An experiment minght be helpful to you

[Solidsnake]

I also posted the same thread in other 2 forums to also help other members. Lot of work to do but it pays the worth...

I tried and I succeed.....

Last April I started selling clickbank products and I did a small experiment. Since I don't want to spend money on PPC (I am not used to spend money on advertising and promotion), I decided to do it all free..

Here's what I did:

>> I picked a CB product with a very high competitive keyword (around 2M search volume per month)...

>> I posted a review of this product on my blog. The review has 18 tags (highly competitive keywords)

>> I started posting in social bookmarks and forums (around 200 total posts) directing to this page...

>> Sales started to come but those are only from visitors who found my link on forums and social bookmarks - I wasn't satisfied.

>> I created 50 blogs at blogger.com and interlinked each blog.

>> I started writing reviews for this product on those 50 blogs. The reviews I made mostly in 2 to 3 paragraphs with one keyword (each review) pointing to the main review page (my blog). I made different reviews for all those keywords on tags of my main product article. I made countless reviews with hyperlinked keywords.

>> The main review page on my blog (as the beneficiary of all those reviews) was easily moving it's position on google and hit the 3rd place on 1st page this month (with the main keyword)

>> This page alone is making 5 to 8 sales per day... 1 sale = $32 commission...

What do you think of this process... Do you think it is good? I don't consider it spamming because the reviews I posted on this 50 blogs are all sensible and useful...

I never spent any penny (of course blogger is free) and in addition, I earned more than $300 from these 50 blogs since I started doing it (purpose is for backlinks and not for adsense)... not a big amount but the main point here is the ranking of my main review page... which got PR 2 in latest PR update... some of those blogs got PR1 and 2 too...

Have you tried doing this? If not yet and you have time, you may start now.....

[Kevin Williams]

A little spammy but I've seen much worse and I'm glad it's working for you, keep it up!

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by spire8989

A little spammy but I've seen much worse and I'm glad it's working for you, keep it up!

One link per review article I think is not spam....

I don't think google has any problem with an article containing too much links.. otherwise, wikipedia didn't exsist..

[Anees]

Congrats Solid for sharing your success.

I have few questions.

1. Did you create 50 individual blogs or added them in your main blog
2. In how many days you created blogs - 1 blog per day or 2 per day
3. Was blog creation consistent or with gaps of few days
4. How many words the main blog has and precedent 50 blogs
5. How many social bookmarking sites u used - 50, 100, 200 or more
6. Did you bookmark all your 50 blogs or only just main blog

I think answers to these questions will help follow warriors to understand your blogging much better.

Thank you.

Anees

[Tom Brite]

Glad to see its working for you however next time instead of just using blogger.com as the patform for those blogs you should try using different things such as blogger, squidoo, knol, hubpages etc etc and interlink them.

Thus you are then getting less backlinks from each property but they are all from different main url's and ip's... giving you a bigger boost and meaning you don't really need to make 50+ blogs.

Tom Brite

[Solidsnake]

1. Did you create 50 individual blogs or added them in your main blog
All 50 blogs are created individually with individual blogspot subdomain. My main blog is wordpress with its own hosted domain.

2. In how many days you created blogs - 1 blog per day or 2 per day
Around 2 months time. Sometimes 1 per day, sometimes 3.

3. Was blog creation consistent or with gaps of few days
There were days of 0 blog when extremely busy. See #2

4. How many words the main blog has and precedent 50 blogs
Main article has around 400 to 500 words. All posts in 50 blogs have an average of 2 paragraphs.

5. How many social bookmarking sites u used - 50, 100, 200 or more
All listed in my sig. Around 120. And I only submitted the main article once in each SB. Did not do any submissions for 50 blogs since articles there are not really for public viewing. I mean, not real articles. Some opinions, suggestions, comments, and others are just simple remarks.

6. Did you bookmark all your 50 blogs or only just main blog
No need to bookmark for everything is inside my blogger/google account. But of course I make a single page html where all blogs are listed for easy access.. for personal use only when I want to view them fast.

Hope the above answers help..

I am really sorry but I can't reveal any of those blogs to protect my keyword. But of course if someone finds any of these it doesn't matter because he might don't have any idea regarding this thread. There is no links to those blog from my main article blog.

[Anees]

Great help! Thanks for sharing on WF for fellow warriors!

By the way, when u start seeing the sales pouring in - I mean daily sales?

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by Anees

Great help! Thanks for sharing on WF for fellow warriors!

By the way, when u start seeing the sales pouring in - I mean daily sales?

I had some sales before or right after I created the main article on my blog but the influx of sales came after my page ranked on 3rd spot (3 weeks ago)... People who uses google to find products will surely buy.. unlike those people who just found your sales page by accident.. The main keyword is having an average of 35 to 50 queries per day as data provided by addfreestat... and I think an average of $200 per day on a single product is not bad at all... This is happening for just around 2 weeks now and I am expecting bigger sales when previous visitors decided to buy later.. CB cookies is 60 days so that would be a big help as well.. and refund is real low.

[k998]

Originally Posted by Solidsnake

All posts in 50 blogs have an average of 2 paragraphs.

How many posts in each of the 50 blogs did you do? Just one in each?

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by k998

How many posts in each of the 50 blogs did you do? Just one in each?

Around 15 to 18... remember there are 18 tags in my main article..

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by Tom Brite

Glad to see its working for you however next time instead of just using blogger.com as the patform for those blogs you should try using different things such as blogger, squidoo, knol, hubpages etc etc and interlink them.

Thus you are then getting less backlinks from each property but they are all from different main url's and ip's... giving you a bigger boost and meaning you don't really need to make 50+ blogs.

Tom Brite

I agree with you Tom but the things is, the posts I made on blogger can't be done on squidoo, knol, or hubpages condering their strict rules.. I have it already in mind and creating an acceptable page in squidoo and hubpages needs a lot of thinking... unlike blogger, you can just post it without any intervention...

I don't see any problem actually considering the wikipedia uses the same idea of onpage optimization... But of course your suggestion is really useful and valid and thanks for that..

Raden

[Anees]

Do you mean to say your each of 50 blogs has 15 to 18 post as well (based on your 18 tags in WP)?
i.e 50 x 15 = 750 posts?

Originally Posted by Solidsnake

Around 15 to 18... remember there are 18 tags in my main article..

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by Anees

Do you mean to say your each of 50 blogs has 15 to 18 post as well (based on your 18 tags in WP)?
i.e 50 x 15 = 750 posts?

Correct.. it is difficult to think but easy to do... you can make that 20 short posts in an hour.. like posting here in WF with a hyperlink keyword pointing to the main site... As I said, the posts I made are just an average of 2 paragraphs or under 50 words...

Example:

Just another good find...

I was checking the traffic registered at my feedjit widjet today and a referral from a strange website catches my attention. When I followed the link, it took me to a unique backlink analyzer site. I have never seen a link monitoring site like this before.. Another addition to my bookmark..
I'm pretty sure most blggers will be glad to use this free service.

... I don't believe you can't make 10 short comments like the one above within a day... The keyword pointing to beneficiary site is "backlink analyzer"


PS: sorry for my English sometimes..

[Anees]

I think I just got confused here!

Do you mean 10-20 short "posts" or "comments". Both are two different things. Post is an additional page to blog whereas "comment" is just plain comment visitor writes in the prescribed "Post a comment" form!

What is correct - post or comment!

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by Anees

That's pretty cool!

And the good thing is, no one would criticize what you are writing on your review blogs because you're the only one who see it everyday.. It's just like talking to yourself sometimes.. Whoever read those comments would nevermind if they don't know you anyway..

You are talking to yourself in these blogs while creating backlinks to your sales page..

Is it difficult to do? Of course lazy people would say yes..

[Anees]

Will be waiting for ur response on new comment just mentioned above! Thanks!

Originally Posted by Solidsnake

And the good thing is, no one would criticize what you are writing on your review blogs because you're the only one who see it everyday.. It's just like talking to yourself sometimes.. Whoever read those comments would nevermind if they don't know you anyway..

You are talking to yourself in these blogs while creating backlinks to your sales page..

Is it difficult to do? Of course lazy people would say yes..

[Mike Long]

Congrats on your success, and for taking action!!

The only piece I'm not clear about is this one:

Originally Posted by Solidsnake

>> I created 50 blogs at blogger.com and interlinked each blog.

You mentioned having one link on each blog going to your main review, but when you say you interlinked each blog, do you mean that you also created a second link that went to the next blog in the group of 50?

Also...

...and in addition, I earned more than $300 from these 50 blogs since I started doing it (purpose is for backlinks and not for adsense)...

I take this to mean that you added Adsense to those 50 Blogger blogs?

[Solidsnake]

You mentioned having one link on each blog going to your main review, but when you say you interlinked each blog, do you mean that you also created a second link that went to the next blog in the group of 50?

All 50 blogs has all the lists of other 49 blogs on their sidebards... Only links at posts were directed to main target article.

I take this to mean that you added Adsense to those 50 Blogger blogs?

Yes, just for people who may stumbled into these blogs..

[shirland]

It seems like you had a plan and you attacked it. It is good to see that it is working for you. Those back links are critical in helping getting your keyword ranked. I learned about a tool this week that tell you how many web pages and back links that are going to your site, Yahoo Site Explorer.

[k998]

Hey solidsnake - just wanted to say thank you for posting your experiment. It's spurred me on to try a few things and now that's given me a new lead as well.

Cheers
K

[TerryG]

I enjoy reading this sort of stuff. It is definitely inspirational. I use article spinners for my posts. I do about one thousand and then schedule each one about twenty hours apart. Therefore new content is being added to my feeder blogs every day.

You hit the nail right on the head when you say your talking to yourself and building backlinks at the same time.

The one tip I got from you here is to have all the other blogs in the side bar linking. I would probably do that under each post but that was a very good tip. Thanks and good on you for your success.

[Anees]

I think I just got confused here!

Do you mean 10-20 short "posts" or "comments". Both are two different things. Post is an additional page to blog whereas "comment" is just plain comment visitor writes in the prescribed "Post a comment" form!

What is correct - post or comment!

[Mike Long]

Originally Posted by Anees

I think I just got confused here!

Do you mean 10-20 short "posts" or "comments". Both are two different things. Post is an additional page to blog whereas "comment" is just plain comment visitor writes in the prescribed "Post a comment" form!

What is correct - post or comment!

I'm 99% sure that he meant "post". Because these posts are extremely short (probably 100 words or less), they seem more like comments than a full blog post - hence the use of the term at one point.

SS can confirm, but I'm willing to bet that the "comment" term in that one post above was just in reference to the size of the posts you need to make.

[Crafty Blogger]

Thanks for sharing your experiment SolidSnake. I'm pretty new to all this internet marketing and have focused mostly on adsense up until now, but I know it could all go away suddenly with a ban. I've never really understood how to make ClickBank work up until reading your post. I'm definitely going to start looking at it more seriously now!

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by Mike Long

I'm 99% sure that he meant "post". Because these posts are extremely short (probably 100 words or less), they seem more like comments than a full blog post - hence the use of the term at one point.

SS can confirm, but I'm willing to bet that the "comment" term in that one post above was just in reference to the size of the posts you need to make.

Sorry for confusion... everything is post and not comment (to make clear)...

[aboutusnow]

@Solidsnake,

Concerning the 50 bloggers you setup:

1. Were they all under one account? I already have 4 or 5 setup under mine, but just didn't know if Google would care about my bloggers linking to my other bloggers? Does this make sense?

2. Were the blogger subdomains you setup SEOd in any way with particular keywords as the subdomain or such?

I appreciate you sharing this information. It sure does give people a sense of direction instead of just flailing around.

[Solidsnake]

@aboutusnow

Concerning the 50 bloggers you setup:

1. Were they all under one account? I already have 4 or 5 setup under mine, but just didn't know if Google would care about my bloggers linking to my other bloggers? Does this make sense?

All under 1 account. There is no problem interlinking for they are all in separate subdomains..

2. Were the blogger subdomains you setup SEOd in any way with particular keywords as the subdomain or such?
All subdomains are good keywords.. even longer keywords with high search volume..