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Has anyone else been hit really hard over the past 3 months?

by jasonallvall
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Hello Everyone,

I have been doing social media for a long time now and I feel like the past 4months have been the hardest since i've started.

There seem to be so many updates going on and as soon as you find something which works, its taken away from you very quickly. As well as that it seems like the top social media sites are taking a lot of legal action against us.

SEO has also become extremely hard for me to.

AM I ALONE ON THIS? Or is everyone having a really hard time right now?

I look forward to hearing your responses and could honestly do with a good moral boost!
Kind regards
Jason
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  • Profile picture of the author SeanSupplee
    Dont worry much about SEO, honestly its gone back to the way it should of been all along. Provide quality content get a few people to share it and youll do well. If you start backlinking and doing grey/black hat methods your honestly wasting your time anymore. Stick to the basics.

    1. Great content that people love to share
    2. Make it easy for your visitors to share
    3. Basic SEO onsite factors
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  • Profile picture of the author RaySaj
    hi, the problem that you have is that all the pages are the same on your website.........only thing that is changeing.you need a bit of variety and content that is regurlarly updated,....
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    • Profile picture of the author jasonallvall
      Thanks for the input, PM sent to chat further if thats ok
      Originally Posted by RaySaj View Post

      hi, the problem that you have is that all the pages are the same on your website.........only thing that is changeing.you need a bit of variety and content that is regurlarly updated,....
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonallvall
    I would love to chat to a few people about my business model and see if its actually working
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    • Profile picture of the author TheBigBee
      Originally Posted by jasonallvall View Post

      I would love to chat to a few people about my business model and see if its actually working
      Honestly, you should probably pivot to adding REAL value through social media optimization. I'd pay for such service.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    Your business is selling fake followers. Seems lame really. People can but the same crap at Fiverr.

    Or if they were smart they would use Facebook Ads and pay $34 and get their own real interested followers.
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    • Profile picture of the author jasonallvall
      If your referring to my signature site then thats not really what im talking about. Its more niche sites based on low comp keywords
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      • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
        Originally Posted by jasonallvall View Post

        If your referring to my signature site then thats not really what im talking about. Its more niche sites based on low comp keywords
        Are they EMDs? If so things got tougher after the 'EMD update.'

        If they aren't, don't forget that Google has been devaluing backlinks massively since last April.

        You aren't the only one that has to work harder for the same. It's a constant battle with more competition showing up every day and almost all of them are using the exact same tactics.

        The Micro Niche Site model has been under pressure for a long time now.
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        • Profile picture of the author GlenH
          The Micro Niche Site model has been under pressure for a long time now.
          This model still performs well, if you do it right.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonallvall
    Would you say its time to get out if that industry or keeping plugging away at it?
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    • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
      Originally Posted by jasonallvall View Post

      Would you say its time to get out if that industry or keeping plugging away at it?
      I really think the MSN model is dead Jason. Google took away the 'boost' that EMDs used to get and they devalued 'low quality' backlinks.

      If you think about it - that's the basic strategy everyone was using successfully.

      I went the opposite route in October. I built a 'general review' website where I ended up covering Health, Dating, and Amazon and ClickBank reviews.

      The advantage is that every thing I've done since October has been for ONE site. Now the site is getting VERY strong. 1,600 pages are indexed in Google and there are a lot of good rankings.

      If I tried to rank a website for EVERY review I'm going after it would be much harder. I'd have to register a new domain and build low quality backlinks every time. That gets expensive - plus NO ONE can work on multiple websites and make them good.

      So I'm happy I switched to a bigger site model and stopped goofing around with the other ones. I also had numerous MNS sites actually de-indexed in 2011 so that tells you what Google thinks of them.
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