oscarmike
Regular Member
- Sep 16, 2011
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Hi Guys,
First, I would like to thank all of you for giving me ideas on how to go about starting my own IM gig - from doing Fiverr gigs, to starting my own MNS. Since I joined last Oct 2011, I have grown to be a lot more understanding of how to asses and utilize my resources in order to make the best decisions i this fast paced industry. I am also a member of other IM forums but i seem to get more information and wisdom here than anywhere else; amidst the frequent clash of ideas and methods, i always learn an important thing or two from our brothers and sisters who are very much eager to help. kudos to all of you! Now, let me tell you about the setback im facing now...
I started an MNS blog last Nov. 2011, with a 20+searches a day keyword with 20,000 "competing pages". until Jan. 2012, i havent touched it much aside from two articles (which i think are SEO optimized enough) and some on-page optimization, because i would like to "ferment" the site for a little before employing very active off page seo / link building (being a newbie, I was afraid to be "sand-boxed" or panda slapped and shit like that.
Upon the end of January, I joined ALN and "sacrificed" three domains to the network, i donated 1 pr2 and 2 pr1 domains, giving me a total of 2 submissions a day (i am thinking of increasing that in the near future). The network did wonders for me! from an average of 3 unique visits a day ( im ranked 20-30+ for my main keyword, i jumped to an average of 52 a day, rank number 3 on the exact search, and 6 on the broad phrase of the same keyword (which has more searches a day btw). I was very happy because of this because i started getting clicks from amazon and adnsense to the point that have decided that i will be setting a monthly website budget for SEO, content building.
But this morning i got shocked to find that during the 8 hours that i slept, i only had 1 visitor. I proceeded with Traffic Travis and Market samurai to check the status of competition and i was shocked that (depending on the tool) i was either ranked lower on the top 10 or lower than the top 100. :c
here is the screenshot of the rankings i took days prior to the "crash", and the result i just got today.
what the hell just happened??!! :c
anyway, heres the layout of my website. I have about 5 pages of unique 450+ word contents.
I have a hunch that it could be a google slap because of the above the fold adsense codes. I did removed two of the three codes above + the voltrank code. and i'll wait for google to "view me" again. I hope that was the only issue. :c
anyway, heres my "SEO blue print" everyday.
1. free socialmonkee submission
2. 2 ALN submission using random related anchor texts.
3. Random google +ing, facebook sharing, bookmarking with my "syndication group".
Again, I hope that this is just a phase. :c
First, I would like to thank all of you for giving me ideas on how to go about starting my own IM gig - from doing Fiverr gigs, to starting my own MNS. Since I joined last Oct 2011, I have grown to be a lot more understanding of how to asses and utilize my resources in order to make the best decisions i this fast paced industry. I am also a member of other IM forums but i seem to get more information and wisdom here than anywhere else; amidst the frequent clash of ideas and methods, i always learn an important thing or two from our brothers and sisters who are very much eager to help. kudos to all of you! Now, let me tell you about the setback im facing now...
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I started an MNS blog last Nov. 2011, with a 20+searches a day keyword with 20,000 "competing pages". until Jan. 2012, i havent touched it much aside from two articles (which i think are SEO optimized enough) and some on-page optimization, because i would like to "ferment" the site for a little before employing very active off page seo / link building (being a newbie, I was afraid to be "sand-boxed" or panda slapped and shit like that.
Upon the end of January, I joined ALN and "sacrificed" three domains to the network, i donated 1 pr2 and 2 pr1 domains, giving me a total of 2 submissions a day (i am thinking of increasing that in the near future). The network did wonders for me! from an average of 3 unique visits a day ( im ranked 20-30+ for my main keyword, i jumped to an average of 52 a day, rank number 3 on the exact search, and 6 on the broad phrase of the same keyword (which has more searches a day btw). I was very happy because of this because i started getting clicks from amazon and adnsense to the point that have decided that i will be setting a monthly website budget for SEO, content building.
But this morning i got shocked to find that during the 8 hours that i slept, i only had 1 visitor. I proceeded with Traffic Travis and Market samurai to check the status of competition and i was shocked that (depending on the tool) i was either ranked lower on the top 10 or lower than the top 100. :c
here is the screenshot of the rankings i took days prior to the "crash", and the result i just got today.
anyway, heres the layout of my website. I have about 5 pages of unique 450+ word contents.
I have a hunch that it could be a google slap because of the above the fold adsense codes. I did removed two of the three codes above + the voltrank code. and i'll wait for google to "view me" again. I hope that was the only issue. :c
anyway, heres my "SEO blue print" everyday.
1. free socialmonkee submission
2. 2 ALN submission using random related anchor texts.
3. Random google +ing, facebook sharing, bookmarking with my "syndication group".
Again, I hope that this is just a phase. :c
