Ranking with manually paraphrased articles - small case study results

tiiberius said:

Looks almost just like technical issue on their end.

How is it doing now?

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Alexion said:

I emailed them and they said until I remove unwanted content, they can't do anything, and they also can't tell me what exactly is wrong.
So I guess it's settled in my case ))

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tiiberius said:

Bing team directly responded to you?

Do you think it's overall or just specific pieces?

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Alexion said:

First of all, I wish to apologize for the lack of rich media. However, even though my presence on this forum is short, I tend to belive I never left the impression I ramble stupid facts without anything to back it off.

This being said, I wish to share my small, personal results in terms of paraphrasing other people's work.

In December, I started a new blog on a fresh new domain, in the tech niche, informational articles.

Since I'm no Tolstoy, and I suck at coming up with my own ideas, I tried something different.
I picked another tech blog that was(and still is) doing fine with his 150 or so articles. All in the same tech niche.

Hand picked about 30 of them which weren't affiliated oriented (none of those best PRODUCT for NICHE in 2022 articles), but information content, basic how-to, why, etc.

I paraphrased the articles completely, line by line.
I did it manually, using my own english, applying a small principle that journalists(some, not all) use, and what healthline has been doing for a while.

I kept the sentences short, or shorter, more concise, no fluff, and made it sound as if I would explain it to my really dumb friend.
But I did keep the keywords, or LSI keywords, or long tail variants the same.
But anything else was differently written, by me, in my non native english.

First week, most of the articles were ranking on page 5-6. I said great, wow, at least shit is out there, who cares on what pages, but they show up. GSC impressions were present as well.

Didn't make much of it, as the intention was to sell it later on this year.

Besides a few twitter and reddit backlinks(for indexing purposes), there was no linkbuilding done, as I suck at that as well.

Ok, here are the results.

First of all, the most impressive part, I shit you not, are the 35 backlinks appearing in GSC, naturally, organically, however you want to call them, from real people. All of them on forums, weird boards for reference in a discussion about cpus/motherboards/etc.

As for ranking, out of the 30 articles I paraphrased, 11 of them are on page 1 for the main keyword. More specifically, all of them range between #7 and #9.
Traffic wise, I get roughly around 2,500Uv/month since the last two months.

July adsense earnings(yes, it got accepted into adsense in the first month with just 15 articles) are at a staggering $22.81.

All graphs(analytics, adsense, GSC) have an up trend for the last 4 months.

Theoretically, if I chose to sell this website as it is, I would probably get around $1,000 or so for it.
That translates to $30/article. It took me 10 days to do them in my free time as I also work.

For now, I tell my wife I worked 10 days to afford to pay disney+, netflix, and two prepay sims every month for the next 1-2 years. She congratulated me with a nice tuna salad only she knows how to make. Win-Win.

The moral of the story is, that you can make SOME money just by copying other people's work.
Ethical? No, it's not. Does it work? Very much so.

I could talk about my other project with translated articles from english to another European language I know, but I don't want too much competition over there. This sentence would be enough to get some ideas around.

Working works. It's just a matter of patience, and time invested vs the expected outcome.
For me, it takes about two hours to rewrite 1,500 words. Three hours if I really want to polish it. But two is enough with media included, formatting, etc.

If your english REALLY sucks, I suggest getting Grammarly just for those special touches.
I don't personally use the premium version, just the free one as it's enough.

I'm sorry if I made you think this is a get rich quick scheme, it's not.
But it does bring SOME money on the table, even more if you are smart about it and scale it up.

Don't be afraid of the presumed competition.
From what I've seen in the last 3 years, 90% of that competition completely disappears over time, probably misusing PBNs, etc.

Ok, that's it, sorry for the long story.

L.E. Bing definitely knows what's up. After 2 months and a crazy surge in traffic from bing, the blog vanished from their search engine. So yeah, keep this into account.

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Alexion said:

Yes, you can contact them from the bing webmaster website.
Takes about 2 weeks for a reply.

I don't think it's overall, just specific bits. However, having over 80,000 articles, it's hard to pinpoint which one is it.
They also won't tell you.

If I check access logs, bingbot is frequently checking my pages though, so it doesn't make much sense.

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Alexion said:

Simply submitting links to either subs or hashtags, nothing complicated about it. Solely done for indexing purposes. I do have one do follow link from my own sub reddit, so I don't know how much that counts.

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dlyhai said:

How it works when you use reddit to index your website?

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Captain bd said:

So if i take an article, rewrite with quillbot, edit it, add more info, add images and videos, write few sentences with my own. Will it work?

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Alexion said:

I have no idea, never used quillbot, it's not what this is about.

But you can try, why trust some stranger over the internet? Check for yourself. Worst case, you'll learn something.

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Captain bd said:

The fact is manual paraphrasing takes time although it should be quite unique.

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Kinu Actaz said:

For example if I had to write an article about a keyword.
I would write the introduction and answer paragraph myself (this is because I choose low competition keywords in the form of questions that are not answered properly, ranking articles don’t have exact title and they are out of context)
No tool can help you in this case because tools scrap data from already available sources, if a question is not answered anywhere on google, how can copy pasting or AI writing or paraphrasing work?
After 50 words intro and 100 words answer target I copy related headings along with their answer paragraphs then paste them directly into my WP editor, when it crosses 1000 words I copy the whole content (exept answer target created by me) then paste into Quillbot then copy the whole output and paste it again under my answer.

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dlyhai said:

Did you build any backlinks for your site?
10K traffic per month just from 15 articles?
What quillbot mode do you

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Kinu Actaz said:

No backlinks.
I accidentally bought an aged domain (Google says it was first indexed 10 years back, although it doesn’t have any backlink but my site never been into sandbox, I didn’t face any indexing issue, 10k traffic achieved within 6 months)

I also confirmed the age of my domain in wayback machine.

I think domain age matters, not much but a little bit.

Keywords were also low competition. By luck, I found a keyword that brings 5k UVs per month alone.
I have never found such kind of keyword again

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blackbeans said:

First, thanks for sharing your journey into paraphrasing or rewriting content.

Content rewrites do work.

But as you said, it boils down to keeping the target keywords.

It also boils down to having the right structure.

A lot of people are under the impression that if they're going to rewrite somebody else's informative content, they basically have to change everything.

Get all the information but put it in completely different words and structure, and nearly throw out the baby with the bath water.

Thank you for highlighting the fact that the foundations of the source content have to be there, and just as importantly, the focus should be on the end user.

As you said, paraphrase the text as if you are explaining information to a friend.

And this is crucial because until people don't step into the shoes of the person they expect to read their content, they will be rolling the dice.

Some of their content will rank really well.

Others will go nowhere.

But suppose online publishers took more control over the process of addressing search intent to ensure that they produce content that gives the readers the experience they're looking for.

In that case, they are more likely to be rewarded with better rankings.

This is good stuff.

I like the quality guidelines you laid out: short, concise, and to the point.

Also, my personal approach to PAA content is to focus on the main keyword that the article as a whole is targeting.

This sets up an "umbrella" for the wide range of related questions you can put into the article.

Also, you can't ramble about each answer because you're trying to write only a snippet.

You're shooting to directly answer while simultaneously putting in a call to action to get the reader to read the rest of the article.

This takes much trial and error, but it can and is being done.

The key is to terminate that search.

Don't let that reader click the back button.

Anyways, thank you for this awesome share.

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blackbeans said:

First, thanks for sharing your journey into paraphrasing or rewriting content.

Content rewrites do work.

But as you said, it boils down to keeping the target keywords.

It also boils down to having the right structure.

A lot of people are under the impression that if they're going to rewrite somebody else's informative content, they basically have to change everything.

Get all the information but put it in completely different words and structure, and nearly throw out the baby with the bath water.

Thank you for highlighting the fact that the foundations of the source content have to be there, and just as importantly, the focus should be on the end user.

As you said, paraphrase the text as if you are explaining information to a friend.

And this is crucial because until people don't step into the shoes of the person they expect to read their content, they will be rolling the dice.

Some of their content will rank really well.

Others will go nowhere.

But suppose online publishers took more control over the process of addressing search intent to ensure that they produce content that gives the readers the experience they're looking for.

In that case, they are more likely to be rewarded with better rankings.

This is good stuff.

I like the quality guidelines you laid out: short, concise, and to the point.

Also, my personal approach to PAA content is to focus on the main keyword that the article as a whole is targeting.

This sets up an "umbrella" for the wide range of related questions you can put into the article.

Also, you can't ramble about each answer because you're trying to write only a snippet.

You're shooting to directly answer while simultaneously putting in a call to action to get the reader to read the rest of the article.

This takes much trial and error, but it can and is being done.

The key is to terminate that search.

Don't let that reader click the back button.

Anyways, thank you for this awesome share.

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