It's been quite some time since I submitted my first XSitePro IPK site to Google, and they *still* have not included a single page from it in their index.

Subsequent sites I coded by hand or with Dreamweaver were indexed almost immediately. I think Frank's remark ("I wonder if it's something to do with XSP is used a lot by marketers who Google knows try to tweak the SERPS, and so they look for certain things such as xsp_styles.css and then don't treat the site so well?") in an earlier response is right on target.

Email:fastbuysell@gmail.com

Post comment box wider and deeper.

Yes, I'm certain that 3WL improves your ranking in Google. I've seen that on the sites I've used it on, and I know Amin uses it too and will tell you the same thing.

It's a "not-so-secret" weapon that you can use to give any domain a kick start.

There are a couple of terms you have to abide by – you can only use it on the top level domain, not sub-domains, and your site must have at least 2 pages indexed in Google.

You can then activate it on your site and you start to see results in about 2 weeks. After about 3-4 weeks your site can go way down the rankings for a few days but then it pops right back up again even stronger than ever. So don't be surprised if that happens.

After 3 months all your back links are in place (between 0-8 added each day) and your ranking becomes rock steady.

It's well worth it to get everything going. You can then add your own back links by your own efforts or you may not want to bother.

I've no idea how long this method will continue to work, but in the meantime it's great.

My next stop to test something out is an MSN ranking tool which is supposed to do the same kind of thing. MSN is seen as a demographic of family based buyers, so well worth it I think.

When I know for sure that works, I'll let everybody know about that too.

-Frank

Just a quick question…

Please let us know if you REALLY think the 3 Way Links System will help improve the chances of getting a top placement in Google.

Cheers from

Jan

p.s. How about making the "Post a Comment" input box wider?

I'm just about to make a long post about IPK and my findings after almost a month. I agree this is probably the best step by step system I've ever seen.

It's hard when someone says "trust me, don't think about it, just do it" as I think we've all been stung over time, but this really is an easy to understand and implement system that works.

Jenn:

I totally agree, and things don't always turn out the way you want them to sometimes. I wanted to spend a lot of time on the IPK sites for Christmas, but other things that I couldn't ignore tugged me in another direction.

I'm now currently gearing up for the new year though. More on that in blog posts over the next few days.

Jan:

I'll make a separate post about the template okay?

Susan:

First of all, thanks for the back links!

And those are nice sites you've put together. Hopefully now that you've put links here on my blog, Google will take them seriously and index all your pages.

It's strange that XSitePro isn't liked by Google. I think you might have to do a little experimentation in that area.

I wonder if it's something to do with XSP is used a lot by marketers who Google knows try to tweak the SERPS, and so they look for certain things such as xsp_styles.css and then don't treat the site so well?

That's just thinking out loud, and could be total nonsense.

I deliberately didn't use a DreamWeaver template (.dwt) to create the jumperoo site, I just took the supplied index page and saved it several times (as a .php) with different prompts for myself on the different pages to remind me what to do and what to put where.

Then I renamed the pages to suit the jumperoo site.

I now have a template of pages I can use on all my other toy sites. I'll do the same kind of things for the gadget sites I'll be putting up too.

Yes I'll share these "templates" shortly. I've got something else going on at the moment.

-Frank

Regarding the XSitePro template I offered, I think it's best to withdraw that offer. Google doesn't seem to like the XSitePro footprint!

When I submitted my first minisite, http://www.leapstertoy.com to Google, made in XSitePro, I got a message akin to 'Yeah, right, we'll get to it eventually. Check back in a few days.'

So I did my next site in Dreamweaver. When I submitted http://www.bakuganaccept.com to Google, they immediately responded with something more like, 'Hey, cool! Look at all the pages we've found on your site!'

Just a word to the wise.

When you first told us about the IPK I thought the concept was good, but after I signed up as an IPK member I quickly found that I was wrong.

The consept is not good – it's brilliant!

Having used the IPK information, read the SEO instruction checklists and watched the many videos time and again I can safely say
that the information you get as a member of IPK is priceless.

Even if you don't want to sell physical items online the SEO information is so clear and useful that that part alone is worth a lot more than the price for the whole package.

When I had a couple of questions about domain names and the use of hyphens versus underscore in file-names I received an answer the same day.

This is excellent customer service!

Included in the IPK-package is a template, and since I use Dreamweaver as my preferred web editing program I had to tweak the template a little to be able to change the meta-tags on different pages.

I hope some of the IPK fans can use the template I changed, so if you use Dreamweaver you're welcome to download it.
It's free (of course), and I have permission from Craig (the IPK guy) to let you use it.

Go to
http://www.44DigitalProducts.com
Click on the letter "m" in the domain name in the top logo.
That will take you directly to the download page.

Thanks again, Frank, for telling us about the IPK program!

Cheers,

Jan

As a bit of encouragement to people, I started with these sites in late October, and I'm on target to make $1500 in comissions this month.

Don't over-analyze…just get those sites up! Good luck everyone

Stan

That's very kind of you, I know some readers use XSP so I'm sure they'd be pleased to get that from you.

Do you have a link to the file (maybe as a zip) and the next update I do, I'll include that too.

By the way, I don't use any of the complicated features of Dreamweaver, I just use it as a creator of simple pages. The reason I like Dreamweaver so much is that "the code is king". So many (if not all) other html editors that have a design view, let the design view amend the code. Dreamweaver doesn't do that.

To them "the design is king", and the problem with this is it generates sloppy (messy) code, and overwrites any changes you may have made by hand, often wrecking the actual design.

A typical instance would be where you've placed some php code into a page by hand, gone to design view and the design editor removes or mangles it. Dreamweaver never does that – it's very clever.

-Frank