So it has been 4 days since I started submissions for Site 2 and 3 days since Site 1 submissions. By submissions I mean I sent out two spun articles (using 2 article submitters and ArticleRanks) which each contained links back to 3 corresponding articles (EZA, InfoBarrel, Squidoo) which had links to Site 1 or 2. So each of my two niche sites has their own EZA, and IB, and a Squid linking to them (homepage & inner page) and now those 3 properties (per niche site) have article/blogs linking back to them.
It’s still a little early but so far rankings haven’t moved much (from the recent submissions). Before I submitted the initial three direct-linking articles by 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:
Site 1: #11/#59
Site 2: #42/#108
So Site 1 has moved up to #11 which isn’t much as it had usually been stuck at #12, but the inner page has moved from #194 to #59. Site 2 has made good progress for both the homepage and inner page. I will say that much of the movement came after I posted the direct-linking articles. I’m not seeing much effect yet from juicing my backlinks but I think that will take more time.
In the past when I set something like this up for a CB mini-site, I still included direct links to my site from some of the top directories and then pointed the lower tier directories at the links. Next time I think I might trying to point just a few more links directly to my site, but we’ll see where the rankings for these sites settle in a week or two.
I’ll check in every few days with an update.
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Nice stats on those inner pages especially. I used to copy/past from EZA=>GoArticles=>ArticlesBase per John Xfactor’s style.
Doing that alone over time ranked my sites. Come to find out that GoArticles allows 2 (or is it 3?) in-text links to your URL, and they publish fast (about…I dunno…2 seconds after posting??), and ArticlesBase, though nofollow, allows 3 links in the resource box.
For me, the ArticlesBase articles always get future syndication, not sure why they do but the others don’t as much…but it’s a thought if you’re going to manually submit.
I’m L o V i N g ArticleRanks, btw! Can’t wait to get more sites up so I can be w/them monthly – they show the most submissions so far from my little experiment (though it’s hard to say with UAW, they don’t track quite as close).
James, what is this article ranks you speak of?
Sara – at the top of Carrie’s blog – a new UAW type of service. I first heard of them at [http://contentattack.com] and there’s a couple of reviews there.
What Carrie is saying jives with what I read at Sandra’s blog (contentattack) – AR actually builds page rank and definitely passes PR moreso than other services (according to Sandra’s reviews – too early to tell for me).
I’m going to use them to attack my sites along w/UAW-iSnare-SEOLV (I still have some article credits at SEOLV, I’m not signing up for them monthly yet).
Sara, I did a review of AR here: http://www.workingtowardshome.com/articleranks-review-my-results.html#more-207
You can test them out by buying 10 credits for $10 (2 credits per submission). So far I have been happy with them.
James,
AAS submits to ArticlesBase, GoArticles, and some of the other higher PR sites. That was one of the main reasons I bought it.