Linkbuilding Experiment for Auto-blogs
That first site taught me a huge amount about what works and what doesn't.
I tried everything, much of which would now be called BlueFart (doorway pages, link farms, and keyword stuffed pages). Overall it seemed to work and traffic built quickly. I was making £1000+ per month in affiliate sales, went back to work and let it run itself.
Almost 10 years later I have barely touched the site (www.playhard.co.uk) and it still brings in a decent affiliate income. Much less than before, but given I have spent a total of perhaps 2 hours per year on it I am happy enough.
The problem was that I tried so many different ways of building traffic and links that I don't know which ones helped me and which ones just hindered. Nowadays I try to take a more scientific approach.
One of the things I used in 2002 was a great linking tool called LinkMan.
Now, 10 years later I have a network of autoblogs. I have never bothered building links to them (I know I know), because my method has been to churn them out quickly, move onto the next and then let the traffic come over time.
I was interested to see whether adding LinkMan to an autoblog would help.
I am not expecting anything too great. After all LinkMan is about reciprocal links and we know that Google doesn't place much weight on those anymore. However, the beauty is that it takes minutes to set up on an autoblog and then runs on autopilot, so if it even adds a little traffic then it will be worth it.
I am going to run an experiment, starting today. Two autoblogs, both with LinkMan set up to handle linkbuilding automatically. I have measured the traffic and will see how they perform in 4 months.
If you are interested to see the results please subscribe to this thread.
Starting point
Blog 1 - www.chelsealatest.co.uk, PR 0, 242 hits / month
Blog 2 - www.casino-choices.co.uk, PR 0, 81 hits / month
Both blogs have been live for 6 months and traffic doesn't vary much. I also have two similar sites that I am going to leave without LinkMan so that they act as a control.
The linkman page, if you would like to see, is at http://www.casino-choices.co.uk/affiliates/
If anyone has any experience of LinkMan I'd be interested to hear.
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