This backlinking strategy is modeled after Joseph Archibald’s strategy he generously shared free to the public in his 40 Day Challenge on the Warrior Forum. He was able to rank a fairly competitive niche in the top 5 in Google within 40 days.
(For everyone’s convenience, he has also sinsce published The 40 Day Challenge eBook, which is a lot easier to read than the 1200+ posts on the Warrior Forum. Check out his sample chapter here.)
He’s taken it upon himself to be totally active here on SPI and respond to everyone’s questions and concerns about the backlinking strategy on my blog, which just shows what kind of guy he is. If you use this strategy, be sure to thank Joseph sometime.
***Note: This strategy still works even after Google’s latest Panda Update.
I’ve revealed my niche site backlinking strategy before, but never in this much detail.
Ever since the niche site I created for the Niche Site Duel started to rapidly climb the ranks of Google, eventually landing on the number one position, people have been asking me for more detail about my strategy and the software and tools that I’ve been using to help.
There are several strategies one can use to rank higher in the search engines and the one I’m going to explain is just one of them.
Please note that links to software and tools within this blog post are affiliate links which I do receive financial gain from if purchases are made from them.
Furthermore, the principles of this strategy can be done for absolutely free without having to buy any software or tools. I use the software to help and speed things up.
Don’t spend money on anything you see online unless you can afford it and you feel it will pay you back in the future.
Overview
I’d like to start by sharing an overview of the process with you so you can see how it all works as a whole. Later in this post, I’ll get into detail about the individual parts.
(Click to watch Backlinking Strategy & Process Overview on YouTube)
To summarize what I talk about in the video, the backlinking strategy I’m using involves two layers of backlinks – the anchor layer, which are links that you create which link directly to your niche site, and the indirect layer, which are links that you create which link directly to your anchor layer.
The Anchor Layer
The anchor layer consists of a few parts, again, which link directly to your niche site.
These include:
- Top Article Directory Submissions
- New Blogs
- Web 2.0 Properties
Links from Blog Blueprint(Blog Blueprint hasn’t been performing as well as it used to. It’s not vital if this part of the strategy is taken out)Updated 12/03/11 - Direct Links from BuildMyRank (BMR is a BB replacement that has been working much much better for my sites lately! You get 10 links for free, so try it out! Most of the other niche site creators I know use BMR now as well as a primary link resource.)- Updated 3/20/12 – As of this date, BMR articles have apparently been starting to be de-indexed from Google, so creating backlinks using this tool would be a waste of time, at least for now. The best advice is to not use blog networks to drive links back to your site and continue with the other portions of this backlinking strategy, and to diversify the links coming to your site as much as possible.
Later in this post when I talk about how this all happens, I’ll get into what exactly is involved with each of these 4 parts in the anchor layer – what directories I submit to, what “new blogs” is, etc.
The Indirect Layer
The indirect layer is a way to create massive amounts of backlinks which link directly to the anchor properties we setup in the anchor layer. These links do not point directly to your niche site.
The indirect layer consists of:
- Mass Article Submissions using Unique Article Wizard
- Mass Bookmarking Submissions
The reason that you don’t want to link directly to your niche site is because you’re creating hundreds of backlinks at a time and if you point all of them to your niche site, it will look totally unnatural and your young site won’t be able to handle all of it without raising a red flag. When you point these links to your anchors, because your anchor sites are on high ranking, totally populated websites, they’ll be able to handle the wave/influx of links but at the same time pass or feed that SEO power generated from all of those links into your niche site. Your anchor properties act as a shield while at the same time allow you to get the SEO benefit from the indirect layer.
Yes, I know – it sounds kind of wacky. When I first heard this strategy it really didn’t make sense to me, but after implementing the strategies myself the results are very clear.
The Streamlined Process
Now that you have a general understanding of the what, I’m going to show you the how.
I think the best way to do this is to actually just walk you through the process from start to finish and show you how I can create all of these backlinks from a single unique article.
Step 1: Write an Original Article Related to Your Niche
Everything in this process begins with writing an original article. Personally, I like to have full control of what’s written and what’s published, so I like to write the articles myself, but there are many people who are comfortable with having a virtual assistant or ghostwriter write the article for them instead.
Either way, it should definitely unique content and should typically be around 350-600 words in length. Although the length isn’t extremely important, it’s smart to stay within this range because it will make your life easier in the later steps of this process.
Lastly, you can choose to post this original article onto your niche site before you move on to the next steps. You could kill two birds with one stone by adding content to your site and following the next steps to help build backlinks as well.
Step 2: Prepare The Article for Spinning
Like I mentioned in the overview video above, spinning an article gives you the ability to quickly create multiple variations of an original article so that you can submit them to various places without worrying about duplicate content penalties and so that you can save tons of time by not having to create brand new content from scratch over and over again to get the same message across.
I talked about article spinning in my previous backlinking post and naturally a lot of people commented about it (currently 174 comments) because it is a widely debatable topic.
Not everyone is comfortable with the idea of spinning an article – using multiple variations of an original article and then submitting those variations to several different locations on the web. Some people view it as spammy and others view it as dangerous too. I totally respect that side of the argument, but let me tell you why I think it’s okay.
(I don’t want this post to turn into some huge debate, but I feel I should tell you why I am okay with this method since this is what I’m showing you how to do.)
First, I don’t view it as spammy because I’m making sure that the content that I submit (even after spinning) is good. Since they are quality articles and I don’t submit different versions of an article to the same location, I feel comfortable knowing that I’m doing what I can to make sure my message gets read in the most places as possible, without using the same exact text over and over again.
Also, think about press releases for a second. Press releases are one single version of an article that gets syndicated to tens of thousands of places on the web. Companies like PRWeb make money doing this for other companies, brands and people. As described on PRWeb’s site:
“We send your news to 35,000 journalists and bloggers, 30,000 websites and hundreds of newspapers including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune as well as local news outlets across the USA. PRWeb gets your story where it needs to go.”
Several brand name companies and individuals use press releases (the exact same article, not variations) to help spread the word about something. This is exactly what I’m doing when I submit my spun content to various places on the web, although I’m taking it a step further and am not using the same exact content over and over again. I’m using different variations because that’s the only way I can make it happen, at least without penalty.
In my previous post, I think Mark Mason’s comment says it best:
“I hate this spinning discussion. Let’s say Pat has the cure for cancer and he posts it on his blog. Curing cancer is good. So Pat spins articles about curing cancer and posts them everywhere so he can help the most people while playing by the rules that GOOGLE has set.
So what about security guards? Pat’s site rocks. It will help people that are thinking about becoming a security guard. Security guards are a help to society. It’s all good.
So what if Pat “advertises” his site by placing similar content all over the web? It’s not like the web is “full” and Pat is harming someone by taking up too much space.
It seems acceptable for Toyota to place the same add on every TV network and run it over and over. It’s OK for AP to syndicate their content everywhere. Why not Pat.
Not to mention the fact that Pat is only doing this because Google’s algorithms are too poor to tell good content from bad content. I would argue that if Pat Does not do something to rank his site, he is being unfair to all those readers out therebat NEED him but cannot find him.
Failing to properly promote your site when there are people to help profitably is A lot bigger sin than syndicating 47 very similar but different copies of a good article.
If you want to take a stand against someone, get mad at Google. They have an inferior product that relies on backlinks — yet they make Billions of dollars each year from it. That’s the problem, not Pat.
Anyways, I think we’ve beat this to a pulp already – it’s time to show you how it’s done.
In the video below, you’ll see me using a piece of software called The Best Spinner, which is by far the best spinning software available with the biggest bank of user generated synonyms that make the spinning process much faster.
Although there is a “one-button” approach that you can use to spin your articles, I would advise against using that feature because although The Best Spinner is awesome, it’s automated functions aren’t entirely perfect. You’ll see that I take the time to go through each word one-by-one to plug in good synonyms that make sense. Even though this takes some extra time (and like I said preparing an article for spinning is what takes up most of my time in this backlinking strategy), it’s totally worth it when you can just copy and paste spun versions of your articles in all of the later steps.
(Click to watch The Best Spinner – Article Spinning on YouTube)
Is article spinning absolutely necessary in order to make this strategy work. No! But as you will see, it does help to speed things up a bit.
Step 3: Submit to Article Directories
In this step, you’ll be submitting spun versions of your original article to various article marketing directories.
The directories I usually submit to are listed below:
You probably know that many of these top article directories check to make sure that the article is unique before approving and posting it onto their site. EzineArticles, especially, is notorious for this, however I’ve never once had an article denied approval or removed. If you are worried, you can still continue through this process by submitting a version to just one of the article directories.
EzineArticles is the top-choice directory, however it usually takes a while to get your articles approved (several days if you have not yet written 10 articles for their site). If you want an immediate approval, you can submit to GoArticles, which helps because then you don’t have to wait days to utilize the article in this backlinking process.
Here is one version of my article that I spun from the spinning video in step #2, live on GoArticles.com. Don’t forget to add a link directly to your niche site in the author bio / resource section, making sure you have at least one link that is an anchor text that matches your target keyword or keyphrase.
And yes, Pete Chamberlain is my pen name for my niche site and all related articles.
Step 4: Create Your New Blogs and Web 2.0 Properties
At this point you can use spun versions of your original article to create new blogs and web 2.0 properties that all have backlinks pointing to your site. They will be a part of the anchor layer that we talked about in the overview, which means they will contain links that point directly back to your niche site.
New Blogs and Web 2.0 Properties
These are new blogs and web 2.0 sites that you create for free, and the real benefit here is that they are a part of a larger, more powerful and higher ranking domain.
So for example, when you create a free blog at WordPress.com, even though the blog you create will start out as a Page Rank 0 (PR0) website, it’s still a part of the PR9 wordpress.com domain. This same ideology goes for all of the articles you’ve written for article directories too.
Each of the new sites will only require one post, which you can grab from a spun version of your original article (although you could and probably should add a little more (spun) content later – just to give the site more meat.
In addition to the content, you should embed a related video from YouTube (and even a picture too) just to make your page a little more relevant to the topic, and so it looks like it’s lived in a little.
Here is where you can create your free blogs and Web 2.0 Sites (thanks to Joseph for the updated list! - updated 2012):
- http://www.wordpress.com/
- http://www.tumblr.com/
- http://www.livejournal.com/
- http://www.blogger.com/
- http://youblog.net/
- http://myanimelist.net/
- http://www.barnculture.com/
- http://campusbug.com/
- http://www.nexopia.com/
- http://blog.com/
- http://www.migente.com/
- http://bravejournal.com/
- http://www.getjealous.com/
- http://xanga.com/
- http://www.thoughts.com/
- http://insanejournal.com/
- http://webs.com/
- http://www.blogcatalog.com/
- http://newsvine.com/
- http://www.geckogo.com/
- http://posterous.com/
Again, these only require 1 post (2 or 3 is better) with a link back to your niche site, and after that the only thing you have to do with them is remember the URL so you can link to them in the next step (step #5). I don’t do any cross linking between these sites.
Anchor Text Update for 2012: Also, make sure you vary your anchor text a bit. Meaning, the link from these sites that point back to your main site shouldn’t ALWAYS be using your main keyword. Why? Because it’s unnatural and a good variety of related anchor texts is better. So for example, if your target keyword is “Fly Fishing”, then it’s probably smart to use “Fly Fishing” about half the time (roughly) and then a mix of other keywords like “Fly Fishing Rods”, “Fly Fishing Reels”, “Fly Fishing Techniques”, “Fly Fishing Tips”, etc. for the other half.
Notable Web 2.0 Properties
There are two unique Web 2.0 sites I’d like to mention real quick:
They are free to setup and treated in the exact same manner as the New Blogs, they are just setup a little differently. You can use a (HIGHLY UNIQUE) spun version of your original article for some content, you can add an rss feed from your niche site, some videos, some pictures – there are a lot of cool things you can do with Squidoo and Hubpages. Again, just make sure there’s a least one backlink (with your keyword as the anchor text), pointing back to your niche site for each.
Note about Squidoo and Hubpages (and the reason why they’re separated out): More recently, they’ve been getting more and more strict with the content that is posted on their sites. I would actually write the content on these sites manually if possible, but if you don’t have the time you can test a spun version of your original article, knowing that it may not be approved. This is a warning for you just in case, just remember to think about the end user and what’s actually useful for them. The more “modules” and content you can add on those sites – the better, and the link that can come from those sites can be extremely powerful, if you can land ‘em.
After you have all of the above mentioned sites setup, you don’t need to keep creating more. When you get to this point, you can skip step #4 entirely because they will already be in place and doing their job.
Step 5: Indirect Linking to Your Anchor Sites
In this step, you’ll be creating a load of backlinks that link back to your anchor sites that you’ve created from your article submissions, your new blogs and web 2.0 properties.
Unique Article Wizard
Unique Article Wizard is a tool that I got familiar with a month after starting my niche site and it’s proving to work quite well. Previously, I’ve used Automatic Article Submitter to do mass article submissions, but UAW definitely outperforms AAS in my opinion, simply because I can get a lot more backlinks from it.
That being said, UAW isn’t entirely automatic either, but you can get up to 800-1000 backlinks form a single article, with links to prove it, which is awesome. This is why we use these articles to link to our anchor sites, because 1000s of backlinks to your niche site would definitely be a little much.
Here’s a video explaining how UAW works:
(Click to watch Unique Article Wizard – Massive Backlinks on YouTube)
Social Bookmarking
This is another method you can use to link directly to your anchor sites which will ultimately help boost the authority of your niche site.
There are several different backlinking tools available to help you with this process. One of them, Bookmarking Demon, automates the entire process but I’ve found the software to be really hard to handle, and it’s extremely expensive at $147 a pop. After purchasing it myself (again, I purchased and played around with all of these tools to see what works and what doesn’t so I could report back to you), personally I found that it wasn’t worth that much money to me.
I’d rather use a free tool from SocialMarker.com Social Poster, which really isn’t automated at all (and the initial time you run through it it takes a while because you have to manually sign up for all of the different social bookmarking sites), but it does save a little bit of time.
During my journey with my security guard training niche, social bookmarking was the thing I did the least. If I didn’t have unique article wizard on hand, I probably would have done more of it.
Step 6: Rinse and Repeat
Go back to Step 1.
An Important Final Note
So that’s the bulk of the backlinking strategy, and as you can see there are a lot of parts to it.
The thing is, most of the software and tools I’ve been talking about come with a cost, but I don’t want you to think that you need to purchase any of these things in order to succeed.
You can complete this entire backlinking strategy from the article submissions to the creation of new blogs and web 2.0 properties and social bookmarking without spending a dime. So please, don’t feel like you need to empty your wallet after reading this, I just wanted to show you exactly what I was doing and the tools I’ve been using to help save some time and speed things up a bit.
The tools work, but they aren’t necessary.
I know how much influence I have now that the Smart Passive Income Blog has grown so popular, and with that I accept the responsibility to make sure to never cheat you or tell you that you NEED to spend money on this or that in order to find success. When I created my first online business, the only thing I spent money on was a domain name and hosting package.
In the beginning, I didn’t spend money on a fancy website design, search engine optimization, article spinning software, submitter tools or anything like that. Heck, I didn’t even know those things existing and the only thing I did was publish great content, and I eventually gained a following and things just took off from there.
I am anticipating a number of questions or comments from this post, so please be patient for my response while I catch up on some sleep. It’s has been a long night putting all of this together for you, but I love it. If someone asks a question and you know the answer or have something to say, please don’t be shy.
Cheers!
Update: My buddy Eric over at My4HourWorkWeek.com created a really handy excel file to help you keep track of all of the link building and sites that you create for this specific backlinking strategy. Check it out here!
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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Great post that will help people get a bit of link generation. Forum posting is always an easy place to get a link! You can get into some very big forums and put your url in a signature box or in your quote area so every post will be a potential link!
Hey Pat, and helpful Moderators,
I’m new to blogging as I’ve been doing it for about a year (still learning new things) since I was 18, I’m now 19, and I would very much appreciate some quick help with this. Nothing too lengthy.
So I have every little concept down except one minor detail. I might be plain dumb, but it’s worth asking.
1) So with this entire process (steps 1-5) are we using ONE single article to submit to all the directories, web 2.0 blogs, and new blogs, and then rinsing and repeating with another completely different (not spun) article?
2) Secondly, if we are using one article, does that mean we are linking to every web 2.0 blog, new blog, and article directory with that one article through UAW?
3) Lastly, if the answer to question #1 was the second option, does that mean we’ll be submitting every new article we compose on our blog through UAW?
Here’s My Personal Process: Wondering If It’s Anything Close To The Right Way?
1) I personally create one high-quality article each day for my site
2) Spin it three different times
3) Submit it to 7 top article directories (Ezines, Article Base, etc.)
4) My resource box for article directories include an anchor link, made up of my targeted keyword for that article, as well as a second anchor link pointed to my homepage at my blog with it’s specific keyword
5) I submit those three spun versions through UAW, linking to one of my spun versions at EzineArticles as well as a second link pointing to the main post on my blog.
6) The article usually gets sent to roughly 250 directories every time (I’ve sent 30+ articles) which isn’t close to what Pat gets sent to
7) I do the same thing the next day for a different article
I guess my main question is am I doing it right and if not what can I do to fix this mess? Just trying to make this work good if I’m going to do it right, so I’m not wasting time. Right now it’s a few hours a day just to get this backlinking part of my fay down.
I appreciate ANY kinds of help with this. Thanks a bunch.
-Jason
Great post Pat.
One should not go aggressively when it comes to building backlinks, as at the end Google doesn’t want us to do that.
I suggest to start with very soft link building, then to raise that slowly, so it looks as natural as possible in the Google’s eyes.
WizIMS
Apparently, isnare is now $59.95/month if you want to use html!!!!???!?!! Is there a better directory to replace isnare or better to just skip it?
Hi
There are many directories you can replace it with try a goolge search. Or yes you can skip that as well.
regards
On creating blogs.
Let’s say that I have a website around fly fishing in general. And I’ve already created blogs around the keyword fly fishing. But now I want to target keywords like salt water fly fishing and fresh water fly fishing and fly fishing for bass, etc…. do I need to create new blogs for those keywords? Or can I filter all the UAW articles through the blogs that I’ve already created to target the keyword, fly fishing?
But say I wanted to target keywords such as boats, fillet knife, smoker, etc…. Keywords that don’t say fly fishing, then I am assuming I would definately want to create new blogs for those keywords? And if I targeted those keywords then I would also want to put the targeted keyword into the blog site web address right?
I’m slowly figuring this out, but I think I still need help. It’s all new to me and I barely began learning about it two weeks ago, so thank you for helping me out here.
“But now I want to target keywords like salt water fly fishing and fresh water fly fishing and fly fishing for bass, etc…. do I need to create new blogs for those keywords?” – Yes
“Or can I filter all the UAW articles through the blogs that I’ve already created to target the keyword, fly fishing?” – No
“But say I wanted to target keywords such as boats, fillet knife, smoker, etc…. Keywords that don’t say fly fishing, then I am assuming I would definately want to create new blogs for those keywords?” – Yes
“And if I targeted those keywords then I would also want to put the targeted keyword into the blog site web address right?” – Yes
HOWEVER you have two other choices at least
1) add the additional keywords (especially when related) as new POSTs to the existing anchor layer blogs and aim the UAW at these and then these down to the money site.
2) Dont just use this as the only backlinking method. You can use things like social bookmarking, forumn profile links direct etc etc. espcially once the main site is ranking and has a good number of links to it.
Just be carefull to vary anchor text, avoid using just the target kewyord and not to blast the main site.
regards
@Steve Wyman
You seem very helpful with this topic and so interactive here so I was wondering if you could answer my question in the above? Used a wrong email address so no gravatar but this is my profile. Please help at all.
Thanks, Jason
@Jason,
The process you laid out above is awesome. Keep writing original content each day.
I suggest you use the spun stuff in creating link wheels instead of just posting them in different article directories.
Very interesting article, and a good strategy for backlinks. It would take a bit of time to do it but no pain, or hard work, and no gain.
Thanks for the good and useful article. Have a great day!
Pat, I have been reading all your posts for the past 3 weeks and is still a bit skeptical whether I need to invest time and (some money) by following the techniques that worked for you. You see, I am starting to doubt now whether SEO is still important following what Google Panda has been doing in my older sites. Could you enlighten me, based on your theory and opinion, whether your backlinking techniques will still be applicable starting today Feb 14 and forward? Thanks.
I am still using these techniques, as are many others here who are posting their results and findings. SEO is still important – it always will be, it’s just forever changing and all of here are doing our best to keep up with the changes, and I’ve updated this document accordingly based on what is working and what’s not working anymore. Did you use these techniques in your older sites, or something different?
Thanks Pat for an awesome and fast reply. Now, I just started the few steps you outlined here where I am now using UAWizard. I signed up a few hours ago and submitted my very first article which will point to my unique article in GoArticles which will point to my main website (hehe, I am finding your layered backlinking quite sensible).
No, I haven’t used your techniques in my older sites (2009) since I want to try your technique in a very new domain and would gladly share if I can replicate your success in 2-3 months. Like what I said, I just started having a unique article in Amazines, Squidoo and GoArticles. Today, I started using UAWizard to point to GoArticles for the mean time and tomorrow on other directories. I haven’t purchased the Best Spinner yet due to limited budget so I spun one article by myself
Hi Rian, the thing about the SEO world is that it is very dynamic and constantly changing. With that said, the basics are still the same and instead of focusing on the exact tools Pat has mentioned he is using, try to grasp the overall concept as that is the more important thing to learn and master.
When I decided to stop worrying about what Google might do in the future I started to see real results. It really doesn’t do any good to worry about things that are not under your control.
If you suffered from Panda then you need to learn what you did wrong on your older sites and revise your link building strategy for you new sites. Giving up is never the answer and i’m sure that if you will follow the strategies mentioned here (with some tweaks) you will get the success you are looking for.
The best advise I can give you is to test as you go. That is how I learned SEO and I am still learning (I doubt I will ever stop…)
Dror,
I very much agree with you that there is no way we can read the minds of these search engines, this is the depressing part. I got traumatized with the Panda when one of my websites dropped down to the abyss back in October last year. That time I lost my faith with SEO, and thought “well there is really nothing I can do about this no matter what SEO techs I do”. Traditionally, I benefited from conservative and slow backlinking like commenting and bookmarking. I ranked first in some keywords but not as successful as Pat.
You can’t lose faith when it comes to SEO. Changes will always take place and sooner or later they will get to everyone. I only recently got smacked by Google on a few sites but I don’t let that discourage me from doing what i’m doing.
I can recommend that you build a number of sites so you don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. This way, when and if a site will be penalized it won’t hurt so much.
Hi
I have a slightly different take.
Theres no need to be negative about SEO or Google. You can read the minds of the engine but it takes a lot of work and study.
Plus you have to know who to trust and who to study. There are always techniques that are not discussed generally taht become known when you read a lot.
For example theres a string trend towards using no more than 10-25% of your anchor text as the exacth match to your target keyword for a given URL with maybe as much as 15% junk links such as click here etc..
This is an absolutely awesome blog post that I will be sharing with my followers. You could have charged a lot of money for this content! Absolutely brilliant job.
One thing I wanted to point out was in regards to the list of Article Directories. Someone above mentioned that iSnare now charges $59.95/month and wanted to know if there was a replacement. A good article site that I seem to find coming up in Google searches all of the time is ArticlesBase.com. They are one of the best and the approval process is much faster than EzineArticles.com.
Again, this is a well laid out strategy.
Hi Steve & Dave,
Nice little debate you’s have going on, hope you don’t mind me sticking in my 2 cents. Am a firm believer in complete diversity, in both Anchor Text & Source. But I guess its up to everyone to find what works well for them, so Your Both Right.
Just love SmartPassiveIncome.com, please keep up the good work.
Hi David
Its not a close forumn
I wish more folks would comment and contribute to these kind of threads.
Im definetly in to complete diversity. More and more createing a cloud cover of diverse links with just a small part of that being the target kewyord is also becoming much more important.
regards
Just to make things clear. I am all for diversity with your link sources and the anchor text used. The fact that something worked a few months ago doesn’t mean it will work forever and not diversifying your anchor texts is simply making it very easy for Google to figure out you are not building link naturally.
Bottom line is that you should diversify your anchor texts and I agree with Steve on this one. No debate here
having good stuff.
Another great place to publish articles is http://www.yourarticle.co.uk
Has anyone else had similar success with this method? What type of results have you seen?
A question for you fantastic contributors,
When trying to rank for one specific keyword how many anchor sites do you typically recommend? For example, this is my anchor layer so far..
- 2 Squidoos
- 3 Blogspots
- 5 wordpress
- 2 Posterous
- 2 Go articles
- 3 blog.coms
- 2 webs
- 2 thoughts.com
- and a partridge, in a pear tree
Is this sufficient for one keyword in a smaller niche? Can I start devoting all of my time to backlinks for these sites or should one always be increasing their anchor layer, at least a bit? Any input would be handsomely rewarded, with rum. Probably. Thank you Jo and Pat for this mind-blowingly awesome strategy.
Hi
Unfortunately theres no way to recommend how many you’ll need. Every keyword phrase has different exact match compettion and they all have different levels of backlinks themselves.
I would start with one of each unless your own experiences says otherwise.
Remeber each anchor iste member only provide the money site with 1 links from 1 domain. So if you in a niche such as Insurance you’ll never get to page one using this technique alone. You would simply need far to many domains.
I use Market samuri SEOcomp to get an idea of the number of root domains the compettion has as a guide. Spencer Haws at NichePursuits.com has got some great guidance onthat area. Although he’s typically targetting very low comp keywords.
Make sure and check your squidoo’s. I’m seeing a lot of people making this mistake now that they’ve changed there policies.
“view page source” and see if it says “noindex/nofollow”
If it does say that, then you need to spruce it up a bit so they will allow goog to index it. Otherwise, it’s just being wasted.
For some reason, Google is making the searches “relative” now compared to being “fixed and absolute” a few years ago. Your search results today gives you suggestions from Google+, +1′s by friends and stuff like that. And not too many people are like internet marketers who would know how to turn off these personalized functions of Google… Google’s inventions are making some of my backlinking efforts fruitless if they do no appear anyway…
Hi
That not quite right. Google has never tried to return fixed results.
Nor relative but they. Try to return relevant and authorative results for the individuals request.
They are laser focus on customer as matt cutts has said many times. What they are trying to do now is influence your search result by you own behaviour bu those recomendations from friends
flawed it maybe be just a new challenge for seo which is ofcourse of no concern to google
Questions on the resource boxes-
1. In the example, Pat showed a resource box that linked to 2 of his direct anchor sites. Shouldn’t we be creating several anchor sites and linking the UAW articles to each of them? (i.e. I have 6 articles submitted to article directories and 3 web 2.0 properties). If so, how do we do this with the resource box section?
2. The UAW instructional video says we should create at least 50 variations of resource boxes, but Pat says “2-4″. Which is correct?
Hi Kevin
1/ In a single UAW submission you can only link to 2 URL’s so to cover your multiple anchor layes URL you will need multiple UAW.
10 anchor layer site = minimum of 5 UAW
2/ Not watch UAW video for a long time. 4-5 is fine. Although more is always better.
Bear in mind that what Pat’s (based on Jo’s 40 day challnge) doing his is quick and fast volume backing to the anchor layer. Were not linking to the money site. If we were then you would want more varations. A whole lot more now post panda.
But in this strategy its not so important when blasting the anchor layer.
Asive siad elsewhere the anchor layer is scrafical. the money site is not.
regards
ALSO IF your reading this its very worth while readin Pat’s update on anchor text varations. I;d go further and say exact match anchor text should be near 30% or as low as 10% now. with 30-40% random links such as “click here” “more info” tc make it look natural.
Thanks Steve. So what you’re saying is, to flood links to the anchor layer sites, I would have to spin the same article using UAW a total of 5 times to cover all 10 of my anchor sites? This part is really confusing to me. It seems far more time consuming than I imagined at first! Since I’m not using The Best Spinner, creating all these different spun versions is kind of a nightmare to do manually.
Hi
Yep its painfull if you dont have some of the tools. But no point in buying tools until your making progress the classic catch 22.
Like some blog networks that cost $500 a month for 5 URls! it works but heck.
Anyway back to your question. The best Spinner is a great investment if your in this for the medium term. http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/resources/ theres a link at ethe bottom of the resources page.
If your not fully commited the a good alternative is to buy an Ultra spinnable articles form theleadingarticles.com You can use that same article over and over again (100′s of times at least) so get one relevant to the niche you money site is in and use it to backlink to the anchor layer. I use the marketplace not the subscription option. Thats way you can buy when you need them
regards
Thanks, good article, as usual. I completely like the idea of Jason with his personal process. Of course I am also agreeing that you need to spend money if you need to get a good ROI, this is maybe something we all need to understand in the online businesses. Right?
I have been using UAW recently to help boost my Wizzley and Infobarrel posts. Unfortunately, it is typically only giving me about 100 backlinks per post.
At the end of my most recent backlinking campaign I submitted the list of URLs that UAW provided to the Backlink Indexer to see if the extra “juice” helped. It turned out that of 107 backlinks, only 27 were active, 24 hours after finishing a run.
However, after running Backlink Indexer on my UAW articles, my Wizzley page did move up. I’m just watching and wondering if we will need to come up with a replacement idea for UAW soon?
Hi
How much time did you allow to elapse? Links take time to build up especially with UAW.
And then for that to flwo thorugh.
Steve
good post and video
building back link to your back links does of course make sense but does usually take a lot longer to build unless you either outsource it or use software
as steve says above that google may be not paying as much attention to exact match anchor text links anymore
what i tend to do is build links how they would get built naturally and that is lots of variations being used, long tail and short tail with even some click here links to change things up some what
good post though pat
paul
Hi Paul,
No thats not what im saying Im sorry if i confused an issue.
Google is not very much looking at Exact Match Domain Keyword targetting or excessive focus on one keyword on a url.
So they would appear to be “flaging” url’s or site where 905+ is the exacth match to the domain.
The reasoning may well be that its unnatural and an indication of link bulding activities.
So we now need to dramatically reduce this practice somewhere to 10%-30% exatch match is ok. then the balance split between related pharse (i..e. long tail variants of the keyword we are targetting) and “junk” such as click here, more info.
THOSE arnt rules and 90%+ still works but for how long? There basd on reading studying and some tetsing.
To see how this happens in the real world (outside of SEO there is one!) use market samuri SEO comp and look at the anchor text that exists on the top ten competitors in a competative (or your own) niche. You’ll see humans are very unclean inthe way they create bookmarks/anchor text to pages.
Hop ethat helps
Hey, this is indeed a great post. I just had a customer asking me If I could apply your strategy for his new website.
So, I came here to check out if it was a safe/good one and all I have to say “Congratulations”, excellent work.
For the last two step on your path, I would suggest making sure every backlink you have created is found and indexed by the search engines. To ensure that, you can create rss feeds containing all your backlinks and submit them to rss feed directories (You can also ping these rss feeds if you want to make sure of the indexing).
It is also worth mentioning that I was already using some of your methods to create backlinks for our sites
and that is the reason why our site is on the 1st position of the main search engines for many highly competitive and relevant keywords.
By the way, you recommend social bookmarks as one of the backlink building methods…
Please do not spend one more cent on this task until you have seen my prices. No software can beat our quality work and prices.
Hi,
This is very impressive and while I was reading and watching the video I really evaluate my self to do some kind of studies of backlinks like this.
Pat, fantastic resource, thanks for sharing it with us.
Joseph, love the strategy and I bought your ebook a couple of months ago on Pats recommendation. I am however struggling with one thing – the concept of ‘link juice’, I am open to correction but in my mind building many links to an anchor layer article will create higher PR for that article and therefore you get a higher PR link back to your site. Now if BMR gets links up to PR 5 why go to all the trouble building and linking to your own anchor layer when one good BMR link back to the niche site would achieve the same power. I sense I have missed the point and perhaps there is more to ‘link juice’ than just PR.
Many thanks
Hey Pat,
I have been following your blog for about a year now and post comments to some of your blog posts. I would like to know why you treat my comments as spam? I like to feel as though I have contributed in a constructive manor and I have spread your blog around many forums and places online for you.
Best,
Dave
Hey Dave
Im not speaking for Pat in anyway way shape or form.
Ive seen you comments before and might have replied to o or two not sure. But i definitively remember you.
What ive personally found is Pat lets pretty much anybody comment on this thread including those spamming for there own advantage (IMHO).
So my guess is you could be victim of the spam filter!! I got hit by it and ive been commenting for around a year on this blog.
If you change a detail of you email or web that can get he spam filter grabbing you.
Just the other day around 5 of my comments burst out of the spam filter ! I guess Pat had found them when he reviewed it which he does.
Just a comforting word or two is all.
regards
There is no doubt about the importance of building backlinks in the success of your website.
I asked quite a few important questions to Kristi Hines on how to build quality back links and she answered all the questions really well, which I think will help you guys to understand this topic in more detail.
Here is a link to this post.
http://www.ranashahbaz.com/high-pr-backlinks
Remember there are plenty of important factors to keep in mind when building links.
Hope this will help
Hi Rana
This is MY opinion not anybody else’s.
I think a better contribution to the thread would be for you to summarise the article here rather than do a direct link out to you own blog (which is excellent btw again IMHO)
I could for every question asked here say
“sure heres the link to my site with all the answers”
But i don’t think that would be as of much use to reader. Nor good for the PR juice of pats blog. We do of course use the website field for link creation.
The main reason i say this is i had to go to your blog then to krisits blog (which i had already read she is good) to view the article.
But then back here to comment.
The article is excellent and some solid points made. Some of them are incorrect of course as they are written from a blogging perspective and not and SEO perspective.
For example “crappy links” such as Fiverr Gigs for $5 are not at all crappy if you a) know which gigs to use (only a very few) and your creating intentionally a Cloud Cover to high the main target keywords your creating.
UAW (article marketing) is an outstanding tool used by such Niche experts as Spencer haws at Niche Pursuits .com I dont know why Kristi dis likes it.
regards
regards
Hi Pat,
I have read many times this article and saw again and again the videos just to understand better the whole process. I am new to this field and I want to learn and do things well because I am really passionate with that.
I have a question about
Step 4: Create Your New Blogs and Web 2.0 Properties
What about the url we choose to create the new blogs and web 2.0 properties? Does the url name really matter or just the anchor text we put in each article in each one one these blogs and properties?
Thank you for the answer. I really appreciate your help.
Lenia
I like Joseph approach for domain variations. I also like the idea to use no follow links to complement any SEO Strategy. This can be helpful in the long run and I agree that it is more important that what people believe.
Sorry again, I forgot to comment that is why it is important to pay special attention to the internal link building strategy, as well.
I find that when submitting my articles to directories at a lower rate using UAW, i.e. 50 instead of 350, I am getting more articles approved. Is anyone else noticing this?
Thanks everyone who has shared advice. I read every day.
Kevin
Hey Kevin,
Yes, I notice exactly that! I’ve submitted 30+ articles now with my first batch getting submitted to about 150 and only getting accepted by a few. I played around with some categories and keywords hoping to get submitted to a larger variety of sites with certain articles, but that didn’t do the trick either.
However, once I changed the daily submission rate from 300 back down to 40, my results doubled. So yes, submitting your articles at a slower, moderate rate will definitely get your article submitted to more sites and indexed better.
I’m still playing around with more keywords and categories to get my Fitness blog articles submitted to more sites, but I’m hoping to get to the point of maybe 400-500 sites once I find that secret set of keywords and categories for my niche. Hope that helps man.
God Bless,
Jason
Pay $5 and use fiverr.com and search social bookmark instead of wasting time using social poster. You get a report of all the links and the dude RSS them for pinging..
This may have already been answered, but I can’t find it…how long does this link building method take to show results? I know it varies, but for example, my site has been live for about 2 months, and I started on this technique 3 weeks ago and finished the first round in 2 weeks…but the site is still not showing up anywhere on Google for any of my keywords (and I don’t have a lot of competition).
I just need a little something to keep me motivated! Like page 8 would even help.
Hello Kevin. I’m by no means a veteran but I’ve managed to rank a handful of keywords into page 1 in the same period. My traffic is climbing steadily and this is beginning to click for me. So here is what I have learned. Any experts reading this, please feel free to correct me where I go wrong.
I’ll give a disclaimer though. My website is nearly a year old so ranking is easier. It also has a page rank of 1.. not a lot but it makes everything happen a little quicker. I also target low competition keywords and I’ve noticed that with constant backlinking, I’m actually ranking within the top 50 for relatively ‘high competition’ terms WITHOUT building a single link.
Here are a few things you may want to consider.
1. If your website is new, your Google trust factor will be low so rankings won’t come quickly. Just keep building the links. This may not be the real problem if…
2. You have chosen the wrong keyword – This is huge. The idea is to target low-competition high traffic keywords. The more sites competing for the keyword, the less likely you are to penetrate the top 100 after the first round with a new site.
If I were you, I’d install ‘SEO QUAKE/Marker Samurai/traffic’ and check out the top 10 results for your desired keyword. Check out the page rank of the top ranking WEBPAGES/URLs.. not domains. This is because a webpage from a high PR domain may be ranking on authority alone but it may actually have very few links pointing to it which would make the prospect of outranking it easier if you build a few links.
Market Samurai and Traffic Travis give you an idea of how many links are pointing to the page. Take this with a grain of salt but it IS a good guide on which keywords you can tackle and which you’re better off avoiding. Add up all the backlinks of the top 10 pages and take an average. Anything under 300 is game but if this is totally new, stick with an average of 100 or less. As you get more experience, you’ll get an intuitive feeling and numbers wont mean anything to you. Sometimes you’ll see pages with more backlinks ranking lower than pages with a few. This is because the root domain may have more authority/trust and also because the fewer backlinks may carry more weight or may come from higher PR/higher authority sites. So keep that in mind if it gets confusing.
All you are doing at this point is assessing the ‘strength’ of the competition. ALWAYS do this before targeting a certain keyword as it’ll save you a lot of major headaches. This will give you an idea of what it takes to penetrate the top 10.
However, even THAT might not even be an issue if..
3. You’ve been sand-boxed. If you built too many links too quickly or if you didn’t vary your anchor text (this is becoming more important).. and sometimes over optimizing your money site.. all these things have been said to trigger an alert over at Google which hurts your rankings. Personally, I’ve never been sand-boxed. In my naive days (roughly a year ago), I once got a guy to blast 30000 .. yes thirty thousand profile links to my money site while it was still new.. and I ranked number 1 for a few months!! (never try this unless you’re experimenting) So I’m not sure whether the theory stands or not.. but hey, apparently it does so that could be an issue.
4. Google dancing – Sometimes your site will go in and out of the top 100 as you shuffle through the rankings. This can be frustrating but it’s time to get excited because experience tells me you’ll always rank higher when everything stabilises. If you happen to check your rankings at the wrong time, you could by pure happenstance check them when your site is out of the top 100. Try checking the rankings at different times of the day.
4. Finally, maybe your webpage is not properly optimized. Do you have H1, H2, H3 tags with VARIATIONS of your keyword? So if your keyword is ‘laptop repairs’ then your first h1 tag could have that keyword alone.. an exact match. The h3 could have a phrase match like “cheap and affordable laptop repairs” and the h3 can have a broad match like “repairs for a dell laptop”.
I’ve got to say though, on page optimization doesn’t count for much these days. I’ve seen empty “under construction” pages rank number 1 after the webmaster built a few links to them.
Also, do you have these keyword variations sprinkled around your content? Do you have ALL IN ONE SEO PACK or any other seo plugin that you’ve used to put the title and description? Image alt tags with a slight variation of the keyword? I’m sure you’ve done all this but just checking.
5. It’s likely that your keyword research is the problem. This is almost always the case. A usual method to check how easy it is to rank is to put the keyword in quotes and see how many sites mention that exact phrase. If the figure is over 100,000 then there’s a fair bit of competition. Then use the allintitle:”keyword” to see how many sites have the keyword in their titles and therefore are actively targeting it. Over 50,000? Ok, before you panic, this just tells you how much competition you have. Hey, you could be an dinosaur taking on an army of a few thousand ants. You obviously want less competition because you’ll move quicker through the rankings and see results within a few short weeks.
Logic says the more sites competing, the more competitive the keyword and therefore the more aggressive the top sites are backlinking to stay at the top so consequently it’s harder for you to play catch up. And that’s true. But just to make sure, check the strength of competition which I outlined in step 2.
I sometimes go as far as to ignore the allintitle:”keyword” figures if the top 10 competition is weak.
Anyway sorry for the rambling but I hope you get your rankings soon.
To your success,
Dennis.
Dennis,
Thanks so much for your helpful post! I think I built about 80 links pretty quickly within about 2 weeks at the beginning before I started on this slower approach. I’m worried that it maybe hurt my progress with the site.
Most of the sites I’m competing against are PR1 or PR2. Based on my keyword research, it looked pretty easy to break into the top 10, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Many of the sites that are highly ranked do not have many backlinks, at least not to the keyword pages that I’m searching on. So, it seems I should be in good shape with the keyword research part, however, I am noticing there are a lot more sites targeting my keywords that I originally thought.
Looks like about 300k sites mention the exact phrase of my root keyword, and about 19k sites have it “allintitle”.
Still working on the Market Samurai research. I’m brand new to that tool so there’s a bit of a learning curve at the moment. Need to review the tutorial videos so I have a clue what I’m doing there.
Cheers,
Kevin
Hi
the allintitle methods are not a good way to look at strength of comp.
A pr2 page sitting on a pr6 site with 1000 links could be insumountable. To get a real understanding of why you may be able to break into top ten you need to use a tool like ltpro or as you have Market samuri you need to use the seo comp module
there are lots of factors to understand but ms have some good training
This backlinking strategy is solid – I’ve used it many times, but now been trying to outsource and automate it further. Thanks Pat.
Nice article. The odd thing is that it mainly works on the English speaking markets.
I have a blog in Flanders (Belgium), and we don’t have many Dutch bookmarking sites and 2.0 web properties.
If you guys find any, please let me know
Hey Pat!
Love the article! How are you linking the spun article back to your main site when submitting to article directories? And, how do you link back to your anchor layer from your indirect layer?
Thanks!
Eric
The Thinker
Hi Pat, or Steve, or anyone else of the helpful people here,
Is there a limit to how many times we should “rinse and repeat’ before its time to create a new anchor layer?
For example, if I made a free blog using the term “fly fishing”, and posted about 4 posts using variations of the term (fly fishing rods, fly fishing tips, etc…), and I blasted articles towards the blog about 10 times, would the increase in Google rankings level out eventually?
I noticed that Pat’s original site about security guards is still number one. How do you maintain rankings? Have you started to create a new anchor layer? Or do you still continue blast the original 5 free blogs in the anchor layer?
The reason I’m asking is that I seem to be stuck at the bottom of page one for my keyword ranking, and was just wondering if I should create more anchor links, or to just keep article blasting my original 5 blogs.
Hi
I see youve not had a response and whilst i dont speak for Pat ill try to help
For each URL on a money site you would have 1 anchor layer. That anchor layer has many web2.0 etc properties on it.
“For example, if I made a free blog using the term “fly fishing”, and posted about 4 posts using variations of the term (fly fishing rods, fly fishing tips, etc…), and I blasted articles towards the blog about 10 times, would the increase in Google rankings level out eventually? ”
If this is an anchor layer blog which your then linking to the money site then the answer is no (probably) the more backlinks you build to the anchor layer the more its able or likely to increase its link juice. However theres a limit its effectiveness.
Also bear in mind that I would consider anchor layer properties as disposablle. they are part of a process not assets. your not trying to rank them and indeed your blasting them. sime will get deleted by the owners of the protal some will fail for a bunch of reasons. I would build 4 sites ratehr than 4 pages on one site. that way you can create 4 links back to the money site one for each keyword/target URL.
The last series of questions suggest that your maybe using just one or two backlinking techniques? I’d balance blasting the anchor layer against also getting lots of diverse links to the money site both in type of link and the anchor text itself.
Google bot is not going to like 10 high power links (from the anchor layer) using exact match anchor text.
You need diversity as well.
This is an awesome post Pat. I continue to see why your site is of so much value. I strive to use some of your methods to grow my brand. I will certainly keep track of my back linking process and continue to produce epic content.
God bless.
BuildMyRank is no longer accepting new members, FYI.
Hey guys,
first of all – AWESOME BLOG PAT!!! guess you’ve heard that already a few times
I’ve got a question regarding BuildMyRank: I’m about to use it and was just wondering if anyone here has ever tried to submit spun articles… and I’m talking high quality spun version, not just one level but 2 or 3 level spinning!
They state on their website for the “Post Acceptance Guidelines”:
“Regardless of your spin quality, spun articles leave a footprint and we want to avoid that. Our filters look for spun content, so if you do submit it, we will likely catch it and your account may be flagged.”
I generally believe that this is a good strategy in the long run to keep the quality of the network up. I also believe that this depends heavily on the quality of the spun articles. If the articles are spun poorly… I agree – they should NOT be accepted!
Just wondering if someone has already gave it a shot and is willing to share his/her experience as I ‘m willing to do that but if I need to outsource the content creation I will have to delay it and first generate more passive income (thanks Pat
– you are a legend!)
Cheers guys,
Fab
Hi Fab
You’ll probably have seen or heard that BMR has closed its door temporarily to new clients. They are expanding and protecting what they have already done.
Spun content on their network is BANNEED and that’s a great thing for us users. If you want to spin crap and slap it up on the web go with SEOmonster.
Googles getting pretty darn good at dealing with crap (ok long way to go) and wait to listen to the crying on warrior forum (no i don’t go there) etc on the pain and death of “business” with the Panda 3.3 roll out this week.
Enough of my high horse moment.
I would not bother with spun even super spun stuff do you want a ban? The human moderator (yes every post is manually human approved) are hyper sensitive and ive seen perfectly good posts rejected that when reworded slightly (a matter of taste) get through.
regards
Pat, now that Panda 3.3 has been announced and it was rolled out in Jan or Feb–Google wasn’t specific, but a lot of people on the IM forums are talking about changes in their rankings and when they got “Google slapped”.
Some got the Google Webmaster Tools email warning about “artificial link building” recently as well.
The IM guys on the forums are saying their sites that were penalized the most had backlinks mostly from Web2.0 properties. Part of my personal SEO theory is more link diversification = better.
I was wondering how this strategy is holding up?
How are your rankings for your sites that use this strategy?
Hey Chris – none of my sites have seen any sort of slap or rapid drop in the rankings. In fact, a couple of them have started to pick up steam over the past couple of weeks. Many people who are applying the strategy are still seeing results as well – maybe not quite as quickly, but sites older than a month old have been holding up. The reason I say that is because newer sites have been dancing like crazy, however I suspect that they’ll get their way back up there too. Link diversity – as well as anchor text diversity – very important.
Hi Chris
Those “IM” guys on forums do love to talk…..
The panda 3.3 update was very late feb not jan.
Why penalise links from web2.0 sites? no reason for google to start targetting those. And indeed Panda doesnot work that way anyway. Its a modification of the algorithim filter set basd on the feedback form the human reviwers and experience.
Panda targets sites rather than sources in a sense.
What youll find (based on new clients coming on baord at my business) is people getting “pandaered” (:-)) is that the anchor textdiversity is completely lacking. this is a bigger issue that link type diversity.
If you site gets links from a load of web2.0 properties but the anchor is always the EMD or close to that its an issue.
So sure link source diversity and link anchor text diversity (take a look at your top 5 comps for a good idea of what diversity looks like) are very important and standard practice.
However SEO is complex. Recent test show some sites rocketting into the top ten within 45 days for tough words (40K + medical) using a single backlinking method with a brand new site! however its risky !
So whilst lots of thingks work. Great engaging content (this is a must to minimize bounce rates) and diverse links built steadily and continuously over months is the safest (best?) method
regards
No disrespect Steve, but I don’t think your info is correct.
Panda 3.3 was ANNOUNCED feb 27th. Here is Google’s official blog post on the subject: http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html
But I assure you that it was running before that. IM (internet marketing) guys noticed it around late Jan, early Feb. I noticed it around mid-Feb on my own sites.
About the web 2.0 back link penalization: The IM guys that were complaining probably did not have much link diversity, and only had backlinks from Web 2.0 properties because they are lazy, so they got Google slapped.
Pat’s/Joseph Archibald’s strategy has more back link diversity, so has held up to Panda 3.3.
As for link diversity, I think its important to have anchor text diversity AND link source diversity. There’s a really good book called “Feeding the Panda” by Mike and Troy (sold in digital form only), and one of their points is that off-site SEO’s goal is to “artificially appear to be natural”. I’ve stuck with that philosophy and it has served me well. What this means is best illustrated by an example. Lets say a news story came out that really resonates with a lot of people. Say for example, the recent passing of Whitney Houston. This will spread over the web like wildfire, and there will be a huge number of sites back linking to the story in a very short period of time. The back links will appear on important blogs, other news sites, YouTube, etc. This is organic or natural backlinking. Thus the target site rises in the SERPs for a phrase like “whitney houston death”.
An SEO guy like me attempts to duplicate the organic backlinking, but do it on purpose (artificially), but at the same time, do it in such a way that Google cannot tell the difference between my backlink network, and a truly organic one. Think about this: just changing your anchor text and not having enough diversity of sources of backlinks is going to look pretty artificial.
I started 1.5 years ago with Pat’s/Joseph’s backlink strategy, and it has served me well, but i have learned a thousand-fold about SEO since then (I build websites and do IM full time) I still use their strategy as a basis, but with my own twists, and trade secrets added to the mix as well.
I think there is. You clearly believe something i dont.
“An SEO guy like me attempts to duplicate the organic backlinking, but do it on purpose (artificially), but at the same time, do it in such a way that Google cannot tell the difference between my backlink network, and a truly organic one.”
thanks for the lesson on SEO and that IM=Internet marketing LOL ROFL LOL:-)
But your WRONG. Of course google can tell YOU are articfically building links!
You said this
“A couple of weeks later I received the Google message about “artificial links” in my Google Webmaster account. ”
YIKES
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Ive not noticed panda 3.3 so Ill leave you to ponder on that!
No sites effected no message from google to say im getting it wrong!
I’ll quote Pat also ” Hey Chris – none of my sites have seen any sort of slap or rapid drop in the rankings. In fact, a couple of them have started to pick up steam over the past couple of weeks. ”
I agree. I love panda updates it gets the “IM” guys out of the way
Back to trying to help folks and rank pages
Hi Chris, Panda 3.3 was announced on Feb 27th by Google along with 39 other search quality updates. Panda 3.3 was only one of them.
What people are saying on the various IM forums doesn’t have to do with web 2.0 sites but with High PR Blog Network and Blog Networks in general. Trust me that went through all of those threads since my site suffered a rankings drop so I did the research in order to better understand what was the reason.
The most important update (IMHO) that was announced by Google has to do with Link Evaluation. It seems Google turned off a very important factor as they said and I quote: “we are turning off a method of link analysis that we used for several years.” and I believe this little announcement was responsible for the drop or rankings people are reporting.
I read a great article that explains what that unknown factor might be and translated and posted it on my blog since I figured it could be very interesting for others to read and I hope Pat (and Steve
) will be OK with me posting the link here:
http://dbpmarketing.com/link-evaluation-update/
Hey Dror
Lol Im not even a moderators
just helping out where i can 
I like your thinking and clearly you have actually thought and done some research on the posibilities of what 3.3 was or is.
Good write up. You might like to make it clearer which part of your articles is the translation (italixs?) and which part is your thoughts.
One part thats most folks seem to miss is that 3.3 was a “refresh” of established signal filters as well. I think they meant that in that update they just did a deep crawl and applied clearly the filters that had already been established.
the net effect was that some sites that had “escaped” the incremental updates got “hit” by the 3.3 when in fact they should have been hit but 3.1,3.2 etc.
I just want to also say that the panda updates are NOT just happening in blocks (i.e. 3.2 3.3 etc) but are lots and lots of incremental tweaks.
Im unconvinced they have “turned off” anchor text as a metric. if they had that means we can just go ack to the old days of having one or two anchor text keyword phrases and blast away! if thats the case some of my test sites shiuld shoot up the rankings (they are not). My gut feeling says they are just “tweaking”.
It could be the domain age or and PR they are lessening as a metric. I think PR could be a lower factor with time as its to easy to manipulate. Ive also seen a trend for test domains of mine to get PR3 and PR4 when the only reason for that is they have thousands of backlinks! With just 1 or 2 pagses of content.
Ive followed your blog for a while and some excellent work there.
regards
Hello there! I would like to ask if – when it comes to the anchor layer or new blogs, there will not be any problem if I create them all from a single computer. I mean, will building multiple blogs on one computer not be detected by G search engine as ones that are owned by a single person? No penalty on this, hopefully.
Hi
Google would have to go to the WEB2.0 sit eprovider and request the IP address of your pc for the property you have created!
Im not even convinved the web2 guys would store it but would that not be a privacy violation anyway to give it to google.
Also think about al those links that are built by indian outsources. Google cant be tracking all those guys and girls
In another words. No. dont worry.
Googles focus is clearly on your site and not counting links inbound to your site.
They also are targetting blog networks but again thats the IP of the blog site they are effecting and the link from it.
regards
Steve
Ernesto,
You may be misunderstanding the issue. Google doesn’t care about your IP when creating blogs and as a practical matter, they could not track it anyway. Blog sites don’t make the IP’s of their users public anyway.
The way Google decides if a site is getting spammy backlinks is to look at the back link types, the sites the back links are on, the anchor text, and I am sure there are some other factors. Thus, they don’t need to track IP’s of the blog owners.
So using the example I cited in my Mar 1 post above, the IM guys (Internet marketers) that are complaining, are basically just creating back links to their money site (target site) using Web 2.0 properties like Squidoo, Tumblr, Wordpress.COM, and so on. My guess is that they are not creating enough backlinks in other types of sites. THey don’t have enough diversity in their links sources. Remember the goal of SEO is to artificially appear to be natural back linking.
One of my niche sites that I launched around Feb 10 went to the #2 spot on page 1 of Google right away due to my back linking, my off-site SEO and my on-site SEO. This was for my most popular search term. I went from 30 hits a day to 500 uniques a day, then settled down to around 250-300 uniques a day average. A couple of weeks later I received the Google message about “artificial links” in my Google Webmaster account. My site dropped to #4, and then yesturday went back up to #3. So, Google did not “penalize” my site, which I thought was interested.
What was also interesting is that another one of my sites was grouped in with that site in my latest round of backlinking, and did not receive the warning from Google. THis is because the site is older, and I have been backlinking to it from many other sources over the past year. It has far more link diversity than the site I just recently launched. This confirms that Google is using an algorithm and automation to determine who to send the warning message to.
Hits on my older site went from 80-100 uniques on average per day to 300-400 uniques per day. It happened around mid-Feb as well. Either this was due to my most recent round of backlinking, or it was due to my site becoming more important in Google’s eyes due to the Panda 3.3 update, and sites being shuffled around in the SERPs.
I will be doing another round of backlinking soon to my new site, but will be using other sources for back links. This will give my site much more link diversity, thus I should not get any more warnings nor will I be Google slapped.
so my response was unclear then to both of your posts.
WEB 2.0 are not the issue as raised by your “Im” guys.
link diversity will be there problem.
As to getting warnings in you account about artifical link building !!! Blimey that show a lack of diversity or to rapid link building for sure.
regards
THat’s correct.
As for warnings from Google, as I stated, they are automated. It’s not a big deal. If they were serious, they would have pushed my site way down in the SERP’s (sandboxed) me or de-indexed me.
My site is still in the #3 spot on page 1 of the SERPs now 2.5 weeks after the warning. As I stated, the answer is for me to diversify my back link sources (and anchor text) during the next round of back linking.
Lol
My point stands. Sure ignore the warning.
I almost hate to ask why your leaving gaps in your link building!!
I’d lways been led to believe that its better to just keep building links?
you said “My point stands. Sure ignore the warning.
I almost hate to ask why your leaving gaps in your link building!!
I’d lways been led to believe that its better to just keep building links?”
I have no idea what you are talking about. I build links continuously over time, on a regular basis, on a slightly irregular schedule.
Lol.
Well i clearly understood that
a) your selling your SEO services
b) you disagree completely with my knowledge and experience
c) your an SEO guy.
d) your having warning from google about your backlinking process
Thats fine, So yes total lack of any respect shown to me but i have a thick skin
Thanks
you said:
“Lol.
Well i clearly understood that
a) your selling your SEO services
b) you disagree completely with my knowledge and experience
c) your an SEO guy.
d) your having warning from google about your backlinking process
Thats fine, So yes total lack of any respect shown to me but i have a thick skin
Thanks”
a, b, c seem to apply to you as well. You have mentioned in previous posts that you have clients that come to you for SEO. We don’t know if d applies, as we can only take your word.
Lack of respect? What? Where?
“We don’t know if d applies, as we can only take your word.
Lack of respect? What? Where?”
there
Thanks Pat for so transparent with your blueprint. I’ve been using a few months now and I am just beginning to see some descent success. Thank you so much.
Hi everybody
My sincere apologise, As pat pointed out your inbox may have been effected by the spat.
Sorry to waste you time.
regards
Steve Wyman
For a new SEO content creator, this is a great article to start backlinking. Thank you for writing it!
Steve and Chris,
I actually found it rather enlightening.
Might be setting a record for the most comments on a blog post ever. Going to add one more here.
My question is about Pete Chamberlain. Do you typically create a fictitious name for each niche site? If so, do you also create the email accounts to go along with that niche domain and fictitious person?
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Pat, why you don’t use Senuke? I use in my projects and i have such good results
Regards.
Good points.I have tried most of them and I have found that Hubpages is a good one I have been getting more views to my site from them than anyone else.I have just started to comment and will see how it goes.Writing is not easy so my theory is practise makes perfect.
Hey Pat!
I just wanted to drop by and say that this “tutorial” of sorts really does work!
On December 28th, 2011, I went ‘live’ with my main website (click my name above). I had five posts already created, and a couple static pages.
For the first month, I saw no traffic (under 30 uniques for the month) so on January 24th, 2012, I began using this guide as a starting point to my marketing strategy.
1. I created a WordPress.com account and created three blogs all with specific keywords in the URL
2. I signed up with Posterous.com, also using a specific keyword in the URL
3. I signed up with the major social media sites (Twitter, FB, Digg, Stumbleupon, etc…)
Now, when I create a post for my main site, I also create a summary using specific keywords in the title and body to use on the “satellite” blogs.
I first post the main article on the main site. I wait between three and four hours for the post to hit the blog ping list, then post the summary to the satellite sites via posterous.
Lastly, I post a quick status update to the social media sites using the keyword(s) that link to the satellite sites. I do have one twitter account that posts URLs directly back to the main site though.
Doing this, I have seen a rapid gain in traffic. You can see the Statcounter.com graph at http://cheapvpsreview.com/spi-stats-14day.
In the past month, I have seen my traffic really grow, so this method does work. Sure, I didn’t experience a “Traffic Explosion”, but you can see the growth, and that’s a good thing — very satisfying.
Thanks again, Pat.
~ Jay
Hi Jay
Thats a very usefull write up. Thanks for sharing
steve
Hi – My rankings have been weird for the last 14 days. In Chrome and IE9, my keyword is #2 on the first page of google, but in Firefox, it is on the bottom of the second page of google. I am pretty sure that it used to be #2 on the first page of google with Firefox – - I just now noticed this drop because my adsense earnings are decreasing as a result. When I use Firefox Rank Checker, my keyword phrase is #7.
My adsense earnings have gone down from about $6/day to about $1.50/day overnight and have stayed down the entire 2 weeks.
I have followed Pat’s (Jo’s) instructions diligently and patiently since last August. Does anyone have any thoughts as to why Firefox dropped the ranking of my keyword phrase?
Hi Liegh
I can exactly help with this problem but offer some advice
Using web browsers to do serps is full of issues. Firstly you have to be logged out of any google apps. Iwould log out of everything reboot and then do a manual serps (ensuring you dont auto log back into google stuff).
If your loged in or even if youve just logged ot you can get distorted results.
I would use a web based serps checker there are lots out there and many of them offer a free account of say upto ten keywords
sescout, serpfox etc. a much better way to do serps.
Ive seen manual serps results where my rankings drop when repeatedly doing a check (we all check way t often in the early days)
Lots of the online serps checkers also so $10 or less packages which will cover a lot of needs.
Ofcourse with marketsamuri (check out pats resources page) about to start doing beta testing on there new serps checker thats worth looking at also. As if you own MS youwill be able to check 50 (i think) keywords for free for the life time of the product ($97 i think) which will in a sense make MS free in comparison to having to have an online checker anyway !
Hi Steve,
Thank you for responding to my question. You have been very helpful here on this almost “forum”…hint hint Pat
I own MS since I have been following this process to a “t” since Aug 2011. So, I will try MS’ software for this. Many thanks!
Im not sure if I have said this before.Good post I am doing most of what you say and I have found that hubpages is a very good one to get traffic.
Thank you Pat for sharing I’ve learned a lot from this post! I’m following you on FB and Twitter! =D THANK YOU AGAIN FOR AMAZING POST!
Hi,
For those using BMR, what is the best ratio of BMR to web 2.0 sites. For example, if I have 50 BMR posts, how many web 2.0 posts should I have for maximum effectiveness?
Thanks
I don’t there is a clear answer to that. It depends on too many variables and the best for you to do is to simply test it out and see what works best for you. There are no magic numbers. Not that I know of
some say it does some say it dosent.It all helps and it is all work,something extra to do.If you have something geniune to offer then you will get up in the rankings because you will get visitors and you will get ranking.
Wow, didn’t know there was so much to backlinking! Thanks!
Wow, didn’t realize there was so much to backlinking! Thanks!
Pat, I have a question about the backlinking strategy. If you are building related niche sites, would it be smart to reuse the web 2.0 properties for all niche sites. I think it would make the anchor sites more beefy, and all the niche sites would benefit from all the link juice of all blog posts.
I have a question about spinning articles. Are the duplicate content penalties you’re trying to avoid a so-called penalty from Google (which I believe is a myth) or penalties from certain article directories which will only accept content not published elsewhere (not really a penalty, if I understand correctly – they just won’t publish them), or both?
The use of the word “penalty” makes me think you’re talking about Google. But I don’t think Google has a problem with duplicate content across different domains – only duplicate content on the same domain (and that can be solved through the use of canonical tags – there really isn’t a penalty in that case either).
Can someone shed some light on this issue for me?
Thanks!
Hi frank
With ina sites its a penalty thats for sure. DOnt ever allow that to happen. (this is Panda stuff before panda it was a different story).
Web wide if you dupliacte somebody (or your own content) your going to potentially get Filtered out.
Google IS penalising you for sure not the directories (they dont care if google doesnot care). Google cares because WE the searchers care.
When we search for something WE want to see 10 unique articles (etc) about teh subject WE dnt want to see the top ten or top 20 filled with duplicate content created by SEO guys (:-)) to get our attention.
Unique content (or uniquish) is paramount. The good blog type netowrks such as BMR dont even allowed spun content (that they can detect anyway).
If you create anchor layers with duplicate content they will be weaker and less effective than f you use none dupicate content.
Just to answer another angle. If YOU ar eteh authority in a niche and i mean a serious athority site YOU can get away with all sorts of things
But not us little guys and girls.
Hope that helps
Steve
Hi Steve. Thanks for the quick reply.
I think I’m understanding you to say that a website should never have duplicate content within the same domain, post-Panda. If I’m understanding you correctly, I don’t think that’s right. Look at this url in Google Webmaster Tools:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394
Notice that it talks about “identical content” on the same domain and doesn’t advise against it or say that the site will be penalized. Instead, it gives a way to tell Google which page should have priority in the results.
Here are some official Google links which address the duplicate content issue from Google’s perspective:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hSoXutuj0g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8XdFb6LGtM
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/12/handling-legitimate-cross-domain.html
That’s why I asked if the reason to spin articles is to address the issue of duplicate content as it is perceived by article directories.
If, by spinning content, we’re trying to avoid a duplicate content penalty supposedly imposed by Google, there’s really no need to spin at all – because Google has no duplicate content penalty.
If, by spinning content, we’re trying to get our articles accepted by article directories which do not accept articles that have previously been published elsewhere, then I can see that it might make sense.
Hi Frank
First up. Teh videos your referencing are PRE panda! that was a different world. You could do stuff then that would rank you number one in google for 40K searches in a month. Do that today and you’ll be deindexed. What they say then simply may not apply.
Also what Matts talking about is rel=canonical and thats doesnot apply to this discussion.
Having said that if you listen to Greg he talks about “spam” which is exact duplicate content that adds no additional value to the user and thats exactly what your tlaking about.
They are a bunch of clever guys at GoogleBotHQ and they are semantically accurate.
To be honest it makes no different if your being Penalised becasue your “exactly duplicating content which adds no value to the user” (short hand duplicate content) or Penalised for creating Spam websites.
I’d rationlise that the proposed reusing of exactly the same article is spam.
If you really want to stretch thee areas of SEO the really great sources will never be the spam team at google (matt etc) as they are there to defeat people not to tell us all the trick. SEObraintrust have done some great work in this area.
http://seobraintrust.com/2011-in-review-and-a-plan-for-2012/
and the one by Yoasts is prety awesome.
is worth sitting through as are all their free webinars on that site.
Let us know what you think. Im really intrested in this subject and getting it straight in my head.
Could i also suggestt hat with the availability of highly spun articles (theleadingarticles) and other services (articlebuilder) and ofcourse ThBestSpinner (see Pats resources page) theres no need to use duplicate content anyway.
regards
This question was probably asked before, but on the anchor layer, are we linking to the original article with the anchor text, or just the money site’s home page? I’ve been doing both with each article in the signature, so one link to the original article, and one link to the home page. Cheers.
Hey Pat,
Your site is great – it has been really helpful to me.
I have one question though – how do you find out your rank in the search engines? Which program / site do you use to find your position?
Cheers!
Great post, Pat
Hey, Pat. This is incredible. I’m so glad I found this before I start to do backlinking.
But, I still a question that bothers me.
Is the exact same process used when you are backlinking to, lets say, YourName.com or there are some modifications?
Thanks ahead, Pat.
Mladen
P.S. Sorry if I screwed up something in grammar. English is not my native language.
Hi Pat!
Your site is great – it is one of my guidelines for building and promoting my site.
I enjoy this post in particular – it provides so much important information, it is written clearly and makes the whole backlink building task much easier!
I would like to know though – how do you track your rank in google/yahoo/bing for certain keywords?
There are a lot pf programs and sites out there – many give back different results.
Which do you use?
You are amazing because you wrote something really informative and is surely very helpful to many bloggers and publishers. Thanks for that.
Just a quick question, I create site X and then other blogs X, see step 4
If I creat a new site Y, I must create a new blog Y or I can use the blog X already created?
Hi
create the new blog Y donot reuse blog x.
regards
Hey Pat, I just print your post to study it carefully in my desk
I have few questions:
1.- does this technique works for different languages?, Imaging you creat an english article, spin it and submit it to article directories (I do not know too much spanish article directories), and my spanish anchor text is pointing to a spanish site that deals with this spanish keyword, do you think it has same good result?
2.- what about the mix of different countries IPs backlinks… will my site rank well in google.es for example?
Thanks a lot!
Quick question for the group:
Anyone have a good recommendation for an AdSense friendly niche site WP Theme?
Hy Ryan
By adsense friendly I assum your asking for a theme where placing adsense ads is at its easiest? All the free and paid themes will accept and work with adsense great. If you want to embed adsense into the body of your articles it takes a bit of coding though. Easy when you now how.
If you want an easy to use theme then
CTRtheme – Some people think its problematic but ive found it solid and the guys at adsenseflippers use it!
Spencer Haws at http://www.nichepursuits.com has an article on all the themes he has used. (if you dont know spencers site you should do
)
And I also now use a Theme developed by Chris Gutherie and Spencer http://nichewebsitetheme.com/ which is excellent.
Hi Ryan, I have been using Heatmap Theme for quite a while and I love it. You can also check CTR Theme (which I didn’t really like) and a new theme called Niche Website Theme which I didn’t yet had the chance to check out.
Hi Dror
with CTR did you have abad experience or just not like the look and feel. Ive only started using it recently but its working well.
steve
Hi Steve, no bad experience with theme. As you guessed it, I just didn’t like the look and feel of it and I found the Heatmap Theme to be much better with more features so I focused on that theme.
I really liked all the skins that come with the Heatmap Theme that allow you to change the look of the site quickly and easily and also all the ad placements they have (more than 20) which makes it real easy to add ads anywhere you want on the site without the need to touch any code.
Hi Dror
Whats you view of the nicewebsite theme versa Heatmap?
Ive got the other themes but not heat map (I also use gensis themes and free themes)
regards
I haven’t really had the chance to compare the two (niche website theme with the heatmap theme) so I can’t really say much (yet).
If you haven’t used Heatmap yet and you are building niche website than I recommend you check it out. It really is great for that purpose.
Hi
Ok thats cool. ill add it to my arsenal of tools.
regards
Thanks Steve & Dror re: the themes. Will check them out.
Hi Pat,
I have a very simple question to ask! The whole back linking process, would you run it once a week or once every two weeks or within some other time frame before repeating the process.
Great post Pat!
Thanks for ones marvelous posting! I certainly enjoyed reading it, you can be a great author.
I will be sure to bookmark your blog and will come back in
the future. I want to encourage you to ultimately continue
your great work, have a nice weekend!
Hey Pat,
Great insightful article and videos. With Backlinking software like UAW, do you think that this one of the ways Top Brands spread their Adverts on YouTube that go viral? Like for example T-Mobile.
Many Thank
Has anyone looked at tools that seem to streamline this process for you? Is there a reason no to use them? If not any recommendations?
I am referring to programs like SE Nuke X, Ultimate Demon, or SEO Link Robot?
This makes sense for me!
I really appreciate all the great direction you have given. I have a few websites out there that are doing well, but kind of stuck on the others, and I need a good backlinking strategy to move them up in the rankings. I can’t wait to try The Article Spinner and UAW. Thanks so much Pat!
Pat,
Please give me the specific software tools you currently use for backlinking.
There are several out there:
Buildmyrank.com -closed
SubmityourArticle.com
ArticlmarketingRobot.com
Each guru gives a recommendation for an affiliate linked product but what one has worked best for you?
Ryan
@Wilson
Pat has mentioned a few times in the past comments he still uses this strategy and so do his students. He keeps the post updated, for instance he took out blog blueprint from the strategy because it was no longer effective.
I see that BuildMyRank has closed their memberships as of now. Does anyone know of a good alternative?
Hi, Pat, I love coming back to this post and seeing updates! Great job! Question: I want to know more about maintaining a ranking. Do we just keep doing the same thing over and over? Or, do you have a strategy you use?
Wishing you the best!
Unfortunately, as of today (March 20th), BMR no longer is functioning. I, like many others, had been using it to help rank my pages after seeing it recommended here. Just a heads up to you, Pat, and others, since this particular page/strategy had mentioned BMR specifically.
Here’s the link to their news page http://www.buildmyrank.com/news/its-been-a-great-run
I just read Pat’s March 20th update that BMR articles/links are being de-indexed by Google. Have any of you pros found a manual way to do some of the same linking that BMR did? I know I couldn’t possibly do as much on my own, but maybe I could do a few a day?
This is printer worthy stuff right here. That list of Web 2.0 Sites will come in extremely handy.
Thanks mate!
BuildMyRank confirmed yesterday that their link network has been detected and deindexed by Google. They are shutting down. http://www.buildmyrank.com/news/its-been-a-great-run
Hi Pat, what do you think about the closing of Build My Rank ? Will you take any action on your sites (additional backlinking) ?
Regards,
Juan Pablo
I’m surprised there wasn’t any chatter in this comment section today about Build My Rank essentially going out of business today. I’m guessing it doesn’t really apply to a lot of readers who didn’t find out about BMR until they had already closed their doors to new customers.
I suppose it just goes to show the importance of diversity and not getting too comfortable with one particular system or tool.
This is interesting to me – I would have never thought that an entire link network would have been de-indexed, but I guess it make sense – google is forever trying to “improve” its search algorithms. For that reason, I think that Article Marketing Robot might have a slight edge over several of these networks – simply for the fact that it’s not a link network, rather a piece of software that you can feed websites to and it will post to those sites (be it article directories, wordpress blogs, etc). I think AMR along with Scrapebox might be one of the better solutions out there to try and avoid the link circle trap that Build My Rank fell into. I’m curious as to other people’s thoughts on this.
Hi Allen, if you remember, the first Panda update pretty much destroyed article directories and AMR submissions rates went down quite a bit. With that said, AMR is probably the best article directory submitter out there but I don’t think you can compare it to blog networks since they were much more effective.
I wouldn’t recommend linking directly to your niche/money sites with AMR but it could be great for linking to the 1st tier sites just like Pat is using UAW in his method.
I personally don’t like the type of links Scrapebox is creating since they are pure spam (if you are referring to the comments you can post with it) and I never used it for link building. Scrapebox is an amazing tool and can do a lot more than help you post spam comments on various types of blogs.
Bottom line, I think you will need more than AMR and Scrapebox in order to rank for the long term.
Hi Dror,
I completely agree on both points – you can’t rely solely on tools such as AMR and I also agree that most of what people use Scrapebox for is beyond irritating. I can’t tell you how many “these are links we think are good” comments that have been submitted to my various sites. However, there are some very nice features in scrapebox that will allow you to find sites out there and incorporate (legitimately) into a link building strategy.
Agreed – link building is an ongoing process – tools such as AMR, UAW, etc. are really there to help build links but not be your complete linking solution. I’ve found with at least one of my sites that with the link building strategies mentioned in this article (and the comments) along with the quality content I’ve provided that people tend to share this information and become involved and that’s where the real power comes in.
FYI… Build My Rank is dead. 95% of everything has been deindexed.
Well, when I wrote this I couldn’t see the other comments. They are not at the bottom for some reason. Sorry for the dupe post.
Dont worry Travis, the comment threading broke at around 900 comments
There is so much chatter and noise on the web to follow on the BMR demise anyway
Not that i do but people keep telling me about.
A few days and the dust will have settled. With many 1000′s of BMR posts I should see some effect by then
hopefully its minimal.
cheers
I have a question for the experts:
I’m confused with article directories publishing and syndication.
Where I publish my articles at the article directories Pat is mentioning, other people can freely republish them? If yes, would this create direction competition for my keywords?
Thanks.
Thanks Pat and Jo for this amazing resource. Pat you’ve inspired me to build a niche site about my passion, but I have a question for you or any one of the experts in the group. The situation is this…
I’m an active member on a message board for my particular field of interest. Over the past 8 years I’ve posted over 13,000 messages and each of those messages has a link in the signature. If I switch that signature link to the new site I’m building, will that flood the internet with 13,000 backlinks? If so, won’t that cause my site to get “sandboxed?”
The people who read those message board posts are going to be a big source of my site’s organic traffic so I’d rather not send them through the hoops of an anchor layer.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
Hi
I think thats a really interesting question.
My feeling is that i wont. The links should not get updated. Plus they are fairly weak i suspect.
My recomendation would be to ask the forumn webmaster. With that many usefull comments on his forum he should be happy to help.
SO the question reall is “if i change the website adress in my profile will it update existing comments” if it doesnot your good to go.
Would love to know what the outcome of this is.
regards
Hi Steve, they say that the change will update previous posts, but that not all 13,000 will be affected because they archive the really old stuff and strip it down to just username and comment. That said, they have no idea how many links will be affected.
Excellent post again Pat. I’m actively working through this to promote a niche site I’m putting together. Certainly it’s not quick, but I’m hoping it’ll be effective.
Also as I get more familiar with the process I’ll be able to turn it around faster. I’m starting to learn why many internet marketers like outsourcing!
Once again thanks for the clear, easy to follow content
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