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Salvaging_the_FFAL
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Are FFAL pages really dead? I say no. Let me tell you a short
story. I put a site analysis tool on my FFAL page to see what it
was doing. I didn't expect to see much but was surprised to find
out that I was receiving hits on my page that have nothing to do
with my website.
Find free site analysis tools at:
http://www.webtrendslive.com/default.htm http://get.hitbox.com/
http://www.extreme-dm.com racking/?reg
http://sm6.sitemeter.com/default.asp
http://www.websitetrafficreport.com/
I've read a couple of articles about how FFAL pages are hurting
search engine ranking on websites. I'm not convinced. Find an
FFAL page that is well traffic ed. Look at mine if you don't
know of one.
http://www.pagecrafters.net/links/links.htm
Pick a link and copy the title. I picked: FreeLotteriesOnline -
the guide to free online lotteries
Now do a search on Google for that title. Not all of the titles
will show up. You might have to look through several. What your
looking for are websites that end in link.htm, but your going to
find classified ad sites also. Look on the first three pages of
the search engine. Link pages do get indexed.
If your not sure of a search engine, use a robot.txt page to
keep specific search engines out.
I'm picking up hits on embroidery, travel, casino, dating... you
name it. I started looking at the referrers to see what the
search engines were seeing, and I found out something. My FFAL
page is being indexed at least once a week. Because of that,
whatever happens to be on the page at the time is what is being
indexed.
Since having a site analysis tool on the page, I have a good
idea of what is getting placed on the page and how many people
are searching for it. About 300 people a month find my page this
way. Why, you ask, is my FFAL page getting indexed? I read an
article written by Mark Joyner over a year ago, and it seems
that others have read it also. In case you missed it...
http://www.roibotlibrary.com/articles/99nov24.htm
What it says in short is, after placing your link on several
FFAL pages, index it to the search engines to give your website
a temporary popularity boost.
The next question is, what can I do with this information. I
know how many, and what they are searching for. If I'm lucky,
I'm already selling what they want. Chances are, I'm not. I
turned to affiliate programs to fill my visitors needs. I set up
affiliates with casinos, travel and dating. I then placed them
on the FFAL page.
Affiliate programs can be found at: http://clickbank.com/
http://www.cj.com/ http://www.linkshare.com/
Find FFAL scripts at: http://www.worldwidemart.com/scripts/
http://www.shavenferret.com/scripts/links/
http://castlecgi.castellum.net/scripts/CastleLinks/
If I'm getting random visitors to my site with the FFAL page,
why shouldn't I try to keep them on my page and sell them
something? I don't have any real stats just yet, but I will let
you know how it turns out.
About the author:
Dale Sexton owns & operates 'PageCrafters.net', & publishes
'Small Business Tools magazine'. Both focus on tools & tips for
small business. mailto:pagecrafters@pagecrafters.net Sign up for
'SBT magazine' at: http://pagecrafters.net/newsletter.html
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