Any ideas on how to improve the organic search ranking for an Amazon Affiliate Autoblog? The site has over 7700 pages indexed in google but having trouble ranking for the sites domain name itself. It only gets as high as #1 on the 2nd page for the domain name, even though Google Webmaster Tools says #10 on 1st page is the average...I have never seen it on the 1st page on any search I've done. I've also noticed that Google Webmaster Tools fluctuates the number of links to the site...one time it says 263,996 links spanning 21 domains with majority of the links being internally and the next time it says a few hundred...when this number fluctuates I also notice the search rank changes as well...any insight on this as well?
Autoblogs won't rank well now after the most recent update at Google. You need unique content and lots of it to stick on the serps now.
Yes make unique content / BL I sell a lot of old domain name as real PR4-PR3-PR2, pm me for the full list
If you want to research the changes, the updates started in February of this year and it is called the Panda Update. This is being rolled out on a schedule, so sites with any duplicate content will gradually do worse and worse on the SERPs
Yeah, it kinda sucks. Auto Blogs used to be good but now you need to add content round the clock. Just develop a schedule for posting content and stick to it.
I agree with the above comments. Auto Blogs are dropping like flies. I have a blog about cycling which I started to populate with my own content. When I got regular consistent visitors I monetized it in many ways but mainly with Amazon products. The posts come from two sources. A plugin and AutoBlog Samurai. Unfortunately since the Panda Update my site has gone from number one on Google for a number of keywords to somewhere on page 30. I think if I was starting a new blog I would try to keep the unique content to a premium. Adding a few Amazon ads here and there shouldn't do any harm, should it? Don't take my word on that as who knows what that damn Panda is thinking
Well dwhit, i made a test website on 23 July. It was purely targeting one product at Amazon and i spent an average 10 hours a day on that website. My ranking in Google USA, shot to page 2 and page 1 for most of my keywords. I did intense SEO on my own. Plus, i spent hours creating content and stuff. The down side is that i didnt make any sales at all. But it doesnt disappoint me because my CTR is awesome. So it means that i can apply the same approach to my other big projects, which are for real. I have to launch them after 13 to 15 days. Those new websites are going to focus on different products at a time, so eventually it'll get people to buy things off the sites. The panda update isnt that much of a threat. Just do good SEO and keep working hard. A website is like a baby, you take care of it, and it'll take care of you in the long run. Trust me.