The Backstory – Why I’m Going Nuts On My Article Marketing

Update 7-02-10: Here is my current Squidoo Lens ranking, that links to the money-site noted below:
Ranked #397 in Health, #7,508 overall
Woo – Who’s-ya-daddy?? =)

If you had been a fly on the wall in my brain lately, you’d see two things: 1) frustration at not having worked very much on my passive income/websites lately, and 2) a fierce commitment to flip that…so I’ve decided to make myself one of my own Elance clients with a deadline. Lately I’ve been working on marketing my existing sites, after doing some competitive reconnaissance and seeing that several of my big, authority-site-level competitors have found my strategy of article marketing to be a threat to their livelihood.

Which makes me smile. Because it tells me that I’m onto something…suckas!

Alright, what I’ve found in looking at my #1 website, which is an X-Factor, Micro Niche Site — simple, ugly and money-making — was that I had not been able to take spot #1 in Google for its terms. I did have some success for a day, after an experiment with Backlinks Philippines. Before the experiment, the site was #7 for its main term, and #3-10 for various other terms, including the main product I’ve been selling ($20k in gross sales…oops, I mean $22k in gross sales…) :) I just couldn’t break past #7, so BLP hit me with about 100 forum profile backlinks. As I mentioned, this pushed me to #1…for a day…then I dropped to #5.

Overall, I count about 17 profile links total, which I’ll gladly take. the deal with profile backlinks is that you can keep adding every month, and not all of them will get indexed (which is true of any links – they need to get indexed). This is the // Easiest // backlinking I’ve done so far, hats off to John Dale and the team at Backlinks Philippines.

Having said that, I’ve decided to use more article backlinking and blog commenting for my backlinks. Case in point: On this blog, The Average Genius, I have over 1k backlinks…and much of that from commenting on YOUR blogs! :) That’s my favorite way to get backlinks, personally, since I love reading your ideas. I haven’t marketed TAG at all, just commented, used Feedjit, ComLuv, Magic Submitter to submit my RSS feed, Pingler and Pingoat to ping…but most of this is automatic.

So, I get to interact with those I am learning from, I can build a sense of community, and “market” my blog without trying to. I love social methods of backlinks. In looking back at my #1 money-maker, my Micro Niche site, here are a few things to keep in mind:

1) All keyword research was STRICTLY done using the GREEN LIGHT of Micro Niche Finder. (It was my first site.)

2) Competition per Google Adwords Keyword Tool: That little green bar’s chock-full…Google said, “NO!”
Micro Niche Finder said, “Green means GO FOR IT!”

Specifically:
As of 7-1-10, using Google as the SE, the Exact “in-quotes” search for my main keyword (this site is an EMD, Exact Match Domain):
About 1,810,000 results (0.40 seconds)

3) 22,200 Global 12,100 Local searches [broad searches]
390 Global 210 Local searches [exact match] (HEY! It was my FIRST site, OK??)
I believe Yolanda refers to these as “Crumb Snatcher Keywords” (a word of explanation: she wrote a post about keywords that get little traffic, but the traffic was targeted – and she still made money).

4) It has 5 content pages, with horrid layout (did I mention it’s my first site yet?).

5) Monetization: Clickbank, Commission Junction, Amazon and AdSense. So far, only CJ and AdSense do me any good, but I have NOT focused on anything else BUT AdSense and CJ. That is: CJ has its own product-focused sales page/review. Amazon has nothing but a few links, with images, that I built from scratch. There are too many products, imho, on my Amazon review page. This is something I need to clean up in the near future.

It is in the health niche, broadly speaking, and the EMD is not itself product-based, nor is my main KW a buying KW…BUT: This site nets me around $30-$60/month in AdSense, and has averaged just under $400 per month in affilate commissions per month for the past 6 months, last month I made $650+ all told from this site. (I haven’t touched the site until about two weeks ago.)

That’s about all the backstory…except this point:

The big-fish authority sites I mentioned in the first paragraph are now keen on my main marketing methods. They have caught a glimpse of a guppy in their ocean, and want to gobble me up and knock me off the map.

Why? Because if you check the affiliate profile on CJ for this particular product line — and so far it’s the ONE affiliate market this company is in — I am almost SOLELY responsible for the sales for this company. I think they want to eat my lunch…but they don’t know me. I’m a fighter, and I’m not stupid. I’m not a welcome mat for them to walk on, and…OH, did I mention, my A-Bomb (article bomb) has resulted in me grabbing NUMBER ONE in Google?

Me vs. 1.8 million…yeah. I’m not going any place but up. I’m not going down easy, gents, so eat your heart out.

Bravado aside: Here’s my reasoning for article marketing.

Why Article Marketing Is My #1 Method Of Backlinks

You might not realize this about me yet, but I’m a writer. Unlike many of you reading this, I actually love to write. That might be apparent from what I’m about to advocate and describe. What I did was, in light of the Mayday scare (Google being Google and changing the algo without asking me), I decided a couple of things:

1) I am not going to be following the made-for-AdSense programs out there. Alright, maybe I will when it comes to ad placement on some of my web pages, but I’m more focused on building bigger sites, higher quality.

I recently had an experience where I was researching a topic, on search engine marketing and site promotional software. I found an EZA (EzineArticle) on the subject. It was well-written, and the software was something I had never heard about. I clicked through the resource link (which was well-written for that purpose), practically drooling, thumbing my credit card (my wife isn’t reading this, nor is Dave Ramsey, I’m safe)…

….

…And I landed on an auto-blog, Made For Adsense and everything! I could actually take a photograph of the insides of a PUBLIC TOILET, no…that’s too generous…a port-o-potty…! And I could have found more relevant content, better written, than the drivel I found on that search engine pothole…and the only sense of monetization was the AdSense.

I think my soul puked, my reaction was visceral. That was it – I can’t do MFA’s. Notice I didn’t say I won’t be using AdSense, but I won’t be ignoring the human on the other side of the monitor. And get this: the EZA was GREAT! If the EZA had an affiliate “buy now!” button, I would own whatever junkware that was right now, wondering what I was thinking…

2) I am going to give my readers a chance to buy. This flows from what I’ve just said, but here’s the deal: readers to a product-based site are low-hanging fruit. I cannot count the number of times my wife, who is not an IM’er (internet marketer), has purchased something based on reading reviews. That’s what she and I do: we look for reviews or blogs online, and then buy whatever it is we’re after.

How incredibly frustrating, almost like being constipated (sorry for the visual, but this exactly describes it): to read a review, go to a site half-drooling, only to be taken to plagiarized and 1/2-way spun content, generated by WP Robot or WP Unique or whatever — and blam! No sale, no ability to buy, no software…Not a good business model, folks.

That is not good business. So: it ain’t for me. I’m not the next MFA guy. I’m probably not the next millionaire, either, because I am definitely not going all out by outsourcing or plagiarizing crummy content, or have some software like WP Mage or what have you generate almost-nearly-decent-drivel…just for an AdSense click. The end result of Mayday had me biting my nails, wondering if Matt Cutts had looked at my sites and found them sub-standard…even though my sites weren’t affected. (One site disappeared, only to return 2 spots lower in the SERPs, at #7 in Google from #5).

3) I am not going to be using forum profiles as a main backlink source…This is in response to a comment thread at Noteworthy Tips. I cannot see anything that is beneficial in profile links…they spam someone’s forum in most cases (depending on your service, I’ve noticed that Backlinks Philippines has used my profiles to make comments at least in some cases), and I can’t help but recall the first week of having this blog: 400+ spam comments! I had to upload a few plugins, and wound up hand-coding a “deny from” html .txt file, FTP’d (File Transfer Protocol) it to my blog’s root directory…sorry, but Spam’s not good even if it’s the fake meat.

(sorry, mom!)

My thinking on profile links is that they are essentially self-serving, which I hate about this business. I’m not that kind of guy by trade, and I don’t have a clear conscience about spamming 300 profiles just to get some links for my site. There’s no way to comment on 300 forums to make those profiles “legitimate,” and all I’ve done is increase the bandwidth of that site, nothing more.

Furthermore, although *everyone is doing it* I can’t see the value in forum profile links en masse, in that they do not inform the reader of my website. Mind you, at the Warrior Forum and other forums, I use a signature line taking them here, but only because these forums have something in common with what this blog is about. It’s contextual.

I want to do more article marketing for a number of reasons:

1) I have proven a thousand times that people actually do click the resource boxes, as targeted traffic.

2) I have seen my CTR // tank // on my old articles, all written according to certain specialists in MFA sites. The thinking is “write a general topic, one that will get syndicated, and you’ll get more backlinks.” Yes, but what you will NOT get is any sort of pre-sales! You don’t get targeted traffic, you will not get PR (in my experience), you don’t do anything but lead someone on a frustrating bunny trail to wind up on a site that has nothing to do with your article on credit checks and debt…

3) I have risen from nothing to money-making using almost exclusively article marketing.

4) My own experiment below demonstrates two things: articles written in the niche for your website, driving contextual traffic to your said niche site, will generate PageRank, and will generate sales and traffic with higher CTR in the article resource boxes, or in-text links.

Enough about theory, let’s get to practice!

A-Bomb, or “Article Bomb,” Experiment and Results

What Is An A-Bomb/Article Bomb?

First, a definition: what is an A-Bomb or “Article Bomb?” In its simplest definition, an article bomb is taking a unique article – not plagiarized, mind you, I write or pay for my own stuff – and distributing it every which way I can.

My current channels are:
Directory and Blog networks:
Unique Article Wizard
SEOLinkVine
ArticleRanks
iSnare

Software distribution:
Magic Submitter
ArticleBot Edit: I now recommend Article Marketing Robot
Magic Article Submitter
…and I want to add to this Automatic Article Submitter sometime. (Thanks for the review, Carrie.)

Edit: After writing this post, I never tried Automatic Article Submitter thanks to a heads up from various people in the industry. Instead, I found Article Marketing Robot to be without comparison – there is no other article submitter worth your money but that one.

The A-Bomb Article Marketing Method

An A-Bomb, the way I have been doing it, is taking one article and distributing it every way I can, and it all begins with a unique article. Before getting to the play-by-play on the Jumbotron, my marketing philosophy is not the usual chewed up, spit out Yoda Yoda Yoda (may the Force be with him) that everyone is following.

Note: I know there are many ways to skin a cat, but what I’m about to share with you is based on my brick-and-mortar, real-life experience of marketing a family business from $15k/month –> $30k/month or so: it’s called “marketing”…and I’m not satisfied with low-ball spamination, I think I’ll see better results in a year’s time than many of my competitors, but we’ll see…I might just become a spammer this time next year…shoot me if I do.

While it seems that everyone is concerned with a backlink for the sake of a backlink, I’m not interested. I might eat those words in a few months, I’m not sure, but right now I’m new enough and certainly stubborn enough to try things my way for a while. So, I am not writing a thousand articles hoping for 10k backlinks. I’d rather write these articles or have them outsourced to Elance or oDesk, and make sure they pull double duty.

Article Marketing Beyond Backlinks

A) I do not want to merely get backlinks: I want to tell my potential customers about one thing: Why Do You Want My Product? Keeping that question in mind, I write articles that will answer some facet of why “X” product is going to answer your felt need.

B) Sell at every step…or “Always Be Closing” as Zig Zigglar said. Always be leading to a close…using a bread crumb trail of subtle and not-so-subtle techniques, from reviews to highlighting benefits. Currently I am using a “Set up the Problem” strategy, so these mass articles set up a problem. The next step in the chain, usually an EzineArticles article (or Squidoo or Hubpages, etc.), is to give the solution. The third step is my website: the close.

This is not simply, “Spam 1,000,000 article links!” This is a planned strategy, leading to a logical conclusion. By the time you get to my site, you’ll want to buy. Also, it is important to say that I am not advocating plagiarism, nor am I a fan of auto-spinning without editing. The way I do this, it takes about an hour to submit one article, if it’s about 500 words long.

First Step: Identify Targets

It is critical to point out that I am using a method of massive backlinks being generated, so Do Not Use The A-Bomb On A New Site!! There is a controversy afoot about link velocity, and if it matters in Google’s eyes or not. I have no idea if it matters, but have found that aggressive link-building using just UAW alone has caused my sites to do the Google dance. In one case, my site was on page 8…then page 4, right before using UAW.

Then I hit it with 50 submissions per day using UAW, the links pointing to the top level domain and an inner page. That website dropped off the map entirely, I could only find it if I typed in the actual URL. That taught me to not mess around with 50 articles (100 backlinks) per day, especially on a NEW site. <==DOH!

If you are linking directly to your site, you will not want to be that aggressive, I'd recommend 10-15 or so per day as a setting (per article).

Get A High-PR Article Published – EzineArticles, Suite101, GoArticles, whatever. I use Magic Submitter and set up a number of unique articles (**These are different from the articles I use in my A-Bomb, below.**). Actually, I write/spin one article, then submit using Magic Submitter. If you don’t have your copy of MS yet, just use some high-PR article directories. Here’s a link to thank me for later: Top 50 Article Directories, with PR.

Submit articles, spun or not, to a few of these. These will point to your money-site, and will pass along their link-juice and some authority to your site in time. These are now your targets for the massive mushroom cloud of backlinks. These articles may rank in time, and will get traffic and click-thru’s to your site, which is easy enough to track in Google Analytics or whatever you use to track your traffic sources.

The other reason that this is a great idea is that these will not dance or get de-indexed: these are sites that Google trusts, they are high traffic sites, etc., yet they will pull up your site in search engine position and in PageRank (see results below).

Once you have identified your targets, this is the A-Bomb itself, and the links that you will place in your resource boxes will be to these articles and not your main site, remember that:

1) I begin with an article that I either wrote or paid for (I’m not scraping), it is SEO’d for a low-compete term, in the niche that my site is in. This is different from a lot of conventional wisdom being put out there.

2) The next step is re-writing it so I have 3 versions. I do this because I want as much uniqueness as possible, as many directories and blogs publishing me as possible. Unique content all the way means more syndication (or more chance of it).

Tip: For a good shortcut here, you can do one of two things: just use one spun version across the board, for all distribution. Or you can just spin/rewrite the titles, resource boxes, first and last paragraphs and leave the rest as-is.

3) Then I heavily (50-80%) spin the three rewrites. The reason for this is unique article distribution: I want backlinky-backlinkety-backlanky-lanks, as many as I can get.

4) My first distribution channel is Unique Article Wizard. I take all three spun versions that I have spun in The Best Spinner, with titles that I spin using UAW’s on-site tools to generate the titles. I do the same for the resource boxes (use their on-site tools to spin the resource boxes – in less than 8 minutes, I usually max out their 2k resource box limit, it’s really fast).

5) Taking Spun Version #2, I distribute it to SEOLinkVine. Brad’s made it easy for me…although the results (shown at the end of the article) don’t justify this particular network just yet. I bought the pay-per-article service, and had 5 credits in there…so I am officially not entirely sure this particular network is a keeper for me. See below.

6) Then I Send Version #3 to ArticleRanks. I have to tell you, I’m loving AR (see below in the “results” section), so much so that I’m joining their number as a paid subscriber. Like SEOLV used to do (I don’t think you can still buy articles one submission at a time at SEOLV), ArticleRanks allows you to purchase article distribution credits. I bought 10 credits after the first few went so well (oh, and after I wasted 2 submissions due to my massive error in spin syntax).

7) Submit a unique, non-spun version to iSnare. The reason? iSnare doesn’t allow you to spin. It’s pretty easy that way, and article credits are $2, like ArticleRanks. They publish to EZA and GoArticles, as well as an emailed newsletter for their members, and various channels. I have no idea if this is working. <==Lame-Oh.

Whatev'. They're so cheap I'll keep using them...it's how I used to article market anyway (with good results). My thinking is that I am beyond merely considering the SE's spiders, I want actual human traffic. My article-distribution method is simple: do some pre-selling. (As mentioned.) Google may not count it, but if my articles are written well enough -- and I think they are, personally :) -- then I'll get some sales from them.

8) Use desktop software, using Version #2 from step 5. Why do I use this version? Because judging from my results, SEOLV has the smallest blog network at this time of all the distribution services I use. This might change as the network grows, but right now it’s my safest bet.

In my case, I use Magic Submitter or “MS” because it submits to my list of top article directories (that sounds like I have such a thing: I actually use what comes with the software at this point: EzineArticles, GoArticles, ArticlesBase, about 27 others, all have good PR). I also use:

ArticleBot or “AB” (Incansoft…I get only 125-200 directories to give me a green light at this point, no matter what email I use. Right now, I’m using a domain-based email, not a Gmail or what have you.)
Magic Article Submitter or “MAS” (Alexander Krulik practically owns my bank account at this point – if he makes an automated toe scratcher, I’m on the beta test – I love his software!)

With MAS, you can schedule the submission, like having your own UAW or ArticleRanks, etc. For my purposes, I bomb these articles out since they are pointing to my link wheel (see “Identify Targets” above), not directly to a self-hosted site I own. Let me re-iterate that so you don’t miss it:

**Important note!**
I do NOT use these tools to directly link to my website. All mass-submit articles point to an article on a high PR article directory, like EzineArticles or Suite 101, which in turn either links to another tier in the linkwheel or to my money-site.

I only use these last two tools, MAS and AB, in this manner. I have no problem using them to point to a Web 2.0 property, like HubPages or Squidoo, a high-PR article I’ve published on an article directory like Suite101 or EzineArticles, or a public domain blog. Bomb’s away with an EZA or similar page: give those both barrels and pull out all stops (strictly speaking in terms of using the desktop software, not the article submission services like UAW).

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Please also note:
I NO LONGER support Magic Article Submitter OR any Incansoft tools (except maybe RSSBot, that’s IT). Do not confuse “Magic Article Submitter” with Magic Submitter, which is my favorite and ONLY “all in one” submitter I endorse. The only article submitter I’d recommend is Article Marketing Robot.

The only exception to this rule is Unique Article Wizard and ArticleRanks, both of which I always saw great results from.
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There are two more things I do after submission:

A) After the backlinks begin showing up in my blog via trackbacks, I’ll RSS mash them at IceRocket or RSSMix, then submit the mashed feed to RSS aggregators using Magic Sumbitter’s RSS submitter. Use whatever you’ve got, but do it…the point is to index the links in Google.

B) Ping the RSS mash at Pingler and Pingoat.

I am currently trying out The Indexing Tool plugin (a premium plugin for WordPress), not sure if it works in terms of getting a backlink to “count.” More on this as it happens, but so far, I like the concept.

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Update:
YES, that Indexing Tool works and is one of my favorite tools!
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The point of these steps is to get the spiders to crawl the pages on which I’ve posted an article – I want it to actually count. If the SE doesn’t see it, my hope is that after 300-700 articles being blasted out there, I get some human traffic (even better). And I know, I know: these directories are not all read by humans, but my Google Analytics indicate that I do get traffic from these sites, even if it’s only a little trickle.

Selling a $2k product, I don’t care how you arrive at my site, just get here and read…and then **buy** by all means, BUY. To date, out of all the SE’s, Google is my favorite — but Google spiders have yet to buy a single product from me. It’s those human beings that put money in my coffers…

Ultra-Secret Tips To Make $10,971,362.97 Per DAY From ONE Article!

(I’m trying to rank for that long-tail keyword, “Ultra-Secret Tips To Make $10,971,362.97 Per DAY From ONE Article!” which has almost NO competition!) <==Freaking Genius!

Disclaimer: I have lost those ultra-secret tips to make $10,971,362.97 per day from ONE Article. Instead, I leave you with the following important announcements.

UAW Tip: I play around with their keyword funnel, and hit “test” to see roughly how many sites my article will get distributed to. If this number is less than 1,000, I keep tweaking. This is only a rough idea, however, as I have never had an article get that many distributions. My max is 250 backlinks off of one run, usually I get around 30-70, and I keep rolling.

UAW Backlinks Some have noted that these backlinks drop in time. Yes, they do. This is because of the webmasters dropping the articles, or their blogs, or what have you: I know simply because I’ve been on both ends of UAW.

The end result from my early UAW submissions, about 6 months ago, has been that out of 250 backlinks on one of my sites, “only” 150 or so remain…and I’m not crying about it, believe me. That site remains on page one of Google, with a PR 1 after the UAW run. It’s firm, for now.

Spinning Tips for A-Bomb Success…and less headaches…

If I found anything out, I found out that this massive distribution of articles is A) Effective, B) A learning curve! I made some “fun” mistakes…

James’s Atomic Article Marketing Tips:

(Catchy, I know. I should work in comic books…)

Keep extra copies of the article at every stage of the process. That is: keep a file for the original article, and the other two versions if you’re doing this like I do. As you spin, you’ll want to be sure that the spin syntax is acceptable for whatever it is you’re using. UAW and SEOLV are interchangeable, (actually, Brad Callen’s software accepts EVERY form of spinning, and I HOPE others take his cue…or was that Matt’s idea?) but ArticleRanks is absolutely unique in its syntax.

I found this out the hard way. The reason I recommend keeping a master file of the various versions of the article is because you might make a mistake and lose an hour of work, might delete by mistake, or will need to convert the spin syntax from one to another version, depending on your distribution avenues. Once you have to change out 479 curly for square brackets, or change out 323 pipes for tildes, then you’ll kick yourself for not listening to me…not that I would ever do such a thing.

Beware: Mass article distribution = mass backlinks…and MASS MISTAKES!
And therefore, mass headaches. Mass Excedrin…I was so eager to get on with my A-Bomb, that I used the same spin syntax across the board:

{This is an example|This is what I did|Just to {illu|demon}strate what I mean, {peep|check|lookee here at} this}.

That is a 2-level, nested spin. It works everywhere…except ArticleRanks! ArticleRanks wants it like this:

{This is an example.~This is what I did.~Just to [illu|demon]strate what I mean, [peep|check|lookee here at] this}.

To do variants of sentences, you would use the curly brackets “{ / }” as delimiters, and the tilde “~” as the partition. This separates variations of sentences, and is based on their built-in spinner, which I would recommend to use. Otherwise, it’s a real bear to translate a nested spin from the JetSpinner syntax (example one) to the ArticleRanks version…trust me (*cough!*LOSER!*cough!).

Of course, if you wanted to just keep everything as a one-level spin, then you could find and replace in a text editor, and replace the pipe “|” with the tilde “~”, using the curly brackets as delimiters “{ / }” for the whole sentences and paragraphs being spun. If you want to spin within sentences, you can use Notepad ++ and highlight sections of text, replacing the curly brackets with the square brackets “[ / ]” – and leave the pipes in versus the tilde.

If you get confused spinning, or are outsourcing, then you’ll want to do the spins in ArticleRanks itself, or have your VA trained to use AR syntax to start with.

UAW Tip: I do *not like* the small type font in the wee-little article body boxes in UAW, despite the fact that I have 20/10 vision (I can see a sign from 20 feet away, but it looks like it’s only 10 feet away — I also have heat vision, in case you’re wondering) so I use a combination of Notepad ++ (free downloads all over the net), and The Best Spinner. Then I load the versions into the boxes that way.

I have tried using just one spun version in all three boxes…and it works just fine. Personally, I’m anal and I’m still playing with this method, so I haven’t seen if one is better than the other method just yet, but to save time, this might work fine. I prefer at the moment to have one spun version per distribution channel.

All these services, with the exception of iSnare and the traditional article directories, will allow you to put links in the text of the body of the articles submitted. This is important to know because one of the signals that Google’s algorithm uses to weigh the value of a link is context and proximity. So, if a link is higher up the page, and is in context versus outside of the corpus of the content, then the link is more meaningful. If a link is in a link list in a sidebar, that is not as critical as a link in a blog post.

When you article market, try to find networks and directories that allow in-text links: and GoArticles is one of the good guys in that respect. They allow 2 in content links, and 2 in the resource – I get four links per article. UAW is this way, too, although I snuck in 2 in-text links and 2 resource box links.

Is this a big deal? Well, my Squidoo lens now has PR, as do a couple of my sites post-UAW…but it’s a MYTH that I wanted to bust about UAW for good: you can use in-text links in UAW.

Tracking Articles in UAW or Other Services: If you want to track your articles once published, you’ll either want to use one pen name for all these submissions in UAW, or use the same title, or some line of unique text that you leave unspun. Otherwise, you will never find your articles…until you get the trackbacks to your site (if you’re using WordPress like me).

I am also experimenting with The Indexing Tool, a plugin you can purchase for use with these article submissions. The thinking is that if every link is not indexed, it won’t count in Google, so this plugin creates a link to every trackback. Every time your blog is visited, the script runs and will automatically check your trackback, to see if it has been indexed. Until it has been indexed, there will be a link to the article or backlink. You can set the amount of trackbacks that are displayed on your blog, and can use a widget or place these links in your footer (I think).

So far, in a week’s time, I have had 6 out of 100 backlinks indexed using The Indexing Tool. Oddly enough, my backlinks according to YSE (Yahoo! Site Explorer) have not gone up in number, but have gone down by 1-2…so I’m not convinced just yet one way or another if it works. It’s still early in the experiment, but I’ll let you know (or tell me if you know!).

Having 200 trackbacks and only 130 of them show up as links…well, I’m going to try to change that.

I spin all keywords 2-5 times for my display URLs/anchor text. I want link diversity, and I choose keywords the way I would anything: I use MNF. Green light? Go ahead, then, with yo’ bad self…It has served me well every time I’ve used it.

Results of My First A-Bomb

For my little experiment, I had targeted a Squidoo Lens that was ranking around 150k or so overall, and 8k in its niche (health-related). I created it originally in February (the lens), but it never ranked above #135k overall, and #7k in its niche. I also targeted an EZA that had been published several eons ago.

My money site, that both of these Web 2.0 properties have been aimed at, was ranking #5 for its main term, and on my money-page, I had only been ranking for the product name that I’ve been selling as a result of a former UAW run 6 months ago. I have been on page one of Google, from position #3-10, for the product name keywords. That inner page was **not ranking** according to Rank Checker for its term, which is not product related per se.

After the A-Bomb (to be clear on this point: I have only sent out 2 runs on this A-Bomb to my health site, and 1 to another lens that is not figured in below):

1) The lens is now:
Ranked #803 in Health (formerly 8,000+) and #14,244 overall (formerly 150,000+)
PR 1!

2) The money site is now:

#1 In Google For Its Main Keyword!

#66 In Google For The Inner, Formerly NOT RANKED Money Page!

3) AdSense Has Doubled

4) My Competition Is Now Article Marketing!

For several of my keywords, I have noticed I am ranked amongst my articles submitted to UAW earlier this year. Which means: I have several spots on the front page of Google, with a fortified position. I also notice that on some other keywords, I have been bested by an Ezine by one of my more competitive, Sith-like competitors.

SO: Battle’s on!

Gameplan: Get some more .edu and .gov links, build more PR via UAW and ArticleRanks, and get a few more link wheels posted for some highly competitive terms. I am also going to be building this site out with a blanket approach: I want my competitors to be PWNED by my aggressive marketing.

I plan on owning as much of this niche as I can by targeting more keywords, having more pages, and making a nest on the front page of Google for all my keywords. I’m talking total market domination for my keywords…and I haven’t even tapped into Video nor Press Releases.

My competition is going to be PWNED, by me.

Hopefully they don’t read this blog.

Here is a comparison, btw, of SEOLinkvine Vs. ArticleRanks:

As you can see from the image, hopefully, I have 3 total articles, submitted 51 times, approved 36 times, published 34 times with 11 more pending. This is the problem: I set this into motion on the 19th of June. It is now the 2nd of July…

Compare to ArticleRanks:

I am no web designer, hopefully you can read the figures, but just in case you can’t, here they are blown up:

So, given the same articles, ArticleRanks distributed and published 83, whereas SEOLinkVine published 34 and seems to be STUCK at 34 (for the past 4 days: ArticleRanks keeps growing every day, SEOLV seems to be on vacation).

Unique Article Wizard has given me 3 reports telling me my articles have been blasted out 50 per day, each winding up around 300 or so total posts (one is still going out). I can’t track them as of yet, and won’t get trackbacks since these articles are backlinking an EZA, a Squidoo lens, and a GoArticles article.

iSnare has told me, technically, that they don’t tell you anything…whatev’.

My favorites are UAW and ArticleRanks so far, and I hope to add to them some other services in future.

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