If you’ve not already read this post, grab onto your hat cos I’m simply going to blow your mind!
Go grab a nice cup of tea, settle back, relax and simply enjoy this incredible ride I’m about to share with you!!
Unique Article Wizard HOT TECHNIQUE!!
Please, what I’m about to share with you is exciting stuff, so put down what you are doing and focus your thoughts while you read through. You will have no regrets if you do!
I’ve been blabbing a bit about this technique in a couple of previous posts so let’s get on and spill the beans. Its not ground-breaking or earth-shattering but for many of us, its certainly worth incorporating into an over-all approach to our own SEO efforts.
Let’s progress…
Using my UAW (Unique Article Wizard) software (you can of course use a similar-style software if you prefer), I fire it up with my 3 unique articles and there-after submit them for publication, which usually takes about 3 days.
Of course, previous to this, I have set up my “anchor” article directories and Web 2.0 properties – such as Squidoo etc. Now, its important to realize that these “anchors” need not be indexed. Its of no consequence for us. After what we are about to do the “anchors” will be indexed 100 times over, if that were possible!
When I’m in the process of setting up my bio boxes in my UAW account for these new article submissions, I DO NOT put in links to my own website that I am trying to rank for.
Why not?
Simply because, for now, I don’t entirely trust the integrity of UAW and where they are sending out my articles for me to get my backlinks. Sorry UAW and Dr Noel, I’m not really picking on you here, just that I want to be very cautious in my approach to ranking my site. Otherwise your UAW is indeed excellent, thank you!
So what do I do?
Instead of pummeling my site with a variety of good to not-so-good backlinks, I merely pummel my “anchors” instead!
That’s right. I set up my bios in UAW to link straight back to my “anchors” and I set my target submission rate for the day at 800!!
Not at all, actually!
I’ve found that by “pummeling” my “anchors” the “anchors” are strong enough to handle such a mass on-slaught that they don’t buckle under the weight as would a relatively new website (or even one that’s a bit more mature).
After all, don’t foget that these “anchors” are already massively strong, even though your own “anchor” article or Squid lens or whatever – is brand new. That new “anchor” article gains a lot of strength from the juice passed to it by the directory or by the Web 2.0 property. It can happily live with the strain of mass backlinks!
Thus, what in essense is going to happen here is that the “anchors” are going to pass on much of this juice to our own website’s pages, while at the same time, the “anchors” are soaking up the abuse of sudden mass backlinking and any dodgy backlinks, thus protecting our own site 100%!!
Let me give you a nice example of how effective this method actually is.
Not long ago, I set up a site for some eBay products to be sold and targeted a keyword in the niche of archery (a tasty niche for sure!).
I then set up a few “anchors” including that of ezinearticles.com, which is one I use EVERY time!
Within about 3 weeks or so of my UAW articles being published and perhaps 4 – 5 weeks after I’d bought the domain name from Dynadot.com I found out that Google had just done an update of their PR (the last one to be done – a few weeks back).
I decided to check out my sites rankings only to find that my ezine article had shot past my site, waving as it fled past!
That was my mistake actually, and not really the point I wanted to make.
I am looking now at where I am ranked for this particular keyword in Scroogle Scraper. Bear in mind that the keyword has a global exact monthly search of around 15k according to Google stats. I’m ranking 4th for my site (often times I get another of my web pages sitting on the home-page’s tail in 5th place) and currently my ezine article is 5th in Scroogle’s Google – I use Scroogle, if you remember from a previous post, to provide me with an unbiased point of view. I suspect in the USA or elsewhere my site and article are perhaps higher than they are showing me in Scroogle. Who knows – its often the case, its often not – there’s simply no telling what Goog is doing next.
Now okay, 15k exact searches globally a month is not going to have you retiring any time soon to sit and soak up the sun by your own private swimming pool
, just cos you got a website ranking very nicely for such a search volume.
But what if you could emulate this, say – even merely 20 times in the next year to year and a half?
Obviously I can’t project income figures but it would put your own site at or very near the top of the Google rankings where, according to Google stats, you could expect a total of around 300k searches per month!
Now, I leave it for you to do some more stats with this figure in mind!!
What have I done with this site and/or ezine article since my initial onslaught using UAW?
Nowt, as they say in North of England! Nothing, nada, zilcho!
Actually, I tell you a little lie there – about 12 days ago, I set up a Squidoo lens to get a further quality backlink. Only 12 days ago, so any further juice may well be limited, if having any effect at all as yet on my SEO and my current ranking stat.
And yes, it could be someone scraped some of my quality content from my “anchor” articles. I simply have not bothered to check for that.
How long did it take me to assess my keywords, build the site, fill it with content, and then publish my “anchor” articles (5 of which, no more than that – as we speak!) and then to publish my articles via UAW? Remember, I use the spinning software for all content which saves me ooooooodles of time!!
How long to do all this?
Perhaps 3, maybe 4 hours tops!
How many times could you yourself do this in the next 6 months??
(here’s my telephone number… I charge $500 an hour!
). Sorry, just having a joke with you, of course!
Now, my site is ranking around 4th or something (who cares right now) but if I wanted to spend a further 45 mins using my already spun articles that I did a couple months previously and then submitting them firstly to a couple more quality do-follow article directories, then making up a WordPress.com blog with a video and couple of images (ya, watch out for copyright here!), and then a Blogspot.com blog. And then I submitted a couple of “editions” of my spun articles via UAW to smack, bang wallop my “anchors”, don’t you reckon I would be in top position in Google before the month’s out? I can’t help but think so!
I’m too lazy to bother actually. I get my motivation from discussing things with you and (potentially) training others how to do what I do!!
Actually, I’m REALLY EXCITED simply telling you all this stuff cos I know you will be really excited too!!
But there is indeed something else I gotta tell you too cos this is not all!
I mentioned that Google did its re-appraisal for the PR’s a few weeks back. I decided to check out that particular article in ezinearticles.com just for the fun of it. It was of course a PR n/a because it was only about 3 weeks old or so.
Guess what PR it was “awarded” after the Google update?
I’ll tell you… a PR4…. a PR4 in 3 weeks from publication and within 3 weeks of it first being indexed in Google!! Hot dang! What the heck!!!
Don’t get me wrong (he says again…) here – I’m not proposing that high Google PR is the be-all-and-end-all. Its not! But you surely begin to see the SHEER POWER of this technique, right?
The other articles making up my “anchors” had not been treated quite as favorably if truth be told. But on last checking, they vary between a PR1 and PR2. Nothing shabby!! Its all really strong juice that’s now feeding back to my website, thus I can’t help but feel, even though I’ve only got about 12 links or so to that site, its gonna be ranking very high for quite some time to come, even though I don’t go anywhere near it! (bar the recent Squid
).
This technique I have picked up over the past previous months – you read posts here and there on the forums, you pick up ideas and then you tweak those ideas to suit your own particular requirements. Thus I cannot take all the credit for this technique, nor really for any other techniques that I use!
I must bow down to many other SEO’ers who are hot at this game! But then, they have done precisely as I also do – “borrow and tweak”. I am merely sharing with you the reader, some insights as to how to ramp up your own SEO efforts, and I have no monetary gain from this whatsoever! Please do keep this in mind if you feel I am stepping on toes, thanks.
I see, I do, I tweak, until it works for me!! Kinda similar to the saying – “monkey sees, monkey do’s (or is that – Monkey does hehe!).
In my case its more…Monkey sees, monkey do’s, monkey tweaks! (Me being the monkey!)
Quite easy to remember this little saying, right? Its a great way to move forward and base your own techniques upon using this same methodology!
Now even if I “retired” from this thread right at this moment in time, I suspect I really have fulifilled all that I would need to, regardless the fact we have still to see where my rankings are going to be within the next 35 days re the CHALLENGE.
Don’t worry however, I’m hanging on in here for the duration, providing my girlfriend does not lose all her patience with me – hmmm a bit late for that!
Yay, its tough holding down a relationship when your passions are divided (between your “work” and your partner) and your time is somewhat unfairly devoted (in your partners eyes at least). Best I say no more, you all know what I mean I guess.
Now go and succeed in doing what I just discussed with you – there is no time to lose!!
Best to all!
Joseph
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Will be looking into this some more to see if it really is possible. It’s always possible if you remain optimistic
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Hi Viv, its very possible or else I could not have done it.
Regards
Joseph
Will also give it some thought. There seems to be much info about SEO these days and trying to figure out which works and what doesn’t is tough. Thanks for the info
Hi Dave, thanks for coming by the blog and commenting!
You are right and for sure – there is a mass of info about SEO and a good amount of it is erroneous, some of that to the point of being ridiculous. You gotta route through the rubbish to get to the gems, and once you find those gems they will glow brightly. I too went through that process of finding out what is good stuff and what is not, so I know where you are at and it is tough going!
Good luck Dave!
Regards
Joseph
hehe, such a great technique (I’m thinking to give it a try just to see how it goes) and you’re not writing an ebook about it and try to sell it?
cool
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Hi Aloys, no – no eBook about that specifically. I mentioned it within my Warrior Forum eBook. It does work, although I was told the other day by someone who commented on this blog that google are going to do away with the page rank system, so its effectiveness may not have quite the same visual appeal.
Regards
Joseph
Hi Nordstrom, I use Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin or GASP for short by Andy Bailey and Gail Gardner. Its not perfect, but I feel its better than Akismet for a fairly busy site.
Jo –
Are you still not sure about the links coming from UAW. I heard that they got rid of some of their spammy domains and were more legit now.
Is it still a bad idea to have submissions point back to the main site?
Hey JP, no, I would happily point UAW submissions back to my money site, providing it was drip feeding slowly if it were a fresh domain, and if it were a very mature domain with lots of backlinks I’d just hammer them out. Personally I’m quite happy about UAW backlinks to the money site.
Great, I’ll have to try that then
Well worth a shot JP – UAW does still work pretty well regardless what many of the doomsters are constantly saying about it.
Great article as always Joseph, if my site is 2 years 6 months with a PR of 1 and about 200 links, what kind of a rate would you set it to link at? And If I am targeting different keywords with different pages does this count? So is there a number I shouldn’t go over? If I want to drip feed links at 20 different pages for 20 different keywords can I do that?
Hi Chris, thanks for your positive feedback!
You ask a number of questions that everyone will probably give you different answers to, so its not possible to give you a “one glove fits all” answer here. Add with the most recent bunch of Google algorithm changes and you’ve got a further dilemma to consider too.
With the most recent Goog update, all I can say is that you MUST use variable anchor text on any single webpage or you definitely risk being dumped in the rankings. What does “variable” mean? At least 4 different variations on your main keyword phrase I would suggest – and probably even more is better.
You must also not only target a single webpage on your site. Until fairly recently, you’d probably have gotten away with doing that. Many of the big sites that are ranking high in Google and that have been around for quite some time have merely targeted their home page and very little else. But you can’t now do that. You have to target a number of inner pages on the site, and not merely the homepage.
You can target 20 different pages on your site, but you still have to vary up the anchor text a fair bit – more so for highly competitive terms since it will take longer to rank for those, and thus they need more backlinks to the page.
What I would tend to do is, let’s say I have a 20 page site. I’d pick out maybe 4 pages that were my main pages (including the home page of course, since my home page should then offer PageRank “juice” to my other pages, providing I’ve set up my site “correctly”). But I would also ensure that most of the other 16 pages got at least a smattering of backlinks from time to time, just to ensure it looks like a natural process to Google.
In reality, very often its the case that this is not at all natural. After all, who would backlink or bookmark an AdSense based site that discusses paint brushes? Not many folks would bother linking to it I would imagine. But this is still what Google appear to value, so we have to give them what they want.
Hope that makes sense Chris.
Joseph
Wow, what a substantive reply! That’s VERY generous of you.
Thanks, that does make sense and certainly along the lines I was thinking with the exception of the varied anchor text. Thankfully, I don’t do the adsense thing and my authority project is more based on content than anything else. But yes, it’s very funny the whole paintbrush scenario, Google do have a big problem to solve unfortunately for them it’s not simple at all.
I’m going to be setting up squid lenses as well aimed at each page and then pummelling the squid lenses with UAW. That combined with some variable text anchors and hopefully I can rank in stiff competition. If what you say is right, than my competitors can’t be as hard as they look with the algorhythym change, bearing in mind a lot of their links are cheap spammy ones and all aimed direct at the home page (these algorhythym changes can benefit some!).
Am trying another experiment, just a little different but oculd be quite exciting so will let you know if it goes well.
Thanks so much Joseph.
That’s right Chris – this backlinking “game” is not really the answer to determining how good a website is in terms of where it should be placed in the rankings. In fact, and for obvious reasons its entirely and massively flawed. And Google know it, thus all this stuff about penalizing websites that have spammy backlinks is a nonsense. The vast majority of websites, if they are ranking high in search, have – what may be argued as spammy backlinks since they’ve been manipulated into their high rankings via SEO.
I do think the method of linking to an outer tier bunch of sites, which then link to the inner site is still a very solid approach indeed. Google still really do seem to like this approach a whole lot and will provide just reward in due course. Its not a fast method to take, particularly if you are up against fairly stiff competition, but its a very solid and workable method that surely enhances your game plan a whole lot.
Looking forward to hearing about your experiment Chris!
Joseph
I’m sure you know that Google screwed Scroogle. Do you know of any substitute for Scroogle?
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