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Saturday, September 4, 2010
New York Pass

I just created a new "niche" website called the New York Pass. Actually, it's built on top of a domain I have had since 2000 called VacationInformation.net.
VacationInformation has been around a long time, but the primary merchant I was advertising on there went belly up, so I was scratching my head about what to do next. That's when I came up with the idea to make it all about New York tours.
If the listing rises in the search engines I know that the traffic it generates will be highly targeted. I have been learning recently (again, dang it) that a lot of hits don't amount to doodly if they are converting. So, I crafted this ultra niche site. I'm perfectly willing to go for less, but better surfers.
The site and keywords have tons of competition, but, maybe I can slip in between the cracks to abduct some traffic. Time and my SEO skill will tell. I LOVE getting good placement in search engines. Everybody needs a hobby.

Which brings me to a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) example of one way you go about getting your site to do better. It's called...blog commenting.
Blogs have built in spam filters to keep ner' do wells from posting spurious comments, you know. They are necessary because a lot of people use programs that semi automatically send out tons of fake blog posts laced with links back to whatever site they are trying to rank with. And the ones that do get through are routinely disposed of.

An example of what I suspect is a human written spam blog comment can be found on the Radium Face Cream article below this one. I let it through to illustrate my point. The person, I believe, actually read the title, at least, and sent along a comment with a link back to site. Who knows? You can view the comment by clicking on the teensy "comment" link at the bottom of that post. 
The fact is that webmasters will approve most well written comments, knowing full well that they were only sent in order to get a linkback. The key is, "well written." You can use this simple method to enhance your website rankings.

BTW, if you haven't figured it out yet, while this is a "well written" post which contains excellent verbiage, it also contains a couple of links...(one would have probably done as well) back to the new New York Pass website. Sneaky!