Comments on: Bum Marketing Is Harder Than I Thought

By: Inderjeet

Inderjeet — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:16:54 +0000

another of a GEM
Long tail KW are a good way to attract the starting traffic around your main KW.
Its like building a reverse tree. which adds up in SE.

By: VMOptions

VMOptions — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:10:16 +0000

Scott, I give you credit if you stick with this experiment. From my experience bum marketing takes a long time to materialize. Maybe I just was in the wrong niches. But I certainly look forward to your updates.

By: BlogSavvy

BlogSavvy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:50:44 +0000

Nice post, would have never guessed the long tails would be beneficial.

By: Scott Weaver

Scott Weaver — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:08:03 +0000

@VMOptions: It’s much tougher than I thought, actually. Just means more dedication is necessary, I guess.

By: VMOptions

VMOptions — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:08:25 +0000

Bum marketing is tough, especially without buying any links. I think so many people are using bum marketing methods these days that it is no longer as effective as it was. I look forward to seeing how well you progress with this project.

By: Scott Weaver

Scott Weaver — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:16:19 +0000

@peter: I’m not a fan of myspace either. Depending on how well your site is ranked, you can profit anywhere from $5-200 /day. My site is right around the $5 mark. A buddy of mine has a site that does much more volume and he does $200 /day, so it just depends.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:29:22 +0000

can you share how much do myspace sites can earn actually )?
I saw them all over but never understand how profit can be it (probably because I’m not fan of myspace)?:P

By: Scott Weaver

Scott Weaver — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:37:35 +0000

@Geiger: I just Googled the keywords I want to rank for and started hitting up the website owners. Some of the links are permanent, others are rentals. Most are permanent though, thank god. To find the long-tail keywords, I just checked my stats.

@Matt: Exactly. It’s tedious to sit there and ask a bunch of sites to add my link, especially since they don’t usually respond until a day or two later. In fact, I’m keeping an Excel spreadsheet of who I talk to and what the status is. Otherwise, I’d go nuts.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:35:45 +0000

You can only do so much with posting on forums. With SEO you can do all your markup right (title tags, h1 tags, internal link anchor text, etc) and still not rank as high as you’d like.

You just need to get lots of links.

By: Geiger

Geiger — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:14:22 +0000

…also how did you find the longtails?