From $51/day to $0.40, lesson learnt

[Bryan V]

The majority of my sites use the networks you mention here without any issues. Less than 1% of them had drops you experienced. The domains that dropped had multiple page 1 rankings for #1-4 positions. For those problem pages, just adding more links (with only about 10% of those being exact match anchor text) brought them back in a few weeks.

What networks are you testing? I'm waiting for access to TrafficKaboom to test it out.

[rajeshwatts]

Originally Posted by Bryan V

The majority of my sites use the networks you mention here without any issues. Less than 1% of them had drops you experienced. The domains that dropped had multiple page 1 rankings for #1-4 positions. For those problem pages, just adding more links (with only about 10% of those being exact match anchor text) brought them back in a few weeks.

What networks are you testing? I'm waiting for access to TrafficKaboom to test it out.

I am not testing any new networks. I am just testing the effectiveness of each network. For example:

Recently we have submitted 30 spun articles to 6 networks. After one week below is the indexing results we got in Big G:

ALN: 165
ABC: 19
UAW: 332
AR: 9
MAN: 37
SEOLV: 9

We have used different author names in these networks.

[Love2Blog]

Originally Posted by rajeshwatts

Thanks for this reply. The reason I mentioned about BMR is that I was using other networks for very long and things were ok. I have tons of sites and non of them got penalty so far except 3 of them where BMR was used heavily.

I have checked TLD WITHOUT the .com and none of them are on page 1. These days I am testing each and every network by using different and unique author names. So far got good results with ALN. You have not mentioned about it. What are your thoughts about it?

Thanks!
Rajesh

What page are your sites on WITHOUT TLD?

I have tested ALN two times on two sites, so far the results are positive and no issues, but I I use it very sparingly. I submitted a couple of sites to ALN and monitoring to see if I see duplicate articles coming in, so far I have not seen them.

It seems like an important difference between ALN and the others is that they check the blogs and only allow sites with PR, and have hundreds that are PR3+, this at least lets you know there is some meter of site quality where links are being placed, the other networks anyone can submit any site. But, as with anything else, I use ALN carefully and slowly.

Google is very smart, they have waged war on junk links, things like profile links and link bombs, link schemes are becoming easier to detect and trigger penalties, many of which are algorithmic, and so being careful is more important than ever.