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Well, just when I thought this industry couldn’t throw me anymore new surprises, I get a bunch of curve balls tossed my way, one after the other. Finally though, it’s really good news for me.

I’m not going to say just yet what it is, but it’s in the nature of the domaining industry. So for all of you who were waiting to hear how I cracked the Google algos over the last year, tough luck. Maybe I’ll sell that info on ebay someday, you know, just to go out with a bang, and hopefully no more lawsuits! Haha!

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If there’s one group of people we can all poke fun at, it’s got to be politicians. It doesn’t even matter which country you’re focusing on, although, as an American, and a right winger at that, I have to say the politics here just get worse and worse every damn time. It doesn’t even matter who’s running anymore, because they will never make good on what they promise for the most part anyhow!

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Just wanted to post a quick thanks to everyone who texted, emailed, IM’ed or PM’ed me from all over the industry to wish me well, see how I was doing or if I needed anything. I really appreciate the kind words. I know I can come off as a pretentious asshole every now and then, but when it comes to things like this, it really means a lot to me. I don’t like pity, and hate asking people for things, nor do I usually enjoy attention (in spite of what many of my fans and/or critics think). I’m just taking it day by day now.

To those who have no idea what I am talking about, here’s a quick mention of it, and I’d really appreciate if it wasn’t brought up again, because I’m slowly getting over it and accepting it. Also, it makes me feel kind of weak or out of place, if that makes much sense. Oh look, sidetracked already, guess I still have my ADD intact!

As I was saying…

On Saturday night, the 23rd of Feb 2008, my lights went out. Literally. I was in a car with my driver and we got into an accident while driving to the airport for my flight to Affiliate Summit West 2008 in Las Vegas. I’m seriously okay. But I did suffer a pretty rough concussion. Rough in the fact that I cannot remember ANYTHING from Saturday or Sunday. All I do remember is getting ready for my Vegas trip on Friday night, and watching some movies before going to bed. Aside from that, my next memory is waking up in my bed (I was only kept in the hospital for observation and tests for under 24 hours) on Monday at around 3am EST. When I woke up I was trying to figure out why my neck was killing me, why I was so neauseas, and how I was going to fly like that to the show. Well, it was explained to me by one of my siblings what had happened. Let me tell you, that there are few stranger feelings in life than being unable to recall an entire 48 hour timespan. Now I know what early stage Alzheimer patients go through, and why they are so afraid. It’s a scary thought. But it’s the only memory I have of the whole thing.

I was not driving. My car service driver was. He’s doing okay too, although he was in much worse shape than me with a few broken bones and facial lacerations. No one died or was more severely injured than him, so thank goodness for that. I don’t remember what he looks like now, or even getting into the car, so as I’m writing about this, I feel like more of a news reporter than a survivor of the accident.

A lot of people have been asking me how did it happen? Well, if I could remember I’d tell ya, but I don’t. I was told however that the car I was in was totaled. There were two other cars involved. Apparently because of the crappy “wintry mix” weather we had over the weekend in New York City, people were going slower and driving more cautiously than usual. The car in front of us claimed to have slid on “black ice” (the claim made by the bus driver when Cliff Burton from Metallica was killed many years ago) so they stopped short, we plowed straight into them at a pretty significant “rushing to the airport” speed, and was then side-swiped by an SUV, sending our car into the rail. Ouch! I am pretty glad not to remember any of it either. The doctors told my folks that it was “a near miracle” that all I got out of it was a concussion.

The part I really don’t get is that normally when you get a concussion you generally spend quite a while in the hospital, I guess depending on the severity of it. This is my second concussion, and also the second time being released from the hospital so quickly. The first time, I was back in grade school and was hit by a car (ironically, a car service), and the only thing that saved my life then was the fact that my backpack was so heavy with textbooks and notebooks, that it broke my fall as my head hit the ground. In this case, I was sitting the in the back seat, not seatbelted (although I ALWAYS wear it in the front, no matter what), and apparently trying to find something in my carry-on backpack, and that’s what gave me a “softer landing” as my head hit the front seat on the initial impact. I did however hit my head twice more, once in the back and once on the right side. But, as I went to the mirror to check out my “battle scars”, and also because I thought my brother was playing a prank on me and fucking with my already not so great short term memory, I didn’t see anything! No major bruising, no cuts, nothing but a regular looking black and blue mark.

Anyway.. I’m not supposed to be doing any work for the next two weeks or so, and just taking it easy, one day at a time (isn’t that NA’s & AA’s motto?).

So now I am being told that I’m recovering VERY well. I am however having some difficulties sleeping, due to the neck stiffness, back soreness, and random headaches. But aside for those things, and my lapse in memory of the day of and after the accident, everything seems pretty normal. I still plan on attending Search Engine Strategies NY next month. Although I am having mixed feelings in regards to LeadsCon. I know I promised my good buddy Jay Weintraub I’d speak there, since it’s his first major conference in Vegas in early April, but taking a flight to Vegas just isn’t something I am up for anytime soon, but hey, if I feel better and don’t freak out on the way to the airport, then I guess I can make it afterall, heh!

But yeah, not being able to do any real work is really the toughest part about the whole deal for me.

I’d appreciate it if people did not blog about this or bring it up again really. I am posting it here purposely so that I can get it out of the way and don’t have to keep trying to explain what happened, especially since I don’t feel like I was even there. So please don’t overwhelm me for at least this week. Today is the first day that I’m “back” to being in front of the computer. If it’s not an emergency, then don’t IM me or expect anything radical from me until around March 7th (a week and a half). Also, the last thing I want is pity, seriously, and I can pick up on it pretty quickly, so don’t treat me differently by not cracking jokes or just bullshitting with me like we usually would in conversation.

Again, thanks to everyone from the industry, from my various friends, and from my pals at WickedFire. Especially major thanks to Stanley for visiting me in the hospital and reporting back on WickedFire about the status of the accident and my health and not making it sound any worse (like this blog post? haha!).

High five everyone. I’ll DEFINITELY see you fuckers in Boston and NYC at the next two Affiliate Summit meets.

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Last week I made a bit of a ranting thread on WickedFire as a way to get some stress and other crap off my chest that had been bugging me for a while. I didn’t do it for linkbait, I didn’t do it to pick a fight, I didn’t even do it to entertain anyone but myself. I did it solely for the purpose of the fact that I have just been so sick and tired of reading the same shit over and over by people who don’t have a stinking clue as to how to really do what they say they do! I mean, there is only so much a person can take when visiting other blogs and then hear or see the same crap being posted all over the industry about how great or how unique this one guy’s advice or blog is, when really, it’s just the same shit, over and over and over again. It also turns out, that most people are sheep. It’s true, you can admit it if you know you’re one of those people.

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The time that everyone has been waiting for has arrived. Actual confirmation, from Google, through yours truly of course, on which links you SHOULD be buying or getting links from, and which you shouldn’t be.

I explained in previous posts that PageRank is shit. It’s non existant. And now you can use it to your advantage just like I have been. What’s so flippin great about this is that 99% of all people who try to game the engines either through WhiteHat or BlackHat techniques, ALL rely on PageRank. No matter how many times I say it doesn’t matter, for so many years already, people will always refuse to listen. So, to hell with them. Let them be sheep, because sheep get slaughtered (I was watching Wall Street earlier).

So as many of you know, I spent the last 11 months of my life reverse engineering Google’s TrustRank algorithm. It started off as a hobby/interest and turned into a really evil obsession that nearly drove me insane (I shit you not). But I didn’t give up because like everything created by humans, there are always flaws. Even if something appears to be perfect and flawless, and created by hundreds of MIT and Harvard engineers, there will always be a flaw. Although, if I hadn’t come to the realization that the answers I was seeking were flat out in front of me, then I surely would have gone mad from depending on speculation without legitimate confirmation. (say that twenty times fast)

I’ve been trying to guage pricing and service structures for this, and because I often rely on competition, it’s usually a simple task, but being that I’m the only one with this stuff now, it’s been a real bitch to come up with something fair and decent, in terms of the types of services, and pricing. Also, being that I have to do all of this by hand, makes it tougher.

So here’s what I’m going to do…

I’ve decided to only do 2 domains per day, per month. And at the moment, I only have plans to do this for one month. So that’s 60 domains (not people). Send me your domain name that you want confirmation on what your TrustRank Score is, along with 1-5 general and niche keyword/topic targeting that domain is being used for, and I’ll email you back with your TR score, and a handful of links you should either purchase links on or get them for free. You can submit any amount of domains, but be prepared to be charged $400 per domain. So if you have lots of them, but can only afford one, choose wisely. If you send the email with a bunch of domains and keywords, and only order 1 domain without specifying which one it is, I’m going to move you to the back of the list or just delete you. I don’t have the time nor the patience to deal with people who can’t follow the rules or directions. I can handle ANY topic/niche for the domain, but I will NOT service anyone’s domains that compete with my blog or WickedFire (webmaster/internet marketing related). Anything else, is fine and dandy.

Here’s the value of this service if you don’t understand TrustRank.

So let’s say you use someone like TLA to buy links every month. And you’re an average user on there and spend around $1000 a month on link purchases. Alright great. Chances are very good that you are buying links based on PageRank and Alexa. Which is just retarded. But let’s get into why soon. The large majority of links being offered up for sale/lease these days are low PR sites with not very good traffic scores, but the prices are very cheap. You can find lots of them on the WickedFire and DigitalPoint marketplaces being offered at $1-$15 per year or per month. So how does this tie into the TrustRank service?

Simple. PAGERANK IS OBSOLETE. It has no damn bearing on your ranks. All it does is move the little green bar up and down. It’s the same as watching a game of Pong being played. It does nothing but frustrate and annoy you whether you gain more or less.

Here’s a good example now. I did a free test for a few different people to show them that this works and that it’s very valuable and that everything they have listened to and learned up until now in terms of linking, is bullshit. So one guy, Scott, who also happens to be a HUGE critic of mine runs a hosting review site. So I ran his domain and shot him back with his TR score. Then I showed him which domains he should get links from, and why. I stumbled upon a GREAT example during this process too. Bear with me, because you’re going to like this.

So let’s say the following domains are offering links for sale on their websites. We’ll use the niche they both target as “web hosting” and “web hosting reviews/ratings”. Fine.

Domain 1: hostingreview.com - PageRank 1/10 - 1 sitewide link $5/mo

Domain 2: webhostingratings.com - PageRank 9/10 - 1 sitewide link $750/mo

Which would you choose?

I’ll bet without even thinking, you’d choose the PR9 domain, because you were basically taught to and “brought up” on the myth of PageRank and that it matters. Well, guess what. Domain 1 has a higher TrustRank score than Domain 2. Even though Domain 1 is a PR1 and Domain 2 is a PR9. How can this be? Easy. Google said so. You can go and do allllllll the backlinks, IBL, content, age, keyword checks your heart desires, and you will never find out WHY Google gives a higher TrustRank score to the shabby PR1 than the PR9 who seems to follow every rule every SEO will tell you matters. That’s because Google is brilliant. But brilliantly evil. Their link: command, doesn’t work the way you think it does. In fact, linking is just ONE of over 300+ variables on how a domain gains trust from Google.

So with this example, you could spend $5/mo from getting a link that will actually help you, or you can spend $750/mo on a link that won’t do much more than give you bragging rights to your friends that you foolishly spent all that cash on a link that will do NOTHING for you in the longrun. Sure, it may help you in the short term. But folks, the longterm is what matters.

Why does the longterm matter in TrustRank? Because. A domain, regardless of the pages or any other “rules” you’ve been following matters. You can use dupe content, link spamming, stuffed keyword tactics from the 90’s and it won’t hurt you whatsoever. Trusted sites are fucking gold. They are the authority in their category. Depending on what your TrustRank score is, you can rank for just about any keyword you want, in a 2 week period or less (typically 3-5 days). But you can and will dominate for ANY keyword within your topical genre/niche. So if you own a high TR scored domain in a topic that covers father’s day gifts, well guess what, Hallmark won’t be able to do shit to outrank you. They can spend all the money in the world, and it won’t help them.

How do you find your TR score? You either go through me, or you continue guessing like everyone else has for years and years. Or you can also try and reverse engineer their algo, but goodluck, and make sure you have nerves of steel and a ton of patience, because you will need it, and it will take you months if not years in spite of what you think you may know already. There is no tool or service in existence with the data and access I now have. And it feels fucking awesome to finally be the only person outside of a GIANT corporation with that type of knowledge. I don’t care what any SEO will tell you about this, they are wrong and just like they and me and everyone else has been doing up until now, it’s been one giant guessing game, because Google has never, and will never come out and say THIS IS WHAT YOU DO AND HERE’S HOW YOU DO IT. Because it will fuck with their WHOLE operation and dominance in the search and advertising world online.

So again, linking is just ONE part. Yes, a major aspect, but not the defining part of it. I can assure you there are so many unreal variables that some of you would probably crap yourself if you knew just how evil Google really is, but how brilliant they are at making everyone hang on to every word and rumor they think up to keep us as sheep. Well, not anymore Google. You guys may brilliant, but every evil plan has a flaw, and I have yours!

If you want to buy into my service for now, email me with your paypal email address and the domain and kw/niche/topic that domain is targeting, and I will bill you for $400, and then deliver your results. Whether you choose to share it with others is totally up to you, but you’ll be devaluing it for yourself, so goodluck. Email me on Jon @ aojon.com — Keep it short and sweet, don’t write me a fucking novel. I already have two pre-orders that I am working on right now, so that puts it down to 58 available spots right now. I’m never offering it for $400 again either. After I feel as if I’ve gotten in enough time and effort into doing it as fast as possible, I’m going to do it for $1000-$2500 per domain, and strictly private label for the SEO consulting/firm industry.

If anyone from Yahoo or MSN is reading this, I’ll gladly help you regain control of the search industry and retake the top spot from the all mighty Google, all over the world, but I won’t do it for less than $10B.

PS - To those wondering about these techniques. They are 100% WhiteHat. Nothing I am doing goes against Google’s “guidelines” aka suggestions or rules. Everything stays 100% in bounds.

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