I am setting up a project for ranking web 2.0 sites in an effort to start making money off clickbank without spending a penny (as a challenge rather than reluctant to spend - see sig). i had originally chosen GoArticles but because they don't use the words in the URL I am worried about SEO. So what do people who have tried to rank web 2.0 properties think is the best property to 'push', which reacts well to backlinking? Squidoo has reacted well to backlinks in the past for me, so am tempted, I am just concerned that it has so many links away from it that aren't my money making links. EZA doesn't allow affiliate links and so is out of the running. Anyone any ideas?
I have worked with many properties and I have to say that I like squidoo and blogspot most. BTW, squidoo is having some trouble getting indexed these day. I mean, my lenses. I don't know about other people. Also, you might wanna give Wetpaint a try. It's been working pretty good for me in past. BTW, you must be wondering why I didn't mention HubPages. Hubpages is pretty good when it comes to rankings and indexing but it is exteremly hard to get your Hub not deleted by the moderators if you are making some kind of profit off of it. Simple put, Hub Pages isn't easy to use for affiliate marketing. If you need more help just PM me and I will be happy to respond.
Did you try blogger for this? If you use blogger to promote your affiliate link and using the keywords wisely, you will get ranking in Google.
Have you tried with hubpages? I think that is similar to squidoo, however you can get more traffic over there and hubpages are easy to rank even. Apart from that, Google really loves the blogpost.com blogs a lot (As far as it a product of google), so, it is advisable to create a blogspot blog and get backlinks for it (about 200+) and sit back. Make sure that you are delivering UNIQUE + ORIGINAL + more than 300 words content, That will take you forward. I am sure about it. Because, I had got success on that way.
Squidoo is interesting for me. I have written 5 'product' pitches recently on there. 2 got indexed very quickly and rank top 10 with no backlinking - but 3 haven't been indexed despite a fair few backlinks. It is another reason I am reluctant to use them - 'hit and miss' is not something I want to waste my time on I can see the point of blogger but in this instance I am only interested in making seperate pages for each article (SEO reasons and others) since that will be roughly 45 - 60 pages Blogger is unlikely to be of use.
My understanding re Hubpages is the same as laid out above - that is to say they get deleted a bit too easily for my taste. With regards blogger as I said the sheer scale of individual pages I am creating rules it out of the running. (see the link in my sig if you don't understand what i mean, i go into a lot of detail). My suspicion is that I would be better off using a new 'site', lens or article to target a keyword. I only really want to be making 2 articles per keyword - 1 for the article and 1 syndicated for backlinks
For me Squidoo, hub pages and blogger are the best web 2.0 and I am currently doing my backlinks using this hub pages and squidoo.