What is Tag and Ping?

Until recently, I had no idea what Tag and Ping was either. But folks, let me tell you, this one is going to be BIG.

When I first heard about this, I had doubts. Serious doubts. I'd heard it all before. You see, I'm on the mailing lists of many big name Internet marketers. Some new thing comes along, they all jump on it, and it's the best thing since sliced bread. Yeah yeah. I usually don't bother with it beause it turns out to be the same old rehashed info. I suspected Tag and Ping was the next flash in the pan, short-lived phenonemon.

What changed my mind? I just finished listening to a recorded 1 hour conference call with Tag and Ping's author, Sean Wu and Jack Humphey (creator of contentdesk.com). Jack knows a lot about building content sites and link building (wrote a book called Power Linking). I like Jack. Down to earth, genuine marketer. And very successful. I know that when Jack gets behind something, it's good. And this is good. Not what I expected at all.

Long story short, I bought Tag and Ping, and man am I glad I did. This has got me really excited. For the next few weeks I'm going to be putting this stuff into action.

Who should be in on this? Content site builders e.g. sites monitized with Adsense. For a purely e-commerce site, probably not. But if you build AdSense sites you NEED to be in on Tag and Ping.

You heard it here first!

Steve

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The garbage that gets posted on forums

Received an email by a fellow SiteSell affiliate that got me rather annoyed. It went like this:

"Hi Steve,

I've seen SiteSell discussed on a couple of forums. The discussions revolved around the high site rankings but this may soon be a thing of the past. From what I gathered, SiteSell leaves a "footprint" that is recognized by the search engines. The search engines have adjusted their algorithms to account for this footprint. Do you know anything about this?

Jennifer"

This was my response:

"Hi Jennifer,

Don't believe everything you read on the forums. Anyone who says Sitesell leaves a "footprint" which would negatively impact their SE rankings is talking through their neck. It's absolute crap. This would be to imply that Sitesell sites trick search engines to obtain high rankings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Site Build It sites rank well because they are built by people keen to build a real business with genuine high quality content, exactly the sort of site searchers want to find and what the search engines want to deliver.

People post all sorts on things on forums, based on their own un-proven theories or misconceptions. Or they read it somewhere else so it must be true. Then it snowballs and gets passed on as fact. Don't play that game Jennifer. Build you own SBI site and evaluate it for yourself. It's not a magic pill. It won't rank well just because you built it with SBI. You have to use the tools and follow the action guide, but at the end of the day YOU have to create the content and build a site that people will want to visit. SBI just makes it easier for those people to find it."

So my advice to Jennifer and anyone wanting to build a successful online business, is don't believe everything you read, especially on forums, even though the writer may have had good intentions. By all means read and observe, but do your own tests and make your own evaluations before taking anyone's opinion as the undisputed truth.

And to anyone who says SBI sites are being penalised simply for being SBI sites, I say prove it and I'll walk naked down the main street in Sydney.

Steve