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I just came across this site using special characters in it’s meta tag, as pictured above. If you look at the source of this site you can see them using phrases like “█”, which google interprets as a black rectangle - and “☑” which is represented by a tick inside a square.

It seems other search engines, like MSN and yahoo don’t convert these to the special characters if you have the code on your site, but google does. If this actually works without getting your site penalized, it’s a surefire way of getting more clicks from google searches… and honestly I doubt Google would even care if you do this. You could easily get 2-3 times more clicks and traffic just from doing this if your ste is listed around the middle of the first page for a keyword in google.

I’m going to try this on a couple of my Google money sites, maybe even on netstrife.com. This is probably old news but this is the first time (after looking at thousands of sites) that I’ve seen anyone do it. If anyone else knows about this, please comment below.

I’ve recently just signed up to neurolinker (non affiliate link) about a week ago, which is a relatively new linking system. I’ve noticed this is a lot like 3waylinks in that you sign up, make a links page, and have other sites in the network automatically link to you. This is entirely hands off, unlike normal SEO where you have to keep putting in the work to see returns. I’m using neurolinker on my main google money sites now in conjunction with 3waylinks, 1waylinks, linkvana and traffic kahuna.

In related news… I’ve noticed netstrife.com is hovering around page 2 and 3 of google (depending on where you search from) for the term “internet marketing”, out of ~93,000,000 on a broad search. I haven’t done hardly any seo work on it in the last couple of months other than 1waylinks/traffic kahuna. When I originally brought it, I don’t think it was really anywhere for that term even though it had a lot of natural incoming links. Because lets be honest there are very few keywords as insanely competitive as “internet marketing”. Anyone want to bet that I can’t hit page 1 in the next 2-3 months?

Figuring I should probably do some more backlink building now that the site is really climbing. Will be interesting to see what happens.

* This is going to be a long post, but read through all of it as I GUARANTEE it’s going to help you I haven’t included any affiliate links to the services below since I want this to be 100% objective

When it comes to SEO and internet marketing in general, most people like to limit themselves just to doing simple, free stuff like writing articles, submitting to directories, doing social bookmarking, commenting on blogs and so on (see my post on free SEO methods). But if you do this stuff ALONE it’s going to take a ton of work to rank for competitive keywords. Remember that if you do what everyone else does, you’re going to get the same results as everyone else… so what other stuff can you do to get high rankings in google?

Here’s how I do it: I have a couple of link building guys full time from india, that do the methods above pretty much full time across my network of sites. It’s not worth my time to do it myself, but if I can outsource it for a low hourly rate, then I can have it done automatically without even thinking about it. I usually go to rentacoder.com or scriptlance.com to find link builders. Make sure you hire someone that has done SEO work before, because if you hire someone who is inexperienced, I guarantee it’s not going to work out well. Once I have a link builder that I know I can trust, I buy them all the software they need. The two people I hire have worked with me full time for over 8 months now. If you find someone doing a good job, do whatever you can to keep them.

However, even with a couple people working on free SEO methods for you full time, it’s not usually going to be enough to rank for really competitive keywords. I’ve found that what gets me the most powerful results over everything else is the link-building membership sites I subscribe to. Some of them aren’t exactly cheap, but they are extremely powerful. Here they are (again, no affiliate links used)…

Link Building Membership Sites That Get Powerful Results…

#1: 1 Way Links (1waylinks.net) (created by Jonathan Leger)

At $47/month, this is a relatively cheap service that really works well. It works by sending out your article (with up to three links back to your sites) out to a number of blogs, so you get a bunch of high quality backlinks. All these blogs are user-submitted — when you join, you have to submit a blog, and then you’ll get up to 250 postings on blogs in the 1waylinks network. If you donate more blogs to the 1waylinks network, you get to submit more posts (you get 50 more posts per month for every blog you donate).

I’ve been using this about 3 months and have seen a definitive improvement in sites I’ve promoted. For the price, this is an awesome service IMO. I have actually used a lot of Jonathan Leger’s products and they always perform.

#2: Traffic Kahuna (traffickahuna.com) (by Jason Potash) (No Longer Available)

Traffic Kahuna closed out several months ago and no longer takes new members, so I won’t go over it much. All I’ll say is this is a damn good service even at $147/month. I’ve been a member of it for well over six months now. It does tons of things for you (there is a blog feeder of user-submitted blogs like with 1waylinks, a co-op system, a redirect tool, and phrase spinner etc), but I just use the blog feeder tool it offers. This has played a huge role in sending some of my sites to the top of google.

#3: 3 Way Links (3waylinks.net) (by Jonathan Leger)

This has been around for a while, and I’ve had all my sites in it for over a year. This is a 100% automated system where you don’t have to do anything. You setup your site for it, and your site links out to other sites that are in 3waylinks. Basically site A links to site B, site B links to site C, and site C links to site A (this is called a 3 way link). Google sees this as a one way link, which is much better than a reciprocal link where two sites just link to each other. You get 250 links per month for every site you put in the 3waylinks network. At only $47/month, this is an absolute bargain if you have a lot of sites.

By the way, a lot of people that really have no idea what they’re talking about say joining things like 3waylinks can get your site “banned” in google. After putting over 100 sites in this network over the space of one year, NONE of my sites have got banned in google.

#4: LinkVana (linkvana.com) (by Dave Kelly)

Although the “MSN Loophole” (also by Dave Kelly) is definitely NOT a product I would recommend as seen by my last post, linkvana is a great service that gives you a low amount of very high quality, natural looking links. You basically submit posts of 100 words in length, with a link back to your site. Each post goes on a blog somewhere. Traffic Kahuna and 1waylinks will submit your post or article to several blogs, whereas Linkvana will only submit your post to one blog. However, many of these blogs give a lot of link-weight, and I have seen good results from using Linkvana.

At $147/month, this is worth getting if you are serious with SEO like me. If you’re on a budget then 1waylinks.net is a great alternative at only $47/month.

NB: Traffic kahuna, linkvana and 1waylinks all require a bit of work to get going since you need to submit unique articles only. For really cheap articles, I strongly recommend cyberhub online, which are insanely cheap and great people to work with. If you don’t want to hire people for that low, there are plenty of good writers you can hire on scriptlance, elance or rentacoder. Or of course you could just write the articles yourself.

Don’t Want To Spend Any Money?

Let me tell you something…. even with hiring two full time people, outsourcing a bunch of miscellaneous tasks a few times a week AND subscribing to all of the above four services, all the expenses for my business add up to around $2,000 to $3,000 per month. That may seem like a lot if you’re new. But compared to the rankings some of my sites hold in google and income (it’s still over 6 figures a year NET), it’s mostly just a drop in the bucket.

It took me over a year of getting absolutely nowhere (I started internet marketing when I had just turned 17) before I realized to make any decent money you’ll need to actually spend some money. If you’re making a few hundred bucks a month doing free stuff only like I used to be doing, then you really need to think about taking this business more seriously and investing in either hiring people or joining the services mentioned above. Eventually, you’re going to have to take some kind of risk.

I’ve been using the MSN Loophole since the start of November, as documented in my last few posts. Here’s what I’ve posted in the Warrior Forum review thread for this product (well worth looking at).

As you can see, so far, I wouldn’t recommend doing this

If you have brought the MSN Loophole product by Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly and have tried it out, I would definitely like to know how it’s going for you. Just post a comment below.

Myself and another guy have been working on this new site at NinjaReports.com, which basically allows users to review clickbank products. Unlike most product review sites, the idea is to give objective reviews based on what people around the web are saying. I figure this will be much more useful over the average review site that just hypes up products and doesn’t provide any actual value …so if you have purchased a CB product feel free to submit a review (and of course any constructive feedback about the site is welcome )

To be honest, review sites that promote clickbank products are where I’ve made most of my money, and I still do really well with them. However, I’ve never made a site that allows the actual users to submit their own reviews. I’m half expecting this to fall flat on its face. But the idea of Ninja Reports isn’t just to make money - it’s also just kind of a fun project. Especially since up till now I’ve always promoted sites via SEO and software submissions and I’ll be marketing this site a little differently.

Other news…

The MSN Loophole Results Update

I’ve been following the MSN Loophole by Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly for about 6 weeks so far. You can read my last post for a background on this method which everyone is trying. So how is it going so far?

Well, I’ve noticed that MSN/Live as a search engine is NOWHERE NEAR as quick as google or even yahoo at crawling the web and indexing new pages. Whereas I can easily get indexed in google in just a few hours, it takes several weeks to get indexed in MSN (and even then they only show the homepage and not other pages on the site). Only a little over half of the blogs I’ve made have been indexed, and I’ve been building links to them for several weeks. Of course all my sites are indexed in google and yahoo but just not MSN.

Being that MSN is so slow to do much, none of my money sites have got top page rankings yet. Google is actually sending me traffic, an average of around 20-30 visitors a day per blog. So across all the blogs I’ve made for the MSN loophole I’m getting a couple thousand unique visitors a day from Google but that is NOT the point. I’m still waiting to get real results from MSN. From everything I’ve read, no-one has got any real results from this method yet. I still believe it will pick up as MSN finally spiders more pages, but this is definitely not an overnight type thing. I’m still interested to see what happens in a month or so from now.

A lot of people have been talking about the MSN Loophole by Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly, and since I’m always interested in SEO (it’s where 95% of my traffic normally comes from) I picked it up when it first launched on the 5th. I have also been a customer of Dave Kelly’s Linkvana system for several months and since that really delivers amazing results I figured this MSN Loophole thing had to be decent.

The Idea Behind MSN Loophole:

The theory behind this MSN Loophole thing is fairly simple - basically the idea is to game MSN/Live search by building a whole ton of blogs on different class C IP’s, having one page “money” sites, and randomizing links to your money sites on your blogs. When MSN’s spider crawls your blogs pages, each time they come back, they’ll see different links - and they count each link they find as a “new” link before they realize the old links are no longer present. Build enough blogs, and MSN’s spider will be all over your pages, and spidering all the “new” links pointing to your money sites. That means a LOT of inbound links and first page rankings for just about any keyword you want.

The actual product shows you exactly how to do all this, including how to automatically add content to your blogs and the script to randomize links. You will definitely need to buy the MSN Loophole guide before even thinking of doing this by yourself. And all of this might sound complicated, but it’s not hard at all once you get going with it, and the MSN Loophole guide explains it much better and in more detail. There’s also no specialized skills or anything you’ll need to put this in motion.

Does The MSN Loophole Work?

Evidence suggests, yes, it does. Go to MSN/Live search (live.com) now and do a search for the following keywords:

“walking shoes”
“reducing debt”
“get rid of debt”
“poor credit rating” etc…

Notice the #1 ranking site is just a one-pager site, all with the same template. These are test sites Dave Kelly has got to rank number one just to prove this system works. I also know Chris Rempel and Dave Kelly both have a reputation for putting out quality products, and this isn’t the typical kind of junk you see in the IM industry. They’re also adding a lot of video’s and new FAQ’s all the time (plus support is excellent as most people will tell you). And the fact that Dave has hit #1 rankings for ultra-competitive terms like “walking shoes” proves that this is VERY powerful stuff.

Problems with the MSN Loophole:

To do this properly and really make a lot of $$$ you’re going to need a couple hundred bucks for the MSN loophole guide, a couple more scripts the guide goes through, and a host that offers multiple class-C IP addresses (I recommend SEOhosting.com, a hostgator company). It will of course also take you several hours of work to set up a lot of blogs and money sites.

Also, don’t expect instant results. Dave Kelly himself states (and he is 100% right) how MSN has a 2-5 week cycle for indexing. So it can easily take you up to a month to get indexed in MSN right now, compared to Google where I can easily get indexed in under 24 hours. So the salesletter where it says “Imagine doing it next week for free” is a little misleading.

So is all this a walk in the park? Not exactly. But remember what you put in is what you get out of it. The more money you spend and the more dedicated you are, the more you’ll make - simple as that. So try to quit with the “I don’t want to spend much money” and “I don’t want to get out of my comfort zone” BS etc. You will NEVER get very far if you keep up that kind of attitude. Don’t be afraid to throw stuff out there and really make things happen for yourself.

Anyways - Bottom Line:

So far I’ve built 90+ blogs (some on old domains over a year old) and around 20 money sites to take advantage of this MSN loophole method. That’s more than what is recommended, but I am honestly really excited about the potential of this. We’re talking about thousands of dollars of PASSIVE income per month once more of my blogs and money sites get indexed. It’s really easy to scale this up and make way more, too. MSN’s spider is definitely slow, but from my experience with SEO, everything the MSN Loophole guide goes through makes a lot of sense. So I’m willing to really put a lot into this. I’ll keep you guys updated with rankings, income reports and all that.

You Can Pick Up The MSN Loophole Here >>>

PS: If you are familiar with SEO and have thoughts on this method, or you have purchased the MSN Loophole guide, I would like to hear from you - just comment below. I read every comment that gets posted here and welcome any discussion.

Put simply, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the art of getting your page ranked well in search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. I regularly read internet marketing forums like the warrior forum and digital point, and I have to say …there is a LOT of bad advice out there. Most people really have no clue. So what would I recommend when it comes to doing well in SEO and getting your site ranked high?

Well, it basically comes down to on page optimization (doing things on your site to get it ranked higher, like having a relevant title tag, meta tags and so on) and off page optimization (getting links to your site from other sites). Off page optimization is far more important than on page optimization. The most important thing for ranking highly in Google is links, and lots of them. So here are a few free ways to get links to your site…

Forum posting: Posting on forums is not just good for direct traffic; it also gives you SEO benefits. What you’ll be doing is linking back to your website in your forum signature. Most forums let you do this, so that every time you post on the forum, there is a link back to your website at the bottom of your post.

Article writing: I’m not a fan of this since it takes a lot of work, but it’s popular on places like the warrior forum. This involves writing articles, and submitting them to article directories with a link back to your site. The main article directory BY FAR is EzineArticles.com. Like with forum posting, article writing is mainly used to generate direct traffic, but the links your get back to your site will boost it higher in the search engines. By the way, with article marketing, only submit to 2 or 3 article directories — mass submitting articles pretty much never works.

Directory submission: There are hundreds of directories that let you get a free link to your site. The traffic you get from these is going to be very low, if any. It’s also fairly time consuming. However, it’s good to get your site indexed initially. You’ll need a good piece of software to help you with this - the best one being Directory Submitter by Brad Callen.

Social bookmarking: If you have a site with great content, social bookmarking can (potentially) give you tons of traffic. This basically involves submitting your site to major social sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, MySpace, Delicious etc. NetStrife in fact already gets a decent amount of traffic from StumbleUpon. But anyways, social bookmarking will get you a lot of links back to your site, and it is well known to have good SEO benefits. Submitting your site manually rather sucks, so you will need a tool to help you. I strongly recommend Bookmarking Demon (non affiliate link).

Blog commenting: When you comment on people’s blogs, you can enter your URL, and this gives you a link back to your site when your comment shows up. Some blogs use nofollow (which makes the link useless in Google’s eyes) but there are still many blogs that do not use the nofollow tag. There is actually software out there to allow you to automatically scan for blogs to comment on, such as Real Link Finder ( a free tool) and Fast Blog Finder.

These are all fairly well known tips, just in case you are not familiar with SEO. In the next couple of days I’m going to go over some really REALLY powerful ways to build links, that are not really well known, and have worked well for me. Stay tuned.

This is a guest post by Rob from Iron Blogger.

I have talked numerous times on using keywords on blogs to get better search engine traffic; however, I have not talked about using forum signatures as a tool for getting better keyword results. This method is very quick and easy to implement and best of all, it is free. All it will take is a few moments of your time and a little bit of patience on your part.

The Value of Forums

The reason why this method is so effective is because forums are usually sites that have a high PR value, get lots of traffic, and rank very well in search engines. By using keywords in your signatures, you are getting free high valued links back to your blog with the keywords of your choice.

Many online marketers fail to see the value of using forums to promote their blogs. If you use your blog to promote your product, then why not use forums to promote you blog? Makes sense, doesn’t it?

If you happen to find a few popular forums in your niche, or that are just blogging related, you could begin to rank your blog higher in Google just by putting links in your signature. Use this method with many of the other link building methods and you are on your way to getting some pretty decent SEO results.

One thing that you should take note of: The forums must not have the nofollow tag attached to signature links. Otherwise your efforts would be rendered useless.

Here is an example:

Let’s say you have a blog that is about making money online. Ideally, you may want to target a keyword that is along the lines of “Make Money Blogging” or something similar to that. Once you get your keyword that you want to target, search for popular forums that are ether blogging related or that are about making money online. If you need a few examples, I use Bloggeries, Blog Premiere, and Digital Point.

Once you find a few forums that you wish to use, you can then use them to promote your keywords of your choice. You may want to put the anchor text to something like “Make Money by Blogging” in your signature and put the link pointing back towards your blog.

The Long Term Effect

Although this may not affect your SEO ranking right away, over time you will notice that these high valued links will start to add up, especially if you sign up to many forums and contribute a lot. You just need to make sure you use similar keywords. So, if your blog is about dog food, don’t try to use keywords that are about tennis. I’m pretty sure that is just common sense, but I’ll include it in there anyway.

If you follow this technique pattern, you would definitely rank higher in the search engines for the keywords of your choice. If you manage to get a higher SEO ranking then that would mean more traffic for you. If you manage to get more traffic then that would give you more opportunities to grow your blog. If you are trying to make any kind of money off of blogging, then you would be needing a lot of traffic!

This is a neat little method that I recently discovered. I hope that this was something new to you, and you learned something today.