[Case Study] Website Google Ranking 3 Strategies (RankerX, GSA, Hands)

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Hello, I'd like to invite you on my journey as I try various approaches to rank my websites.

Over the past 14 years, I've built several websites occasionally, mainly for fun and personal use.

However, since February of this year (2023), I've become more serious and am aiming to establish a small portfolio of successful websites.

Introduction

I've developed several strategies that I'm looking forward to showcasing to you. I won't delve into the specifics of my strategies just yet, but I will present the results of each one. I aim to update you on a weekly basis.

Strategies
For this case study, I selected 6 of my websites to test three distinct strategies. Each strategy will be applied to both a high KD niche and a medium KD niche, providing a comprehensive view of the results.

Strategy 1 [Slow]
A conservative approach which, in my opinion, is 100% Google-safe. It involves only manually built Tier 1 backlinks.
  • Tier 1 manually built
  • Multiple Tier automated built
Strategy 2 [Medium]
A somewhat faster, yet still Google-safe approach. This method combines manual and software-generated Tier 1 backlinks, but very judiciously and only from handpicked sources.
  • Tier 1 manually built
  • Tier 1 handpicked automated built
  • Multiple Tier automated built
Strategy 3 [Fast]
This is a more aggressive approach, but implemented in a manner I consider to be safe.
  • Tier 1 manually built
  • Tier 1 handpicked automated built
  • Multiple Tier automated built
Strategy 4 [Lightspeed] (Abandoned)
I won't be focusing on this strategy in the current study. Using this hyper-aggressive approach, one of my websites achieved 750k traffic/month within just two months. The rapid growth was surprising, but the site received a manual Google penalty after a month. Consequently, its traffic plummeted and is now stagnating at approximately 5k

Tools
I use a variety of tools, both purchased and self-made.

Here's a list of the tools I currently use:
  • GSA
  • RankerX
  • Xevil
  • Autoposter (Selfmade)
  • Article Writer + Spinner (Selfmade)
  • Content/Image Scraper (Selfmade)
Total: 1270$ (burned money for useless stuff not included)

Monthly Expenses
Here's a breakdown of my monthly costs for all my projects combined. (I currently manage a total of 15 active websites)
  • Proxies (Dedicated,Rotating) ~ 100$/month
  • VPS for Websites ~ 40$/month
  • VPS for Mails ~ 4$/month
  • Xevil 10$/month
  • GSA List 30$/month
Total: 184$/month

Case Study
Unfortunately, not all websites start from scratch, but none are older than approximately 2 month. Relevant pages are interlinked, which is why some already have a few backlinks. Additionally, the strategies are already in progess.


Strategie 1 [Slow] - Website #1, Post #1
- coming soon

Strategie 1 [Slow] - Website #2, Post #1
- coming soon

Strategie 2 [Medium] - Website #3, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 0 (0)
Semrush Authority 2 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 1/9 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 8 (0)

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Strategie 2 [Medium] - Website #4, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 79 (0)
Semrush Authority 9 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 341/21651 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 18 (0)

Summary.png

Strategie 3 [Fast] - Website #5, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 6 (0)
Semrush Authority 2 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 86/1458 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 10 (0)

Summary.png

Strategie 3 [Fast] - Website #6, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 1 (0)
Semrush Authority 6 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 85/12703 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 3.5 (0)

Summary.png

Let me know your thoughts and if you're interested in tracking the progress (like or reply). If you'd like to see any additional statistics in the updates, please inform me. In updates, "(0)" will represent the gained or lost value. For the first post, it will be "(0/0) (0)."
 
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Bookmarked for further updates! Nice one OP.
Can you elaborate on the content part, do you write it yourself or they are spinned article?
 
chung_sinh said:
Bookmarked for further updates! Nice one OP.
Can you elaborate on the content part, do you write it yourself or they are spinned article?
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Thank you for your response. I've created my own content writing tool that generates articles and also spins them. It's a somewhat different approach than what I've seen from others. Let's see how it performs.
DFWM said:
Bookmarked.
Check your PMs please. Ready to give you some $ sir.
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Thank you for bookmarking it.

SirLouen said:
Have RankerX already released version 3
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No it's currently 2.2.6.2
 
3 questions if I may...

1) what type of content will you be publishing on your sites, and at what intervals?
2) what type of backlinks will you be using for tier 1 (the manually-built backlinks I mean)?
3) what exactly is the keyword difficulty for your main keywords like, and which niches are the sites in (or industries if you can't disclose the niches)?

Also, site #4 looks good, I like the organic growth of its traffic, I think it will be one of the best sites of your case study :)
 
Wow strategy 2 looks good, what kind of seo softwares you use on that one?
 
tazarbm said:
3 questions if I may...

1) what type of content will you be publishing on your sites, and at what intervals?
2) what type of backlinks will you be using for tier 1 (the manually-built backlinks I mean)?
3) what exactly is the keyword difficulty for your main keywords like, and which niches are the sites in (or industries if you can't disclose the niches)?

Also, site #4 looks good, I like the organic growth of its traffic, I think it will be one of the best sites of your case study :)
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1) Some websites are simple and static, containing just 2-3 pages. Others are vast, with over 1000 pages. I've developed these bigger sites using my own autoposter. The content, which is largely scraped, is enhanced using a tool I developed myself since ScrapeBox didn't suit my needs. The text is optimized and improved from its original form before being autoposted to WordPress in a well-formatted and structured manner. Regardless of the SEO checker I tested, all pages consistently achieve an on-page SEO score of 85 or above. 95+ on Google's PageSpeed Insights. For some sites, I upload product articles or reviews at a pace of about 10 posts per day, while for others, it's around 100 posts daily.

2) The backlinks range from interlinking among my own niche-relevant sites to links from parasite sites. I also utilize quality purchased backlinks and also some press releases.

3) I may have made an error regarding keyword difficulty. The range is from 50-100, so rather than being easy to high, I'd classify it as medium to high in terms of difficulty.

4) Thank you. I believe this page will rank good as well. I do have a few other pages with higher traffic, but I think they might not be relevant for this particular case study.

jamie3000 said:
Just out of curiosity what was the light speed technique?
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The traffic came due to a combination of multiple factors. However, I believe the primary catalyst was the aggressive use of parasite site stacking. This involved ramping up with thousands of links across tiers 2, 3, and 4 in a very short time frame so Google didn't catch up with its automated penalty algorithm and boosted my website for a short time without any constraints. Based on analytics, I observed an average of around 40 visitors every 30 minutes. This number abruptly shot up, increasing to about 2,000 visitors in the same time frame and stayed constant for around 2-3 weeks at that level. It was not bots as I had a lot of interactions also through mail contacts and so on.
watsonovedades said:
Wow strategy 2 looks good, what kind of seo softwares you use on that one?
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Thank you. Same as mentioned above, all strategies include my own tools as well tools such as GSA and RankerX. It's just important the way you use these tools, as you can harm your site more than doing good very easily.

I forgot to mention in my initial post that I don't use any kind of indexing service. I've set up my strategies so that I don't have to pay for any indexing services, as this would skyrocket the cost of each website pretty fast. It works well in my strategies without any indexing services.
 
Strategy 5
Build $30k worth of PBN based on niche relevant auction domains,
Come on, you just burnt some money, just add this :D
 
thanks for the answers.

rubine2323 said:
1) Some websites are simple and static, containing just 2-3 pages. Others are vast, with over 1000 pages. I've developed these bigger sites using my own autoposter. The content, which is largely scraped, is enhanced using a tool I developed myself since ScrapeBox didn't suit my needs. The text is optimized and improved from its original form before being autoposted to WordPress in a well-formatted and structured manner. Regardless of the SEO checker I tested, all pages consistently achieve an on-page SEO score of 85 or above. 95+ on Google's PageSpeed Insights. For some sites, I upload product articles or reviews at a pace of about 10 posts per day, while for others, it's around 100 posts daily.
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on this point I don't have much to comment except for the fact that - if the rumors are true - the sites to which you're publishing 100 posts daily should tank before they even take off. At least that's what one of this year's google updates seems to have targeted. But... if the site spammed with 100 posts a day will rank and make money... I don't know, I guess the rumours are not true :)

rubine2323 said:
2) The backlinks range from interlinking among my own niche-relevant sites to links from parasite sites. I also utilize quality purchased backlinks and also some press releases.
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I think you're running this case study pretty chaotically and it will be hard to figure out which variables have triggered which effects. You're mixing different types and frequencies of content with different types of backlinks and link building methods, etc... I don't think we will get a clear answer about which strategy is successful and which not. Of course, this doesn't mean that you should stop the experiment, we still wish to see the results :p

rubine2323 said:
3) I may have made an error regarding keyword difficulty. The range is from 50-100, so rather than being easy to high, I'd classify it as medium to high in terms of difficulty.
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dang, these aren't medium to hard keywords! They're fierce to impossible :D .... I'm pretty sure that a keyword with 100 difficulty score is considered at least "brutally hard" by any tool you're going to use to assess the difficulty... Oh well, it will be interesting to see if your strategies pay off for these keywords, although apparently you're already getting impressions and clicks on these websites. By the way, are you using expired domains or fresh ones??
 
hideath said:
Strategy 5
Build $30k worth of PBN based on niche relevant auction domains,
Come on, you just burnt some money, just add this :D
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Well, actually, if I have multiple well running sites, it is already considered a PBN if I interlink them if they are niche-relevant isn't it?. Buying multiple niche-relevant auction domains would deplete my budget quite quickly. I would rather consider building it up from scratch.
 
tazarbm said:
thanks for the answers.


on this point I don't have much to comment except for the fact that - if the rumors are true - the sites to which you're publishing 100 posts daily should tank before they even take off. At least that's what one of this year's google updates seems to have targeted. But... if the site spammed with 100 posts a day will rank and make money... I don't know, I guess the rumours are not true :)


I think you're running this case study pretty chaotically and it will be hard to figure out which variables have triggered which effects. You're mixing different types and frequencies of content with different types of backlinks and link building methods, etc... I don't think we will get a clear answer about which strategy is successful and which not. Of course, this doesn't mean that you should stop the experiment, we still wish to see the results :p


dang, these aren't medium to hard keywords! They're fierce to impossible :D .... I'm pretty sure that a keyword with 100 difficulty score is considered at least "brutally hard" by any tool you're going to use to assess the difficulty... Oh well, it will be interesting to see if your strategies pay off for these keywords, although apparently you're already getting impressions and clicks on these websites. By the way, are you using expired domains or fresh ones??
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You're right. The case study might not be perfect because I should have picked websites with more similar styles to have more accurate data for each strategy. However, I will continue showcasing it in this manner. These are the websites I have already built, and I don't want to create new websites just for the case study. My website portfolio is not extensive enough to have the perfect fitting sites for this study. I might add a note to the updates to show which website contains multiple pages autoposted and which websites are static to provide more insights. The abandoned strategy mentiont was for a niche with keyword difficulty 100 applied to a freshly purchased domain that had never been registered before, so it does not seem impossible to rank for these.

In general, websites 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are freshly purchased domains. Website 2 is the only one I bought, and it's five years old but has never received any traffic or backlinks, except for a few spammy backlinks from the original creator of the website.

Website 1,2 data will be posted soon.
 
rubine2323 said:
Well, actually, if I have multiple well running sites, it is already considered a PBN if I interlink them if they are niche-relevant isn't it?. Buying multiple niche-relevant auction domains would deplete my budget quite quickly. I would rather consider building it up from scratch.
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Not really, it's basically interlinking,
Just kidding, there's enough data on that already,

Retesting the spammy stuff is what should be done once in a while tbh,
Good share op ^^
 
It's been a while since my initial post, but I'm still here and committed to providing updates. Originally, I aimed to share weekly updates, but I've realized that a monthly update makes more sense. Waiting for weekly updates can feel a bit tedious, and progress takes time to become visible.

Tools
Initially, I hadn't planned to use a paid indexer, but after a month, I noticed that only a small number of backlinks were getting indexed. To address this, I manually filtered out various links and utilized an Indexing Service, which had previously proven effective for me. As a result, I've now added Indexing Services to my list of tools. Additionally, I successfully reduced proxy costs from $100/month to $60/month.

Update #1
I've included Google Analytics Metrics on the stats board, which was missing from my initial post and removed the other stats since I will consistently provide screenshots from the previous month, making it unnecessary to rewrite them. This addition allows me to report on monthly traffic growth more comprehensively as Semrush is not very accurate.

Strategie 2 [Medium] - Website #3, Post #2

Google Analytics new visitors from last 30 days: 87
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Strategie 2 [Medium] - Website #4, Post #2

Google Analytics new visitors from last 30 days: 542Summary.png
Strategie 3 [Fast] - Website #5, Post #2

Google Analytics new visitors from last 30 days: 419Summary.png
Strategie 3 [Fast] - Website #6, Post #2
I made a mistake with this website. In my initial post, I mentioned a hyper-aggressive strategy. I had this website linking [Do-Follow] to the penalized website from my initial post, and the penalized website was also linking [Do-Follow] back to this website. Consequently, since the last Google update on October 22nd, Google has imposed a penalty on this website as well. Therefore, it's crucial to exercise caution when interlinking your websites in both directions. If one gets penalized and the backlink profile of your target website, like in my case, is too small, it can negatively affect it with a penalty. I also had another website with a backlink from the penalized website, but it was only in one direction, and since the backlink profile was substantial, the impact was not noticeable. I'll still showcase this website and see if it gets unlocked again. However, from what I've heard, it may take several months to have a manual penalty removed.

Google Analytics new visitors from last 30 days: 41
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Strategie 1 [Slow] - Website #1, Post #1 (Slow strategy missing from the initial post)

Google Analytics new visitors from last 30 days: 88
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Strategie 1 [Slow] - Website #2, Post #1 (Slow strategy missing from the initial post)
This niche might be more challenging, so I don't anticipate significant traffic for this one.

Google Analytics new visitors from last 30 days: 51Summary.png
BONUS [Lightspeed] (Abandoned) (Lightspeed strategy from my initial post)
I've managed to recover the penalized website mentioned in my initial post, the one where I experimented with my Lightspeed strategy :). This is just bonus content to demonstrate the rapid growth and subsequent decline :). About 1-2 weeks after the drop, it started similar behavior in Bing, with a time delay. While it faced penalty in Google, it initially started to grow in Bing. However, the graph showed a similar pattern, dropping to zero after about 2-3 weeks.
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I'm continuously updating the strategies as I consistently discover new insights along the way. I hope you enjoy reading through my updates. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.
 

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rubine2323 said:
Hello, I'd like to invite you on my journey as I try various approaches to rank my websites.

Over the past 14 years, I've built several websites occasionally, mainly for fun and personal use.

However, since February of this year (2023), I've become more serious and am aiming to establish a small portfolio of successful websites.

Introduction

I've developed several strategies that I'm looking forward to showcasing to you. I won't delve into the specifics of my strategies just yet, but I will present the results of each one. I aim to update you on a weekly basis.

Strategies
For this case study, I selected 6 of my websites to test three distinct strategies. Each strategy will be applied to both a high KD niche and a medium KD niche, providing a comprehensive view of the results.

Strategy 1 [Slow]
A conservative approach which, in my opinion, is 100% Google-safe. It involves only manually built Tier 1 backlinks.
  • Tier 1 manually built
  • Multiple Tier automated built
Strategy 2 [Medium]
A somewhat faster, yet still Google-safe approach. This method combines manual and software-generated Tier 1 backlinks, but very judiciously and only from handpicked sources.
  • Tier 1 manually built
  • Tier 1 handpicked automated built
  • Multiple Tier automated built
Strategy 3 [Fast]
This is a more aggressive approach, but implemented in a manner I consider to be safe.
  • Tier 1 manually built
  • Tier 1 handpicked automated built
  • Multiple Tier automated built
Strategy 4 [Lightspeed] (Abandoned)
I won't be focusing on this strategy in the current study. Using this hyper-aggressive approach, one of my websites achieved 750k traffic/month within just two months. The rapid growth was surprising, but the site received a manual Google penalty after a month. Consequently, its traffic plummeted and is now stagnating at approximately 5k

Tools
I use a variety of tools, both purchased and self-made.

Here's a list of the tools I currently use:
  • GSA
  • RankerX
  • Xevil
  • Autoposter (Selfmade)
  • Article Writer + Spinner (Selfmade)
  • Content/Image Scraper (Selfmade)
Total: 1270$ (burned money for useless stuff not included)

Monthly Expenses
Here's a breakdown of my monthly costs for all my projects combined. (I currently manage a total of 15 active websites)
  • Proxies (Dedicated,Rotating) ~ 100$/month
  • VPS for Websites ~ 40$/month
  • VPS for Mails ~ 4$/month
  • Xevil 10$/month
  • GSA List 30$/month
Total: 184$/month

Case Study
Unfortunately, not all websites start from scratch, but none are older than approximately 2 month. Relevant pages are interlinked, which is why some already have a few backlinks. Additionally, the strategies are already in progess.


Strategie 1 [Slow] - Website #1, Post #1
- coming soon

Strategie 1 [Slow] - Website #2, Post #1
- coming soon

Strategie 2 [Medium] - Website #3, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 0 (0)
Semrush Authority 2 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 1/9 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 8 (0)

View attachment 288086

Strategie 2 [Medium] - Website #4, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 79 (0)
Semrush Authority 9 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 341/21651 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 18 (0)

View attachment 288087

Strategie 3 [Fast] - Website #5, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 6 (0)
Semrush Authority 2 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 86/1458 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 10 (0)

View attachment 288088

Strategie 3 [Fast] - Website #6, Post #1

Semrush Organic Traffic 1 (0)
Semrush Authority 6 (0)
Search Console Klicks/Impression 85/12703 (0/0)
Ahrefs Pagerank 3.5 (0)

View attachment 288089

Let me know your thoughts and if you're interested in tracking the progress (like or reply). If you'd like to see any additional statistics in the updates, please inform me. In updates, "(0)" will represent the gained or lost value. For the first post, it will be "(0/0) (0)."
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I just faced the same problem you had in "LightSpeed"! It wasn't even my goal to grow this fast, but I just accidentally hit a big volume keyword and 100x my daily numbers and traffic. Now I have the message "The number of ads you can show has been limited for one or more of your AdSense products. For more information, visit the Policy center".
The site is now f*** up accidentaly? I don't want to lose it. :(
 
arqba said:
I just faced the same problem you had in "LightSpeed"! It wasn't even my goal to grow this fast, but I just accidentally hit a big volume keyword and 100x my daily numbers and traffic. Now I have the message "The number of ads you can show has been limited for one or more of your AdSense products. For more information, visit the Policy center".
The site is now f*** up accidentaly? I don't want to lose it. :(
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I cant really help you with that but i guess you could opt for another ads provider instead of google.
 
rubine2323 said:
I cant really help you with that but i guess you could opt for another ads provider instead of google.
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Nah, I can't. I was not accepted by Ezoic and it said I can't reapply. And I'm from Brazil, so there's not really so much other ads providers. Sad.
 
Really interesting journey you're on! I'm curious about the tools you've developed yourself. How have they impacted your strategies compared to the purchased ones?
 
What time frame did you use between registering domain -> creating site -> link building?
For all the strategies, including lightspeed.
 
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