Blind Ape Seo

Greg Harrison from Mo Mo Fo Sho! has joined the spectacle that is the WebWriMo and has written 1698 words as of this count!

Good start Greg, hang in there!

I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the blog that Greg is writing most of the WebWriMo content for. It is called “Mo Mo Fo Sho” and in it, he reports on his mustache-growing for the month of Movember.

The reason for Greg to grow a moustache is not vanity, but to further Prostate Cancer awareness and collect donations for the Prostrate Cancer Foundation.

In his words:

Did you know:

• Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in the US with one in six American men developing the disease and more than 28,000 men dying of the disease every year.
• African American men and those with a family history of prostate cancer are twice as likely to develop the disease and should have regular annual testing starting at 45. All other men should commence testing at 50.
• Prostate cancer is 90% curable if detected and treated early.

So what you can and should do is donate to the cause.

Do it by either by heading on over to Mo Mo Fo Sho! - it is not only a good cause but also very funny - OR donate here:

So long,

your senile simian sensei

I actually thought this would happen, and it seems it has.

After the first flurry of activity, the people participating in the webwrimo are hitting their first motivational roadblock.

(all except glowleaf, but even he started to complain in the comments)

I would say that this is a normal part of the process. 50K words are quite a number for a month of writing and the nanowrimo experience shows that only a few dedicated people actually finish the 50K.

But hang in there - this is your business!

So here are the stats so far:

Bo2Fu: 10,000 words in PHP, coding up a storm!

Glowleaf: 5968 words make him the leader in natural language writing.

argh: 2532 words (if I counted that right) on several blogs

and the old ape with yet another slow day and 4023 words so far.

Counting Code

Some questions have arisen if counting code is allowed or not. I would say: YES!

In fact, a part of my yesterday words was in code. And it took the old ape ages, too.

Count code if the result is a web page or AM related. What does not count is copy/paste programming or database content you did not produce yourself.

WebWriMo - want to take part in this madness? Go ahead!

OK, this is the first update to the WebWriMo challenge, and a few people have taken me up on it.

Glowleaf from the great SEO blog glowleaf.net

He has written 2640 words, 700 of which for an article called ROI for dummies

lem72 (no word count yet) and

Bo2FU (also no word count) are also participating. Let us know where you stand, guys!

So far, the old simian himself has contributed 3801 words,404 to this blog, on how to turn your belongings into wealth generating assets.

Anyone else want to participate?

Wordpress Themes to definitely check if you are in the Adsense market.

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Image credit: Dunechaser

One of the tasks you face as an affiliate marketer is getting plenty of good links to your site. A task that can be hard, expensive, or both.
Also a task that has been attacked at various angles, giving rise to link building services, link exchanges and more..
Here is where Lord’s newest invention, the oh-so-cleverly named “Link Building Tool” comes in.
Without further ado, let’s jump straight into the review.

What is it?
The “Link Building Tool” is a small desktop application that will help you in the task of finding good sites to get links from.
The actual task of entering the information into those sites is still left up to you, but the tool will help you in building those lists and ranking the sites for quality and accesibility.

How does it work?
When opening the link building tool, you are prompted to give it a search query, the number of pages it should crawl and which search engines (MSN and/or Google) it should get the results from.
In the first step, the link building tool goes and grabs the search results, displaying the URLs in the list window.
You can now proceed to give it more search terms to grow the list, or let it analyze those links via the “Rank new URLs” button.
Once you press that button, each URL gets a ranking value between 0 and 10.
This value is a mix of the search engine ranking and the ease with which you can insert a link there.
You can sort by ranking with a click of the mouse and off you go, inserting your link.
For this task, you can open either one selected website or 5 at a time.
Once you open a website, it is marked with a 0-done and will disappear from the top ranks.

My experiences so far
This tool makes it far easier to find good websites to get links from. Once you get sites ranked 5 or above in the tool, it is usually just a matter of seconds to enter your link in some comment form.
However, the tool can’t work miracles. When you move in competetive environments, you have to look around. My best strategy for this case is to hit the long tail keywords.
The save / load options make it easy to get back to previous lists and continue working.
The ranking is a godsend, as is the “open pages in browser” feature.
I already got more than a few nice links from sites I found with this tool, so I am more than happy.
The price of 67 US dollars is not really a steal, but more than justified by the ease of getting good links.

Summary
Head on over and get your copy.

Head on over to  domainingtips.com and read the newest article by Lord Brar on his domaining strategy .

A good read and a step by step tutorial for wannabe domainers.