Swiss
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- Jun 3, 2011
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I've seen many discussions about whether or not you can hurt your competitions SERPs with building certain types of backlinks, but couldn't really find a proper answer, so I did a test myself and would like to share the results with you:
A few specs. from the target:
Domain age: 9 years
Unchanged site content: 5+ years
Pages indexed: 15/15
Domain length: 4 characters (This probably doesn't matter, but it's a high quality domain name).
PR: 1
I didn't just look for a site and blast the shit out of it right away, I searched for 2 main keywords that they're targeting and loaded them into Market Samurai's rank tracker.
The only thing I did after that for the next 16 days, was clicking the "Update Rank Data" every 24 hours. I didn't build any links in that time period.
Here's the rank data an for each keyword during that 16 days and probably long before that too (I checked the rankings every day, they didn't change):
Keyword 1: Monthly local searches (exact): 4,900
Google results with exact keyword: 5M+
Rank: #3
Keyword 2: Monthly local searches (exact): 2,600
Google results with exact keyword: 4M+
Rank: #3
After I gathered enough data I started with the linkbuilding. This is what I did:
- 13k profile backlinks with spammy and unpleasant keywords as anchor text and pointing to the target's homepage.
- About 500 profile backlinks also with the same keywords as anchor text pointing to tier 1.
- Again 500 pointing to tier 3.
- Immediately after they were live I put them into my Lindexed acct. and got them crawled.
- I also created separate RSS feeds for all links.
Don't ask why I made the links in this way, it's just the way I chose to build them.
Ranking for the two keywords literally one day after the link building and to date:
Keyword 1 rank: Not in the top 1'000
eek
Keyword 2 rank: #54
I'm not saying that this is a definite answer to the question above, but I did manage to do it. And it's only been 6 days since the sanboxing, so it could still flip tomorrow, but I'll update the thread if anything changes.
Thanks for reading
A few specs. from the target:
Domain age: 9 years
Unchanged site content: 5+ years
Pages indexed: 15/15
Domain length: 4 characters (This probably doesn't matter, but it's a high quality domain name).
PR: 1
I didn't just look for a site and blast the shit out of it right away, I searched for 2 main keywords that they're targeting and loaded them into Market Samurai's rank tracker.
The only thing I did after that for the next 16 days, was clicking the "Update Rank Data" every 24 hours. I didn't build any links in that time period.
Here's the rank data an for each keyword during that 16 days and probably long before that too (I checked the rankings every day, they didn't change):
Keyword 1: Monthly local searches (exact): 4,900
Google results with exact keyword: 5M+
Rank: #3
Keyword 2: Monthly local searches (exact): 2,600
Google results with exact keyword: 4M+
Rank: #3
After I gathered enough data I started with the linkbuilding. This is what I did:
- 13k profile backlinks with spammy and unpleasant keywords as anchor text and pointing to the target's homepage.
- About 500 profile backlinks also with the same keywords as anchor text pointing to tier 1.
- Again 500 pointing to tier 3.
- Immediately after they were live I put them into my Lindexed acct. and got them crawled.
- I also created separate RSS feeds for all links.
Don't ask why I made the links in this way, it's just the way I chose to build them.
Ranking for the two keywords literally one day after the link building and to date:
Keyword 1 rank: Not in the top 1'000
eekKeyword 2 rank: #54
I'm not saying that this is a definite answer to the question above, but I did manage to do it. And it's only been 6 days since the sanboxing, so it could still flip tomorrow, but I'll update the thread if anything changes.
Thanks for reading
