I’ve just accomplished something I have never done before I’ve taken my two month old site, TravelVoyeur.com, form a PR0 to a PR5. A few days ago it was a 0 and now it is a 5! How did I do it?

Well, the first thing I did was before I created the site, I read the incredible book, SEOBook. It’s not cheap, but it’s worth every penny. Then I designed the site with what I learned from it.

One of the most importnat things I learned was the ultimate unimportance of being included in the Yahoo Directory. Since it could take up to a year to get listed, I chose to pay they $299 for a review of my submission within seven days (still, no guarantee of inclusion). Simultaneously, I created a PRWEB.com press release that I guess Yahoo felt was good enough to include in Yahoo News (read it here).

A pick up of the news here and there (not a lot even) and the site is now a PR5. Being moved up higher in the search results now, my keyword-rich pages are being found by web surfers looking for information on particular destinations. What’s really funny is that I am on page 3 (as of today at least) for the very high search count term “voyeur”. It’s not exactly my target audience, but even voyeurs travel I suppose! Hell, maybe even more so.

Now that I am PR5 and getting hundreds of uniques per day, I’m looking for link partners of other high PR sites. I prefer travel-related sites, but I’ll look at other non-porn sites if the ranking is high enough. Please use my contact form here or at TravelVoyeur.com to get in touch.

Now, if I just had the time to fix the SEO of DomainRookie.com! I put this site together before reading SEOBook and it badly needs some SEO work.

About a month ago, I published an article asking for Overture Keyword Selector Tool Alternatives. I received several sites like really liked. But someone just a few days ago told me about one that I didn’t yet know about. It’s called Keyword Dynamo SecretsToHighProfit.com.

Just pop in your keywords (and the initial captcha for the session) and you’ll get a very nice looking list with the following:

• Related searches that include your term
• Estimated number of times that term was searched on last month (Overture/Yahoo)
• Top Overture/Yahoo Advertiser Bids for each term
• Google Search Results
• KEI, R/S Ratio
• And much more..

In addition, you can export the list! Now that’s what I call service! And it’s all free.

On the page you’ll also see buttons for a Site Analyzer and PR Checker.

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Anyone else getting frustrated trying to use the Overture Keyword Selector Tool becaase 9 out of 10 times it just won’t load? I’ve been searching for alternatives and would like to hear what else you’ve found that works well — and is free.

Jennifer over at Speculator.cc just gave me a great alternative. It’s another Keyword suggestion Tool at GlobalPromoter.com. So far, it seems to work every time and gives the same results as the other one.

I’d like to hear what else everyone is using. Please post the links in the comments. Thanks!

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I’m very happy with the results my initial testing with the PPC parking service GoldKey.com, and over the last several weeks I’ve been in the process of moving my parked names from Afternic.com to GoldKey.com. I’m over half way done.

What’s so great about GoldKey? In a word, flexibility. Too often with other PPC services, my parked domain sites simply displayed a list of generic links for travel, fitness and so forth, generally producing no income. But GoldKey lets you supply not only keywords to help associate proper ad links, but create Google sitemaps, choose from hundreds of header banners, colors, search box positions, inclusion of “favorites” (extra, general links), link exchanges and more.

Take a look at one of my domain names, AboutFaith.com. With GoldKey I was able to create a beautiful page with a “religion-based” banner image and appropriate links. Notice that it also provides a “For Sale” link where I can insert my own custom sales text if I were to so choose. Check out GoldProfits.com for another example; this one has an image of money in green.

Now you need to see something really cool! Click on the Related Topics link below the main categories. Clicking on any of the letters will display the related topics that I’ve set up in my sitemap (which GoldKey creates for you with your supplied keywords). For example, click on B and then Buddhism, and you’ll get an entirely new page that reflects the keyword Buddhism and only the keyword Buddhism! Now that is impressive. You are allowed up to 512 sitemap keywords, so in essence your parked page can become a 512 page web site! If you didn’t know, Sitemap pages are a SEO technique where a layout of keyword-optimized HTML pages is provided for search engines. When these pages are indexed by search engines’ robots, the result is a higher probability that this domain will show up on search results pages and will therefore get more visitors. By design, visitors from search engines will be visiting the keyword optimized page (not the root of the domain) and will therefore see listings related to the keyword they were searching.

GoldKey pays at least 50% of the commissions it earns from Overture. They pay every month on the 15th for the previous calendar month’s earnings. From reading various posts on domain forums, it sounds like they are always prompt. Payments are made through Paypal, wire transfer or by check.

GoldKey really shines in the statistical reports it offers. I don’t think there is another site that offers as much detail. Page views, and detailed traffic numbers are real time; and the earnings accounting seems to lag by about one to three days, which is understandable. You can view visits and clicks for each or all domain names within various time periods. You can even see which keyword links visitors are clicking! And, an SEO report shows you what keywords where entered into which search engine to get to your page.

They also offer a Link Exchange program where other sites can request to exchange links with you, thereby increasing your page rank. You can link some of your own pages together, but be careful not to overdo it and appear as a link farm.

There are many more features that I can’t fit into what I’m trying to keep a short article and you can’t see until you sign up with an account.

GoldKey offers a referral program, which pays the referrer a commission equal to 10% of the referred client’s earnings. Nothing is subtracted from the referred client’s earnings, however, so there is no penalty whatsoever for someone signing up as a referral. Which brings me to my request: if you create your free account—and every one of you should sign up to at least test the service—I ask that you use this link (or any GoldKey link in this article) so you can be a referral of mine. It will not cost you nothing, and will not limit your own referrals someday, and the potential commissions will help me to maintain this web site. I’ll also make a deal with you: if you sign up as a referral, I’ll be glad to help you out with through email with any of your GoldKey questions. There is a learning curve as the documentation does not explain everything as it should and I’m sure I could be of assistance to you.

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Trying to get your page closer to the top of the Google Search Results (SERPs)? What are the factors that Google uses to rank pages? What are the rules of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? No one knows it all for sure, but I found a great page that summarizes the educated guesses of SEO webmasters on top webmaster forums. Some are confirmed and some are suspected. Visit Google Ranking Factors — SEO Checklist for a comprehensive list of both On-Page and Off-Page criteria.

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