Hey Everyone,
Thought I would do an update, reply to some posts, and then talk about moving forward.
UPDATE
Site continues to do well. Traffic continues to climb. Here are the daily averages, split by month:
April: 6 visits per day (VPD)
May: 36 VPD
June: 65 VPD
YSE crossed 36k backlinks to 36,008. This is after not running a blast for a week. One thing I want to point out is that I think by just blasting and not pinging, it causes all the links to be discovered over time and really helps with link velocity.
Webmaster Tools stats are currently 7,094 backlinks showing up, 145 keywords and 12,000 impression.
Adsense is bringing in $2-5 dollars a day. The way this month looks, the site will being in over $100. If the site can hold, that's an extra $1200 a year for doing nothing.
For keywords, I am holding strong across all keywords. Seen several continue to climb. I am holding strong on my primary keyword at position #7. Would love to see some upward movement on that, but I will take a solid 1st page listing any day. Just ran a rank checker report against half of the 145 keywords that Google has me associated with and I am on the first page of 38 of them. Just awesome results.
Overall I feel that this experiment was a huge success. I honestly was looking for a sandbox, but that never came. I think it is all do to link velocity and 100% original content. Since the site has paid for itself, I am thinking about setting up 10-15 separate sites and running the same strategy against them. Would love to have an extra $1k in passive income.
QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS
Blasting away thousands of links via SB in a day is totally not safe IMO. It depends on the SEO guru what principle he applies to his campaign. But for me, its better to have a few "MANUAL" submission and commenting vs thousands of backlinks in an instant..
You know, I thought it wouldn't be safe either, but the results from an actual experiment are proving this wrong. There are a lot of myths out there about Scrapebox. This is one reason why I wanted to challenge the myths and prove them right or wrong. If I were building a big money site, I would probably use SB for second tier links posting pages on authority sites.
One reason why it might be unsafe is people will run one blast, ping the links, and then do nothing. No new content, no new links, etc. If Google sees a spike in links from pings, then nothing, that is a HUGE red flag. My advice to everyone is to try it on a dumbie website and see for your self.
Still following this thread to know whether it can calm down the claim that massive SB blast is very dangerous
I really hope it does calm down fears. People get analysis paralysis quite frankly. They need to just go out and try. 90%+ of the people on this website read and read, but don't just start somewhere. When starting out, you will fail. You have to learn to turn failure into a tool. You learn so much more through failure than you do success. If you learn from your failure, then you will never truly fail.
Yep, i also want to know please
Check above for latest traffic stats. All the traffic is organic, with probably 85% of that coming from Google.
Hehe I'm really interested in the effect of your technique to your ranking/number of indexed pages/% of backlink that will stick etc etc. If it won't too much to ask I would like to see the URL and check a few points myself.
But yeah, you're right you shouldn't post the domain here, there are trolls around and I bet some don't even have ScrapeBox lol.
Give send me a message on Skype at joshua.thompon and I'll show you the site. You can come back on here and verify for me.
bfellow,
SHARE THE DOMAIN !
It would be cool, so anyone who reads the thread and wants to support the cause would just load SB and blast away. More horse power. it will be like the 1st experiment but enhanced.. and then whe see how long this baby holds up =]
I'd like to, but I think I will only share it in private with a few people who I can vet out first. Like a lot of people have said, there are to many trolls out there just waiting to screw something good up for the fun of it.
MOVING FORWARD:
So moving forward, I think I am going to leave the current site alone and see where it goes over the course of June. If it is still ranking high, that is a big plus for the massive blast strategy.
I have also decided to start a brand new site and let in two or three people who will promise to report back and verify results as the experiment is going on. If you are interested in being a monitor, please send me a PM.
I am putting the finishing touches on the website on the Scrapebox list website I am launching. I'll also be posting free tutorials and a 'mail bag' section to answer questions. I am looking for a few people to purchase a deeply discounted list (80% off) in exchange for testimonials. PM me if interested.
Thanks everyone!