If you were forced to choose one commercial Search Engine Optimization product that has had the biggest impact in the SEO world in the last 10 years what would it be?
I am guessing about anyone with a clue would say Text Link Ads.
Patrick Gavin launched Text Link Ads in 2001 and in 2007 the company was acquired by Media Whiz. Depending on which rumor you believe the deal went down anywhere from 25 to 65 million dollars.
Right out of the gate TLA was a massive game changer in the world of SEO. Now dominating search engine results became a lot easier for companies looking to push up their rankings. It worked very very well and search engines had no way possible to combat it. In May of 2007 Google threw up the white flag on algorithmically being able to detect paid links and asked for help from webmasters to narc on their friends.
Ever since Patrick Gavin sold text link ads people have been wondering what his next big thing was going to be. With TLA obviously he has set the bar pretty high.
Patrick recently pinged me about his new project DIYSEO. There is a HUGE need to service beginners and small businesses in their SEO efforts. And most of them are very shy to jump into the game because of the horror stories of fly by night “SEO experts” taking their money and either not delivering results or even delivering negative results.
Enter Patrick’s newest project DIYSEO (Do it yourself SEO). Gavin says “the product is primarily targeted towards small businesses who have little resources to put towards the web, including real estate agents, small car dealers, restaurants, and part-time entrepreneurs. But SEO is a crowded and competitive space and with the decline in the economy, SEO providers are all looking to provide cost-effective options for SMBs.”
There is not much on the site right now other then a email submit to be notified when the site launches…. which I am sure is getting a ton of submissions. You might want to check that out if you have not already
Twitter contest!!!!!
Right now DIYSEO is having a twitter contest giving away 3 brand new Amazon Kindles. Go here to enter.
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I am headed over to enter the kindle competition
I better check out what DIYSEO’s advantage. If this is the next big thing in the SEO world, then good for us.
Looking forward. I’m on the need of really great SEO tools right now.
I am sure DIYSEO would be another grand success for Patrick like Text Link Ads, I am very much looking forward to launch of DIYSEO.
ANy approx date when it is getting launched Shoe ??
you are so full of shit shoemoney. you talk shit about SEO then sell out for your friends.
Entering the contest right now. Thanks Jeremy!
Hey thanks for contest. Lets see what diyseo can do for us.
As an SEO consultant I am excited about DIYSEO. The more educated small businesses become about “white hat” SEO and it’s money making benefits, the better it will be for all of us in the internet marketing industry.
I am believe DIYSEO will definitely be very successful like TLA…eagerly waiting for it…cheers.
Probably. It’s like the little guy vs google.
That’s going to be the service for me. I’m constantly trying to do something new to my sites SEO wise.
Nice domain name!
Earlier Flips and now Kindles are the hot things to give. What next? Maybe an SLR.
It probably will be around or near the same thing, but a little different. I’m down for checking this one out. It sounds like it will get that buzz. Wouldn’t want to miss the train. DIYSEO……we’ll see.!
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Shoe,
Thanks, for the heads up. I have never heard of DIYSEO. I’ll take a look.
Submitted my email, look forward to more news regarding this product. DIYSEO? Win!
Genius idea. Going to definitely keep an eye on this one.
Thanks Shoe.
Great info as usual
lol, I love this.. and hate it at the same time.. so, I guess I love to hate it.. There are a handfull of blogs that I check daily, this being one of them.. What I hate is all the “give me something and I will say whatever you want me to” posts on so many of the “big” blogs in this niche, but I am also a bit envious of people that have enough influence to make these types fo posts worth while, so.. good job on marketing yourself and shame on you for saying anything for a buck
my work is done
LOL!
keep up the good work
Signed up.
I’ll put my money money on a members 3 way link exchange and some cheesy “heard it all before” on the page stuff. Chuck in a couple of guides on article marketing and there you have DIYSEO
Anyone interested in DIY SEO just needs to read Aaron Wall’s SEO book and perhaps join up with his new site.
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Thats some good news. I have a feeling it will be nice.
I got to check it out.
Nice buzz building, looks like a promising product. I was disappointed that the “under construction” page didn’t have any more info, but still added this one to my “check for info later” list
What a load of crap. TLA got tons of sites slapped by Goog for selling links. Why do I even bother dropping in here anymore. Half of your posts are pure crap.
Only Google can decide what they want to rank well or not well. Some people decide to buy links, while others (me
) don’t. Text Link Ads simply provided a service to those who chose to participate. Also, there is much more to links than SEO for Google, some people choose to buy links just for the traffic.
I wonder if this will be anything like LotusJump’s DIY SEO program.
Go Patrick! I am excited to see what you come up with!
this is good for almost every small business but they have been burned so much by “SEO” experts that its gonna be an upsell. unless of course, they see really good buzz coming from the chambers telling them to get it.
I’ve been wanting a Kindle for awhile now, so thanks for sharing this!
I like the idea of DIY SEO. SEO can be a little expensive for small businesses. I myself have done my own SEO for the past five years or so.
I think Do it your self seo is the great strategy for search engine optimization. Because you can do every thing if you do DIYSEO like variety of information and advice on everything marketing, including social marketing, email, direct mail, newsletters, SEO, SEM, public relations, blogs, web sites, guerrilla marketing, landing pages and loyalty programs. By the way thanks for great knowledge on DIYSEO.
Mikka
I don’t think spoending money on SEO at this stage is agood idea as I know nothing about SEO.
Maybe it would be a good idea once I read a few articles and get my feet wet.
It will be interesting to see what type of information will be on this site. There are already loads of free tools, blogs and information providers on SEO. You could always ready through Google’s webmaster guidelines.
looks good.Let me try this out.
Yeah we were suppose to get a text words ad going but we have been super busy here and haven’t found time to get it done.
This looks pretty interesting, I am going to enroll in the pre-launch and pick it up if there is any special.
Brad Shorr and I gave a presentation on this very subject at SOBCon last month and we have turned it into a product already.
Audio, video presentation, PDF guide to creating your content strategy, the whole nine yards.
Click my name to check it out.
very nice post. I’m interested to read some more.
Entering the contest as well
DIYSEO is this the best thing that is going to happen for us. Well SEO is the most trickiest part of an internet marketer. I would prefer a Do it Yourself like solution to do my SEO. But all we have to do now is to wait until the launch.
It is a great information service that you are doing with posts like this. We learn a lot.
its really a good news, im going to participate in the kindlex competition.
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