Linkvana - Did I accidently spam their blogs?

[JLBrown]

Below is what I posted a few days ago-

If you don't have time to read it...in a nut shell I've watched my affiliate marketing business dry up and fast.

I've been trying to figure out what I've done wrong as I was making about $500/week and now nothing.

The only I can think of is that I made a mistake using Linkvana. I was told that the content of the actually blog post is irrelevant so long as the link contains your proper keyword in the anchor text.

What I did was outsource hundreds of cheap 100 word posts - the content of the posts was about totally unrelated content from my keyword. I had the writers simply write coherent English about any topic they wished and then took their posts and and plugged in my keyword.

I am now wondering if somehow I saw great success early on and now Google somehow spidered the blog and realized that my blog post content doesn't match up with the keyword anchored.

Any help is much appreciated, I'm pulling my hair out to figure out what happened.

Thx


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All right- I just watched my wonderful, passive affiliate income dry up almost completely in the last week and have no idea what I did WRONG.

I have approximately 20 conduit mini-sites that review Clickbank products. I've been making approximately $500/week the last month which has all of a sudden stopped almost completely (only made $50 last week) and my Google Analytics shows that traffic has flat lined; the last 6 weeks it has been around 40 visitors per mini-site per day, and now I'm at 0-2.

Here's what I've done so far. Out of the gates I submitted the sites to a directory links service that gave me 100 links/domain. I then used Linkvana to target each product page (anchor text is product name).

Around 1 month ago I submitted each site to Onlywire to socialbook mark the sites (I made sure to bookmark a random page for everyone of my mini-sites to make it look natural).

The following 3 weeks I saw a very nice boost in traffic and sales. The fourth week (this past week) everything dried up.

I am wondering if there is a "rebound" effect of social bookmarking, or if my IP address somehow got dinged by Google. Additionally, I've slowed Linkvana down (the number of posts per day) as I've reached my desired number of links/page (not sure if that has anything to do with it).

I know this is a lot- but something happened along the way that has tanked my business. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,

JL

[BlueSquares]

Where was your traffic coming from? Check your logs.
Now search for those sites and see if they're still in existence.
If they are, check to see if they've been sandboxed.

[sunnyman]

Thoughts:
- I am surprised that you are told the context of the link doesn't matter, like the post could be about scrapbooking and then there's a link to a site about credit cards!

- It is not uncommon for a new site to get some initial link luve from Google, which then cools off.

[JLBrown]

How do I check my logs to see where my traffic was coming from? Sorry I'm pretty new to this- Google Analytics shows that over 90% of traffic was coming from Google Search- it also tells me what keywords they searched for to reach my pages. I've seen that those keywords no longer rank on the top page of Google. I'm also not sure how to check to see what sites / how to know if their sandboxed. Thanks

[angela99]

I'm amazed that Linkvana let you get away with this.

Nevertheless, upward and onward.

Chalk this up to experience, and get to work doing the right thing by your blogs.

Are your sites still in the Google index? If they are, all is well.

If they're not, you'll need to clean everything up and then humbly beg Google's pardon and ask them to spider the sites and let you in again. It may take a few months...

Sorry you're having a hard time.

Cheers

Angela

[JLBrown]

Thanks Angela- so in your eyes does this mistake sound like the definitive reason for this sudden problem? I can live with 20 of my mini-sites drying up but most important I do not want to repeat this again when I launch another 20 mini sites next month. Also, if I simply link to these sites again PROPERLY will they come back? Or has Google shut these down for good?

[Jon Alexander]

it's very rarely 'fatal' with Google. Use them for something else, make them 'good' sites again, and google will give you some more sugar, honey...

[richpeck]

Here's the reason your income dropped:

Your sites have almost certainly been sandboxed and wiped off Google's radar.

If you have had these sites for just like a month or something, it sounds like just the right time for them to fall from grace.

If you're struggling with the sandbox then don't do anything else on those sites. Just leave them... because if you start getting links and stuff, Google will only hold them back longer.

I remember some of my conduit sites were doing REALLY good and then suddenly fell to like page 8 or something stupid like that. Now they're climbing their way back up.

Linkvana is okay but is not worth the price IMHO. I've paid for a full year and although it does help your sites get to the top for a short period, the links are now so light weight that they are not worth your time.

My advice : turn your dudd sites into email list farmers and let them work for you on autopilot. Then take the knowledge, markets and data you gained from them to make more more sites to make quick income from... and when they "die" then just use the email lists you've been building to kick start new sites... and rinse and repeat.

I've got a really nice review template you can use for your new sites here:

Click for preview

Download it here.

Hope this helps?

I've had sites that sucked in Google for 6 months and are now top of the pile for some very lucrative keywords. It just takes time and patience... and some decent links... not a ton of crappy ones.

Rich

[kevin campbelle]

Hey JL,

Did you not see the responses in the other thread that you posted about this? Read up on Google sandbox and trustrank.

Kevin.