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| Today Top 5 of World SEO Championship 2006 |
| Monday, July 31, 2006 |
Today is the last day of the 1st round (July) of WSC 2006. Let we see who are the top 5 players.
Ranking is according to the SERPs in Google.
Player username - domain
1. age_magician: ambatchdotcom-seocontest.blogspot.com
2. kdm: ambatch-dotcom-seocontest.com
3. amitpatel_3001: www.ambatchdotcomseocontest.us
4. peteinoz: ambatchdotcom-seocontest.viralinstigator.com
5. Jamsi: ambatchdotcom-seocontest.workboxers.com
Hey only top 3 will get the monthly cash prize :-)
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| How to find a niche and build a content site |
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The followings are the step I use to find a niche and build a content cite, want to share with you...
1. Find a Niche
2. Check Search Volume
3. Check Competition
4. Judge Monetization Potential
5. Expand and Organize Your Keywords
6. Let it Stew
7. Refine
8. Site Mapping
9. Choose a CMS
10. Design and Content
11. Make it Public, Grow, and Get Links
If you want to know more about each step, please visit Ambatch Publish Forum |
| posted by Joey Tiger @ 12:19 PM |
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| Ambatch Logo Contest |
| Sunday, July 30, 2006 |
In August (or right now), Ambatch.com will become a community website.
Our approach is to develop the free tools by the community (e.g. our friends in the forum).
For example, we are developing several web tools for our friends in the forum. All the members can contribute their ideas and suggestions for these projects. It is like an open source projects.
Also, we will open this website ambatch.com for all Adsense publishers. This means they can share the traffic of this website and revenue from Adsense.
How can we do that :-) ? We will tell you in late August.
To welcome this big change, we want to redesign a new website logo.
The new theme (or slogan) of ambatch.com is:
- By and For Community
More details of the theme:
1. User driven social content network.
2. Share Adsense revenue with the users
3. Target group: people who love to contribute in community (regardless of adsense publisher or not)
The details for the contest:
1. Please go to our forum http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=42 to post your name and logo there.
2. The contest will start from 1 August 06 to 18 August 06 (Mid-night Eastern Time).
3. The contest results will be released on our forum.
Remarks: Keep checking the forum to get the latest news on this contest.
The rules for the contest:
You can submit as many logos as you want to our forum.
We accept submission from 1 August 06 to 11 August 2006. Then we will collect all logos and launch a poll from 14 August 2006 to 18 August 2006.
The top logo (most people vote for it) will be the winner of this contest.
Logo Requirement:
Colour: Red, Orange, Purple and white. (you can use either one as theme colour or all)
Text: must include the text "ambatch" and our slogan "By and For Community" or "By & For Community".
File Size: no limitation
Prize:
1. Cash Prize: $500 is for 1 winner.
2. The winner will be featured in our “About Us” section permanently
3. Trophy (we send it to your home/office via Fedex)
Don’t wait! Join this contest now. |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 6:15 PM |
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| WSC 2006......update :-) |
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Hey....the game becomes funnier now...
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 12:48 PM |
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| WSC 2006 Update |
| Saturday, July 29, 2006 |
This is the latest top 5 out of 25K listings in SERPs. It seems that all 3 listings are very stable. If these 3 sites stay at these position and have no change on July 31 2006 (mid night EST), then they will be the winners of 1st round (July) of World SEO Championship 2006.
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 1:25 PM |
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| Traffic Drop in Summer Holiday |
| Friday, July 28, 2006 |
 Let we look at the traffic chart of clickbank.com and sitesell.com.
These 2 sites are the top traffic site of internet marketing industry. You can see, around summer holiday, both the traffic of these 2 sites dropped sharply in 2005 (not 2006).
So we can expect our site traffic will drop too. Ok...let's go to the beach together!
Similar situation in Japan, too!
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 3:21 PM |
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| User driven social content network |
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This day is coming.
This domain "ambatch.com" will become an user driven social content network.
Maybe you've heard about I am working on an open source publishing project. Yes, this one is.
My definition of "open source" is different from the techies. It is not about the "code". Indeed, I am going to open the source of the "traffic" and "revenue", by using my SEO and traffic generation knowledge, we build a community and share the revenue together.
The system is under testing. However system is just a system. We need you to support this idea because it is a community project.
I hope we will launch the beta version in mid or late August.
To learn more details about this "open source" project, please go to our forum:
http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=133
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 2:35 PM |
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| Does Googlepage rank better? |
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It is a very interesting topic.
In our SEO contest, we find a site ambatchdotcom.seocontest.seo.googlepages.com rank so well without too much SEO factors.
At this moment, I do not have any conclusion for this issue. Maybe Google has bias on its own webpages.......nobody knows.
Let we discuss this topic in the forum ....Let's go!
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| It's so exciting! |
| Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
Google updates the SERP several times today.
The listing grows from 220K to 244K now. The ranking changes too.
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 6:34 PM |
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| Make New Tools For All Of Us |
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This week I hire 2 new programmers to work with me. Their roles are to make new web tools for all publishers like you and me.
I am going to make 5-8 free web tools for our forum members. I need your suggestions.
Please leave your ideas or suggestions here:
http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=237 |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 5:53 PM |
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| WSC 2006 - Result Updated |
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Take a look...we have around 241,000 listings for the keyword "ambatchdotcom seocontest'..
Let's check Today Top 5...
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 4:50 PM |
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| Forum Marketing Strategies |
| Wednesday, July 26, 2006 |
If we want someone or a visitor to perform an action, whether it’s helping us, checking out a product, a link, comment on a story or become an affliate, there must be an incentive for the person first. In forum terms, if we want to leverage on a community, whether it’s ours or someone else’s, ask yourself how you can bring value first to that forum. Forum administrators are very nit-picky people, and their moderators can be very very strict with new links posted. ( If you want to advertise in a forum using a link in your signature, posting a new thread etc.) If you are serious about placing a link in a forum which has many members on it, there are a few ways of guaranteeing success in your forum marketing campaign without having your account or threads deleted. 1. Read the rules & regulations first.
Don’t assume that just because a forum you participate a lot in has the same rules as the one you want to advertise in. Respect the forum rules and follow in accordance to what they state. If you are allowed only 1 link in your signature, follow that rule as much as you can. Never deviate from it. 2. Never start new threads.
If you are a new member to a forum, never ever start a new thread. Other senior members can smell a rat and if you’re looking to advertise, your new thread about your product or service will be deleted within seconds. Always build up your post counts organically by replying to existing threads. More often than not, these threads will not be deleted, and your single post has a higher chance of not being removed. If you are impatient and just want to spam a forum with a link in a new thread, your 2 minutes of sign-up, email authentication as well as confirmation will be wasted with an adminstrator’s two mouse clicks. Would you rather spend 10 minutes to build permanent backlinks to your site? Or would you rather waste 30 “2 minutes” having your thread deleted within seconds? As well as your email account being banned..? Always start slow and build trust.
3. Post new threads…ONLY…
…IF your content is NEW and FRESH, and relevant to the forum. So what if i don’t know anything about a forum’s topic or theme (example: Goldfish forum)? Can i start a new thread discussing about the latest news about Gold Fish? Of course i can! Just use… http://news.google.com and key in the keywords which are relevant to the forum’s theme or topic… Fresh, updated news and highly relevant as well. Post a snippet of the news in and provide a link to the source. 4. Make powerful friends.
Make friends with moderators and the administrators. Quote their replies and enjoy a good discussion with them. As soon as administrators and moderators find that you are a nice fellow to talk to online(because you’re always paying some attention to them) and can provide some good content from time to time, using their names within your post can make any link immune to deletion. Trust has to be built up over time and has to be done carefully. If you have any questions, always PM or email the forum administrators and clarify. Make them your friends and build a trusting relationship. 5. Bookmark your own threads.
Organise and bookmark your own threads, so you can easily return to it later and reply or update it (hopefully to another member and not yourself) Invite other members to provide suggestions, help or comments so this will bump up your thread while leveraging on existing members. Don’t do this too often during a week as it can be seen as spammy. 6. Don’t waste time!
It’s all too easy to waste your time posting, and then surfing around the forums..looking for new threads..reading other people’s threads etc…. STOP. If your primary purpose is to increase sales and exposure for your product / service, have a list of forums that you have registered in, log in, post 2-3 replies to the most popular threads, get out, and move onto the next forum. Don’t stop until you have finished all of your target forums within a specific time (e.g. 10 forums within half hour). However...Rules #1 to #5 have to be followed first. By adopting a good healthy forum attitude,behaviour and habit, your product / service links can survive well and long within a community, instead of being thrashed within 2 minutes. Take the time to discover more about the community you want to be part of, and your patience will be rewarded many times over.
If you feel this post makes sense.. we would love to hear your comments in our Community Traffic Category. :-)
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| posted by Ryan Chua @ 11:42 PM |
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| Finally, Backlink Video is ready |
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In the Backlink Video, we will reveal how to turbocharge and stabilize your Adsense profits by mastering simple but critical SEO strategies..
Less than 80 minutes, you will become a master of SEO and know how to apply these strategies to boost your Adsense income.
http://backlinkvideo.ambatch.com/ |
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| What If The Adsense Program Would Be Terminated Today? |
| Tuesday, July 25, 2006 |
We keep our fingers crossed every day and pray that tomorrow will bring us another fine day of good Adsense earnings.
But what if Google decides to pull the plug and terminates the Adsense program? How would that affect your life?
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 1:50 PM |
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| Google's war on invalid clicks |
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I found a very good 47-page report on how Google detects and deals with invalid clicks. The paper includes a section on publisher terminations and reinstatements.
The paper itself, by Dr. Alexander Tuzhilin of NYU, is a PDF file at:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/pdf/Tuzhilin_Report.pdf
More discussion about this topic at Publisher Forum. |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 1:44 PM |
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| 192,000 for ambatchdotcom seocontest |
| Monday, July 24, 2006 |
"ambatchdotcom seocontest" has 192,000 listings in Google now :-)
On 31 July 2006, we will deliver the monthly prize of WSC 2006.
Monthly Prize
31 July 2006 (mid night EST) 1st Ranking - $200 2nd Ranking - $100 3rd Ranking - $50
Check more details here |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 12:34 PM |
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| Our 1st Seminar in Japan - アドセンス SEO セミナー (SOLD OUT!) |
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We will have our 1st seminar in Japan on 26 August 2006.
The topics are SEO and Adsense. We will have a guest speaker who is the expert in cell phone marketing.
More detail... (SOLD OUT!!)
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| The Myth of Google Backlink Data |
| Saturday, July 22, 2006 |
Lots of webmasters suspected that Google hides a high percentage of backlinks from us since ince they rely on it so much.
Personally, I don't use Google anymore to find backlink data. Yahoo! has said that they have no problem giving out backlink data, so the Yahoo! Site Explorer is a good resource to use.
Suggested method to monitor your backlink
1. Yahoo! Search - http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/
2. http://www.google.com/alerts - Input your domain as search term and ask Google to show you any new page with this link every day.
You can give any feedback to this message and read the opinions by the other members in Publisher Forum.Labels: become advanced |
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World SEO Championship - Today Top 5
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| Starting your forum. Issue #1. Momentum. |
| Friday, July 21, 2006 |
 For those who are not familiar with the guy in the mask, and the red indian...
That's the Lone Ranger and Tonto, his trusty sidekick. This is probably before the days of Batman and Robin, but how does this tie in with the topic "Momentum"?
When you are building your community, you have to understand that it's very different as compared to starting out as a publishing business or a profit making venture. You can survive as the Lone Ranger for a while when you are starting your own business online.
When it comes to forum building, most new forum admins are still in the lone ranger mindset, and find it hard to get the initial momentum going, they spend days and night installing, configuring, tweaking and designing their forums, and then...they will message all their friends on MSN, ICQ, email and ask them all to join the forum to help "support".
The friends will all help out by registering and posting a few hello messages, after which, since the forum theme doesn't suit all of them, the forum will die a painful and very quick death. A few solutions to getting rid of this momentum problem is to:
1. Look for people who are most interested in your forum niche.
Why waste your time telling people who are not interested in Internet Marketing, or Adsense to join your Adsense forum? Work smart by targetting people who are already interested in your niche. They can be found in your email list, other theme-related forums, interest groups off-line.
E.g. If you're starting a fish forum, you can find interested members at the fishing pier where you frequent.
2. Build your organic launch party.
An organic launch party is a group who is dedicated to helping your forum get off the ground and bypass the stale period where the forum can be in the beginning stages. Launch party members can be committed to help out by posting 2-3 threads a day for a 2 week period, after which you can be sure there is some content that new visitors can read, and be enticed to become a member. So how do you get launch party members? You can phone, email, talk to potential people on the streets, through online social networks such as friendster (search for related interests).
3. Keep your forum really small (at first!)
New forum admins love to create many folders and categories when they first start out, simply because their interests have many subcomponents and niches. This is probably the most biggest and common mistake anyone can make as it can make the forum look very empty and desolate. And when people see that a site / forum is "dead", they won't waste even a second of their time looking at your category descriptions... Start out with 5 categories or less, build up enough posts and threads then slowly segment later when there are too many threads being posted. You won't want to hold a party with 3 friends in a huge castle right?
4. Make the effort to make friends with your members.
When new members register onto your forums, take the initiative to ask for his / her name and what his interests / goals / dreams are. By taking note of what they want in their own lives, they will feel more attached to your forum, and have vested interests in contributing to your site. Be personal, friendly and care for your member's needs and wants, and they will repay you a hundred-fold.
5. Encourage your team members to be as friendly as you are.
It's quite amazing how a person can give off a certain aura (energy) online, by the way he "talks" and uses smilies :) in his postings. When people can feel that you are friendly and sincere, they will want to stay on and stick around. Encourage members of your administration team to welcome new-comers like they would welcome old friends, and you will build a very warm and enviable culture within your community.
These are some of the basic pointers on how to create that momentum to kick start your forum, if you have any questions or queries regarding this post, feel free to ask in our Community Traffic section of our forum.
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| posted by Ryan Chua @ 1:39 AM |
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| Send a letter to Google - New Adsense Feature Wishlist |
| Thursday, July 20, 2006 |
Let we play a game here.
What kind of the new features do you want in Google Adsense?
e.g1. able to change the background of the search box?
e.g2. more ad format?
We start to collect opinions until 28th July. Then we send an official email to Google Adsense support on behalf of this forum.
Go to the forum and post your opinion.
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 6:57 PM |
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Internet publishing business means you generate revenue by selling advertising spaces on your website. It can be either a content website, offering online tools, videos or even social network. You don’t need to be a good writer to succeed in this business.
The traffic source of publishing business can be from search engine and non search engine. SEO is just part of the game. To generate traffic, you should know how to generate traffic from both sources. Non search engine traffic means you don’t need to rely on SEO to drive visitors to your website. e.g. community traffic.
For example, you have a friend network in Myspace. You can show your website (make sure they are interested) in front of them. Encourage them to promote your site to their networks.
At least 50% of Alexa Top 500 websites are not relying on search engine traffic. Internet publishers should not rely on SEO only.
Go to our Publisher Forum to learn and
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| The best traffic backend today. |
| Wednesday, July 19, 2006 |
For those who are interested in running websites and especially blogs, you may be interested to invest some time and effort into building a forum for your web traffic.
So what's the core differences between a forum and a blog?
A blog allows you to express your thoughts and ideas in a place, where visitors can leave comments about the things that you are currently discussing about. It's easy to use and really simple to maintain without much hassle.
Everyone who's interested in the publishing business knows how hard it can be to continously run an active blog and dedicate themselves to keeping it active by posting at least 3x a week. If you stop posting any less, you will find that your traffic will slowly die off...and soon enough it will be all gone.
So what's the big deal about a forum?
A forum is not like a blog. It is a system which allows groups of people to start discussions around a theme related to your interest. For example, internet marketing (which can involve adsense, marketing, SEO, and all sorts of related topics. The biggest difference is... your website will survive without you, if you have a set of loyal visitors on the backend (which is your forum). It doesn't matter if you stop posting updates, or have to take a long holiday, your forum is there to work for you automatically, allowing visitors to chat and mingle around, create more threads (content) and drive more traffic back to your site.
Sounds like the most perfect, legal way of traffic and content generation as well as brand building? Yes! In fact forums have been around for the longest time but alot of new comers to the web publishing world have still not yet realised the benefits of having a forum as a powerful backend.
We all work very hard to drive traffic to our websites and blogs, but we do not know how to retain the traffic properly, and get the traffic to interact with one another. FYI, Ambatch's forum just started about 4 nights ago and has already nearly 200 members! At this rate, we can expect to hit about 8,000 - 9000 members by end 2006. And what can 8,000 - 9,000 opt-ins do for you? Let's go figure... ;-)
So for today, just think about what kind of forum would suit your interests and business. I will continue my next post on how to start one and generate the most important element (momemtum) a huge problem that EVERY new forum admin will face...
And if you have any questions you would like me to answer with regards to forums, feel free to register on our forum, and post a question. We are more than willing to answer your queries.. :-)Labels: become advanced |
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| Let Build a Simple Publishing Model for All of Us |
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 I write a draft of a simple publishing model for all of us. You can see the chartflow.
I need your comment and feedback.
Let's go to this thread in the Publisher Forum to leave your feedback. |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 5:07 PM |
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| Balance between black and white hat SEO strategy |
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Suppose you know what black and white hat is.
I personally use black and white. The reason behind is to balance the cashflow of the publishing projects.
I love white more than black.
Black hat: fast but short term result.
You may see fast result. It is because you don't need to think about content generation, template design,....By using content generation software, you can build millions page. Just 1% of them generate traffic, you can see the earning in the Adsense account.
Most beginners will suffer from this problem. "Today i see good earning but it will drop to zero tomorrow".
You know, part of google's ranking is based on ......go to the Publisher Forum to check this post.Labels: become advanced |
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21,400 for ambatchdotcom seocontest.........amazing..
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| A good website worth for your review |
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Today I went to the "Review My Adsense Website" in the forum. I saw a very beautiful site called First New Zealand Trip.
It is a very good example website for publishing business. Definitely Alex (the webmaster) needs to do a lot of things to bring traffic and improve click conversion.
I am sure you are interested to review his site. Go to:
http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=112
Review Alex's site and give him feedback! |
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| Let Kelvin review your Adsense websites |
| Tuesday, July 18, 2006 |
This is the core mission of Ambatch Publisher Forum.
I believe we can help each other to bring bigger success. I believe both of our members and me can give you +ve advice to generate bigger Adsense profits.
Basically, we can review a website according to a set of criteria:
1. Selected keywords
2. Website structure
3. Ad location (conversion rate)
4. SEO strategies
5. Maximize return traffic
6. Maximize impression
All members are welcome to post their reviews and suggestions. More you review, more things you can learn.
This forum is not only good for newbies to get advice, but also for the professional, they know how to improve their strategies during the process .
Go to Ambatch Publisher Forum to request for your website revision.
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| 10,600 for ambatchdotcom seocontest |
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After 96 hours, the total number of listings for ambatchdotcom seocontest reaches 10,600.
We forcast the total listing will be over 1 millions after 3 months.
To check the total list in google, click here.
To join World SEO Championship, click here. |
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Rome is not built in a day.
Business relies on "trust".
If you want to have a lot of customers, I suggest you to build your credibility in the forum.
Why do I need to build credibility?
let me give you an example. I have outsourced the graphic design to a guy for 2 years. I knew this guy in a marketing forum. He always post messages and help the newbie to solve the designing problems.
I think this guy is really a pro. So I gave him a small project to test his ability.
After 2 years, he is still my favorite graphic designer. Multilingual Marketer, Brainstorm Generator, Viral Instigator, Videos Monthly....etc..all graphic designs come from him.
Not only he is in my shortlist, I also refer my friends to buy his services. Coz it is trust. I trust him and my friends trust my judgement.
This is credibility
How do you build credibility here?
1. help the members to solve problems. a lot of members post question and ask for help. It's time for you to give professional advice.
2. Post your articles. It is not necessary to find a question and answer it. You can post your experience or opinion on some events or latest news.
When more people see your name in this forum, they will trust you more.
Are you sure a lot of people seeing my name?
Our Publisher Forum will keep to launch the new games for our friends. World SEO Championship is one of them. We will have "open source publishing project" very soon. We guarantee we can create huge traffic volume to this site.
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| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 1:52 PM |
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| Press Release for backlink building |
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I think all of you must know what happened if you are member of our forum, No? go and check after you registered for a free membership: http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56. Someone use press release to build backink. We must say that it's a free and efficient strategy for backlink building.
However, to apply a strategy with right concept is much more important. Yes, u can say build backlink is the only target for SEO, but at least u should know how to write a press release, there are several points we mentioned in our Backlink Video's Press Release Section and I want to share with u some of it:
1. Stick to the fact
2. Start strong
3. Newsworthy
4. ......
These 3 is the most important points u should bear in mind when u draft a press release even u just want a backlink from it. Remember? Your site information is there, never build a bad image for your site, because it's your business! |
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| If it's not fun, why do it? |
| Monday, July 17, 2006 |
World SEO Championship is a game. A game is for fun.
I love business coz it is like a game. I have fun everyday and I hope you have too. If it's not fun, why do it?
After playing this game, you will become a pro SEO game player.
Join this game now :-) |
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Within 72 hours, we saw there are two Google updates. We found the listing results changed a lot.
For the 1st listing inclusion, we can see the pages with good on-site optimization rank higher. e.g. The players put the keyword "ambatchdotcom seocontest" to the title of the page, inside the content and file name, or even the domain..hahaha
Right now, for the 2nd update, similar result comes. More pages are included. However, you can see some pages are without any targeted keywords (ambatchdotcom seocontest) in the listings.
Why can they rank so well without this targeted keyword?
Check the full message at Publisher Forum. |
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| The latest ranking of World SEO Championship(WSC) - by Joey |
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How many of you get listed from Google? As I know, there are 233 sites get listed from Google when I checked it on 17 July. Woh...just a few days! try to guess(but no prize), how many sites will get listed on 31 October?
Have a look on the following:
Are you the top 3? Yes? Keep on! No? Visit our Publisher Forum and get more ideas from SEO pro and underground there... |
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| Man, don't just focus on on-site optimization strategy |
| Sunday, July 16, 2006 |
This is my latest post in Publisher Forum:
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I have seen lot of players of World SEO Championship who just focus on onsite optimization.
Now you just look at keyword on the meta title of the page, file name, domain, keyword inside the content...
Do you think it is the whole story of SEO?
Actually, the role of offsite optimization plays a more important role than onsite one in SEO strategies. It is because no matter Google or Yahoo, they place more importance on this factor rather than the other issues.
What is offsite optmization? The idea is very simple. For example, I build a hyperlink pointing towards to your website. Then this hyperlink is your backward link (or backlink). It means, I vote to your website.
How Can Offsite Optimization Help You?
Check the full message in the Publisher Forum.Labels: your first step |
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| SEO Strategies for World SEO Championship |
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This is my personal suggestion...not a sure-fire strategy :-)
Below is my post in the Publisher Forum.
"I imagine I'm one of the players (actually I cannot join coz it will violate the game rules)
Now we know the target keyword is "ambatchdotcom seocontest".
So I will think about these points..
1. Should I use new or old domain? Hm...according to the rules, I can use either old, new or even free domain like blogspot.com.
Since the event will last for 3 months, it is not a big deal to use either kinds of domain.
For the old domain, my page optimized with "ambatchdotcom seocontest" will be indexed faster. If this page is linked to a site with higher pagerank, it will rank higher definitely.
However, my old domain does not contain any words like "ambatchdotcom" or "seocontest". To solve this problem, I will save the page with the file name like ambatchdotcom-seocontest.html or ambatchdotcom-seocontest.mydomain.com...etc ........
The message is too long, please check the post in my forum..
http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28 |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 9:07 PM |
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After 48 hours, the listings come to Google.
The rankings are like that (no serious)
1st: Ryan Chua: http://www.ryanchua.com/category/pixelsingapore
2nd: ambatchdotcom-seocontest.blogspot.com
3rd: www.comoestamos.com/directory/ASEViewInCat.asp?ID=3&CMD=&page=10
Go to check the latest ranking in Google.
More details are featured in Publisher Forum |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 12:55 PM |
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| New Prize for World SEO Championship 2006 |
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We have added new prize for WSC 2006..the game becomes much more attractive now..
Montlhy Prize - NEW!!
31 July 2006 (mid night EST)
1st Ranking - $200
2nd Ranking - $100
3rd Ranking - $50
31 August 2006 (mid night EST)1st Ranking - $200
2nd Ranking - $100
3rd Ranking - $50
30 September 2006 (mid night EST)1st Ranking - $200
2nd Ranking - $100
3rd Ranking - $50
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| imnewswatch.com & Ewen Chia are the media sponsor of World SEO Championship 2006 |
| Saturday, July 15, 2006 |
We are proud to inform to you that imnewswatch.com and Mr. Ewen Chia are our media sponsor of World SEO Championship 2006 (WSC)
With the help from the strong hands, we believe the messages of WSC will be spread throughout the world. And...no matter pro or newbies, they will get a lot of benefits from this SEO event. |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 11:15 PM |
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| David Cavanagh and Peter Drew join World SEO Championship 2006 |
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It's really great that our friends David Cavanagh and Peter Drew join World SEO Championship 2006.
It is a funny game that you can apply what you learn in a live event. Also, you can see how the SEO experts use their strategies to get top ranking in front of us.
If you are shy and think "I'm just a newbie, this is not my game...", then I will say "you miss a lot". The best SEO course is you observe, think and apply what you know.
World SEO Championship is this game. No matter you are pro or newbie, it is always nice to practice your skill.
Don't wait, go to World SEO Championship page to see the details. |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 5:38 PM |
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| World SEO Championship 2006 |
| Friday, July 14, 2006 |
Announcement: World SEO Championship 2006
This is a great challenge for all SEO beginners and experts. Not only It can prove your SEO ability in front of the world, but also you will get invaluable awards. For beginners, it is the best opportunity to learn the ultimate strategies from the live SEO event.
How to win? Just optimize your website to get the highest ranking in Google with the keyword we provided.
The details for the contest are as follows:
1. Please go to our forum http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=30 to post your name and domain there.
2. The contest will start from now to 20 Oct 06 (Mid-night Eastern Time).
3. The contest results will be released on our forum.
Remarks: Keep checking the forum to get the latest news on this contest.
The rules for the contest are as follows:
1. Indented listings in SERP will not be counted.
2. Website must include a banner or backlink pointing to http://worldseochampionship.ambatch.com/
Backlink anchor text: World SEO Championship
Banner:
3. If the results are different on deadline due to the problems from the Google datacenters, ambatch will be the sole arbiter.
4. To qualify for the prize, please go to our forum http://www.ambatch.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=30 to post your name and domain name before 20 Oct 2006
Prize:
1st Prize (The Highest Ranking) – US$4,000
2nd Prize (Second Highest Ranking) – US$2,000
3rd Prize (Third Highest ranking) – US$500
also:
1. Winner Logo with your name & website domain
2. Crystal trophy (we send it to your home/office via Fedex)
2. Featured Columnist of our main blog Ambatch Publisher Roundtable
4. Speaker of seminar or interviewer in e-book or audio book which you will get royalty sharing.
Keyword of 2006:
The keyword selected for the World SEO Championship 2006 is....
ambatchdotcom seocontest
Chief Media Sponsor:
Do you want to put your name or company logo here?
Your company or you can become our Friends of World SEO Championship. Simply promote this event to your list, forum or blog, we will put a text link of your website on this page. For more details, please go to "Friends of World SEO Championship" forum. |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 4:34 PM |
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| Welcome Ryan! |
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I am very happy to introduce a new columnist "Ryan Chua" to you. He is a professional blogger and forum host. He owns the biggest BMW forum in Singapore.
I am sure, at least me, we are very interested to how to create and manage a good forum.
Let listen to Ryan. |
| posted by Kelvin Hui @ 10:40 AM |
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Hi everyone,
I'm Ryan and i hope to share alot of tips and strategies on how to build and manage your forum. I have been running my own forum for the past 5 years and it's Singapore's largest continental car community.
For those who wish to grow their own community, it's easy and can be a very easy way to keep driving traffic back to your website without your input. However most forum admins start out on the wrong foot.. i'll post more details on this later. :) |
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We are looking for bloggers to contribute contents to our Ambatch Publisher Roundtable. The details are below:
1. Theme: web publishing business, SEO, forum management, website building strategies, tips on contextual ads (e.g. Adsense)
2. Blogging frequency: at least once a week
3. No hard-sell or promotion post
4. Copyright: You can copy and paste your current blog post to Ambatch Publisher Roundtable
Application method: simple post your name and blog details to this forum. Our editors will review your blog and "pm" a private message to you via this forum.
Ambatch Team |
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| Our site is higher than Google? |
| Thursday, July 13, 2006 |
Hey..it is not a joke.
Last May, my friend Kuruma Suzuki came to my Hong Kong office.
He showed me his Japanese Adsense site (it's the japanese version
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