Web2.0 carnage...What a day!

hey, i was planing to do the same experiment, but thanks to you. i'll wait for result.

ComputerEngineer said:

these are all futile and waste of time things to me

i think what only works is now real referral traffic links

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I didn't say this was the only thing I was doing. I have also created videos, PDF's, submitted images, articles, etc but only used my brand+keyword in all of them - no keywords on their own at all.

Only if this fails miserably will I resort to going dark, otherwise I will see how it goes. The problem is that my industry is full of big hitters with big budgets and you have to keep moving to stay where you are are and do a lot more to move further forward. Do nothing and your site will go backwards, however I like the challenge and I'm in no hurry because for me at least, I'll take quality over quantity every day of the week!

Thanks for taking the time to share that, nice write-up.

I'm with you in the changing of the IP thing. Maybe we're paranoid, maybe not.

If the number of sites using Google Analytics (huge, small, and in-between) is any indication, yeah, I think G can see what sites we visit if they care to look. That's why I always block GA in my browser. I don't want them connecting the dots.

man, you are one hardworking person!

This reassures me that I'm not too paranoid myself. I use approximately the same strategy but I am too lazy to populate my web 2.0 with that many quality content. I just write one article, spin it manually and use it across my web 2.0s. But still, most of my sites are not built to last more than a year.

GL!

nad999 said:

man, you are one hardworking person!

This reassures me that I'm not too paranoid myself. I use approximately the same strategy but I am too lazy to populate my web 2.0 with that many quality content. I just write one article, spin it manually and use it across my web 2.0s. But still, most of my sites are not built to last more than a year.

GL!

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Even so, I think if you spin your article manually then you will be ok. I just don't like the mass produced "everyone's favourite" option in The Best Spinner which people are encouraged to do as it just produces nonsense. If you are going to spin, then spin at the paragraph or sentence level, that way you will get a readable document. As I say, I have no evidence that G can read sentence structures, etc but doing it right now will save you a ton of work in the future if they develop the technology to do so.

Quick update: Now populated 27 of my web2.0 sites with content and would have only had 4 to go if I hadn't created 7 more today so I now have 11 more sites to populate and I now have 81 web 2.0s in total but that is my lot! I will be honest, once I have populated them all, I intend to only update about 25 of them on a regular monthly basis and the other 56 or so will stay as they are. Every one of the sites has at least one post and even the newer ones that I did yesterday have a post which is a minimum of 800 words long with images/video and 'about us' pages so they are still pretty good. Some of my older sites have over 20 posts on them so I'm not worried about G 'outing' them.

I'm tired - this has been a lot of work (and I tend to work in mad spurts) so that is it in terms of updating or adding new content for at least a couple of weeks and hopefully they should germinate in G's index.

I'm in the same boat as you, OP. Past week has been continuous writing articles, creating web 2.0's, writing articles for PBN's and so on. The niche I'm writing for is for something I have absolutely no interest in nor any knowledge in, it's just what my client's niche is. Outsourcing would be too expensive so I figure I just do all of it. There's times when I think my job qualifications don't justify all this manual labor. After hours of writing stupid, worthless articles that nobody is going to read I feel like I'm really doing nothing productive.

Of course after a hard days of work I throw them into GSA SER, create multiple tiers for them, wait a week or two and see great results. Then I figure that I haven't actually wasted my time. And then I do it all over again. Eventually I'm going to outsource all this dirty work but for now- you gotta do what you gotta do.

Do you bother to send some fake traffic to your web 2.0s and maybe a few social signals to make them seem a little more legit?

koolkake said:

I'm in the same boat as you, OP. Past week has been continuous writing articles, creating web 2.0's, writing articles for PBN's and so on. The niche I'm writing for is for something I have absolutely no interest in nor any knowledge in, it's just what my client's niche is. Outsourcing would be too expensive so I figure I just do all of it. There's times when I think my job qualifications don't justify all this manual labor. After hours of writing stupid, worthless articles that nobody is going to read I feel like I'm really doing nothing productive.

Of course after a hard days of work I throw them into GSA SER, create multiple tiers for them, wait a week or two and see great results. Then I figure that I haven't actually wasted my time. And then I do it all over again. Eventually I'm going to outsource all this dirty work but for now- you gotta do what you gotta do.

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I hear your pain...I actually don't mind writing about my niche because I have worked in it for many, many years but I know what you mean...It is a grind. Best way to think about it is that 90% of the people will read this stuff, think it's a good idea and then do nothing about it and that's where people with a good work ethic will win out in the end.

wi11iam said:

Do you bother to send some fake traffic to your web 2.0s and maybe a few social signals to make them seem a little more legit?

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I haven't yet but if any of the platforms looked at my sites, they would be hard pushed to 'out' them as not being legit. The other point is that I'm not going to get away with this on every platform but that's another reason why I have created a lot - a few of them may get cut but as I said earlier, I will probably only regularly update 25ish with good, original content. Check out BassTrackerBoats on here, (no,he doesn't pay me to say this stuff!) he really is the real deal when it comes to creating content and he talks a lot of sense about making sure your web2.0s are treated just like your moneysite.

Looking for your results

hmeister said:

I hear your pain...I actually don't mind writing about my niche because I have worked in it for many, many years but I know what you mean...It is a grind. Best way to think about it is that 90% of the people will read this stuff, think it's a good idea and then do nothing about it and that's where people with a good work ethic will win out in the end.

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Yeah that's true. I actually just landed another client after writing that post within the same niche which requires 20+ new articles. So I broke down and went to the content section in BHW and bought 30 articles. It's all about time management vs monetary cost