How I Got Rich

Link Authority Now Accepting Page Rank 1 Sites

If you’ve got any old domains or sites lying around with a Google Page Rank of 1 you can now add them to Link Authority and earn credits to post your articles to their PR blogs. 

Previously you could only add sites with a PR of 2 or higher but now PR 1 sites are accepted.

Click here to sign up for free today!

PS anyone using Link Emperor or heard anything about them?

Getting Started with YouTube

If like me you keep hearing amazing stats about YouTube like “over 4 billion YouTube videos are viewed a day” and that more and more people are using it as a search engine then you might have had ‘engaging with Youtube’ on your to do list for some time.

Well today I decided to get engaged with YouTube and start creating some videos. Seeing as my sites have been bo****** by Google in the SERPS I thought I should try and do something different to get some traffic.  Using YouTube is nice because you also get a backlink from a well respected site that Google loves as part of the deal. 

So What Did I Do?

Well I have to confess, I bought another WSO (this is starting to become a bad habit) after getting an email from a mailing list I am on.  It was only a few quid and claimed to tell all on how to dominate YouTube or something like that so I thought why not?

The process was very simple and I’ve already manage to upload a few videos. Each video is about a specific product on one of my money sites.  The video description has a link back to the product page on my money site. This means I get a backlink from Youtube to my site plus anyone who finds my video from either searching in YouTube or in Google can find their way to my website by following the link in the video.  And we all know how much Google likes to put YouTube videos on page one of the SERPs.

So far I have been creating videos with a free tool called animoto.com and just using their background music and then adding my images and text. You can view an example video here I did for this blog:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUB69Q9btk&feature=youtu.be

The good news is that after uploading a video into YouTube I did a search in Google for the keyword I was targeting and the video was on the middle of page two only 15 minutes later.

OK, so it wasn’t the most competitive of keywords but it was something people had been buying from my site and searching for to find my site before it got down ranked in the recent updates.  

This looks like it could be a good way to get traffic back that you might have lost from Penguin and/or Panda. A few backlinks and a bit of time could send the video to page one as we all know how much weight Google gives to YouTube videos.

If you want to buy the WSO and get the full guide to creating simple videos for YouTube click here but it really is simple and you can probably get up and running right away. But if you are like me and you need a kick up the proverbial before doing anything then I recommend handing over a few quid and getting this WSO.

Question: have you been doing any YouTube marketing and backlinking and if so does what I’ve said here sound about right?

Bring the Fresh + Profile Backlinks

Warning: this post turned into a bit of a ramble so if you want to cut to the chase the main questions/points are:

• Is the Bring the Fresh forum any good?
• Can high PR profile backlinks still work?
• Is UAW the last (mass) link building tool still working?

Another month, another WSO. I must be getting soft or something but I just couldn’t resist this WSO (Warrior Forum Special Offer) for a $7 trial at private SEO and affiliate marketing forum Bring the Fresh.

When I first started out in this game I got all my information from a forum.  It was the affiliates4u.com forum which at the time was pretty busy and had enough info on there to get me started and earning a few hundred quid per month within a few months. Unfortunately that forum is pretty much dead now which is a great shame as it was a good way into IM without loads of people trying to sell you crap like they do on Wicked Fire and Warrior Forum to name just two.

Bring the Fresh Forum

I’d not heard of the Bring the Fresh forums until recently when Nate from Strayblogger.com recommended them a few times as they drop some potent SEO knowledge bombs from time to time. I was tempted but the price was very high so decided to give it a miss. Then when I saw the $7 WSO trial I decided to sign up.

My Thoughts on Bring the Fresh

I have to admit I wasn’t that impressed with what I saw.  There were the ubiquitous success stories of people earning $1,000,000 in a year and the like but mainly it was people trying to flog their link building services as is the case on most SEO or internet marketing forums. What suprised me though was that the most popular one was for profile backlinks from high PR sites. I thought this sort of stuff stopped working ages ago but in the sellers thread there were loads of good reports from happy customers. Although most people were raving about the service, upon reading their reviews they were only commenting on the service that they recieved like the quick turnaround time and the reports given rather than any boost in the SERPs. But people kept buying the service so it must work, right….?

• Here is a link to the service: http://profilelinkservices.com/

As I am a sucker for new services and tools I have given it a try especially as nearly all my sites have been pretty much killed off by the latest Google Penguin update (more on that in a future post).  Could such a service work in this day and age?  What do you guys think?

Is Unique Article Wizard Still Working?

The owners of Bring the Fresh were selling their own link building package which appeared to be a Unique Article Wizard submission on their accounts.  Everyone seemed pretty happy with the service and most people seemed to be using UAW in one way or another. I still have UAW and am still using it along with Article Builder but am only linking to my Web 2.0s and other tier 1 sites rather than directly to my actual sites.  Is UAW the last link building tool still standing?

Anyway, have any of you signed up to the Bring the Fresh forum?  I think if you had some spare time it would be worth a look as there is a lot to go through and there are some glowing testimonials in the form of success stories but something about it left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe it was the high cost of membership, the high price of the in house services or perhaps it was the smell of money in the air.  Who knows…

Build My Rank Goes Down

I never really used BMR much but perhaps that is good thing in light of the recent news from them that they are pulling the plug on their link building service.

I’m still sticking with Link Authority for this type of PR backlink as it works for now but will be seriously looking at new methods of link building for my sites.

Setting up my own blog network looks even better than before!

Where you using BMR and have you noticed any of your sites take a hit in the SERPs?

My UAW Fiverr Gig

Now, if you read my last two monthly earnings reports then you will know my income is heading in the wrong direction and things aren’t what they once were.

So as a way to try and get some extra cash I’ve decided to try my hand at fiverr.com

I have made a gig for Unique Article Wizard where I will generate some articles using Article Builder and then submit them into my UAW account to build backlinks to your site or Web 2.0 sites. Article Builder doesn’t have every category of article so I will pick the closest one to the niche of you site.

Although there are loads of UAW gigs on fiverr I beleive mine stands out from the crowd a little bit as:

• You don’t have to supply an article.
• You can use up to 10 keywords or urls for each of the two links in the resource box.

Being able to use up to 10 keywords or urls means you can mix up the links and anchor text to diversify your keywords a bit more than you could with a regular UAW fiverr gig (or at least the ones I have seen).

If you are thinking of trying UAW but don’t want to splash out $67 per month this is a cheap way to do so.

To place an order click here now.

Anyone use Get Article Pro?

I recently hired a virtual assistant (VA) from the Philippines via Odesk.com. Her main job is to write articles and then submit them to Unique Article Wizard (UAW). This is quite a tedious process and something I found hard to motivate myself to do so I thought that while I am subscribed to UAW I might as well pay someone to use it for me. The VA said it takes her about two hours to write the three articles and then submit them to UAW with the titles and resource box which contains two links back to my sites. This seems like a reasonable amount of time.

Free Articles from The Best Spinner

I thought I could speed this process up a bit when I heard that The Best Spinner now gives it’s users access to pre-spun articles for free (well, as part of the price you pay for TBS). I asked the VA to check it out but she said there weren’t articles on many topics, especially ones related to the niches my sites were in so it turned out to be a no goer. The Best Spinner doesn’t work on my computer, apparently due to my ISP, so I can’t test this myself.

Get Article Pro

However the VA did suggest I sign up for Get Article Pro which scrapes the web for articles which she could then submit to UAW. It costs $77 a year which if it does what it says on the tin then it will be worth it.

But is this a road I want to go down? Scraping articles, submitting them to UAW for backlinks to my sites?

It certainly would be time saving but would it bring any positive results? Unique Article Wizard seems to be working on some of my sites so I think it is worth using but should I give Get Article Pro a try, what do you think?

Unique Article Wizard: First Impressions

Warning: this post is riddled with affiliate links!

Last week I signed up for Unique Article Wizard. For those that don’t know this is a service that lets you post articles to the blogs and article directories in their network. It’s web based so you log into the site and then enter your article and they do the rest of the work. This might sound pretty simple but their interface isn’t that great.

You can paste in an article in spintax form that you have spun somewhere else, perhaps in The Best Spinner or you can submit an article and two rewrites of that article. This is the option I have used so far and is probably the best for people who don’t like spinning or don’t own any spinning software.

What type of Content can you Submit?

When it comes to submitting an article and two rewrites into Unique Article Wizard the articles and rewritten versions need to have the same amount of paragraphs (seven plus). The paragraphs are then interchanged to make lots of different articles. For this reason paragraph one in each article and rewrite must be on the same topic but written differently. Same for paragraph two and so on. You also need to submit lots of unique titles to help improve the submission rates. For one of my articles I ordered two rewrities of an article I had previously ordered from The Content Authority. This was quite expensive so for the second article I hired someone from Odesk who charged $5 to write a 500 word article and then do two rewrites of it. Both articles got accepted so I guess the cheaper one from Odesk was good enough. Unique Article Wizard also offer an article writing service and charge $9.99 for an article and two rewrites. You could always write them yourself though!

Inserting Links

You can put two links in your article with at least one going in the resource box. This means you can put a link in the body of the text but when I tried this I found that some of my articles had this link removed. For this reason I recommend you put both links in the resource box. You can spin the resource box and the links so you can link to lots of sites and/or pages in one submission.

Submission Rates

You can choose how many times a day you want your article to be submitted. The minimum is 20, I’m not sure what the maximum is but for my articles, so far, I have chosen 50. In the future I think I will do 20 to make it look at bit more natural. It takes a few days for the submission to kick in after you have entered your article but then each day you get an email with a list of the submissions that have been made. So far I have only submitted two articles and both have gotten about 160 submission.

Index Rates

I’ve only submitted two articles so far but for the first article it went down like this:

• Submissions: 162
• Indexed: 95

and the other one went like this:

• Submissions: 159
• Indexed: 99

These are only after a few days of the job being completed so there is a chance more could get indexed over the coming days and weeks. You could always put the URLs of the non-indexed articles into a pinger or indexer and speed things up a bit. A good old fashioned Scrapebox or Xrummer blast probably wouldn’t hurt either.

SERP Movement

I used one submission on a new site and linked to a set of Web 2.0 sites that link to my site. Therefore none of these links went directly to the money site. That site hasn’t moved in the SERPs.

For the other submission I used it on different site. I used one link to link directly to the money site and the other link was spun and linked to one of 10 Web 2.0 sites that link back to my money site. This site moved from #7 to #4 in the SERPs. Although until the recent Google update that occurred mid-October it had been #1 for this keyword.

Final Thoughts

So with nearly 100 indexed posts for each article, and as each article contains two links I got 200 new backlinks to my sites for each submission. This sounds pretty good. But looking at the sites the articles are submitted to, they aren’t the best and if you are not writing the articles yourself it could get quite expensive especially when you factor in the $67 per month subscription fee.

If you have already hired a virtual assistant with time on their hands this might be a good way to keep them busy. Or if you have a cheap source of content who is able to do spinning or rewrites then you could make the most of this tool.

Doing it on the Cheap

One approach could be to write and spin/rewrite a load of articles. Sign up for one month and submit all those articles. Get them published then cancel your account. The articles should stay where they were published and you will have gotten your links and only paid up for one month. You might want to check how many articles you can submit a day and what does happen to your articles once you leave the programme.

I’m going to stick with it for a while as I am using it to try and rank my new Adsense sites but I’m not entirely convinced so far. But the proof will be in the pudding and if it gets my sites ranked and they make money then it will have worked. I guess it all comes down to results and if you can make the most of the tools you are using…

• Link to Unique Article Wizard: http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/

Alternatives to Unique Article Wizard

A cheaper alternative would be the Article Marketing Robot which does a similar job but is installed on your computer and runs from there rather than being web based. It has a much larger list of sites you can submit to but it will take up your machines resources as it does so. It is a one time fee rather than monthly subscription and they do offer a free 5 day trial so go check it out.

Building a Blog Network

So far out of all the link building methods I have tried getting a backlink from a post on a blog with Google page rank (3+) seems to be the most effective. So after being told many times by people like those at Sitey.net it is worth the hassle to set one up I am going to give it a shot. Buying a post on other people’s blog networks is ok but it would be nice to have my own so I can control how long a post stays on the front page for. I could even sell spots on the network to raise a bit of cash. If I was doing SEO for hire then it would also be nice to be able to have access to my own blogs to get links from.

Getting the Domain

This is probably going to be the hardest part. I could either look into getting an existing domain with page rank (PR) and paying a premium or just registering a new domain at the standard rate (about $10). I’m not really sure where to look for existing domains, I have looked at dropped domains but not had much luck. What sort of prices do existing PR3 domain sites go for and where should I look to buy one? When it comes to buying a new domain and then building up a site which might get PR I’m a bit sceptical. I have quite a lot of sites now, some that are over two years old, and the last time I checked only a couple had PR and none over 1. This tells me that it will take ages and lots of work to get PR for a new site. Am I right?

Hosting the Site

This might get expensive too. Each site should be on a new IP I think. So this sounds like separate hosting accounts of at least paying for each site to be on a different IP. How much would this run to? At the moment I pay $10 a month for Hostgator or about £25 a year for hosting for my newer UK sites. Setup 10 sites and it starts to get expensive.

Building the Blogs

I’m not too worried about this as I have access to some pretty good content writers who would be up to the job of writing for some new sites. It could get expensive if I get too many sites though.

How Many Sites in a Mini Net?

So if I build a mini network of blog sites how many do I need? At the moment I am seeing results from posting to about 20 PR3 blogs. My posts and links don’t stay on the front page for long but the results are ok for what I pay, but not amazing. So how many sites would I need to make to get enough links to rank a site? Would it be cost effective? I’m not doing anything too competitive at the moment so there wouldn’t need to be too many sites. Off the top of my head about 20 sounds possible.

Cost of Setting up a Mini Network

• Domain: £7 (if bought from new)
• Hosting: £25
• Content: £20 (starting with 20 500 word articles)
• Backlinks: £50 (the blogs will need their own links)

I think that is about it. So for each site it would cost about £100 to setup, that is if I bought a new domain. There is also the chance that the site doesn’t get PR and isn’t worth anything. It also might make money of its own if I stick a few affiliate links on it (or is that a no-no?).

If you have lots of sites in the same niche this could work out cheaper as you could link to lots of you sites from the same set of blogs.

Anyone got any experience of building a mini net/blog network for backlink purposes? Do my costs sound about right? Was it worth it?

How to Test Backlinking Methods?

At the moment I am still trying to find some affordable and effective link building methods.

In order to test different types of links I’ve been trying different things on different sites. I guess this is one of the benefits of having lots of sites: you’ve got lots of testing grounds.

But testing one service or approach on one site and another on a different site takes a lot of time.

Sometimes I feel I’d be better off if I threw everything at one site rather than spreading it across many sites.

So far I’ve been doing articles one one site, social bookmarks on another, then Web 2.0s on that one and then forum profiles on this one.

All this has really got me though, is small movements on each site. I can’t afford to do it all on all of my sites but I think I’ve been going at it the wrong way.

Perhaps it is time to try everything on one site and then see if it moves before moving on to the next site. I might not know exactly what worked as I tried lots of things but maybe that isn’t a problem? Maybe there is no one or two things I can do that will move my sites up in the SERPs and I should give up trying to find it.

I guess this is the downside of having lots of sites: that you have too many sites to test things on and end up spreading yourself too thinly.

If you are just starting out in this game I recommend you either:

• Limit yourself to three to five sites and throw everything you have at them (time and money)
• Find a scalable model/method/approach and hire someone else to do it on lots of little sites.

Either way, don’t do what I’ve done and end up with lots of sites on page one or two and hardly any at number 1 in Google!

BackBlasts Goes Live

The other day I did a mini review of a new backlinking service I was trying out called BackBlasts.com which you can read here. If you were interested in the service you will be pleased to know it is now live and prices start from $10 a month.

When I tested the service I used it on two sites.

For one site I linked directly to my site and spread the 1000 links a day over three URLS from my site and used four keywords as the anchor text.

For the other site I set it up so that the links BackBlasts created were linking to some blog posts that then linked to my actual site. The 1000 links a day for this site were split over 10 blogs posts so each got 100 backlinks a day.

After about two weeks of this my sites had moved up the SERPS.

Project One (direct linking) was targetting 4 keywords on my site and this is how they moved:
kw1: #8 to #6
kw2: no rank to no rank
kw3: no rank to #28
kw4: no rank to #43

I’m pretty happy with that. It is an old site (~2 years) which never got any backlinks and never really ranked so its good to see it get some exposure in Google now.

Project Two (using blog posts as buffers) was targetting 2 keywords:
kw1: #7 to #6
kw2: #25 to #20

Not a massive jump but its heading in the right direction. Will be interesting to see if this continues.

The blog posts I am using as buffers have no page rank and I doubt the blogs are that high quality so maybe this played a part? Would it be better to point the links to some more repuatable sites like Squidoo or Ezine etc?

Now that Backblasts has gone live I’m going to sign up for the $10 100 links a day package and point them directly to one of my sites as a test. 100 links a day shouldn’t draw any unwanted attention to me from Google should it?

• http://backblasts.com/