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You CAN Link Spam Your Competition Out Of Existance, Sort Of 9 Apr 2012 2:58 PM (12 years ago)

On one of my Great Link Building Experiment posts, Armaan asked:

Thanks for that clarification…A lot of the “IM gurus” say that too many links pointing to your main site are harmful but I don’t think that Big G will ever penalize a site for “having too many links”. If that were so, I could easily point an army of links to take down my competitors! What are your thoughts on the same?

Also, I have a niche site that just keeps disappearing and then appearing in the SERPS…it’s been happening for over a year now and I have no clue…this site had UAW links pointing to it but I think the issue lies in “overusing” the anchor text….I think I need more of “Click Here” type of anchor text…any help on this?

As crazy as it sounds, yes, you can link spam your competitors page out of existence!  There are a couple of sites where people have done this as an experiment and it appears to work.  Here is how.

I don’t claim to know everything about the Google algorithm for detecting spam pages, but I do know that it exists.  One of the main goals of the Google Web Spam team is to find algorithmic ways to detect spam pages since it would be impossible for a group of 100,000+ people to sort through the trillions and trillions of web pages that exist, with hundreds of billions more being created every day.

So how and why does this work?

First off, it can really only work for low quality sites to begin with.  You aren’t going to be able to link spam Amazon or CNN or anything like that out of existence in the search results.

It’s a proven fact that the current Google algorithm will penalize your page straight to the bottom in the search results if you have an unnaturally keyword stuffed backlink profile.  If your site is keyword optimized for “blue widgets” and you make 1000 backlinks to your site for the exact keyword “blue widgets” and nothing else, you’ll get penalized.

Why?  Because the Google Web Spam team has analyzed good sites that naturally rise in their results vs spam sites.  What makes them different?  Good sites have a natural backlink profile with diverse keyword results, things like “bluest widgets”, “widgets that are blue”, “this site about blue widgets”, “http://blue-widgets.info”, http://www.blue-widgets.info”, “www.blue-wigets.info”, “click here to learn more about blue widgets”, “this awesome blue widget site”, “my friend Phil’s site about widgets”, and other random link text.   I’m guessing that they factor in the popularity of the keyword as well somehow.

Somewhere around 75%-85% unnatural keyword links, BAM, your site will disappear from the search results for that keyword.    People call this the “Google Dance” for a new site or the “Sandbox”, but those are really just excuse terms that people who don’t understand what is going on.

Note that the 75%-85% mark is likely very different for known spam magnet keywords.  “Make money online”, “lose weight fast”, “wrinkle cream”, “web hosting”, “gambling”, “porn”, and many other keyword subjects will probably drop at a 50% keyword stuffed mark.

So how do you take your competitors site.  Is it junk?  Do they have few backlinks or an already unnatural backlink profile?  Stuff the heck out of them!

Go to Fiver.com and buy backlinking jobs.  Comment spam, profile spam, anything.  Thousands of them.  Tens of thousands of them.  HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of them.  All for the same keyword.

And if you can get them over that 85% stuffed backlink mark, BOOM!  They’re gone for that keyword, and you go up a step.

That’s why this won’t work for a good site with diverse backlinks and diverse keywords.  Even if you could hit them for the one keyword “blue widget”, it’s only one keyword.  They’ll probably still rank fine for “widgets that are blue”, “blue widgets”, “widgets sites”, etc.

But if you’re battling it out with a single keyword targeted site, you can take them out.

 

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Giant List of Generic WordPress Blog Comments 22 Jan 2012 8:54 PM (13 years ago)

Thought you all might enjoy this giant list of generic blog comments and find it useful.

Someone apparently missed a setting on their WordPress comment spam tool and rather than posting a single comment line, they posted an entire list of about 100 generic comments here at the Electron Plumber.  Even better, they didn’t even leave a backlink in the URL field!

Most of the time these are filtered out by the AWESOME captcha powered comment spam plugin I have installed that requires a human to type out a captcha if there is a link in the comment or certain bad words, like viagra, porn, plumbers, electricians, etc.  Yeah, I get a lot of home service spam comments because of the site name.

So for the most part, the only spam comments I ever see are the ones that have a human spammer behind them or had a glitch that doesn’t include a link.  And the great thing is, anyone posting a real comment that somehow gets caught can still bypass the filter simply by filling in the captcha phrase.

So far the plugin has blocked and rejected 24143 spam comments!  Even if it only takes 10 seconds to reject each spam message, that’s 24143 seconds or over 6 hours of my life saved.  Love it!

The thought people have here is to auto blast out generic comments to a giant list of WordPress pages in the hope that some are unmoderated and others are moderated by poor souls who can’t recognize comment spam.   Include a link and you have instant low value backlinks!  Put like anything else, post enough of them and they start to add up eventually.

I don’t go for such shenanigans myself but I do manual blog commenting when I’m in the mood.  I like to actually join the discussion when I do, but if you are feeling lazy maybe you can use one of these bad boys below.  Or maybe not, most of them have terrible grammar.  At least they’re good for a laugh.

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Ask The Plumber – January 2012 19 Jan 2012 2:11 PM (13 years ago)

I received this “Ask The Plumber” question from Adrien the other day:

Hi Electron Plumber,

Your site is really full of REAL and HONEST advice. I simply love your site! Thanks for creating so much original, unique and wonderful content, especially the great link building service!

I have 2 questions:

1. I have tried Market Samurai’s Rank Tracker. I have tried the firefox rank tracker plugin by SEOBook.com. I have tried Scroogle.org. Unfortunately, they never show the exact same result! So do you have any recommendation for rank tracker tools? Both free and paid ones are okay.

2. After the Great Link Building Experiment, I have 1 single question on my mind: why don’t we just build links with BMR? Ranking on the first page in 5 weeks is certainly a good result! Will you recommend it? If not, what other things should be done apart from just submitting posts to BMR?

Thanks. I am so glad I have found your blog. Hope there are more high quality blogs like yours on the Internet

Adrien, great questions.

For the first one, I generally use the Firebox rank tracker plug by SEOBook myself.  There are a bunch of rank trackers out there and you have to take all the results with a grain of salt.  You will generally see different results based the following variables:

  1. Who you are logged in as
  2. Your physical location
  3. Which Google server you happen to connect to
  4. The rank tracker you are using
  5. If the result returned “special” results like videos or shopping items.

Really the only way to minimize it is to use a single tracker as an anonymous user from the same location each time and double check a few ranks manually.  Honestly, at the end of the day tracking your rank in Google is NOT the best metric to focus on.  Focus first on how much traffic you are getting and how much money you are making!  I have one site that floats around #6 to #7 in Google for the keyword I’m focusing on but is #1 or #2 ranked for many other keywords around that main keyword and gets a bunch of good converting traffic.

For the second question, BMR worked really really well really really fast for the site I built.  Better than I ever expected.  But now almost a year later, it’s no longer ranking first and has been passed by the UniqueArticleWizard site.  So far in January the UAW site is beating the BMR site 2 to 1 in profits.  And I haven’t done any more link building since last October and no cross linking the sites at all.

So it seems while BMR has the initial kick, UAW appears to have all the staying power and is FAR less work since you can use spun content.

As you’ve probably read elsewhere, the key is to diversify as much as possible.  Use more than one link building service, keep building links manually, submit to social media sites, etc.  Hit it from all sides and vary your keyword text for the best results.

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Why Do I Still Have A Job? 1 Dec 2011 8:23 PM (13 years ago)

I get a lot of comments here at the Electron Plumber, and every once in a while I get one that is worth writing a full article follow up on.  Today someone named Entrepreneur 1224 asked:

Why would u still have a job if u are making numbers like this? I’m sorry but that’s very hard to believe, if you’re actually that good at making so much money you would be smart enough to invest all your time and effort to make even more, please explain.

Luckily for me, your belief is not required for Amazon and Google and a bunch of other direct affiliate programs to deposit money directly into my bank accounts each month.  My big guns deposits in November:


The top two are Paypal, the bottom two are direct into my checking account.  There are more smaller deposits as well, but so far it’s been around $2600 for November.  Expenses are around $250 for link building services, hosting and domain costs.

So why aren’t I living the good life and sleeping in every day on that $2400 you might ask?  Or quit my job and put in 100 hours a week towards doubling or tripling that?  It’s fairly often that I wake up and ask myself the same thing you just asked.  But I already know the answers.

Let me explain my situation to you and maybe my readers can offer some advice for me here.

Reason #1: Quality vs Quantity

First off, I adamantly refuse to make money by ever screwing anyone over ever.  Ever ever ever ever.  Many affiliate marketers make their money by promoting whatever pays the most commissions.  Scammy get rich schemes, fake weight loss free trials, ringtone offers with monthly hidden rebills, penny auction scams, you name it.  They are making money by screwing over Joe Consumer, and I will not ever do that.  Never ever.

I also will only promote products I believe have some decent value.  That’s why I mostly stick with Amazon.

I also hate list building and using psychological techniques to convince people to buy something.  The product has to be worth owning and worth buying without me needing to trick you and beat you about the head and neck with spam to buy it.   This is where I probably lose the most money.

I don’t want clients or to train people right now, the time demand is too great.

So what do I do?  I create web properties and write my own unique copy for everything that a person might see and click on to get to an offer or product I think they should buy.  Some people make money by throwing up 500 thin affiliate sites and making $.25 a day off each one, but spam like that never works long term.  I want to only spend my time on project that can build and grow long term value.

Take my Great Link Building experiment from this past year as a perfect example.  That helped monetize ElectronPlumber.com in a way that I never had before.   Real content with real results showing real value.  No BS fake reviews, no hard sell, just the facts.  These services are worth paying for based on this exact measured performance.

So that’s reason #1:  It takes time and effort to do Quality work.  But it’s also why my profits are consistently growing year over year and I’m less susceptible to offers disappearing and Google changing their algorithm.

Reason #2: It’s All Relative

While I am not the 1%, I am the 10% and things are pretty darn good.  Nice big house near the coast (with a sizable mortgage), beautiful wife, kids in private school, etc.

I have an Engineering degree and 15+ years experience in high tech.  I earn a very nice six figure salary running a department at a rapidly growing high tech company, big pile of stock options that aren’t done vesting yet, company health/dental/vision plans, 401k, the whole kit.  The work is fulfilling, promotion opportunities abound, occasional travel to exciting yet safe destinations, and for the most part my work is self directed.

So I think of Internet marketing as a hobby that happens to also make money  like some people make money playing online poker or selling gold they earned in an online game.  However, my employer might not see it like that, which is one of the reasons I don’t reveal my name or plaster my face all over this site like you see other successful internet marketers doing.

So from where you sit in your apartment, a few thousand dollars a month might seem like just the thing to get you out of a crappy job and kick start an internet marketing career.  But for me, that’s barely half my mortgage.  Or half a month of the kids private school for that matter.  And I actually have a damn good job.

That’s reason #2.  To replace my job and percs and keep my comfortable lifestyle for me and my family I need to be consistently earning 6-8 times what I am today in IM.

And because of my issues with quality and not scamming people and my desire to put my effort into projects that build long term value, that takes time to build.

If I quit my job today and worked my ass off building many more sites and quality content, I wouldn’t start seeing results for around 6 months at least.  And one more big algorithm change with Google could push that out to 12 months or more.

Reason #3: Consistency & Safety

As an internet marketer, you are always at the whim of the search engines or affiliate networks.  Just when you think you have a offer dialed in and a product converting well, the offer is canceled.

Just when you get an original article to the top of Google for your chosen keyword and start making good money off it, Google changes their algorithm and it drops to page 2.

Products on Amazon that are converting run out of stock or go up in price or come out with a new model or name and your SEO becomes useless.

Google rejects your PPC ad because the page you’ve been working hard on looks too much like a bridge page (by the way Dan if you’re reading, I’m still working on it…)

But you need to be diverse enough to not feel the pinch when any one of those things happen, and you need to keep inventing ways to stay ahead.

You could say something similar about having a regular job, that they aren’t consistent, companies go out of business, you could get laid off at any minute, etc.  But you don’t know just how good I am.  I’ve been in the hardware and software industry for 15+ years and have worked for four successful companies during that time.  I’ve never been unemployed, never been laid off, I only switch jobs when I know for sure that a new company is up to my standards and offers more growth than the last one.

So that is reason #3.  Until any internet marketing business matches the stability of my current job and start to provide the same amount of satisfaction, I’m not jumping ship.

So what?

For me, slow and steady wins the race.  I’ve only been at this for a little over 3 years putting in 5-20 hours a week part time, and I’m doing way better than most people who attempt to do this full time.

The only way to overcome #2 and #3 is by continuing with Rule #1:  quality content is the way to go.  Even if search algorithms change or one social media network rises above another, good quality unique content will always be valuable.  You might have to work at getting people to click “Like” or “Share” or “+1″ or whatever, but quality will always survive and have value.

Stay tuned!  I just signed up for an SEO hosting account with 60 unique Class C IP addresses to start my own private link network to start helping my sites even more.

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Backlink Bombardment Experiment Week 3 Results 15 Nov 2011 7:23 PM (13 years ago)

Time for a quick update on the Backlink Bombardment Experiment!  If you just joined on, I’m taking an existing site that has pretty much sat dormant for a year and using a couple of article backlinking services from The Great Link Building Service Experiment of 2011 on it.

Now, I was planning on really BOMBARDING the heck out of it full blast.  But a new time sensitive project with a Black Friday deadline has eaten into the time I was planning on putting into writing and spinning articles.

So far, the bombardment has consisted of:

Both spread out over the last few weeks.  Been too busy to really try out the awesome looking new TheBestSpinner upgrade that I use to spin my 1WayLinks articles, but it’s on my plate for this week.

So far though nothing stellar to report other than a small leap from PR0 to PR1.  Google & Bing continue to play with the search algorithm it seems and while some keywords have climbed up a bit, others have gone down a bit.  One thing I learned from my last experiment though is that slow and steady wins the race here.  It took a good four months before any of the sites broke the top 20 for any keywords, so I’m in this for the long haul.

Once I get a few more weeks of readings I’ll put these results into graphical form for easier viewing.

The actual results:

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Affiliate Site Analysis – Thisiswhyimbroke.com 1 Nov 2011 9:39 PM (13 years ago)

A comment came in the other day on my article on Why Your Amazon Affiliate Site is Failing Miserably regarding the value of a certain Amazon affiliate website called Thisiswhyimbroke.com.   I’m a big fan of the site for the most part (wish I’d thought of it first!), having come across an ad for it on reddit.com a few weeks before Adam from the site commented on here.

The comment from Margus was:

Hmmm not sure why you say thisiswhyIambroke does it right. Unless you have some great knowledge about the commission and sales they do, it seems the site is way too thin on content to pull in any real long tail traffic from google. The descriptions of each products are like 100 words long, it has like 100 affiliate links right on front page, makes me question really.

From my personal experience a site is able to pull in good traffic from google only if it has a clearly defined niche (like lets say black boots) and then it has separate pages on every possible types, shades, sizes makes etc. on the black boots. This site seems to be way all over the place for Google to actually understand what the site is about (other than it is obviously affiliate site with little content and lots of outgoing links).
So in order for it to get traffic to its site, it would need to build a lot of back links to each product page, and even then it is a bit questionable…

Only thing that is intriguing for me about it has things on there that are quite expensive ($17 000 dollar table??? WOW) So I guess if you manage to make a commission on that just once, you would be happy….

Margus, I have some experience with general Affiliate sites.  One  of my biggest sites is very general.  From your example above, my site would be about all kinds of footwear rather than just a specific niche like black boots.  You can do quite well by being general then drilling down for specific categories and products.  It’s like casting a wide net and seeing what you catch vs trying to harpoon a whale on your first fishing trip.

My number one rule with a broad affiliate site, use rapid fire and see what you hit.   Make a site and keep posting on topics in a broad niche.  Check your traffic reports and see if you naturally hit any keywords, then backlink for those.

So, let’s take a look at Thisiswhyimbroke.com and break them down a little.  Adam, I’m going to be a little critical here, but you’ve done EXTREMELY well getting that site to a point where it could reach critical mass just in time for the 2011 holiday season.

First off, here is an example of a page from Thisiswhyimbroke.com about an airsoft minigun.

Why’d I pick that page?  Because you are already naturally ranking #14 in Google for that search term which gets around 1600 searches a month, and I think a couple links like that one will help you get on page 1 for that term.  With no outside backlinks to speak of that page is already ranking in the top 20.  A little link love should drive it onto Page 1.

Thisiswhyimbroke Traffic Report

As of right now, Thisiswhyimbroke.com has an 3-month Alexa rank of 40,000 and a 1-month rank of 25,000.  That means they are trending upward, which is great.  Compete.com puts their monthly traffic at 50,000 visitors also trending upward.

(Note – heard from Adam after publishing this that the 50,000 visitor estimate on Compete.com is “very, very, far low” and frankly I believe him.  You don’t get 30,000 likes on Facebook without at least 50-100 times that in visitors – El Plumber)

From my experience a targeted product site can turn 1 visitor into $0.10-$0.25 in affiliate commissions during a normal month and $0.25 to $1.00 during the holiday blitz.   This is assuming people already have a buying intention when they visit your site.  For example, someone searching in Google for “blue widgets coupon” or “best blue widgets” has a buying intention.   I can imagine that tiwib.com is pulling WELL below that since most of their traffic is “cool site” traffic from places like Reddit and Facebook and not people with a buying intention.  Cool site traffic typically converts fairly poorly and needs a ton of traffic to make up for it.

Add ~30,000+ Facebook “likes” and there are potentially thousands of clicks every time they post a new product to their Facebook page.  Again, non-targeted traffic is really tough to gauge and convert.

Are they hitting $.04 a visitor and making more than $2000 a month yet?  Hard to guess with non-targeted non-buying traffic.  Only Adam can say for sure.

The great thing about Amazon affiliate traffic is that during the peak online holiday season (Black Friday through December 15th) conversions jump about 5X their usual rates.

So what would I do with Thisiswhyimbroke.com if it were my site?

Taking It to the Next Level with SEO

It would take way too long to get into all the minor SEO  issues your site has right now.  But I’m going to touch the top three as I see them:

  1. Too many links on your home page.  You have some amazing viral link love going on with your site, but you have so many links on your home page you are diluting pretty badly.  Thin the herd!  Sort through your traffic stats and see which products get the most click throughs.  Grab a month with Clicktale and record some visitor movements to see how far 75% of the people get on your homepage, then cut it off there.
  2. Focus your linklove!  Use SemRush (love that tool) to see what valuable keywords you are currently slightly ranking for, then put a focus on those links on your home page.
  3. Longer unique descriptions of products.  Take anything you are ranking for in #2 above and write more content. Shoot for 300+ words for maximum SEO effect.

Advertising with Adwords

I’ve noticed via SemRush that you tried your hand at a little Adwords advertising.  However, as you probably quickly found out, people who search for things like “cool gifts” and “cool stuff to buy” don’t actually convert well.

Want to know a little secret of mine for finding good converting keywords to use with Adwords?  Use SemRush to find and steal competing sites best keywords!  For example, plug Thinkgeek in and check out what they are advertising in Adwords.  While I’ve never heard of a drink called “bawls” apparently it must convert to sales as Thinkgeek is paying for that keyword in Adwords.

It’s an awesome way to find what products tend to be other sites most lucrative.  But be careful!  They might be advertising not because it converts but because they bought a truckload of “bawls” and are just trying to offload it quickly.

Go through the full list of keywords they advertise for and you’re sure to find some awesome gems.

Be More Social

You can’t comment on any of the products!  That’s half the fun of a site like this and developing a community atmosphere can only help your traffic and profits.   Drop the Facebook Comments for WordPress plugin on there (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/) and let people go to town!

Stop Leaving Money On The Table

The biggest biggest issue I see on your site is that you don’t have affiliate links for your highest value items!?!!?1!!11   Hammacher-Schlemmer has a 8% affiliate program.  If you think no one  is going to buy that robotic jet ski through your site, then you haven’t been paying attention to the Occupy WallStreet protests closely enough.  Somewhere there is a high flying financier who spends his days counting his piles of cash and surfing the internet from his beach house in the Hamptons who needs that thing!  And hell, that’s a $1360 commission!

If that isn’t enough to convince you, the magic holiday season is approaching fast!  People click stuff on your site, which sets an affiliate cookie which lasts for 30 days on Hammacher-Schlemmer.  Then 20 days from now they come back on Black Friday and actually buy stuff and you get credit for it.

Want to really optimize your clickthrough and cookie dropping?  DON’T SHOW THE PRICE.  Make a cute little graphic for “Price too outrageously high to fit in this text box, click to see it!” and stuff like that to encourage people to click through.

Did This Help?

Adam, hopefully you see this and don’t get offended by the criticism.  You have a great site that has viral money potential and you are so very very close to breaking through this holiday season.  I hope you guys make it.  I’m rooting for you!

And hey if you want to take my advice, feel free to add The Electron Plumber to your Staff section.  I’d like my title to be “Awesomeness Consultant”.

 

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Hey, Potpiegirl was Here! Affiliate Cookies Are Great. 31 Oct 2011 3:40 PM (13 years ago)

It’s always nice to see that my stuff is actually being read by people.  I frequently look at my traffic statistics to see how people are arriving here at the Electron Plumber and where they came from, but other than that I can’t actually tell *who* was here.

I’ve always wondered if any of the more well known Internet Marketing personalities ever make it to my little site here.  Unless they comment it’s impossible to tell.

Except when they buy something through one of my affiliate links:

Thanks for stopping by Potpiegirl!  Love your stuff by the way.  As a fellow “ethical” Affiliate Marketer I’ve been following you since I got started back in late 2008 when you weren’t killing it quite like you are these days.

Keep up the good work!

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The Backlink Bombardment Experiment Begins! 24 Oct 2011 3:46 PM (13 years ago)

My last SEO experiment was wildly successful on a number of levels.  I’ve held the top position in Google for a keyword I thought was going to be much harder to rank for over two months now and now hold position 2 and 3 as well!  The sites are now more than paying the bill for the four link building services that I’m not really even using right now.

So I’m moving on to my next experiment!

I was going to do a Duplicate Content vs Spun vs Unique experiment next, but the 20-30% drop in traffic my sites have experienced with the latest Google 2.5 Panda update has made me rethink that.  The effort and cost involved in creating three different sites and hundreds of unique articles necessary to make the experiment fair doesn’t seem to be worth the end result right now.  I need to make a few new sites sing first to make up for the lost traffic and lost revenue.  Check back in 2012 for the Duplicate vs Spun vs Unique experiment.

Instead for the end of 2011, it’s time for the Backlink Bombardment!  I’ve going to point all 4 link building services from The Great Link Building Service Experiment at one site that I’ve never really built links for.

I’m going to take one site that I’ve been sitting on for a few years now that has never quite gotten off the ground traffic wise.  I’d set it up last year as an example of how you can make money on virtually anything that people might search for online, especially things you’d never really think people care about.  I had intended to make my own online course stepping through making the site and promoting it, but it went by the wayside.

I’d never really done any link building to the site other than basic social media link posting to Twitter, Mr Wong, Digg, etc.  But despite that it actually has some first page rankings for some fairly easy keywords.

It makes around $100 a month off 800 page impressions and 400 unique visitors a month.  The Adsense CTR and eCPM is about 5 times any of my other sites, so I know it could be a big cash cow if I can get the traffic up.  It doesn’t have any good #1  keyword ranking right now, but has some #5-10′s that are certainly worth going after.

It’s certainly not a big money maker and if the blitz manages to get it sandboxed or deindexed it certainly won’t break the bank.

I’m still paying for all 4 services from the Great Link Building Service experiment and I’m going to point ALL of them at this one site for the next few months.

I’ll do my best to keep the linking rate as natural looking as possible since most of the services all you to specify how quickly you want the links created or articles published.  I’ll probably start with 2 a day per service for the first week, then maybe 5 the next week, then 10 the week after, etc.

I’m also going to try to keep the link text natural as best I can, mixing in around 10% junk link text with the specified text and not let any one keyword or phrase go more than 50% for a page.

There are 8 keywords I’ll be going for, ones that are already ranking on some level.

So, without further ago here are the details at the start.  Difficulty is based on a scale from 1-10 with 10 being the hardest.

Stay tuned for results!

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Google Panda 2.5 Update – Link Building Service Sites Went Up! 20 Oct 2011 8:28 PM (13 years ago)

FYI, just a quick update on the sites in the Great Link Building Service Experiment that I started back in February this year.

The official experiment is over, and other than tossing some Adsense on one of the sites and putting some backlinks on the lower sites back to some of my other sites, I haven’t really done much in the way of link building or optimizing.

And then the infamous “minor” update from Google called Panda 2.5 hit on October 14th and stirred up the pot.  Where did these sites land?

For my main 3 word keyword:

Note that all of these are Exact Match Domains (EMDs) or this keyword, just with a .net or .com or .org or a “-” in between the words.  The one “rumor” that pretty much everyone agrees on about this latest Google update is that EMDs received a big boost for their exact keyword.

For the higher volume two word keyword:

The Build My Rank site had been naturally ranking for that two word keyword at around #30 before, so that is a little disappointing that it disappeared completely.

My guess is that the other sites are still slightly ranking for that two word since those networks received way more actual links vs the BMR one.  For example, the BMR site had about 90 links total to it, with maybe 5% being that higher 2 word keyword, so like 4 links.  For UAW it was ~2000 links, so 5% of that is 100 links.

What does that mean for the latest Google update?  That one hundred PR-0 links beat four PR-2/3 links?  Maybe.  I think it’s more likely that they trimmed down the spill over link love from link text.  Maybe they used to count “best seo experiment” in the link text as both “best seo experiment” and a little “seo experiment” and a little “best seo” as well and now maybe not so much.

Only time will tell.  Update as they happen!

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How To Make Thousands of Dollars Overnight! 11 Oct 2011 5:24 PM (13 years ago)

I keep seeing pitches like this filling my spam email account I use to sign up for “free” reports and trials and ads all over the internet about how a Mom makes $6000+ a month “posting links” for Google.

Sometimes they say $1,000, sometimes $10,000, sometimes it’s overnight, sometimes it’s 14 days.  In any event, as you probably suspect, it’s going to cost $27 or $47, or $97 or $197 to find out.  Yeah, everyone likes to end their prices with 7′s.  Does it help?  Probably not.

So how does it work?  How can you make thousands of dollars overnight?

Simple!  First create a website for a scammy affiliate offer or eBook get rich quick offer where you show people how to make money advertising on the internet, the same one that you thought about buying.  For most of them, you can make $20 every time someone buys one.  Not that hard to find, there are plenty of them out there.  Start with Clickbank, but to make real money you’ll probably have to go down the ladder a few rungs and find a shady offer or payment processor.

Next, do a little advertising.  Google Adwords probably will ban you for advertising this stuff.  But there are plenty of others.  Say you spend $100 on advertising.  Did you sell at least 4-5 copies and come close to breaking even?  Good!  Otherwise, try again with another product, another site, and another $100.

Found a winner before you wasted thousands of dollars?  Great!

Now, tweak your site or sales page filling it with half truths and emotional pitches that have nothing to do with the eBook or product but about working at home, financial freedom, how a drunk slob like until you went from being $50,000 in debt to owning your own yacht, etc.  Spend another $100 dollars on advertising.  Did you sell 6 or more?  Awesome.  You just spent $100 on advertising and made $120 for a net gain of $20.  Tweak it some more.  Add a bizarre picture with some animation to your advertising to catch peoples attention, throw a bunch of fake comments at the bottom of your site.  See if you can get 15 or more sales for $100 in advertising for a 50% profit.

Great!  Now spend $20,000 on advertising all over the internet, or say some guys in India or China to create a Facebook virus that “likes” your page 100,000 times.  Do it right and you’ll get $30,000 back for a $10,000 profit.  Wait, what?  Oh yeah, they forget to mention that to make money quickly, you need money to spend.

Now sit back and wait a month until you get paid from the affiliate program or payment processor.  Rinse, repeat until it stops working, which will probably be very soon.  Once you start advertising in enough quantity to make a decent amount of money the vultures come out and start copying your offer.

And there you go!  Now you know why you see so many of these scammy offers and ads all over the internet.  It’s big business and so far the FTC can barely keep up with the biggest and worst of them.

Still thinking about spending $29 on that site promising you thousands of dollars a month posting links on Google?  At least now you know what you are buying.

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