My results from highly relevant backlinking

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Still new to SEO so everything still surprises me. To make this easy to read I will use Bill Gates as the public figure and blue widgets as the keyword.

Wrote (1) 500 word article on Bill Gates and how he bought yet another blue widget. Put the original article on my site, spun the original and put it on 15 or 20 new web 2.0 blogs.

Few weeks later and my ranking for blue widget went from 100 where it had been for weeks to about 70. What surprised me was that I started ranking for 8-10 Bill Gates keywords also. These rankings range from the high 30's to the 80's mainly with a few 500-600.

All of my anchor text was blue widgets, variations of blue widgets and a few click here's and the domain name. Not a single anchor text was Bill Gates. All of the articles had Bill Gates in the title, the url and throughout the article...blue widgets was also in the title, url and throughout the article.

The public figure i wrote about is nowhere near as high profile as Bill Gates but he is well known. I'm very surprised that I am accidentally ranking for this public figure.

Maybe you guys already knew this but I didn't know effective backlinks from relevant sources were.

Lesson learned, this will go into the mandatory file.


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  • Profile picture of the author boxoun
    I don't see this relevant source you are referring to.
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    • Profile picture of the author Wade32
      Originally Posted by boxoun View Post

      I don't see this relevant source you are referring to.
      Me either...maybe you mean relevancy according to link pattern?

      Sounds kinda like a link wheel too...
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      • Profile picture of the author WraithSarko
        the web 2.0's are the relevant source

        what I mean is that every web 2.0 has a spun version of the same article that is on my sight, the public figure was just thrown in the articles to give me something to write about while backlinking my keyword.

        All the articles mentioned the public figure, none of the anchor text did...but now I'm ranking for the public figure.

        Wouldn't that be because the public figure is mentioned in the original article as well as the web 2.0's?

        and isn't a link wheel when you have different properties linking to each other as well as to the money site? none of these web 2.0's link anywhere except to my money site
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  • Profile picture of the author linkassistant
    Originally Posted by WraithSarko View Post

    All of the articles had Bill Gates in the title, the url and throughout the article...blue widgets was also in the title, url and throughout the article.
    Could be because of the type of query that public figure's name is. Brand names, unique geographical names, famous people's names, etc. are treated in a special way.

    For example, an article talking about the cars Mel Gibson drives would rather be viewed by Google as being about Mel Gibson than any particular car.

    Does that make sense?
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    • Profile picture of the author WraithSarko
      Originally Posted by linkassistant View Post

      For example, an article talking about the cars Mel Gibson drives would rather be viewed by Google as being about Mel Gibson than any particular car.

      Does that make sense?
      yeah it does...do you know this from experience?
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  • Originally Posted by WraithSarko View Post

    Still new to SEO so everything still surprises me. To make this easy to read I will use Bill Gates as the public figure and blue widgets as the keyword.

    Wrote (1) 500 word article on Bill Gates and how he bought yet another blue widget. Put the original article on my site, spun the original and put it on 15 or 20 new web 2.0 blogs.

    Few weeks later and my ranking for blue widget went from 100 where it had been for weeks to about 70. What surprised me was that I started ranking for 8-10 Bill Gates keywords also. These rankings range from the high 30's to the 80's mainly with a few 500-600.

    All of my anchor text was blue widgets, variations of blue widgets and a few click here's and the domain name. Not a single anchor text was Bill Gates. All of the articles had Bill Gates in the title, the url and throughout the article...blue widgets was also in the title, url and throughout the article.

    The public figure i wrote about is nowhere near as high profile as Bill Gates but he is well known. I'm very surprised that I am accidentally ranking for this public figure.

    Maybe you guys already knew this but I didn't know effective backlinks from relevant sources were.

    Lesson learned, this will go into the mandatory file.


    Thats great! Glad to hear your getting some results
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Ray
    Those lateral keywords are often unique. Supposedly 70-80% of searches are unique, meaning that we only know the 20-30% that are consistent.

    Keep track of those lateral keywords and optimize for them, because they will also bring you additional lateral keywords.
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