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Important Update On Our Link Building Experiment

June 13th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in General SEO, Off-Page SEO by Jack

If you have read the post on 10th June 2009, you already know that we’ve started an aggressive link building campaign on one of our test sites.

That site was removed from search engine results for about 1 month, but the return is impressive!

The site was not even in the first 1000 of Google results in United States before we started. I can not disclose the site name or the targeted keyword, but the keyword has about

35 million search results on Google Search.

Today, the site ranks #10 (yes, first page!). I checked my notes, and it’s been about 26 days since we started the campaign. And we spent less than $100. The site is running CPA offers, and with a correct network, that $100 can easily make $1000 just with the organic traffic from Google.

But there’s a major flaw in our campaign which we’re trying to figure out. Our keyword consist of couple of keywords (something like “earn a free degree”). If we search for the exact keyword, the site is #10, but if we make a very small change like removing the “a” from the keyword structure, the site is not even in the first 1000 results.

We’ll be working on this and the optimization of some new keywords. Let’s see what difficulties we’ll face this time.

10th position in 35 million results is success!

Decrease in SERPs After Building Links

June 10th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in General SEO by Jack

Webmaster forums are full of  “quick link building ban”  myths and novice webmasters are well afraid to push to the limits during their link building campaigns.

In fact the decrease in SERPs are true, but this is not any kind of  “banning”. Search engines, especially the big “G” use very complicated formulas to rank sites on the search results, considering many aspects.  This means that temporary de-indexing or sharp decrease in SERPs is perfectly normal if you’re putting in more than you already have.

Uh? What does that mean?

Well, think that you’re a kid being selected for a one of 10  basketball teams that are separated according to the average heights of the players. Team 1 has the tallest players and team 10 has the shortest. If your height do not change much over time and your height fits into the 7th team, then it’s easy for the coach to say “go train with the 7th team players”. But what if you gain 1 inch per day? Today you belong to the 7th team, tomorrow to the sixth and so on. The Coach is rather lazy and he does not want to deal with you everyday. So he puts you in a team where you’re surely over-qualified and waits until the increase in your height is in logical limits.  And finally he places you to the team where you actually belong.

The analogy may be stupid : ) but the fact is true. If your site has 1000 inbound links and you’re building 5 links per day that will probably won’t do any harm. But if your site has 300 inbound links and you’re building 100 links per day then prepare to get a decrease in SERPs.  Google waits until “incremental increase in links/total links” value to be logical until it re-ranks your site – probably to a much higher position.

The biggest evidence to this theory is that if the decrease was just about number of links created, then most of the giant sites would fluctuate in SERPs since they gain tons of inbound links every second. They don’t undergo a decrease in SERPs because the incremental increase is low enough compared to their overall link count.

We’re currently conducting an experiment on this. We’ve bought a  new domain and started a very aggressive link building campaign. Most of the 7th-8th page rankings suddenly dissappeared as the number of inbound links increased which is totally in accordance with our theory. We’ll be posting the proceedings of the experiment.

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5 Things You Must Have to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing Online

June 8th, 2009 | Comments Off | Posted in Affiliate Marketing by Jim

The idea of being mere passengers on a ship meant to sail to the farthest points does not appeal to people who like to put their destiny into their own hands.  They have the desire of maneuvering the ships themselves, of being able to be the ones to take it anywhere they want to.  Being aboard a ship on its way to a particularly great destination is something each and every one of them dreams of, and the knowledge that they have the capacity to steer it themselves is what makes them actually want to.

Perhaps this is the reason why more and more people are succumbing to one of the most popular businesses around – affiliate marketing.  It is because in this business, there are no bosses to order the employees around.  There are no deadlines to meet and no clutter of work do to.  One only needs to be equipped with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and he is bound to get what his heart ultimately desires.

Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing?  What must one have within himself to be able to do well in this industry?  There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel him forward.  There are five things one must ultimately possess if he wants to achieve the glory he is yearning for in this business, and these five things are a must for him to possess to be able to stand out among the rest.

The very first quality one must possess if he wants to try his hand in affiliate marketing is the willingness to learn and be trained.  Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and he might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown.  Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one’s willingness to know it all will give him far better advantages in the business than he could ever imagine.

The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent.  Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has his foot in the industry to hold on and wait.  It is this quality which would save him from giving up after investing a lot of himself in the business.

The third quality one must possess is self-determination.  If one wants to conquer the affiliate marketing world, he must have the ability to push himself ahead.  Never having to say die is a quality each and every affiliate marketer should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take an affiliate marketer there.

The fourth quality one must possess is discipline.  If one knows how to teach himself to work everyday with all the energy he can muster, then he is close to achieving what he has set his heart to having in the first place.

The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism.  Negative attitudes and hearsays should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he has to in order to make life better for himself and for everyone concerned.  Neither should anyone influence his attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for him to be the captain of his ship and the master of his soul.

The ingredients to success in a business such as affiliate marketing are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in himself alone.  It is he who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize his prospects, and the desire which fuels his heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.

Affiliate marketing is all about putting one’s fate into his own hands.  The right attitude is the key to being able to steer one’s ship into that part of the ocean where a certain kind of serenity can be found, one that permeates the atmosphere as the ship sails calmly on.

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