Archive for February, 2009
Article Spinning As a Very Effective Link Building Method – Part 2
Posted by Sergey Lorens in Internet Marketing, SEO on February 26th, 2009
I started this case study just over three months ago in an attempt to prove that article spinning can be a very effective link building method, one that doesn’t only increase your website positions in the search engine results (SERP’s), but can also bring a fair amount of traffic from article directories as well. If you recall, the initial results of the case study was quite successful so now, in the second part of the case study, I will show you the website’s results that I have achieved so far and how much money it has subsequently generated. To begin with, I will show you the website’s traffic graphic from my Google analytics account.
As you can see, the website gets around 50 unique visitors per day and more than 1200 per month. 81%of the visitors came via the search engines and 13% came from referring sites. In my case, these referring sites are the various article directories where my spun articles were posted. At the moment the website is at the fifth position in Google’s results for the main keyword. Positions in Yahoo are lower; it is not even in the top ten for the keyword the website is optimized for.
The website has generated $2,627 so far which works out at about $850 per month just from one single affiliate website which took me only two hours to set up and about two hours to write quality seed articles for my article spinner. As mentioned in the previous part of this case study, I actually hired a person who manually submitted the spun articles to various article directories, so the total amount of money invested in this website has been $80 ($50 for submitting my articles and $30 for 3 months hosting) and the total amount of time invested is a paltry 4 hours!
I am absolutely delighted with the results I achieved from the website. If you can make $850 per month on autopilot from one single website, why not create ten or even more websites? Moreover, you do not even have to have a website to promote it using spun articles; you can use squidoo lenses or even blogger blogs instead. You can even avoid paying $50 for submitting articles if you have the time and the patience to do them on your own.
I think that this will be the last part of this case study. It is enough proof that article spinning is undoubtedly a very effective and profitable link building method which you should include in your “to do” list. At the moment I am writing some very useful affiliate marketing tutorials which will be sent to my subscribers in the very near future.
I really hope you found this case study useful. Don’t forget to subscribe to my list to get more information on affiliate marketing and search engine optimization.
Who Said That By Changing A Website IP Address And Template You Will Decrease Your SERP Positions?
Posted by Sergey Lorens in SEO on February 7th, 2009
I often visit many reputable search engine optimization forums on my internet travels. And on these travels I see more and more threads where people state that changing your website IP address or template will affect your search engine positions. While some say that this will seriously harm your positions, others claim that nothing serious will happen. But who is right? I decided to do a small case study to check it out myself so I could be absolutely sure, and in this post you will see the results of this case study.
I have a small affiliate website that has been optimized for a moderately competitive keyword, which was created over six months ago. To be totally honest with you, the website is not a profitable one. It still generates a few sales every now and again, however, the money I do get from it is not substantial at all. That’s why I decided to use this site for my case study. Basically, even if the website did lose all of its search engine positions, it wouldn’t hurt my budget at all.
The first thing I did was copy all the content from this website including images, alt tags, etc. I also wrote down the names of all the website pages. I then registered a new hosting account with a new provider, transferred my website domain name there and changed the website template. This basically meant that I had a website with a new IP address and a new template.
The next thing I did was create a few pages and added the old content to this “new” site. The name of these pages was exactly the same as they were on the “old” site. I did not change the content, so this remained the same. That was all I did with this website. I left it for a month to give the search engine spiders time to crawl the website and to see if there would be an increase or decrease in the positions. A month later I checked the tool which recorded my website positions for the whole period of the case study. I was satisfied with the results I found. As always, proof is in the pudding, so here is a screenshot:
As you can see, the third horizontal red line marks the day (9 Jan) when my website’s IP address and template were changed. On that particular day my website was at fourth position in the Google SERP’s for its main keyword. Today, on February 7th, it is in the second position.
So, who was it that said that changing the website IP address or template would decrease your SERP positions? Judging by these results, I can say with total confidence that it will not affect your positions and this case study proves it. At the moment I am in the process of moving some of my unprofitable affiliate websites to a cheaper hosting service to cut down on my expanses. I will let you know if I see any serious changes in my positions; however, I’m sure this will not happen.
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