My SEO Experiment

JustaWizard · 03-04-2009, 06:48 PM

Hey Warriors!

Here's my SEO experiment - but first some pretext before I outline my experiment and the advice/suggestions I'm looking for:

PRETEXT:
I've already built and SEO'd a niche site and I'm ranking well. Matt Cutts of Google would be proud, all my efforts were completely to their guidelines; all original content built up naturally over time, and so on... all on-page/site & off-page/site SEO is totally "boy scout" squeaky clean, not a black or gray hat in site ;-) The thing is that that process, all told, took between 3-4 months to complete.

That's the pretext - so now here's the SEO experiment part:

EXPERIMENT:
I want to do a NEW site and do all site building and the content addition, on page/site & off page/site SEO work in less than 30 days (reminder: last site took 3-4 months to write all pages, SEO, backlinks, bookmarking, etc.).

NOTES:
The URL I'm going to use is good, but I also don't care if it gets banned or sandboxed forever that is to say that if my high-speed site building/SEO tactics piss off Google badly, I'm willing to let that site go and willing to sacrifice the time spent. In other words, I know that 30 days is pretty fast for a large-ish site with a bunch of backlinks to suddenly appear, hence the "experiment" part of this - I want to see if I can get good ranking without being banned, and without taking 3-4 months. (SIDE QUESTION: they only ban by URL, not by site owner, right?? One site doesn't "infect" my other sites, correct??)

MORE NOTES:
I don't have all day long to work on this site, neither did I on the previous site, so the 30 day limit also means that I'll have maybe 20-30 minutes per day tops to do all site building, content addition, and SEO work.

HERE'S WHAT'S DONE SO FAR:
I have the URL, hosting, and a Wordpress theme I've already installed to my hosting service. No plug-ins installed yet. (NOTE: last site I created a DreamWeaver template, but for this site it's going to be strictly Wordpress)

HERE'S WHERE YOU COME IN WITH SUGGESTIONS:
Given the above, what are your suggestions to achieve my 20-30 minutes a day / 30 days to a completely done and SEO'd site as far as the following are concerned:

1. CONTENT: I want to have a good 80-100 pages of niche content, where shall I get it?-I'm not going to buy it, and I'm not going to create it. (I do have Market Samurai, for those of you familiar with that program and its "find content" module).

2. PLUG-INS: What plug-ins should I get? I know I'll get all-in-one SEO, but what else should I have?

3. BACK LINKING: I just got Comment Kahuna (not used it yet) and I've used Social Marker for previous site, but only to bookmark on Digg, Delicious, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Propeller, & Reddit: what do you suggest my backlinking strategy should be?

4. OTHER SEO: on-page/site I'm okay with, any other off-page/site SEO you recommend to help me reach my 30 day goal?

5. OTHER: Is there something else you suggest - I mean, did I miss anything??

CONCLUSION:
I appreciate your help and advice and best practices. The WF has been good to me, and I've given back; I intend to keep that true in this case too since what goes around comes around. :-)

Thanks in advance for helping me with my experiment! Feel free to PM me if you have questions or you can post here to, ostensibly...

Cheers!
David

JustaWizard · 03-04-2009, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dbbrock1

this is a really good idea. I had a similar idea but I never have the patients to wait 3 months for a slow speed SEO build up.

How many backlinks were you building in your first campaign?

Good question: Short answer is I don' know. I never really counted, because beyond social marker I also did blog commenting.... of course, some of those were on no-follow blogs but I figured so-what since it still provided some exposure. That said, it's about 850.

JustaWizard · 03-04-2009, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beareroftruth

Hi,

What value will your website offer your visitors if you are neither buying content, nor producing it yourself?

How about I just use attribution method and post other people's content, giving credit?

JustaWizard · 03-04-2009, 10:44 PM

Me again; I appreciate all the questions and concerns, but how about some positive suggestions to achieve my goal?

David

JustaWizard · 03-04-2009, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beareroftruth

You could, but how will these pages rank if you're just duplicating content? It's fine to publish pages w/ exactly the same text as another page as long as you give credit, but only the original page on which the text appeared will show up in the SERPs.

I can't lay claim to all truth, but some people I respect very highly have pointed out that the "first in with content" rule is a myth; it's the best linked to page that will actually rule the PR of that content in the eyes of the SE's.

Now, how about less picking my strategy apart and some more positive suggestions, eh? ;-)

Darren Cooper · 03-05-2009, 12:05 AM

Hi David,

This is my first post, but I hope I can add some value here...

BACKLINKS: I can recommend Unique Article Wizard .com for all your backlinking needs. You'll get a ton of backlinks, but it does cost $67 per month. (30 day money back guarantee also). The sales page will tell you how it works if you are unfamiliar with it.

CONTENT: I too have Market Samurai - isn't it great? Also take a look at Uber Articles .com - linked in someway to UAW above, and fantastic if it works (haven't tried it personally). The premise is: Free, Unique Content. Can't get much better than that!

Good luck, and would be interested to hear how you get on.

JustaWizard · 03-05-2009, 10:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by daria19

Hi David,

This is my first post, but I hope I can add some value here...

BACKLINKS: I can recommend Unique Article Wizard .com for all your backlinking needs. You'll get a ton of backlinks, but it does cost $67 per month. (30 day money back guarantee also). The sales page will tell you how it works if you are unfamiliar with it.

CONTENT: I too have Market Samurai - isn't it great? Also take a look at Uber Articles .com - linked in someway to UAW above, and fantastic if it works (haven't tried it personally). The premise is: Free, Unique Content. Can't get much better than that!

Good luck, and would be interested to hear how you get on.

Hi Daria19, thanks for your input, that is helpful. Have you used the "get content" module much from MS? - I've mostly used it for research so far...

David

Darren Cooper · 03-05-2009, 12:23 PM

I don't use the 'Find Content' module often (but I use the other 3 modules a lot), but I can see that it would be useful if you're unable to produce unique content yourself.

It's also a good module to use if you want to stay informed of the latest news/blogs in your niche. There is an RSS subscribe button on the right hand side of the screen for every result returned. Subscribe to that feed, and get the results for that keyword phrase fed through Google Reader and you are good to go.

03-04-2009, 06:48 PM	#1
JustaWizard SEO Expert & Author War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Vancouver, WA USA Posts: 486 Thanks: 201 Thanked 57 Times in 31 Posts Social Networking	My SEO Experiment - Care To Advise & Suggest on Strategy? Hey Warriors! Here's my SEO experiment - but first some pretext before I outline my experiment and the advice/suggestions I'm looking for: PRETEXT: I've already built and SEO'd a niche site and I'm ranking well. Matt Cutts of Google would be proud, all my efforts were completely to their guidelines; all original content built up naturally over time, and so on... all on-page/site & off-page/site SEO is totally "boy scout" squeaky clean, not a black or gray hat in site ;-) The thing is that that process, all told, took between 3-4 months to complete. That's the pretext - so now here's the SEO experiment part: EXPERIMENT: I want to do a NEW site and do all site building and the content addition, on page/site & off page/site SEO work in less than 30 days (reminder: last site took 3-4 months to write all pages, SEO, backlinks, bookmarking, etc.). NOTES: The URL I'm going to use is good, but I also don't care if it gets banned or sandboxed forever that is to say that if my high-speed site building/SEO tactics piss off Google badly, I'm willing to let that site go and willing to sacrifice the time spent. In other words, I know that 30 days is pretty fast for a large-ish site with a bunch of backlinks to suddenly appear, hence the "experiment" part of this - I want to see if I can get good ranking without being banned, and without taking 3-4 months. (SIDE QUESTION: they only ban by URL, not by site owner, right?? One site doesn't "infect" my other sites, correct??) MORE NOTES: I don't have all day long to work on this site, neither did I on the previous site, so the 30 day limit also means that I'll have maybe 20-30 minutes per day tops to do all site building, content addition, and SEO work. HERE'S WHAT'S DONE SO FAR: I have the URL, hosting, and a Wordpress theme I've already installed to my hosting service. No plug-ins installed yet. (NOTE: last site I created a DreamWeaver template, but for this site it's going to be strictly Wordpress) HERE'S WHERE YOU COME IN WITH SUGGESTIONS: Given the above, what are your suggestions to achieve my 20-30 minutes a day / 30 days to a completely done and SEO'd site as far as the following are concerned: 1. CONTENT: I want to have a good 80-100 pages of niche content, where shall I get it?-I'm not going to buy it, and I'm not going to create it. (I do have Market Samurai, for those of you familiar with that program and its "find content" module). 2. PLUG-INS: What plug-ins should I get? I know I'll get all-in-one SEO, but what else should I have? 3. BACK LINKING: I just got Comment Kahuna (not used it yet) and I've used Social Marker for previous site, but only to bookmark on Digg, Delicious, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Propeller, & Reddit: what do you suggest my backlinking strategy should be? 4. OTHER SEO: on-page/site I'm okay with, any other off-page/site SEO you recommend to help me reach my 30 day goal? 5. OTHER: Is there something else you suggest - I mean, did I miss anything?? CONCLUSION: I appreciate your help and advice and best practices. The WF has been good to me, and I've given back; I intend to keep that true in this case too since what goes around comes around. :-) Thanks in advance for helping me with my experiment! Feel free to PM me if you have questions or you can post here to, ostensibly... Cheers! David
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03-04-2009, 10:44 PM	#4
JustaWizard SEO Expert & Author War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Vancouver, WA USA Posts: 486 Thanks: 201 Thanked 57 Times in 31 Posts Social Networking	Re: My SEO Experiment - Care To Advise & Suggest on Strategy? Me again; I appreciate all the questions and concerns, but how about some positive suggestions to achieve my goal? David
	--> FREE SEO WEBSITE REVIEW! <-- No strings, no catches, no kidding... I'll make a screen-cast video of your SEO website review for you - click here to get yours!

03-05-2009, 12:05 AM	#6
Darren Cooper Inner Circle Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Auckland Posts: 78 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 9 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts Social Networking	Re: My SEO Experiment - Care To Advise & Suggest on Strategy? Hi David, This is my first post, but I hope I can add some value here... BACKLINKS: I can recommend Unique Article Wizard .com for all your backlinking needs. You'll get a ton of backlinks, but it does cost $67 per month. (30 day money back guarantee also). The sales page will tell you how it works if you are unfamiliar with it. CONTENT: I too have Market Samurai - isn't it great? Also take a look at Uber Articles .com - linked in someway to UAW above, and fantastic if it works (haven't tried it personally). The premise is: Free, Unique Content. Can't get much better than that! Good luck, and would be interested to hear how you get on.

03-05-2009, 12:23 PM	#8
Darren Cooper Inner Circle Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Auckland Posts: 78 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 9 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts Social Networking	Re: My SEO Experiment - Care To Advise & Suggest on Strategy? I don't use the 'Find Content' module often (but I use the other 3 modules a lot), but I can see that it would be useful if you're unable to produce unique content yourself. It's also a good module to use if you want to stay informed of the latest news/blogs in your niche. There is an RSS subscribe button on the right hand side of the screen for every result returned. Subscribe to that feed, and get the results for that keyword phrase fed through Google Reader and you are good to go.