What did I change in the blueprint?
In short, by applying 80/20 rule I threw away most of the stuff to get 80% of the results.
1) Manually create first tier Web 2.0 sites (no content spinning here).
2) Use SENuke (I still use it) or other automation tool to pepper them with second tier links
(spinning is fine).
3) There's no step three.
Seriously. It's that simple.
Obviously it won't take you far unless you do what you should be doing all along.
PBN.
I developed software that can crunch a few million domains per week to filter out high DA/PA
expired domains that are available for registration.
Mix it with some premium domain and you get a powerful PBN.
I automate a lot of these PBN stuff with devops tools. Thanks for the technology progress, spinning
$5 VPS with a site on there and managing content is very easy (yes, instead of getting a shitty shared
hosting account, it's easier to spin a cheap VPS).
In the next iteration I want to change all the PBN sites to use static HTML and eliminate WordPress
completely. This makes faster sites and less footprint.
In regards to social. I never bothered with social back then and I don't bother with it now.
Maybe I am wrong and this is what's required to take it to the next level.
PS. How you organise your on-page content is very important now. Silos, internal anchor links, etc.
You know the [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]drill.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]PPS. I'll probably restart a blog at some point as nobody is writing about affiliate SEO anymore.
Everybody became content marketing whores.[/FONT]