Here is a concept for those of you who haven’t tried it. Promoting affiliate programs through RSS feeds. The idea is simple and it actually works fairly well. Best of all it can be automated, fast, and typically doesn’t take a ton of experience or time to get started.

**What you will need **1) A publisher account on a large affiliate network. Commission Junction works. 2) A content generator that produces RSS feeds. You can custom make one or find one. One I would recommend would be Content Solution. It creates custom content that looks great, and really fits your targeted words. It also does a great job with it’s theasaurus. So it can hit all sorts of rss sites. 3) Accounts on a bunch of ping services and news services. Most don’t require accounts, but a lot of news places do. Don’t forget to also sign up with Yahoo news and Google blogs. Content scrapers and RSS grabbers hit those two up the most.

So Google is getting pretty swell at finding redirecting pages. Javascript is out. CSS is out. htaccess is out. Whats left?

Try redirecting through flash. Flash scripts can forward the browser to a new page. Search engines also can’t read flash and won’t redirect.

I only put this post up in honor of Matt Cutts appearing on WebmasterRadio

If any of you haven’t yet tried MSN’s Instant Answers yet, your missing out on something that’s pretty cool. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about try searching for babe ruth home runs on MSN. You’ll see an instant answer at the top of the search. Combine this with Google’s new quick product links and this could be a great rifle in the competition for search relevancy. With the new trend arrising of the major search engines instantly copying each other’s successful product rollouts lets assume that these two technologies form together and become a standard among the 3 giants(Google, MSN, Yahoo).

Over the past year I’ve read a lot of articles and posts from people claiming that page rank is no longer important because information shows that it does not heavily affect ranking in the SERPS. This is a valid argument and it’s definitely true that people should not assume their site is going to rank well just because it has a high page rank. However I think this argument misses the point behind page rank.

I first heard of the term “link bait�? from Aaron Wall at SEO Book in this post when he mentioned it back in a post on his SEO blog back in August of 2005. He says in his post that if “you are in a field that can’t build links naturally create linkbait�?. What really is link bait? It’s something on your web site that causes someone to link to you. Aaron gives some examples in his post, but a classic example of link bait would be the Subservient Chicken web site by Burger King. So many people ended up talking about that web site that they linked to it—it currently enjoys about 29,300 links according to Yahoo!, and ranks number one on Google for the word chicken. By creating something on your web site that’s funny, controversial, informative, or creative, it will gain natural links—which is the key to top search engine rankings.