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I'd love to hear other Warriors' thoughts on this. I'm in the t-shirt printing business and I've recently realised I could be selling a lot more t-shirts for stag & hen parties (I think it's called bachelor parties in the USA) if I create seperate websites for those niches away from my main site. The sites will become "authority sites" about all aspects of organising a hen or stag night, with heavy emphasis on the t-shirts side of things. If I can get the sites onto page 1 of google for my main keywords, I'll be making some very serious money next year. Same with most niches, I'd expect!

What I'm worried about is creating too many backlinks to those new sites too fast, and getting penalized by google. I'd hate anything to happen to my penal!

Basically I've created a 6 squidoo lenses all interlinked, all keyword url'ed, with unique content on each, all pointing to my sites (see sig). I've also created blogger and wordpress blogs (free). Now I'm submitted articles to ezine and goarticles, pointing at my squidoo lenses and also linked directly to the main sites. I'm also social bookmarking the articles, blogs, squidoos, and sites. I don't actually understand social bookmarking properly, but i know that Diggs seem to rank rather tastily so I'll keep doing it!

I'm supplementing the content about t-shirts with stuff like tips on what to do on your stag/hen night, and i've found an affiliate program for a site where people can book stag & hen weekends and buy novelties etc so I'll be plugging that too. There is also a light sprinkling of adsense on some of the pages of the site.

Anyway, my question is.... If I spend 12 hours per day for one week solidly doing this stuff (I can churn out a lot of content because I know the subject matter well), am I doing too much too soon? Or should I gradually build the links up over months (the stag & hen party season peaks in the spring).

I hope I haven't given too much away about my business & niche!
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  • Profile picture of the author Bob Monie
    Link building is about consistency. No such thing as to many link to fast if you keep it consistent. If you get 100 links a day, make sure you do it every day. if ya get 5 links a day the same applys, get 3 - 7 links every day.

    Gradually build the links up over months rather than cranking out heeps this week then none from then on.

    Obviously you want your link building to look natural to the SE's. You can vary it a little like 3 one day then 7 or 8 the next. But nothing dramatic. E.g. Sitewide link on 5000 page site, in one day. This looks very suspicious to Google and they will sandbox you, maybe for up to 4 - 6 months.

    The only dramatic link spikes that youl get away with are from Press Releases.
    You may get 5000 links in a day form a PR but you wont be sandboxed because the backlinks are from trusted news sites. Trust is huge with Google.

    Always go for quality over quantity when it comes to backlinks.

    Backlinks within related content are the best backlinks to get.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bob Monie
    Forgot to mention that you have to keep an eye out for sites that nofollow links. You could be doing alot of work for nothing.

    nofollow backlinks are worthless when it comes to SEO because the sites dont pass on any link juice for the link.

    I think Squidoo only dofollow links from high ranked lenses. I know this is the case with Hubpages aswell.

    I think that blogger is nofollow with links aswell, maybe just comment links. Not sure about free wordpress.

    Someone else will have to verify this. Do a search for some dofollow social media sites so you get backlinks that count.
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    • Profile picture of the author hanleo46
      Originally Posted by Bob Monie View Post

      Forgot to mention that you have to keep an eye out for sites that nofollow links. You could be doing alot of work for nothing.

      nofollow backlinks are worthless when it comes to SEO because the sites dont pass on any link juice for the link.

      I think Squidoo only dofollow links from high ranked lenses. I know this is the case with Hubpages aswell.

      I think that blogger is nofollow with links aswell, maybe just comment links. Not sure about free wordpress.

      Someone else will have to verify this. Do a search for some dofollow social media sites so you get backlinks that count.
      Hello Bob;

      Are you saying that links I include in Squidoo Text Modules are NoFollow....I know the Links that are already inherent to the generic lens ar set as nofollow,,,,but I do not see that with links we create ourself....where would I look to make sure....view source or?
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  • Profile picture of the author sparrow
    Keep up the good work, what is important is getting content out there

    this no follow link stuff is for the birds

    if you leave a bread crumb trail in your content you can google for your content anytime and find your content, tell me then you don't have a link to your content in the index

    keep in mind its not a link in the traditional basis but its still a link back to your site

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  • Profile picture of the author SullyUI
    Don't be afraid to outsource! (Hint hint, my WSO
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  • Profile picture of the author mookinman
    Thanks Sully - I'm actually a little nervous about outsourcing articles at this stage. I'll re-assess my nerves in about a month's time, when hopefully I'm making money from this campaign.
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