How I beat a competitor with High PR backlinks

by retsek
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[this is more of a guide/suggestions for newbies]

So i joined a niche that gets 125,000 exact searches for the main keyword and several thousand for additional keywords.

When I started the current #1 was Wikipedia and #2 was a competitor who started 1 year before. I looked at his backlinks and I concluded that he did at least 3 full SENUKE runs and he bought into one of those High PR link networks (1 PR6, 3 PR5, 6PR4, etc).

So here's how I was able to take the #2, #3 and #4 positions for the main keyword without paying monthly fees for high PR links:

- I created and bought lots of quality content. Over 200 posts. It's important to not post it all at once. Use the Wordpress Schedule feature.

- I removed the wordpress loop from the homepage and built the home page using a Page Template with sections under the topic. Learn wordpress code and CSS and display your home page in a way that is helpful to the user. Having a long list posts on a topic with the full content on the homepage is not helpful to the user, and there's duplicate content issues with the SEs.

- In addition to the Main keyword, I identified 20 other keywords that had a fair number searches and were closely related. I categorized those 20 keywords into 5 Wordpress Categories. (No Post Tags are used).

- For content:

The homepage had about 1000 words discussing the topic, introducing the 5 sections, linking to important posts etc.

For each of 20 additional keywords, there was a 500-750 word post that I wanted to rank for the keyword. Each of these posts link to the Homepage with our main keyword as the anchor text. These 20 posts were also made stickies, so they appear at the top of their category listings.

For the other ~180 posts, these were 300-500 words and they went deeper into topics discussed in the 20 post set. Each of them link to one or more of the 20 posts using anchor from the additional keywords. Some of the 180 also link to the homepage for the main keyword.

Each of the ~200 posts has an image with alt text containing the target keyword, not necessarily exact match for the keyword. I use 123rf.com for many of the images, obviously not free. But we'll make our money back right? right.

- For other on Page.

  • Use Breadcrumbs!!!
  • Set your Permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/
  • Use a XML Sitemap, no need to link to it on your page. The good ones will notify Google.
  • Use a Related Posts Plugin (YARPP is good)
  • Target Keyword appears in Title and Description of each post and Home Page. Meta Tags are optional. Remember to setup appropriate titles and descriptions for your categories as well.
  • REMOVE the word "category" from your wordpress base URL. (yoast wordpress seo plugin)
  • Each of my 5 categories have about 100-150 words describing the category before listing the posts.
  • Ensure your theme, uses H1 for the Post Title. Only 1 H1 per page. Use H1 once on the homepage, and make sure your Site Title or Logo is not using it.
  • Use multiple H2, H3 in each post where appropriate but don't overdo it.
  • Don't pay so much attention to (or obsess over) keyword density. Just write or produce content that is easy to read, has headings separating sections, uses bullet point lists to get the point across, and has proper grammar and spelling.
  • Use Wordpress SEO by Yoast. Great plugin, free!, and will take care your breadcrums, xml sitemap, pages titles and descriptions.

There's other seo plugins that will assist you with these on page factors, I'd recommend Clickbump SEO, but you can google for free options.

DO NOT touch SEOpressor - it completely kills performance on high traffic sites even with caching. OR if you have several hundred sites on one shared hosting, it will make it impossible. Also I think it's pretty sleazy to try to score a free backlink from someone who paid you $100.


- For Offpage:

Remember the competitor has high PR links. There was no way I was going to be paying monthly for those kinds of links. So I started off slow.
  1. First I did a press release as a way to introduce the site. I outsourced this in the Warriors for Hire section, and got some nice authority links from about.com and other news sites.
  2. A week later, I outsourced submissions to the top 10 article directories targeting the home page, the 20 posts, and the 5 categories (remember to make your categories index-able in whatever SEO plugin you use, and use the_excerpt instead of the_content in the template). For all link building to follow, its important to vary your anchor text.
  3. Repeat #2 three times with 30 days in between.
  4. Fourth Week, I outsourced a Link Wheel that was built over 21 days that included high PR Web2 sites and also .EDU / .GOV blogs linking to the Homepage of the site and randomly to each other. The second layer, larger of lower PR Web2 sites, linked to the top layer. In addition, all the pages in the wheel also randomly linked to authority sites like wikipedia, about.com ...youtube videos, forums, etc. The posts of these properties were spread out over a couple of days.
  5. Fourth Week, I added the site to BuildMyRank.com. I've outsourced about 300 posts. And queued them up to publish at about 5-7 per day. 50% of links went to the homepage, 25% to the 5 categories, 25% to the 20 posts.
  6. Sixth Week, I also blasted the ~180 posts with about 20,000 forum profiles, blog comments and social bookmarks. It's important here to vary the anchor text as much as possible and then some. also use text like click here, visit this site, etc. In fact, I also do blog comments & profiles to the Homepage, Categories, and the 20 posts just to variate the anchor text of backlinks pointing to the pages.
  7. Tenth Week. I blast the backlinks created at #2,#3,#4, & #5 with another 20,000 forum profiles, blog comments and social bookmarks.
  8. 12th Week. Profit. Homepage is ranked #2 for the main keyword. A category page and a single post are also behind it in the #3 & #4 positions. I'll continue building to take down Wikipedia and no doubt keep the competitor at bay since I'm sure he's not happy to now be ranked #6.
So that's it, I'm sure I missed something but I think the most important advice you can get is not over optimize and do not build links with 1 or 2 anchor text alone. For the main keyword, I only used it 50% of the time on the homepage. The rest were variations of the 20 other keywords, naked backlinks (backlinks without anchor text), click here, read more, visit this site, etc.

I could have stretched this out to a couple of pages and have my PDF in the WSO section, but here it is. Free for you to take action, incorporate into your own existing methods and use for free.

Edit: Also I hope this post doesn't come across as saying High PR Links are not needed. In fact, it will probably be required if I want to overtake Wikipedia. This post just points out ways to setup your on page structure and vary your backlink profile with powerful sources, rather than wasting time using weak Senuke campaigns and blog comments.
#backlinks #beat #competitor #high
  • Profile picture of the author JSProjects
    Thought I'd give this a little bump & hit the thanks button. Not sure why it's getting buried below the other threads. Great overview.
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  • Profile picture of the author patrich
    Absolutely incredible post! This is very similar to what I do in my day to day and I can verify that it works. The real benefit here is how big you have built out the site, if people are going after high traffic, more competitive terms in most cases a little sniper site just isn't going to cut it anymore.

    I would be more inclined to suggest a newbie follow your tutorial here than purchase any of the ebooks available, because you listed everything that they should know. Great post!
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    Thanks.

    I forgot to mention that the competitor still has MORE backlinks than me, mostly weak profiles, social bookmarks, blog comments and web2 pages. Quality Over Quantity.
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    • Profile picture of the author Crystal Love
      Absolutely spot on! Times have changed, it's all about Quality over Quanity. Some have caught on; unfortunately, many still have not.
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      • Profile picture of the author HKSEO Rotzee
        Originally Posted by Crystal Love View Post

        Absolutely spot on! Times have changed, it's all about Quality over Quanity. Some have caught on; unfortunately, many still have not.
        Actually, you can still rank with quantity to this day...that is a fact. But it is better to have a balance of quantity AND quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOThomas
    So you built a huge site full of unique content with tons of backlinks. This has been known for years.

    But I would be weary about building thousands of backlinks per week.....
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by SEOThomas View Post

      So you built a huge site full of unique content with tons of backlinks. This has been known for years.

      But I would be weary about building thousands of backlinks per week.....
      Yes, but unfortunately some of the newbs still dont get it - who are what this post is for.

      As for the backlinks, only about 5% of profile links are ever found if you leave them alone. Even with pinging, the indexing and crawling rate is still relatively low.

      So I build them, schedule them into RSS feeds and have them feed to the Google crawler via Linklicious.

      Three months from now I will blast those 40,000 links with backlinks of their own.
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      • Profile picture of the author blend
        Awesome! Thanks for sharing
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  • Profile picture of the author RevSEO
    That's a solid blueprint that many users should follow! Thanks to you, I'm sharing this post with a friend of mine that just asked me about SEO today!

    Question - how much was the 300 posts that you outsourced on BMR?
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by RevSEO View Post

      That's a solid blueprint that many users should follow! Thanks to you, I'm sharing this post with a friend of mine that just asked me about SEO today!

      Question - how much was the 300 posts that you outsourced on BMR?
      BMR Outsourcing cost me $150 for the 300 posts. I have a great guy from the Philippines, when I first got him he wanted just $30 per 100 posts. After the first job with 100% approval rate, I raised his pay to $50 per 100 posts without being asked.

      That's a another tip.

      Once you find a great outsourcer, keep them happy! Compliment their work! Give them clear instructions and Keep them working for you. $30 was far too low considering the work he does, and that's not even taking into consideration that sellers here on WF woud have charged about $450 to $600 just for 300 posts.
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  • Profile picture of the author promhut729
    Analysis of your opponent's back, and then use them
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  • Profile picture of the author Luke McCormack
    Great post, very solid approach. Are you finding a slight slip in ranking when BMR posts fall off front blog pages?

    Regards

    Nigel
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by nigelwhittaker View Post

      Great post, very solid approach. Are you finding a slight slip in ranking when BMR posts fall off front blog pages?

      Regards

      Nigel
      No.

      With this project only 3/4 of the BMR posts have gone live. So there is a steady stream of new links being created.

      So yes the BMR posts will fall off home pages and page 2s in about a week or two after they are posted, but I re-enforce them with profile links, blog comments and social bookmarks.
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  • Profile picture of the author StoneWilson
    Subscribed. Really helpful, sometimes I just can't remember those details, good reminder. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author ok123
    I hope more newbies read this post and realise that there is only one thing which works online..

    Consistent Hard Work with a plan..

    Kudos to OP for sharing..
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    • Profile picture of the author boxoun
      Originally Posted by ok123 View Post

      I hope more newbies read this post and realise that there is only one thing which works online..

      Consistent Hard Work with a plan..

      Kudos to OP for sharing..
      Sounds like the only one doing hard work is the filipino writing 300 articles for $50.

      So let me get this straight op.

      You got 200 pages of content. Paid a Filipino literally peanuts.
      Built a bunch of backlinks. Then you come here telling everybody its all about quality?

      Congrats to your achievement. Just wanted to make sure I read that correctly.
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      • Profile picture of the author J3thro M
        Originally Posted by boxoun View Post

        Sounds like the only one doing hard work is the filipino writing 300 articles for $50.

        So let me get this straight op.

        You got 200 pages of content. Paid a Filipino literally peanuts.
        Built a bunch of backlinks. Then you come here telling everybody its all about quality?

        Congrats to your achievement. Just wanted to make sure I read that correctly.
        Waaaaaaa Filipino writing 300 articles for $50???? :rolleyes:Where did you get that, tell me....
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      • Profile picture of the author retsek
        Originally Posted by boxoun View Post

        Sounds like the only one doing hard work is the filipino writing 300 articles for $50.

        So let me get this straight op.

        You got 200 pages of content. Paid a Filipino literally peanuts.
        Built a bunch of backlinks. Then you come here telling everybody its all about quality?

        Congrats to your achievement. Just wanted to make sure I read that correctly.
        Maybe you should re-read. I paid the guy $150 for the BMR posts. BMR Posts don't need to win any awards, they just need to be unique and they are just for backlinks.

        The posts for my website I paid $10 per 500words to a professional English writing team. That was over $1500.
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  • Profile picture of the author alina albert
    Don't go for quantity work with quality if you have less but quality back links you can get better results than the other sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author kurtmacc008
    Thank you for sharing. Very nice ideas. I've learned a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Google loves content, but every time I say that here someone says, ha, I'll beat your content with backlinks any time. Well, I am not sure if that is even necessarily true, but it is a strategy that works for me, especially as I like writing and dislike backlinking. Big investment though, all that content for the site? You are at a point where you have pennies to invest in outsourcing, but then newbies can do this for themselves, it will just take longer.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lulu Chil
      Originally Posted by markowe View Post

      Google loves content, but every time I say that here someone says, ha, I'll beat your content with backlinks any time. Well, I am not sure if that is even necessarily true, but it is a strategy that works for me, especially as I like writing and dislike backlinking. Big investment though, all that content for the site? You are at a point where you have pennies to invest in outsourcing, but then newbies can do this for themselves, it will just take longer.
      Are you saying that you do very little backlinking? Please explain in detail when you say Google loves content. Thanks

      Thanks to the OP for a very useful post.
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  • Profile picture of the author BlakeM
    Wow. Great work and thanks for the post!

    It's a bit overwhelming, but so worth it. I think I'm going to get a 7 day free trial to BMR or maybe Linkvana. I'm trying a couple SEO services out, but none as extensive as this (my competition is not as high)
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  • Profile picture of the author MediaLexus
    A very solid plan. I follow a method that is relatively similar to yours. Creating lots of inbound links all around your site with keywords pointing to strategic pages is an excellent strategy.

    I worry though about the massive link blasting you do toward the end. This can come off as highly unnatural to Google considering I know very few people that can pump out 10,000 forum posts a day. It might provide a temporary boost but if Google catches a whiff of it they could penalize you.

    IMHO, I don't really view forum links as a great way to improve SERP rankings. I find that they are better at promoting your brand and sending traffic to your site. I feel that it could hurt your brand and your reputation if your prospective customers see spammy forum posts or blog posts. Just my two cents.

    But all together a great plan and I applaud you for taking over your competitors so quickly. Keep up the good work.
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  • Profile picture of the author HostingBee
    Excellent post. Thanks for that
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  • Profile picture of the author glennforum
    Wow these are great inputs! thanks for sharing these strategies, rarely do we see people share their strategies in a comprehensive manner.
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    • Profile picture of the author Spastabetic
      I totally agree with the quality over quantity.

      Does anyone else think that very soon google will totally change their algorithm and backlinks will be almost a waste of time?

      Good content that is right on the money will be the deciding factor.

      Consider this ...

      A human can go to two sites and see that site A is full of crap, but is ranking very high due to backlink numbers.

      He goes to site B which has 20 pages of pretty decent content but isn't ranking as high due to less backlinks.

      The human can see this in a heartbeat, but at the moment googles' algorithm can't, so counts backlinks as a vote as it has little else to go buy.

      But how long before googles' algorithm evolves enough to see a site just as a human does? I don't reckon that far into the future.

      If you can give google the best of both worlds now, content and some backlinks then I'm willing to wager that some time very soon you will see an overnight jump up the rankings.

      All my opinions of course.

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  • Profile picture of the author Apollo-Articles
    Wow that's a lot of backlinks dude! How long did it take you to implement this from start to finish?

    Did you find the 20,000 blast useful?

    Also would you mind sharing which Warrior your outsourced your press release too?

    Finally could you tell us if you recouped your investment?

    Sam
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by Apollo-Articles View Post

      Wow that's a lot of backlinks dude! How long did it take you to implement this from start to finish?

      Did you find the 20,000 blast useful?

      Also would you mind sharing which Warrior your outsourced your press release too?

      Finally could you tell us if you recouped your investment?

      Sam
      From when the home page and the first 20 posts were done, it took about 100 days to get to #2.

      Yes the 20k blasts are useful. Some of you may worry about that amount of the links at one time, but Profile links aren't discovered very easily. A very lower percentage gets crawled if you leave it without pinging. So what I do a build a large number, wait two weeks as they initially some will be found right away, then I schedule them in Linklicious to be drip feed.

      Also I don't use the profile links directly to money pages, or pages I want to rank for keywords. If you noticed, I only pointed them to other backlinks and the 180+ support posts on the site.

      I outsourced the Press Release here:
      http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-all-work.html

      I had spent a total of $500 for the content and about 1100 outsourcing all the link building to different people. The niche does very well with Adsense and is on track to make 1,500 per month with just one ad unit.

      It would probably do better with one or two clickbank products but clickbank wont allow affiliate signups from my country for some reason. In the meantime, I'm also building a list until I figure out other money making ideas.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jwil1025
    Great read thanks for sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oranges
    At last No BS and somebody posted the real truth.
    This is exactly what i do and it works perfectly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ibcontact
    Nice sharing dude, i like your post ...
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  • Profile picture of the author SimpleSEOTips
    Really interesting post and congratulations. It looks like a really well thought out approach which is quite easy (I mean no disrespect to the work you put in) to replicate.

    I wanted to find out what you meant by "Use Breadcrumbs!!"
    What benefits did you find that offered?
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by SimpleSEOTips View Post

      Really interesting post and congratulations. It looks like a really well thought out approach which is quite easy (I mean no disrespect to the work you put in) to replicate.

      I wanted to find out what you meant by "Use Breadcrumbs!!"
      What benefits did you find that offered?
      Breadcrumbs - Webmaster Tools Help

      It's also the hallmark of almost every authority site on the Web. Essentially it gives you more links on the Search Page. And it helps with navigation on your site. It is optional but I wouldn't put up a large site without it.
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  • Profile picture of the author J3thro M
    Very nice post. Can you tell us where did you outsource the article writing? How bout the quality of the content, where you happy? I am in search of a content/article writing that wouldn't cost too much but still giving a good quality article. thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by J3thro M View Post

      Very nice post. Can you tell us where did you outsource the article writing? How bout the quality of the content, where you happy? I am in search of a content/article writing that wouldn't cost too much but still giving a good quality article. thanks
      Cheap writers don't often provide quality. But I pay $10 usually for a 500 word article, and as much as $25 depending on the topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Apollo-Articles
    Thanks for your answers, I must admit I've used a few of your strategies myself and had great success, I'm just still not sure about the 20,000 links.

    You seem to have everything covered though (backlinking them to the second tier links and altering anchor text) and best of all it works!

    Thanks for putting this up

    Sam
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  • Profile picture of the author clickbump
    Originally Posted by retsek View Post

    There's other seo plugins that will assist you with these on page factors, I'd recommend Clickbump SEO...

    DO NOT touch SEOpressor - it completely kills performance on high traffic sites even with caching.
    Hi there, thanks for the mention of my product. just thought I'd let you and others here know that the LSI engine has been rebuilt from scratch in the upcoming update which will ship next week.

    It will scrape Google's top 10 search results for any given keyword and return the most relevant keywords shared across those sites. No one has anything close to this.

    And while it lasts, you can still get it for $17 via the Warrior Special (see link in my sig)
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  • Profile picture of the author pjman
    Nice share. It will totally help me on my new sites.
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    • Profile picture of the author ashishbhatnagar
      We need to high PR backlinks to beat the competitor. We all know that high PR backlinks plays a important role in the promotion of website. Google always gives the priority to the quality backlinks mans high PR backlinks. So If we make some good mquality backlinks then it will really help us in web promotion.
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  • Profile picture of the author epathj
    thx for your share
    but for now ,PR is useless. Exchange outboard links makes its easy to up your pr
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  • Profile picture of the author JoeLawrence
    This is a great step by step roadmap. Thanks for sharing. I'm also going to bookmark to come back to it later. Maybe even make a mindmap combining some of these techniques with my own resources.

    It's great to see a 1,2 approach (content and backlinks). Very inspiring!
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  • Profile picture of the author CeeCee123
    I have just copied and pasted this post to my desktop and I will study it slowly and try to implement those tips you just shared. Thanks..
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  • Profile picture of the author drw
    Thanks for your post.

    Didn't you use tag at all?
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  • Profile picture of the author katied772
    For the 20 posts that you made sticky: Did you do these as excerpts or full posts? Are all the other shorter posts full or excerpts?
    The description of each category you said you place before the posts: This is also made sticky?
    You say you used a homepage template: This is something available or did you just design the page that way?
    Thanks, this post was so helpful. Most I'm familiar with but it helps to have it laid out.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by katied772 View Post

      For the 20 posts that you made sticky: Did you do these as excerpts or full posts? Are all the other shorter posts full or excerpts?
      The description of each category you said you place before the posts: This is also made sticky?
      You say you used a homepage template: This is something available or did you just design the page that way?
      Thanks, this post was so helpful. Most I'm familiar with but it helps to have it laid out.
      I use the_excerpt on the category template.

      The description for the category was entered under the Category Description section in wordpress itself. (not a post) Most themes dont use this tag though, so alternatively you can just put your content directly into the template surrounded by <p > tags.

      Many Magazine style themes could work maybe for the homepage. I find it much better to start off to with a base theme and edit it to my liking.
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  • Profile picture of the author dagaul101
    Nice tip, the onus is on quality and naturally progression, the search engines will always reward you well for this
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  • Profile picture of the author Chucky
    Great stuff!
    So you do /%category%/%postname%/ and remove "category" from your wordpress base URL!

    The only reason I don't do the former is because sometimes your category name and postname can be the same and your URL can look spammy! Especially for those smaller sniper kind of sites where you're also using an EMD. MyKeyword.com/my-keyword/my-keyword/ does not look very attractive does it? Although I've seen a couple of people recommend that!

    For the same reason, I can't remove "category" from my URL either because then I may have a category and a post whose URLs are identical.

    Anyways, what all this tells us is that both ways work perfectly fine as long as you stick to one method and take action! And as we always said 'there are more than a gazillion ways to skin that same cat' !!

    I also bought some of those expensive monthly subscription homepage backlinks and then pulled out because I figured I would be paying in excess of $1K/year!
    Congrats again and thanks for sharing!
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    Thanks for the post, great information.
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  • Profile picture of the author dirtdigger
    For the same reason, I can't remove "category" from my URL either because then I may have a category and a post whose URLs are identical.
    Chucky,

    I recently started using Clickbump's templates and one of the tips I picked up from his site is to structure your url as follows:

    /%category%/%postname.html%/

    This will get you around the problem of having a category and a post with the same name.

    John
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    This post should be stickied. Thanks for sharing
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  • Profile picture of the author day
    Hi, it seems like a lot of work. I expect something to be simpler. Anyway, thanks for your guidance.
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  • Profile picture of the author coolseek
    Retsek,

    I have couple of questions

    off page linking

    for #2, you said
    Fourth Week, I outsourced a Link Wheel that was built over 21 days that included high PR Web2 sites and also .EDU / .GOV blogs linking to the Homepage of the site and randomly to each other. The second layer, larger of lower PR Web2 sites, linked to the top layer. In addition, all the pages in the wheel also randomly linked to authority sites like wikipedia, about.com ...youtube videos, forums, etc.
    how does The second layer, larger of lower PR Web2 sites, links to the top layer?? Do they have more than 1 link in the web 2.0 article? Also, did you interlink the top layer i.e blogspot --------> wordpress.com----------->blog.com??

    Who built your link wheel??


    In #6, you used 20,000 forum profiles? Was it for each link?? or did you use the 20,000 link for all link together (not seperately)

    And where did you buy the service from??

    thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    The second layer of lower PR web2 sites linked to the high PR web2 sites. The 20,000 links went to both layers - although since there were significantly more lower PR web2 pages, those got like 80% of the 20k links.

    Yes I interlinked the top layer but randomly. I also linked to related pages that were not mine, like wikipedia, youtube.com, about.com, etc. I feel that is VERY important.

    If the article is 300 - 500 words, i usually do 2 - 4 links. That includes links to the money page, other web2, & the wikipedia, youtube, etc.

    The guy who does my linkwheel is on quite a long vacation. He's european :/

    The 20,000 figure is a mixture of blog comments, forum profiles and social bookmarks. When I run them, they go usually go evenly to all the links in the blast. Then about 2-3months afterward, i blast those 20k with more links of their own.

    I get my forum profiles & blog comments from Fiverr. find user 'worldofseo' for the profiles, and just use any top rated seller for the mass comments. I also use OneHourBacklinks.com for blog comments that link to the money page or top tier pages like high PR Web2, Articles Directories and BMR posts.

    I use Bookmarking Demon for social bookmarks.
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    • Profile picture of the author coolseek
      So in average, how many links did the top layer receive from the 2nd layer??

      And how many spokes did the top wheel have?

      Originally Posted by retsek View Post

      The second layer of lower PR web2 sites linked to the high PR web2 sites. The 20,000 links went to both layers - although since there were significantly more lower PR web2 pages, those got like 80% of the 20k links.

      Yes I interlinked the top layer but randomly. I also linked to related pages that were not mine, like wikipedia, youtube.com, about.com, etc. I feel that is VERY important.

      If the article is 300 - 500 words, i usually do 2 - 4 links. That includes links to the money page, other web2, & the wikipedia, youtube, etc.

      The guy who does my linkwheel is on quite a long vacation. He's european :/

      The 20,000 figure is a mixture of blog comments, forum profiles and social bookmarks. When I run them, they go usually go evenly to all the links in the blast. Then about 2-3months afterward, i blast those 20k with more links of their own.

      I get my forum profiles & blog comments from Fiverr. find user 'worldofseo' for the profiles, and just use any top rated seller for the mass comments. I also use OneHourBacklinks.com for blog comments that link to the money page or top tier pages like high PR Web2, Articles Directories and BMR posts.

      I use Bookmarking Demon for social bookmarks.
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      • Profile picture of the author retsek
        Originally Posted by coolseek View Post

        So in average, how many links did the top layer receive from the 2nd layer??

        And how many spokes did the top wheel have?
        there were 5 high pr web2, 2 EDUs and 1 .GOV in the top layer.
        top layer got 20% of the initial 20k profiles, comments, SBs.
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  • Profile picture of the author visimedia
    the one thing in this case that you will need to do is to do good on page optimization for sure.. I've seen a lot cases of high PR page is beaten by lower PR pages.
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  • Profile picture of the author otensilnoel
    Those are some good tips right there, I'm gonna try some of them. I guess content is still king.
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    • Profile picture of the author coolseek
      Originally Posted by Mike Grant View Post

      With PR N/A .info backlinks!

      Mike, you are spinning my head.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by Mike Grant View Post

      With PR N/A .info backlinks!
      Yeah I was looking at that other thread. I tried his service on 10 keywords, and i have to admit that it does rank for competitive terms but it takes much longer than the method i'm using here.

      But i personally don't like the types of links created, they're all .infos for 1, and all the links are on pages with completely unrelated garbage content.

      Going with a PR network like BMR is a better option for long term even though it costs more, IMO.
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  • Profile picture of the author wishfulsuccess
    Lol, i'm usually an impatient guy. The fastest way possible (and still get the same power) is just to add pages with existing high PR to your backlink list via link purchases, very private blog networks with low OBL and forum profiles etc. Articles can work really well if you have the software and have a list of fast approval sites. Of course, you'll need to send spiders towards these sites and just throw them in a rss feed and distribute them across the web. Organic crawling, and you won't be needing to mass ping them like crazy. Fast indexing, fast results.
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  • Profile picture of the author RealEcon
    Instead of paying for BMR and linklicious for 12 weeks. You could have just put up 20-30 pages of content on an aged domain, blasted it with AMR and Scrapebox, then subscribed to a homepage backlinks network. It would have taken you 2 weeks for what took you 12.

    Live and Learn.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by RealEcon View Post

      Instead of paying for BMR and linklicious for 12 weeks. You could have just put up 20-30 pages of content on an aged domain, blasted it with AMR and Scrapebox, then subscribed to a homepage backlinks network. It would have taken you 2 weeks for what took you 12.

      Live and Learn.
      That's just the point. I don't want to pay monthly fees for Homepage PR links from guys like you. Sorry. And all too often you buy a package and the PR drops like a rock after an update.

      The cost of BMR and all services i use is spread across all the sites I own. And once you create the backlinks, you don't have to keep paying for them.

      So yes PR links are important. BUT I would MUCH rather go to a link trading forum like DP or here, and buy Permanent or Yearly PR links from sites that are related.
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  • Profile picture of the author rowanman28
    From everything I've heard and tried, only the quality links really matter. Software blasting is no longer effective. What does work is the regular updates of quality relevant content on your site, and quality relevant articles and blog posts as back links, preferably authority links, if you can get them. I would rather pay ten bucks for a good long relevant article as a back link than a dollar for a million crappy spam links. That was a good point about linking to Wikipedia as well as your site ocassionally, giving it "expert" status by linking to an authority site as well as yours.
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  • Profile picture of the author Doot
    Great plan of attack to rank, thanks for sharing
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  • Profile picture of the author mattr2110
    So where on earth do you find a writer that cheap that writes articles that don't get rejected? I've hired two different people off the forums, paid for 10 first just to test them out. The 10 past then I bought an order of 30 and the posts get rejected left and right. Same process for two different people and both where awful writers.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by mattr2110 View Post

      So where on earth do you find a writer that cheap that writes articles that don't get rejected? I've hired two different people off the forums, paid for 10 first just to test them out. The 10 past then I bought an order of 30 and the posts get rejected left and right. Same process for two different people and both where awful writers.
      I'm just lucky I guess. Recently i got a great worker from somewhere in africa. In 10 days, she churned out 200 150-word posts at 100% approval rate. Freaking amazing.

      Her posts were so good i ended up removing some of them from BMR before they went live and using them to make up complete articles on the money page.

      When advertising for workers, you need to be clear about what you expect done, set a time frame for completion, and require regular updates and communication. That almost certainly weeds out the duds. I spell it out, step by step. Maybe that's why it works for me.

      So I suggest you keep trying to find good writers and when you do, pay them well so they continue working and providing quality.
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  • Profile picture of the author BacklinkGURU
    Well, you have to spend money to buy good articles. Bytheway thanks for sharing all of these.
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  • Profile picture of the author 2423898
    Write better content. Try and find out what you can do better than them. Go and look at their site/blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    absolutely fantastic and very solid strategy! You got everything right from the good site structure up to intelligent and effective off-site link building.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
      Good stuff in there Retsek. Just bear in mind that alot of high Pr networks oversell their pages so you can see a lot of high Pr backlinks in a competitors profile and it not be giving them the kind of juice it would if they had lower Out bound links like you suggested you may need high PR links for serps where the competitor has more natural links.
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  • Profile picture of the author ykgforum
    It' very nice post for all SEO person increase backlink and PR
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Update!

      So I've applied this same exact method to another niche (targeted 160,000 Exact Searches). BUT This time I ramped it up to see how fast I can go without raising red flags with Google. So far so good. Here are the cliffnotes:

      -Keyword is amazing. Getting $3-$5 adsense clicks
      -Domain was registered 39 days ago
      -Content added 25 days ago
      -The Top competitors are:
      1. Wikipedia (with 3,100 External Backlinks)
      2. "keyword"forums.com (500k pages indexed, 6,000 External Backlinks)
      3. An internet marketer like me - (100 pages indexed, 3,500 Backlinks)
      4. .GOV US Webpage
      5. .GOV US Webpage
      6. a us .org
      7. a uk .org

      So far YSE shows, 400 backlinks and 20 pages indexed. The site is ranked #8 and its getting some traffic from the main keyword and lots more from long tail.

      Let see if it holds
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  • Profile picture of the author The 13th Warrior
    Originally Posted by retsek View Post


    I could have stretched this out to a couple of pages and have my PDF in the WSO section, but here it is. Free for you to take action, incorporate into your own existing methods and use for free.


    You should consider doing an WSO with clear, 2-3 minute videos for each step, because there is a certain percentage of the population that are visually oriented.

    This could be a monster package at $27-$147, OR

    One-time membership fee site, OR

    Sell it as individual packages from level 1 to level whatever, each costing a little more and each package a course complete in itself, each higher level you buy simply gets you faster results.

    The pdf attachments would have duplicate script as spoken in the video, with links inside giving you commissions to tools you recommend and/or have a Resource guide of tools with some free tools, and some of the paid tools you get commission on, making sure free and paid methods both get job done. Making sure these are tools you actually use or have used.

    The 13th Warrior
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  • Profile picture of the author friendfeed
    Now you too needs to create many quality backlinks for your site more than your competitor..,Create Backlinks till you beat him and i am sure you beat him if you keep creating quality backlinks .., Quality + Quantity = Wins.
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    • Profile picture of the author F1SEO
      Whoever said there was a sandbox? Sandbox has gone in favour of generating decent website

      Good shared dude
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  • Profile picture of the author amherstsowell
    Nice post, thank you.
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  • Profile picture of the author eubertmo
    Very helpful tips indeed!
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  • Profile picture of the author android45
    Nice post, thanks for sharing such a great information.
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  • Profile picture of the author leapharris
    This post is very helpfull... I need to use the Wp plugins you introduced..
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    • Profile picture of the author uabclst
      Nice process for getting ranked. I can also recommend the Easy WP SEO plugin. We use it on our site. It is much better than SEOPressor. Haven't noticed any decrease in performance with it.
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    • Profile picture of the author karkade
      Thanks for this post. I've clipped it to Evernote for future reference
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  • Profile picture of the author Sglant
    Originally Posted by retsek View Post

    [this is more of a guide/suggestions for newbies]

    So i joined a niche that gets 125,000 exact searches for the main keyword and several thousand for additional keywords.

    When I started the current #1 was Wikipedia and #2 was a competitor who started 1 year before. I looked at his backlinks and I concluded that he did at least 3 full SENUKE runs and he bought into one of those High PR link networks (1 PR6, 3 PR5, 6PR4, etc).

    So here's how I was able to take the #2, #3 and #4 positions for the main keyword without paying monthly fees for high PR links:

    - I created and bought lots of quality content. Over 200 posts. It's important to not post it all at once. Use the Wordpress Schedule feature.

    - I removed the wordpress loop from the homepage and built the home page using a Page Template with sections under the topic. Learn wordpress code and CSS and display your home page in a way that is helpful to the user. Having a long list posts on a topic with the full content on the homepage is not helpful to the user, and there's duplicate content issues with the SEs.

    - In addition to the Main keyword, I identified 20 other keywords that had a fair number searches and were closely related. I categorized those 20 keywords into 5 Wordpress Categories. (No Post Tags are used).

    - For content:

    The homepage had about 1000 words discussing the topic, introducing the 5 sections, linking to important posts etc.

    For each of 20 additional keywords, there was a 500-750 word post that I wanted to rank for the keyword. Each of these posts link to the Homepage with our main keyword as the anchor text. These 20 posts were also made stickies, so they appear at the top of their category listings.

    For the other ~180 posts, these were 300-500 words and they went deeper into topics discussed in the 20 post set. Each of them link to one or more of the 20 posts using anchor from the additional keywords. Some of the 180 also link to the homepage for the main keyword.

    Each of the ~200 posts has an image with alt text containing the target keyword, not necessarily exact match for the keyword. I use 123rf.com for many of the images, obviously not free. But we'll make our money back right? right.

    - For other on Page.

    • Use Breadcrumbs!!!
    • Set your Permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/
    • Use a XML Sitemap, no need to link to it on your page. The good ones will notify Google.
    • Use a Related Posts Plugin (YARPP is good)
    • Target Keyword appears in Title and Description of each post and Home Page. Meta Tags are optional. Remember to setup appropriate titles and descriptions for your categories as well.
    • REMOVE the word "category" from your wordpress base URL. (yoast wordpress seo plugin)
    • Each of my 5 categories have about 100-150 words describing the category before listing the posts.
    • Ensure your theme, uses H1 for the Post Title. Only 1 H1 per page. Use H1 once on the homepage, and make sure your Site Title or Logo is not using it.
    • Use multiple H2, H3 in each post where appropriate but don't overdo it.
    • Don't pay so much attention to (or obsess over) keyword density. Just write or produce content that is easy to read, has headings separating sections, uses bullet point lists to get the point across, and has proper grammar and spelling.
    • Use Wordpress SEO by Yoast. Great plugin, free!, and will take care your breadcrums, xml sitemap, pages titles and descriptions.

    There's other seo plugins that will assist you with these on page factors, I'd recommend Clickbump SEO, but you can google for free options.

    DO NOT touch SEOpressor - it completely kills performance on high traffic sites even with caching. OR if you have several hundred sites on one shared hosting, it will make it impossible. Also I think it's pretty sleazy to try to score a free backlink from someone who paid you $100.


    - For Offpage:

    Remember the competitor has high PR links. There was no way I was going to be paying monthly for those kinds of links. So I started off slow.
    1. First I did a press release as a way to introduce the site. I outsourced this in the Warriors for Hire section, and got some nice authority links from about.com and other news sites.
    2. A week later, I outsourced submissions to the top 10 article directories targeting the home page, the 20 posts, and the 5 categories (remember to make your categories index-able in whatever SEO plugin you use, and use the_excerpt instead of the_content in the template). For all link building to follow, its important to vary your anchor text.
    3. Repeat #2 three times with 30 days in between.
    4. Fourth Week, I outsourced a Link Wheel that was built over 21 days that included high PR Web2 sites and also .EDU / .GOV blogs linking to the Homepage of the site and randomly to each other. The second layer, larger of lower PR Web2 sites, linked to the top layer. In addition, all the pages in the wheel also randomly linked to authority sites like wikipedia, about.com ...youtube videos, forums, etc. The posts of these properties were spread out over a couple of days.
    5. Fourth Week, I added the site to BuildMyRank.com. I've outsourced about 300 posts. And queued them up to publish at about 5-7 per day. 50% of links went to the homepage, 25% to the 5 categories, 25% to the 20 posts.
    6. Sixth Week, I also blasted the ~180 posts with about 20,000 forum profiles, blog comments and social bookmarks. It's important here to vary the anchor text as much as possible and then some. also use text like click here, visit this site, etc. In fact, I also do blog comments & profiles to the Homepage, Categories, and the 20 posts just to variate the anchor text of backlinks pointing to the pages.
    7. Tenth Week. I blast the backlinks created at #2,#3,#4, & #5 with another 20,000 forum profiles, blog comments and social bookmarks.
    8. 12th Week. Profit. Homepage is ranked #2 for the main keyword. A category page and a single post are also behind it in the #3 & #4 positions. I'll continue building to take down Wikipedia and no doubt keep the competitor at bay since I'm sure he's not happy to now be ranked #6.
    So that's it, I'm sure I missed something but I think the most important advice you can get is not over optimize and do not build links with 1 or 2 anchor text alone. For the main keyword, I only used it 50% of the time on the homepage. The rest were variations of the 20 other keywords, naked backlinks (backlinks without anchor text), click here, read more, visit this site, etc.

    I could have stretched this out to a couple of pages and have my PDF in the WSO section, but here it is. Free for you to take action, incorporate into your own existing methods and use for free.

    Edit: Also I hope this post doesn't come across as saying High PR Links are not needed. In fact, it will probably be required if I want to overtake Wikipedia. This post just points out ways to setup your on page structure and vary your backlink profile with powerful sources, rather than wasting time using weak Senuke campaigns and blog comments.
    Excellent information! Thanks a lot.

    Saladin
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    • Profile picture of the author markowe
      Originally Posted by Sglant View Post

      Excellent information! Thanks a lot.

      Saladin
      Could you not have just pressed the Thanks button instead of quoting the ENTIRE post?!
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  • Profile picture of the author Ducksauce
    What is BMR please?

    How the heck do you blast 20,000 back links?
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by Ducksauce View Post

      What is BMR please?

      How the heck do you blast 20,000 back links?
      BMR is build my rank. it's a private article network. you pay monthly for it, and it requires unique posts not spun or duplicate content. that's one of the reasons, its links are potent.

      For each 20k blast, it's on average 12,000 forum profiles, 5-6,000 live comments and the rest is social bookmarks. You can either outsource this to providers right here on WF or on Fiverr or buy the software they use and do it yourself. I find it better to outsource, so i can spend my time on other things.
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      • Profile picture of the author larkykid
        Nice post, but found some of it a bit too technical. Maybe it would be a good idea to stretch it out a little, depict the steps in a video series then pump the bad boy out as a WSO!
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        • Profile picture of the author retsek
          What is alt text? Can't you just rename the picture to the keyword that is relevant for that post? How do you insert alt text?

          When uploading your photos in wordpress, there's a field for Alternate Text. I don't use the caption unless needed to explain the photo. Usually the text should be focus the article, the photo is just compliment it.

          Alt tags describe images since search engine can't read images (although they've gotten better at it). Its also for blind people so they know what the image is about. Some says alt text like many other things isn't a factor anymore for on-page, some say it still is. It does hurt to use it, like it doesnt hurt use meta tags.



          It looks like Clickbump SEO will take care of all of this for you, is that correct?
          If you get Clickbump SEO do you still need Yoast?



          If you get Clickbump, you don't need Yoast. It was updated recently, and has some nice features.


          6) Use Breadcrumbs!!! Set your Permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/
          What does the above in yellow mean?


          Don't understand this one. using breadcrumbs *may* give you enhanced and additional links in Google. Personally, I've found them be very valuable. I recieved consistently more traffic on my sites with the same positions when Google blessed them with it.



          9) REMOVE the word "category" from your WordPress base URL.


          This is personal perference. I hate seeing the word "category" in the url. Both Yoast and Clickbump will nix this for you.





          10) Each of my 5 categories have about 100-150 words describing the category before listing the posts.

          Does this just mean you put a post at the top of the page explaining the category, and it stays there permanently? Dumb question, since I am sure it does, but just asking anyway?



          When you go to edit Categories in wordpress, there's a section for Category description. I put it there.
          Now whether or not its display depends on the theme. Most theme authors leave it out.

          A quick Google found a guide on how to do it: Display Category Descriptions, Tag Descriptions and Author Bio's in Wordpress



          Did you pay for this press release, or was it a free one? If it was a paid press release do you recommend a certain site for this?


          http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...-all-work.html



          3) Remember to make your categories index-able in whatever SEO plug-in you use, and use the excerpt instead of the_content in the template). For all link building to follow, it's important to vary your anchor text.

          What does index-able mean, and how do you do it?


          What does the following mean; the excerpt instead of the_content in the template?


          Some SEO plugins by default will tell Google NOT to index your categories so as to avoid duplicate content issues.

          I recommend that you let them get indexed and you use the_excerpt instead of the the_content in the template for the categories. That way you avoid duplicate content issues, and you get additional indexed pages that will rank because your strong internal linking structure. "the_excerpt" and "the_content" are template tags used in wordpress themes to display content.



          I do not see a #2, what does this mean?

          Repeat point #2 - meaning repeat article submissions again with new content.



          9) Do not build links with 1 or 2 anchor text alone. The rest were variations of the 20 other keywords, naked backlinks (backlinks without anchor text), click here, read more, visit this site, etc.

          Does that mean that in each post you should have 3 to 5 different links out using different keywords?



          No that was pertaining to external links pointing to the site and other layers. For internal links, its alright to use few keywords, if its only a few you're targeting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ducksauce
    What is BRM please?
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  • Profile picture of the author stunning boy
    it is simply awesome i love your seo strategies it is worthwhile indeed but above all i will appreciate your hard work.
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  • Profile picture of the author billaaa777
    WOW, I thought this post was so impressive that I broke it down to a step by step level so I could understand everything. I have listed my Game Plan below, with quite a few questions on certain aspects of what you wrote about, that I did not understand.

    I hope you do not mind answering the questions. I will certainly appreciate it, and I am sure many other people will also.

    Website Ranking Game Plan

    On Site Optimization
    1) Create 200 500 word articles. (It's important to not post it all at once. Use the Wordpress Schedule feature.)

    2) I removed the WordPress loop and built the home page using a Page Template with sections under the topic.

    A) What does this mean?
    B) How do you do it?

    C) Why do you do it?


    Having a long list posts on a topic with the full content on the homepage is not helpful to the user, and there's duplicate content issues with the SEs.

    3) Identify 20 relevant keywords, and create 5 categories.
    Create a 500 word article for each one of these keywords. (20 articles in total)

    Each of these posts link to the homepage with our main keyword as the anchor text. These 20 posts were also made stickies, so they appear at the top of their category listings.

    4) For the other 180 posts, these were 300-500 words and they went deeper into topics discussed in the 20 post set.

    Each of them link to one or more of the 20 posts using anchor from the additional keywords. Some of the 180 also link to the homepage for the main keyword.

    So, do you link to post not in the same category?

    5) Each of the 200 posts has an image with alt text containing the target keyword, not necessarily exact match for the keyword.

    What is alt text? Can’t you just rename the picture to the keyword that is relevant for that post? How do you insert alt text?

    It looks like Clickbump SEO will take care of all of this for you, is that correct?


    6) Use Breadcrumbs!!! Set your Permalinks to /%category%/%postname%/

    What does the above in yellow mean?


    A Web site navigation technique. Bread crumbs typically appear horizontally near the top of a Web page, providing links back to each previous page that the user navigates through in order to get to the current page. Basically, they provide a trail for the user to follow back to the starting/entry point of a Web site and may look something like this:
    home page --> section page --> sub section page
    This technique also is referred to as a bread crumb trail.

    7) Use a XML Sitemap, no need to link to it on your page. The good ones will notify Google.

    8) Use a Related Posts Plug-in (YARPP is good) Must get this plug-in.
    WordPress › Yet Another Related Posts Plugin « WordPress Plugins
    Target Keyword appears in Title and Description of each post and Home Page. Meta Tags are optional. Remember to setup appropriate titles and descriptions for your categories as well.

    9) REMOVE the word "category" from your WordPress base URL.

    What does this mean, and why do you do it?


    (Yoast WordPress seo plug-in)

    You need to get this plug-in?


    Use Wordpress SEO by Yoast. Great plug-in, free!, and will take care your breadcrums, xml sitemap, pages titles and descriptions.

    There's other seo plug-in that will assist you with these on page factors, I'd recommend Clickbump SEO, but you can Google for free options.
    If you get Clickbump SEO, does this mean that you do not need Yoast?
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    10) Each of my 5 categories have about 100-150 words describing the category before listing the posts.

    Does this just mean you put a post at the top of the page explaining the category, and it stays there permanently?
    Dumb question, since I am sure it does, but just asking anyway?

    11) Ensure your theme, uses H1 for the Post Title. Only 1 H1 per page. Use H1 once on the homepage, and make sure your Site Title or Logo is not using it. Use multiple H2, H3 in each post where appropriate but don't overdo it.

    It looks like Clickbump SEO will take care of all of this for you, is that correct?

    If you get Clickbump SEO do you still need Yoast?

    Off Site Optimization

    1) First I did a press release as a way to introduce the site. I outsourced this in the Warriors for Hire section, and got some nice authority links from about.com and other news sites.

    Did you pay for this press release, or was it a free one? If it was a paid press release do you recommend a certain site for this?

    2) A week later, I outsourced submissions to the top 10 article directories targeting the home page, the 20 posts, and the 5 categories.


    3) Remember to make your categories index-able in whatever SEO plug-in you use, and use the excerpt instead of the_content in the template). For all link building to follow, it’s important to vary your anchor text.

    What does index-able mean, and how do you do it?

    What does the following mean; the excerpt instead of the_content in the template?


    4) Repeat #2 three times with 30 days in between.

    I do not see a #2, what does this mean?

    5) I outsourced a Link Wheel that was built over 21 days that included high PR Web2 sites and also .EDU / .GOV blogs linking to the Homepage of the site and randomly to each other.

    The second layer, larger of lower PR Web2 sites, linked to the top layer. In addition, all the pages in the wheel also randomly linked to authority sites like Wikipedia, about.com, YouTube, forums, etc. The posts of these properties were spread out over a couple of days.

    6) I added the site to BuildMyRank.com. I've outsourced about 300 posts. And queued them up to publish at about 5-7 per day. 50% of links went to the homepage, 25% to the 5 categories, 25% to the 20 posts.

    7) I also blasted the 180 posts, with about 20,000 forum profiles, blog comments and social bookmarks. It's important here to vary the anchor text as much as possible and then some. Also use text like click here, visit this site, etc.

    In fact, I also do blog comments & profiles to the Homepage, Categories, and the 20 posts just to variant the anchor text of backlinks pointing to the pages.

    I get my forum profiles & blog comments from Fiverr. Find user 'worldofseo' for the profiles, and just use any top rated seller for the mass comments. I also use OneHourBacklinks.com for blog comments that link to the money page or top tier pages like high PR Web2, Articles Directories and BMR posts.

    Schedule them in Linklicious.me to be discovered in 1-2 weeks or whatever time you set.

    8) Wait a few weeks, and blast the following again using Linklicious.me. I blast the backlinks created at week 2, 3, 4, & 5 with another 20,000 forum profiles, blog comments and social bookmarks.

    9) Do not build links with 1 or 2 anchor text alone. The rest were variations of the 20 other keywords, naked backlinks (backlinks without anchor text), click here, read more, visit this site, etc.

    Does that mean that in each post you should have 3 to 5 different links out using different keywords?

    10) Buy into one of those High PR link networks (1 PR6, 3 PR5, 6PR4, etc).
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    1) Create 200 500 word articles. (It's important to not post it all at once. Use the Wordpress Schedule feature.)

    2) I removed the WordPress loop and built the home page using a Page Template with sections under the topic.


    A) What does this mean?
    B) How do you do it?

    C) Why do you do it?


    Once you have your content, if its going to be large site like this you should post only the pages you want to rank first. Then schedule the backup posts, to go over a period of time. It's more natural, it gets the Googlebot coming back and forth to your site to pick up new articles. And it's just my personal preference. I don't actually think there'd be a negative effect if you post all your content at once.

    Take the default wordpress theme for example. As is, it will list your post in order of newest to oldest. I make the home page static because, the homepage itself is targetting the main keyword and the last 10 posts are not ideal for it.

    My main keyword is almost always a broad topic, so I make the home page a sort of portal to that topic. I tend to make use of lists, rather than large blocks of text and I display a summary of sub topics which link to either posts or categories that discuss further. I never display a full post on the homepage or category page.

    I guess you can think of it as a mini eHow.com, but laser targeted to specific topic to make it an authority site. This is how a home page of mine would look: Healthy Living - How To Information | eHow.com but a higher text to links ratio and less images/video.

    In Wordpress, you can create Page Templates that allow you add anything to that page - multiple mini loops, recent posts list, custom html, etc. There's many guides on this.
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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    So, do you link to post not in the same category?

    Yes I do, but only if relevant. There's plugins that do this automatically, but they overdo it with the internal linking. Too much innternal linking can also affect your CTR negatively as well. So manually linking where appropriate is best, IMO. Doesn't matter if its same category or not, the site on one topic.

    The categories are more for the user, so the content is organised. I don't actively try to rank them, but they do anyway. Google also likes anything that makes it easier for the user, and they reward you which rich, enhanced links in the serps in the form of Site Links and Serp breadcrumbs. I know first hand that those help tremendously in grabbing traffic in a crowded niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexdoerr
    It is not worth to post in the irrelevant categories. You must post in the niche related categories only. This will not only let you generate a backlink but it will also help in google indexing.
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  • Profile picture of the author katied772
    Retsek:
    re: the 20 additional posts - these are posts, not pages? And since you have 5 categories, you place 4 of these posts in each category and all of them are sticky?
    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by katied772 View Post

      Retsek:
      re: the 20 additional posts - these are posts, not pages? And since you have 5 categories, you place 4 of these posts in each category and all of them are sticky?
      Thanks.

      Yep, the 20 are posts not pages. Some categories are bigger, so its not equally divided between categories. One category might only have 1 or 2 posts from the 20 post set.

      Remember that the 100+ post set are also categorized into these 5 categories.
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  • Profile picture of the author Anna Howard
    There is just one way, try to go for and gain backlinks from high PR websites of 6 and 7. Thats the only way you would be able to beat a website that has got a high page rank....
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  • Profile picture of the author rcritchett
    Pretty thorough, and helpful. Isn't it fun to watch your stuff go up in the engines? Love SEO!
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  • Profile picture of the author billaaa777
    WOW, what can I say, but thank you for answering all of my questions. I owe you, and you have my PM, feel free to collect whenever you wish.

    Thanks again,
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    • Profile picture of the author olamilekan2
      This is a great amazing post. What you get here is of more value than most WSO out there. This shows the kind of character you are, Now let just hope people will follow thru your steps with actions, even those with little of no money to start can always improvised this for less competitive term that will require less work and investments and scale up when they started making money or Flip the little sites for quick cashflow to be able to invest in the kind of scale you stated here.

      All the best in the future.

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  • Profile picture of the author chadster19
    retsek, this post is great, I've read it 5-10 times and have been implementing it on my site for the past couple months. I've been building the site from the ground up and following your outline as close as possible, my site got as high as 150 on Google within the first couple weeks but now it looks like it's been sandboxed because it dropped to around 450 and now hasnt gotten above 330's. My question is did you run into any sandboxing issues (or sudden massive drops in ranking) as you went through this process, if not do you have any recommendations for how to remedy this?
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    • Profile picture of the author retsek
      Originally Posted by chadster19 View Post

      retsek, this post is great, I've read it 5-10 times and have been implementing it on my site for the past couple months. I've been building the site from the ground up and following your outline as close as possible, my site got as high as 150 on Google within the first couple weeks but now it looks like it's been sandboxed because it dropped to around 450 and now hasnt gotten above 330's. My question is did you run into any sandboxing issues (or sudden massive drops in ranking) as you went through this process, if not do you have any recommendations for how to remedy this?
      If it's a very new domain, you can expect that to happen for 3 months or more. You should vary your link text even more.
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  • Profile picture of the author Illuminart
    Ahh. My THANKS for the day goes to you. Thanks for this wonderful post.
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    • Profile picture of the author AravGupta
      It simply means that internal linking can help us a lot in improving the rankings but at a same time, we need to work properly on building the backlinks naturally. The best point I liked is about over optimization. Everyone should keep this in mind or else a good ranking keywords may also drop down.
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    Awesome post! Thanks for sharing. =-)

    -Omar
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  • Profile picture of the author jeresteem99
    Its really awesome that someone helps a tips for Free.

    I think this is really hard work and Money talks.
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  • Profile picture of the author outwest
    I thought for sure you were going to mention something about SILOing your site
    and posting a lot of LSI posts also in your structure

    Unless I missed it you did not mention this
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