Thanks, I'll definitely keep this in mind before we do the first blog network.
I'm buying xrumer today, will keep the thread updated with the details.
You know... I saw a thread for zennoposter and it looks cool. I doubt it's as powerful as xrumer but we'll consider using it if we need to.
UPDATE:
Well, it's been a minute since I last updated this thread. I've been doing a lot of work since then, and I wanted to share what's been going on. I'm still having some Penguin problems with my main site which I'm trying to address (I'm at the point now where I'm copying the content over to new pages with slightly different URLs. So far the pages haven't been getting indexed =/,) and that's taken up quite a bit of my time. Still, I have had the time to do some of what I set out to do.
Blog Network Status
It took me a little while, but I did finally get a free blog network setup. I used ~120 domains that offered web 2.0 properties, and I set up between 1 and 3 accounts on each on. I did this all by hand (was pretty painful) over the course of about 2 weeks. I placed a generic post on all the blogs, and I have a couple of niche-related seed articles that I've taken a while to build. Each seed is spun at the word and sentence level and are at about 81% uniqueness. For my next batch, I'll be spinning at the paragraph, sentence, and word level. It should also be noted that I made heavy usage of nested spintax. All the posts are highly readable and contain very few awkward turns of grammar. I use only 1 link per article, and the anchors are either completely generic or have a mix of generic words and keywords (e.g. some read "click here" and others read "visit an awesome blue widget site." Everything is spun, of course.)
So far, the most time consuming process has been spintax seeding. It takes about 2 hours for each thousand word article using The Best Spinner. I am getting a little bit faster, but I don't mind taking the time to make sure that all the posts on my web 2.0 flogs are solid. The next most time consuming process is setting up the accounts. It only takes about 1 or 2 minutes to do it, but I think it would be beneficial to leave to creation to a script (someone mentioned zennoposter and I'm seriously considering using it for my next go around.) I should also say that the flog network would definitely benefit from automation insofar as it is really a pain to have to come up with unique usernames. I know it doesn't sound like a huge issue, but I think it really is as it's important to hide one's footprints.
The actual posting does not take too long (a little less time thank it took to create the accounts,) but I have a copy of xrumer and I might as well make the most out of it. Madoctopus also mentioned that the ability to completely randomize which article you're posting to the blogs would be beneficial, and xrumer apparently has the capabilities to do this. Also, managing the hyperlinks would be much better done with automation, so that's going to be the next big thing that I work on.
Getting Xrumer Running
It took me quite a bit of time to get my hands on this program. I did a lot of research before buying and I felt pretty confident that I could make it do what I needed it to do. So far, however, I have yet to actually use the damn thing. It took me 1 week to receive the product after purchasing (because I bought it with PayPal) after I did purchase, I needed to install it on the VPS. Got that done, but now I need proxies. Once the proxies are in place, I'll be ready to do what I need to do.
This is my link plan for utilizing Xrumer to boost my flognet:
Tier 1: The flognet. ~200 or so sites with a couple of highly readable, relevant 81% unique content with no interlinking between the sites and quasi generic anchors (I would do a mix of 35% exact matches and 65% generic if my money site didn't already have a shitload of exact match KW anchors already.)
Tier 2: Xrumer antispam forum replies that come from niche-related forums with a mix of exact KW matches and generic. The links are all pointed at various sites in the flognet and are dripped at a rate of 100 or so per day.
Tier 3: do-followed comment and blog spam pointed at the forum replies. I'm gonna use straight exact KW matches here. The drip rate is going to be about 1,000 or so per day.
Tier 4: Spam-mode blasting used only for indexing. I'm going to use whatever settings will get me the most amount of links. No dripping whatsoever. I hope to do this at a rate of about 10,000. I don't think it matters what the KWs are at this level of the pyramid.
I should also note that I have considered using AMR for another set of Tier 2 links. Has anyone used this successfully recently?
Mass Indexing Sites
Yes. We're still doing the mass-indexing sites because for the long term success of the network. Again, we're planning on doing at least 6 of these. At the moment, we have one online (10k+ pages indexed at the moment with the potential for millions more. <3 databases,) and one in development. To be honest, we've been really lazy with the second one (it's going to be a real estate directory.) But it's more of an aside at this point. It will be nice to have millions of indexed pages at some point down the line, though.
I did notice something interesting about the indexing process. At first, the rate of indexation was REALLY slow (I'm talking about 50-100 pages PER DAY.) By the time that around 2k or so was indexed, the number of pages indexed per day was at about 200. Right now with over 10k pages indexed, the number is at almost 800 pages per day. So it appears that the number of pages grows exponentially on each crawl.
The more you know...
Anyway, that's all I've got. I'll update again when I have something else to talk about!
Well, it's been a minute since I last updated this thread. I've been doing a lot of work since then, and I wanted to share what's been going on. I'm still having some Penguin problems with my main site which I'm trying to address (I'm at the point now where I'm copying the content over to new pages with slightly different URLs. So far the pages haven't been getting indexed =/,) and that's taken up quite a bit of my time. Still, I have had the time to do some of what I set out to do.
Blog Network Status
It took me a little while, but I did finally get a free blog network setup. I used ~120 domains that offered web 2.0 properties, and I set up between 1 and 3 accounts on each on. I did this all by hand (was pretty painful) over the course of about 2 weeks. I placed a generic post on all the blogs, and I have a couple of niche-related seed articles that I've taken a while to build. Each seed is spun at the word and sentence level and are at about 81% uniqueness. For my next batch, I'll be spinning at the paragraph, sentence, and word level. It should also be noted that I made heavy usage of nested spintax. All the posts are highly readable and contain very few awkward turns of grammar. I use only 1 link per article, and the anchors are either completely generic or have a mix of generic words and keywords (e.g. some read "click here" and others read "visit an awesome blue widget site." Everything is spun, of course.)
So far, the most time consuming process has been spintax seeding. It takes about 2 hours for each thousand word article using The Best Spinner. I am getting a little bit faster, but I don't mind taking the time to make sure that all the posts on my web 2.0 flogs are solid. The next most time consuming process is setting up the accounts. It only takes about 1 or 2 minutes to do it, but I think it would be beneficial to leave to creation to a script (someone mentioned zennoposter and I'm seriously considering using it for my next go around.) I should also say that the flog network would definitely benefit from automation insofar as it is really a pain to have to come up with unique usernames. I know it doesn't sound like a huge issue, but I think it really is as it's important to hide one's footprints.
The actual posting does not take too long (a little less time thank it took to create the accounts,) but I have a copy of xrumer and I might as well make the most out of it. Madoctopus also mentioned that the ability to completely randomize which article you're posting to the blogs would be beneficial, and xrumer apparently has the capabilities to do this. Also, managing the hyperlinks would be much better done with automation, so that's going to be the next big thing that I work on.
Getting Xrumer Running
It took me quite a bit of time to get my hands on this program. I did a lot of research before buying and I felt pretty confident that I could make it do what I needed it to do. So far, however, I have yet to actually use the damn thing. It took me 1 week to receive the product after purchasing (because I bought it with PayPal) after I did purchase, I needed to install it on the VPS. Got that done, but now I need proxies. Once the proxies are in place, I'll be ready to do what I need to do.
This is my link plan for utilizing Xrumer to boost my flognet:
Tier 1: The flognet. ~200 or so sites with a couple of highly readable, relevant 81% unique content with no interlinking between the sites and quasi generic anchors (I would do a mix of 35% exact matches and 65% generic if my money site didn't already have a shitload of exact match KW anchors already.)
Tier 2: Xrumer antispam forum replies that come from niche-related forums with a mix of exact KW matches and generic. The links are all pointed at various sites in the flognet and are dripped at a rate of 100 or so per day.
Tier 3: do-followed comment and blog spam pointed at the forum replies. I'm gonna use straight exact KW matches here. The drip rate is going to be about 1,000 or so per day.
Tier 4: Spam-mode blasting used only for indexing. I'm going to use whatever settings will get me the most amount of links. No dripping whatsoever. I hope to do this at a rate of about 10,000. I don't think it matters what the KWs are at this level of the pyramid.
I should also note that I have considered using AMR for another set of Tier 2 links. Has anyone used this successfully recently?
Mass Indexing Sites
Yes. We're still doing the mass-indexing sites because for the long term success of the network. Again, we're planning on doing at least 6 of these. At the moment, we have one online (10k+ pages indexed at the moment with the potential for millions more. <3 databases,) and one in development. To be honest, we've been really lazy with the second one (it's going to be a real estate directory.) But it's more of an aside at this point. It will be nice to have millions of indexed pages at some point down the line, though.
I did notice something interesting about the indexing process. At first, the rate of indexation was REALLY slow (I'm talking about 50-100 pages PER DAY.) By the time that around 2k or so was indexed, the number of pages indexed per day was at about 200. Right now with over 10k pages indexed, the number is at almost 800 pages per day. So it appears that the number of pages grows exponentially on each crawl.
The more you know...
Anyway, that's all I've got. I'll update again when I have something else to talk about!
dwmarketing
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Good read