Anyone using SEO Elite Link Popularity Software?

[almu]

Anyone using SEO Elite Link Popularity Software? What d'ya think of it?
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[gio123]

hallo, yes there is a very good software that brought my site to the google and yahoo top 10!
You can find it here: http://seoelite.reviewsdotcom.com

[tholmes]

I finally purchased SEO Elite about a week ago. Being pretty strapped (i.e. low) on cash and credit at the moment, i'm a pretty slow buyer. I went to the site, read the blurb, subscribed to '7 Days to Massive Traffic', decided I liked and wanted the product but would hold out till I had some money.

So Brad (or his automailer) sent me an email every couple of days, each a mini tutorial on an aspect of search engine optimisation. Each email was small and digestible and built upon the previous one. Overall I have to say these tutorials were excellent. I looked forward to a new one each day - in fact I am still receiving them and enjoying them. Now to balance that up I will say that there is some blatant sales going on. But this guy has got a great product and gives out so much valuable information in his emails - overall I thought they were excellent.

edit: to download this excellent course now in the form of an ebook direct from my website - its free - click here

So excellent in fact that after about the 20th tutorial, I finally restuck my credit card together and purchased SEO Elite.

Now I had been patiently going around collecting links to my site for about two months now. I started doing it manually. Then I was using Link Machine, another seo product and that was very helpful. It gives you lists of sites that link to your competitors. So then you patiently send an email to each of these sites and see if they are interested in linking to you too. I did this and had quite a lot of success. But God is it a slow process. In fact this part of the process is really like normal offline promotion.

Its knocking on doors, introducing yourself and seeing if people will link to you. I get emails from people saying 'hi, i found your art site (www.not-my-site.com) and really like it. will you link to my pro wrestling site.' And the answer quite clearly is 'no.' - except its not even worth sending a 'no.' That sort of approach isn't going to make you friends out in the real world and it ain't going to make you friends online either. So I think now, looking back, there is quite an art to promoting your site and getting those links.

Now to come back on topic, I did a lot of promotion, pretty much by hand, and i'm starting to get results now. But now I have purchased SEO Elite, I can see how much easier that all could have been and how much easier future promotion will be.

SEO Elite is very simple and compact - it works quickly and efficiently and gives you the information you need. You still have to do a lot of hard and time-consuming work but it gives you a map. And it allows you to easily monitor your progress.

I've been working with the internet since 1995, i've used a lot of different tools (web position gold for example) and got few results. I believe SEO Elite is a very helpful tool for promoting your site and improving your reputation with the search engines.

I am completely redeveloping my site from the bottom up at the moment. The new site is a hybrid of a website and a blog with so many loaded keywords to draw traffic in. I learnt how great blogs are for drawing in traffic when I made my new blog: http://www.photography-art-contemporary.info/

1. It was in Google two days after I published my first entry.
2. It was up to number one in msn under its main keyword combination and number two under its second keyword combination after about a week.
3. I was able to get almost as many high PR links from two days link submissions as I had for my other site over a month or more.

Anyway I think i've officially diverged. SEO Elite is a good product. It makes it clear what you've got to do to get rated. It makes what is and always will be a time-consuming job, less time consuming and considerably easier.

I'd buy it. I did. Check it out!

SEO Elite (affiliate link)

Thomas



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Just in case you want to check the backlinks on my sites:

http://www.thomasholmes.info/
After two or three months Google has finally taken it out of the sandbox and I have a grand total of five or so links showing. Is Google really slow or something?

Google: 7. Yahoo: 81. MSN: 135. SEO Elite: 171

http://www.photography-art-contemporary.info/

Google: 0 (Sandbox). Yahoo: 193. MSN: 141. SEO Elite: 154

It is listed in Google however which is giving me traffic every day.

http://www.contemporary-artists.info/
This is my new site - haven't started promoting it yet as its still in development (behind the scenes).

Google: 0 (Sandbox). Yahoo: 9. MSN: 7. SEO Elite: 12
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[wmseo2]

nice sales pitch, I've been considering it for a long time but still haven't taken the plunge.
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[tholmes]

thanks mdvaldosta!

as an out-of-work (whammy one!) artist (whammy two!), i'm choosy about what i buy - and there are so many things one could buy - and those sales pitches can be so seductive...

Thomas
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[coolzs]

I have seo elite also, not used much yet. How do I use the function of "find and email high page rank link partners"?

Do you have to email them and ask for link exchange? I am pretty new to all this link popularity and PR stuff. Things seem so complicated, but then I find many websites that don't seem so attractive or well designed for the content, but ranked at the top page.

I was told link popularity is one of the factors. What is the best way for a new website (
human edited directory , my site)to do?

So far I have been exchanging links with people, but I am not sure what would be more effective way to do or things I should NOT do. I don't want my site to be penalized.

[tholmes]

hi coolz,

you know the absolute best thing i can recommend is to join the '7 days to complete search domination' course that is on the seo elite site. these are excellent tutorials that you receive over a few weeks. it takes time to absorb all this stuff but this format works really well. But the course answers all the questions you have asked.

The first thing you need to do when looking for high rank pages is decide what keywords you want to rank well for on the search engines. A tool like the Digital Point Keyword Tool can give you some idea on this. SEO Elite will then analyse your competition (the top 50 under that keyword say) and tell you what backlinks they are using.

The next thing is that you will, yes, have to email those sites and see if they are interested in linking to you. Its a long time-consuming process. But without a tool like SEO Elite you wouldn't know which sites are likely to link to a site like yours. Now a lot of webmasters ignore 'will you link to me' sites so you have to write a good email and it has to be backed up by a high quality site.

Again i've gotta recommend the course for you - its free and it will teach you step by step everything you need to know. This is the same course i spoke about in my original review.

You can download it from my site in pdf format.
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[coolzs]

Thanks for the information. I appriciate that. So increasing link popularity is the first step? What other things can I do to get ranked high on google search engine?

[tholmes]

Well this would be something like the strategy i use:

(1) Keyword Research

Using various tools like wordtracker, the overture keyword tool, keyword discovery - you find out what keywords people are using to search for what you are selling or what your website is about. The internet is a bit like a library, if you put your book in the wrong place in a library, it probably won't be found unless accidently. Same with the internet, if you optimise your site for the wrong keyword, no ones going to find it.

http://www.wordtracker.com/
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/

keyword research is a bit of an art in itself i think - the tools take a little time to get used to. the overture one is the easiest to start with, then wordtracker then keyword discovery. as i learnt best to double check your results on more than one tool.

(2) Optimise your site structure and design

If you're starting from scratch with a new website, you should look into geting the best possible domain - ie. having your keywords in your domain. I use keywords seperates by dashes or '-'s - this helps the search engine seperate the different words.

Build your site templates optimised so that they tell the search engines -
this is what this page is about. You do this by using your keywords in your titles, your headings (use h1, h2 tags and style as necessary) and in your main text (putting your keywords in bold or italics once can help too).

(3) Build Your Site with Excellent Content

Best strategy here, as far as i can make out, is to build every page on your site so it is rich with keywords - not too many - but one topic that ties in a few different areas seems to work well for me.

I used to make very homepage central websites. But now i try to make every page a potential doorway to the site each with different keywords. When i'm writing new content i do a few minutes research to get the best keywords for it. With every page on your site a potential doorway, each pgae becomes like a magnet for traffic - that's the idea anyway.

(4) Go out and get backlinks.

you know a bit more about this!

Brad Callen's SEO Made Easy will bring you all through this. I've been researching this optimisation stuff for a while and i really found his stuff to be the best.

Thomas
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[tholmes]

Just to update you on my own progress following the recent google page rank updates:

(1) www.thomasholmes.info which is being phased out apart from being used on business cards etc. received a page rank of 3. this is just a domain alias for number (3).

(2) www.photography-art-contemporary.info received a page rank of 5.

(3) www.contemporary-artists.info - my new site which was six weeks old at the time of the update received a page rank of 5.

The search engines are -starting- to send a nice amount of traffic to them. In particular the latter - a graph of the increase over the three months (including projection for march) is at a nice 45 degree angle - we'll hope that continues!

So progress definitely being made - still lots to come! I hope you fared well in the update too!

Thomas
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[coolzs]

Hey Thomas,

Thanks 2 you. SEO elite works. I encourage everyone to get that. Without it, you will probably waste time... LOTS of time.

[kessa]

I have a huge problem with many of Brad Callen's techniques, so have held off buying SEO Elite. Here is an email I sent him:

The reason I am writing is I think you really should test your facts before you announce them as gospel truth. Your "expert advice" has already cost me money. I'm not happy.

A friend sent you my e-mail for the seven free courses. Sounded good so I created a folder I called "Brad Callen lessons" and started to collect the lessons as they came. I read every one of them and, when the offer to buy the software came, I was quick to whip out my credit card. Just before I ordered, I thought to myself that, one way to be sure this was not yet another scam would be to test the information given in the lessons.

I did everything suggested, including researching keywords using the free tool, selecting the ones I felt I stood a chance with, and incorporating them onto my pages as instructed.

Then I moved on to the bit about getting indexed by Google. You say in black and white:

"If you can manage to get 1 PR6 website to link to your website, you should be indexed by Google in under 3 days."

You then proceed to give URLs where links can be bought. Well surprise, surprise. Link no.1 which you endorse turns out to belong to your chums, who don't even bother to reply to email requesting further information. Just more pushing of your software. Link number two is a little better, so I do as you suggest and purchase a link to a PR6 website (which I researched and checked that it IS PR6 and they do have my links up), for $149.00 (the amount you suggest they might roughly cost) and...nothing.

Brad did not reply but pulled me off his mailing list. He continues to send emails to the friend who originally subscribed me, pushing his link exchange products. So I know he did get my mail.

I also wrote to the fellow I bought the link from:

[size=12]Perhaps you can help. I am a little worried that I've got absolutely no traffic from your links since they went up. Except from one visit at the start (which I assumed was you checking out the site before placing links in yours), there has been absolutely nothing (easy to track because the site is new and rather few visitors per day). Also I thought that having a link in a PR6 site would get me indexed in Google pretty fast. This has not happened. Have I got this whole link exchange business wrong? $149 was quite a lot for me to spend so pardon my high expectations. Any ideas?[/size]

His reply:

[size=12]sounds like you setup some wrong expectations...

1) these links are placed for SEOs, not for humans

2) for search engines you have to think in terms of months, not weeks or even days - so if SEngs come along and spider you, you might see indexed pages weeks later... esp. Goo has very long intervals for index update...

once up the links need to develop their strength as they are discounted by google if they are fresh - so a 3months link is worth more/stronger than a freshly placed PR6 link...

If you are looking for human click-thrus you need ads in a more prominent location, preferably using a PPC system , as those are optimized for human clicks

well - and that's just some basic concepts...

best regards[/size]
This information is borne out by many other reliable internet sources. Basically, spamming for links gets you nowhere. You need to spend time cultivating few, relevant, high quality links although this never guarantees instant indexing. You are probably better off working creating good content on your site. If you have to get links, there is brilliant [removed_for_SPAM] you can use that sources site with your keywords that are actively looking for links. I found this on another forum:
http://seopen.com/seopen-tools/link-development-tool.php
Type in your keywords and this free (absolutely free, its opensource) tool finds website with similar content to yours that are actively seeking links, lists their PR and sends you straight to the page where they lay out their exchange terms.

I'm sure Brad Callen is making a packet with SEO Elite. I for one am glad I did not buy it.

[tholmes]

Kessa,

I'm sad you've had a bad experience with Brad Callen's work. I have always found his advice very helpful and was delighted to find such a good introduction to search engine optimisation. The more I study SEO, the more I appreciate that this is a complicated area with the parameters for success constantly evolving. Being successful involves keeping up with the latest research in the area. I would personally recommend the following sources though there many more:

SEO Book | SEOmoz | Matt Cutts - Google Engineer | Jim Boykin's Internet Marketing | SEO Roundtable

Forums are another good place to start.

The more I research the area the more I see that building something really great that people will want to naturally link to is the key to success. That's what Google wants to serve up as number one everytime someone searches.

Yes maybe one can create something crappy and support it with crap spammy links cos no one will give you any decent links. But this strategy has no long term view. Certainly the last Google update in March seemed to indicate this - that quality is so much more important than quantity. Maybe getting quality links takes longer in the short term but in the long term they will stand to you whereas the low quality links probably won't. Also getting links from spam sites associates you with these sites - do you really want that? These two articles give some background to this.


Yes, in my view, the best strategy is to spend the time 'cultivating few, relevant, high quality links'. To me this means: submitting to authority directories; researching your niche thoroughly so that you can find the authority sites within it and get links from them; include niche blogs and forums in this research; consider writing articles and offering them for publication in one of the many article publication services; consider releasing online press releases; think about means of promotion through the web2.0 sites, social bookmarking etc.

Personally on my client sites I use SEO Elite to find authority sites within the niche. I build up a list of the top players in the niche and run the 'backlink analysis' project. I then go through the links that are returned starting with the ones with the highest pagerank evaluating which ones are suitable. This gives you a list of the most important links your competitor is using - basically the most powerful or authoritatives sites in your niche. I also use SEO Elite to analyse the relevancy of the current links and to make sure the links we have are relevant for the niche we are aiming for. SEO Elite does this very well. There are other tools that do similar things but I haven't found one that does it to the same level. The next step actually getting those links is standard PR. I don't believe email is the best way to go, they will most likely be ignored. Time needs to be invested cultivating a relationship with the people that own these websites. And figuring out incentives and reasons why they should link to you. If you get these links you -will- get indexed and over time Google will accept that your website is important and over time it will make your website an authority. But Google doesn't trust easily so this takes time.

I haven't personally purchased links. From keeping up in the industry I know that Google are attemping to downgrade these links - Matt Cutts talks about in his blog and most of the other sites I mentioned above have responded to this - white hat response and black hat response.

I took a look at the section in the course you are referring to. This section is about how to get into the Google index, not about how to get traffic. Getting into the index is only the first way on the way to traffic. You can check if your site is in the google index by doing a google search for:

site:www.yoursite.com

No spaces and substite your website address in.

As regards contacting Brad Callan. I believe he gets ridiculous amounts of email each day and like us all has had problems with a lot of it being spam. So i'm not surprised if he doesn't reply. People who have purchased SEO Elite get access to a support service which promtly answers queries.

Going back to SEO Elite, personally I have found it very useful. It -is- only a tool so it is only as good as you make of it. For the small investment it cost, it has given me access to a lot of information that would take a lot more time to get without it. For the useful introduction and this useful tool I was happy to hand over my money and happy to see him get it.

Kessa, I see you are frustrated - sometimes the difficulty involved in seo can make us feel that way but if you want your website to be successful you have to keep at it - researching, implementing, testing and then do it again and again until you succeed.

I suggest as well that while you build up your natural search rankings, you also look at other means for finding traffic. SEO is only one way to achieve traffic and one that takes time. Pay-per-click, viral marketing, social bookmarking, blogging etc. are all other important means to building traffic levels.

I hope this helps - good luck with your website!

Thomas
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[Jermaine Tabor]

Kessa Maybe Brad should have been very specific about 1 critical detail.

That is for the strategy to work the pr6 must get spidered daily or else it's just good for passing pr.

Make sense?

If a site hasn't been updated/content added or changed in a long time then there's no point really for search engine spiders to visit often.

Therefore they want follow the new link as soon as you'd like simply because there not visiting too often.

I apologize about the bad experience and money/time waisted. You really should have listen to your first mind/thought and bought the software instead.

I use it daily and sometimes several times a day. I continue to get great results using this (time saving) tool and one would have to be madd to do this stuff manually IMHO.

Some people now think that seo elite is now no good since Google doesn't think to highly of exchanged links . That's fine by me as I know that when things change you have to change too.

I use seo elite partially as an email marketing tool to get lots of one way links daily but I make a hard to refuse offer for that 1 text link and that does wonders for my conversion rate.

If you think about it getting 1way links like this is no different than when you see affiliates adding there own bonuses to entice you to buy through their link instead of your own , the vendors or some else.

Hope my post help you see some of the real value in seo elite .
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