So ive implemented this (almost) to the letter, and my results haven't been great so far.
First of all let me point out, i know others have had success with this method of bobby's for a fact, and im very confident that it works. This ISNT a post bashing the method, and dont let it put you off trying it - im just trying to figure out whats happened and to see if anyone has seen similar results.
The only deviations from the letter of this method were:
- Prior to seeing this method to get the site indexed i created about 5 bookmarks, and 15 well spun readable 2.0s. Then dripped them with lindexed. This was over 2 weeks before the 301 was picked up and rankings had stabilized at an initial #15.
- My money site has several unique 600 word articles - the homepage article was created using the method bobby suggested.
What i did:
So i created the 2 sites just as the method stated. (See exception above)
i waited until the aged site's article was indexed, then 301'd and waited until google had found the 301 before i purchased the 1000 links. To get the 301 site indexed i blasted it with sb.
I found that around the same time that the 301 got indexed my site had a huge drop in the serps - closer inspection found that my homepage is not ranking for my main KW anymore and some random inner page is the first found (was a solid #15 before ,as its a very easy KW, now its ~#450.
Im far from an expert but im under the impression this is a penalty - i found no message in webmaster tools. Im on day 2 of 3 of the links being rolled out and several have been indexed with still no change.
Has anyone found this happening while using this method? Or does anyone have any suggestions at all on how i can attempt to resolve this?
AGAIN id like to point out that i have full faith in this method, and will be trying it again on another domain, that is totally fresh.
My thanks to bobbylove for this share, and as always, treat this as a learning curve. Id just like to either try to resolve this, or at least learn something out of this.