A lot of people understand the part about creating a website with content people are searching for however, to get people to find your content you need backlinks which are ways people link back to your content and not only can you get traffic from good backlinks but in the realm of SEO you want it to help make Google rank your site higher. What does google do with a backlink? Well, if I link to my website using this anchor text passive income using SEO than that gives an indication to google that my website should be ranked higher for passive income using SEO.
Also, the anchor text of links from your own website to other pages is also very important. When writing an article that is relevant to other pieces of content on your website make sure to link to them!
Brief warning for those who think backlinks are everything and content does not matter:
Having good content on your website is also very important to get on the first pages of google and to stay there. You want your content to be unique which means not copied from other websites (rewriting is ok but when I rewrite I try to pull information off 2-3 websites at least to have it well done and informative). Also, if you do not have good content and you reach the first page of Google, people (like me) can report you for having shitty content and you will have your site taken off the search engine results for that keyword or simply banned, trust me, I’ve seen it happen to some of my competitors using automated tools to scrape content and “spin it” (a term I will explain later in this post) and their pages were hard to read, they did not last long.
Back to my backlink strategy:
Importance of anchor text variations:
To start off with, if your website is new you do not want to create too many backlinks to your website in the first 2-3 months. Some people will use automated tools to send hundreds of links directly to their website but this is rarely a good idea. Also, you want to vary the anchor text you use to link to a page. In my experience, when I tried ranking pages (especially those with medium + competition) using only 1 anchor text it took me a much longer time to start ranking and see my page appear on the first 3 pages of Google. Ideally, when creating a page you want to be targeting 2-4+ keywords. I would also mention each of these keywords I have a page on one of my bigger website that targets around 6+ keywords that separately are not supposed to give me more than 10k searches a month but combined I get about 30k searches a month (I’m ranking #1 for a few, some of the others I am #2-5 currently).
The first 2 months of life of your new website:
You want to be doing part #1 to #3 of my backlink picture that I posted above. I will explain these in detail here.
#1 Article directories
You want to ideally submit and article to every article directory in this list starting with ezine articles and buzzle. Both of these require unique articles however in the case of ezine articles you can submit an article from your website to them. But, DO NOT DO THIS!!! Especially on a new website that recently got indexed because ezine has years of authority ahead of you and their content will then outrank the content on your own website! It can add more difficulty than it is worth. Simply make 1 new article for ezine and 1 for buzzle. Than, once these 2 are accepted you want to send the same 2 articles to the other article services below. Ideally, you want to change at least the title and possibly also the resource box. Something what I also often do is when I re-use my ezine article I will have 1 anchor text back to the unique ezine article or buzzle article that I first submitted that article to, and another link ot my website. This is basically to strengthen even more the initial article.
- EzineArticles (2 backlinks in ressource box allowed)
- GoArticles (3 backlinks in total allowed)
- ArticleBlast (2 backlinks anywhere)
- Snipsly (any number of backlinks allowed, I would not do more than 2-3)
- Articles Factory (3 backlinks in total allowed)
You can find more article directories but these are the only ones I would submit to manually. In my experience they get indexed without any effort hence why I choose them for initial link building.
#2 Web 2.0 sites
Infobarrel specifically requests unique articles but hubpages and squidoo do not. However, I usually still use a unique article for these 2 services because I find it gives me more “quality” points on those platforms. However, you might just prefer to just re-use your infobarrel articles. In my experience, I really dislike Squidoo mostly because it seems like my lens take more trouble to get published than other websites and also they seem to be harder to index. I sometimes make one but sometimes I skip it, especially if I already made one for a website since additional backlinks from the same source are worth less, and a Squidoo link is already not worth much for the time investment…
Some people use the following free blogs to also create pages linking to their website.
On the subject of web 2.0’s, I will mention a tool that makes it much easier to create multiple somewhat unique articles off an initial one. This tool is called The Best Spinner (TBS) and it makes your life a lot easier to spin articles. If you are new to spinning articles, it basically mean that in a sentence such as “Financial {advice|guidance} to {create|make} money” TBS can make multiple variations such as
Financial advice to create money
Financial guidance to make money
Financial advice to create money
Of course, adding this spin syntax is very time consuming which is why you want to use TBS as illustrated on the pictures to the right and do a replaces with everyone’s favorite. I put a maximum of 3 synonyms because it makes it easier to re-read your articles after and make sure it is still readable (very important when submitting the spun articles that will results off these to other article directories or blogs). If it does not add enough synonyms you can add some more yourself manually. When you want “spun” articles to submit to a directory, just click “spun article” and it will give you an example. The best spinner has a 7 day trial for $7 so that should give you a good idea if you feel it can help you or not.
Personally, I find that if you want these to be worthwhile you have to put unique articles (so they do not get deleted, especially if made with an automation tool) or a highly spun article with some quality. You also might have to do backlinks to some of these properties for them to get indexed. I usually do not do this step for most keywords I rank for unless I feel I could use the extra help. If you do use them, make sure you do some backlinks to them using article directories or some of the services that I will mention in step #4. I also post more than one article on these if I do use them.
Here is a series of videos on how I use TBS for those who want to see how I use it video style.
#3 Guest Posts
Article marketing is great but additional backlinks from the same website carry less and less weight. (100 websites linking to you > 100 articles from the same directory linking to you)
Guest posts are basically when you ask a blog if you can write a piece of content for them in exchange for 1-3 (or whatever) links back to your personal website. For big blogs this is useful to gain traffic and share awareness of other big blogs out there. For someone starting out a website, you simply want to use guest posting as a way to get quality links back to your website from a diverse range of websites. You can either search for people in your niche on google and email the webmasters if you can post articles for them or use postrunner which comes with your keyword academy membership that I mentioned in my keyword research post since their membership also includes niche refinery and a lot of good SEO/monetization knowledge. Postrunner is basically a service where you can submit your website ( if you choose to) to a network and many other people doing internet marketing will send you articles. Whether you submit a site to this service is your choice but even if you do not, you currently have access to hundreds of websites to post unique articles to. DO NOT put spun articles on this service, this is against the TOS. The goal of postrunner (as TKA will explain quickly) is to get a diverse range of somewhat medium quality backlinks.
#4 Article/blog Networks that will create many backlinks for you
Now, these services during the first 2 months if you use them should only be used on your free blogs and your article submissions. You should use anchor text that is similar to the ones you are planning to use to link to your website. Some recommend to use the exact same one but i think that gets discounted by google as spammy linkbuilding. My goal is to make these blogs/article gain some authority with these links and to make sure they are indexed by google. If you use them on your new websites during the first 2 months, make sure you heavily limit the distribution of these articles to 5-15 a day.
Ok, here are the services you want to use for automated large scale linkbuikding. Their are many that are shitty that i have tried over the months which will also get reviewed over time to warn you but these are the ones that by themselves can help your rankings a lot ( which is how i test them, by seeing if an individual service can help my keywords rank without any external help). Together, they are lethal. So lethal that, as I said, you do not want to heavily use them (if at all) on your websites in the first 2 months.
#1 Article Ranks (AR)
Why first? Because they will distribute one of your articles for only $2 per article. This is useful as the first service to try out because most services force you to have a monthly fee and while they are worth the cost, you won’t even be using them at “full strength” for the first 2-4 months. AR basically allows you to submit an article with spin syntax that you create using the best spinner to a category specific to your niche and it will distribute spun versions of this article to many other websites in it’s network (you can include yours in it if you want). Also, unlike some other services and the default the best spinner syntax, you want to use [ | ] syntax and not { | } . To quickly change this just copy your article in Microsoft word and do a replace all { with [ and } with ]. Or select the top arrow key in TBS and do export to clipboard spin syntax which is [ | ].
Oh and, when you are ready to distribute more than 20 articles a month or more, just upgrade to their $40/month service and you will have unlimited articles you can submit!
#2 Article Marketing Robot (AMR)
AMR is a software that will submit your article to thousands of article directories. I have been using it for over a year and it’s probably one of my top 3 best investments I made for link building, it still works really well :). For more information check my article marketing robot review. If you have a website under 3 months old I would schedule the submissions to under 30 per 24 hours (half of those or more will fail btw, that’s normal…). Currently I usually run it at 100 per 24 hours. This is because I do not want my link to suddenly get a huge increase in backlinks and then it all drops off, it usually does not help my rankings at all.
You use AMR very clsoe to how you would submit your article to article directories besides that you put an article with spin syntax using TBS and AMR will send all the article directories a different version. I also like to give it 2 levels of spinning for the title as I explain below:
Example of a title spin that I would do for AMR
title 1: You need money to make money, so read this article
title 2: Financial advice to make money
title 3: Article on finances and the top 5 ways to make money
Then I use the best synonyms replacement to get:
titles 1: You {need|require|want|will need} money to make money, so read this {article|write-up}
title 2: Financial {advice|guidance} to make money
title 3: {Article|Write-up} on finances {and the|and also the|as well as the|along with the} top 5 {ways to|methods to} make money
Usually I will manually add more spin syntax and combine them in one big spin to get this:
Title to generate many articles from : {You {need|require|want|will need} money to make money, so read this {article|write-up}|Financial {advice|guidance} to make money|{Article|Write-up} on finances {and the|and also the|as well as the|along with the} top 5 {ways to|methods to} make money}
For more information, I did a blog post with videos on how to use TBS
So, combining all these 4 steps and using the best spinner to get the most out of your articles can be a very efficient way to get backlinks. It has worked for me and many others!
If you have any questions ask away!
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Photoshop 🙂
Very detail and interesting backlinking post from an expert SEO guy
I also notice you are genuine, no google adsense, very cool
so how many every day?…..how much new original content should i create and submit every day to article derectories?..btw how much content should i have on my website?
how much Web 2.0 sites links i should create every day…so many questions i have, i just want to follow something that will really work!
please give me a plan! i tried so many times but never saw my site on google first page…
just tell me what to do haaha i’ll do everything to make money from this shit!
That’s not super easy to answer… A lot of that are guidelines that are very flexible but I’ll try to answer with how I would do it.
The first 3 months I usually just really do slow backlinking and mostly still work on my other older websites. I usually just do 1-3 unique articles on ezine and buzzle (so 3 unique articles total) then I change the title and add them to the other article directories I mentioned. At this point I would not use a software like AMR (which I will post a review about soon) because I do not want hundreds of links, just a few links from article directories.
About web 2.0s, I would not waste time with free blogs unless its somewhat competitive but you might want to do it for your first sites to help you out. What you do want to do is use hubpage, infobarrel and maybe squidoo to also do some backlinks to your site. As I said, infobarrel requires unique content and hubparrel kinda also does so I would put a new article on those 2.
After 2-3 months, use the article distribution services I mentioned and/or AMR (review up soon). Dont go overboard but 15-30 backlinks a day maximum to your website will work great.
About content on your website, that depends on your goal. If it’s a small niche/subject than 5 pages of content is fine. If it starts making money I would add a new page on something relevant to the content every month or two later on but that’s personal preference. If your tackling a large subject like “remedies for face problems” then obviously you have a lot of things you can talk about so that site might reach hundreds of pages.
Man thanks a lot!
That’s helped me to understand much more, so actually would you say that on the first 3 months to create just 6 or so original articles, submit them to ezine and buzzle and also hubpage, infobarrel and squidoo ?….so 6 original articles, 6 links that’s all at first?!….and then to the other article directories also but that seems not a lot…
it means It better if i build as many sites as I can at the moment and most of the backlinks and work are going to be only 3 months from now, i got it right?
again thanks a lot….
I personnally really believe in starting multiple sites at the same time, working a little bit on all of them, seeing what ranks and makes money and focusing on that. SEO isn’t an exact science so putting all your eggs in the same basket doesn’t seems like a good idea. Plus having a lot of older sites is very valuable.
this is a great guide but im stil confused about some parts of it.
when your submitting articles to websites do you submit three articles each day for 3 months? for every single site? that seems like a lot of writing.
also for the keyword academy what else is on the site? i want to make sure before i sign up its worth it.
last question; how do you spend an average day with this seo stuff? like 30 mins doing keyword research, then 20 minutes writing or what? a post about that would be awesome
thanks1!
Ya sorry if you interpreted it that way, 3 unique articles a day would be a lot.What I usually mean is you can re-use the same articles. When submitting to article directories initially I usually just change the title and/or resource box. At this point this is very easy to do because I have basic templates in the best spinner that I use as my resource boxes for everything and I just insert my keywords in them. Something like “If you want more information on KEEYWORD1 and KEYWORD2 make sure to check out my website” and I have spin syntax for those too (the parts before and after the keyowrd 1/2)
Keyword academy is basically some other SEO teachings that complements our own (and probably gives you more details on the basic early stuff). They also have niche refiniery (the reason I still use them basically) and postrunner to submit articleas to gust blogs (good source of backlinks). They’re SEO ebooks are quite helpful, I just think you have to mix them with some of my strategies that I show in this post to really get the most out of IM and at a quicker place.
I outsource most of my writing at this point. I only d some writing when I add my backlinks to articles that are already mostly done by employees. I would say a lot of my time is on managing websites and keyword research for new articles that my employees can write on,
Who would you recommend for outsourcing backlink work to on Odesk?
Currently I outsource my article writing for my main websites and articles for backlinks. I also usually use Odesk to spin articles for me but I sometimes still do it myself with TBS. If you are looking to hire someone to do the spinning for you get someone that knows what hes doing and/or make sure he has a TBS license (or maybe share yours with him, change the password if you stop using him though)
Quick background questions–you get a few sites running, perhaps 5-10 articles each in the beginning, and then simply maintain them. Does the money still continue to flow after not creating new articles, just from the people who continue to visit (why would they if there’s not much new content).
Also, what does maintenance of older websites entail and approx. how long do you spend on that task?
Thanks! Lots of value here.
on those 5-10 article websites you do not make money from returning visits, you make money from the unique visitors that visits your website each day.
For older websites.. Some I only put 1 hour max a month or less when I consider them “done” and they cover the topic they are about extensively.
Lets say at the peak of completion of the small websites, you get about 5$ (with adsense I assume you are saying) per day. With very little change and maintenance afterward, does that income hover around 5$ for quite a while, and does the number start to dwindle after a while into very little (I assume google would place old, unupdated sites lower on page rank).
Loving this site, thanks for all the help
Quick Bump 🙂
Their is usually very little change afterward,but in competitive markets you probably will always have maintenance. My first websites that make $1-5 a day ( I got about 3 of those) I probably put less than 1 hour on them in the past 4 months.
Thank you for an producing this excellent resource. I’m finding it really inspirational.
Say my main keyword is “get more fish” with 44,000 exact searches but the EMD is not available so I go for “get more fish reviews” with 4000 exact searches. Would I then target “get more fish” or “get more fish reviews” in the content article?
For the backlink articles should they be related to the niche, if so what keyword would you target in the actual article? I’m guessing the resource box will be targeting “get more fish” or “get more fish reviews” but in the body of the article will it be the same?
Many thanks! 🙂
you would target both keywords in your article.I target many relevant keywords in each of my articles. For backlinks, //i usually have articles with relevant topics but its not needed, I just think it might work better but that’s hard to prove. Either way, its less spammy so I like that part about it. I would probably target both in my ressource box and for different URL’s. Or randomly send some get more fish or get more fish reviews ( so if you do 100 backlinks 50 would target one and 50 the other one if you were targetting both on the same page)
What i have found out is that resource box and body content should be better related, because many article networks do not like irrelevancy and i had also several of my articles marked as spam so distribute articles on topic.
On the other hand i submitted irrelavant articles through Article Marketing Robot, but i did not track results. Anyway you best be with relevant articles.
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the great info. How much do you typically pay an odesk employee to spin an article for submission? I have TBS, but some days I just don’t feel like using it. Thanks.
Mike
$2-4, I provide the unique article that he starts off with.
It sounds like it is quite easy to spin articles–just replace some keywords with other keywords in about 5 minutes–so why is it so common that people hire people to spin?
I make sure my articles are readable. If you just do auto select synonyms with the best spinner chances are some of them still will not make that much sense.
Nice article. I agree it is best to stay away automatic links, as Google becomes smarter and smarter
Thanks for sharing your strategies on how to build backlinks. Have you considered other backlinking strategies such as submission of RSS feeds, social bookmarking, website directories submissions etc?
Or perhaps some strategies on forum profiles/twitter/facebook?
Would like to know more about these strategies as well if you have applied them successfully!
Thanks!
I do rss feeds a bit but I’m not too confident in saying they are helpful… Social bookmarking also seems like a waste. It’s not that they do nothing but for the time spent other backlinking methods are more useful.
Website directories on the other hand do work, it’s just a matter of finding a team of outsourcers you can trust to do it for you or a good software. I might have some software recommendations comming later but for now I would check out sliq submitter which on my early tests seem to help a lot 3+ months old websites.
Testing forum profiles with sick submitter currently, I’ll post about the results soon. In the past forum profiles have worked but article mkt simply worked better….
I used SICK but it has bugs. Many errors.
Thanks Alex for the quick reply and the valuable input. Can’t wait for the results on your testing 😉
Probably will take many months, we’ll see… I’m using those websites at the same time to try out other link networks were you have to provide them with websites in order for you to be able to post your own spun articles.
Btw Alex, what do you think about backlinking strategies for primary/secondary keywords? Do you do backlinking for your money site’s home page only, or would you be trying to do backlinking for the other pages of your money site as well?
maybe 80% of my backlinks are to inner pages. I do not rely on my domain ranking for many reasons.. My first websites were based on keywords that later on revealed themselves to be extremely bad. Unlike most people I did not quit and tried to salvage them and over time and a lot of backlinks my inner pages rose. My newer sites are built on stronger domain names though, but they still do not make me much (they are only 3-4 months old)
Hey, nice work here!
My question may seem a bit dumb, but then I’ve been struggling in IM for about a year and still feel like a newb!
Can the location of your hosting make a difference if you are trying to target foreign SERPs? For example, I am trying to target the US, but my site is hosted in Germany. Does that make a difference?
Once again, great read, thanks for any help you can give me.
I’m not an expert on this subject but in my experience I had no problems ranking in other countries by using US hosting and I doubt the other way around changes much. However, in webmaster tools you should make sure that you want your website to rank in the US if you really are targeting them. Ideally you would also want a US hosting account though, not too sure why you would get a German one when US hosting is so cheap anyway…
Hi Alex,
Thanks for the quick reply! I use German hosting because I live in Germany, and that’s the top and bottom of it. Will try using namecheap for my next campaign though, as it seems to be heavily recommended here. I’ve used their mobile domain lookup platform and I have to say it’s very good.
I’m also considering taking down my autoblogs, but would you try selling them first? The problem I have is that they have absolutely zilch adsense income, but a hell of a lot of content.
Cheers!
I dont think autoblog content is worth much but that’s me, if they are already setup I would just use them for backlinks to another hosting account that is 100% legit and unrelated but that gets into more advanced linkbuilding…
Hosting website in US while being outside may be subject to taxes in US. That is what i heard…
How do you find someone that writes good articles and someone that can spin good articles?
Look for them on Odesk, it takes time to find the right people. I try to threat my workers well and sometimes give them bonuses so they stay with me… The time to find new ppl adds up over time but it’s definitely worth it to get someone to spin articles for you at $2-3 each.
Alex how much time it takes average person to spin article? For me it usually takes 1 hour but i spin almost everything but in such way that article reads well in the end.
It takes me about 15-20 minutes using TBS. I first use the replace all synonyms then I quickly make sure they all make sense and add more variations manually after.
Hey dude,
watched you video on RSD, pretty cool. Love the “Fuckoff if you don’t wanna spend money on IM tools” in your about page.
I’ve been blogging for 2 years or so, starting with affiliate niche sites this month to get a more direct and passive income.
Congrats on $500 a day, that’s sick!
Peace
Diggy
Cool to see you here, I remember seeing your posts a long time ago in the IM threads, cheers to a great 2011 for both of us.
You FOCKING ROCK !
I’m getting into your shit as we speak !
Thank you !
can you please explain again when exactly do you use the spin articles?…and where you submit them?…
thanks a lot, just started couple sites, hope to see some results soon…
Spinned articles are used with article ranks / article mkt robot and also with UAW.
Hey Alex or Fingerman, thanks a lot for all this great info. I got a question.
I’m trying to stay as white hat as possible, do you guys use proxy’s for any backlinking whatsoever?
Only for doing profile links which I am trying recently using sick submitter, not too sure if I like the results so far.
Nice share..
Just wondering how to get approve from ezine article.
Many times my article got disapprove from them.
Never had problems with that, most likely either you are not submitting a unique article or it’s written in poor english. Either try to up the quality of your articles or just use the other article directories. I’ve ranked many keywords without using ezine articles… I just love to use them for my initial link building because I saw many of my articles got PR2-4 and that has to help my blog rank 🙂
How do you get PRs for your articles in the article directories? Do you blast backlinks on them using forum profiling or something like that, or did you use AMR/UAW and establish backlinks to your initial articles in the article directories?
Also, aren’t you afraid that your articles in the article directories might rank better than your own sites? What’s your view on that?
I submitted some articles on Ezine but they still have 0 PR. Any tips would e greatly appreciated! Thanks again!
Well you need a PR update which are heavily delayed nowadays, but a tip for ezine and most article directories is make sure you submit your article to relevant tags with PR so you will at least (for a few hours/days/weeks depending on the niche) appear on pages with PR which will go to your website. For example, I’m sure Health tag/category has PR so when you submit an article there your article will appear on a page with a PR1-5. Nutrition might have some too. “Finance” “shopping” “reviews” “book reviews” etc probably all have some, if you are really focused on a niche I would suggest you check out relevant tags that have PR for all your articles in that niche/website.
Actually thanks for mentioning this, this is a great blog post idea… I’ll try to expand on this concept, it’s something I’ve been trying out on my newer websites now.
Thanks for the quick reply!
Good point on the tags/categories, that is something I did not really pay attention to when I submit my articles.
Hey man, first off nice article – you went pretty in depth with backlinking – my MAIN weakness. So I appreciate it. I’m quoting this guy from a SEO forum I’m on and he said “For SEO starter I would suggest Article Marketing Robot + Build My Rank (with cheap outsourcer) + any xrumer service for forum profile backlinks + backlinks energizer for indexation.” What’s your thoughts on this? Agree/Disagree? And just wondering have you ever tried Build My Rank or Backlink Energizer and your experience with it? Thanks man
Also, what would you recommend for creating lots of profiles/low quality backlinks? I’m sick of making this shit manually so if you know something does this automated, please fill me in. Sorry if you already explained this but I don’t think I saw anything about it. Thx
Ya, I have tried BMR. I use it currently and I am undecided on it. You definitely see ranking improvements after using it but I feel as if those improvements are all gone a month later (maybe because posts disappear from homepage of their websites). Also, I have postrunner since I have my TKA subscription which basically does the same thing. Anyway, I use it lightly currently on keywords that I only promote with it and keywords that I use everything on and I might report on that eventually.
Ya, I use backling energizer, currently I’m trying it to help index my articles that I can find links for and also for sick submitter profile creation (other program I’m trying out). Backlinking energizer definitely works to help index stuff, not sure how much sick submitter helps in rankings currently though…
If you use xruner, I think a cheaper alternative is sick submitter for profile and low quality backlinks but I’m not convinced forum profile links work very well currently. I remember 6+ months ago they were really good but I found article mkt easier in time investment. Nowadays, I feel as if they are even weaker but we’ll see.
Hey man,
This is a great resource! Quick question for you – if I’m using AR (or SB) to link to my EZA submission (which is linked to my main site with the anchor text for my keyword), should I be concerned that the EZA submission might outrank my main site for that keyword if I use the same/similar anchor text in AR or SB?
I appreciate your help!
Only if your site is new it might happen. I did that lightly and it never happened, just make sure to not re-use the same content in that situation if you want to be extra sure.
Alex,
Hey man, about how much percentage do you want to spin a article to before you publish it.
I spin a lot, way more than others because I often re-use these articles a lot. Ideally almost every word in an article has spin syntax, I get as close to that as possible using TBS. But I usually go the extra mile with everything I do… you can definitely spin way less if you want, ideally every 2-3 words should have a bit of spin syntax.
would 100% spin be a good goal?
ya
hey alex… its my knowledge that google ranks web’pages’ not web’sites’. Ive created some affilliate pages that offer good quality info and then lead into selling a product at the end of the page (affiliate link).
ive got about 3 or 4 of these affiliate webpages each for different keywords. one of my pages is currently on page 1 of google. I really don’t think adding more content to the page would be a good idea because it’s not really useful and wouldnt be productive to getting people clicking on my affiliate link. so to get to #1 spot is it basically now just building up my backlink numbers and getting good quality backlinks as well?
the top #2 websites ranking in google for some of these keywords are 10 years old, but only have 100 backlinks each.
any advice? thanks man
Get more backlinks and if those websites were built for the sole purpose of that affiliate link you might also want to add a new post monthly or so with an anchor text link to your review. Besides that, it’s probably going to take time to beat those websites but it’s possible.. I was able to beat webMD a while ago for a health page that was well targeted with my 1 year old website, so it’s possible.
Thanks for the reply man.
<> you mean the website I built? Yeh they were.
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hmmm.. the different keywords are something like ‘how to iron a tshirt’, ‘how to wash a tshirt quickly’, etc. (thats not the actual niche ;o) and so i give a little ‘free guide’ with some cool info and then at the end quick sell the (for my example) ‘all encompassing tshirt manual’.
where would i add the new monthly post? to each webpage with text link pointing to itself? is that what you mean?
it’ll probably take some time to beat them as you said. ive got some .edu links lined up which might give me some more weight. i know the #1 ranked guys are raking in $10 000 /month from advertizing on their website the same product im affiliating.
I meant maybe just do some new posts every so often that are relevant to the affiliate product and link back to that post which should be on your main page or wherever you want to put it.
Hey guys, just stumbled upon your site from the Warrior Forums. I am following a slightly different back linking strategy, from the 40-Day Challange Joseph Archibald initially was successful with. Not that it is THAT different, i wanted to say that I have no problem succeeding shooting my keywords to at least the top 10 website. I am using Market Samurai and it seems to be that my keyword research was bang on and that it won’t take TOO long to beat my competition. Here’s my problem. I’ve been doing this backlinking strategy since Jan-15th. I’ve also added a few more pages of content, added more “Anchor layers” such as squidoo, hubpage, article directories with all SPUN versions of an article. I now added Blog-blueprint, which is showing some nice Higher PR anchor-text back links. It’s been over a week since I am using blog-blueprint now, and my sites are still hovering around the 6-10th position in Google. I use market samurai to track, plus scroogle.org. Any ideas to really get a huge Jump to hit that #1 spot? I’m starting to go crazy hovering, and I know my efforts are so close to success!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Shak
I think at this point you should just let your website age, I rarely get #1 until 3-6 months (only for very low competition KW’s it happened, the kind that’s a drop in the bucket in terms of income anyway) of that website/page being created for a keyword. Keep building backlinks and if in a month form now you are not going up try another article service than blog blueprint, you’ll get more ip addresses for backlinks that way… I rotate the third article distribution service I use every month (I keep UAW/AR at all times) to try out new services and to gain new websites to get backlinks form.
Hello Alex,
Very good topic. I learn many things in this post … I know a little TBS (I use at this time SpinnerChief) but I think buy one spinner one day…
One question : When you spin an article, what is your percentage unique rate. I try to make more than 60% but it is difficult to stay undestandeble after 60.
Another thanks for all these goods informations…
Ya it gets very difficult, I’m getting this question a lot and honestly theirs no “perfect” spin %, higher is always better. It’s not like I tested 30%, 60% etc and see if backlinks are as powerful after 300 article submissions. I really try to go as high as possible, sometimes as high as 80%, because I use that same article for UAW/AR and another network (last one changes often)
I am trying my best to rank for online advertising term but still not able to reach to the level what i feel will give me better results my website don’t have content as it is a ad-network so do i need to something different if it is not content as it is a company run on ad-serving serving ads?
Well I would look at your competitors. Right now I see wikipedia at #1 which is something I expected to see for such a keyword and they have a lot of content… Not too sure on other websites but if they all have some text content around that term you probably want to do that too. Online advertising is a pretty vague keyword to rank for, especially when it’s not even in your URL and title.
Great stuff here, has helped a lot thus far. I have a few questions pertaining to getting backlinks indexed with G. I’ve created several Web 2.0’s linking to my main site, but as far as I can see, they haven’t been indexed as backlinks yet. I’m using many of those listed above (Infobarrel, Squidoo, Hubpages, etc.). I’ve written some unique content for each page, diversified anchors, etc. Also, it looks like only a few of my article submissions, particularly those to Article Blast and Go Articles, are being indexed by Yahoo – still none listed for Google. I use the SEO Quake Firefox add-on to keep track of these stats (let me know if there’s a preferable alternative). Do you ever have trouble getting backlinks indexed naturally, and if so, how do you deal with the problem manually? High PR backlinks to main page backlinks, maybe? I’m ranking on page five of G for my particular keyword, but found it odd that I’m not seeing any backlinks indexed. Thanks for taking a look.
your articles to ezine are not also getting indexed? I do remember having that problem particularly with squidoo were I would have a hard time getting indexed so after a few weeks I built a few backlinks from spun articles to other directories (those that accept non unique content) to it. Nowadays though that’s not really a big issue for me, I think it’s because all of my accounts have a lot of articles so google crawls my profile a lot and spots when I have new ones.
It’s odd; the articles are definitely indexed (some are ranking a few pages further back than my site for the primary keyword), but SEO Quake is saying that I have 0 backlinks registered with Google. Oh well, I’m seeing improvement in my placement the last few days, so maybe it’s not an issue. Anyways, thanks for the quick reply.
Hi Alex,
I’m all for white hat SEO methods. Is this strategy considered a stable and safe way of link building? I read a lot on BHW about people’s success on getting to page 1 by using scrapebox and spamming/blasting the heck out of blogs… it just doesn’t seem like a good long term strategy. It’s good how your method doesn’t do that.
I guess my question is aiming at getting reassurance – i dont want to have to do all this work and have it taken away from me in an instant. Thanks.
Well, I never saw any ranking improvements from using scrapebox personally, I guess if you put the time to find a good do follow blog comment network that you can use for all your websites than it might be good but I think that’s too much work compared to just doing article marketing with blog networks.
Hey Alex
Im trying to understand this backlinking stuff… so basically nothing much is going on the first 3 months of a new website in terms of backlinks. Then, once you can use the automated tools to get links to your inner pages on your main website, that’s when the fun begins?
Pretty much. When you have extra time during the first three months I would suggest you do more keyword research and try to start other websites. That way if your first 1-2 website fail you have backup.
Nice info here! Question, when you initially build those article directories when you’re launching your domain(first month or s). How many backlinks are you sending to them a day/week? Is it alright to use AMR or Scrapebox to blast them immediately(1k+Blasts)? Or would small 20 to 30 scheduled blasts be better?
Anything more than 5-10 a day is way too much for me at the beginning, I just work on other sites as those age. Much easier to backlink more later on without risking being labeled as a spammer by google.
Thank your for your answer Alex ! It’s very helpfull.
What are your advices about indexing backlinks. I see many things and I’am a little bit confused about that …(Rss, pings …)
What is your opinion about that ?
I found that RSS/pinging barely changed anything and was most of the time not even worth it even when using automated tools (SEnuke, magic submitter). Nowadays I use backlink energizer and it seems to work really well. Theirs a downside to it, I can only index 2-3 backlinks a day so I’ve been using to help index articles that I have links to (from trackbacks to my blog, or services that give me the links to my backlinks). You need to build a network of websites on web 2.0s and/or your own domains where it will post content to them using RSS feeds and add links to your backlinks at the end. I’m currently using sick submitter to test mass profile backlinks and helping get them indexed with backlink energizer, I was waiting on seeing if those are effective backlink building before posting about either of those products.
Backlink energizer definitely gets stuff indexed at an incredibly high %, 90%+ for me over the past 100 links I gave it, some of which were not indexed for 2+ months…. Don’t get it if you are not generating some money online though, it’s just a “bonus” software, far from being mandatory.
Thank you Alex for your help and detailled steps. I don’t understand all the steps but I understand most of your content.
I discover on AMR’s forum this thread :
How To Get Your Links Indexed
Step 1: Create a text file containing a list of every URL which links back to your website.
Step 2: Convert the list of URLs to an RSS XML file. The best tool I know to do this is SCRAPEBOX. Just import your text file, then click EXPORT/RSS
Step 3: Upload the XML file to a webserver (for example your own website)
Step 4: Use an RSS submitter tool to submit the XML file to as many RSS directories as possible. For example ‘rss submit’. Or do it manually by googling “submit your rss feed” and submitting your feed to as many RSS directories as possible.
What do you think about this method? It looks like interesting but many steps …
The way I did it a few weeks ago to test BE indexing combined with AMR is to simply extract the live links (read AMR instructions on how to do that) and I checked using a tool like scrape box which ones were indexed or not and the non indexed ones I put in BE. Once again, this is not something you should worry about unless you are already making decent money.
Thanks Alex,
Very interesting advices !
I follow your step and I give you my result :
In SB, I get my list on indexing checker and what is a surprise when I see that on a 250 directory active links, I have only 10 indexing links !! shit.
To add you more precisions, I get my 250 links list just after have finished my campaign to see the results.
It’s a poor rate.
I will add my experience next days …
Alex you can just put this in UAW with the spun tags?
“You {need|require|want|will need} money to make money, so read this {article|write-up}”
?
thanks
ya, I do it sometimes instead of having 3 different articles with similar # of paragraphs
Hey Alex,
when you say rank for 2-4 different keywords do you mean 2-4 backlinks per article/page? Or are you referring to a backlink containing 2-4 words/or keywords as the backlink itself?
I mean on the webpage itself. Let’s say you submit 3 articles, each of them would have 1 back link to the page with different anchor text to help you rank for those 3 keywords on the page.
Hi Alex,
What do you think about people who offer “manual blog comment” service? Is that a good linking strategy as well?
I feel manual blog comments to high PR do follow blogs only helps increasing the PR of your blog… Sure it’s nice to have a higher number but it does not seem to help search engine ranking as much for the effort required. The other problem that comes with services of manual blog comments is I doubt those pages are not spammed to death (or they will be soon).
Hey man im going to start this in april, gotta finish off this semester of uni.
But Alex u said you have like 10 sites/domains? Can i see one quality site that makes good income and one shitty site just for comparison.
We might reveal one soon enough, for now no we are not linking sharing them because revealing one website would reveal them all because they have some things shared between them (ip or analytics or adsense). Pretty much the only thing that determines a success vs a failure is keyword research and the niche you are in. You will not know until you try, but with time you have a better idea of what markets will work and which one will not.
you can really find out all one person sites with adsense/analytics/ip…how you do this? 🙂
would be really interesting to follow competitors that way…
Lots of ways, spyonweb.com is one.
Hey Alex,
Speaking of content generation, have you tried using The Content Authority (thecontentauthority.com) for your articles? Reason I’m asking is because you seem to spend a lot of time looking for new article writers on odesk. Currently since following you and Fingerman’s guide to creating a website, I’ve been using TCA for content for backlinks and it’s pretty good so far (at .01 per word).
Anyway, I have another question regarding the web2.0 stuff. What’s the minimum word requirement per article you submit to these sites? I can’t seem to find them other than EzineArticles at 400 words min.
Last question, about Article Ranks – if I am to use it during the first 2-4 months of my site, how many posts should I make it per article? Should I also select all countries for posting?
Thanks a lot!
-Edgar
Nah, I like better dealing with my writers directly, and no I do not spend much time looking for article writers… I think I keep them on average 2-3 months. At first I enjoyed better having my own writters because I was getting good writers for $0.5 per 100 words but now I get really good quality and someone that really follows my guidelines properly at $1/100 words or so. Since he knows what I expect from the articles I end up saving a lot of time since I get basically what I want (information article, a review… etc)
I usually submit an article that will give on average a ~350 word spun article.
Put it as unlimited and all countries, AR submits pretty slowly on a per day basis so theirs no risk of having too many unless maybe if you start submitting like 5+ articles linking to the same websites (at 3+ months even that should be fine though).
Do you use a related post plugin on your sites? or do you just innerlink in the articles ?
Both
how do you get google to get rid of shitty sites in your niches?
report them i mean for no quality offered
I have reported a few websites in the past that use really shaddy backlinks. I once reported a site that was #1 for my best keyword (at the time) because it had really bad content, like it was almost someone used google translate to translate an article from spanish to english or something and he got #1 because he had an EMD… Anyway a few days later he got banned/heavily penalized and I’ve never seen him since.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t just report every website but when I look at the top competitors to see what they do and I see stuff that I”m pretty sure google would frown on then ya I do report them and sometimes they get removed in time (never as quick as that terrible content guy though…)
hey Alex would be great to hear how you are using AR, are you linking back to your main site? or to some of your backlinks?
isn’t it too much links at once to link to your main site?
how much you use it? every day? everytime you upload new post?
thanks!
p.s : also with UAW how much you are using it after your site is couple months old, how many daily links? does most of the links to your main site?
THANKS!
I’m not that crazy about scheduling how much I use it, it usually goes with how much I work. I might submit 5 articles one day then none for a week. Most of my 3 links with AR are to my money site but sometimes I send some to web 2.0s I’m building. and UAW settings for daily submission are usually 20(first 2 months) to 40 ( 3+months).
Hey Alex,
My site is almost finished and Im going to be starting your back linking strategy. What is the easiest/quickest way to get indexed on Google? Do i need to manually submit my site to Google?
Thanks for all your help,
nah, I started like 5 websites in the past 2 weeks and they all got indexed by Google within 3 days so just let Google find it naturally.