Shaunm
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- Mar 27, 2014
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Good to see you back @Shaunm.
Cheers pal
Good to see you back @Shaunm.
How would you rate GSA CG compared to the alternatives? Sorry if you've already shed some light on this, didn't read through all of your journey yet.
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Not planning on returning to daily journaling yet but thought I would post a little update.
- I have decided to set aside six domains created since the start of this journey to focus on the remaining three. I don't believe that they have a long term penalty against them but it definitely seems that Googles real time algo has some kind of uptime monitor built into it for links. If a page linking to you goes on and offline a whole bunch as most of the links generated via traditional GSA SER use do then it seems to stop any link juice being passed from that domain. I will leave these six domains to age and see what happens, I may use them in the future but for now they are side lined. The three domains I will continue to focus on have most of their keywords on page three now with some dancing upto page two with an over all steady climb since creation so I am hoping some of them will be top three in two months or so.
- The parasite page I blasted back in Feb before starting the journey thread has finally started to climb in ranks. It took almost six month and over 1,000,000 links leading me to belive everything has slowed down even more than last year.
- I have stopped all efforts to recover the domain that was affected by Fred. I ordered new content targeting the same keywords and put it on a new domain and its pages are already on page two for the keywords so I am focusing on that.
- I have ended the YouTube art project as without MassPlanner to promote it I see no real reason to keep it going.
- I have been doing link retention/alive/indexing checks on SER, SERE and RX to see what option will be better for my new strategy. SERs link retention is around 40-50% depending on platforms with an index rate of around 60% and the alive status of the links seems to change too much to get any actionable data so I am looking to drop all SER contextuals from future projects. SERE/RX have almost identical stats with around 85% link retention, 80% indexing and over 90% success on alive checks. I prefer SERE as its much easier to set up continuous campaigns rather than having to constantly rebuild projects every day in RX so I am looking at SERE for my automated contextuals now.
- With so many changes to my old method being implemented, I have decided that my old strategy of choosing a bunch of low comp keywords, target one per page and blast automated links at them all is now inefficient due to captcha costs. I have changed my money site strategy to have a site with around 50,000 words of informational content (number is totally chosen at random, nothing to back up this is a good number) and one to five money pages I intend to rank.
- I have reread a few of Robert Greene's books along with reading a few new books by a number of writers.
- I set up a fill bridge network to automate posting to with SER but screwed up and accidentally blasted it so I have rebuilt a new one with 25 domains that I will post everything to manually and then outsource the posting in the future if it works. I really think this is the way forward with tiered link building now. The network I accidentally blasted correlates to a 7% increase in traffic to the money site domain targeted.
- Still got a touch of depression so I have no real plans to return to blogging regularly on my personal blog and find it hard to stay motivated so I have been playing a load of Hearthstone to pass the days while domains age in to see what happens.
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I set up a fill bridge network to automate posting to with SER but screwed up and accidentally blasted it so I have rebuilt a new one with 25 domains that I will post everything to manually and then outsource the posting in the future if it works. I really think this is the way forward with tiered link building now. The network I accidentally blasted correlates to a 7% increase in traffic to the money site domain targeted.
that's the hardest part.Still got a touch of depression so I have no real plans to return to blogging regularly on my personal blog and find it hard to stay motivated so I have been playing a load of Hearthstone to pass the days while domains age in to see what happens.
Good to have you back![]()
If you do pick up SC:Remastered we can do a few matches![]()
Indeed, it's awesome to have you back updating your progress.
So, I don't quite get that. Would you mind explaining a little bit more what's that "way forward with tiered link building"?
that's the hardest part.
Indeed, it's awesome to have you back updating your progress.
So, I don't quite get that. Would you mind explaining a little bit more what's that "way forward with tiered link building"?
Bridge network sounds interesting. How are you hosting this?
I will be following this thread. Good luck with your journey.
- domains age in to see what happens.
Nice to have you back @Shaunm - Can't wait for the next update. However i do have a question as an SEO noob.
What you mean by that? Is it likely that the older an domain is the more keywords it ranks for? Thanks for an explanation!
Good luck on fighting your depression but with that attitude, I'm sure you'll get through it!
You always give a interesting adventure.
Thanks for posting a journey that deals with the REALITY of IM, the highs and lows.
99% of journey threads are either thinly veiled sales threads or people that give up and
abandon the journey when things to tits up.