Hey all,
Here are reply's to the above posts.
Hey, first of all: thank you for this thread.
I've got a couple of questions for you and I was hoping you're willing to answer them:
1. I'm not to fortunate, using sb myself. Therefore I decided to outsource my backlinking. However, with outsourcing it's quite difficult to have linkvelocity. Do you think that matters much?
2. Is it neccesary to also blast my inner pages, since I only want to rank my homepage?
3. What percentage of your backlinks carry your keyword anchor text? Or do you use very different/random anchortexts so that you leave no ''footprint''(it may be quite obvious; ten-thousands of links with the same anchortext.
Thanks in advance!
1. Link velocity does matter in my opinion, but it doesn't need to be absolutely consistent because Google will discover the links at its own pace unless you ping the link locations. So if you say get 2 blasts a month off, try to pace those so that they're every two weeks. The goal is to add links over time as opposed to one huge blast then nothing.
2. It looks more natural to blast the inner pages. You should want all of your pages to rank. While a primary keyword optimized on your front page may bring in the most traffic, I'd bet that all long tail keywords combined from sub pages will bring in more. The big thing though is if Google see's 10,000 links to the front page and not one to inner pages, it throws up a flag.
3. I very my foot print a lot. I obviously will target my keywords, but use different combinations around a root word that I want to rank for. Say I sell shoes, I might use "blue shoes online", "Shoes for Sale", "Cheap Shoes Online" extra. Eventually Google will figure out my site should rank for "shoes". Of course if you have a specific keyword you want, i.e. "blue shoes online", then I would use that in about 1/3 of my anchor texts. This should also correlate with the domain name "blueshoesonline.com", a title text that includes the keyword "blue shoes online", meta keyword and description that includes this, along with an H1 on the page. Then have content that contains the keyword "blue shoes online", plus throw that bad boy in the footer "Copyright Blue Shoes Online. 2012 All Rights Reserved". Google will definitely get the drift.
I blasted my website and asked others on BHW to blast it at the same time. My site went from not ranked to the top 2.7 million sites and it keeps climbing every week without doing much else.
Awesome results starcity83! Hope this goes to show others that it really IS possible to only rank with SB.
Wow wonderful thread. Such a great share and experiment.
Past months I've used so much time on creating 1/2/3 tiers before blasting for my mini sites being afraid of big G
Gonna blast a test site to see if I can get same results.
Thanks! Definitely start with a test site. I've done this for long enough now that I am very comfortable direct blasting my money sites, but it's good for people less familiar to do a test site. All my test sites are sites that I can also monetize. If a test goes well, might as well make a few bucks also!
A bit out of topic here but...you said you blasts your site with the kw you targeted. But what about those that are selling AA sb lists? I never see them advertise their sb aa lists like "Selling 100,000 aa sb lists for dog training". Aren't we suppose to use sb for blog comments relevant to our niche?
Hope you get my point.
If you can get comments on to a page that is already associated with the keyword you are chasing, that is all the much better. The problem is that you probably won't be able to find a 100,000 AA lists for dog training. I know it's an example, but my point is there are so many niches, trying to build niche specific lists, especially for resale, would be a very time consuming task. Relevancy helps, but it is not the end all. SB is really 'rank by a thousand links'. While each link individually is worth very little, its the sum of all these links that makes the difference.
Hope I was able to answer the above posts adequately. If you have any questions and comments, please feel free to post and I will answer!