Hi phpbuilt
Thanks a lot for answering my question. I hope you don;t mind if I have more questions.
You say that your social accounts are posting to your tier1 100% of the time. I don;t understand what do you mean. You write an article for your main blog and then you create a spin and post it to all your tiers (15-20% will receive the spin). So how do your social accounts like twitter, facebook and disqus post articles to tier 1?
Four things are going on here ... my blogs and my social accounts, and promotions to the content that everyone is interested in, and promotions to my inner pages, so yeah I can see how it can be confusing. I'll try to clear that up.
My social accounts only promote the content everyone is interested in, and never the stuff I'm promoting.
My main social account promote's other people's stuff 100% of the time, 50% of which are direct links to CNN or BBC or RT or other credible news sources ... 50% are pointing to my blog where I did a write-up which then links to other people's stuff, so 100% of it is promoting other people's stuff. This makes the website popular, gains it natural backlinks, and the social profile would be more trusted by Google.
Let me stop here and talk about social links that people are saying in this thread that are worthless. Those people would probably agree that link trade scripts are worthless, that comment spam is worthless or harmful, that (when it comes to websites) there are links out there that are not beneficial ... and yet with a single swoop they discount ALL social media links, as though getting a twitter link from CNN isn't going to do something for your SEO. Followerwonk analyzes twitter accounts and assigns them authority scores ... are we to believe that Google as a company worth some 370 billion dollars isn't capable of outdoing Moz? Maybe your social media links are worthless because the social media accounts you got them from are worthless? Why would Google turn down the ability to assign authority scores to social media accounts, and provide an escalating level of benefit (or penalty) based on that account's authority? Sure, social media is easy to spam ... but so are link types, and Google can figure out the difference.
Ok back to my social accounts ... main account links to other people's stuff 100% of the time, directly to CNN/BBC/RT etc 50%, to my main money site 20%, and to tier1's 30%.
Now we're still talking socials, but the lower 20 accounts. They link directly to CNN/BBC/RT etc. 50% of the time. 20% of the time they're retweeting my main account. 30% of the time, they're linking to tier1 accounts, so they're functioning almost exactly the same as my main twitter account.
When I said my 20 link to my tier1 100% of the time, what I meant is every post on my tier1 will get a link from my 20 socials 100% of the time (I see how that can be confusing) ... but they still directly link out to authority sites simply to diversify outgoing links, because I believe that linking to credible websites boosts the authority of the social accounts.
My socials are never promoting money stuff. Now talking about my money site and blogs (forget about socials now).
On my money site, it's all about beefing up the root domain's authority, and brand. I want people searching for my brand. In fact, sometimes when I tweet, my link will be to a Google query search containing my brand + topic, so the thing I want to link to will be ranking #1 in Google. For instance, if I'm writing about how the patriot act just expired, my tweet would be like this "The patriot act just expired, NSA has til midnight to stop snooping on you! [link] ... where the link is to Google, and the query is {brand} patriot act expired. This forces them to search Google for you, and they click through to your result, and this shows Google that people actually search for your brand (making your site's brand more popular in Google's eyes). I do this for every article I write ... so during the day, my account will tweet once as a direct link to the site, later on it'll tweet again trying to pass people through Google.
Lastly, my tier1 blogs. These will link to other people's stuff 90% of the time (credible news sources), it'll also link to my main site around 10% ... but one out of every 3 blog posts will have a link to main site (a blog post might have 3 outgoing links per post, and 1 out of 3 posts links to money site, so around 90%/10%). Tier 2 blogs have a link to tier1 100% of the time every blog post, with a couple links to other credible sources.
Each of 20 sub-personas will have several blogs in tier 1. Am I right?
The 20 sub personas on tier 1 blogs are totally different from 20 fake personas of twitter, facebook and disqus, right?
Tier1 personas and social personas are not matched up. Over time, every one of the 20 twitter accounts will have linked to every one of the tier1. The 20 socials and 20 disqus (and 20 facebook) all match up though.
How do you manage to post the spin to all the tiers that randomly choose 15 to 25% of the blogs? Custom software? I have not seen any software that does what you say.
It's all custom, I use PHP for 95% of what I do ... if can be done in PHP that's where I do it. In a few cases where I haven't been able to do it in PHP, I'll use PHP to control an imacros browser only so long enough to get past the thing I couldn't do in PHP, then I return full control to PHP again (like if Javascript/ajax is assembling difficult post vars that I can't duplicate, I'll run imacros only so long enough to read the data and extract the post vars, then close it and use PHP for the posting).
EDIT: and oh yeah, my tier1 will post to my money pages occasionally too ... but usually if I'm not promoting that particular post via socials.
