Dear Diary, Today I made a journal.

WF Betting Pool: Noob Survival Edition

  • Hale.Pane lives to pass on wisdom to future noobs (namely do not bet your domain).

    Votes: 9 64.3%
  • REIMktg acquires a new emd. Hale.Pane gets banned for being a noob.

    Votes: 5 35.7%

  • Total voters
    14
1. Build a site
If you don't have a site, you have nothing to put content on.

2. Get content
If you don't have content, you have nothing to be indexed, backlinked, or ranked.

3. Get backlinks
If you don't have backlinks, you don't have rank.

4. Get ranked page 1 and spot 1
If you don't have rank, you don't have organic traffic. Organic traffic converts because it is targeted.

5. Tweak Ad layouts for better conversion

6. Profit!


Consistent massive effort will earn you money. At the beginning it's foolish to worry about "how much money" because any is more than none. Just take action. As long as you don't do obvious things that will get you banned or deindexed you'll be fine. You can always tweak your methods along the way and go back to those early sites. Just keep moving and refining your system!

This is the best "get started with SEO" guide I have ever seen.
 


Curious

3. Get backlinks
If you don't have backlinks, you don't have rank.


For veracity's sake let me disclose something about my site. I discovered something curious about my site as I was researching my site's competitors on blekko, majesticseo, ahrefs, and serpIQ. I discovered that my site was aged and that it still had links sticking to it (that's why it shot from 168 to 66 after the honeymoon spike *facepalm*). Apparently the previous owner was trying to rank for a much more expensive keyword. I saw about 34 backlinks from various blogs, feeders and 2.0 on ahrefs. Blekko and majestic both say it only has 4 linking to it with various PR's (the highest being 4 but I couldn't see it anywhere on the site so I'm guessing that it's from commenting). I pinged all of the 34 using bulk ping (hopefully this does something). I also attempted to check out the old site using wayback machine but it didn't have a snapshot. Hopefully, the previous didn't do anything shady.

*If this is considered outing please let me know I'm still unclear as to the boundaries of outing.
** Stuff I found to be very useful in italics
 
1. You do not need 40 pages of content to get rolling, if you keep dripping content and it gets to 40+, fine, but it is not necessary for an easy niche/keyword.

2. You say you are limited on funds. I would then advise you write your own content and pay for links. You can also do backlinking yourself for free.

If I only had $20 to spend I would drop $20 on Red_Virus before I dropped $20 on content. It takes a lot less time to write that 1000 words than to do 100 manual bookmarks. This is not to say that you need to drop the $20 on Red_Virus, it is an example. You can drop $4 or $8 on other bookmark providers if you want, just get something out there..

It's been 10 days. The sites should be up, you should have at least 1000 words on the front page, have dripping content posts in que, and have some basic backlinking already complete.

If you have not done the above, why not?
 
1. You do not need 40 pages of content to get rolling, if you keep dripping content and it gets to 40+, fine, but it is not necessary for an easy niche/keyword.

Dripping content already. 1K ~ every week. Bought from 3 providers. 2 are good one crapped out (ordered 4 from him, he ran and I didn't get a refund).

2. You say you are limited on funds. I would then advise you write your own content and pay for links. You can also do backlinking yourself for free.

I would but I also know from experience that writing is not cost effective for me. I'm doing manual backlinking as well (One of my sites, not included in the case study went from 90 to 205.).
If I only had $20 to spend I would drop $20 on Red_Virus before I dropped $20 on content. It takes a lot less time to write that 1000 words than to do 100 manual bookmarks. This is not to say that you need to drop the $20 on Red_Virus, it is an example. You can drop $4 or $8 on other bookmark providers if you want, just get something out there..

I bought $6 50 SBB from a provider already.

It's been 10 days. The sites should be up, you should have at least 1000 words on the front page, have dripping content posts in que, and have some basic backlinking already complete.

Site has 1K words and has old links sticking on it.
 
Re-read LukeP's post and eliquids EMD case study and see if you are missing anything.

Also, check the source code when going to your site, are the H1, H2, etc tags as you want them to be?

When you Scroogle and find your site, is the Title and Description what you want?

I say to do it this way because some people get confused in WP or confuse WP themselves with plugins etc. Checking what the site is actually feeding to the end user is a great way to check your work.

Are you using a cache plugin for speed?
 
Tons of fun is TONS OF AWESOME

Bumped you up to the starter plan on Serpfox for a while, keep up the good work :updown:

THANKS ! I'll make sure I earn this.


Thanks?

I have to admit, I had my doubts at first. But it HAS been pretty good. Thorough and consistent. Subbed.

It's def something that needs to be said.


There are a lot of GREAT threads out there. Hit that search button and start subscribing.

Here are some I subscribe to:

http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-...post-easy-bulletproof-long-term-biz-plan.html

http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/140088-case-study-ranking-new-site.html

http://www.wickedfire.com/traffic-content/141338-case-study-ranking-emd-60-days-less.html
 
Post Bookmark Update

Dear Diary,

Pandabait

Position (tracking using serpfox):

kw 1 = 22 [+46, skyrocketed up to 30 then slow climb to 22]
kw 2 = 130 [+31, skyrocketed to 135 then slow climb to 130]

kw 3 = NA (silo not built yet)
kw 4 = NA (silo not built yet)
kw 5 = NA (silo not built yet)
kw 6 = NA (silo not built yet)

Recap:

Pinged the site using pingler
Pinged the old links that stuck using bulk ping
Bought 50 PR4+ Social Bookmarks

Cost:

50 PR4+ Social Bookmarks (single user) from http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo/142744-pr-3-dofollow-social-bookmarking-0-10-a.html : $6 USD

Mars is awesome. He delivers ON TIME and gives a COMPLETE REPORT.

972 word LSI from http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo/142744-pr-3-dofollow-social-bookmarking-0-10-a.html : $25 USD

EMD domain: $9.28 USD

Total: $40.28 USD
 
I noticed page 2 didn't have any.

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Mini update

Dear Diary,

Pandabait

Position (tracking using serpfox):

kw 1 = 22 [+0, went to 12 then dropped to a stable 22]
kw 2 = 131 [-1, dancing between 130 - 133]

kw 3 = Under construction
kw 4 = NA (silo not built yet)
kw 5 = NA (silo not built yet)
kw 6 = NA (silo not built yet)

2.0

Finally figured out how to attack and rank. Update soon.
 
2.0

The reason there hasn't been too much talk about 2.0 is I've had to restrategize. Apparently, "product" or "brand" + extrawords emd isn't a good long term strategy. I haven't been c&d'ed yet but other sites in my niche are going dark because they have the product name in the domain. I will still attempt to rank for the keywords but without the emd bonus (I registered a new domain for the site). FML.

DO NOT USE PRODUCT OR BRAND NAMES IN EMD's.

/rant
 
Dear Diary,

2.0 ---> "product" + extrawords

Position (tracking using serpfox):

kw 1 = 80 [-1, bouncing between 77 - 84]

CTR: 3.85%
Revenue: $0.40

FML


Registered new domain.
 
Dear Diary,

2.0 ---> new domain NO EMD BONUS

Position (tracking using serpfox):

kw 1 = N/A
kw 2 = N/A

I put in about 4 pages of custom content with video, pictures, facebook comments etc.

I had no idea what to do with the emd site after my big fail so I decided I would test what happens to a site if I aimed 50k blog comments at it ( I ordered from http://www.wickedfire.com/links-seo...ox-blog-commenting-service-45k-only-15-a.html). Results will be available in 2 days or so.

Failboat

Position (tracking using serpfox):

kw 1 = 79
kw 2 = N/A
 
Wow. A solid plan crumbles before our eyes.

Not to say that you cannot make a go of your current path, but how did you come to the above conclusions?