Massive Footprint
Inside One Blog Network
That Can
Jeopardize All Your Backlinks in this Network

Let’s start with HOW I found this footprint. In Free Traffic System we love checking what out competitors do on this market – it is always great, because gives you ideas and inspiration to evolve your own service.

So, recently I was checking one of our competitors – and noticed something nasty. Really nasty. A footprint that within a few seconds gave me their network of blogs “on the plate”.

How Exactly are They
Leaving this Footprint?

Whenever you add your blog to this network – they send you a test post. When I saw this – I could not believe my eyes, because that was so “on the surface”. The text of this test post is a footprint. Large, juicy and obvious footprint.

I simply picked a part of the text from this test blog post, pasted this text into Google, did a search – and in a few seconds I had all their blogs disclosed.

It is so easy. Whenever Google needs to crack their network of blogs, it will take them a few seconds. The same way I did it.

Does It Mean I am Doomed
If I Have Built Backlinks from this Network?

Let’s not be pessimistic. I do not think that at the moment this blog network has grown to such a size that they have become a problem for Google.

Maybe Google will decide to check them in a day, maybe in a month, maybe in a year – who knows?! But whenever Google decides to do a check, they will instantly get the list of the blogs, because this network has left a colossal footprint on all their blogs.

And if this happens, then this is a big danger for all your backlinks – in case you have been using this network of our competitors.

Ok, Why Telling this to Us?!
Why Not Letting them Die?
They are Your Competitor!

Surely, they are our competitors. And surely I could send the list with their blogs to Google and say “eat ‘em”. That would be immoral, but that would be so … practical. Charming word and elegant excuse for filthy actions.

But if you jump over this “competitor vs competitor” game, then it becomes obvious that if one big network is killed like this – it will create hundreds of angry people who will be telling stuff like:

“Backlinks from inside blog posts are dead!”
“Google cracks these backlinks in 1 second!”
“This will kill my site!”
“Backlinks from blogs are BS!”
“My site was deindexed because I was using …”

So, these people will be telling junk about OUR MARKET – the market of blog submissions. They will be compromising the very idea of these backlinks. And I do not want that. Because backlinks from blog posts are fantastic in terms of SEO!

That is why, I have sent a message to the owners of that network (our competitors) telling about this problem, and I think they will address this issue.

IMPORTANT UPDATE
ISSUE TO BE FIXED SHORTLY…

I got a very quick reply from this network – and the quickness of this reply is already a nice proof that they addresses this issue very seriously.

So, very shortly this footprint will be removed and no nightmares will be haunting you at night.

Thanks everybody for helping to make this post a nexus for discussion.

P.S. Do You Have this Problem in
Free Traffic System?

Surely no. Footprints were one of our biggest concerns that we addressed very seriously BEFORE Free Traffic System was created and launched.

There are several major precautions we took to prevent Google from cracking our network of blogs:

We DO NOT send any test messages to the blogs.

We DO NOT send any code, that in any way can tell Google that your blog is added to Free Traffic System – no plugins, no HTML, nothing.

We even DO NOT report the URLs of the blogs in the Stats area, though some of our users are not happy about it.

For those who do not understand why we do not report the URLs of the blogs in Stats – this is simple – I can personally crack 80-90% of the blogs in any network that is FAIRLY and OPENLY reporting the URLs of the blogs. I can do massive submissions of articles in all major categories and with the help of the reports with URLs. That is why all major services on this market (with rare exceptions) don’t report the URLs of the blogs in the Stats of submissions – because this is another backdoor for cracking the network of blogs.

For Free Traffic System your SEO safety is very important. We’d better answer “inconvenient” questions from some of the users who require the URLs of the publications (and explain them how giving this info can kill this whole concept and their backlinks) rather then venturing the security and integrity of this beautiful SEO concept.

P.S. I will be deleting any mentionings of this system in the blog comments, because I do not want this blog post and its conversation to turn into blatant complaints about this network.

Checking <no follow> on Your Backlinks
How to Do that and
Why It is So Important

Quite often we get questions from Free Traffic System users about how to check whether the one way links (which they are building inside our system or anywhere else) give them any SEO value.

We decided to make a special publication that explains how to check <no follow> on your backlinks. It is really important to know how to do the <no follow> check, because the backlinks with <no follow> have zero SEO value.

All details about <no follow> checking are explained in this video.

Use this Video to Make Money
And Get One Way Links Automatically

This is very simple – you really can make nice money and/or get one way links with this video.

All you need to do is take this video and embed it into your own post or page or whatever. Then above or below the video you put your Free Traffic System affiliate link.

Thus you will share useful SEO info with the people and when they click your affiliate link and become the members of Free Traffic System – we will pay you for the people who become PRO members:

- from $47 monthly payments – $20 monthly for your 1st tier users and $7 monthly for 2nd tier users

- from $497 one time payment – $100 for your 1st tier users and $50 for the 2nd tier users

NOTE: and FREE members will be building backlinks for you lifetime.

P.S. To get your Free Traffic System affiliate link – please login to Free Traffic System members area, go to Affiliate Program page and there you will find your link. For more info about affiliate program please read this guide.

Do You Know that
SEO “Gurus” Can Easily Cheat You
And Persuade You to Buy Absolutely Junk Products

This article has nothing to do with blaming the whole SEO industry, there are reputable people and companies on this market. But our team is tired of seeing how many (unfortunately TOO MANY) SEO “gurus” are selling aweful junk to the people. The junk that used to work 4-7 years ago, but now it is useless.

And people buy. Lots of people buy!
Do you know why they do it?

Because they trust screenshots that show a site to be Google page 1 for a specific keyword. This lovely screenshot works like a magic wand, because when see that the owner of some SEO product managed to push the site to Google page 1, you instantly trust that the SEO tool/script/software works and helps to do that.

But, ok, isn’t screenshot of Google page 1 a valid proof?
It is impossible to fake it!

Correct, it is impossible to fake Google page 1, but there is one nasty nuance that the majority of the people do not know about. And SEO “gurus” use this lack of knowleddge for their advantage: they know how to “dance around” this Google page 1 screenshot.

We created a 2 part video that explains how exactly the fake gurus can cheat you with the screenshot and how you can check if their product is going to help you or if it is another piece of SEO junk.

How SEO “Gurus” Can Cheat You – Part 1

How SEO “Gurus” Can Cheat You – Part 2

Use these Videos to Make Money!

This is very simple – you really can make nice money with these videos. You gonna be surprised with how many cheaters are trying to sell junk on SEO market.

If you take these videos, embed them and itsert in your blogs posts and web pages – people will tell you “thank you” hundreds of times, because you will save them $100s – $1,000s. The information in these videos is a real killer to many cheaters. Check it yourself, because you can be the victim on this cheatery as well.

And above/below the embedded videos put your Free Traffic System affiliate link. We will pay you for the people who become PRO members:

- from $47 monthly payments – $20 monthly for your 1st tier users and $7 monthly for 2nd tier users
- from $497 one time payment – $100 for your 1st tier users and $50 for the 2nd tier users

So, this is a WIN – WIN because you share great knowledge with people and this will help you to make money.

P.S. To get your Free Traffic System affiliate link – please login to Free Traffic System members area, go to Affiliate Program page and there you will find your link. For more info about affiliate program please read this guide.

Yes, A Tiny Wrong Slash
After Your Domain Name URL
Can Waste a Big Part of Link Building Job

This sounds strange, but it is true and we are going to show you how to avoid the mistake which people are doing very often. This mistake has popped up after a heated debates on one of the SEO forums. If you do not know how to safeguard yourself from this mistake, a big portion of your link building job can go down the drain.

For you to understand the mistake we need to start from a little weird topic.

Do You Know that…

…your domain name with the slash after .com (or .info or .ws – whatever) and your domain name without slash are TWO DIFFERENT PAGES for Google.

For example, http://www.freetrafficsystem.com/ (with slash after .com) and http://www.freetrafficsystem.com (without the slash after .com) are two different pages. And this is the same for all sites, for all types of domains.

Yes, when you type them into the browser and hit Enter – you will get to the same home page and will never notice any difference. So, for the visitors of your site that does not make any difference, and they don’t bother.

The Problem is…

… that when you are building backlinks to the home page of your site, very often you do not pay attention to this slash/non-slash issue. Sometimes you build backlinks to the domain with slash, sometimes to the domain without slash. And this means you are dispersing your link building efforts.

For example, you have built 1,000 backlinks – out of these around 500 backlinks where built to domain with slash and around 500 to the domain without slash. And you are sitting and scratching your head “Why am I just position 10 on page 1 in Google?” It is highly possible that you are missing these extra 500 backlinks which have been “wasted” on a another version of your home page!

What to Do?

The solution depends upon every particular situation.

If you just start link building and your site and no inlinks, then just make a choice of your own. “I will be building backlinks only to http://domain.com/ (with slash)” or “I will be building backlinks only to http://domain.com (without slash)” and STICK to your decision.

Of course, you do not have control over all inlinks. Some people can link to your site, just because they decided to do that. And you cannot force them to do any changes – they can get irritated and kill your link.

But in all link building which is under your control, for example the one which you are doing in Free Traffic System, STICK to your decision.

If you are doing link building for a site that already has inlinks, then do a research of your incoming links and see what type of backlink is more common to point to your home page – with slash or without slash – then choose the type which prevails. For instance, you saw that you have 60 backlinks with slash and 14 without slash – then your choice should be for bulding backlinks with slash, as the bigger part of your backlink asset already has slashes.

And, of course, once this choice is made – STICK to your decision.

It’s Easy to be Wise, Isn’t It? :)

P.S. If you are not the member of Free Traffic System and were referred to this post by a friend or a search engine – join our system to build free one way links and get free content.

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If You are Publishing
Trackback Comments on Your Blog
Then You are Giving AWAY SEO Value
From Your Pages!

Please read this post to the bottom, otherwise you can keep losing the SEO value from your pages.

In one of the previous posts on this blog we started to talk about trackbacks as an instrument to check one way backlinks that you build inside Free Traffic System and outside this system (for details read post about what is a trackback and how to use it for backlinks checking).

And – thanks to your questions about trackbacks – we noticed that many people are approving these trackback comments and publish them on their blog post pages. This is a big SEO mistake.

Of course, you are the boss on your blog, you do whatever you wish with the blog, and Free Traffic System team does not interfere with your decisions. But this is what happens behind the curtain when you approve/publish a trackback comment.

When the trackback comment in published, you see it appearing as a comment under one of your blog posts. It is very important to notice that this comment has an OUTGOING link to ANOTHER blog. So, you are doing your best to build one way links inside Free Traffic System and then give away this virtual SEO juice that you have managed to build for the page of your site to ANOTHER page of ANOTHER site.

Surely if the comment would bring up some very useful information that seriously adds to what you have said in your own post – then approving this type of comment makes sense, and you can close the eyes on giving away a backlink. But trackback comments bring nothing important in terms of information to your blog post.

So, no informational value from trackback commment, and you give them a backlink. This is TOO GENEROUS when speaking of SEO. Free Traffic System strongly recommends NOT to approve/publish trackback comments on your blog.

What to Do with ALREADY Approved Trackback Comments?

Go to your WordPress admin area on the blog, into the section Comments. There you should find a button Unapprove. Tick all trackback comments that you have already published and then click Unapprove.

This will bring the trackback comments back into your admin section, without making them visible on the blog post pages and you will stop SEO leakage.

Can I DELETE Trackback Comments?

You can, but don’t forget that trackback comments are a great tool to see from where exactly you are getting one way backlinks. That is why we recommend not to delete them – let them stay inside your WP admin area. Just make sure not to approve them ;)