So we settled on a new house and have been very busy painting, shopping, etc, to get ready for moving in. Other than making a few lens (I’ve become obsessed with Squidoo for no good reason) I haven’t done much of anything on my sites. That will have to change soon.
But I did want to leave a quick update on the ranking of the two sites that I did some backlinking of by creating 3 directly-linking properties and then doing mass article submissions to those properties (mass in Carrie-terms, not “Average Genius” mass submission armageddon).
On June 8th when I started my site rankings were:
Site 1: #15/#194 (home/inner – note the home started at #12 and dropped just prior to starting)
Site 2: #133/#284 (the homepage here started at #314 but moved up on it’s own just prior to starting)
Today the rankings are (6-7 weeks later):
Site 1: #5/#49
Site 2: #16/#100
Not bad! And what was great with this process is that I did not see a lot of dancing in the rankings like I see when I do a lot of direct links to my site.
Here is an abbreviated run-down of sites, software, and services I used:
- Order UAW-style articles from GetArticlesDone.com (3 rewrites final)
- Post those articles direct-linking (to my sites) on EZA, InfoBarrel, and Squidoo.
- Submit spun articles (previously submitted to EZA) with backlinks to 3 properties above using Automatic Article Submitter, ArticleBot, Free Traffic System and ArticleRanks (see also my ArticleRanks review).
- Bookmarked some of the secondary article submissions using IMAutomator and SocialAdr.
- Submit links for the Site 2 lens with Link Aloha.
I mention the lens-linking with Link Aloha because that lens has actually seen some good traffic and made an Amazon sale. I am assuming that is also passing some link juice to Site 2.
I’ve only been using Link Aloha for a month so I can’t give much of a review, but it is super easy and that is what I like. Some people think it is over-priced (same with SocialAdr), and that may be true on a cost/link basis, but if all I have to do is plug in a url and be done, I’m happy.
Overall I am pretty happy with these results. A second run of the above backlinking method would hopefully increase rankings further. The only downside so far is that Site 1 is not performing well monetarily so I will likely ignore that site for awhile.
