I think I need to move to Russia then, with no taxes. Although maybe not, I heard the government steals your business once it gets successful and threatens you with jail if you don't hand it over. So, maybe not...
@crownvic - you've inspired me to think bigger! I am thinking about the hosting aspect of so many sites. You mentioned you spread it out on a shared accounts. Do you stay with 1 provider or use a different hosting providers for each group of sites?
@InSaNe, are you still hitting sites with just 8k-11k verified links before stopping the campaign? Or do you continue building links to your sites beyond that point?
@Crownvic 20-25 pages per site, how many keywords do you have per site? One keyword per page? Or those additional pages just support one main keyword per site?
@audioguy, I focus on a main keyword, but always have a few longtail kws on my mind. However I don't optimize for them, only use naturally in articles.
@Crownvic So basically one keyword per site. A little more than $1 / day per site (profit).
How do you build links before you found SER? A quick summary of strategy will do, like pyramid, linkwheel, etc. I know, it's not a SEO forum... but I'm curious.
Feel free to PM me if you don't want to answer publicly.
@audioguy, actually some sites do not earn anything, some earn $1-$5 a day, some $20-$50, few ones earn $100-$150 a day. It's a numbers game. You throw it and watch what sticks.
Link pyramids, scrapebox comments, xrumer forum spam. I can't describe details, because I have employees for that.
@audioguy, in the past I targeted buyer keywords, like "cheap widget", "buy widget". But after all Google updates I target solution keywords, like "get rid of xxx", "stop xxx" and build 30-50 page sites around a topic.
I don't look at competitors at all. I build and see if it was a right target.
Not less than 300 exact searches a month. Sometimes even less. These keywords have very high conversion rate, you don't need a lot of traffic. People click ads and buy products if you have a decent-looking site.
80% of links to a main page. That's natural and valid for 90% of sites on the internet.
@Crownvic In your experience, does phrase match domains work better than brands where there's no keyword at all in the domain? (We all know EMD still work, but how about PMD?)
I guess that wraps up my strategy questions.
It's kinda funny I find more big players here than in other seo and money making forums. Thanks again for your time and generosity.
@audioguy, today I register all domains with theme keywords. For example if my theme is "acne" I will register something like acnesupertips.com, or myacnestory.com
However I still use EMDs sometimes. Not that much, but they rank if you build links carefully.
This forum is great :-) Too much noise on big forums. And to much misinformation.
@nicerice - no no, not that busy.. just happy sitting on the sidelines
first project is still #1 and #2 for its keywords, which I must say is still the longest standing one, so maybe I'm lucky with that one. That project was a 10-15page site.
11k link test, pretty much same results as my others.
There are obviously a million variables, but no joke, if you just simplify things and do what I did in those screenshots, most of the time it will work (if you're happy to have a short term domain).
Last week I did a project without even using spun articles! I just pasted some 3-lined paragraph I found somewhere and guess what, it still worked and I'm #6. Hopefully in a few weeks it will go further up...
I'm just finding google an absolute joke if I can do all of this and get away with it.. its hilarious
One more thing, all I know is that my e-mail has been given / sold to some lame marketer. It can only be from GSA, ACW, Lindexed, Berman Hosting or TBS.
1) luckily I use different emails specifically for everything
2) i'm investigating which of these programs gave my email out
@InSaNe - what is the marketer? I bought an account from Berman Hosting for my GSA indexer last week and started receiving some crap emails a few days later. If you find out its them, please let me know.
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i have 3k fresh index
How is that tracking now as we haven't heard from you in a little while?
Also... was this project a simple landing page or was it a 10-15 page site
as you have mentioned earlier in the thread?
Furthermore... how did your 11k link test go as opposed to the 5-8k links you usually do?
I guess you have been busy making money rather than writing here!
I'm really enjoying this thread.
So @Insane, have you drawn any conclusions on the simple 1 page sites with landing pages? Are any of those still working?
Very interesting that this works. Going to try it myself as well.
+1 on Ron's question... did you find that single page landing vs multi-page sites made a real difference?
Thanks again for the sharing... Cheers NR