Shane Brown – Affiliate Marketing » Design/Hosting/SEO

Guest Blogging For Backlinks & Content

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:54:18 +0000

I’ve not mentioned this site before, but I’ve been using MyBlogGuest quite a lot recently. Its basically a site where paid users ($20 per month) can submit articles into a gallery, then any user (including free users) can make an offer for the article to put it on their site.

Backlinks From MyBlogGuest

For those looking to get backlinks, you’ll need a paid account. For $20 per month you get a pro account which allows you to submit unlimited articles to the gallery (maximum of 4 at a time). Other users will then offer to put your article on their site for you. The difference between MyBlogGuest and many of the automated blog networks is that you will have to write a decent quality article and it must be 100% unique – no spun rubbish here! Whats the benefit? You get your article on high quality sites with real visitors! I submitted 4 articles a few weeks back and these ended up on the following sites:

site 1: 9k alexa rank, PR 5
site 2: 29k alexa rank, PR 3
site 3: 431k alexa rank, PR3
site 4: 447k alexa rank, PR3

As well as getting high quality links (2 of which are still on the homepage nearly a month later) from relevent sites, I’ve actually received quite a bit of traffic (around 300 visitors) from these articles as well.

Certain areas niches perform better on MyBlogGuest. For example, tech and SEO articles will get 10-20 offers in the first day, while a food and drink article may only get a couple a day.

MyBlogGuest also has an automated checker to ensure that your articles remain unchanged! Every so often you get an email from them listing all your articles and whether there are any problems with any of them – ie links being changed etc.

Free Content From MyBlogGuest

The other side of MyBlogGuest is that you can use it to get free content for your website! As I mentioned, you can only submit high quality content, which means that when you take content from the system you only get high quality content! The articles will normally include 2 links to a relevent site. There are certain members putting links to non relevent sites in articles at the minute, although that is being clamped down on and you are able to refuse the article if you dont like it for any reason. I currently have 6 sites which I pull content from MyBlogGuest for. I’ve found that adding the content has helped to increase my traffic (and sales) quite a bit, with one site going up by over 100%! Fair enough, it was quite a niche site (outdoor cooking) and was only receiving around 500 uniques per month and making a couple of sales per month, but its now receiving around 1200 uniques per month and making a sale every few days.

MyBlogGuest Summary

Guest blogging has normally involved you spending hours contacting potential sites and waiting even longer to get a reply (if you ever got one). MyBlogGuest turns this on its head by allowing you to write an article and interested sites come to you!

While I was talking to a fellow affiliate about MyBlogGuest, they said “yeah but its free to email them, that costs $20″. Im sorry, but if thats the attitude anyone has, they arent going to get far! Fair enough, you dont have to spend money to send an email, but it does take YOUR TIME! Before MyBlogGuest I would quite easily spend a couple of days (ie 10-15 hours) researching sites and emailing the owners each month. From that I would normally receive around 5-10 responses allowing me to do a guest blog for “free”. Some others replied but wanted me to pay for it. So it was probably 1 hour per guest blog. In one month on MyBlogGuest, I posted over 40 guest posts. That would have taken me around 40 hours – ie a full week to do manually! $20 to save 40 hours worth or work? You do the math!

Do I recommend MyBlogGuest? Well I’ve just renewed for the 4th month If you dont have a lot of sites to build links to, I recommend you write around 40 articles, then sign up for a pro account, submit all 40 over the month and then cancel.

So I guess your looking for the affiliate link now? There is no affiliate program! I dont benefit at all if you sign up.

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Do me.uk domains rank as well as org.uk and co.uk? RESULTS

admin — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:08:44 +0000

In a post a few months back, I asked if me.uk domains rank as well as org.uk or co.uk domains. In fact, it was 8 months back!

After 3 weeks, my .co.uk sites where ranking higher than the .org.uk and .co.uk alternatives, as follows:

Keyword 1: me.uk: 22nd | .org.uk: 58th | .co.uk: 152nd

Keyword 2: me.uk: 43rd | .org.uk: 64th | .co.uk: NOT RANKING

Now, after 8 months, the ranks are as follow:

Keyword 1: me.uk: 7th | .org.uk: 44th | .co.uk: NOT RANKING

Keyword 2: me.uk: 10th | .org.uk: 133rd | .co.uk: NOT RANKING

First page rankings for 2 me.uk domains! These sites have been sat there for around 6 months now (Keyword 1 actually peaked at 5th for a couple of weeks), I’ve only just got around to writing this post though! At the minute both sites are still simply 1 page, 500 word sites using the standard wordpress theme!

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Gold Locket Update

admin — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:51:07 +0000

Many of you may remember my entry into the A4U competition last year. The last update was in September and the site had just moved into profit (assuming I had worked for free!). The site made a few more sales but nothing too impressive – mainly due to the fact that most of the lockets were showing as the wrong price or no longer stocked at all!

It hadn’t been update because the competition thread kind of died off, I stopped going to A4U (and started actually working!) and it wasn’t making enough to warrant me putting the time in. Rather than leave the site to rot, I decided to start looking into price comparison scripts again.

I have a very basic script I have put together which works very well for sites which promote one product. It keep all the prices up to date, but it is not really suitable for sites with more than 1 or 2 products. The most obvious choice was of course Price Tapestry as everyone seems to like it and after a few emails back and fourth to David (the creator), I decided to buy it.

I started playing around with it this morning, now the site has been totally transferred over to Price Tapestry! The theme is still the same and most people would struggle to tell the difference between the old site and the new site – agoldlocket.co.uk. I just need to go through and add some unique descriptions into each of the products now and the site will be fully functional and self updating! While it has taken me a day to get the gold locket site switched to Price Tapestry, most of that was learning my way around Price Tapestry and getting the required modifications for it from David. I’m pretty sure I could do the whole thing again in under an hour.

I’ll post up a more detailed Price Tapestry review once I’ve had chance to play with it a little more – its looking good so far though!

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Time To Ditch EzineArticles?

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:52:55 +0000

Despite all of the over hype around the Google Panda update I am still getting good results from article marketing – both in the form of direct traffic from the articles and in terms of increased SERPs. Just thought I would get that out the way before anyone chirps up with “Article marketing is dead”.

Anyway, as part of my article marketing campaigns I would normally submit an article to EzineArticles as its thought of by many as being the most authorative article directory and does bring in some good direct traffic. I have one site that gets around 50% of its traffic from article directories, of which EzineArticles counts for around half of that. So that’s why I have always started with EzineArticles.

However, since the Google Panda update EzineArticles seem to be running scared. I’m guessing a lot of the crap that they have on their site has stopped ranking now – unlike my articles which are still bringing in just as much traffic from them, so now they are trying to get people to push the quality of the content up. In doing so though they have become extremely picky over what they will and will not accept into the site.

I have 3 accounts with EzineArticles and I will normally submit 8 articles on one account, 6 on another account and then a varying amount on the final one – usually around 5 or 6 per month. I’ve only ever had one article declined and that was due to fact I had copied and pasted the article in and missed out the first few letters of the first word. Between all 3 accounts I have over 100 articles published so I would say that is pretty good going. However this month I submitted all my articles, 8 to one account and 6 to another and waited a few days. Out of the 14, 9 of them where declined!

The articles were all written by myself and spell checked before listing, yet 7 of them were declined for “spelling or grammar issues”. The other 2 (both from the same account) were declined due to “bad author name”?!?! I’ve published around 40 articles with the account all under the same author name. 2 other articles I published at the same time were accepted yet these two were declined because the author name was in the format “firstname initial surname” which apparently isn’t acceptable. It is nice of them to tell me after publishing 40+ articles with that name.

Anyway, I’ve changed the name but now need to wait for them to approve that. I then checked the ones that were declined for grammar and spelling issues. There were a couple of UK spellings so I changed these to US versions and also made a few grammatical changes to make it read a bit better. From the 9 resubmitted, 7 were declined again.

I would not class myself as a great writer, but I’ve never really had any of my content declined by any directory or site before now. I’ve decided now that I’m not going to bother with EzineArticles – it just doesn’t seem worth the hassle.

Has anyone else had any issues with EzineArticles recently? What other decent directories are people using?

Sandboxie – Recommended Free Tool!

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:14:38 +0000

So last week my machine was working away with a few programs, doing some “automated SEO” and all of a sudden my firewall and antivirus shut themselves down and some magical piece of software popped up telling me about all these hundreds of problems with my computer. Some nasty Malware had infected one of the sites that one of my programs had gone to and then managed to infect my machine! It was something along the lines of “Internet Security 2011″ or some other spammy fake antivirus name that tries to force you into paying for the software, in order to remove these fake problems. I spent a while removing it (about 3 hours total to remove every trace of it!) and then decided I would upgrade to Windows 7 from XP anyway.

So I ordered Windows 7 from Scan and as usual it arrived the next – just as I finished backing everything up to an external disk! Right – I wasnt getting this nasty Malware again so started looking into VMware and similar programs, at which point I found Sandboxie. This little program works similar to a virtual machine – but its a lot quicker and easier to use! Simply install it and it adds a “Open with Sandboxie” option to any programs when you try and right click them. When you open any programs with Sandboxie it uses an isolated part of your hard drive so that any nasties do not harm your computer. This means that even if your running any automated software and it visits an infected site – your computer isnt harmed. When you have finished running the software simply delete the sandbox and all the nasties are gone!

You can copy selected files from the sandbox to your main machine if you want to (ie any created files) or you can tell Sandboxie to punch a whole in the sandbox for selected folders/files so that changes are made to the original file rather than the sandboxed version.

You can even use Sandboxie for your normal internet browsing to help protect you from any sites that have been infected. It is free software with no restrictions. They do have a paid version at 29 euros which allows you to set certain programs to always open with Sandboxie so you dont have to remember.

If you are using any automated software – or even if you just want an extra level of security when browsing the net, I suggest you head over to Sandboxie and download it now. As I said, its free (and no affiliate program so reason for me to promote other than its a good piece of software) and I have noticed no slow down in my computer or the software running within Sandboxie.

And just to give you an extra reason to download it – from the Malware I got infected with, all of the FTP details for all of my sites was stolen and most of my sites infected! Luckily Im with TSOHost who restored all my sites back to before the infection and I deleted all my FTP accounts. Security tip 2 – Once you have finished with FTP access, delete the profile!

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Do me.uk domains rank as well as org.uk and co.uk?

admin — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 14:51:08 +0000

I’ve always tended to “follow the croud” with this one, sticking to .co.uk and .org.uk domains for my affiliates sites (and one .net which is an experiment at ranking for USA rather than UK), however after spending a bit of time looking at a few keywords I noticed a couple of .me.uk domains still available. Every other extension for these had gone, including .info, .me, .co, .tv etc etc however the me.uk was still available.

First thing I thought was “thats because their rubbish”. Second thing I thought was “says who?”. I snapped up both of the domains, chucked them on my hosting with a quick wordpress install and 500 words of unique content. Each site is still using the standard wordpress theme, no plugins, no pages, just a 500 word post on each domain. I had originally planned on doing a bit of split testing with a couple of different networks with these 2 domains, but instead decided to use the same network for each.

Site 1 gets 9,800 searches per month according to Google and site 2 gets around 12,100 searches per month. I have a site in a similar area and know these are about right (maybe a little on the high side). Each site would have an average order value of around £100 giving an average commission of £10-15.

I submitted a spun unique article for each of the sites to the network and let it start syndicating. The next day both the sites where indexed in Google, Site 1 ranking 185th and site 2 at 199th. I left it for another 2 weeks before checking again. Site 1 moved up to 54th and site 2 moved up to 92nd. I then submitted another 2 articles to the same network and left it for another week, which brings us to today.

The current ranks are site 1 at 22nd and site 2 and 43rd. Thats pretty good considering these are brand new domains, with extensions that appearently “dont work” and no real link building or content. I then thought it would be interesting to see where the .org.uk and .co.uk domains where ranking. I have checked and all were developed when I bought the .me.uk domains.

Keyword1.co.uk – 12 years old – 67 Links – PR 0

Keyword1.org.uk – 2 years old – 36 Links – PR 0

Keyword1.me.uk – 3 weeks old – 18 Links – PR NA

Keyword2.co.uk – - 13 years old – 3 Links – PR 0 (has since had the site deleted from it, so no longer developed)

Keyword2.org.uk – 5 years old – 160 Links – PR1

Keyword3.me.uk – 3 weeks old – 12 Links – PR NA

And the rankings for each of the keywords is as follows:

Keyword 1: me.uk: 22nd | .org.uk: 58th | .co.uk: 152nd

Keyword 2: me.uk: 43rd | .org.uk: 64th | .co.uk: NOT RANKING

So my 3 week old me.uk domains are outranking aged domains with more (granted, not many more) backlinks and higher page rank on supposedly “better” domains.

Next time you are looking for a domain and you want an exact match domain, dont forget to check for a me.uk if the org.uk and co.uk are both gone!

EDIT – The sites are still climbing in the rankings. Just the day after posting this post Site 1 is now 16th and site 2 is now 35th!

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Finding Link Opportunities With Scrapebox & Spammers

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 10:40:06 +0000

While looking through one of my blogs this morning and deleting all the spam comments I decided to try and do a little reverse engineering on them. This quick post will run through what I did with the spam comments and how I managed to find over 500 PR3+ blog posts for me to comment on (on topic, non spammy comments of course). Most of these posts have low outbound links (I chose under 30), will automatically approve your comments or approve them within a few days (they approved the spammy crap we are tracking!) and have PR on the pages your comments will be on.

1) Look through your wordpress comments that are being held for approval and copy all the URLS that are being used as backlinks into a notepad file. You could alternatively use a highly spammed blog and extract a handful of links from the comments. You want to find links which point to a domain which could be owned by the spammer, ignore all the web 2.0/bookmarking/article directory sites. I took 5 URLS in this example.

2) Add those URL’s into Ccrapebox and then load up the “Scrapebox Backlink Checker”. This part will load the URLs you pasted in and then find all the links that point to those sites using YSE. Once its finished it will save them all to a text file.

3) Load that test file into the Scrapebox harvester and remove duplicate domains, at this stage we only need one page from each domain.

4) Now run the “Scrapebox Blog Analyzer”. This will check each URL and see if it is a blog and tell you if the comments are open, spam protected etc. Once this has finished remove everything which isn’t a blog from the harvester. You can skip this stage if you are looking for sites other than blogs, however as Im only looking for blog comments this will remove all the blogroll links, social bookmarks etc.

5) You should now have a list of domains which are blogs and have approved a spammy comment recently. I now manually check each of those links, ensure they are “clean” sites and then leave a comment (either without any links, or a random site relevent to the comment). Dont put too much effort in on these posts as they are probably highly spammed. You are just checking the comments work, if they dont, remove them from your list.

6) In Scrapebox you now want to harvest as many URLs from each site as you can. This will normally involve putting the footprint as “site:http://www.example.com”. If the site is large then you may want to use various footprints such as “site:http://www.example.com/2007/”, “site:http://www.example.com/2008/”, “site:http://www.example.com/2009/” etc as this will scape as many as possible. This step takes a while as it needs to be done manually for each URL in your list.

7) Now you need to run the “Scrapebox Outbound Link Checker”. This will check how many links are on each of those pages and allow you to remove pages with links over a certain figure. Some people dont believe the outbound links matter, others like under 100, I personally try and keep them under 30 or so.

7) Now you have a list of pages which are indexed in Google, allow you to comment on them, have under XX comments on them and are likely to be auto approve or have all the comments approved manually. Now you can either comment on all of them, however as I like to do my comments by hand and leave genuine comments rather than spamming the hell out of blogs, I dont want to spend ages commenting on blog posts from 2007 which do not have any PR. At this point I will “Get URL Pagerank”. Once this has finished you can sort by PR, remove the URLs which are lower than your desired PR (3 in this case).

From the 5 URLs I looked at I received over 500 PR3+ (there is even PR7-PR4) URLs from a total of 62 domains, all of which are indexed in Google, have posts on the site which automated spam has been approved on (so my comments are likely to be approved) and have less than 30 outbound links for me to comment on (manually).

Despite being thought of as an “Automated Comment Spam” program, which it CAN be used as (and is good at), Scrapebox is far more! It is pretty much a swiss army knife when it comes to any sort of link building, and a tool that everyone should have. Its that good – Im promoting it and they dont even have an affiliate program!

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Google Farmer Update?

admin — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:24:08 +0000

Ok, so a few weeks ago now there was the news of the new Google algo update which was supposed to drop content farms in the rankings. I’ve not really done any research and my sites havent really bit hit, but they all have unique content so just assumed I must be lucky.

However for a term which I am trying to get a site to rank for I decided today to look through the first 10 results (Im already 12th) and see where I could grab some backlinks from. Much to my suprise, in the top 10 results for them medium competition keyword there where the following sites:

1st – Ezinearticles.com
2nd – ehow.com
4th – Reference.com
7th – bookmarking.villebiz.info – Bookmarking site, the page indexed was a bookmark pointing to my site!
10th – A blogspot blog which is full of crap (looks like its used for indexing backlinks), but I cant give the URL as there are a few genuine articles on there which link to a similar site.

The other 5 of the 10 where taken up by a forum post, newspaper and 3 merchants.

I thought this Google algo update was supposed to weed these type of sites out – or have I missed the point? Its a faily commerce orientated keyword (ie most people would be looking to buy). Im also confused/amazed that villebiz.info is on there! The page is one bookmark with the keyword linking to my site, a 16 word description which mentions the keyword once and the keyword in the URL. No backlinks to it, the site is PR0…I just dont get it though…why is it on the first page. Dont get me wrong – Im happy for the link to my site to be on the first page, I just done understand why.

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TSOHost Review

admin — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 11:30:41 +0000

I’ve just had me renewal bill through a few weeks back for my hosting which is done through TSOHost, so thought I would post up a quick TSOHost review now I have been with them for just over 1 year.

Firstly, if you want to take a look at what TSOHost have to offer before reading the rest of the review – click here to go to TSOHost.co.uk.

Firstly, I use TSOHost clustered hosting, which I was lucky enough to join before the price increase. This gives me hosting for up to 100 sites (each can be either windows or linux based) and I can add extra sites at the cost of 10p per site per month if/when I go over the 100 mark, 100GB of space and 1000GB of bandwidth. I ordered this package when it was £9.99 per month/£99.99 per year, however it is now £19.99 per month/£199.99 per year which is still a bargain!

In the last year, I have had NO noticable downtime (other than 1 scheduled downtime for a couple of hours). The monitoring software I have pointing at some of my sites has reported around 5 or 6 periods of downtime – each for no more than 5 minutes so this may have been due to problems other than the host (ie DNS problems). Now, by far the best thing about TSOHost that I want to cover in this review is their customer service!

All of my sites run really fast (40ms ping response time) compared to other hosts I have used and hosts other affiliates use (AffiliateMusketeer.com = 146ms & HowIGotRich.net = 144ms) and I have had no problem with sites running slow or falling over when they get more than a handful of visitors.

Whenever I have had a problem with anything I have emailed them and always had a response within a couple of minutes! Most of the problems were my fault – however they still helped out! I had a PHP script which stopped working on one of my sites (I later found out somebody else had edited it and make a mistake!). Obviously the first thing I did was email TSOHost and ask them to sort it out. Within a couple of minutes they emailed me back telling me exactly what the problem was and how to fix it even though it had nothing to do with them!

On top of the amazing customer services – one of the most important features for me – BACKUPS! Backups are done every 15 minutes with a 1 month retention – and you have access to them all online!!! This has saved me so many times when I have broke one of my own sites and not had a backup myself!

The only “negative” is that TSOHost do not use CPanel, but instead their own custom control panel which works really well! Why a negative then? Becuase when you first transfer your sites to them you can not simply import your cpanel accounts. I needed to import all my sites manually. The good news is that I wont need to worry about exporting them as I have no intentions of leaving TSOHost any time soon!

So to conclude my TSOHost Review, Its the best host I have ever used, I have no intention of leaving them, and would have no problem recommending anyone to them.

If there is anything I have missed from my TSOHost review, feel free to drop a comment below and I’ll try my best to answer it for you.

Click here to go to TSOHost now!

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Random Update

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:07:02 +0000

Didnt really know what to call this thread lol, no real purpose to it other than the fact I feel I should post something as it’s been a while.

September was my best affiliate marketing month ever! This was made even better by the fact that I was on holiday for 2 weeks of the month! However it looks like October is going to be my worst month in a long time! The strange thing is, one of my sites that had been performing well during the summer making lots of sales is now getting MORE traffic than it was in the summer, but hasn’t made a sale in the last month!

I’ve also been doing quite a bit of SEO work for a local company to try and improve their search engine rankings and have so far moved them from 10th for their main term (one word, very competitve keyword), to bouncing between 2nd and 3rd. Needless to say Im happy with that, and had a very nice email from the owner who is over the moon with the improvement in rankings – especially as I’ve only been working on it for 6 weeks (again, on holiday for 2 of those).

I’ve noticed a few of my domains are getting some traffic and decided that I need to get rid of all the domains I am not going to develop (I’ll have to dig out my Digital Point login details ), decide which sites are “worth” the most and get at least a basic affiliate site up on them.

I’ve also been testing out a few different SEO techniques on different sites, I’ve picked a handful of different techniques, found old domains of mine which have settled in the search engines and then used a different technique on each to see what sort of effects they have. Once I’ve monitored them for a while I’ll post back with an update.

My gold locket site is back at number 1 again – dont know how long for, but we’ll see. It’s not made any more sales, but after going to number 1 a few weeks months back it disappeared totally. I wasn’t too bothered as I have decided not to put any more time into this site at the minute. I’ll be monitoring this again over the next few weeks.

As I said, not much of an update, bit random. I’ll try and get some more constructive posts up soon!

Angela’s Backlinks Update…

admin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:30:43 +0000

I’ve not posted an update about Angelas Backlinks recently and have had 3 different users email me about them within the last week, so thought I would post a quick update.

As many of you know I stopped subscribing to Angelas backlinks as I thought it would be more beneficial for me to find my own backlinks, which I had been doing for a couple of weeks before deciding to outsource backlinks through oDesk.

Now this isn’t the only form of backlink building I do, this is only a part of my backlink strategy so do not think that these links will magically send your thin affiliate site from not ranking in Google to number 1. It wont work! There is no magical golden bullet with SEO (feel free to prove me wrong ).

However, that said, the profile links found in Angelas & Pauls backlink packets are useful and from my personal experience, provide good results. At the weekend I ordered another 120 backlinks, split into 4 sets of 30. Each set of 30 had a few lines of text, with 2 different links in, to 2 difference sites. So altogether 240 links, which I had set to 6 difference sites (60 links to 2 sites, 30 links to the other 4 sites) which cost me a grand total of £4!

As for results. One of the sites I had links pointing to is the site I mentioned in this post, which has since moved up from 5th to 4th, a couple of my older sites which had been floating around at 6th-7th which have both moved up to 5th, and my gold jewellery site which had disappeared from Google again, which is now back and sitting at 6th.

As you can see, the links appear to have a good effect on my SERPS, but I wouldn’t use them as your only form of link building. As for the reader who emailed me the question below…

“How many of angelas links should I make so that my website is number 1 and make my page rank 3? I need to make it number 1 this week, can these do it.”

…I think you might be better off trying something other than SEO.

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How To Outsource Backlinks

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:25:27 +0000

In my previous article about outsourcing backlinks, I recommended oDesk, which allows you to outsource a variety of different tasks. You simply post an advert with a description of what you want doing and how much your budget is. Usually within a few hours you will have a handful of applications for the job you are outsourcing.

Since posting the original outsourcing backlinks article, I have had several PM’s, emails and comments asking me to give the names of the users I outsourced my backlinks to, or an example of the advert I had posted. Now, Im not going to give out the names of the users I outsourced to – I’m keeping them for me, but I will give an example of how to advertise on oDesk for backlinks.

—————-START OF ADVERT—————-

Title: 120 Profiles with backlinks from Angelas Packets.

Descriptions:

I need 120 profiles creating on websites from Angelas or Pauls Packets.You MUST already have the backlink packets.

You will need to create an email address (either Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail) and to create all the profiles with. I will supply you with a username and 2 links to put in each profile.

You will need to supply me a spreadsheet with the URL of the backlinks and the username and password of the profile.

All the backlinks must be created within 48 hours of the job being accepted. All backlinks must be created by hand, no automated software.

—————-END OF ADVERT—————-

Thats it, simple and to the point. Remember that a lot of the people applying the job wont speak fluent English so try and keep it as easy to understand as possible. Obviously you can specify other things such as only to use page rank 7 sites, or only use sites from packets from 2009 – just remember to keep it as easy to understand as possible.

My other piece of advice would be that when you give the job to someone DO NOT close the job. There are some people on oDesk that will mess you around and not bother working – just cancel the job (you dont pay them), and select someone else. If you close the job you have to mess around creating a new advert and waiting for more users to apply for it.

So now you know how to outsource backlinks, head over to oDesk and started!

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Outsourcing Backlinks

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:27:08 +0000

I posted the other day that I had found the joys of outsourcing backlinks. This post is a review of the oDesk experience.

oDesk is easy to sign up to, nothing you wouldnt expect to answer for this type of service. You do need to give them your card details when signing up. Once signed up they charge your card with two difference transactions, both of which add up to $10. It took a few days before I could check the amounts to get my account verified, but you can start outsourcing backlinks or any other work as soon as you create your account.

Once your account is created you can login and post a job. Posting a job is kind of like posting an auction on eBay. You select the category you want the job to go into, in the case of outsourcing backlinks, I selected SEO. You then complete the job title and description. I tried to make the description as easy to understand as possible, but make sure that everything was covered – remember alot of these workers dont speak English very well. You are then able to select the qualifications that the applicant must have in order to apply – I left empty. The final part posting the job is the pay! You can select to pay per hour and tell them how many hours per week you need them for, and how many weeks you will need them for, or alternatively, as I did in this case, a fixed fee for a set amount of work.

Now my job for outsourcing backlinks has been posted and is available for all to apply to. You can either wait for users to apply for the jobs, or select users that you think may be interested in outsourcing backlinks and invite them to apply for the job.

Once you have an applicant/bid you are happy with you simply click a button to hire them and they are added to your “team”. From here you can send them messages with attachments, monitor their work, pay them and plenty more I havent explored yet.

The whole process is about as simple as it could be, and oDesk dont charge you anything. oDesk take their cut from the workers pay (ie if you pay them $10, oDesk take $1 and the worker gets $9).

As for the quality of work…

You would have thought that outsourcing backlinks would have been a simple task, with the right software in place it doesn’t take long and its not difficult to understand – they even have a PDF telling them exactely what to do!!

The guy who applied for the first 60 profiles I tried outsourcing made no effort to contact me, didnt really understand what I wanted him to do and when I eventually managed to explain to him he just disappeared and stopped answering my messages. Since then I have cancelled the assignment and created a new job for outsourcing 120 profiles!

I didnt bother inviting anybody I thought might be interested in outsourcing the backlinks this time and just left it for the workers to apply. Within 2 hours I had 5 people apply, one of which bid $10. Couple of clicks and he was hired! I was just in the process of writing a message to him to say what I needed doing, but before I could finish the message I had an email from his asking for the URL’s and Anchor texts for the links so he could get started.

A couple of hours later I received a report with the first 30 profiles in, I checked a couple and they all looked ok. Sent him the next batch, again a couple of hours later and I had another report! I have since gave him the final 60 profiles and I am waiting for him to complete these.

This is guy is better and faster than I expected and I will be sure to use him the next time I am outsourcing backlinks. He lists a variety of other types of links he can build so I may try some of them out.

So to sum it up, I got 120 backlinks built to the standard I would have built them myself, for £6.80! 120 profiles (240 backlinks, less than 3p per link!) would have taken me about 10 hours (5 minutes per profile), all thanks to my new best friends over at oDesk. I was paying $5 per month for Angela’s backlinks and doing all the work myself, I can now pay $5 per month and get 60 profiles created for me, and still get the packet (all the links are provided in the report!). So, will I continue outsourcing backlinks through oDesk, I think the answer is a definate yes!

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Free High Page Rank Backlink Packets!

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 19:47:32 +0000

For anyone wanting to sample backlink packets before buying Angelas backlinks or Pauls backlinks then I have found the perfect link packets. Paulie Ciara puts together a high page rank packet every week and sends it out for FREE! Each week you will get a packet of 4 sites, with an illustrated guide showing where you can get 4 do follow links, for free.

The packets have been going for a while now and they are still being sent weekly, totally free. These are ideal for you to see the style of links from the other packets without paying , and even if you pay for a packet then the extra 16 free backlinks per month will still make a great addition.

You can sign up to the free backlink mailing list here.

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The Best Spinner – Article Spinning!

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 14:19:26 +0000

As another way of building backlinks I have started writing articles for my sites to submit to article directories. If I am in the right mood I can turn a 500 word article around in 30 minutes or so. The problem is that I need a copy for my website, several copies for different article sites and a few more copies for my blog network! So its not a case of writing 1 article now, its writing 5+ versions of the same article.

Browsing a few forums I noticed one piece of software constantly getting recommended, The Best Spinner. Normally I avoid stuff that with names like this as they are usually far from the best but with so many recommendations I decided to give it a shot. The trial is $7 for 7 days, then its $77 for a year after that.

The Best Spinner downloads and installs quickly and easily. It required a username and password which you get when you sign up but you can tell it to remember these details rather than keep having to enter them each time.

Once installed I pasted in one of the 500 word articles I had just written into The Best Spinner, clicked “Identify Synonyms”, “Auto select synonyms” and finally “Generate spun articles” within a minute from opening the software I had 10 articles which according to The Best Spinner were 25% unique!

A little more playing, selecting synonyms myself and I had recreated 10 articles again, this time at over 30% unique. It took a little longer selecting myself but due to the synonyms listed in The Best Spinner and how easy it is to select them it still only took 5 minutes.

Now the articles are good enough to pass as being unique and make sense to read, I wondered how long it would take to have the articles rewritten to over 50% unique standard. I rewrote several variations of a few of the sentences using the sentence and paragraph rewriter, then manually selected synonyms manually on each sentence, including the variations I had rewritten. This gave me 57% unique articles and took about 15 minutes.

For the sake of completeness I rewrote at least 3 variations of every sentence and then manually selected synonyms were suitable giving me 100% unique articles. Obviously this took quite a bit longer, about an hour, but I now have this article saved which will generate a unique version whenever needed. A total of 2 hours including writing the original article and creating the spun version with The Best Spinner.

For what I need the articles for, a quick rewrite of a few sentences and manually selecting the synonyms is plenty good enough. You can save the article in the spun version ready to spin another version whenever needed or you can make The Best rewriter output up to 250 versions of the article to text files.

The Best Spinner Overview

At $77 (£50) for a year, The Best Spinner is worth every penny. I am currently writing 2 or 3 articles per weeks. For me to create another 10 ‘unique’ versions of each of these would take at least another 15 hours. With this software I can create unlimited 50% + unique spins for each article within 45 – 60 minutes, or 100% unique articles within 3 hours! If I write 2 articles per week, create 100% unique spins of each one it will save me 8 hours per week, 400 hours per year!

As I said above, you CAN press a couple of buttons and The Best Spinner will output articles in under a minute BUT they wont make as much sense as if you select the synonyms yourself and you will only achieve 20-25% unique articles. If you are serious about using articles to build backlinks and traffic I recommend you spend at least 15 minutes selecting synonyms yourself and rewriting a couple of sentences yourself.

You can take a look at The Best Spinner sales page and buy it over here.