Simply Brown

Tools and Services for Gaining Inbound Links

admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:03:24 +0000

While doing some research on methods to obtain inbound links, here are some key takeaways from my notes:

Inbound Link Tools

Buzz Stream

http://www.buzzstream.com

Finds link opportunities (about 1% worth pursuing from my experience)
Acts as a great CRM tool to manage link acquisition conversations
Automatically checks the links you have made to make sure they are still active
$29 a month

Lotus Jump

http://www.lotusjump.com

Requires writing time
Based on your keywords it delivers a site specific to-do list
Tasks include social profile, Q&A, social bookmarking, reputation monitoring, content generation, competitive backlink and directory submission
Cost: $24, $49 a month

Comment Kahuna

http://www.commentkahuna.com/

Requires writing time
Allows you to search blogs that allow commenting and that don’t use no-follow.
Windows only
$ Free

Inbound Link Services

Pay Per Post

https://payperpost.com/

Submit a review request with criteria. Make offer to bloggers. Bloggers review BidModo (with full disclosure).
$ We set the price and see who accepts our offer.

Text Link Ads

http://www.text-link-ads.com

Create static links in the form of a text advertisement
We are basically renting links
Huge blog network and easy to use system
$100-500 a month

Search Rankings

http://searchrankings.net

They setup our links on their extensive website network
We are renting the links
$500+ a month

Low Profile Links

http://www.lowprofilelinks.com

Links from their private network of websites
Quality controlled, natural looking
Personal consultation
$1500+ a month

How to Make a Curser Pointer in Photoshop in under 30 Seconds

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:20:24 +0000

It will look like this

Use the Photoshop line tool.

Use these settings

Draw a very short line at about 11 o’clock.

Add a Layer Style with these settings

WordPress Themes for Real Estate Agents

admin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:14:09 +0000

I’ve been building websites since the dot come bubble. I’ve also been designing websites for the real estate industry fore a few years now. After seeing success rates of many website tools out there I can say WordPress has been a life saver for me and my clients. Using WordPress for real estate clients is the only system I set up these days.

Some of the top benefits of using a WordPress template for real estate is it’s great SEO and ease of use. In less than a day’s work I can get a real estate WordPress template installed, customized and apply search engine optimization.

Here are some of my choice WordPress Real Estate Themes:

WPZOOM.

RealEstateThemes.com

StudioPress (see Agent)

Gorilla Themes ( see Smooth Real Estate)

If you are interested in hiring me, I can setup hosting, install everything and search engine optimize your WordPress website.

Search Engine Rank Checking Programs

admin — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:01:10 +0000

Research findings from needing to automatically check the rank of several websites.

There are many SEO tools that do several SEO related tasks. I needed a program that would check several site’s ranking on specific keywords automatically. I could not find an app that just checked rankings. I found several programs that had a ranking checker feature built in to it’s tool set. They all were a little different in the types of SEO tools they come with and the types of ranking reports they produced. Here is a list of the tools I found:

List of Rank Checking Programs

Photos of My Favorite Swimming Holes

admin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:10:53 +0000

I’m starting a set of photos of my favorite swimming holes in central Texas. Check out these really big photos I’ve taken. You can get the high res images at my Flickr account under Swimming Holes. I have them licensed under Creative Commons as Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative. So you can have them. You just can’t modify them or use them for commercial purposes. Click the image to get the original version.

Hello world!

admin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:03:21 +0000

My last blog was stolen by a domain pocher so I’ve started up a new one. Lesson learned: have all your domain names in an easy to manage system with a trustworthy registrar. Now I’m using GoDaddy. They seem to be pretty afordable and professional. I’ve entered a couple old posts and travel photos.

Grand Canyon

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:22:30 +0000

Summer of 2009 I went to visit my good buddy Robert Nance who was working at Phantom Ranch at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Here are my photos along the way.

Eeyore’s Birthday 2009

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:52:11 +0000

Eeyore’s Birthday is definitely the pinnacle of Keeping Austin Weird.

Words can’t do it justice.

Click the image to see my slideshow of photos.

Peelander-Z

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:14:15 +0000

These guys are nuts. I mean fucking crazy!

They dreased up like superheros, passing their insterments to audiacne members, running out and playing in the middle of the street.

I caught a random show at SXSW and had to go track them down again with my camera this time. Click the image to see my slideshow.

Yelapa 2009

admin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:38:21 +0000

My good friends, the Bramwells, have a place in an undiscovered Mexico tropical paradise. Yelapa is a bay south of Puerto Vallarta and accessible only by boat. With not cars, a beautiful beach, great food, friendly locals and all the cheap beer you can drink, this is an ultimate get away. A couple of my good friends got married while we were there.

Click the image to see the photos slideshow.