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And proof that tiered link building is still very effective. Tiered links are second only to PBN links when talking about links you build yourself, not those you acquire naturally.
[TUTORIAL] How To Beat Panda 4.0 & Penguin With Pure Link Spam & Duplicate Content
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And proof that tiered link building is still very effective. Tiered links are second only to PBN links when talking about links you build yourself, not those you acquire naturally.
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ezlivin
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I have found the best way to do things is have a few long term authority type projects and then a bunch of churn and burn sites, that way you get the benefits/drawbacks of both at the same time
I totally agree with this strategy Matt. Thanks for the great post!
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It takes a bit of effort but its worth it.
I'm testing a new process right now trying to automate as much as possible! The only things that need to be done manually is once a month schedule a months worth of content adding external links, pretty images from Canva and thats it.
Everything else is automated - we'll see how it goes though
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Looks good Always love your stuff.
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No worrys - there will be a rankings update soon the site survived the latest updates
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October 8th Rankings & Earnings Update - After Panda 4.1 & PBN Google Updates
It's been few months since I last checked in on Mathew's blog and summer is well and truly over. During which we've seen yet another Panda update (4.1) as well as a full frontal manual attack by Google on PBN's. There are also rumours of Penguin just around the corner.
With regards to the case study site I am pleased to say it's still sticking. July saw its best month ever making over $1300 although it quietened down in August and September to closer to the $600 mark. This month is looking good so far so we'll see how it pans out.
Looking at the stats, traffic has started to drop a little but overall has remained fairly stable.
Here we can see the last 30 days and the Panda 4.1 roll out. It had little effect. As you can see there was an all time low a few days ago and I thought the site was about to die, but then it bounced back.
With regards to ranking, little has changed.
That makes 43 different tracked terms on page 1.
Obviously these are long-tail, low volume terms. The big money term I got to position 12 with got hit back in May and now ranks in a lowly 88th place.
However the point is the site still ranks, generates traffic and sales. The site has made over $7000 to date, with over $5300 coming from one product alone.
Not bad for the work I put in. In fact I have spent more time blogging about it than it took to build it!
I still continue to build links to the site and have started a new push in anticipation of the next Penguin release. It will be interesting to see what happens.
If it is hit, I will duplicate the site onto a brand new domain, 301′ing the old one to it to see what happens.
Either way, I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, good luck and stay focussed.
It's been few months since I last checked in on Mathew's blog and summer is well and truly over. During which we've seen yet another Panda update (4.1) as well as a full frontal manual attack by Google on PBN's. There are also rumours of Penguin just around the corner.
With regards to the case study site I am pleased to say it's still sticking. July saw its best month ever making over $1300 although it quietened down in August and September to closer to the $600 mark. This month is looking good so far so we'll see how it pans out.
Looking at the stats, traffic has started to drop a little but overall has remained fairly stable.
Here we can see the last 30 days and the Panda 4.1 roll out. It had little effect. As you can see there was an all time low a few days ago and I thought the site was about to die, but then it bounced back.
With regards to ranking, little has changed.
- 15 #1 spots
- 10 #2 and #3 spots
- 18 rest of first page spots
That makes 43 different tracked terms on page 1.
Obviously these are long-tail, low volume terms. The big money term I got to position 12 with got hit back in May and now ranks in a lowly 88th place.
However the point is the site still ranks, generates traffic and sales. The site has made over $7000 to date, with over $5300 coming from one product alone.
Not bad for the work I put in. In fact I have spent more time blogging about it than it took to build it!
I still continue to build links to the site and have started a new push in anticipation of the next Penguin release. It will be interesting to see what happens.
If it is hit, I will duplicate the site onto a brand new domain, 301′ing the old one to it to see what happens.
Either way, I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, good luck and stay focussed.
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If you wanna beat Panda and Penguin then you need to update your plans and over all strategy every week according to Matt tweets and Google updates. Its a quite good strategy but active until next Google update. BTW I'm a regular follower of your blog MW which is just superb to read again and again.
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Nick is in charge, check OP
So far this strategy has beaten Panda 4 and Panda 4.1 - we'll see what happens with the Penguin update that is due!
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interesting.I always like your work.
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Has this been tried on multiple sites with the same results? Or is it all based upon a single website?
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November 20th Rankings & Earnings Update (After Penguin 3.0)
First off, sorry for the late update, there is a good reason for this I promise. I became a father again just days after Google released their last update, so I have been up to my eyeballs in new born duties and sleepless nights. In fact as I write, I have a baby asleep on my chest!
To answer everyone?s question, yes the site got hit with the last Penguin update. It got hit hard. This came as no surprise and I had been anticipating it for a while.
You can see when it hit traffic just disappeared, all but a bit of Bing and Yahoo. RIP.
Recovering The Site Was Easy
Once I realised the site was over, I set about with the next phase. This was to take a fresh domain that I had prepared a few months back and clone the old site on to it. For this I used a WordPress plugin called Duplicator.
It?s the best plugin I have found so far and makes site cloning a breeze. Prior to the cloning, I did a fresh WordPress install and used some highly unique spun copy in a related niche. This allowed the site to become indexed. This is not necessary but will speed up the process that follows.
Once this was done, I set up a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new one. There are a number of ways to do this, the simplest being to set it up using the Cpanel redirect function or to edit the .htaccess script for the old site.
Make sure it?s a 301 and nothing else. Don?t forget to redirect both www and non-www versions. You will find plenty of guides online showing how to do this so don?t panic if you don?t get it.
Once the site was cloned and the redirect was in place, it was just a waiting game.
Luckily it was not too long?
You can see that Google picked up the power of the redirect very quickly and began to send traffic to the site within days.
It caught me off guard when I received a sale alert just 48 hours after the switch over.
As you can see the traffic started off quickly at about a 3rd of what it was. Since then I began to build links using GSA to the new domain, but at a slower rate of a handful a day.
I had been talking to a friend about the sites progress and I sent him some links to see. At this point I had not built many links, but he was like hey man, there are 1000?s of links pointing to the site. Confused, I fired up Ahrefs again to discover this on the non-www version:
At the time it was about 1200 domains but they have started to decay now. At first I thought it was a negative SEO attack but upon closer inspection it was lots of links with Chinese anchors built to non-existent pages.
It did not have the signs of an attack and just seems like a random event. The site wasn?t even ranking at the time.
I am not sure what effect these links are having, but the reality is I am building links like this anyway so it doesn?t really matter.
Results So Far
The site is starting to do a lot better, you can see from the traffic chart that there has been uplift in visits and in the last 2 days about 4 sales have dropped in. This is due to a recent uplift in ranking.
So far the site has:
41 page one terms
29 Position 5 or above
Its still not where it was but it is certainly getting there. The new site has made $200 since launch and is gathering momentum as it gains rank.
First off, sorry for the late update, there is a good reason for this I promise. I became a father again just days after Google released their last update, so I have been up to my eyeballs in new born duties and sleepless nights. In fact as I write, I have a baby asleep on my chest!
To answer everyone?s question, yes the site got hit with the last Penguin update. It got hit hard. This came as no surprise and I had been anticipating it for a while.
You can see when it hit traffic just disappeared, all but a bit of Bing and Yahoo. RIP.
Recovering The Site Was Easy
Once I realised the site was over, I set about with the next phase. This was to take a fresh domain that I had prepared a few months back and clone the old site on to it. For this I used a WordPress plugin called Duplicator.
It?s the best plugin I have found so far and makes site cloning a breeze. Prior to the cloning, I did a fresh WordPress install and used some highly unique spun copy in a related niche. This allowed the site to become indexed. This is not necessary but will speed up the process that follows.
Once this was done, I set up a 301 redirect from the old domain to the new one. There are a number of ways to do this, the simplest being to set it up using the Cpanel redirect function or to edit the .htaccess script for the old site.
Make sure it?s a 301 and nothing else. Don?t forget to redirect both www and non-www versions. You will find plenty of guides online showing how to do this so don?t panic if you don?t get it.
Once the site was cloned and the redirect was in place, it was just a waiting game.
Luckily it was not too long?
You can see that Google picked up the power of the redirect very quickly and began to send traffic to the site within days.
It caught me off guard when I received a sale alert just 48 hours after the switch over.
As you can see the traffic started off quickly at about a 3rd of what it was. Since then I began to build links using GSA to the new domain, but at a slower rate of a handful a day.
I had been talking to a friend about the sites progress and I sent him some links to see. At this point I had not built many links, but he was like hey man, there are 1000?s of links pointing to the site. Confused, I fired up Ahrefs again to discover this on the non-www version:
At the time it was about 1200 domains but they have started to decay now. At first I thought it was a negative SEO attack but upon closer inspection it was lots of links with Chinese anchors built to non-existent pages.
It did not have the signs of an attack and just seems like a random event. The site wasn?t even ranking at the time.
I am not sure what effect these links are having, but the reality is I am building links like this anyway so it doesn?t really matter.
Results So Far
The site is starting to do a lot better, you can see from the traffic chart that there has been uplift in visits and in the last 2 days about 4 sales have dropped in. This is due to a recent uplift in ranking.
So far the site has:
41 page one terms
29 Position 5 or above
Its still not where it was but it is certainly getting there. The new site has made $200 since launch and is gathering momentum as it gains rank.
You're right that it's not a negative SEO attack, but it's not random either. You're using the wrong settings with GSA; the (Chinese) platforms DedeIMS and Easy Guestbook are causing it, so you need to uncheck them next time. The fact that you didn't know this already is .... disturbing to say the least.
Congrats on the baby BTW!
cashmoney404
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i thought the penalty would transfer over to the new domain? is that not the case?
MatthewWoodward
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No its from the domain that was 301'd to - when it was bought it was already spammed.
Hahaha ^^
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