But supposed you are that site and you decide to clean it up? Usually that means adding “no follow” to outbound links, removing links, removing the service altogether and then submitting a reconsideration request to google (it used to be reinclusion request)

These go off to Matt Cutt’s anti spam team to have a look. Normally if all is well and clear you’ll get your PR back within a week or so, but sometimes nothing will happen. And that’s what happened to Donna over at seo-scoop.com - see http://www.seo-scoop.com/2008/01/24/matt-cutts-why-am-i-still-being-punished/ - as it turns out Matt Cutt’s actually participated in this discussion (I guess he has Google alerts on so he can keep track) but here Donna still had paid links on her site.

Now she has cleaned everything up her site has the magic PR back - the post is worth a read as there are gems to be had if you are suffering PR loss or SERPS loss. Just remember to really clean your site before tapping away at a reconsideration request.

Mike has previously launched Butterfly Marketing - an IM method that discusses the basis premise of launching your own online business as well as a script that lets people join a site for free and then offer them a one time offer to join at a low rate - as a higher % of people take a OTO than a normal conversion, it’s a good way to market

The 7 figure code is sure to break a few records. Certainly at least 700 copies were sold in the first 24 hours by famous affiliates such as Brad Fallon, Brad Callon, Russell Brunson, Lisa Diane, Ewen Chia and a ton of smaller affiliates - good on them because they get 50% !

To have a look to see what all the fuss is about here

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Once you’re at Satellitesoft’s home page, you’ll be able to download the special software that allows you to get worldwide TV onto your PC - Click here to check it out now

The new service is only available from the webmaster tools console so you need to sign up but this is a very powerful tool.

Google have blogged about it themselves at http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/02/discover-your-links.html so you need to sign up for your own account.

What you’ll probably see is that most links go to your home page.

Study it well then start to get links to other pages on your site.

By doing this the optimizers hope that they will influence your ranking within the search engines themselves to be higher than other pages from other sites.

The search engines have the role of indexing and sorting the billions of pages from websites from around the world so that when a user types in a query the result will find a close match to the phrase typed in. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN employ no end of phd scientists, technical folks, mathematicians and other experts to develop an algorithm to present a relevant order of pages in the search engine results pages (SERPS).

Having a number one position for highly searched terms can bring in thousands if not hundreds of thousands of visitors per month to a website, so it is a prized position to be in. That is why people are always trying to second guess how search engines rank sites so they may manipulate the rankings for their own sites. These types of webmasters are commonly referred to as “blackhat” (whereas webmasters following Google’s guidelines are called “whitehat”).

SEO is mostly a mystery and only a few people know how the search engines score pages to appear higher. Recently Google has been providing more information back to webmasters via Matt Cutts, a high ranking Google engineer who is the unofficial spokesperson - Google has many updates during the year (most notably page rank and backlink updates) - their algorithm also changes during the year so Cutts provides feedback when this occurs.

The SEO is for the “organic” serps (those results that are provided for free) because you can also pay (via pay per click, eg: Overture for Yahoo or Google Adwords) but of course most people would rather get results for free.

Most SEOs go through a similar process to bring a site up the Google SERPs and this includes keyword research, HTML code changes, meta tag changes, insertion of other tags (such as bold) and external link building. Although it has been know for a long time that links influence rankings, perhaps different methods such as latent semantic indexing (LSI) are also playing a part these days ?

So there is no need to panic and you should continue to use products from the marketplace and add in your hoplinks to continue to promote clickbank products online.

You can view your sales and affiliate sales still in the old system at http://www.archive.clickbank.com/login.html 

Here’s what Clickbank have put onto their site

We apologize for any inconvenience this disruption may have caused.

However, like most other ecommerce stores, there are more things you can undertake for SEO for your Yahoo small business store.

The forst thing to look at are the URLs that are generated for your category pages and your products. Rather than showing simple numbers like 1234.html you should develop these so for the categories they show a 2 word keyword rich category like yourstore.com/category-one/ (and this should be a folder like the URL shown) then for the product see if a 2 or 3 word product name that is keyword rich can be developed.

You should add keywords for each of your pages as well. A new small business store will be empty so you’ll need to firstly undertake standard keyword research for the phrases that people are searching for and then add the words into your pages. This initial SEO should add a lot of weight and rankings for your yahoo small business store. Add them as follows :