I’ve been having a lot of FUN evaluating SEO software, and reading as much as I can handle over the last few weeks. I want to make sure that the information that I provide my readers is genuine, and not just a load of baloney.

Last week I bought a $67 product that guaranteed me that I’d have all the Google loopholes nailed down and that I’d be raking in cash hand over fist within days. Well, to say the least it was a fantastic sales letter however it failed to deliver in many ways. So I won’t be recommending that (GPP is the acronym of the ebook for those in the know …) – perhaps you purchased the same thing ? If so, go get your money back, and read the first few lessons from my blog, below.

In the meantime I have purchased two other products and I am truly impressed with these.

The first product is designed to help you easily get backlinks to your website. If you’ve read any SEO material, then you’d know that there are two main factors to help your site rank well in the Search Engines:

1. On page optimisation – these are the terms relating to your main keywords, and they should be located all over your page, embedded in your URL’s, embedded in your pictures, made up in bold print on your pages, in your H1 tags, in your page title, and mentioned casually in your page text.

2. Off page optimisation – these are generally factors beyond your control, but with a little help here and there you can get your site indexed quite quickly for your nominated search terms, as long as you choose non-competitive search terms or keywords.

Product number 1: Comment Hut

When I got my hands on this software I felt my dreams were finally met !

Now the whole point about SEO is getting sites with high page rank to link back to you. This was demonstrated extremely well in Brad Callen’s SEO Elite. I initially purchased this 2 years ago when it came out, and it totally wowed me with the way search engines work.

Now, along the same principles, Comment Hut takes you by the hand and does things a lot faster for you than SEO Elite, making the job of backlink submission a lot easier. The way it works is that it finds blogs with high page ranking. Not only tha, it screens through all the blog listings that appear and returns only those blogs that you may actually post to. BUT, this is a manual submission, not automated. The reason for this is that the developers did not want to release another version of Blog Link Generator – the software that is blamed for Blog SPAM.

Get it ?

Comment Hut will identify blogs of high page rank, allow you to post comments, and then link back to your site. But this is a manual submission to help you avoid being labeled as a SPAMMER.

It searches for blogs of the type: Word Press, DruPal,Live Journal, TypePad, Squidoo and Hub Pages. With just the double click of a mouse, you enter a relative comment on the blog, and link back to your site. It is one of the coooolest programs I’ve come across in a long time !

Product Number 2: Long Tail Secrets

Secondly, Long Tail Secrets is an ebook, not software, about how to identify the TAIL keywords, those keywords that around 50% of people are searching for, but aren’t included in the major search results.

Jason lays out very practical and realistic material, and explains things very clearly. Even advanced marketers like myself will have a great time reading this. It is not a repeat of “Web 2.0 Sites revealed” PLR junk, but very concise work. Jason reveals a lot more than just theory, with actual working examples and how to go about doing it as well.

If you’re into reading this weekend, rather than getting into software, then understanding the long tail method of getting backlinks to your website is vital !

Two products that I didn’t purchase yet… due to time constraints this week are:

Product Number 3: 30 Minute Backlinks

From the rave reviews I’ve read, some from personal friends, this is a very powerful method of getting some high dominating sites to link to your site. Michelle takes you by the hand and describes how you can build a massive set of high PR backlinks to your site, based around the keywords that you recommend.

If it works as successfully as it says, then 30 Minute Backlinks would be the way to go if you are into creating small software titles.

And finally … I am evaluating the demo version of this, and so far so good !

Product Number 4: RSS Submitter

I’ve brought this up in the Warrior Forum recently, and it’s a topic that has gained momentum. Senior Warriors are saying that this software has a lot of credibility, and that they use it all the time to submit their RSS Feeds from their blogs, or clients blogs, to get good page rank.

It’s perhaps the fastest way of getting your domain out there on the net, and it’s a very cheap investment for what it can do for you.

Now each of these products today target different ways of getting traffic to your site, and you would be crazy to want to try and use all four at once.

What I would suggest is that you take a look at just one product and see if it lines up with your interests. If it does, then try it out!

Remember to measure just how much affect it’s having on your website traffic, and check out your stat.

That’s it for today. I’m off to have fun with my new toys.

All the best and God Bless,

Brad Smith