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Learn StomperNet SEO for free? Well, maybe..
In my last post I disclosed that I got into StomperNet, Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins new uber-SEO group. People have been emailing me and leaving comments to spill the beans on StomperNet, so here’s my first post on it.
The really clever thing about StomperNet is that, once I tell you how it works, you could implement it, but it is a huge amount of work - unless you are a member of StomperNet. Yes there are a million SEO tricks, but it will take me months to learn them all. I got the 15 DVDs in the mail and it took me 3 days to get through the first one! They are dense.
However, many of the tricks are common sense. Basically it boils down to this……………………if you want to get on the first page of Google for a certain phrase, figure out how hard it is to displace the sites that are already there and then do it. Easy huh? It depends…
If you pick a niche populated by SEO experts, then displacing them won’t be so easy. But MANY niches are populated by sites that have very little clue. The most important measure to determine how difficult it will be is link popularity. And on and on and on….it would take me a hundred pages. But I don’t have to tell you because it is in Brad Fallons free PDF book that you can get by entering your email on his site; www.bradfallon.com/book.html. In fact, just to be a good guy, I’ll tell you to go to page 127 
So now I just saved you the cost of StomperNet, right? Not really. Here’s why. To beat the sites there, you need to optimize and then get lots of the right KIND of backlinks. Getting the thousands of backlinks required is a lot of work. Inside StomperNet, we’re suppossed to get access to the Content Exchange, specifically for the purpose of automating the process of linking to other sites. We haven’t gotten there yet, but Andy says soon. So, in my view, the two main ongoing benefits of StomperNet (besides the huge amount of training) are;
1. The Content Exchange
2. The actual membership in the forum
I have asked nagging questions of this group about, for instance, whether to go with osCommerce or some other store platform. It is an incredibly informed bunch of folks in the world of eCommerce. So being able to get and provide good answers is REALLY valuable. I think Andy and Brad were trying to build a community in the first place, and it looks like it will be a good one.
