Hey Everyone,
I'm a little behind on updating the thread. Sorry for that. It has been really crazy lately with all of my work (I own two companies and consult for a Fortune 100 company). First I will do an update, then answer questions and comments, the talk about a few of my plans for the future.
UPDATE:
Right now, everything is going perfect. Rankings continue to rise. I've lost track of how many 1st page rankings I have now. Traffic continues to steadily rise. YSE crossed 24,000 links to 24,133. My daily average number of visitors continue rise as well. At the beginning of the month I had several days in the teens to twenties, now the are 40-60 visits a day with that average continuing to shift up on a daily basis.
Primary keyword continues to do well, ranking at #7. I think I need a concentrated blast to move it up, but I am gunning against some BIG sites. To give you an idea, at rank #6 is About.com. At #8 is Ask.com.
I set up another SB server today to help with some of the load and am looking at renting several VPS's and expanding my private proxies as I gear up to take on a much bigger load.
Now for Q&A and COMMENTS:
this is fantastic and such a motivational booster. i have purchased two SB licenses so Im going to run mega massive scrapebox blasts simultaneously to my money site to try to rank them up.
keep up the good work and updates.
Sounds awesome. I just more licenses as well. It's all about volume and scale. Good luck on your massive blast!
bfellow, excellent thread and for someone who hasn't yet taken SB seriously, even though owning it a few months, it's starting to kick me into gear.
What is the tool you are using to check all your keyword ranks?
I tend to use the SB add-on to check the number of backlinks as I think it gets that information from Yahoo Explorer?
This also answers one or two questions or comments below. I use Rank Checker, a Firefox plugin to track keywords as well as Google Webmaster Tools. Using these two together I get a pretty good idea of what I am ranking for.
I have not used an SB add-on to check the number of backlinks. I'm just going off of what the search engines are actually telling me. I couldn't answer if the add-on gets its information from YSE.
Great thread! I have been following the thread a couple of days, but i haven't posted untill now.
I'm pretty new to IM, so i'm not aware of the whole mass pinging procedure. Any chance you can explain that in detail?
Also, do you have 1 article written for each of your sub keywords? And how many sub keywords do you have that you are gonna try to rank for?
Thank you very much. You are an inspiration!
EDIT:
Also, may I ask if all your URLs are autoapprove links? And if so, how do you get so many of them?
To answer your questions:
1) I've described the mass pinging once or twice in this thread. Just take another look. Don't have the time right now to re-write it.
2) I like to use articles that target big keywords and then I derive sub-keywords from these articles. If I had an article specifically for every keyword, I would literally need hundreds of articles.
3) Total number of keywords that I am ranking for right this minute is several hundred. No definitive number, but if I had to guess from what I know, 4-500 would probably be a safe guess.
What did you commented ??
Example will be appreciated
As far as comments, I just generic, spun comments. I have about 100 that are all really well spun, so literally thousands of iterations.
For the above to, I'm using Rank Checker in Firefox.
A question about the blast.
Are you dropping a link into the comment field?
I am only using the link generated in the name field. I am not dropping any links in the actual comment field.
Thanks for a fab thread...having been trying to follow your advice about massive SB links but need to know what you are using to get them indexed...for the lst week have run a 100K lists with fair success rate...but nothing yet on yse...do kind advise...for my sake and the sake of the rest of the avid readers of your thread how to get them indexed...
PS: using these links on a site already on from page @ #10 but trying to move it up...thanks!!
I am using just volume. I brought a fire hose to a squirt gun fight. I only pinged the first bunch, which was a fairly 'small' blast, only a few thousand links. I like my links to get indexed naturally. I don't like direct pinging my links to often. But you could ping the root URL that your links are on. Then it would send googlebot as well as other spiders to the site in general which would then be crawled and you would have a degree of separation. This would be a good way to ping with out actually directly pinging which could through a flag.
I second SkeetMads' question about gathering auto approve blogs.
As far as gathering auto approve blogs, I have several sources. I discover a lot of them just by running massive blasts and checking them. No real easy answer to this one in terms of generating them on your own. But I will be providing these lists really soon.
And on that note, I'll talk about the future of this experiment and my plans.
So after getting several PM's, emails, chat requests and more I have decided that I will be selling my lists as well as also providing blasting services for anyone who wants exactly what I have done.
I am currently gearing up to provide both list services as well as blasting services. I have a website that will coordinate this being built by a contractor as I write this. When the site is live I will buy the Donor membership to provide a link to the service as well as strongly looking to purchase advertising on BHW directly.
The final products and services are still being planned, but they will include exclusive lists (.edu, .gov, and low OBL lists), 'fodder' lists (high OBL) for big blasts (very similar to what I am doing now), as well as on-time blasts and a subscription service for continued blasting at various levels. In the end I'll be offering 12-15 different products or services.
*Please note that at this time I am not selling anything*. I'll announce the service when it is ready, lists are sorted and verified, additional server capacity is up and running, and I have at a minimum signed up for Donor status here on BHW if not actually spending the big bucks on a site-wide advertising.
As always, questions and comments are welcome!