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My SEO Plan - help tweak it

by Arsenic
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Here is my general seo plan for a brand new website. Please feel free to tweak it and add suggestions, because we are all learning every day.


Day 1:
  • Create and analyze keywords, Track them with "Rank Tracker" by link-assistant
  • Further analyze the website using "Website Auditor" by link-assistant to find page rank, page errors, other helpful information.
  • Look over the websites content, adding more keywords and content in general to all pages. Blogs are wonderful to have, changing and adding content on a weekly / monthly basis is also great.

    Day 2:
  • Submit website to 100+ search engines, I use a private tool but iBusiness Promoter will work fine.
  • Ping website and all pages with 100+ ping servers. I use Sick Submitter for pinging.
  • Use No Hands SEO to submit website to 2500 whois servers

    Day 3:
  • Type up an article about the websites topic, strategically using keywords and related topics in the body. I lightly use spintax, and I do this manually. select about one to 3 words in a healthy paragraph to spin. For example: "{The other day|Yesterday} I drove to the {supermarket|food store} with my {good friend|best friend} Tom."
  • Submit the article to 20 higher page rank article websites. I use Sick Submitter for this.
  • Create a small paragraph about the site to be submitted to directories, also lightly + manually spinning the title and body.
  • Submit to 20 high page rank directory websites. I also use sick submitter for this.

    After Day 4:
  • From here out I analyze the website daily by using Rank Tracker to see how the keywords are ranking. Submit to another 20 directory and 20 article websites per week, 10 works just fine as well.
  • As need be, I use Yahoo Answer Bot to post 10 to 30 answers to related topics, just type a small paragraph and make it seem like a 'helpful' individual sat there and typed it rather than the owner of that website. you can do a few yahoo answers daily or pick one day per week to do about a dozen or so.
  • Every time content is added, changed, etc, use a pinging tool to ping the new pages. By best practice you should also run a few directory or article submissions around the time of pinging.

More or less that is my plan. I have a private list of 50 proxies that I use on ever tool for submission. Private proxies have a higher success rate than public ones, such as ones harvested from proxy Goblin. Also, I have a Death by Captcha account for all submissions. I use a separate spam email for each website that i do seo work on. If you have private domain emails then make sure you dont have crazy spam mail settings and filters.

I hope this helped someone, and I hope you will help me a bit by giving me some advice and possible corrections to my plan. Thank you, have a wonderful day Warriors!
#plan #seo #tweak
  • Profile picture of the author Prateek Dwivedi
    Well, I personally won't use such a strategy. But lets see what others have to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arsenic
    What is your personal thoughts behind not using it? I like seeing how people do things differently so that I can become better at seo in general. All help and tips to correct my plan are much appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author Prateek Dwivedi
    What happens to proper link building, especially link diversity.
    Now a days, you have to be very careful about building links or you will be penalized. Excess of anything will end up affecting your rank big time.
    These are the various tye of links you should make:
    Links from directories
    edu links
    wiki links
    press relaeses
    Social Bookmark links
    web 2.0
    Article Submission
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  • Profile picture of the author adamjcd
    Personally I would remove all your strategies from day 2 & 3 & 4. (sorry but I'm being cruel to be kind).

    You don't need to submit to so many search engines, Google/Yahoo/Bing are the only ones that matter really (there are a few others like Blekko & duckduckgo that might be worth while).

    Get registered with Webmaster tools .. don't even submit them directly .. just set up your sitemap .. this will do everything for you that you need in terms of submitting your pages to search engines.

    Don't bother pinging either .. just build quality and natural links to your site and spiders/crawlers will find your site - it's better if you don't force it in my opinion.

    Submitting to all those whois sites is pointless .. they're junk links that hold no value and some will disappear over night - there's no quality or value in that.

    Don't waste your time with article directories .. spinning etc .. I've had serious issues with webmasters taking articles I submitted to directories and spinning them into garbage and giving me back links - sure I got a fair few back links but the anchor text from links was usually the same which gave me a high anchor text ratio for my back links - this hurts right now with penguin and it's really difficult to get people to remove the articles as most auto blog them from article directories RSS feeds direct into spinning software and they don't even check their blog or the blogs email for weeks.

    What makes it even worse is that most of the sites that reposted my articles were deindexed or slapped harshly by Google .. it's difficult to tell whether this means the links have been discounted or have a negative effect .. but I'm leaning more towards negative at this point.

    Web directories too .. most are a waste .. in fact Google has disabled the ability for some web directories and article directories to pass link juice meaning any links you get from some of them will be WORTHLESS.

    The problem is you won't know which ones .. it's extremely difficult to tell.

    Some web directories still have value, but it's mostly the directories that are the hardest to get your links listed in .. ones that have strict editorial guidelines .. some paid directories will be worthless too. However some like the Yahoo! directory state that submission fee's are not refundable and don't guarantee that your site will be listed - this shows search engines that the link is 'editorial' and can't just be bought out.

    I'd also leave out the proxies and any automated tools.

    Focus on asking webmasters to link to your content because it's interesting (yes that means you'll have to do 'outreach' emails) .. and also guest posts - they are the way to go now.

    Also be careful of over optimising your anchor text.

    Just keep in mind what Google are looking for now - improving the user experience.

    If you're thinking of using a back linking service or anything .. just think "is this going to benefit users?" ... Natural linking is the way forward.
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    • Profile picture of the author Arsenic
      Originally Posted by adamjcd View Post

      Personally I would remove all your strategies from day 2 & 3 & 4. (sorry but I'm being cruel to be kind).

      You don't need to submit to so many search engines, Google/Yahoo/Bing are the only ones that matter really (there are a few others like Blekko & duckduckgo that might be worth while).

      Get registered with Webmaster tools .. don't even submit them directly .. just set up your sitemap .. this will do everything for you.

      Don't bother pinging either .. just build quality and natural links to your site and spiders/crawlers will find your site - it's better if you don't force it in my opinion.

      Submitting to all those whois sites is pointless .. they're junk links that hold no value and some will disappear over night - there's no quality or value in that.

      Don't waste your time with article directories .. spinning etc .. I've had serious issues with webmasters taking articles I submitted to directories and spinning them into garbage and giving me back links - sure I got a fair few back links but the anchor text from links was usually the same which gave me a high anchor text ratio for my back links - this hurts right now with penguin and it's really difficult to get people to remove the articles as most auto blog them from article directories RSS feeds direct into spinning software and they don't even check their blog or the blogs email for weeks.

      What makes it even worse is that most of the sites that reposted my articles were deindexed or slapped harshly by Google .. it's difficult to tell whether this means the links have been discounted or have a negative effect .. but I'm leaning more towards negative at this point.

      Web directories too .. most are a waste .. in fact Google has disabled the ability for some web directories and article directories to pass link juice meaning any links you get from some of them will be WORTHLESS.

      The problem is you won't know which ones .. it's extremely difficult to tell.

      Some web directories still have value, but it's mostly the directories that are the hardest to get your links listed in .. ones that have strict editorial guidelines .. some paid directories will be worthless too. However some like the Yahoo! directory state that submission fee's are not refundable and don't guarantee that your site will be listed - this shows search engines that the link is 'editorial' and can't just be bought out.

      I'd also leave out the proxies and any automated tools.

      Focus on asking webmasters to link to your content because it's interesting (yes that means you'll have to do 'outreach' emails) .. and also guest posts - they are the way to go now.

      Also be careful of over optimising your anchor text.
      Thank you very much for your reply. I overlooked sitemapping, I will have to look into that. About your directories and articles, I assume that you put links inside the body of your articles and used the anchor links? I do not do this, i only post the url once, and not in the body or title. I do not use anchor links in any of that, i just group a brand such as "apples" with the keywords I want next to it, like "granny smith" and "pear apples."
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      • Profile picture of the author adamjcd
        Originally Posted by Arsenic View Post

        Thank you very much for your reply. I overlooked sitemapping, I will have to look into that. About your directories and articles, I assume that you put links inside the body of your articles and used the anchor links? I do not do this, i only post the url once, and not in the body or title. I do not use anchor links in any of that, i just group a brand such as "apples" with the keywords I want next to it, like "granny smith" and "pear apples."
        If you're using WordPress on your site then try Google XML sitemaps or even better would be to use WordPress SEO by Yoast which has that function built in.

        On some articles I put the links in the body of my articles with anchor text, but not on all of them, some just had a link as the naked URL at the bottom or in the author resource box.

        Either way didn't really help the situation though.

        I think the biggest problem was the webmasters that auto blogged & spun the articles from the article directories .. if you use article directories this will happen.

        The best option is to just cut out article directories completely and focus more on guest posts .. and getting likes/tweets/+1's/fb shares on your articles - social signals are the way forward.

        Searchmetrics . com did a great post on their blog recently about the importance of social signals .. it's a long read .. but you'll learn a lot from it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Arsenic
    I need to add a solid system for submitting to wikis, edu's, press releases, etc. Thank you for reminding me. Which programs would you recommend for doing so?

    I figure that releasing genuine content over a long period of time is better because google sees it as natural growth. thats why i would run submissions of under 30 and doing it incrementally instead of all at once.
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  • Profile picture of the author Caleb12
    Yes, putting high quality content on your blog along with high quality content with guest posts is the way to go. You should utilize content marketing to promote your content which will result in natural links and social sharing. You can then use guest posting for high quality relevant backlinks. Obviously there are other backlinking things you should be doing as well like press releases, blog comments, web 2.0 links etc. along with on-page SEO.
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