To anyone who is coming over from Pat Flynn’s blog or via the Warrior Forum 40 Day Challenge, then a big welcome to you – I hope you gain a lot from this blog and it helps you to achieve some of the massive success that Pat himself has been experiencing!
I myself am going to be using some of his wonderful info about product creation – I’ll then make sure I get my webpages ranking at or near top within Google, simply by using some of the strategies that were outlined by Pat, which he gained from the 40 Day Challenge, and a few others that I have since discussed on this blog.
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I was horribly sick all of yesterday afternoon and through the night, so not much has been happening online in the past 20 hours or so as far as my own business is concerned. However, I’ve just taken a peak at my AdSense (which is way down on this time last month!) and I saw that the page view count for the Shelby site is nicely up.
So I fired up the Google Adwords preview tool and check out rankings for Google (not Google dot com) and for the United States specifically, seeing as that is where the largest amount of searchers are going to be coming from for Shelby autos.
YES!
A few weeks back Shelby site had pretty much disappeared from its previous good rankings for a number of short tail keyword phrases. It was ranking top for “Shelby GT500 for sale” which is the exact match domain, and this made it just a little easier to get top spot – with quite a lot of backlinking I may add.
Its now top spot for that term once again, which is really nice to see.
Its ranking second for “Shelby GT 500 for sale” (notice the gap between the GT and 500).
Its now ranking 4th for “Shelby GT500″ and 2nd for “Shelby GT 500″, which is awesome as those terms are highly searched for! 12 thousand exact searches a month and 15 thousand exact searches a month globally, according to the new Google keyword tool.
Its now ranking 6th for “GT500″ and 9th for “GT 500″
Its at 8th for “Shelby GT”.
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Okay, so that’s looking very good indeed – better rankings than ever before for that site. Having said this, I don’t believe its going to be seeing too much in the way of sales over the Christmas period. But the main thing is that it has actually come back this strongly and now the only way is up!
I just have to be patient now and hope that exactly the same thing comes true for what was my best performer up until a few weeks back when it too disappeared from previous good rankings for all sorts of long tails. Come on Google, give me a break here please!
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I was going to discuss (briefly) a tool that I’ve been using of recent. I’ve not been using it for long enough to be able to vouch for results, but I can give my opinion of it over-all.
The tool is called Article Marketing Robot (AMR), which is the sort of name that would usually have me run a mile! However, I read some good things about this tool before I decided to invest in it. Here are my considerations…
Its a one time cost! Now compare this to the likes of Unique Article Wizard which is priced at $67 a month. The one time fee of AMR is $79. That is bargain pricing for such a powerful tool!
It allows you to post your spun article to some 18 hundred directories, and that number is growing. Of course, not all submissions are successful, but you can simply run through the submission a few times to ensure it reaches more directories. And, if you do run the submission process a few times, no need to worry that your article will be re-submitted to the same directory – it will not be.
Setting up this sort of tool generally does pose someone like myself a few issues – filling in POP3 details etc. is not my cup of tea! But I went on live chat with my web host Hostgator, and asked them. Within 5 minutes they had figured it out correctly and I was then good to go.
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Once you’ve used this apparatus a couple of times, it becomes a sinch. You just feed in your details – name, address, etc., then set up your POP3 email address. Then you feed in your spun article and bio box. I go for at least 40% uniqueness, and even my articles to ezinearticles dot com have been accepted, which I have to admit I was surprised about!
Oh, and you can set this up to simply send out a few article submissions each day, or you can set it to send out all the articles in a single go. You may want to use buffers such as Web 2.0′s or higher end article directory submissions to channel your links through if you go for a mass single submission. Or indeed – you may not.
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There is one down side to this tool and that is that it hogs your computer’s resources when in use. And it certainly hogs my connection bandwidth. So ideally its best to let it run while you are away from the computer.
Now, as I mentioned, I cannot as of yet vouch for over-all results as I’ve only been using this tool for a couple of weeks. One site I have been using it on is my best performer. I wanted to see if mass backlinking would get that site back to its former glories. Not happening as of yet but I’m hopeful that it will work.
Another site that I have been using it on is a new site. Yes, you read that right – a new site. That site is only a few weeks old and I’ve been really hitting it hard with these links from AMR. And, its ranking top 10 for a couple of half decent terms, and has not sandboxed, nor is it dancing in the rankings. I find that very interesting indeed because I thought that such a new site would at least dance around when hitting it hard with a lot of mediocre quality backlinks. I best touch wood right now or else that site will go flying towards “sandbox” or something 
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I’ll keep you updated regards to progress on AMR and how my rankings are changing as I use the tool. Don’t forget though, these sort of tools gain popularity quickly and thus tend to climb in price. if you are on the fence regards possibly investing in this, don’t remain there for too long or be prepared to pay more than the current $79.
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Great news about the Shelby site, Joseph! Looks like your backlinking efforts are starting to pay off. I always think you have to wait at least two, preferably three, months before you evaluate the success of any backlinking method. I’ve been on the fence about getting AMR, as right now I’m pretty content with Sick submitter, but I really enjoyed your review and am going to seriously consider picking this up and trying it out myself (soon)!
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Hey Michelle, I just this moment finished reading your interview over at DevinElder.com – very good reading and very inspirational, so thanks for sharing that!
Yes, its not too sensible to be too fast in presuming that a backlinking tool is not going to work. But I think the pressure is on for most folks – myself included – in the cost of some of these things. So its easy to dump something after a few weeks, without giving it a full chance to work its power. Mind you, I stuck with Linkvana for about 12 weeks and saw little to nothing good coming from that service, and at $147 a month, that’s an expensive tool to keep if its not providing really decent results.
I’m a real believer in sticking with tools that are working for me and fit my abilities. Sick Submitter I did try but I’m a bit too tech dumb to figure it
I had enuf issues at the start with AMR, but once its up its very easy to use as and when.
Cheers Michelle!
Joseph
Hey Joe,
You didn’t put the link for your Shelby website but I just searched on Google using one of the search phrases you put up there, and I think I can guess which one is it. The one with quite a few photos of the Shelby itself
Hey looking forward to see you succeed in this one. Planning to start my niche site but I still need to do my homework first. Will be keeping track of this 
Bryan recently posted..Making Money Online – An Illusion or a Possibility
Hi Joseph,
I’ve come over to your blog from Pat’s… having a bit of trouble getting my question answered there, and, in the past you’ve responded to one or two of my questions, so I thought I’d try here.
So my question is about the free blogs or web 2.0 pages that exist in what Pat (and others?) call the Anchor Layer. So I’ve created some free blogs here, that link back to my main site.
Here’s the question: do I need to do anything to have those sites indexed by google?
Normally when there’s a link to one of my pages I get the notification in wordpress for a track-back/ping-back. I’ve done some reading around and it seems there are different views on whether or not google will index a fresh blog, if it itself, doesn’t have any links pointing to it…
If those Anchor Layer sites aren’t indexed, I won’t see any additional backlinks on the main site, right?
At the moment, I’m progressing without the “Indirect Layer”, so I’m contemplating methods to get those Anchor Layer pages indexed by google…
Is this correct, or am I way off base?
Cheers, Gavin
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Hi Joseph!
I was intrigued by the comment you made yesterday on Pat’s latest blog and I presume AMR is the new service/tool you’ve found!
I’m a newb and a tad lost on the POP3 bit, could you offer more details, including Hostgator’s role? (I’m also hosting with them.)
Hi Kim, nice to have you over here from Pat’s “place”!
Actually, no – AMR is not the tool I was referring to, AMR does the job but in a very different way. However, seems you have AMR and seems you are also having issues with POP3 like I did too. Here is the run-down for you…
mail.babyfeedingutensils.net (where babyfeedingutensils.net is your domain that you have the email set up for – not the domain you are targeting for backlinks!).
Port: 110
no tick
support@babyfeedingutensils.net
email accnt pwd – can be changed in cpanel at “email accounts” (this has to be exactly the same in both cases – in cPanel email accounts, and in the POP3 email accnt box).
no tick on Log on using secure pwd auth
If you still have problems Kim, which is possible – sometimes I give up with some of my entries as there is no indication as to where I’m going wrong, then I suggest you either come back to me here – I’ll be online for much of the day – or indeed go to the Hostgator support chat – they are really good!
Hope that is informative!
Regards
Joseph
Hi Bryan – for some reason your’s and Gavin’s comments got caught in the spam filter
Yay – that’ll be the one – with the ton of amazing images! I think if I were to start again however Bryan, and if I were much more of a car enthusiast than I actually am, I would get this sort of site up as an authority blog – with said glossy images all the same, of course. But I think that its probable there is a whole lot more money to be made from such a site if it were actually filled with lots of good info too, and not just ads. I don’t know – maybe even along the lines of a forum. There is enough demand for it, that’s for sure!
Cheers Bryan!
Jo
Hey Gavin, geez – the amount of comments and questions coming thru on that one post that Pat made – poor guy must be all over the place in wondering what to do right now
No, no need to do anything to get those free blogs indexed by Google because you will be hitting them with some backlinks anyhow, I presume. If you are not intent on backlinking to the feebies though, yup – make sure you ping them at least. I find that a simple ping to my blog pages is enough to get them indexed most of the time – far more than if I had not bothered to ping. You may already use a pinger, but if not here is the address to one…
http://pingomatic.com/
Google will invariably index a fresh blog even without links back to it, but again – much safer to get some links back.
Correct – if the anchor layer are not indexed, you will not see the backlink to your money site.
You are moving in the right direction Gavin. If you want to build up your web2.0s and high quality article directory submissions for the anchor layer before you build any other layer/s, then that is a very sensible way to progress.
I see a ton of folks getting “hooked” on smaller issues over on Pat’s blog – it was the same on the WF 40 Day Challenge. Just don’t fret too much about the nuances of this stuff Gavin. It does work out in the end if you keep at it, even if you turn the whole process on its head and do every thing the total wrong way around. Not that I want to confuse you, but that is indeed a fact!
Best wishes with this Gavin!
Jo
Hey Joseph,
thanks so much, it’s reassuring to get help from someone else; I’m new to this and I understand that it takes a lot of effort, so it’s nice to know I’m on the right track.
If you can handle a few more questions, here are some:
- is there a sensible limit to the number of blogs/2.0 sites you should use in the Anchor Layer, or does this not matter as long as you don’t drop them all down in one day?
- As for drip-feeding backlinks, again, is there a sensible rule to follow? I’m planning on adding a backlink for a keyword every 1 or 2 days. Too frequent? Not soon enough?
- Re-using a free blog/web 2.0. I’ve got a general snowboard blog, so I’m targeting a bunch of keywords – some to hopefully monetize, others to drive good traffic for readership. Is it a good idea to have a free blog that has, say, 5 posts, 3 of which have links to my site (each post corresponding to a keyword) and 2 are fillers? Or, should I just create a new blog/2.0 for each keyword, each time?
Please don’t feel obliged to answer all that – I know how busy people can be
Cheers, Gavin
Gavin Hope recently posted..Do You Know What A Splitboard Is
Hey Gavin, no problemo!
In answer to your questions the way I see it…
1. sensible limit to blogs/web2.0s
– up to you Gavin. If you wanna keep at it, then keep at it. If you wanna outsource that, then do so. Keep in mind the amount of backlinking work you do is going to be dependant upon how high level your competition is. No point in gaining 10k backlinks if your comp are not too strong. At the end of the day, its all about outranking the comp. Once you do that, you can lay off a bit – or re-invest some of your new found income in automating the linking that much more.
2. same here really – if you are feeding them to your anchors/ buffers, then feed away at whatever rate you wish. If to your money site, that is somewhat more dependant on the “quality” of the backlink. But even “quality” backlinks can have your site sandboxed. Its a tough call. If you get a decent few web2.0s and higher end article directory backlinks, then you should be good to start adding in other links to your money site, at a variable rate – this also depends on the amount of indexing your backlinked articles/ blog posts etc will actually gain. Don’t try to be too pedantic is all. Start out slowly by all means, then given a few weeks you can up that rate quite a bit.
3. I would suggest you make your web2.0s pretty decent to read and to look at or you may suffer from them being ripped down as spam. There is no harm at all having a good few of your targeted keyword phrases coming from each web2.0. No harm at all!
Keep in mind what I believe Pat also said just the other day – don’t try to just think its all about high end keyword phrases. Its not – its also about ranking for lots of long tail keyword phrases. Now in your case that should be easy because you apparently really are an enthusiast of your subject matter, so writing about it may well come as second nature. All the better! Do not underestimate the power of the long tail!
Regards!
Joseph
Thanks again,
OK so I missed the bit about long tail keyword phrases. I can guess what they are, but as an example, let’s say I’m targeting the keyword “Snowboard Tricks”.
Are you suggesting that some link text should be “Learn Snowboarding Tricks Easily” or “Snowboard Trick Tips”, rather than them all being “Snowboard Tricks”?
That wouldn’t be a problem
Cheers, Gavin
Gavin Hope recently posted..Do You Know What A Splitboard Is
Well you gotta vary your backlink anchor text to make this whole process look as natural as possible. If you do not, then you are merely inviting Google to detect you in another way, and thus increasing chances of “sandbox”.
But what I was refering to is actually easier than all this backlinking stuff. And it can bring super results given time and effort. Just write naturally as you write your posts, and make them fairly lengthy and/ or make a lot of them. One of my own sites was bringing in almost 800 unique visitors a day by using this method alone – and not utilizing any off page SEO strategies. I say “was” because when I started to push the off page SEO backlinking its been doing a really big dance in the rankings and thus uniques are currently way down on where they were before. Same happened with the Shelby site, albeit I was pushing off page SEO on that site more, and that has re-appeared with a number of really good rankings.
A friend of mine does the same – no off page SEO. His site now sees over and above 30k unique visitors a month from “long tail keyword phrases and organic rankings which have come purely naturally.
Regards
Joseph
Hey Joseph,
Thx for saving my comment from being trashed.
I’m not sure how Akismet filters out comments. It’s just strange. Oh and btw, yours was also in the spam filter 
Good luck with your ventures though. I’m still in the midst of doing more research on the niche i’m looking into. Wish you all the best!
Bryan recently posted..Making Money Online – An Illusion or a Possibility
Bryan, occasionally I get genuine comments going into Akismet from this blog, but every single comment I get from here is then found sitting in my main emails spam can
There are a thousand ways to boil a cat (or is that skin a cat or something horrible), so no one way of trying to make profits via internet marketing is wrong, providing of course you are not infringing on other’s rights etc. For myself, I’m now moving away from eBay (as I did from Amazon before that) and onto a few other possible money makers, not for any other reason than I feel like a bit of a change, and to see if I can push income up more than I have been doing in the past few months.
Who knows what this time next year will have brought for us. Wishing you all the best!
Joseph
“Who knows what this time next year will have brought for us. Wishing you all the best!”
This I agree with… who knows, let’s hope for the best.
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Regards
Joseph
Hey Joseph,
so let’s say I have a page on my site that I’ve been driving traffic too with some SEO strategy.
Are you saying that the page will also benefit from links that are on my own domain? I haven’t avoided that in the past – my articles and posts link to one of my pages if and when it’s relevant, and, as you suggested, in these circumstances the anchor text tends to be longer-tail…
I just hadn’t realised that this linking would help rankings, I actually had in my mind to not over-do it, so just kept it all natural.
When you say “organic” rankings, I assume you mean external backlinks that others have added freely, due to a taste for the content?
Cheers, Gavin
Gavin Hope recently posted..Getting the Right Snowboard Size for You
Yes Gavin, links within your own domain are very healthy – helps to let the search engine spiders find all your posts and pages and tags and what-not. It can then convey some link juice to your inner pages, and not just getting all of it to the homepage, which is also regarded as a healthy thing for buiding up a quality site. Its also good for on-page SEO purposes.
You don’t want to over-do it though – this would not be good for site navigation as far as your visitor is concerned as it leads to confusion. Just do what looks okay to you.
Organic rankings meaning rankings that are not paid for, such as the pay per click stuff. But no – organic rankings can also be thru links to your site you achieve yourself and not just via links from others because they lurve the content
Have a fine day in the cold UK!
Thanks for the all the help!
And you’re right – it’s cold here in the UK
Gavin Hope recently posted..Getting the Right Snowboard Size for You
You got a really useful blog I have been here reading for about an hour. I am a newbie and your success is very much an inspiration for me.
Hi College Scholarship Apps, hope things are going good for you! Being new to this can be an utter nightmare! But I suggest you pick someone or a couple of folks to follow along with – folks who know their stuff and don’t give you any bs, and stick with them. Try not to deviate or you’ll be a candidate who is up for information over-load. You can trust me on this!
Regards
Joseph
Thanks for your feedback Nordstrom. I do try
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