Nice thread. But personally speaking, I would never do churn and burn for a lead gen site.
I build out huge sites, 300-500 pages big. I fill them with tons of deeply spun, geotargeted content and silo everything neatly.
Then I slowly drip feed network links and usually within 2-3 months they will hit #1.
The one thing I have found from my testing... it is VERY DIFFICULT to hit the #1 spot with a thin site. I've used new domains, aged domains, and I have GSA
on a dedi server churning out 1-3 million links a day. Like your own case study, you didn't even hit the top 3. No offense, but that's where all the action is at. And
if you're going to put the work in.... you might as well do it proper.
You basically cracked #4 just to bounce back to #8. And I don't mean to sound cocky, but I don't see you cracking the top 3 no matter how many crap links
you spam.
I have sites ranking #1 some for 16 months now. The leads just flow in. No headaches. No redirecting. None of the bs.
I forward all the leads to a broker and we collect commissions on sold jobs. If a job sells for $25,000, we get 6-14% depending on the margins.
Also, I'm a bit lost at you're whole redirecting strategy. If you keep redirecting sites the penalty is just going to follow you. It's inescapable and not worth the time.
My only point is, if you really want to make it big in lead gen, do it proper.
Do big sites like the big boys. Use network links and hide those bitches from your competitors. This way your sites last years and years.
Actually, nevermind. I feel like I'm comparing e-penis's here and don't want to take away from the OP's thread.
I'm going to do my own write up on this topic in a couple of days.
