Wingnut SEO

Hello everyone - It’s been a long time since I have updated thanks, in part, to my Denver SEO and Web design company doing so well, and the birth of my beautiful daughter. It’s been a crazy many months.

I read an article yesterday I just happened to find through following @Viperchill that was truly inspiring. Glen wrote about his successful process of creating affiliate sites. As many of you know I got my start in the internet marketing world with a few funny sites that got enough visitors to bring in a fun Google ads revenue.

I have never tried my hand at affiliate marketing. I have often thought about it but always found reasons not to.  After reading Glens post it’s time to give it a go. I am going to follow his process to nearly the letter and I will write about it here to keep everyone up to date.

Go and check out what he wrote but to sum up the process: Find one of your passions, see if there is a market, find a product that fits, make the site, get ranked, profit

I have always wanted my official title to be Lord of Awesome. I don’t know why, I just have… mostly because it’s awesome. Now that I have my own Denver internet marketing company I had business cards made to read Dave Winget - Lord of Awesome. I think I deserve this title as I do own and run PrettyMuchAwesome.org

I started thinking to myself that if I’m going to have this title I should put some reason behind it - or at the very least rank #1 in google for a search of Lord of Awesome. This is my mission now. I will spend time over the coming weeks to rank myself in the serps as Lord of Awesome.

This is where the SEO comes in - I will rank this page and others for Lord of Awesome as I have for my personal name Dave Winget. A search for Dave Winget comes up as the first 10 results pointing to things I have done and, given a little time, Lord of Awesome will come up as well.

If you want to help me out with this noble mission of branding myself as Dave Winget - Lord of Awesome feel free to link to this post and write about the best title - Lord of Awesome.

Here is my experiment in reputation management.

Lets see with this yelp page for Omni Financial. And that ends our test to push a page up in the serps and potentially harmful ones down. Go get them Omni Financial… Go get them.

Expect a follow up post as soon as I know what’s going on with it. Could be pushed up in a day, week, month..

As most of you know I have done freelance SEO for a long time and just recently started a Denver/Boulder SEO company of my very own.  It’s going really well and I’m trying my hardest to make time and write on both blogs all while working a 40-hour agency job and  then spending the rest of my time working on building a new company.

That said I started a Twitter account for my new company @10kthings (I’m @Wingnut by the way).

Before I started the company Twitter account it I asked my follwers to see if everyone thought it was a good/bad/lame idea or not - the resounding answer was DO IT.  So far it’s been a great idea.  I really can’t be more happy with it (well, I wish my partners would use it more… but they started to today) With me and 4 other people tweeting (using it the real way and not just shameless self promotion) it’s been fun.  We have a few followers and it’s just nice to know that we have the support out there.  For all the time it takes chatting with people - it’s all well worth it.  It keeps us motivated knowing that there are people watching what we are up to and willing to help support us.

All and all starting a Twitter account for your company is a GOOD THING.  It opens your company up to a whole new range of being social and lets you know that there are people out there that actually do care and wish you the best…. It also it’s awesome free advertising and public relations!

I am pleased to announce the recently registered LLC 10k Things. After being canned from my last job (even after getting a great job 2 hours later) I started to really take things more seriously. The SEM world is always changing and clients come and go – how secure is my new job?

So I did what any Freelancer turned Agency Worker doing side freelance work would do – Took it up a notch with my freelance work. I have always worked with designers and PPC consultants to help with my freelance clients – but now it’s official a company. The launch of the new internet marketing company site, 10kThings.com, should happen later this evening.

It’s pretty cool. We have been working together for a while now and interestingly enough we can do the exact same things any large agency can but for a much lower cost – As we have ZERO overhead.

We will see how things go – we have a few proposals out and a couple clients already signed. Who knows this thing could get huge… here’s to hoping.

To those wondering I will be keeping my full time job - and they were cool that I was working side work when they hired me as they encourage the entrepreneurial spirit. I am really happy where I am with this company and 10k Things will not be a direct competitor with where I am now. The current company I am with is much more large scale than anything 10k Things will be for quite some time.

Right now it’s just a fun project to bring in a little extra money with taking on a few clients and try something new.

So I’m working for a company now that is on the second page for denver internet marketing. It’s a pretty cool shop… The redesign is on the way company websites tend to be pushed to the back-burner. Good people and good times.

So I have access to a pretty rad team of developers who want to start making some tools for the company I am now working with.  I have a pretty good idea of what I have always wanted in a sweet SEO tool but I thought I’d open up the floor to everyone to chime in and help out with some ideas.  Any tools created will be free to all

So - If you could have your dream SEO/SEM/PPC/Social Media tool - What would it be?  What would it do?  How would it work?  Would it be web-based?  Should you have to download something? Tell me about it… If you have an amazing idea that isn’t already out there I want to know what you would like to see.  I won’t be working with this company forever but I may continue to use the tools long after I’m gone - Free SEO tools help everyone

So don’t be shy - Either leave your dream tool idea in a comment or Email me Dave@DaveWinget.com

I have now had Rubicon Project Ads running on 4 sites for 7 days - And I have to tell you, so far, I’m impressed. The sites I have this on are as follows:

• http://PrettyMuchAwesome.org - terrible click through rate but where 95% of my impressions came from
  
• http://BuySomeHappiness.com - Good click through rate - 95% of clicks came from here
  
• http://OutThereAds.com - terrible click through rate
  
• And of course right here at WingnutSEO -Clickthroughs poor

Impressions - 62,673
Clicks - 169
Revenue - 54.72 - Really not bad for 7 days and only having it on 4 sites.  As the goal for any site should be to make more money than it costs to run.

So you may have noticed I now have ads on my site. I recently heard about this ad network Rubicon Project and so I signed up for the beta. What this network does is pull ads from a bunch of different networks and throws them on your site - apparently Google ads is one as they are showing up (I’m personally banned from using Google ads thanks to some shady things I used to be involved in.)

Anyway, I’ll let you all know how it goes/what kind of CPM I find with it. I hear it’s a fairly decent system but I suppose we’ll see.

If you haven’t seen it already check out my recent article over on Adotas.com - “The obsession all marketers should have” - I’m going to be a monthly contributer over there, third Wednesday of every month.

If you’re a regular reader here you may also notice I have removed the translate from the sidebar. I had originally put it up as a test to see if people liked it or not - the resounding answer was they didn’t. Turns out people who read my work would rather read it in english even when that was not their primary language - Thanks to everyone who sent me an email or posted a comment about that plug-in.

Finally I was able to get around to making my URL’s more user/search engine friendly… What it did was ruin all my sphinn numbers - but the redirects are in place so the links from sphinn still go to the right places.

If you don’t know what Twitter is… where have you been? Twitter is basically micro-blogging, it’s like that FaceBook “tell your friends what you’re doing” section… and that’s it. What’s the point? The point is that it is great networking - it’s like super-social media…

Right now I get a lot of traffic by posting a link to my new posts there… but it’s more than just marketing and getting traffic… you actually can make friends - you’re in constant communication with anyone you’re following. I started out following a bunch of my favorite bloggers and only about 2 real-life friends… Something cool that happened is that some of these guys followed me back and said hi - I was suddenly connected with some brilliant writers and big names in the SEO/SEM/Social Media/Blogging world. I have even met someone I initially only knew through Sphinn thanks to the magic of Twitter.

So if you are reading this and not in the Twitter club you should go sign up and follow me on Twitter.

NOTE: If you do sign up for Twitter - and use it on your mobile device - it’s very easy to drunk-Tweet… like drunk-dialing… except it might rank for your name later.