

More good news...

I got another student today ! Last night I got another email from very interested student as well. So that makes it total of 3 and 4th potential student. I am more than happy with the work I put in.

I have to make sure to do it over and over because I haven't done anything in 10 days or so and my rating has dropped. I am on page 2 now I think ?

I will register new keyword and start the campaign again this weekend. My plan is to do ONE WEBSITE a day. That way I keep it stress free and I have time to tweak it more and tie it all in one big chain.
Also I have some new videos on Youtube so this will definitely be useful for more accounts since I can spread them around and use different videos for different keywords or like you mention test the direct link on some of them to get direct traffic and points to that particular link...

This all makes so much sense. I wish I had a month in my life not to do anything and just dedicate it to create hundreds of accounts this way and then just sit back and enjoy it.

Now I feel even bad to some extent that I don't sale some generated product. If I did have some DVD or some "learn how to" course I am sure people would buy it (I got emails from people saying where can I SIGN UP or SUBSCRIBE!) - it just shows how people are taught and driven when they look to spend money online. Some of them didn't even take time to read 3 paragraphs on my lessons page when all the information is there!

Again thank you very much Tim. I will make sure to keep you informed of everything.
I havent seen your videos lately but I got all your emails and I will take one day and just watch it and enjoy - learn some new tricks hopefully ;)

Thanks

Pedja

takeoverpageone said:
Fantastic news.

Well done!

Glad to hear you have reached page one.

And you got some actual sales out of it (visitors signing up).

Great work.

Please keep us informed of your progress.

If you keep it up you will continue to get excellent rankings.

Cheers



Tim
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Dude thanks for starting the thread.. I think many of the noobs might be getting help from this thread :D
 
You welcome man

You should thank Tim for all this awesome advice.
I would have never figured this out online by myself using google talking to friends or even paying people for it.
Tim layed it all out step by step and again its just one of the strategies which makes his approach and system even more interesting and appealing.
I hope my competitors won't learn about it as soon as I settle will number of students I would like I will not care about competitors but for time being I need 2 more people and I am all set :)

drvenom said:
Dude thanks for starting the thread.. I think many of the noobs might be getting help from this thread :D
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