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Hey Matt, do you still have your Best Spinner order receipt by any chance? For the second time in 2 weeks the sale has not been accredited to my affiliate and support say there is no sale showing under your name either.

Thanks,
Joseph

Hi Duncan, nice to have you here once again!

I would keep using AMR and not invest in UAW. They both do a similar job and I suspect its just the way you use them that matters. AMR is a very powerful tool and its easy to go over the top with it and that’s where you have to be careful – particularly with google’s recent algorithm changes. At one time not long ago you could rank a webpage/website in google simply by using mass article marketing, but I have extreme doubts that this is now possible to do. Thus its sensible to mix up your backlinking strategy and not simply rely on article marketing.

If its a fairly fresh domain with only a few backlinks then take things very slowly to begin.

Further, a good friend of mine is telling me that no-follow backlinks are working very well for him. This goes against traditional SEO thinking entirely. So I would advise throwing them into the mix too. By all means use YouTube (which is no-follow) if it suits your niche, and do some forum commenting (again – if it suits your niche) and don’t get hung up whether its do-follow or no-follow links.

So basically, what I am saying here Duncan is, get a real good mix of backlinks to your site/s, don’t go too fast too early, do focus on getting lots of no-follow backlinks in the mix, do also think about going for the social media type of backlinks which I would suggest are become more valuable these days (not social bookmarking backlinks though as those are somewhat discounted by google (in my opinion) due to their previous use for spamming purposes), and no doubt you’ll benefit from doing so!

Best wishes!

Joseph

Thanks for your feedback Chris!

The Build my Rank tool – I’ll be writing up my final feedback on it in the next couple of days, so that should be worth checking out for anyone who is interested in taking on this particular tool for a bit. Currently it gets a big thumbs up from me! What will the final assessment be like?

Hi Duncan, what is the easiest to use? Both are easy – I can use both without any problem and me being a non-techie – that says something! AMR is the more powerful tool, so that could be the deciding factor.

I don’t see any problem if using the same web 2.0 account to backlink to different blogs – cuts down the workload and I don’t see how or why Google would penalize this.

Regards
Joseph

Oops, sorry about that Claudia – I’ll fix that shortly, and thanks a lot in advance!

Joseph

Hey JP, your comment got caught up in spam for some reason – must be the links you inserted in your comment.

I’ve never used Social Monkee and its been a long time since I used IMAutomator so I’m not too handy at giving a valued opinion on either of those tools. I do use SocialADR fairly often, and although it does not drive traffic as such, it still does have a positive effect on my rankings and helps to vary up the backlinks in an SEO campaign.

I’ve heard good things about a service called Synnd, although when I tried to join up with it over a year ago, I never made any progress with it at all. But the key with that tool is that is not only bookmarks your webpages, it also helps to drive traffic, which is really what Google want to be seeing, hence its regarded as a more valuable tool. The most popular option of Synnd is the Pro option, which costs $97 a month, although there is a freebie offer too which is probably good at allowing you a feel for what’s on offer there.

http://synnd.com/

Hope that’s helpful, JP!

Jo

My pleasure sir!

Yeah I saw that Bence – IMAuto are going to be charging a minimal fee for the base account. What is it – $2.99 a month I think. Thanks for letting us know about that!

Hi Christopher, it may look like a link farm, but Google certainly do not treat these links as such – far from it. Further, most backlinks these days are paid for one way or the other and Goog are very much aware of that.

I’ve been using this system for the past 18 months Christopher and its now formed the core of my backlinking strategy. I like to think I’m fairly successful at playing the Goog ranking game on the whole, and a lot of that success can be accredited to BMR.

Regards
Joseph

Hi Christopher, yeah – BMR is a very solid tool. One thing I notice when I gain top ten rankings and I’ve been using BMR for much of my early backlinking work – generally my top ten ranking URL has far fewer backlinks than all the other URL’s in top ten. What does this tell you about the power of BMR? These links are strong enough to achieve some good rankings on their own, but really do work well when mixed in with other backlinking tools and methods.

Regards directing traffic to your better performing site. You can do a 301 redirect on the URL of the non-performer to the performer. That should not only redirect the traffic but also should redirect the juice from the backlinks to your better performing site. I’m not sure how to set that up on other WP themes, but on Thesis theme its very easy to do so I imagine its pretty easy to do on your site too. Hope that works out for you Christopher!

Regards
Joseph

Hello Mike, many thanks for your feedback about the ebook! I tend to agree with you, oddly enough

Yes, you can indeed target more than a single kwd phrase. You can target as many as you want, really. Its wise to “mix it up” with all the kwds you are targeting, although you don’t have to do that in the web2′s and article directory submission backlinks.

With the web2′s, you can add more content and thereby target more kwds that way – add more variations of anchor text as you add more content to each web2.

Hope that’s helpful Mike!

Regards
Joseph