Hello guys, I've been engaged with SEO and online marketing since 2008. I remember the times where I was able to copy-paste content and rank it without backlinks. My journey started when I took an article from Ezinearticles, changed the title and few sentences and published it to Articlesbase, added my Clickbank aff code into author area. Done! I didn't know much about backlinking nor affiliate marketing at the time. I was experimenting the stuff I learned from forums. This article got into #1 spot in Google and stayd there for two years. This one article made me over $10k within two years. Passive income wihout almost any effort. I used the same strategy with around 100 posts and many of them managed to get into first page of google. At that time it was amazingly simple to make money online. Take an article, rewrite and publish with your aff code. It sounds unethical but what's done is done. It all ended when Google released Panda. My income decreased over 90%, all the articles dropped to nomewhere. I was so desperate but i did not give up. I started building niche sites and experimenting with Google. After few years of experimenting I found my own stregy which works every time for my niche sites and so far none of them has been penalized. Time to give back and share knowledge. This strategy is mainly for low to medium competition keywords. If you work with high terms there's a different story. Let's say you have 5 page niche site. Here's the strategy I would use. 25-50 private blog posts: I mainly build these for inner pages and link each page back to my homepage. This gives you a nice inner power and higher trust rank. You can build your own network or use services. There are lots of them. Make sure you use unique content in private blog posts. Also, make sure you use your main keyword no more than 10% times. Use short questions, LSI keywors and generic anchors. SocialAdr.com: This is a nice social sharing platform which will give you some good links. I use these to diversify my profile and get some twitter and pinterest shares. Web 2.0: I build 5-10 properties with one unique article on each. I then use GSA search engine ranker to build some link juice. Please note these properties does not have any effect if you don't build links to these. You can get GSA links from Fiverr or just buy the program. PAD Submission: I use the service from Fiverr. They build me a software file and submit it to hundreds of shareware/freeware directories. You need to manually verify the emails in order to get better links. That's all, this strategy works for me every time. If you have any questions please let me know! Regards, Rait
Thanks for the revealing share, Rait. You really outlined your strategy well. Is your effort niche specific? For instance, the private blog posts. Are they within the same domain, or do you spread it around to different topics of interest?
Thanks much! My private blogs are general in niche but the content is categorised and written around keywords.
Thats very interesting! You have to excuse me I am new to this, when you write "25-50 private blog posts" do you mean 25-50 separate blogs with a post in each, or do you mean like a few blogs and a then 25-50 posts in these blogs (unique articles with back-links)?
Great post! As long as you do your keyword research right you can rank pretty easily. To add to your list of backlinks, you can also try submitting to audio share sites like Reverbnation.com - PR6 BandCamp.com - PR7 Sutros.com - PR5 YourListen.com - PR5 These are pretty powerful backlinks, and completely free. I got this info from Backlinko. http://backlinko.com/17-untapped-backlink-sources