Exactly 12 hours after I posted my previous niche site duel update, my niche site took a giant leap from #117 in Google (where it was sitting for about 5 days), to #58, and now it’s sitting at #53. This was very encouraging because it means that my backlinking strategy is totally working, which is perfect timing because that’s exactly what I’m going to share with you today.
(sidenote: I’ve been getting a lot of emails about how to check your rankings in the search engines lately. Answer: How to Find Your Google Keyword SERPs Ranking)
To quickly reiterate, backlinks (links from other websites to yours) are the key to moving up the ranks of search engines. The quality is far more important than the actual number of backlinks, so it’s our goal to get them primarily from sites that have a high Google Page Rank.
There are a ton of different ways to get backlinks, but I’m only going to share with you my specific techniques that I’m using specifically for this niche site duel.
Publish Excellent Content
No matter what niche you’re in, you should always be publishing excellent content on your site. This is a no brainer, but many times we often put aside creating excellent content for other strategies that will help us rank higher.
Sure, you may climb the search engines, but what happens when you’re on the first page of Google and start to see traffic? They bounce off your site like a rubber ball because you’ve got crappy content.
Furthermore, with superb content you’re more likely to get backlinks in the most natural form possible – from people wanting to link to your content simply because your content rules.
As I mentioned in Niche Site Duel 004: My Content Strategy, I have a content strategy that may easily position my site as one of the most helpful websites available on the subject. If I can create the “go to” website for my niche, then backlinks will happen naturally and Google will love it.
Article Marketing / Web 2.0 Sites
This is similar to what Tyrone has outlined in his most recent video (see the niche site duel hub), but I’ve added a few things.
I will include a video (soon) that walks you through my process and gives you an over-the-shoulder look, but here’s a quick breakdown for now:
Creating Anchors
- I get set of backlinks by posting articles on the following article directories:
- I also get a set of backlinks by creating free blogs and posting content on the following web 2.0 sites:
- To speed things up bigtime and make the content part of all this much easier (since this is A LOT of content that needs to be written), I use a couple of handy tools (aff links):
Instant Article Factory is excellent for creating quick content that I primarily use on my web 2.0 sites.
The Best Spinner has saved me the most time throughout this whole process, because what I do is:
- Write a good, unique article (between 350 and 600 words), and then post it on the primary niche site.
- I then use the tool to spin the article and then submit it to EzineArticles.
- I repeat by re-spinning and re-submitting the article to all of the various article directories. All of my spun articles have been approved so far, including on EzineArticles.
- I then re-spin the same article and use it on my Web 2.0 sites too.
Note: This allows me to “repurpose” my original article in a unique way that generates more backlinks without have to write more. That being said, when I use The Best Spinner (trial) to spin my articles, I make sure to read each of the spun articles before I submit them. This is important to me, and I recommend insist that you take the time to read through each uniquely spun article yourself before submitting them to make sure you’re not publishing content that doesn’t make sense.
Also, it is not an easy button, as it does take time to go through each word or phrase and select synonyms, but it really saves me a lot of time in the end.
Backlinks for my Backlinks
To give the backlinks from my anchor sites a little more “SEO Juice”, which will ultimately flow down to my primary site, I hit the anchors with mass social bookmarking and even more article submissions. I usually do this right away (after they are created or approved), so they are rapidly indexed.
You could use a tool like Bookmarking Demon to almost automatically submit to hundreds of bookmarking sites, but to be honest it’s a really expensive deal. I like to just spend 30 minutes using a free tool from SocialMarker to do the trick.
I’m also exploring mass article submissions as a way to boost my backlinks using tools like Automatic Article Submitter and Unique Article Wizard, which can send out hundreds of articles in a day to various smaller article directories around the web. I can’t recommend either of those two programs yet since I’m still getting familiar with them, but UAW looks promising. I’ll keep you updated.
So to sum things up, I’m essentially creating a mini-network of articles and blogs around my main site, with an outer ring of “boosters”. I will occasionally link the web 2.0 properties to each other and the articles as well.
I do have a few other strategies that I know about that I may try in the future, but for now this is it, and it seems to be working quite well. Hopefully within a few weeks I can get onto or close to the first page and then begin my monetization plan, which I’m really excited about and will share with you in a later update.
Until then, Cheers!
Other Posts in The Niche Site Duel Series
- Niche Site Duel: I’ve Been Challenged, and I Accept! (8/16)
- Niche Site Duel 002: Finding a Profitable Niche – My Process Revealed (8/18)
- Oops. The Niche I Selected is Bad, and Here’s Why (8/20)
- Niche Site Duel 003: How to Setup a Niche Site – Before You Add Content (8/25)
- Niche Site Duel 004: My Content Strategy (9/10)
- Niche Site Duel 005: My Backlinking Boo Boo (9/13)
- Niche Site Duel 006: My Backlinking Strategy (9/14)
- Niche Site Duel 007: Ranking and Traffic (and Earnings!) Update (9/29)
- Niche Site Duel 008: My Monetization Strategy (10/26)
- Niche Site Duel 009: I’m On The First Page of Google! (10/27)
- Niche Site Duel 010: I’m Ranked Number One in Google!! (11/8)
- Niche Site Duel 011: THE Backlinking Strategy That Works (11/10)
- Niche Site Duel 012: An Experiment and Income Update (11/29)
- Niche Site Duel 013: CPA Promotions, Private Advertising, Job Board and Income Report(1/14)
- My 275% Increase in Adsense Revenue (1/26)
- Niche Site Earnings and Directory Listing Update (3/11)
- I Was Just Offered Five Figures For My Niche Site! (5/11)
- Niche Site Update – New Content, Record Earnings, and What’s Next (5/26)
- Niche Site Duel – One Year Later (Earnings and Traffic Update (8/15)
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Hi Pat,
Do you create new web 2.0 properties for each spun article or just post it on the existing ones?
Hi Pat,
This is an incredible backlinking campaign. It’s kind of how I envisioned the process, but you really laid out your strategy well. It does sound like a lot of work, but I imagine your payoff will be totally worth it.
Pat,
what do you think about this this other free article spinning tool.. http://www.spinnerchief.com
i will check out instant article factory
Pat, I am very impressed with your material, and I just devoured the details of your “How to write an eBook” eBook.
I am listening to the Link Liberation guys right now, and they are saying that “Article Spinning” is bad and will eventually get me into trouble with google. Please help me understand this.I trust you but also them. Sorry to be negative, but I am very curious about doing this right.
I think i am going to integrate the Backlink Strategy to my sites aswell… But the Qustion i have is… is Instant Article Factory really worth paying money for ! : /
I’m attempting to add your website’s Rss to my own feed reader however its definitely not working appropriately, you may need to check it out to ensure its working correctly.
So, I have a squidoo lens pointing to my site. Do I point the secondary level of article to the squidoo lens, or to my squidoo user profile? The same goes for hub pages, blogger, etc.
P.S.
This is exactly what I have been lookng for. Extremely helpful, I am promoing my carpet cleaning company in Albuquerque, NM. Thanks for the useful info!
Hey Pat, your website inspired me to kick-off my smart passive income process. I’ve spent a lot of time in your posts.I’m still learning the ropes. Thank you very much!
Great info, is there an illustration of the whole backlinking process i can give to my va, thanks in advance,
Hey Pat, I’m a complete newbie to affiliate marketing and niche sites so forgive me if my question has already been answered somewhere (I am a bit confused about content tools).
Okay, so I see that you use the Instant Article Factory product to create quick content (strictly for web 2.0 sites), then you use The Best Spinner product after creating a unique piece and then submit to what I’m assuming are the article directories (correct me if I’m wrong). Now lastly, I just saw a vid where you were using the Unique Article Wizard. Where does that come in?
For us newbies, do you recommend all three when starting out? If not, which are best to really get started with creating content, since we all are not great writers like yourself
Hi Kesha,
No worries! I know there is a lot of content here so it can be hard to filter through.
Unique Article Wizard comes into play to make backlinks for the articles that I’ve written and web2.0 sites – so essentially I’m creating backlinks for my backlinks (the secondary layer in the graphic in this post).
If I had to recommend one product, it would probably be the best spinner because it’s from that that you can quickly create unique content to submit to other places and get some backlinks in. As long as you spend the time making sure you spin the article correctly so the output is high quality and unique, of course.
Cheers!
Hi Pat, I was wondering what led you to decide to use a psuedoneym/ alias for your niche site?
Thanks! Andy
Hey Andy, I touched on this a little in the comment string of my latest podcast (session 11), but I’ll paste a little bit of it here:
Because of my own particular situation and the fact that I’m talking about my security guard site here on this blog and I’m trying to do my best to keep the two separate.
I think in certain situations, a pen name is appropriate. Many successful bloggers and authors use a pen name for a number of reasons (some to make sure their current employer doesn’t make the connection, hehe), which I think is fine. As long as you don’t claim to be someone you’re not and adding credentials that you don’t have, I think it’s okay.
If I revealed that I was Pat Flynn on that site, an entrepreneur who created the site for a challenge and earn revenue from, that would definitely turn people off (for obvious reasons), and keep people from reading the valuable content that I do provide on that site that could potentially help them.
I see your point. But I am not sure it is a bad thing that you are creating multiple niche sites. I mean you are providing good value regardless…
I think a bigger reason for me to use a pename would be so that my “brand” (whatever that is!) – would not be ‘watered down’ with multiple niche sites. I think I will give this some thought, and perhaps I will use a pen name as well!
Also, I have your podcast in my queue now, so looking forward to hearing your show!
Pat great article Just by using these tips my traffic has already improve THANKS!!!
Hai Pat,
Your nice site, your theme, has the top banner (the wide one) i’ve been trying to do something similar for one of my sites (yes I have the same theme, it fits with the colour scheme) but I can’t seem to get that banner loaded….
I am just a retard and didn’t tick a box somewhere???
Hello, I didnt know for method of making different blogs and put on them backlink. Great idea, i will do taht and w8 for results.
Thanks for the information give above. I have sent my articles to some of the articles directories mentioned above but will sent my articles to those I missed out. From the comments above, I know some have objection using the article spinner. I feel there is nothing wrong with spinning your own articles as it is just merely rephrasing your words in the articles. I havent use an article spinner before and will consider getting one.
Hi Valerie, I used to detest article spinning – I much preferred to write my own content by hand or outsource it when I could afford to do so. But when I came upon The Best Spinner created by Jon Leger and his team – well, everything changed and I’ve never looked back. That is one cool tool, in my opinion!
Good luck with your own internet marketing endeavours!
Regards
Joseph
There is a free article submitter that comes together with article spinner that you can download on the internet. I havent try it out yet. But you will need to delete some of the directories listed as I found that the directories seems to be not working or no longer there. The article submitter is called ” Article Submission Helper”. I cant tell you how reliable this article submitter and spinner is. Usually I prefer paid stuffs as I am assured of its quality. I was planning to test it soon.
Can some one tell me how many spinner articles should be produced for the submission directory’s. Do you for example produce 10 spun articles and then submit them to the article directories and Web 2.0 properties? How many and how should they be spread around?
Fantastic article Pat! I am still a bit confused about the spinning thing. But it looks like the clearest strategy for getting lots of great links without endangering your site.
@Timothy… Just wanted to let you know that I go ahead and spin 250 versions (the max for the best spinner). It takes no more effort, and I can always delete what I do not need. The exact number you need will depend on how many properties you submit to. For example, I started my site out by writing 3 articles and putting them on all of the web2.0 sites that Pat suggests as well as the article directories. I counted up that I needed 17 unique articles for this first round of submissions. But, I also needed extra article versions to submit to the outer layer of articles, and I needed 101 word snippets to submit to blog blueprint. I used that spreadsheet from eric at my four hour workweek to keep up with which articles I am using, where, etc. HTH, Andy
So let me get this around my mind…for example: I have my main “money site”; four Web 2.0 properties; four article submission directories; and 20 outer layer blogs and submissions (not counting the snippets for blog blueprint). I need one main original article and 28 spun articles…right?
Sounds about right to me…
Hi Pat. This is my first time commenting here and I should say I am so inspired by your honesty and sincerity as a blogger. Thank you for helping people like me to learn more about internet marketing.
I just have one concern and I decided to put it here in comment to see if other people experience the same issue. Sorry if this is a long and boring comment.:)
I love Best Spinner and I know the importance of writing unique content. The first time I used it for my massive article submission, I ensured that its 98% unique (this percentage is the level you see on your BS screen)
For reference, This is how I spin my articles;
1. Rewrite the paragraphs three to four times
2. Rewrite all the sentences at least two times
3. Spin all the words using synonyms
4. I just dont spin the words but like what you have shown in the video, I check if they make sense with the whole sentence or post.
So I really spent a lot of time spinning one article. The first time I did it took me two days to complete my spinning. (I know thats too slow.lol!)
My concern is though BS reflects 99% uniqueness in the screen, when I compare the articles using DupeFree they have 20-45% level of similarity. Meaning my spun articles are only 80% -55% unique to each other. But since Ive spent a lot of time spinning the article and cant get any higher level of uniqueness ,I decided to use the spin syntax on my AMR(Article Marketing Robot)submission. I set it to 25 submissions daily.
I first submitted on Ezine and Go Articles and do my other article submissions through AMR. My articles passed Ezine and other directories with no problems.
Today I was so sad to discover that my account was blocked in Buzzle. I had the idea already and when I checked it on Copyscape, I saw that my Buzzle submission has 14 duplicates. All of these are the spun version of my original article that were submitted on different directories.
To add to my sadness, my Infobarrel submission (another spun version) was denied too .
Here are my questions;
1. What are the things that I did wrong?
2. Do you only use spun articles that is 100% unique to the seed article?
3. What is the ideal level of uniqueness to use for spun articles?
4. Have you experience the same problem?
5. How should I handle this issue?
Sorry if I sound too naive about this issue. But I really want to get your advice as it seems that a lot of people have positive results with spinning articles and it is only me that cant make it work to its potential.
Again thank you for your time and support. Sorry for the long comment.
Hey Pat. You got bunch and bunch of really awesome material on this site and I’m eating it all up. But, there’s two things I disagree with:
1) Design is much more important than just killing empty space. Empty space has a reason in design since it isolates an object. For instance, you can’t design a Casino site in a minimal seo way, it has to be luxurious and somewhat tacky since the design has a message. But a site like this is perfect with the minimalistic approach.
and
2) The site SocialMarker.com sucks. I can’t get anything to work on there. It just dies and after about 10 tries I’ve given up. Do you have a post about SEO’ing to social services (which ones are the most important, any softwares to mass publish and so on)?
Also I’d love to see a site dedicated to free stuff. Like that samurai thing is way to expensive to me.
Either way, most of your advice is spot on and pure gold! Love your site.
Mikael.
Hey Mikael –
Thanks for the comments! I don’t think all white space is bad. Coming from an architectural and design background I know just how important it is. But, in the online world space above the fold is extremely important and must be utilized efficiently. Not saying you’re wrong, just trying to clarify.
Regarding SocialMarker.com – it is getting worse and worse and I have stopped using it. As far as social bookmarking, I actually don’t worry about it anymore in the scheme of things, and I’ve still seen really good results. I think part of the reason is because the social sites are starting to crack down a bit on bookmarking just for SEO purposes.
There are free options, and I’ve talked about them before (i.e. Google Adwords Keyword Tool), but you’re going to spend A LOT of time doing the same stuff MS can do in just minutes.
Cheers, and all the best to you!
Hi Mikael, just to add a bit upon the reply from Pat. I too have some doubts about the power of social bookmarking sites and the links obtained from those as far as helping rankings in Google search.
However, there is absolutely no harm in mixing up your backlinking strategy by utilizing social bookmarking sites. Its more and more important these days that if you want to rank in Google then you ensure a more “natural looking” backlinking approach.
As such, one of the best social bookmarking automators is Caroline Middlebrook’s IMAutomator.com Furthermore, free submissions are available by using this site, so you can get a sense – over time – if this approach is helping your campaigns by investing some of your time, but without investing any of your money.
Regards
Joseph
Purely beautiful answer! I just used it and if it acctually works as advertised it’s freakin’ fantastic! My sincere thanks Joseph.
If I could jump in I would agree that the bookmarking sites may not help all that much with affecting your rankings but they can help quite a bit with getting your backlinks indexed and with strengthening backlinks you already have. For instance if you post an article to InfoBarrel to backlink your site then you can submit the IB article to social bookmarking to get it and keep it indexed. The same goes for if someone links to you naturally. If you submit that post to the bookmarking sites and it should help you out more in the long run.
Awesome reply mate. So are you recommending the Web 2.0 services and the article directories as most important for SEO?
I would say so – beyond, of course, quality and unique content posted on your own niche site.
Off course. Thank you so much for actually producing good things in a world where crap is the norm.
But I have a challenge for you: how would one, such as myself, go about raking well with a portfolio: http://www.mikaelcedergren.com. It’s a photographic portfolio but as a portfolio it’s not about the text, but the images. I’ve tried Google Adwords and it works okay, but not fantastic in any way.
Mikael, I’m sure Pat will not mind if I pop a link to another site in this reply…
http://inphotos.org/11-seo-tips-for-your-photoblog/
Its a little dated and a couple of the links in the site are 404 errors, but otherwise there is a good amount of solid info for SE optimizing photo blogs.
Hope that helps.
Joseph
Pat! Wow, I’m employing all of your strategies step by step! I even bought Market Samurai from your aff link. Thank you so much for giving away all of this great content. I am truly blessed by it! Aarin
Hi Pat, thanks for the valuable info.
Some questions to clarify with you, if you don’t mind.
1. When you start a new niche site, how many keywords do you plan to target? I see you have listed your main keywords under Category in your Security site right? Will that help?
2. So for different keywords you targeted, do you backlinked your articles to your main site (securityguardtraininghq), or sub pages (securityguardtraininghq.com/armed-security-guard-training)? Which will help better?
3. For different keywords, do you create different blog accounts for your backlink? I meant for example, for keyword (armed security guard training), do you create 1 wordpress.com blog just for that, and for another keyword (security guard classes), you create another wordpress.com blog? Or you basically just create 1 wordpress.com blog for all your keywords, but different posts?
Hope I’ve not ask any stupid questions.
Thanks alot!
Vanson Tan
Vason,
Have you discovered the answer to your question yet? This is the exact question I was looking to get answered myself.
Thanks
Rick Nielsen
Hi Vanson,
I’m reading over this article and the comments to mine all of the great info here and see that you never received a reply. Here’s what I know about your questions: (remember, context comes into play here. The notes below are part of a broader context of my approach, so please tailor it to what you know/your approach)
-For my niche sites, I target one specific keyword. There’s actually a method to match desirable keywords and your domain name if you don’t know. You write articles for your primary keyword, and other articles for desirable modified versions of your primary kw.
I also put the primary keyword wherever I can (meta description & meta k.w.’s for overall site, also description and keyword fields for each post and post category).
-From what I know, there is no hard and fast rule for linking your directory articles to your home page vs. sub-pages. It depends on where you wish to primarily drive traffic. Let’s say you want to drive traffic to the home page primarily. You may still want some traffic to sub-pages (i.e. your niche site post articles that are optimized for modified kw’s and also contain affiliate links). In this case 80-20 is a good rule of thumb: 80% of your directory articles link to home page, 20% to sub-page.
- As for as keywords per each blog: you may have figured out from the above that my method for niche sites is to associate a specific kw with a specific site. However, please remember that modified (related) keywords come into play here, and give you subjects for your sub articles. If you wish to write about and promote something related to baking cookies, you most likely don’t need separate blogs for baking chocolate chip and baking oatmeal cookies! But again, you must apply this to your situation. It depends on your overall keyword strategy.
I learned this from a course called Affiliate Marketing for Beginners. It’s very well-laid out, turn-key, and ethical. Even if you’re not a total newbie,
all of these questions are answered there, it’s a great bedrock.
This is my affiliate link if you feel it may be of value. You can of course always Google it & buy without my link as well:
http://bit.ly/zbsTDe
Hope this helps!
Best,
Jared
I am also looking forward for an answer to Vanson’s questions. I’ve been asking myself much the same things. Cheers, Pat !
Hi Mihai,
Comments about your question are above.
Cheers
I’ve worked with a little article marketing. It takes anywhere from several days to even 2 months to get an article approved. It would seem that you can’t submit articles that are going on Web 2.0 sites until your article on the ‘anchor’ sites have been approved. And in like manner, if your going to link from a web 2.0 site, Youttube, etc to a Web 2.0 site then you have to wait until the article that you want to link to has been approved.
Am I correct in this?
What method do you use to keep all this link madness from insane!?!
Hi Pat, Joseph
UAW is good, but expensive for beginners. Do you have other free alternatives that work magic like UAW and Market Samurai?
Thanks
Have you tried ‘JetSpinner dot com’? They have a free 30 day trial for the ‘full’ services, but even if you don’t buy their monthly subscription service I think you can still use the article spinner for free.
Hi, you can get Article Blueprint for ~25 per month, or you can get with Blog Blueprint a la cart for 10$ extra. BB + AB for 67$ per month… Article blueprint does everything that UAW does. I am not sure how the quality of the article directories compare, but from what I can tell, they are fine…
Andy
Also, you can use the google keyword tool for free, and do most of the things that market samurai et al do as well. The thing is that you must do many of these tasks manually which takes time. You can usually get a reasonable idea of niches from the google tool…but something like market samurai is just going to make life easier, IMO
Just to ask a simple question for better understanding. I can assume that submitting the same article to 10 different article directory sites is not good to do, but why? Why do you spin a slightly different version for each site?
I have heard, on the JetSpinner dot com website, that this is so Google doesn’t remove the back links from the duplicate articles from their index. Not really sure if tha’s true though, I’m kind of doubtful of the because you can Google for a particular article title and find duplicates.
The problem I have is SocialBookmarker. I can’t seem to get to work. Is there a trick to it. The videos on the site don’t answer the question neither do the FAQs.
What SocialBookmarker is doing is guiding you from one site to another, kinda of like taking a ride on a tour bus. But you have to create an accounts on each site that you want to post to. If you allow you web browser to save the login infornaion of each site then you won’t have to type that in either. Then on the sites that you want to post to SocialBookmarker supplies the form details to save you time in typing in the information.
So if you have created your social Bookmarking accounts and allow your web browser to remember the passwords for the sites, just select the sites from the SocialBookmarker main page and you can quickly visit each site and post the link and the comment.
Now I understand. It isn’t really clear on the website. A lot of work but It can be done.
Hey Pat,
I can imagine that you need to put in a lot of work into this. I suppose you must have some outsourcing thing going on to help you with this because I’ve done only a little of what you have done and it has taken me quite a bit of time as well.
Waoo i learn a lot,
As in the past to give importance to this day, forms the core of our faith and our personality.
Pat, I have recently heard that spinning articles is completely unnecessary (according to many respected posters on warrior forum). Have you looked into this at all? The Terms of Service for the few article directories I have looked at say nothing about not submitting your unique article from your site.
Pat, do you create new WordPress.com and Tumblr blogs for each new article you write? Or do you use the same blogs for all your articles?
Its a year later, but better late then never. I just found your site and I’m going through all the old stuff. Highly readable. Keep it up.
Do you think that your backlinking strategy that got you ‘sandboxed’ drew google’s attention so that they noticed you apologized, thus letting you out of time-out?
The timing is right…
Are you supposed to make a whole new setup for each keyword. So for “red widgets” I do the whole article dir’s, web 2.0′s etc.
Then if I want to target “blue widgets”, do I start the whole process over again or can I add articles to the previously built blogs and web 2.0 sites?
Pat, love your stuff. We’re using wordpress right now and loving it for our normal website. Wondering, can we make landing pages under the same account with different URLs? Does that pull as a completely different site and therefore gain it’s own credibility? Thanks. You can see our website by going tohttp://www.wrightchoicehomes.com
Whoa – my mind is totally boggled by this series about the niche sites – I am understanding things about keywords, links, etc that I never really “got” before – thanks Pat!
I just explored the article spinning portion of Pat’s post here, and it’s yet again another learning experience. I originally understood places like EzineArticles, and the idea of article spinning, as having the goal of actually creating readable, user-centered content. Stuff you would actually gain insight from. But after seeing a demo of one article spinning product, it became clear that’s not the point at all. The spun articles read like a 5th grade book report. The point is to literally just create content – any content – that includes keyword saturation and your links. Search bots pick this up, which produces the back-linking foundation. A-ha! Now I get it.
Perhaps this was obvious, but it just clicked for me. Interesting… Thanks for a VERY helpful post Pat.
Hey Chris – no no no!
Everything we publish online should be quality – something that if someone read could benefit from. That’s why I spend quite a long time during the spinning process to make sure the articles read as unique and coherent as possible.
The primary goal is to get backlinks – yes, but I would NOT sacrifice quality for it, especially now that Google is looking closely at what’s written instead of just only looking at certain keyword placements and quantities within posts.
Well if I could have written a longer message, I would have explained further. I agree with you completely. That’s why I was thinking of not using the article spinning products, it made me suspicious. I’d rather just write 500 words myself that I am proud of. I guess those articles reminded me of all the garbage PLR content I’ve seen.
But the focus of this post was about backlinking, and in this context the emphasis was on strictly generating the content.
I think you meant “…would [not] sacrifice quality for it…”? Point taken though, it must be readable and worthwhile for the user. Thanks for the response-
LOL, yes – I meant NOT. Updated the comment. Cheers Chris, and all the best to you!
Hi Pat,
In the article marketing section of this post, you talk about submitting articles to different directories. Are you submitting the same article, a close spun article, or an entirely fresh, completely different article (on the same topic)?
Thx-
Hi Pat!
I’m relatively new to the scene, but have found your blog to be inspiring! As a copywriter for an IM company, I am VERY familiar with article writing, spinning, submitting and social bookmarking. I’m really looking forward to using that knowledge and what I’m learning now (at work and from you) to make a foray into my own niche site.
As far as article writing, I have to give props to you for how you want to keep to QUALITY content. It’s excellent.
Pat, I was wondering if the new Google Panda has penalized your niche site due to its article spinning…I’ve heard that the Panda is not very fond of rehashed content created through techniques like spinning. Thanks!
Nope – no penalization here. The reason I think is because I make sure to go above and beyond with spinning – to a 75% to 80%+ uniqueness so that each article is very high quality and mostly unique. Those who try to cut corners with article spinning may see poor results.
Yes, Pat, above and beyond, that is total SPI. It is sooo obvious when an article has been posted and the quality isn’t there. The content that you have provided on your security guard site is, normal Pat stuff, just plain awesome.
Hey Pat-
You did this about a year ago now. Can you maybe blog about how your backlinking strategy has changed, if at all?
Thanks for everything.
Kevin
Hey Kevin – I will be doing a revamped backlinking strategy post in 2012, but for how what I mention at http://www.thebacklinkingstrategythatworks.com is still working for me.
Hi Pat,
Just looking deeper into your page ranking for your http://www.securityguardtraininghq.com/ site
I see you have articles submitted to Ehow as apart of your Backlink Strategy, how did you submit your information or did Ehow pulled that article into their site.
Regards
Mike
Actually Mike, I didn’t do anything. I noticed the eHow link and it’s a totally natural link. Whoever wrote that article linked to me, apparently because he or she found my site to actually be useful
(Plus, I rank pretty high for some of those related keywords, and the author was probably just looking in Google for relevant articles to put into the resource section).
Cheers!
Hi Pat, your website is so informatiive. I noiticed that you use Market Samurai – have you ever tried Article Samurai from the same company that makes Market Samurai?
I have used Article Samuari – to be honest it’s a bit pricey (97/month) but it does the job of submitting articles to fairly high quality sites (based on PR). Most of the software is the same as Market Samurai (it has a KW Research Module and SEO Competition Module) except for the article writing software which includes a spinner and submission tools.
I was wondering if the spun articles that will be submitted in the second layer need to be 100 percent unique or is it okay for them to be just 60 to 70 percent unique..will the smaller directories still approve them and will such articles have no effect ultimately to my money site, since they are only directly linked to the first layer sites. Hope pat or anyone can have a comment on this.
My bad, as follow up to my comment/query, I meant “have no bad effect” instead of “have no effect.”
I usually spin them pretty well so that the uniqueness is about 80%. I never use the auto-spin feature in the spinning software though, I always manually go through and spin most of the words so that the resulting article makes sense and is relatively unique.
I am having a lot of trouble spinning my articles past 40%. Do you have any tips or suggestions to getting a higher uniqueness percentage?
Thanks Pat.
Kevin
I am going go go ahead and reply to my own post. I started off spinning by just replacing individual words. After experimentation , I found that you get a much higher percentage if you rewrite entire sentences. I am now in the 70% range on my posts using the best spinner.
Hope this helps.
Kevin
Hi Pat,
A couple of questions:
1. At what point did you start creating direct backlinks to your niche site? E.g. after creating 10 articles on it, or after submitting the first few thousand spun articles pointing to your anchor sites?
2. Also did you have software that creates forum profiles as well? I did some research on your pen name and found lots of forum profiles with direct backlinks. I’ve got both UAW and AMR but can’t see if there’s an option to do that.
I’m trying this niche challenge out and having a blast with it. I’ve had some mild success in the first few days, and it’s my first niche site ever so I’m quite happy with my progress so far. Thanks for these helpful posts, hope to hear from you.
Hey Andre, to answer your questions:
1) After I had 5 articles live on the site, which was about a week to a week and a half after I started with the first article.
2) I don’t have software that does that, I used a VA who explored that backlinking strategy for me. I did this after I got to #1 in Google and unfortunately I’m not sure if it would have helped to get to #1, but it probably has helped to maintain the ranking. Maybe, maybe not.
Thanks for the response, Pat. Just curious as well, is it normal for one’s site to go slightly up and down in the rankings within a matter of hours? I can’t help but keep checking the ranks and it moves +/- 5 positions by itself, with no changes.
Yes, absolutely – especially with a new site. Where are you checking your rankings by the way? If you just do a regular Google search it could be skewed even more because Google is taking your search history into account. It’ll keep moving around either way, possibly for months.
I’m checking both from Google searches and from Market Samurai. I was slightly saddened by dropping about 5 spots down, lol.
I’ve got about 5 articles up and created the first anchor layer on the recommended blogs and Web 2.0 properties. Then I’ve got some article marketing going on to point at the anchors. When I’ve finished that part my plan was to restart with more backlinks, this time going directly to the niche site, but it wasn’t specifically mentioned in your steps so I wasn’t sure if that should be done at all.
I really think patience is a virtue here. I’m trying hard not to keep checking my rank changes every 30 minutes (ha). My goal is to break your record for rank #1 in X amount of time but I think that it’s a tall order in the niche that I’m in. Or I’m a little too new at this. Certainly going to try though.
Patience is definitely key, and also just writing more and more fantastic content. Don’t check every 30 minutes. Don’t even check every day – let it be and just stay the course because you’re going to go up and down and then up again, then down again the entire way. Keep it up!
hi pat, back here. I have a few questions:
1. I can’t understand why I seem not to gain any backlinks from ezinearticles.com. I have submitted 5 to 6 articles on several of my blogs. None are reflected. I check my backlinks via google — link:xxxxx.com
2. On the backlinking strategy, do we really need to link hundreds of articles to anchor sites the primary/direct layer, or is it okay to link just ten articles/directories to each of them??
Hey Pat,
Just an update, I think TheFreeLibrary is no longer accepting articles. I tried submitting one today and got the message that they aren’t accepting new ones. Not sure if it’s temporary or if it’s just me.
Andre
Hi Pat,
Thanks for putting all the time into this.
What I don’t fully understand is this: how often should we post new content on the blog that gets put through this process? You said you put an hour per day into building this up…but what are you spending that hour on? Is it a new article every day? Every week?
Thanks!
Benjy
Anyone know if spinning articles violates adsense policies? Thanks!
Hi Pat,
I recently (about a week ago from this writing) created a site/blog at wordpress.com & weebly.com.
I’ve added some info (text) and logo’s.
However, using Market Samurai, those two do not show up as Backlinks for my main sites.
Am I missing something here?
thx
Chris
Hi Pat,
I have some serious problems regarding my niche site and google. I ranked on position 12 with my main keyword with a excat search volume of 2400 monthly.
Yesterday I created some one way backlinks (4-10) and today I saw a total crash of all rankings with a falling rank for my main keyword on position 800.
I really was shocked because all my rankings were constantly improving….
I don’t understand google, sorry I think I’m too stupid to build up niche sites and rankings
Hi Pat,
I’m not sure if you mentioned this in your post or video. But quick question, how often do you mass submit your articles?
Thanks!
-Long
Just started working this strategy out for a new site that I have in development. I have high hopes for the strategy and am really hoping it works as prescribed.
Hi Pat, just wanted to thank you for having such a great site. I wanted to ask if you have ever tried Only Wire for creating backlinks from social sites?
Hi,
Thank you for giving this away with us. I follow after you in your previous post that why I came here. Continue doing this beautiful and informative strategies in gaining backlinks.
Regards.
Hey Pat. Fyi. Buzzle.com is no longer allowing external links or dup contents.
here’s the info on their site upon registering:
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If you are looking to become a Buzzle author, you’ll first need to create a Buzzle membership account here.
However, before you proceed please note following:
Buzzle.com no longer accepts marketing type articles
External links are NOT allowed in articles
We do NOT accept duplicate content i.e. if submitted article has full or partial content that already exists on some other website, we do not publish such article.
If you wished to utilize Buzzle.com for article marketing, we are sorry but we do not allow it any more.
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