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The guys over at Sick Marketing are an amazing bunch.  They offer a program that allows you to submit backlinks via “packets” (lists of places to submit links), via profile links, bookmark links, blog comment links, RSS links, directory links, and article directory links.  All the possible and diverse places you can submit links for your website to get them ranking in the search engines.  Having diversity in your backlinking campaign is incredibly important.  If you really want your site to rank #1 for it’s term you need to be hitting all the places that you possibly can.

Now onto the free stuff.  As a testament to the quality of their work the guys at Sick Marketing are offering 3 FREE programs for you to try out.  These aren’t the submitter itself but it is part of the whole package that you’ll need to successfully create a link building campaign.  The three programs you are getting are as follows:

• Sick Link Checker
• Sick Platform Reader
• Sick Scraper

Download all 3 FREE – Here

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Sick Link Checker

Sick Link Checker was created to check if your link appears on a set of web pages.

With the Sick Link Checker you can find the “stick rate” for any particular link building campaign.

Sick Link Checker

Download Here
To Install:

• Download from the link above
• Save the exe someplace you will remember
• Run the exe

To Run a Back Link Check:

• Your Sites – Large Lists: You can load a large list of sites your checking for from a .txt file (one URL per line) by pressing the load sites button and selecting the file
• Your Sites – Small List: You can type a small list of URL’s your checking for in the text field below the load box
• Your Backlinks: You Load your list of backlinks to be checked by pressing the Load Backlinks button and loading a txt file (one URL per line)
• The Sick Link Checker will default to checking your sites against the base URL
• If you want to check for the exact URL in Your sites select “Check exact URL” – Note: http:// , http://www. will be treated differently by selecting this
• Select the number of threads for the Sick Link Checker to use. – Note: to many threads can cause timeouts which will show as a fail
• Press Start

Exporting Back Link Check Results:

• To Export to File: Press Export to File then Select Found Links or Not Found Links
• To Copy to Clipboard: Press Copy to clipboard then Select Found Links or Not Found Links

To Run a Index Check:

• Your Sites – Large Lists: You can load a large list of sites your checking for from a .txt file (one URL per line) by pressing the load sites button and selecting the file
• Your Sites – Small List: You can type a small list of URL’s your checking for in the text field below the load box
• Check the “Check if indexed” box
• Decide if you want to Check Google, Bing or Both by checking the appropriate boxes
• The Sick Link Checker will default to checking your sites against the base URL
• If you want to check for the exact URL in Your sites select “Check exact URL” – Note: http:// , http://www. will be treated differently by selecting this
• Select the number of threads for the Sick Link Checker to use. – Note: to many threads can cause timeouts which will show as a fail
• Press Start

Exporting Index Check Results:

• To Export to File: Press Export to File then Select Indexed Links, Indexed in Google or Indexed in Bing
• To Copy to Clipboard: Press Copy to clipboard then Select Indexed Links, Indexed in Google or Indexed in Bing

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Sick Platform Reader

Sick Platform Reader was created to parse the many available backlink packets into managable lists to help automate your link building experience.

It can also be used on a scraped list of your competitors backlinks to see if they are targeting any specific platforms to achieve their rankings.

Once the Platforms are parsed out you can add them to a the List Wizard in order to automatically submit your links to those sites.

The Sick Platform Reader parses both .txt files and .pdf files.

Sick Platform Checker

Download Here

To Install:

• Download from the link above
• Un-zip SickPlatformReader.zip to your desktop or other location. (note: the location)
• Create a shortcut to your desktop for Platform Reader.exe (so you can find it easy in the future)

To Run:

• Open the folder SickPlatformReader.
• Double Click PlatformReader.exe to open
• Select your file to parse for links. This file can be a .txt or .pdf file.
• Choose if you want the Program to output separate files for each platform or just one file for all platforms.
• ** If you choose just one file you will need to select your output file, this is where you want platform results saved to.
• Leaving the Get Root PR box checked will attempt to grab the PR of the root domain.
• Leaving Trim urls to root, will trim your link pages to the root domain.
• Number of threads can be adjusted based on bandwidth and computing power up to 25 threads.
• Click Process file to begin.
• The results file you selected above will open when complete

Adding or changing platforms:

A file named filter.txt is included in the Platform Reader folder. It can be opened and modified to add more platforms (currently 68 platforms are supported) or adjust platform footprints to your liking.

The format is
Name##Search phrase — where name is the name of the platform, and search phrase is the on page text to identify the platform type.

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Sick Scraper

Sick Scraper helps you find links for your templates to run in Sick Submitter.

Sick Scraper

Download Here

Requirements:

• .NET 3.0 or above

To Install:

• Download from the link above

To Run:

• Run the scraper.exe

Cost:

• FREE

How to use:

We currently have no documentation for the Beta

Sharing the Sick Scraper:

Please share the Sick Scraper anywhere you can. Scraper is free and will remain that way

Updates:

Version .010

• Fixed issue when you check only Yahoo you would get this message: “Please check at least one search engine”

Version .011

• Updated Proxy Tester for threading
• Yahoo Search checked bug fixed
• “Remove duplicates” function updated
• Right click menu on URL’s with “Visit URL” and “Remove URL”

Version 0.12

• Bug that crashed Scraper with to many keywords resolved

Version 0.12.1

• Bug that crashed Scraper during PR check resolved

Version 0.12.3

• Handles Bigger keyword lists
• Timer on scraping
• Adding multiple footprints by file
• New proxy sources
• New Packet split in List Wizard
• Copy/Export list PR -1 bug fixed

Version 0.12.4

• Updated Google PR check

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This is a pretty sweet deal guys.  Check out these programs they are 100% free for you to use and hopefully by using them you’ll be able to start seeing the power that the sick submitter has and you’ll know that this is one of the better submitters out there.  Competing software comes with a pricetag of $100+ a month, which is outrageous.  The Sick Submitter does all this at an incredibly low price.  Check it out guys!

Thought I’d share this little gem with you guys.  SE Scout is a tool to check your SERP rankings over time.  You enter in your URL/Keyword and it shows you via a pretty organized and easy to use layout your rankings, your ranking changes (+ or -), your # of backlinks and a few other things.  This is what it will look like:

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I’ve blanked out my keywords/URL on the left side for obvious reasons but this is what yours will look like.  Now if you click on any of the rows you will be presented with a graphical representation over time of your rankings and your backlinks of you so choose.  It also separates out Bing vs Google.  Here’s a screen of what you’ll see:

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You can do this with every keyword you have and it is quite nice

Why check your SERPs?

Checking your SERPs (Search Engine Ranking Position) is going to be very critical in your quest for backlinking and ranking dominance.  With this you can visually see the affect of what a certain backlinking strategy is giving you.  Let’s say you’ve had a site sitting at position #7 for a few weeks and you want to see if you can increase it.  You order 30 high PR blog comments and wait a bit.  a week or so later you see an increase to ranking #3 and while you can’t PROVE that this DIRECTLY caused this increase because ranking is a pretty hard thing to laser target, you can start to assume and make a theory that this amount of blog comments allowed for this much movement over this amount of time with this competition.  Once you have that down you can then try this same thing with your other sites and see how they move and come up with a more tested theory of what 30 high PR blog comments will do.

Personally that is why I check SERPs other than it’s easy to check where all my sites are at at a quick glance without going into google and typing in every site and looking for it.

How Much $$?

The free version is very useful for the newbie starting out, you wont need the paid version unless you’re seriously getting into some internet marketing.  The images above are of the free version I use.  You get to track a total of 10 keywords, which works great for me.

They have a wide range of prices if you plan to jump to the paid version and those can be found here https://users.sescout.com/plans

There you go guys, hopefully if you’re in this game you are using tools like this to learn backlinking theory and find out how to get your sites to #1.

Definitely had to drop this one on you guys because it works… and it’s FREE!  You sign up and give them your e-mail address (you can always unsubscribe later because they’ll probably send you e-mails left and right) and give them information for 1 of your sites.  I was a bit confused at first I thought it allowed you to submit to 25 sites with the free version but it’s only for 1, but for 25 free social bookmarking backlinks a day… it’s definitely worth it.  Check it out guys, can’t hurt can only help.

• SocialMonkee.com

Alright guys I know I threw a product at you in my last post but this product has been so great to me I couldn’t help but show it to you guys.

Dripable is a great platform that allows you to shoot out 1k, 2k, or 4k blog comments/profile backlinks per day, depending on how much you want to spend.

This is the first time I’ve ever used automated software after realizing doing forum profiles 10 a day wasn’t cutting it at all. So I decided if I wanted to expand I HAD to get into something automated, I’d been trying it by hand for over a year and the results just aren’t coming in. I searched a bunch of different places and checked out all the reviews and I have to say for the amount they give you and the ease of use, this one has got to be one of the best I’ve yet found.

It’s incredibly simple.

You have the ability to create projects and you get 2 blasts per day. 1 blog comment blast and 1 profile blast separated about 10 hours apart. When you create a project you give the project a name, keyword(s), and url(s). This gives you the ability to put as many keywords/urls as you want per blast.

You can create as many projects as you like and it will go down the list blasting in order of creation. Knowing this allows you to pause ones you don’t want blasted any more, and keep ones open you wish to further blast. It would be nice if they had some sort of scheduling feature, which is something they’re actually working on so that will be nice to have more control.

There’s really not that much to it. Create a project and let it do it’s thing. It gives text file reports of every blast you do so you can open or download them and ping them all if you wish (pingfarm.com works perfect). Also if you have a linklicious account it can be auto linked to that.

Pricing starts at 1k links/day for $46/mo, 2k links/day for $67/mo, and 4k links/day for $97/mo.

For a newbie just getting into the game of automated link building I don’t think there could be an easier way, and I’m sure even the pro’s can appreciate this simplicity. Check it out guys, at Drip Feed Blasts – Automated Link Building – Monthly SEO Service

Article Submitter Platinum

One great way to article market is to use a program that automatically sends your articles out to hundreds of directories. If you’re doing this at home by yourself and want to generate a ton of backlinks it can be incredibly time consuming to sit there and pump out articles then have to submit them individually to as many article submission directories as you can stand.

This is one of the programs that I used when I first started marketing and it made submitting articles so easy. I just wrote one up, signed up for the article sites themselves, plugged it into the program and submitted them to tons of article marketing directories. This was a great way to do a decently massive amount of backlinking in a legit way that would really get your articles out.

One thing to mention though is that just because you have a mass of your articles going out it doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t keep making them quality articles. Quality articles grow and multiply while cheap articles fade and die.

When I first started making wordpress blogs one of the first things that I would do is to go and search for and download every plugin through the plugin search function of wordpress. This is a lengthy process and was something that I didn’t look forward to doing as it was very monotonous. Finally I found a solution to this problem.

An FTP client is a program that you download onto your computer and it allows you to directly login to your hosting accounts system and upload as many files and folders as you want at a time. I’ve known about this for a while but always had trouble setting one up. Once I actually put effort into it, it was quite easy to set up.

The one that I personally use is called File Zilla. This is a very straight forward and very easy to use FTP Client, and best of all it is free!

When you get File Zilla you’re going to see this at the top, prompting you for your server and login information:

This is the only complicated part, because of how variable the information is that you can get.  What I did was go onto my hosts website and go to the help section.  There I searched for FTP client information and it popped up right away.

Once you have been able to log in you’re going to want to have a folder on your computer full of all the plugins that you want to have on all your different websites.  I have a standard of about 7 or 8 that I’ll use on every website.  On the left side will be the view window for the files on your own computer, while the right side will be the view window for the files on the hosts server.  This is what mine looks like:

This is the path on the hosts server for where you’ll want to dump all your plugins

• www –> SITENAME.COM –> wp-content –> plugins

Select all your plugins on the left at once, right click, and click on ‘Add Files to Queue’.  This will then send your files that you want to transfer over to your blog to a queue.  Now that they’re in the queue, look at the top toolbar and hit the ‘Toggles processing of the transfer queue’ button, and all your files will be transferred over at once!

Now login to your WordPress control panel and head to the plugins section.  Hit the box by the plugin heading on the page, and go to the Bulk Actions drop down box and select Activate.  Then press Apply.

You’ve now uploaded every plugin that you use in a very effecient and effective manner and saves you from the drudge of finding every single one and activating it.  Even if your plugins are outdated WordPress now has an updates option on the Dashboard drop down box of the wordpress toolbar in which you can update every plugin all at once, again saving you a lot of time.

RSS

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.  That probably doesn’t do much for you, as I’m still not even sure what it means.  The principle behind RSS is actually very simple, and incredibly useful.

An RSS is a link coming from your blog.  WordPress blogs generate an external page away from your main blog with either full content or snippets of all your newest posts.  This is generally set to 10 posts.  The RSS link links to this page.

Now that might not seem too impressive, but here’s what you do with that page.  You can do two things.  Submitting your RSS to RSS directories will get your sites content out on the web.  Every time you make a new post, your content is then trasnferred to wherever your RSS link is submitted to.  If your link is submitted to 100 directories, then BAM you have your content on 101 websites with one click.  Perhaps you could think of a few things you could do with this.. (adding links to your site)

The second thing you can do is get an RSS Reader.  This is what RSS is most conventionally used for.  When you subscribe to an RSS feed with a reader it gets information from all of your favorite blogs and puts all the latest and newest posts in one spot and on one page.  Having this is very time saving and easy for many people.  Instead of going to each website and looking at their news page, you can just have the news come to your RSS reader page!

That is the basis of RSS.  To get a great RSS Reader check out Google Reader

Yahoo Site Explorer is a great tool for bloggers concerned about their competition, bloggers doing keyword research, and to check the status of your own blog.  This site explorer will tell you how many backlinks a site has, how many pages it has, and where all these backlinks are coming from.

What can you do with this information?

• Check out your competition for a particular keyword, and see if you’ll be able to conquer it
• Use this to find high PR backlinks from sites that are ranking well
• Check out how many backlinks you have of your own, and which ones are taking effect
• See what backlinking method is working

This is a great tool to use and I use it very often, usually every day.  If you’re concerned about getting ranked, you should as well.

There aren’t too many options with the site explorer.  One feature that is awesome is the My Sites dashboard.  This allows you to store however many sites you want on it for quick referencing.  I have all my sites on there and a few sites of other people’s that I like to check out.

If you choose not to use that feature, you can just as easily type the site in the prompt and will be taken to the information you ask for.

Now that you have your blog set up, you are going to want to track who’s coming to your site, where they’re coming from, and what they’re looking at.  Google has probably the greatest tracking program I have ever seen.  Anything you could ever want to know is incorporated into this program and it is called Google Analytics. rc26tnedxj

I could go on and on about all the features of Google Analytics but that would make this article go on to a small e-book.  I’ll show you how to easily set it up with your wordpress blog.

• Log in to your Google account, or signup if you haven’t already.  Visit the Google Analytics page Here.  If you haven’t signed up already you’ll be brought to a page that looks like this:

Google Analytics Signup Page

• Click Access Analytics to link your Google account with Analytics.  On the next page you’re brought to simply click on the Sign Up button to sign up for analytics.
• Next enter your information like below

Google Analytics Account

• Click Continue then enter your name, phone number, and country/territory.
• Click continue again and you’ll be brought to an agreement page, check the Yes, I agree to the terms checkbox
• click Create New Account.

You’ll be brought to a page that has your huge tracking code.  For us WordPress users we don’t have to worry about that because we’re going to be using something much simpler.  Simply click Finish and you’ll be brought to this page:

Google Analytics Code

The code circled in RED is the code we are going to be using.  So where are we going to put this code on our WordPress blog?  Well if you haven’t already done so download the Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin or search for it on your plugins dashboard.

Once you have downlaoded and installed this plugin visit the dashboard under Plugins > Google Analytics.

We have covered up our code for security purposes but you will enter your code in the area circled in red, and make sure that you place the tracking script in the footer.

Google Analytics Settings

Click Update Settings and your Google Analytics will now be activated!  it will take some time for the data to be processed and show up on your google analytics dashboard.  To access it simply go to your Google Dashboard and click on Analytics.  Click on Analytics and you’ll be brought to your Google Analytics Dashboard.  Here you can play around with all the settings and features and now you can see how great Google Analytics really is with the amount data it processes.

With this information you can now see where your traffic is coming from and what they are looking at.  With that you can then increase what’s working for you.  If you’ve been article marketing and its been driving crazy traffic then rinse and repeat.  If you’ve been social bookmarking with no effect at all then stop doing that and write more articles!  If you’re getting a high bounce rate for your home page maybe you should change it up to make it more appealing to your visitors.

That’s only the tip of the iceberg.  There are so many things you could do with analytics and if you’re trying to monetize your blog or bring in more traffic, not using analytics is leaving money and visitors on the table.

If you don’t already have a Google Webmaster Tools account, you need to do so and you can follow our guide Here on how to do so.  Once you have set up your account, go to your webmaster tools home page and click Submit Sitemap

Submit Sitemap

Also make sure that you have the plugin Google XML Sitemap Generator.  This will generate a sitemap of every page on your blog and it will create a new one automatically every time you update your blog.  This is an amazing plugin and it makes things incredibly easy.  With this plugin it will create a sitemap at http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

On the submit a sitemap page click on Submit a Sitemap and enter that address:

Submitting Sitemap

Your sitemap page will now look something like this:

Sitemap Submitted

Again this will take a little time to get the data in there.  You have now submitted every page of your blog to the Google search engine.  This will help get your pages indexed and ranked fast.

How to Make Blog