HugePedlar’s Blog

A little while ago I wrote about a new version of my eBay-Youtube-Adsense mashup script, here and here.

I won’t repeat everything about it here, except to say that it’s based on the free script I released last year and it uses Commission Junction product feeds as well as eBay and Youtube Adsense blocks. It also sports a different URL structure which improves SEO by creating deep links within the site (in fact a lot of my SERPs are getting double listing results because of this, one for the main page and one for a deep link).

I originally offered this new script as an early-adopter bonus for my Affiliate Mashup Store script.

I’m now offering it for sale on its own for $27.00.

If you’re interested in upgrading to the new script click here to learn more.

In my last post I talked about my new mashup script which I used to create my Home Cinema Audio site.

I registered the domain name and created the site just five days ago and, looking through my Analytics account, it’s already hit Google UK’s first page for a handful of search terms.

The term ‘Panasonic SCPTX50‘ ranks in 4th place, and ‘ps3 cinema sound‘ ranks 3rd and 4th place… with over 4 million results! These may seem like obscure keywords, but they are actual searches people have made when they found my site.

And, just checking now, the phrase ‘cinema audio‘ is up at the top of page two, with 8 million results total.

There are a couple of important points here. 1) The site has only been live for less than a week, and I spent a total of maybe an hour promoting it (by way of linking from a few of my blogs and creating a Squidoo lens, nothing spectacular). And 2) Many of the search terms which are getting ranked are new to me… by which I mean the site is basically generating its own keywords. I don’t know what a Panasonic SCPTX50 is, but at least four people have visited my site looking for one.

And the way the script operates is that any search term entered into the site’s search box gets an automatic permanent link. It’s self-perpetuating. Plus, because it grabs news feeds on the fly, the chances are high that the very latest cutting edge gadgets will appear on the site, along with ebay and adsense links for them. So you’re likely to be way ahead of your competitors in terms of ranking for new products.

Well I finally got round to updating my Buy Jewellery Online site.

It’s been sitting there promoting Valentine’s Day for over two months now. But it was my first attempt at a mashup store, so it needed a complete overhaul.

So I’ve replaced it entirely with an instance of my Affiliate Mashup Store. Took me about 20 minutes to get it up and running with about 12,000 products spread across US and UK catalogues (a nice feature of the mashup store is Geo-IP location, since a lot of my traffic is international).

The tricky part with making a jewellery store is the keywords. Fortunately my US merchants had a tonne of products with ‘jewelry’ as a keyword (about 100,000 of them in fact) so setting up the US catalogue was easy.

The UK catalogue was a little harder though, since there were only around a dozen ‘jewellery’ keyword products available. That meant I had to run the catalogue tool over and over again, with searches like ‘necklace’, ‘pendant’, ‘gold chain’, ’silver chain’ etc.

I managed to get around 1000 UK products though, and no chainsaws as far as I can tell, which is good enough.

One thing to note if you’re populating a catalogue with multiple keywords like this is to make sure you don’t add duplicate entries. For example, I ran the tool once with the keyword ‘jewellery’. When running it again with, say, ‘necklaces’, I had to specify ‘necklaces -jewellery’; otherwise I might have added products with both keywords the second time, resulting in duplicate products in my catalogue.

Now I just need to do some more SEO. I was in 3rd place on Google for ‘buy jewellery online’ last month. Now it’s down in 8th. Time to start cranking out some more links.

I’ve been looking to increase traffic to my pink site - It’s already ranking nicely for a few terms, but static sites tend to drop down slowly without regular new content.

So I’ve created the Pink Stuff Blog. My aim is to find a bizarre or otherwise interesting pink item from my catalogue every day and write a short post about it.

The problem is that, not being a pink fan myself, my posts aren’t exactly enthusiastic. Still, hopefully they’ll provide some humour, and at least improve my search engine rankings. I’ve already had a few visitors and three subscribers after a couple of days.

Sweet! I’ve got BuyJewelleryOnline.com into 4th place on Google for the keyword valentine’s day necklaces, which I noticed by virtue of Google Analytics. And by doing a little searching of my own I’m number one for valentine’s day earrings!

It’s quite a relief actually, since the site had been doing pretty poorly in search engine rankings for the last couple of weeks. I think perhaps the last owner of the domain name may have adversely affected its pagerank, as it used to be one of those directory landing page sites with no value and some spammy backlinks.

I’ve been getting a fair bit of traffic from the social networks like digg, squidoo and scribd, but most of that is US traffic. I should probably make a US version of the site but it would be a lot of effort - trouble is my database has to be very broad because it’s hard to specify a datafeed with ‘jewellery’ as a keyword - it just doesn’t work for product names. Hence why there are still things like chainsaws in the UK site. I really should sort that out one day.

I don’t know whether anyone’s described this phenomenon before, but I’m choosing to call it ‘Meta-SEO’.

I came across this forum post about yet another way to make $100 a day by doing multiple article submissions on low competition keywords.

It’s a pointless waste of time, and you’ll see why if you read the thread. What amused me though was the effect of the publication of the original forum post on the search engine results for the example keyword.

Put simply, the example low-competition keyword was “Samsung LNT4661F 46 inch HDTV” - but because it’s low-competition, all the search results for that query end up pointing to half a dozen copies of the very article that mentions it.

So now anyone searching for that product will end up reading an article about how to make money from people searching for that product.

Hence, meta-SEO.

Haha, I did it.

Front page of Google.co.uk for the keywords Smartphone Review. It’s the last result on the page, mind, but not bad for… what, 4 days since it went live?

P.S. Goddamn, I hate tzping on a German kezboard.