Michael Kane

Several years ago, my mother passed away after 3 failed breast cancer operations. It was/has not been easy ever since, it’s like losing a part of you, the biggest part of you. She never once let her smile fade away, she never once lost hope, she never showed signs of weakness, except physical signs that were obvious at times.

She taught me everything I know, she taught me how to survive and how to make the best out of anything life throws my way, no matter how devastating or heart breaking. My mother is and forever will be in my heart.

To all those that have gone, or are going through the same, my heart aches for you. You have to stay strong, you’re their support, there for them to lean on in time of need.

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Now that I setup a new Music Message Board that also has a regularly updated music news blog I think it’s time to publicize it. What I plan to do is update you guys with 3 or 4 blog posts that includes my process of going about this. So I’ll talk you through what I do to get a site traffic, targeted traffic at that and you’ll see how simple it is to make a forum truly active (Yes i’m going to be assuming you’re running a music forum too…this applies to any other sort of forum too). Now if you have questions about something I post here, feel free to comment with it but I usually get around 800 spam comments a day and like 50 actual comments in between so it’s messy for me to sift through, if I see it i’ll accept it.

First thing is first, build a little bit of content before marketing your forum, and just make sure it’s firmly indexed in Google. What’s firmly indexed? Make sure you have a couple decent backlinks and wait a week to see if your new music forum / music site gets SB’d… if it’s still good or it’s an old site you converted into a music forum then you’re good to go. Content is important, make sure you have unique content, and at least 200 pages worth, on a forum this means no more than 30 decent topics with some good replies.

Now make sure your url structure is optimized and keyword rich, basically do all on site SEO before marketing, so it’s content, links, keyword density and so on, and don’t forget to use different anchor text targeting a wide selection of keywords in the backlinks anchor text like I for example will target things like ‘music forum‘, Music Board or even Music Discussion, I might even link to boards within my music forum and target keywords such as Classical Music Forum, this tells Google that people are sifting through your site and still finding quality content, plus it helps get everything indexed. This should go on for a couple weeks, when you’re done with this focus on getting ‘QUALITY’ backlinks, and not many are needed at first, blog post backlinks are really good as they get crawled almost instantly on half decent blogs. Make sure the content is somewhat related to forums or music, that’s always a plus.

Next step is the most important step, generating targeted traffic. It’s like herding sheep really, you need to find them and show them the way to your forum (you best have decent content, a good design too to keep them there).

So how do we get this targeted traffic? That comes in the next post when I start doing it myself

Are there more successful male webmasters than there are female ones? See I know this topic has probably been discussed before, but I know who my blog readers are, and for the most part, cute stalker girls aside, they’re a very intelligent bunch of both genders. So here’s me asking you guys what you think on the matter?

I wont make this a long blog post as I’m more interested in what you guys have to say on the matter, but this is how I see it; Both men and women have a shot at making it in their industry of choice. It’s those that want it bad enough that have the upper hand. I think it’s more about different people excelling in what it is they are good at, more passionate about. If i’m to look at the male VS female web presence online today, I’d have to say that it looks like males are dominating the stage. Disagree? Let me know why!

Oh and another thing, I think this country would be in turmoil if a female president was ever elected.

Friend of mine has been busy blogging over at consideropen.com only to be slammed by the phenomena I like to call ‘retarded CEO of LoopFuse comment shower’, whos marketing and sales automation software sucks, not that I even care to read about it really. CEO of LoopFuse, Roy Russo has proven several things by commenting the way he did, one being that he has zero people skills. I’m not only going to go on about how rude, immature and fucking stupid this dickhead was in replying the way he did, I’m also going to talk about how NOT to promote your product, LoopFuse can learn from this, really, they can’t get any worse so here goes.

This guy is beyond being a complete fuck up, he’s arrogant, has an ego that needs to be chopped down a notch and owes Lauren a fucking apology for the way he acted in a LoopFuse Review . Once he publicly apologies to her on her blog post, this will go away. Otherwise, get ready for a little ripple that I like to call, pin the tale on the moron. What do you think 1400+ unique blog posts about how crap a service LoopFuse is, not to mention how crap a personality it has running it will do to his company? Yeah, I see this going to the shitter pretty fast too.

“LoopFuse is a Marketing Automation Suite, NOT a web analytics package. Hence the price, hence the “extra functionality”.

… and you can view the click-stream. Trial’s are free, brain-cells aren’t.

Thanks for the plug, though. ;)”

You like sarcasm Roy? Guess what, there are over 37thousand BH’s/SEOs/Webmasters in my personal network alone that would love to share their sarcastic comments with you. I KNOW you’re thrilled to hear that.

It’s no secret, my people skills are pretty fucking awesome, you don’t get invited to the googleplex every day for having shit for skills, to talk at seminars if you were not good at what you do, but when something bothers me, when someone gets under my skin, i’m NOT afraid to say so, and I will tell it how it is. I don’t mind throwing around a few threats either, and like I’ve told many before, call my bluff if you think it is one, do it, make my day that much better.

So promoting yourself online, well one point you need to keep in mind is to never ever lash out at negative reviews, conduct yourself professionally online, or as my friend Jeremy over at shoemoney.com once said, ‘blog comments travel faster than the speed of light’…whada ya know!!! He was right

Keep in mind, not all publicity is in fact good publicity. If you get 500 people chanting the same review, you’re most likely going to get shit for clients if those reviews start ranking, sure one or two wont matter much, but when word gets out, you’re in the dog house. Period.

Always remember that it’s the client that feeds you, just because you have made enough off past clients, that does not mean you’re safe to bash new ones, on the contrary, ‘what makes you, can break you’ and in this case, it’s your paying customers and potential ones. Bashing them means you’re simply hacking away at your own life chord.

Guys, use LoopFuse’s poor behavior as an example, instead of effectively tackling the review and spinning it around to their advantage by possibly changing the reviewers mind about the product, or at least fixing it with a professional discussion so users reading both the review and the comments side with you, Loop Fuse went ahead with a piss poor job of a come back and insulted not ONLY the blogger in question, but all the blog readers.

Roy, ray, whoever you all are, fix this or take it to another level by slamming me with a sarcastic reply too Go on, make my fucking day, and Lauren, don’t worry, we bloggers stick together no matter what!

I rarely even read online web related interviews with the different SEO and Web developer/designer personalities out there, mainly because I could care less about any of them. But when someone really close to me does something that impresses me, I show respect, and here’s how. I landed an interview with Johnny of JustaGuyandaGirl.com a great friend, practically related to me, he’s like that guy in the mirror. On top of being able to relate to him, I think he’s a great SEO/Designer/Developer.  So, let’s get started with the first part of this really fun interview. Hope you like it.

Michael Kane: What’s good man?

Johnny: It’s all good MK, how are you?

Michael Kane: Fine bro doing great. So tell me, what have you been up to lately?

Johnny: Taking it easy, doing what I have always been doing like working on my many projects and starting a few new ones here and there. My latest is www.justaguyandagirl.com which I setup with Blondie, a good friend of mine. I have some plans for the site but I’m waiting for it to reach a fork in the road before I expand it into a money spinning project, as of right now, it’s all in good fun, a place me and Blondie get to share our ideas and not get hassled too much about doing so.

Michael Kane: Great, i’ll get to justaguyandagirl.com in a bit, but tell me what you mean by ‘fork in the road’ ?

Johnny: Well the blog for now is just a place me and Blondie can vent, be random, and have fun. Later on I want to expand it into a podcast oriented blog and then go live with live streaming (online radio’ish like) which might end up with us not only having live streaming audio when we’re on but possibly live streaming video too, a sort of reality blog that’s live and kept updated pretty much 24/7. Like I said, that’s in the future, right now we’re focusing on taking it one step at a time and hopefully building a big enough readership count to think about bigger and better things. Turning the blog into a Super Affiliate blog is also another idea I’ll spin Blondie’s way soon, it’s just what comes to mind really, it’s not too planned out at all.

Michael Kane: So for the record, Johnny is your Alias right? You are however a super affiliate correct? I believe a year or so ago you were mentioned as one of the top Super Affiliates online today but a lot of controversy was sparked around that, am I warm?

Johnny: Yes, ‘Johnny’ is a nickname i’m going by for now, I’m not trying to be mysterious but I want justaguyandagirl.com to succeed for what it is, not who’s blogging on it, Blondie really is my other half when it comes to blogging, scary how I can say that about a women, as you know all women have issues and are psycho and she puts up with me, and we get along almost too well, so I believe we’re the ultimate blogging team here, and the blog will succeed because of that, not because of my personal readership online.

Yes, early in 2007 I was contacted via email for an award I wont name, but I was working under the radar (much like you do most times) they had very little to go on as far as contacting me personally, I refused to give them an appointment as I did not want to become another public SA icon, I just wanted to keep at what I was doing and simply left alone. They did not appreciate that and canceled the award even though I offered to have someone appear as a representative, that did not go down too well with them and I was scratched off the affiliate  list for that year. However, I am planning on making a public appearance later this year at more than one convention, I wont say more on that.

Michael Kane: Reading your blog posts I can’t help but think there’s more to some of the things you’ve posted, not to mention posting about naked monkeys and using similar crazy titles for posts like I do. Are you slipping hidden messages directed at certain people or something? I mean your latest post about SEO personalities obviously attacked Doug Heil, a very well known SEO and then you went on complimenting shadyseo only to bash a blackhat? Not to mention bitching about WP even though you use WP yourself?! What gives Johnny?

Johnny: It’s not about me attacking anyone personally, I’m just giving my own opinion and posting assumptions, all of which are mine alone. Doug to me was not targeted in that post he was just used as an example mainly because he straps the word ETHICS to his back and runs around telling people how to run their businesses, sure he’s highly respected in the SEO industry and I give him credit for what he’s accomplished, but he’s not a competitor, nor is he someone I need to worry about in my own industry, however when I think of a ‘white hat seo’ I think of him.

Shady SEO to me is just someone doing what needs to be done to rank without being an out right Google hater and believing that the most popular search engine in the world hasn’t a clue when it comes to ranking sites. Black hats, well, I’m no Doug Heil but one thing I agree with him on, is that to me most black hats, or at least those calling themselves black hats are simply immature and are for the most part involved in online criminal activities. Hurting competitors and attacking their ad campaigns or faking adsense clicks and stuffing affiliate cookies is stealing which every 5 year old knows is wrong.

I actually voted for G.W.Bush, but I was one of those protesting a while back when my youngest cousin was sent to Iraq, he was killed in a road side bombing 2 weeks before he was to come back home. Anyway that’s besides the point, Wordpress I use, but it does not mean I have to accept it’s flaws, and I stated that in my recent post on justaguyandagirl.com

Michael Kane: Hey Johnny, tell me something I don’t know about SEO, wait that is tricky i’m sure, tell my readers something they may not know about ranking? A tip, trick? Anything they have not read about a million times online before.

Johnny: Spam is all bad, but there’s something known as Smart Spam (SS), I think you originally came up with the term and technique, it gets the average webmaster around 200-1000 targeted unique users in traffic a day, which is a nice boost in targeted traffic for 60% of sites out there today.

Simply visit a warez forum such as forumw.org, register and browse it for topics related to your niche with a product that’s up for download, something users are going crazy over (find a few for best effect) take the rapidshare links, download the products then re upload them on a page on your site, or simply upload them to rapidshare and add the link on a dedicated page on your site . Consider using a proxy so you don’t get in trouble for re distributing software or whatever the product is, then go onto a more popular forum, such as warez-bb.org for example. Post the new to your page with the download link on it.

Usually you get around 200-400 visits if it’s rush hour on big forums in the first hour of publishing a new post, if you develop a good reputation multiply that by a thousand at least. People fail when they think of spam as a method to simply help their rankings in the search engines. Props to you for coming up with similar techniques a few years back Mike.

Michael Kane: A lot of techniques we used to rank and generate traffic 4 years ago are still as effective today, just not as widely used. It’s like a current, it swept a lot of the creative effective ideas we once used to come up with, I remember the irc message spam bot that used to slam irc channels worldwide with over 50,000 messages an hour or day, can’t remember that part. Now that was hardcore.

Anyway, I want to split this interview into two parts, have this as an intro and the next 10 questions all SEO/Marketing/Blogging/Traffic Generating related, up for round two?

Johnny: I think I am, let’s have them!

Part 2 of this interview will follow soon.

(parts of this interview have been edited but in no way effect/alter the integrity of the answers or questions.  Mainly re formated and spell checked to better go with the blog format and my blogging style)

I don’t get google sometimes, banning the gnc web creations  blog post because it was creative? Educational? Informative? Fresh? New? forced people to think outside the box and go ahead and grab traffic from competitors by providing better content to earn more money? What gives?

Did someone manually drop the blog post? Was it just randomly chosen, did someone report it? Maybe it will come back up naturally, all I know is id it was reported, that person better pray to god they have several lives, because they will need um! When the blackhats get a whiff of a reporting scoundrel it will be Armageddon you low life son of a bitch, or simply fucking bitch if you who reported that post happens to be a lady

Shoutingzones gnc web creations blog post was second up and so it should be! Fuck those gay nigerian canadians. This will hurt you more than it will hurt me, remember that you toe sucking cunt.

It’s one thing to run a blackhat seo community, rank for pretty much everything blackhat related, or at least everything worth ranking for, be it blackhat blog, blackhat domains or blackhat forum, my new community is up there with the best, if not then it’s above all the best. I get people asking me if i’m worried about competing with so many ‘blackhats’, if i’m worried they’ll ‘hack’ my sites? What a load of bull shit. Let me explain.

Blackhat SEOs don’t hack each other, funny thing is we tend to respect each other more than other competitors do in different niches. I’m sure each one of us wants to rank the highest but at the end of the day it’s not just about ranking for us, it’s about the respect we get from others in our general community, it’s about making money, and we all know you don’t have to rank #1 for shit to make money. I’ve laid low for a few years now, watched so many people rise and fall, so many BHs make it while so many others land in the gutter. I’ve seen communities evolve and new ones come to life, I watched BHW turn from being a once decent forum to a now spam infested one run by some top notch guys who just can’t seem to steer it in the right direction.

BlackHat SEOs are sometimes mistaken for BlackHat Hackers, something only a complete fool would do. I don’t even label myself as a BlackHat, I work hard at developing my own ways of ranking, but most importantly, it’s more about earning money online, and that believe it or not has very little to do with ranking in the SERPs.

So to make a bold statement and answer a lot of peoples questions, yes I make enough money to have bought a $22 muffin last week, yes I will make sure SZ becomes the most popular blackhat everything and NO, I could care less who the fuck is after me or upset because i rank higher in the SERPs, I can take anything anyone has to dish out at me, plus the last group of people I have to worry about are BlackHat SEOs/hackers, come on now, like we have nothing better to do that be at each others throats, we would rather pin up loud mouthed so called “White Hat” SEOs for target practice you know?

That’s right, naked sushi, I mean really where do I come up with this crap. Ok so i didn’t not this time, what after the whale sperm trip and the sort of spam comments I got as a result i think i’ll lay off the dumb titles for a bit. I was contacted by a friend to cook up a logo, a sushi related logo, a naked sushi related logo at that! He had me slap up an Eat in China logo not too long ago, now he added to his menu and wants the logo changed.

What did he add to his menu? Naked women. That’s right, really hot naked women that lay on a table covered in sushi while customers at his restaurant eat off their sizzling bodies.

Hot right? I’m definitely paying him a visit later this week, and I know what i’m going to order, naked wome…uhhh…naked sushi!

So anyway, the logo was not supposed to be changed all that much just have the word naked sushi added in there somewhere, he’ll only have it up till he decides on whether he’s gonna keep the naked sushi clad women on the menu or not. So here’s the logo, what do you guys think? Simple? Modernish? The fork was his idea although I wanted to go with chopsticks to make it feel more Chinese like, his restaurant is a trendy modern one so I guess it goes well with it.

Anyway if anyone is interested in naked sushi recipes, you’ll find one below;

Ingredients

• some sushi
• a hot female body (Asian, African American or Caucasian you’re free to choose the color)
• 3 cups sumeshi
• 1 cucumber
• 4 oz cream cheese
• 6 jalapeño peppers or a bunch of sliced jalapeños from a jar
• a leaf of some sort, big enough to fit some sushi on top of

Cooking Directions

1. Cook sushi rice.
2. Cut cucumber into sticks.
3. Slice jalapeños… but be careful! Don’t get the oils in your eyes! Discard the stem.
4. Roll the sushi, using a few sticks of cucumber, some cream cheese, and a sliced jalepeño
5. place sushi on leaf
6. place leaf on the womans body
7. If you’re really hardcore when it comes to your naked sushi smother the naked ladies body with some sushi rice and eat right off the body.

And there you have it, a naked sushi photo, a naked sushi logo, a naked sushi recipe and one very hungry dude who’s gonna get some naked sushi this week!

So what are Google Blowers? It’s simple really, google blowers are Google fan boys and girls that suck off google for better rankings. So called WhiteHat SEO’s that read the google manual while on the shitter. Yes, Google Blowers are people we know in every day life that use terms such as, “I googled this and that”, “Google it” and such bull crap. Do you have any idea how fucked up Google Search Results really are? Like do you have any idea what so ever? You probably don’t even fucking know how Google works. Ok, that’s fair enough, let me explain how this pos search engine works to you google blowers, and the rest of you none google blowers, it’s simple.

First, bob sits on his PC, yes Google is so gay they still use PC, but that’s besides the point, so Bob sits down and starts using Yahoo and other well known search engines to note the top search results for certain keywords then passes the results onto Bill.

Bill sifts through the sites and awards them a green bar, scaled 1 to 10 on the colors it uses and how many typos the site consists of, Bill is gay, so the more reds, yellows, and greens you clash, the more likely he is to award you a higher ranked green bar! When he’s done he passes that shit onto Matt.

Matt the evil cyborg goes through these sites, he’s super gay so if he doesn’t like your websites colors he’ll just ban the shit out of you, if you use a word more than twice on the same page, which pretty much means even I am fucked there, he bans the shit out of you. If you tell you friend to link to you, and you link to your friend back, because your such great friends, matt the evil cyborg breaks your friendship up, by banning the shit out of both of you. Anyway, when Matt is done banning half the decent sites because of his lack of color coordination and grammar skills, he passes the shit sites that are left to Raja.

Raja is an indian Google outsources a lot of their shit work to. He calls up the owners of these sites and goes (in a very indian like accent) “Hello sir, I am Raja and I work for the big G, I like big butts and fried rice with curry, I will offer this once and once only, buy adwords or I shit in your face and ban your shit from our shit?” If you fall for this and buy adwords, Raja leaves your site alone, if you hang up or call him a prick, paki (which he’s not) or indian shit hole, he will indeed shit in your face, and ban the shit out of you. Which is sad, I mean imagine getting pwnd by an Indian curry eating dude named Raja who works for the ‘Big G’. So when he’s done shitting curry scented pellets over you he passes what’s left of the crap sites onto the final obstacle, the man of the hour, the one who decided where the remaining shit sites rank and how they rank. Baboon.

Yes, it is he who can’t talk and runs around butt naked with a red ass that decides where you, the hard working web individual ranks. You can pretty much guess how Baboon picks who ranks where right, simply shoves his finger up his arse hole and points?

Anyway, that’s how Google ranks your site, it’s all true, I never Lie, ever. Ok so don’t get me wrong, i don’t hate Google, not at all, just having a little fun really but isnt it true? Googles rankings have gone to the shitter lately? I don’t know if someone added some shit to their algo but boy are the search results full of crap these days. So sad, but hey, at least we see the funny side to it all! Baboon or no baboon, Google has earned this entire blog post dedication, like 5minutes of my time, more so than what most people get today. From me to the big G, thanks for making my life so fucking amusing. Can you say link bait aha ha ha h…a?

That’s right boys and girls, time to get down and dirty. I’m going to introduce you all to the Whale Sperm theory! Now, it’s all about BlackHat SEO so don’t get all confused and scared off by the title, read on, this is tres educational. Ok, so how can whale sperm, of all sperm on earth be remotely related to SEO, here’s your answer; It’s fucking not, it’s related to BlackHat sperm. Sort of. It’s actually related to link bait, and all things BlackHat, controversy, mixing it up, ranking for things you should not rank for, scraping traffic.

They say artists are insane, they say inventors have to be mad to come up with the things they do, I say BlackHat SEOs have to be equally as insane, and equally as mad to come up with this shit. Blackhatters would do just about anything to rank, just not hack. That’s right, they’ll talk about Whale Sperm, whale sex, maybe even whale vagina’s and whale titties but hacking they wont do. It’s all about ethics, we have some left you know?

So BlackHat SEO is all about creativity, doing things you’re sure other people wont even think of. Did you know whale sperm is used for some shampoo products? No? Who knows, you could be covering yourself in whale sperm everyday without knowing it, your hubby could be smelling your hair, going, aww smells so good, and in truth its the same as shoving whale penis up his nose and him enjoying it. Which brings me to my next question, do whales have a penis anyway? I didn’t think so, who knows.

Ok so enough with the whale sperm shit, this was just a simple example of how to (or better yet how not to) rank for not so competitive keywords. Theres a smart way and a stupid way, this is an easy stupid way, like why on earth would i want my blog to rank for whale sperm you know? Oh well, the things we do for education, the sacrifices we make, it’s all good though.

Drinks consumed at the time of creating this post : 4 beers, 3 glasses of red wine and a shot of wild turkey plus lack of sleep, so forgive me Buddha, for I have failed you!.