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2013-09-15

2013-08-25

Building Links With PDF Files And Blogging List

To further build a variety of links, I plan to upload PDF and Word Documents with links within the documents pointing to specific posts in my website. To do this I will extract my EzineArticle posts into a Word file and then convert it into PDF. These will then be uploaded to these sharing sites:

4shared (PDF)
Box (PDF & Doc)
Gazhoo (PDF & Doc)
Gigasize (PDF & Doc)
Zoho (PDF & DOC)
Scribd (PDF & Doc)
Yudu (PDF & Doc)
DocStoc (doc & PDF)
Calameo (doc & PDF)
Google Drive (doc & PDF)
FreePDFHosting (PDF)
Issuu (PDF)
PDFCast (PDF)
Doocu (PDF)
Docuter (PDF & Doc)

I chose these sites because they have an online document viewer where the links can be clicked on. This makes the URL capable of being followed by the Google Spiders. Here is a site with a more extensive list:

http://seoindia-indiaseo.blogspot.com/p/free-ppt-and-pdf-submission-sites.html

So far, this is the steps that I will be taking:

Publish a blog post
Social bookmark a previous blog post
Spin a blog post into 30 copies
Upload one copy at EzineArticles and store the rest. Only use the rest once EzineArticles has approved the post.
Upload the rest of the copies from a previous spin in the rest of the Article Directories.
Social bookmark previous Article Directory posts.
Upload a PDF version of an EzineArticle

There is no specific period to achieve this list. I just do as much as I can but in sequence.

2013-08-23

Secondary Layer Links

After dropping out of ranking last week, I decided to install the Wordpress SEO plugin by Yaost. This is because one of the features of the plugin is to make any page or post no follow, no rank. With this pligin, I made all my storefront pages no follow / no rank and the very next day my ranks rose again. Since I've installed the plugin, I've also revised all my posts according to the SEO suggestions of this plugin, which is another cool feature. This is where I stand today:

My next plan is to activate my Secondary Link Layer. This layer consists of article directories which will have posts pointing to my Anchor Layer only. To achieve this, I will use the article from each Anchor Layer site and publish it in these Secondary sites. Here are the sites I plan to use:

I don't know if I am going to get banned or unpublished for using duplicate content for these sites, but I will remove the ones that do.

2013-08-01

Progress Report And Ranking Plan

So far I am ranked on all of my keywords, with a number of them below the 40 mark. This may not sound great because that means I'm still only on Page 4 of Google, but the fact that I've only got about 15 posts and hardly did much backlinking, I'm still a little satisfied with the results. Here's the graph:

I just read a PDF on linking called Medium to Low Competition Backlinking by Becker from Source Wave. He did mention some good ways of ranking, mainly paid methods but he also gave some free methods too. I'm actually trying to see how far I can go with free methods so that's what I'm going to try.

His suggestion is to do Social Bookmarking on some high PR sites such as:

These are PR 7 and 8 sites. He suggestion to vary the keywords, with a 30% ratio for the main keyword.

Going to try doing this and see if it does any effect to my ranking.

2013-07-22

Initial Backlinking Strategy

I have already got 7 posts in my blog. Almost all of them have been listed but still not ranked. I have seen it ranked on a very minor keyword though.

Social Presence

I have already created a Facebook Page for my website. On this FB Page I will bookmark not just my posts but also articles that I have written for my Anchor Secondary Layer. I am using my existing Twitter profile to create presence for my website posts as well as layers. I have created a Google Plus Page and am using it to create more presence for posts and layers. Lastly, I am using my existing Pinterest account and have created a separate board for my website.

Anchor Layer

For my initial Anchor Layer, I started with Wordpress and have created a blog which I upload unique posts linking back to a single post and the domain. I then created a Blogger blog. What I then do is I spin the Wordpress post and publish it to the same post and domain using a different anchor text. I then created a Squidoo lens and pointed it back to the same post and domain using a different anchor text. I will after that spin the lens and publish it as a hub in Hubpages. I will spin the Wordpress post twice more and publish them in Ezinearticles and Goarticles.

The article will further be spun and used in the following Article Directories:

And Web 2.0 Properties:

Tumblr
LiveJournal
SOSblogs
blog.com
Weebly

Secondary Layer

The Secondary Layer comes in two parts: Social Bookmarking and Article Marketing. The Secondary Layer points to the Anchor Layer only. For Social Bookmarking, I am using a service called WeOnTech which is a paid service that does have a limited trial version.

For the Article Marketing part, I have yet to source a software that can automate the process for me. Don't want to have to go and publish individually because it wastes a lot of time.

After each Social Bookmarking and Article Marketing session, I would ping the Anchor Layer posts using either Ping-O-Matic or Pingoat.

I have done the Social Bookmarking part and have already completed spinning the Wordpress article into 10 others. I have used EzArticleLink for this which I think is pretty awesome. It's not an auto spinner, there is some manual work to be done but it does create very human articles. I will be publishing the articles tonight. Each article will point back to one Anchor Layer.

To keep track of all this I will use this cool excel tool created by Timothy Ferriss, the author of the 4 Hour Work Week: Ultimate Backlink Tracker. To check my ranking for each keyword I use the most awesome free SERP ranking tool I have ever used: WhatsMySerp

My Progress And Link Building

I has been one busy week. From reading more of Pat Flynn's guides to creating posts, I guess I'm pretty satisfied with my progress.

Progress Report

I've already chosen my niche and primary keyword. Using Market Samurai (Trial), I've managed to find a keyword that targets an average 900 SEO Traffic (SEOT) per day and with 37,500 SEO Competition (SEOC). The first page in Google is only merchant websites and Amazon, so it should not be too difficult to rank if I have a beastly resource. With my primary keyword in hand, I've written 50 posts titles to see if I will be able to manage the posts. The good thing is the niche I have chosen is pretty close to a niche that I once had some success with, so I'm pretty stoked. My new website was set up on Sunday, 14th July 2013 and I published my first post. I must admit that wanting to make it perfect this time round I did spend a little too much time with the Theme but I'm really excited about the theme I used. It's called Discover and I think it goes well with my niche. So far I have published 6 posts, 1 per day. In terms of Backlinking, I've not done much. Just one Profile link at CrunchBase and feeding my RSS to Feedburner. To date, my domain plus 2 posts have been listed in Google but it has not been ranked yet. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Backlinking Strategy

I'm still studying the right backlinking strategy to use. Since being hunted and killed by two cute black and white creatures last year, I'm really worried about any Google backlash. For the initial stage, I plan to build Multi Layer Linking. This is where I have an Anchor Layer pointing to my Website and then an Indirect Layer pointing to my Anchor Layer. This is done to protect my website against spammy links. The Anchor Layer is made up of resources that I have full control over. This includes Top Article Directories, Top Blogs and Top Web 2.0 Properties. For this plan I am going to use EzineArticles and GoArticles as my Article Directories, Wordpress.com and Blogger as my Blogs and Squidoo and Hubpages as my Web 2.0 properties. I will need to create a short 500 word article relating to a post on my website, spin it, publish them in my Anchor Layer and point them to my website. The plan is to have only two keywords per article, one to the domain and one to the post. I'm not supposed to use the primary keyword more than 20% for backlinking. If at any time any Anchor Layer resource gets penalized by Google them all I have to do is copy the content from that resource into a new resource and delete off the penalized resource. The Indirect Layer will consist of resources that I have little control over. This includes Mass Article Submission and Mass Social Bookmarking. All these will point to individual posts within the Anchor Layer. This will take a little more writing and I better get to it. Till next time, Tim Kessler

Effective Link Building Strategies

This time it's on a topic which has always got me in a bind. I've always struggled with link building, doing only the most basic tasks and have painfully been penalized for many of them. A lot of wasted time for nothing. Pat in this post gives three very important strategies to make link building effect: link diversity, velocity and deep linking.

Link Diversity

Try to get as many diverse links as possible. These include:

Editorial citations - a mention in a blog or article
Resource links - a mention in a list of links in a subject matter
Web directories - General, Niche or Local. The best being Niche Directories.
Blog comments
Forum discussions
Profile pages
Web 2.0 article directories
Author bios
Image links

Link Velocity

Do not put off link building in big bursts weeks apart form each other. Good link building is done in a consistent pace over time. One good way to do this is to grab the RSS feed from various blogs and feed them into a feed aggregator such as Feedly. Watch for daily posts from these blogs and leave a comment on any new ones for 10 minutes each day. If there is a big list of directories to submit to, break them into little chunks and set aside 10 minutes each day to do them. Spend 10 minutes each day participating in forums.

Deep Linking Ratio

Back linking should not be just to the homepage. A good back link strategy involves a good ratio of deep linking as well. Apart from these three strategies, the anchor text also plays a very important role. The exact match anchor text should be less than 20% of all anchor text. The majority should be branded, partial match and naked URLs. If the brand is an exact match domain, use the URL instead such as www.tinothykessler.com or TimothyKessler.com as the anchor text.

Tactical Link Building

Here are some tactics that I gather from this post which are awesome. I have never heard of these tactics and am intrigued and eager to use them.

Fail Proof Content

It is extremely important to create good content that will be very useful to your readers, and not merely articles to fill up the website. Good content will naturally get linked by readers who found it helpful. With great content, you can begin to market it in a very unique way. First, find the biggest authorities in your specific industry and feed their domains into Ahrefs or Open Site Explorer. Study all the links pointing to their domain. Using their best links, go to that linking website and look for pages that link out to a number of different websites, for example the Resource Page. Go through each of the links and see if you can find ones that have a large number of linking root domains (LRD). You can do this by feeding the URL in Open Site Explorer. If the link with the large LRD is a working page, study their best links for a common theme that you may be able to create content around and get these same links to link to you. If the link is a dead page, use the Wayback Machine to study what was the content that was on that page. You may be able to recreate the content and then get in touch with these webmasters to switch the dead link to your new article instead. Whether those webmasters will link back to your page will large depend on these reasons:

The domain looks spammy
The website is irrelavant to them.
The website is too comercialized
The content is not up to par
They no longer update their website.

But it is still worth a try.

Broken Link Building

Go through some of the best links for a competitors website. Scan through the pages of those linked websites and see if you can find any broken links. Then email the webmaster and tell him you've stumbled on some broken links and ask if he'd like you to point them out. If he says yes, point them out to him and introduce your website or post ans ask if he'd like to mention it. These are some awesome ideas which I have never used which I am definitely gonna put into practice.

Timothy A.D.