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Hi,

I have been trying out Angela's WSO on driving traffic to a Go Article using backlinks placed on high ranking sites (this was my fist serious attempt at doing something in IM). I have emailed Angela herself several times with queries, and she has always replied, but I dont want to overload her, so I'd like to ask a few questions to anyone else who has tried this method, or is quite knowledgable about it.

Firstly, I'd like to know, roughly, how many backlinks it takes to achieve the desired results? I realise that this is not an exact science, so I'm only after a very rough estimate (under 100, 100-300, 500+,over 1000 etc). The competition for my chosen keyword phrase is: 879,000 pages broad match and 8,340 phrase match.

Also, I'd like to know if keywords are case sensitive? If I do a broad match search for my phrase in all lower case, then I get 879,000 pages. If I capitalise the first letter of each word, then I get 7,090,000 pages. Does this affect the chances of your site being found? Also, does it have any effect if your anchor text links don't exactly match your keyword in your article with regard to upper and lower case?

Is there any way of checking to see if your links are active? I currently have about 30 to 40 links. I discovered Yahoo site explorer, and tried it in there, but it said it wasn't in Yahoo's index (do you need to sign up to Yahoo to add it to their index?). I was als looking at Google's webmaster tools, but it requires you to copy and paste code into your site, and I'm not sure this is possible in an article.

Finally, about three weeks ago my article was on page three when I searched for my keyword, then it dissapeared. I must admit, I wasn't aware of the "Google dance" at the time, but Angela pointed this out to me, so I assumed that was the cause. However, 2weeks later, it was still nowhere to be seen. It didn't even apperar to be indexed because if I typed the URL into Google, it said there were no matches. About three days ago, I tried this test again and it has found my site, so it must be in Google's index now, although, it is still nowhere to be sen on the first 20 or so pages. Is it possible that the Google dance can have a reverse effect on some sites, where it places them artificially high for a short period of time?

Thanks
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  • Sorry, I don't know what you mean to be natural.
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  • Are you saying that you need at least 500 links? At approximately 10 minutes per link, doing it myself, that will take 83 hours!
  • yes you need 400 to 600 backlinks . i think it dont take 83 hours. you can also outsource to others.
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  • The "Google Dance" happens for a reason. Partly it's because of the influence of the newer links, partly because of your competitors, and partly I suspect it's Google's way of "testing" where a particular link should be ranked.

    As for how many backlinks you need, nobody can give you an exact figure, because it depends on the strength of your competition. If #3 has 1,000 good quality backlinks with the keywords in the anchor text, then you might need a lot more, just to overtake them.

    On the other hand, you might only need a couple of dozen if your competition is weak.

    Also, don't forget that ranking doesn't depend solely on backlinks. It also depends on how well you've optimized the title and body of the article for the search engine.
  • I normally select allintitle - 1K competition or below to write article, don't really care about exact match...

    After that, build 20 ~ 30 backlinks with Angela & socialbot bookmarking, and your article should rank well.

    Use keyword tracking software like Rank Tracker to track your ranking is enough, I don't care about the backlinks after doing it!


    Keep building more links will keep your article stay longer, and more sustain. If you don't see it, just build more links...

    - Kok Choon
  • Thanks to all those who answered my questions.

    I had to go out soon after I posted it, so unfortunately I could not reply to everyone.
  • Angela, Paul, whomever keep telling people they can dominate ranking with backlinks. This is NOT the case. If the competition is low and you use a longtail phrase then the effectiveness of backlinks is enough to push you in the rankings.

    The fact is you need/must have backlinks. And they need to come from respected sites, and they need to have specific anchor text.

    But the TRUTH is Backlinks are only a part of the ranking equation, and in competitive niches they alone are not enough to push you to the top.

    Google has this little term "RELEVANCY" and that is the key to linking and ranking. You have to figure out what Google thinks is Relevant!

    A lot of the links that are in linking packets are essentially irrelevant and will not push your rankings. Add to this the fact that most people don't know how to create an effective profile or write an effective comment.

    These people make money selling the packets, way more than they can make doing anything else. That is their niche. If they could make money doing affiliate marketing then they would be doing that.

    Don't you think that if all you needed was backlinks you wouldn't stand a chance? Big Money players would simply pay people to build links and do nothing else and you couldn't compete.

    Fortunately this is NOT the case.
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    • Wow! That is a great bit of valuable information right there. You just nailed it. Relevancy is a lot more important then many think.
    • You mean I should incorporate LSI and other semantics into my profile?

      Relevancy, Variance, and Timing.

    • Angela & Paul is right! This is the case, and they didn't say that you can rank for competitive keyword with one or two packets!

      If you are going after more competitive keywords, you need a lot of links, gather as much links as possible!

      I found that High PR inner page links is great! You can rank faster and easier than many types of links, such as directory and bookmarks. Having said that, it all depends on the domain PR, the higher the more link power it carries.

      If you are trying to game in long tail, just do proper keyword research and find tons of keywords that don't need backlinks to rank, outsource it and post the content on web 2.0 sites or high PR article directories - Ezinearticles.com or Goarticles.com, and your articles will start to generate traffic by it own without backlinks!


      Forget about relevancy! When Michael Jackson dies, how many "irrelevant" links do you think those blogs and news sites have?

      Relevant links tend to carry more link power, but I find that High PR carries more power:

      1. Same pagerank (For instance - PR3), may be relevant give you better push, but...

      2. Higher Pagerank (For instance - PR4), give you a lot more link power!

      I've try it, and experience tells me I rank higher with high PR sites, not relevant sites... so relevancy is still myth to me.

      You better have proofs to your claim, my experience tells otherwise! Profile is a profile, how do you make it relevant?

      Think about how much resources Google needs to process relevancy? They can't tell if the links is relevant without going through deep analysis, and how many sites they need to process everyday?

      If I need to implement relevancy in my algorithm, it must be obvious and easy! And until now, I don't really see the power of relevancy!

      Don't believe me, join Linkvana and Backlink Solutions, these are the 2 best blog networks! Find a niche and create 2 websites, use the same keyword and see how fast you can rank for a keyword with contextual relevant link VS High PR links!

      (BTW, contextual link is a lot powerful than profile link, but see how great that High PR and Low PR links affects the result!)

      I must admit comment have to be relevant, on topic, but that is on the blogger or forum, not relevant to your site! Irrelevant comment will only be deleted or removed eventually!


      I am one of the guy who sell link collection, and I had way too many happy customers!

      There are few guys purchased the link collection and expect to rank high for any keywords within a short period of time, say 2 weeks.

      Some even claim that doing backlinks too fast get his site sandbox!

      However, when I check his site, info:hisdomain.com, site:hisdomain.com all intact! Nothing wrong... when I check his backlinks, I found the keyword he is targeting way too much competition!

      I must stress this:

      When your site is new, go for higher competition long tail keywords, these kind of keywords give you more searches. When I mention higher competition, I meant relative to the next step.

      Next step, pick low competition long tail keywords that you know it can rank in 2 weeks, and put them into web 2.0 sites to build the link wheel.

      Promote linkwheels with backlinks and let them all rank on page 1 to start generating traffic to your site.

      Find out more on the bottom of my signature, I use this strategy to generate thousands of visitors / day!

      When your site starts to rank high and receive better PR (PR 4), you can start to target higher competition keywords, build backlinks to it and keep promoting it until you see result!

      Use rank tracker software to track your ranking.

      If you seriously want to compete with the large budget site, you must know LSI and properly structure your site to build a clear "site profile" to Google!

      Many people didn't know that if you have good LSI and category structure, you can easily outrank many authority sites! Download this: Advance LSI and Keyword Research.

      Review your strategy, learn to make it work, you give up way too soon...

      To Your Success!

      - Kok Choon
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  • Well, SEO cannot be defined anymore as far as the algorithms of search engines are top secret. So, as far as most of the IM/SEO guys research, it is more adviseable to get backlinks daily. Keep on getting. That will bring you to top.
  • I'm in the camp that thinks it will vary. Some keywords may need more and some many need less.
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    • Wait ... first ... I must have backlinks ...

      Then I dont really ... then I must find the mystical "relevancy". My backlinks anchor text seems to be all the relevancy google is currently needing to be on hte page/site.

      I think its pretty universally accept and "assumed" that a backlink consists of "relevant" anchor text in the backlink.

      So then, what do YOU mean by relevant? Many people here have many different ideas of what relevant means.

      Many people are using relevant anchor text filled backlinks on sites that have NO RELEVANCY to their site or niche - to rank rather well - in competitive niches.

      I have seen the evidence of their work, and mine with what many people would consider - non relevant - non authority sites.

      I havent much seen the evidence that rankings rely heavily on backlinks placed on high authority, high pr, Pages or sites that are filled with pages and pages of content "relative" to the site being backlinked TO.

      So how do we know that your truth is THE truth ?

      Affiliate sales is more than SERPS as well ...
  • Exactly, Steve. What is "relevance" anyway? Here is what I tell people:

  • yeah. given for example the adobe. they rank first (the last time i checked) for the key phrase "click here" simply because all sites with a pdf to download would suggest you to download adobe reader if you don't have one yet and the phrase almost 100% "click here" and that's what link to adobe site.
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    Backlinks

    Hi, I have been trying out Angela's WSO on driving traffic to a Go Article using backlinks placed on high ranking sites (this was my fist serious attempt at doing something in IM). I have emailed Angela herself several times with queries, and she has always replied, but I dont want to overload her, so I'd like to ask a few questions to anyone else who has tried this method, or is quite knowledgable about it.