Tom,

I appreciate the responses and they make sense. I don't see a solution. I don't see our current site ever pulling out of penalty no matter what I do and we've got an income off of it.

Any ideas?

Hello,

As much as we would like, there's a possibility that our site will never recover from it's Google penalties.

Our team has decided to launch a new site in the same niche.

What do we need to do so that Google will not mind us having 2 sites in the same niche? (Menu differences, coding differences, content differences, etc.)

We won't have duplicate content, but it's hard to make the sites not similar.

Thanks

Hello,

I read a while back, and I can't find it now, that you want to add internal links to your main category pages. Does that still apply? If so, for a small site (100 products) what is recommended?

Thanks

Hi Keri,

Yes, I figured that out. I only choose the people I can "follow" and message them telling them that I'm into weight loss too and see if they want to do a friend request. Once they're friends then I cultivate a relationship with them, tell them what I do, and do things like offer a free session.

I'm still struggling a bit with keeping my integrity. I'm a very honest person and I don't want to mislead people.

I'm going to do some facebook advertising too, but this question is about a free strategy.

Hmmm. It really is cold calling. If anyone has some good cold calling emails that they can show me that might be the next step. Any advice is appreciated.

Hi,

I've been shown how to do facebook outreach in my home town. I am a weight loss hypnotist. I was shown how to do outreach to possible home town clients using the facebook search feature.

I go to the search and type in "Friends who like weight loss"

And I get a couple of friends who have liked a major weight loss site

After I've done that search, I look to the right in facebook. It has a bunch of dropdowns. I choose the same search parameters except I change it to "Live in Boise" (my town) and "Not my Friend".

I get dozens of facebook users who live in Boise and are not my friends and are interested in weight loss.

I can message these people (less than 30 a day)

Here's the problem: I don't want to spam them. How do I get these people interested in my weight loss hypnosis program (I could really help them) by sparking up a conversation and not spamming.

Everything I can think of saying seems manipulative. I don't know how to start a conversation and invite people to come in for a free sample session. My free sample session is 30 minutes and is free just to see if the client and I are a good fit.

My website is bobweikel.com if that helps.

How do I do this with the utmost integrity?

Thank you.