The EXACT strategy i use to rank for ANY KEYWORD!

[NickWatson]

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Hi guys,

I’ve seen a lot of talk about SEO and link building strategies lately, and thought I’d chip in and give you guys the EXACT SEO strategy I personally use to rank my own websites.

Using my strategy, you work on only ONE keyword at a time. I work in SEO “cycles” each cycle targets and builds links for that ONE keyword. When the cycle is completed, I target the next keyword in another cycle dedicated to that keyword. The point here is not to target more than one keyword at a time in the same SEO Cycle.

Each cycle takes a considerable amount of time, and although it’s possible to do it entirely on your own I HIGHLY recommend you outsource the work. If you attempt to do everything yourself, you will burn yourself out within a few weeks, and will probably want to give up on IM completely!

So as soon as you can afford it, get others to complete this work for you.


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This is how I get these results:

STEP 1: Pick a keyword

Pick ONE keyword on your site to target in the SEO cycle. If it’s a very difficult keyword, first add a new article to your site. If it’s easy to moderate competition, then this is not necessary.

STEP 2: Creating PROMO Content

Here you need to create all the content you will be using in the SEO cycle.

1. Start with an article related to your niche. This article does NOT have to target the keyword you are trying to rank for; it just needs to be about something relating to your niche. Then add spin syntax to the article (The Best spinner or Magic Article Re-writer works good). If you do not have money to buy one of these, I think there is a free version of spinner chief that will do the job.

NOTE: DO NOT automatically spin this article!! You need to manually spin each word so that the article is at least 60% unique. The idea is that when you generate a unique article, that it is the type of quality you would be willing to put on your website or submit to ezine articles (It must be THAT Good!) An article that does not read easy or make proper sense will NOT DO! (Trust me, I have extensively tested this)

Also remember to spin the title well – multiple titles all spun together works best.

Add two links in the article. Normally my one link goes to the page with the target keyword (The keyword is used as anchor text). My other link is normally linked to my home page (where my site’s main keyword is used as anchor text). Make sure that each time you spin the article the links are left intact.

2. Generate 2 unique versions of your promo article. Use these 2 articles and create 1 PDF file and 1 Power Point Slide show. Remember to add plenty of pictures.

3. Use Animoto, and create a video based on the article. The video must be at least 1min to 2min long. The easiest way to do this is to read the article, and pick a few facts you want to bring across in the video. Then spread the facts over a few text modules and simply add relevant pictures in between.

Remember to watermark your site URL at the bottom of the video.

You will need at least an Animoto Plus account to create full length videos – I think this only costs about $30 a year now.

STEP 3: Unleash the Promo content to the world!

As you submit your content to the various sites, it would be a good idea to copy each page’s URL that you create into a text document. You will be using these URL’s later.

1. Firstly, create a YouTube account and submit the Video to YouTube. Remember to start the video description with the full page URL of the target page you are trying to rank for. Ex. http://www.yoursite.com/target_page.html

2. Create accounts on Scribd and SlideShare. Submit the PDF file to Scribd. Then submit the Power Point Slide Show to Slide Share

3. Manual Web2.0 submission – Create accounts on the following web2.0 sites: Squidoo, Weebly, Wikia, Wetpaint, Wikispaces, Posterous, Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogspot, Zimbio, Skyrock and MyLivePage.

Then MANUALLY submit UNIQUE versions of your promo article to each one. BUT, embed your YouTube video in each, and include AT LEAST one relevant picture.

Sometimes some of the web2.0’s will delete your pages – but it’s still well worth the effort trying to submit to them.

This is probably the most boring and time consuming part of the entire SEO cycle. In the beginning I created a bot using UBOT to sign up to all these sites for me. But now days I got people working for me in the Philippines that take care of this.

4. Blog Networks. There are 8 Blog networks that I submit my Promo article to. Some may require you to remove the links from the body, and put them in a resource box instead. My article is submitted to the following networks: Article Blueprint, Distribute Your Articles, Blog Blueprint, Authority Link Network, Article Ranks, Free Traffic system, My Article Network and SEO Extreme.

5. SenukeX Campaign: I then run an automated web2.0 campaign using SenukeX (“Social Network” Campaign in SenukeX). I use the same Promo article as content, with links in the article body. I DO NOT submit to the same sites I already submitted to manually (Those where the YouTube video was embedded). This normally gives me additional 25 or 26 properties with my article and links.

6. Article Marketing Robot campaign. I have over 15k article directories in my AMR, just got the lists for free on the internet and added them as I got them. Out of these I successfully submit to about 1,500 sites and get about 300 to 400 which auto approve my article.

Again, if you are targeting a difficult keyword then it is recommended to write a new article to blast with AMR. But for Medium to easy competition keywords this is not necessary.

Do not include links in your content body for AMR blasts. They need to be in a resource box. I normally include two keywords in my resource box – one to my site (target keyword as anchor text) and the other to a random URL of the manual web2.0 sites, including the Docstoc, SlideShare, Scribd and YouTube URL’s or an inner page of your site. This can all be randomized using spin syntax.

STEP 4: Strengthen your links!

This part is often overlooked by so many marketers, yet it is absolutely essential to getting results. Do not quit your SEO cycle half way through; else you will be greatly disappointed with your results.

1. Thorough Social Bookmarking campaign. Use SenukeX or Book Marking Demon and social bookmark the following URL’s to all the Social Bookmarking sites:
a. All Manually Created Web2.0 pages
b. YouTube Video URL
c. SlideShare, Docstoc and Scribd pages

2. Quick Social Bookmarking campaign. Again use SenukeX or Book Marking Demon and bookmark the AMR links. This does not have to be thorough. The idea is simply to bookmark each AMR URL on at least three social bookmarking sites.

3. RSS Feeds. Use html2rss.com and add the following URL’s to multiple RSS feeds.
a. All Manually Created Web2.0 pages
b. YouTube Video
c. SlideShare and Scribd pages
d. AMR URL’s

NOTE: Each feed should only contain about 50 URLS. You should have about 4 or 5 RSS feeds after all the URL’s are added into feeds.

Then use SenukeX and submit these RSS feeds to all the RSS aggregators. And use the Pinger module in SenukeX to Ping all the RSS feeds as well.

4. ScrapeBox Blast. Use scrapebox and blast the following urls:
a. All Manually created web2.0 pages
b. All SenukeX created web2.0 pages
c. All AMR created pages
d. Money Site (Only if it is well aged)

I have simply searched the internet for free auto-approve lists. I normally blast to about 60K to 100k blogs.

And there you have it! That marks the end of one SEO cycle, and it means you should get started with the next!

Regarding Accounts, I only ever create new accounts when I start working on a new site. Some sites have 10+ SEO cycles done on them already, and the same set of accounts was used! I always use proxies, sometimes private, paid proxies and other times just free scraped proxies from scrapebox.

I have NEVER EVER had ANY kind of penalty using this strategy. All the sites I received good page one rankings for have stayed there for months and months with no additional work from me.

Feel free to adjust this strategy to your own needs.

Once you have done this a couple of times, one person should be able to complete 2 to 3 of these cycles a week. Each of my assistants in the Philippines can complete 2 cycles a week, and get started on the third!

It’s a TON of work for one person, but if you are willing to put in the work you will definitely see great results. I hope this strategy will be useful to at least some of you.

Remember, if you like the post don’t forget to hit THANKS!

Regards

Nick

!! GREAT NEWS !!

After countless PM's basically begging me to run these SEO cycles for warriors - I have finally caved!

I have recently been training a small team of VA's to run SEO Cycles exclusively for warriors

Read more about it at my WSO thread:

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...r-platter.html
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[JSProjects]

Great post Nick. I love learning about the techniques of others and trying to see what I can fit into my own strategies.

Definitely pressing the "thanks" button.

[vaynah]

Thanks for sharing this bro. I've just started learning SEO and with the launch of my new website this surely will come in handy.

Cheers mate

[nik0]

Did you just copy that from another internet marketing forum? As it's 1 on 1 exactly the same. You only changed the order a little.

[Melissa82]

Love the details. Thanks, for the share!

I will definitely make some alterations to my usual link campaigns.

Urgh, SEnuke would be so nice to have but it's so expensive!

[BlackCrystal]

Great tips. You need backlinks to help you rank for your keywords.

[webdevpro]

Wonderful post. This needs a lot of patience and effort. The hard part is to find the right person that can do the quality work in proper manner and deliver the results on time.

[Morbrook]

I will have to try some one these techniques on my site. Thanks.

[MikeFriedman]

Originally Posted by Melissa82

Urgh, SEnuke would be so nice to have but it's so expensive!

Magic Submitter is better and it is only half the price.

[outwest]

You must be targeting kws with a LOT of competition to go to this effort

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by JSProjects

Good post. It's always interesting to learn how others rank their sites and see if I can incorporate some of their techniques.

I agree. I love to read about other people's SEO strategies...always interesting to see someone else's take on things. And a lot of the time I learn a neat little trick I didnt think of before.

Originally Posted by rjd1265

Thats a lot of reading...Exactly why I hire SEO out...not my cup of tee

Good Luck!

Agreed, thats why i hire a team of outsources to run through this for me...

Originally Posted by nik0

Did you just copy that from another internet marketing forum? As it's 1 on 1 exactly the same. You only changed the order a little.

What forum would that be buddy? No way in hell this was copied from another forum...took me like an hour staring at my SEO whiteboard in my office to write this post out!

Originally Posted by Melissa82

Urgh, SEnuke would be so nice to have but it's so expensive!

Like mentioned elsewhere, it may be worth a try to give Magic Submitter a go. I had both for a while, but I always seemed to get better results with Senuke.

Another option would be to simply pay someone with Senuke to run this part of the campaign for you. Fiverr has got tons of Senuke campaigns for $5...

Originally Posted by webdevpro

Wonderful post. This needs a lot of patience and effort. The hard part is to find the right person that can do the quality work in proper manner and deliver the results on time.

Yes, you are correct...takes time and effort, but in the end it all pays off. The secret about getting someone else to do this for you, is to build a relationship with them. You will never ever be able to get the random freelancer to do this for you whenever you feel like it.

Some of my guys took up to a month to get into things properly...only then, when they become productive does it become profitable.

Also, it helps to spread the tasks over multiple people. Have one person creating accounts, another writing content and then two or three posting the content.

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Magic Submitter is better and it is only half the price.

Originally Posted by outwest

You must be targeting kws with a LOT of competition to go to this effort

Not necessarily...once you get into it, its not that much effort. And the easy to medium keywords rank almost instantly...within a few days...

[NickWatson]

i wanted to mention something about the Blog networks...

I realize not everyone has the money to invest right away to use that many blog networks...but if you can, get started with at least one of the good networks.

Or you could simply pay someone on Fiverr $5 to post your content to the blog network for you...

[Duc]

Hi Nick, thanks for this great post.
I don't have the time to do all this work. You mentioned outsourcing. Can you tell me how much it will cost to outsource one cycle and where I can find good people who can do this job.

Sincerely, Duc

[jordyhill]

This is a thread for subscribing to. Good well laid out content.

Actually, its better than some WSO's I've seen, seriously

Thanks to Mr NickWatson for the share!

[eyefox]

Hi !

I have create PDF of my article and post to Scribd and Docstoc, When I check ranking, the PDF in Scribd and Docstoc high ranking than my article, #2 and #5 on Top 10 and my article is #9 . Should I post on Scribd or not ?

[amarketing]

Thanks for this great resource!

A few questions. How long should these articles be? Also, you say to use spin syntax, I assume that it's OK it manually rewrite these articles as well, right?

For the manual web2.0 submissions, I need to use a unique article for each submission, correct?

Now, for steps 4, 5, and 6, do I need to use a unique article for each step, or can I blast the same article to all the blog networks, senuke 2.0, and amr blast? Should this article be unique from the others submitted to the manual 2.0s, or can it be a non-unique one?

Thanks for the great post!

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by Duc

Hi Nick, thanks for this great post.
I don't have the time to do all this work. You mentioned outsourcing. Can you tell me how much it will cost to outsource one cycle and where I can find good people who can do this job.

Sincerely, Duc

Sent you a pm...

Originally Posted by jordyhill

This is a thread for subscribing to. Good well laid out content.

Actually, its better than some WSO's I've seen, seriously

Thanks to Mr NickWatson for the share!

Thanks a ton, hope it helps some people out!

Originally Posted by eyefox

Hi !

I have create PDF of my article and post to Scribd and Docstoc, When I check ranking, the PDF in Scribd and Docstoc high ranking than my article, #2 and #5 on Top 10 and my article is #9 . Should I post on Scribd or not ?

Yes i always submit to Scribd and Docstoc...im not sure i understand your question though? Did you put the same article on your website? Because you should NOT put the same content on your website, the content you submit to these sites should be totally different.

But anyway, you will always have some of these properties ranking as well...but that is fine, because they get traffic, people click on the links and visit your site too...

This is one of the reasons I DO NOT target my target keyword in the promo content - i dont want the web2.0 properties competing with my site...so just make the promo articles about anything else in your niche...as long as its related to your niche you will be fine...

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by amarketing

Thanks for this great resource!

A few questions. How long should these articles be? Also, you say to use spin syntax, I assume that it's OK it manually rewrite these articles as well, right?

I always make the articles at least 500 words in length, some longer. It would be ok to re-write the entire article as well,but this would take A LOT longer. And if you MANUALLY spin an article you end up with a decent article. Make sure they are at least 60% unique.

Originally Posted by amarketing

For the manual web2.0 submissions, I need to use a unique article for each submission, correct?

Yes, that is correct. Each time you submit an article to a web2.0 property, first spin a unique version of it. Remember to embed your YouTube video and add pictures.

Originally Posted by amarketing

Now, for steps 4, 5, and 6, do I need to use a unique article for each step, or can I blast the same article to all the blog networks, senuke 2.0, and amr blast? Should this article be unique from the others submitted to the manual 2.0s, or can it be a non-unique one?

If it's an easy, long tail keyword I simply use the same article. Thats why you need to make sure it is spun properly. I also write out at least 4 different titles, and then spin then all individually and spin them so it uses on of them randomly.

If it is a difficult keyword though, it's best to have a new article written for submission to these sites though...but you will also need to spin this new article - you NEVER EVER want the EXACT same article going to all these sites...it must always be at least 60% spun content...


Hope this clears things up...

[eyefox]

Originally Posted by NickWatson

Yes i always submit to Scribd and Docstoc...im not sure i understand your question though? Did you put the same article on your website? Because you should NOT put the same content on your website, the content you submit to these sites should be totally different.

But anyway, you will always have some of these properties ranking as well...but that is fine, because they get traffic, people click on the links and visit your site too...

This is one of the reasons I DO NOT target my target keyword in the promo content - i dont want the web2.0 properties competing with my site...so just make the promo articles about anything else in your niche...as long as its related to your niche you will be fine...

Yes,I did .I put the same content with my site. I get some traffic when they click links into PDF file. I create article about coupon product, and use wordpress plugin print PDF file and upload this PDF to Scribd and Docstoc.

This way help my article index very fast, but ranking less than them on Google.

So, how can I put content totally different ? Create other articles related with my target keyword and put to Web2.0 ?

Thanks for your reply !
Thank for GOOD strategy, very interesting !

[lagger]

Good solid write up man, im gonna try it and see how it works with one of my sites.

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by eyefox

Yes,I did .I put the same content with my site. I get some traffic when they click links into PDF file. I create article about coupon product, and use wordpress plugin print PDF file and upload this PDF to Scribd and Docstoc.

This way help my article index very fast, but ranking less than them on Google.

So, how can I put content totally different ? Create other articles related with my target keyword and put to Web2.0 ?

Thanks for your reply !
Thank for GOOD strategy, very interesting !

Yeah but you running into problems with duplicate content there buddy...the articles on your site should be top notch, giving the user exactly what they searched for. The articles you write for PDF's etc must be totally different, and can just be about anything relating to your niche. The idea with them is only to get the link pointing to your site...

Originally Posted by lagger

Good solid write up man, im gonna try it and see how it works with one of my sites.

Good Luck...come back to use and let us know how it worked for you..

[ryuchi]

This is a detailed explanation (which could have been released in a WSO! ) and I must say I am impressed. You have made a good outline in keyword research and I do hope that it will be effective for me too.

My keyword research techniques is not as detailed as this so I will give this a try.

Thank you!
Ryuchi

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by ryuchi

This is a detailed explanation (which could have been released in a WSO! ) and I must say I am impressed. You have made a good outline in keyword research and I do hope that it will be effective for me too.

My keyword research techniques is not as detailed as this so I will give this a try.

Thank you!
Ryuchi

Thanks for the kind words buddy, but i definitely think you should read the post again...its got absolutely NOTHING to do with keyword research. It's actually a backlinking campaign to get your website pages to rank in Google...

[GeorgR.]

This is one thorough and complete SEO "cycle"...awesome.

Pair this with a "little" authority site (a site which is well structured with categories, tags etc.)...you will be able to rank high for almost any keyword for sure.

Edit:

I want to add some more. If you do such complex campaigns with a LARGE number of links, you MUST make sure to vary your anchor texts.

--> Do not use only your "keyword" as anchor texts, use your keyword and one or two closely related keyword(s) in maybe 50% of your anchors, but DO NOT BE AFRAID to use blank URLS and also words like "here" etc. as anchor texts.

Do not make the mistake and blast 10.000 links which all have a keyword, this might back-fire.

--> If you submit your articles with Senuke and the various blog networks, don't hesitate to ALSO link to authority sites and other related sites together with YOUR link in your article. It is my personal "belief" that such links are stronger and it also looks more natural if a link comes with other, related links. The fact that you also link to wkipedia etc. does NOT make your link "weaker".

The same applies to bookmarks. When you bookmark, don't hesitate to make your bookmarking account look natural. Link to the latest news on the web, whatever everyone is talking about...AND your sites. Don't just "spoil" a bookmarking account by linking only to your own sites.

[Streamline]

Nick, thanks for taking the time to share this. I am going to try this strategy.

A quick question regarding blog networks:

Since I don't have the money to invest in all of them at once, which one would you recommend I start with? Is there ONE that stands above the rest for a noobie?

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by GeorgR.

This is one thorough and complete SEO "cycle"...awesome.

Pair this with a "little" authority site (a site which is well structured with categories, tags etc.)...you will be able to rank high for almost any keyword for sure.

Edit:

I want to add some more. If you do such complex campaigns with a LARGE number of links, you MUST make sure to vary your anchor texts.

--> Do not use only your "keyword" as anchor texts, use your keyword and one or two closely related keyword(s) in maybe 50% of your anchors, but DO NOT BE AFRAID to use blank URLS and also words like "here" etc. as anchor texts.

Do not make the mistake and blast 10.000 links which all have a keyword, this might back-fire.

--> If you submit your articles with Senuke and the various blog networks, don't hesitate to ALSO link to authority sites and other related sites together with YOUR link in your article. It is my personal "belief" that such links are stronger and it also looks more natural if a link comes with other, related links. The fact that you also link to wkipedia etc. does NOT make your link "weaker".

The same applies to bookmarks. When you bookmark, don't hesitate to make your bookmarking account look natural. Link to the latest news on the web, whatever everyone is talking about...AND your sites. Don't just "spoil" a bookmarking account by linking only to your own sites.

Thanks buddy, some great input here...and i totally agree. I'll be honest though, my anchor text is always either my target keyword or an LSI keyword.

With regards to linking to other sites, i TOTALLY agree with this. ESPECIALLY if you link to some authority sites...The same goes for the actual content on your website, give the searcher EXACTLY what they are looking for, and sometimes that even means giving them a link of another site...so be it...

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by Streamline

Nick, thanks for taking the time to share this. I am going to try this strategy.

A quick question regarding blog networks:

Since I don't have the money to invest in all of them at once, which one would you recommend I start with? Is there ONE that stands above the rest for a noobie?

Good luck, come back to us in a week or two and let everyone here know about your progress. I would love to read how well this works for you.

With regards to a blog network, I would use Article Ranks if i could only use one...

[SpeakToTman]

Great post OP! Very detailed and thorough.

I vote this for a sticky! I think this is the perfect reference guide for all to return to while running our own seo 'cycles'

I am doing something vaguely similar to this. i think im going to apply your strategy more fully on my site and see where it takes me!

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by SpeakToTman

Great post OP! Very detailed and thorough.

I vote this for a sticky! I think this is the perfect reference guide for all to return to while running our own seo 'cycles'

I am doing something vaguely similar to this. i think im going to apply your strategy more fully on my site and see where it takes me!

Wow thanks! Glad you enjoyed the read...get back to us in a week or two and let us know what kind of results you have had with this...will be very interesting to see.

[WikiWarrior]

Excellent post Nick, thanks for taking the time to share your in-depth strategy. I have one question for you on the subject of Scribd. I noticed this is part of your submission strategy and I am keen to submit some PPT's and PDF's to Scribd but they seem to be very anti-marketing. I just looked at their terms, which includes these lines:

What isn't permitted?

• You may not sell access to Scribd's related services (such as the embeddable document reader) on another website without prior agreement from Scribd.
• You may not use Scribd or its related services (such as the embeddable document reader) for the primary purpose of gaining advertising or subscription revenue.
• You may not publish or link to anything that promotes or facilitates the following (irrelevant items omitted):
  • affiliate marketing topics;
  • search engine optimization;

I'd be really interest to hear your take on this. Does that mean pretty much anything "make money online" related is out? I have a wiki site based around internet marketing so I wonder if I can make use of Scribd or not. Their rules seem to exclude so much.

[suxes2005]

Great post... anyone reading this can do this for me?

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by WikiWarrior

Excellent post Nick, thanks for taking the time to share your in-depth strategy. I have one question for you on the subject of Scribd. I noticed this is part of your submission strategy and I am keen to submit some PPT's and PDF's to Scribd but they seem to be very anti-marketing. I just looked at their terms, which includes these lines:

What isn't permitted?

• You may not sell access to Scribd's related services (such as the embeddable document reader) on another website without prior agreement from Scribd.
• You may not use Scribd or its related services (such as the embeddable document reader) for the primary purpose of gaining advertising or subscription revenue.
• You may not publish or link to anything that promotes or facilitates the following (irrelevant items omitted):
  • affiliate marketing topics;
  • search engine optimization;

I'd be really interest to hear your take on this. Does that mean pretty much anything "make money online" related is out? I have a wiki site based around internet marketing so I wonder if I can make use of Scribd or not. Their rules seem to exclude so much.

Hey bud,

I'll be DEAD honest with you here, I have not really read any of the web2.0 properties' terms....!

I have also not had any "make money" niches that I've targeted...so i dont really know if that would be a problem? I think your best bet would be to create one or two PDF's and submit it to Scribd, then maybe get in touch with their support and find out if your documents are in line with their terms.

I have never had any documents removed or accounts banned...but then again, as i said i have never targeted "make money" niches.

To be honest though, I think they would only really have a problem if your content is blatantly promoting your site. The content I put out always looks very professional, even though it's only a spin off of my promo article. I always include a professional cover page, plenty of relevant pictures and my link is always "naturally" placed in the content and relevant to what the reader is reading.

Hope this helps. In fact, if you find out about this it would be great if you could post your findings here for us all to know, as im curious about this now as well...thanks!

Nick

[Matt Attack]

This is an excellent post! I may have to outsource this and compare it to my current SEO results. Thanks for the share!

[ijohnson]

Nick,

Really appreciate you taking the time to share your strategy. I think this is a very good strategy to incorporate into what I'm already doing and an excellent way to learn more about SEO and other alternative sources for traffic.

@WikiWarrior, I would also like to know what you find out about the Scribd issue and MMO.

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by Matt Attack

This is an excellent post! I may have to outsource this and compare it to my current SEO results. Thanks for the share!

Thanks buddy, and that will be great. As i said earlier, get back to this thread and let us all know the kind of results you are getting...especially compared to your own SEO strategy (maybe we can swap notes ) - I'm always keen to expand my own strategy or try new things...so will be interesting to read your results...

Originally Posted by ijohnson

Nick,

Really appreciate you taking the time to share your strategy. I think this is a very good strategy to incorporate into what I'm already doing and an excellent way to learn more about SEO and other alternative sources for traffic

Thanks buddy, hope it helps.

[TBInternetMarketing]

A very interesting read. Always looking for new ideas when it comes to SEO and this provided some.
Thanks

[Torreylee]

Great write-up Nick, I'm a HUGE fan of scrapebox myself. I always backlink my backlinks. I'm glad to see such a thorough a REALISTIC plan of action!

[vickss]

you have really explained great things to rank high in google SERP, but i create a blog and get it on the first page of google within a week..just collect ten to 15 high pr backlinks and all free..i do not find any use of these software program.. most of my blogger blogs on first page of google(some have 1st ranking and get around 100 daily unique visits)

[baby_butler2002]

hello kick ,can you please also so send me the information on outsourcing you backlinking strategy please. thankyou

[thebitbotdotcom]

Originally Posted by NickWatson

Hey bud,

I'll be DEAD honest with you here, I have not really read any of the web2.0 properties' terms....!

I have also not had any "make money" niches that I've targeted...so i dont really know if that would be a problem? I think your best bet would be to create one or two PDF's and submit it to Scribd, then maybe get in touch with their support and find out if your documents are in line with their terms.

I have never had any documents removed or accounts banned...but then again, as i said i have never targeted "make money" niches.

To be honest though, I think they would only really have a problem if your content is blatantly promoting your site. The content I put out always looks very professional, even though it's only a spin off of my promo article. I always include a professional cover page, plenty of relevant pictures and my link is always "naturally" placed in the content and relevant to what the reader is reading.

Hope this helps. In fact, if you find out about this it would be great if you could post your findings here for us all to know, as im curious about this now as well...thanks!

Nick

Same here. As long as you add decent content to the property, generally, you can insert a link or two, again, as long as you are adding value to the community, pretty much like anything...

[amarketing]

Originally Posted by NickWatson

I always make the articles at least 500 words in length, some longer. It would be ok to re-write the entire article as well,but this would take A LOT longer. And if you MANUALLY spin an article you end up with a decent article. Make sure they are at least 60% unique.



Yes, that is correct. Each time you submit an article to a web2.0 property, first spin a unique version of it. Remember to embed your YouTube video and add pictures.



If it's an easy, long tail keyword I simply use the same article. Thats why you need to make sure it is spun properly. I also write out at least 4 different titles, and then spin then all individually and spin them so it uses on of them randomly.

If it is a difficult keyword though, it's best to have a new article written for submission to these sites though...but you will also need to spin this new article - you NEVER EVER want the EXACT same article going to all these sites...it must always be at least 60% spun content...


Hope this clears things up...

Thank you for replying. You answered a lot a questions, but I would like if you could further help me to make sure I understand what you mean.

Referring to competing for a higher competition keyword that requires unique content:

4. Blog Networks. There are 8 Blog networks that I submit my Promo article to. Some may require you to remove the links from the body, and put them in a resource box instead. My article is submitted to the following networks: Article Blueprint, Distribute Your Articles, Blog Blueprint, Authority Link Network, Article Ranks, Free Traffic system, My Article Network and SEO Extreme. Are you saying that each of these networks get's a unique article, or just one unique submitted to each?

5. SenukeX Campaign: I then run an automated web2.0 campaign using SenukeX (“Social Network” Campaign in SenukeX). I use the same Promo article as content, with links in the article body. I DO NOT submit to the same sites I already submitted to manually (Those where the YouTube video was embedded). This normally gives me additional 25 or 26 properties with my article and links. Again, same questions, 1 Unique article used for the whole campaign, or 25 unique articles (1 for each property)?

6. Article Marketing Robot campaign. I have over 15k article directories in my AMR, just got the lists for free on the internet and added them as I got them. Out of these I successfully submit to about 1,500 sites and get about 300 to 400 which auto approve my article. In your post you indicate that you do 1 unique article to all of the sites (since there's no way you can efficiently spin 400 articles).

Also, while I'm at it, how long does it take you to manually spin the articles?

Do you purposely spread out each cycle over a week, or is that just for convenience? Would it hurt if you did the whole cycle in a day or 2?

Thank you so much for clearing this up!

[makingiants]

Fine SEO strategy. I love your backlinking tactics, too.

[Laubster]

I have NO doubt that this works, but implementing it looks expensive. Between SeNukeX, 8 private blog networks, Scrapebox, spinning software, Article Marketing Robot and virtual assistants to out-source to, we're talking serious money. Is it safe to assume you're going after some super high profit keywords to be putting in this much effort and only doing 2-3 cycles/week??

[prcys]

I think if anyone want to get keyword ranking then from starting, from at the time of choice of keyword one has to be aware in choice of keyword and have to choose such which used more by people as per their need in your field. And then after the first step of choice of keyword, you need to provide better content with targeting that keyword. And then measure your results, you definitely get the better ranking for your keyword.

[BigNorm]

Excellent post Nick, well laid out. The best park about this post is that anyone having trouble ranking KW's would copy this and send it to a VA and tell them to copy it .

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by amarketing

Thank you for replying. You answered a lot a questions, but I would like if you could further help me to make sure I understand what you mean.

Referring to competing for a higher competition keyword that requires unique content:



Also, while I'm at it, how long does it take you to manually spin the articles?

Do you purposely spread out each cycle over a week, or is that just for convenience? Would it hurt if you did the whole cycle in a day or 2?

Thank you so much for clearing this up!

Hey bud,

Each time an article is submitted...a unique version of the article is submitted. The EXACT SAME article is never submitted to two sites. But, I don't write out unique versions of all these articles either. It's the same article, just spun into unique versions.

To ensure optimal quality of the article, I normally hand spin the article myself with the help of The Best Spinner. This normally takes anywhere from 20min to 45min - depending on the length of the article.

Then I give it to my outsourcing guys...each time they need a unique article...they simply click "New Spin" and a unique article is generated from the spun article. Same goes for the SenukeX campaigns...simply put the article in spin syntax in Senuke and the software will automatically spin a new version of it each time it makes a submission.

The only time I would use a second article in the same SEO cycle, is if im targeting a difficult keyword...then I would have a new article written for the AMR submission...but also submit it in spin syntax to the software, which will then submit unique versions of it to the article directories.

Hope this clears it up

[NickWatson]

Originally Posted by Laubster

I have NO doubt that this works, but implementing it looks expensive. Between SeNukeX, 8 private blog networks, Scrapebox, spinning software, Article Marketing Robot and virtual assistants to out-source to, we're talking serious money. Is it safe to assume you're going after some super high profit keywords to be putting in this much effort and only doing 2-3 cycles/week??

This could be done a lot cheaper...most of the tasks could be individually outsourced to Fiverr for $5 a piece.

And im doing 2 to 3 cycles a weeks PER VA ;-)

Originally Posted by BigNorm

Excellent post Nick, well laid out. The best park about this post is that anyone having trouble ranking KW's would copy this and send it to a VA and tell them to copy it .

Thanks.

I would highly recommend NOT doing that though. I never have any single VA knowing my entire cycle.

I always have at least two or three different guys working on the same cycle. One guy does the content, the other the manual account creation and some submissions, and another would do the rest of the submissions and the social bookmarking.

Then all the strengthening link stuff, and AMR submisison I always do myself.

I may just be too paranoid...but since these guys are already doing all the work, whats to stop them from quitting to work for me and simply doing it for themselves?

[NickWatson]

SEO CYCLE CASE STUDY:

Ok so i thought it would be a good idea to show you guys how quickly and easily this method works.

About the keyword:

I selected a long tail keyword in the baby/pregnancy niche...this keyword consists of 4 words

It gets 2,400 BROAD monthly searches and 1,600 EXACT monthly searches according to the Google keyword tool

About the competition:

I used market samurai to analyse the top 10 - mostly PR 2 and 3 pages. Mostly authority sites that are 5 years plus in age. Most PAGES have little backlinks though...we looking at under 500...except for two sites that have over 2,000...NONE of the sites have .Edu or .Gov links.

5 of the sites are listed in Yahoo Dir and Dmoz. Onsite opimization is not great, but there is some.

About my site:

I bought an exact match domain...and added one 700 word article to the site with some pics. And also a Contact us page and a Privacy policy page...nothing else.

I built a sitemap and submitted to Google webmaster tools, and added Google analytics and statcounter code.

The site is built on a wordpress platform.

The site build, contact page, and privacy policy page was done 3 days ago. And yesterday when i checked the site was already indexed in Google...(With no backlinking whatsoever) If it was not, a simple social bookmarking campaign would get it indexed

The site was still not ranked in the top 500 for my target keyword.

What Ive done so far (yesterday - after checking if it's indexed):
1. Added the 700 word article
2. You tube video
3. All manual Web2.0's (with video embedded)
4. Scribd, Docstoc and slideshare links
This was done yesterday.

Results so far:
This morning when i checked the site was ranked in position 292 in Google for my keyword.

What im doing today:
1. AMR blast
2. Blog network submission
3. SenukeX automated web2.0 campaign
4. Social Bookmarking ALL yesterday's links.

[gschmidtus]

Hi Nick,
thanks for this great post. Thanks for sharing all the details on your campaign strategy. Would you mind to give some recommendations on outsourcing?

[breezynetworks]

Bookmarked and following your results closely