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What I have in mind is releasing a brandable free application that semi automates submissions to a reviewed- by- you collection of directories, blogs, article and press release sites. You could offer this to your visitors to generate those all-important, (and more importantly FREE), natural links. You can populate the database with your own list of perfect submission sites and then brand it as the Viagra on steroids of reviewed submission sites.  HMMMMM, not sounding too bad is it?

If you are interested in beta testing this and helping us make it as good as it can get, send an email to seopackage@techndu.com and we’ll send you instruction of how to download it and get you access to the beta tester’s forum.

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 It's Nothing Fancy but It Is Effective

We represent a wide range of clients and have for over a decade.  Most, very conservative while others, ------ well ----- not so much. Many clients, (too many in my personal opinion), are more worried about running afoul of Google than they are about their own success. My philosophy has never been to tell the client what they want, but rather to advise of risk/reward ratios based on experience and then do what I’m asked to do. So, over the years we have had to develop specific tools and applications to speed up specific processes for servicing specific clients’ requirements. Most of those techniques needed to be EXTREMELY GGC, (google guideline compliant).

A little over a month ago, I inadvertently mentioned that we were thinking of releasing a little tool we use to submit to directories, article distribution sites and press release sites for our more conservative clients. We use this tool strictly for our ultra conservative clients to help cover the basics of SEO and link generation without breaking rules or guidelines and with virtually no risk.

It is nothing fancy but it is effective. The basic premise was to speed up tedious tasks through semi- automating  processes of submissions by simply filling a form out and installing it into a database based on project sensitive criteria. Entering the target details for a specific project into a database so that for dozens or even hundreds  of submissions or posts or distribution sites, we could just pull up the submission page into our script and then hit enter, all the details such as name, email, keywords and title etc. would automatically be entered. We then fill in the captchas, generate a report and we’re ready to move to the next client’s project for the day.

The biggest problem we had was getting  entry level employees to avoid the temptation of just submitting to everything without spending any time to determine the quality or even the category of submission targets. This, far too often, resulted in mixing the good, well themed links in with the junk which basically meant having to monitor each employees submissions, (having to pay a guy just to watch the other guyL), and then do it over correctly.

Necessity may the mother of invention but clients pitching a bitch is a pretty good motivator as well. And bearing in mind that we had some clients who strongly believe that if one is good then a million must be better and they would bitch about NOT having low quality links as vehemently as others would bitch about having them, we came up with the idea of having two different databases of sources. We called one the basics and the other the premiums. This idea enabled us to identify exactly which set of directories or article sites to authorize which employee to submit which client to. Problem solved right?

Ha!

Like relevancy, Quality is Subjective

Like relevancy, it seems that quality is completely subjective and each client seemed to have their own list of criteria for determining what and how much they were willing to pay for each possible combination of submissions. We finally came to the conclusion that we could not develop a separate database for each client at a price point that provided a reasonable return,  so for a long time we simply offered a basic and a premium as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. BUT, the concept of client specific databases never roamed far from my mind. I felt there was a tool there that could be a real time-saver to a lot of people.

Things like submitting to directories and article distribution sites is NOT marketing  yet it is a part of online promotion and needs to be done but every second spent doing it is a second that could have been spent on the things that actually generate revenue. If you spend a lot of time hunting good directories and then hunting them again for the next project and THEN submitting manually to each one, my guess is you are not making a lot of money. If you are doing that, you don’t have the time to make a lot of money.

Smart online marketers know this so their answer was simply submitting to everything fast. If you are happy with that approach, there are a lot of tools online to do just that BUT, with so many linkstinkers calling themselves directories getting tagged and bagged this past year, it makes a customized submission tool allowing you to pick and choose each submission target according to YOUR criteria sound like a pretty good idea.

I had always intended at some point to release a free version of our in-house submission tool but I lacked the resources to do anything more than create the same problem for the public that I was trying to solve privately.

Then I came to India where I was able to hire highly skilled developers at a cost that made a lot of impossible things suddenly very possible. One of our team leaders liked the concept and when he had extra time he began doing the coding to allow each user to create their own databases.

We have some features we would like to add but it is time to get a few people involved as beta testers to help us identify bugs and decide on which features would be the most beneficial to include  before it is released as freebie to the general public.

Mukesh, the developer I mentioned above, named the project the SEO package. I HATE that name and will announce it’s real name as soon as it is ready for prime time but for now, seo package will do.

A Brandable Free Application

What I have in mind is releasing  a brandable free application that semi automates submissions to a reviewed by you collection of directories, article and press release sites. You could offer this to your visitors to generate those all-important, (and more importantly FREE), natural links. You can populate the database with your own list of perfect submission sites and then brand it as the Viagra on steroids of reviewed submission sites.  HMMMMM, not sounding too bad is it?

If you are interested in beta testing this and helping us make it as good as it can get for a freebie, send an email to seopackage@techndu.com and we’ll send you instruction of how to download it and get you access to the forums.

Peace Y’all

G

Either get in or get out but quit slammin the damn door!