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• krlread // Aug 4, 2006 at 9:15 pm

  As I just dicovered this blog today I’m looking forward to catching up on the reading. I like you calling a spade a spade. Mighty refreshing for this old man.

  Have already picked up on a couple of tips and took action just a little while ago.

• Splork // Aug 4, 2006 at 9:35 pm

  Glad you found the site. Thanks for reading.

• April // Aug 14, 2006 at 9:48 pm

  Hello
  I have enjoyed reading your blog - I like your straightforward style.

  You seem to be doing very well for your alexa rating. I also see that you don’t put adsense here and was wondering if this is why google likes this site and not your “article” sites. Maybe also because people are commenting on your posts it shows to google that you are writing something worth commenting on.

  I am sure that you are a member of seo2020.com so you will see that I have been putting details of my bonsai site on the case studies. I have been a member of PLRPro but didn’t continue my subscription purely because I felt I wouldn’t be able to keep up with the articles.

  I have also been creating websites that aren’t made with articles so it will be interesting to see how things go.

  Google seemed to like my site http://www.ofscotland.co.uk which is a combo of me and articles, but then I changed from wordpress to frontpage and so am still waiting for all the pages to be properly indexed. I think google had a memory of the old sitemap and so kept re-visiting my non-existent pages. Google seems to keep doing this with me. I have to ping my new sitemap a few times which seems to get the message through.

  I would be interested to see what sites you consider to be “spam”.

  I think in the long-term quality sites will win. I hope so anyway.

  April

• Splork // Aug 15, 2006 at 1:43 am

  April, thanks for dropping by and reading the blog. I haven’t really checked the Alexa rankings for the site so thanks for letting me know.

  I don’t think G really cares if Adsense is on here or not. What I think it likes is that it’s getting linked to and talked about on other sites. Backlinks. It’s all the rage, you know.

  But the other thing is I think G has a way of knowing if your site is being written by a person or just a collection of stale articles. How? I don’t know. And it’s just a hunch. But this site and my other site like this, Tour Squad, has done fine from the start. And the only thing I did was post comments on other sites and write a few posts. People came to visit and kept coming back. I think that is the formula that G ultimately wants. I don’t see how I can do that with 70 sites on topics from baby diapers to kitchen cabinets.

  I think if you have a lot to say about Scotland you may want to go back to using WP. Frontpage will ultimately be tough to keep updating a site with.

  I love SEO2020. The dude who runs the site actually provides good information. But, wow, I have totally overlooked his forum! Thanks for mentioning that.

  A spam site to me is one that simply does not educate, inform or entertain. I’ve built plenty that do not fall into those broad categories.

  I’m with you on the quality sites. I’m trying to build good sites now.

  I like PLRPro, but am having the same problem you had with article quantity. Too much. But I think that is a good problem to have.

  Thanks again for reading.

• April // Aug 15, 2006 at 8:47 pm

  I hope you have been able to visit the seo2020 forum. Charles has been giving me some good advice for my bonsai site. If I can do well with that site, then I will feel more confident with going on to other sites.

  Your alexa rating for lostball is 337,899. You deserve a pat on the back. Just getting a rating of under a million is something I have not even been able to achieve.

  April

• Splork // Aug 15, 2006 at 11:53 pm

  Hey April. I signed up last night and even left a comment. 338K. Hopefully I can do better. As a comparison seo2020 is like 4K or something. I have a lot of work to do.

• April // Aug 16, 2006 at 7:43 am

  Hello

  I was looking at your site healthybodyinfo.com and was wondering if you plan on using the silo structure?

  Also you might want to try a blend in adsense like http://www.kitchen-helper.com See the “we offer” and “other resources” on the home page. The google ads look like just another link menu.

  April

• Splork // Aug 16, 2006 at 12:45 pm

  Nice site, that one. Not sure if blending the Adsense would work as well on my site but I suppose it could be worth a try. Silo structure. Well I didn’t start out thinking of using it, but it may be worth reading up more on it and seeing if it will work for this site.

• Judassy // Sep 12, 2006 at 8:05 am

  I am just really glad that i chanced upon your blog. Was actually serching for reviews on the ‘Master Plan’. what you have shared in your blog really resonate deeply with me. I have had enuf of crap out there in over hyped internet marketing areana. In fact because of your honest sharing, i signed up for affilorama. thanks a million splork. once i have my blog up. you will be on my blogroll for sure.

• Splork // Sep 12, 2006 at 12:30 pm

  Hey Judassy. Thanks for dropping by and reading. I think you’ll enjoy Affilorama. The owner is a straight up nice guy willing to help however he can.

• Oskars // Sep 18, 2006 at 10:03 am

  April, you could put a .htaccess file in your root folder with redirects (301 Moved Permanently) to your new pages. This way Google would find your new web pages from the old site map.

• Trying-to-change-careers // Oct 17, 2006 at 3:58 pm

  In your many mistakes and lessons learned, do you know typically how long it takes for PageRank to get updated?

  Also, I use

  http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php

  to check Page Rank rather than the Google Toolbar, because there was something about enabling the PageRank or some options on Google Toolbar that supposedly meant more information about me would be being collected by Google. I mean I love Google, but frankly I think there is more than enough info about me already collected (fascinating though I might be).

  I agree with you though there are too many experts in Internet Marketing who want to “HELP” a newbie make big $$$ for anything from “free advice” to the big $$$. Thanks for fessing up that I’m not alone kicking around looking for the ball.

• Splork // Oct 17, 2006 at 5:46 pm

  I have no idea. This blog went from 0 to 3 in about a month. That has been the fastest for sure. Most of my other sites takes like 3-6 months (maybe never) to get anything. Has a lot to do with the links coming in and the quality.

• jim gillen // Nov 22, 2006 at 10:44 pm

  Hi,
  I have been perusing sites for some time seeking an avenue to make money. I think there is a market for someone like you who obviously knows the lingo and has actually made money as you indicated today, to mentor some neophyte like me to learn a step by step approach to doing what you have said you are intending i.e. make dozens of similar sites that will generate ongoing revenue. I, and I am sure many others, would gladly pay for this tutoring!! In other words franchise yourself and teach me. What say you??
  Best wishes
  Jim Gillen
  p.s. All the others who have sent me tons of “latest and greatest” offers such as Mark Ling, Nick MArks, Sebastian Foss, John Denton etc. etc. didn’t even have the courtesy to reply to my offer of paid mentoring!!I think this tells me all I need to know about the validity of their offers.

• Splork // Nov 23, 2006 at 1:22 am

  Hey Jim. I’m not your guy. I’ll do what I can to help you but I can’t take money from you. My knowledge is hardly worth paying for. I paid $5K for a mentorship and got ripped off completely. I know they are crap. Just ask us questions and let’s see if we can get you going in the right direction.

• Imgiver // Mar 28, 2007 at 10:09 am

  Hey Splork, I was inspired by your blog to start my own with a similar critical tone.

  I’d appreciate any feedback you may give.
  http://www.imgiver.com

  Thanks

• Barry Harmon // Aug 16, 2007 at 8:52 pm

  Hi Splork,

  I’ve been reading your blog for a bit now. You have done the following for me:

  1. Saved me a bunch of money by confirming my fears about the gurus.

  2. Given me hope that my strategy of building real, content-heavy web sites will make me some money, if not a million dollars a day.

  3. Shown me that there is an honest, ethical side to the internet marketing business.

  Keep up the good work and please, keep posting.

  Barry

• Splork // Aug 17, 2007 at 6:49 am

  Hey Barry. Thanks for reading. You can never go wrong with offering the web real content. All this other stuff is just costly ways of gaming a system that never lasts.

• Mark // Aug 20, 2007 at 3:40 am

  I’ve just found this site and I have to say ..well done. I started a blog about all the Pimp’s and their shady tatics last year (http://guru-watch.blogspot.com/) but it sort of died when I unsubscribed from all of their newletters and didn’t have to read their drivel anymore. ..Doh!

  I was considering resurecting it but you see to have it covered.

  Anyway it seems that I am in 100% agreement with you so keep up the good work..

• Splork // Aug 20, 2007 at 6:56 am

  Hey Mark. Yea I’ve done the same thing getting rid of all those newsletters. From a productivity standpoint it’s the best thing that I could have done. To give this blog a purpose, maybe not so much.

• Manual directory submission // Aug 20, 2007 at 7:31 pm

  Hey Splork,

  I landed on your blog today when I read about the problems you have with healthybodyinfo.com. I love that site! Good looking, decent structure. But the monetizing doesn’t seem to work? (I assume it’s still the case) Well, you deserve better & I already located the problem. If you still believe in ‘help’ I would love to ‘help’ you. Just go to my site http://www.highprbacklinks.com & complete the free SEO report form (like I say, it’s free). I won’t run away either.
  Regards,
  Kurt

• Mark // Oct 11, 2007 at 8:15 am

  Dude,

  I don’t normally like to read people’s comments much - I found you while looking for info on plug and play niche marketing. I was actually looking for an affiliate link.

  Anyway, this is a kudos e-mail - hope your interest stays up - Interesting tone, fun reading - I’ll be visiting often.

  Mark

• Barry // Jan 23, 2008 at 11:11 am

  Hi,

  I didn’t know where else to post this, so here it is.

  Affiliate Elite is for sale “to a limited number of people,” “those on the mailing list,” for $4.95.

  Thought you’d be interested, since you’ve written on it before.

  Barry

• Offgrid // Apr 5, 2008 at 7:49 pm

  Great Blog here. I came over from Grizzly’s page on Entrecard. Are you there also ? I’ll bookmark you r blog and visit often. Good work.

• Splork // Apr 6, 2008 at 10:16 am

  Thanks for reading Offgrid. Look forward to your visits.

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