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are considered to be valuable from an SEO point of view. Therefore, un-clickable url’s in the body of any content text is not considered a backlink and does not have any value. But is this true?

This year I am graduating from the university. That is why one of my classmates and I have been working on our diplomas for quite a long time. The theme of my diploma was an online shop and the theme of my friends work was a website connected with stock trading. A month ago we finally concluded the work necessary for our diplomas and both our websites were launched within a couple of days of each other.

We both used Godaddy to buy domain names and Hostgator to host the sites. Of course, only a small number of people have seen our websites. I didn’t promote my website because the sole aim of it at the time was to show my programming skills to the professors, not to show my marketing skills. Consequently, there were no backlinks pointing to the website. My classmate was in the same situation.

A few days ago we successfully demonstrated our projects to a committee and they approved it. I then decided to check whether my website had been indexed or not. To my surprise, ALL the pages on my website were indexed. Moreover, my classmate’s website had also been indexed. After a quick search I found that there was only one place online where our websites had been mentioned and that was on domain-daily.com. This website automatically lists all domains that are registered on a particular date. Our websites were listed there too, but you can only find a list of unlikable text url’s on the website.

Judging by these results I can only surmise that Google considers these links as positive votes for your website. Today I had a discussion with some of my friends who happen to be involved in search engine optimization and internet marketing. They had a very interesting theory. When testing my website, I used Firefox, Internet Explorer and the recent Google browser “Chrome” to see whether everything was functioning properly. They think that Google Chrome might have been sharing some information about the websites you visit with Google. I found this theory very interesting, however, presently it is almost impossible to prove or disapprove otherwise. I shall continue to look into this and will keep you informed.

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First of all, I did away with all of the blog posts that were showing on every page of the blog due to the “recent comment” widget. This widget shows approximately five recent comments, so what I did was add five comments myself, without any links pointing to my website and hence the comment that had my website link was automatically pushed off the list. At the time I implemented this measure my website had over 1300 backlinks from just these blogs, according to Yahoo site explorer.

After this, I added two new content pages to the website and bookmarked them to get them indexed. As I expected, they were indexed in Yahoo and MSN but Google was still ignoring my website. At that time my website statistics in Yahoo site explorer looked like this:

Over 1300 backlinks and 3 web pages indexed in Yahoo. As you can see, the amount of backlinks continued to grow as it would obviously take some time for the search engine spiders to crawl the thousands of blog pages and eventually “see” that they don’t link to my website anymore. Over the next few weeks the number of backlinks decreased dramatically.

Finally, I have sent a request to Google via their webmaster tool and requested my website be reconsidered for indexing. I explained to them what had happened and what exactly I did to solve the problem. Several weeks passed, until finally this morning I launched my position checking tool and was very pleased to see that the website has indeed been indexed in Google for almost all my main keywords:

In conclusion I would like to add that I am unsure whether my website was indexed because of my request to Google for reconsideration, or because the number of backlinks which caused the original problem had decreased steadily over the last few weeks. Anyway, I am delighted the website is indexed and I can say with total confidence that posting blog comments for links building is a very powerful method. However, if not done properly, it can cause lots of problems for your website, as you well know from my experience.

By the way, you can find a huge “dofollow” blog archive by following the link: dofollow blogs

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However, insofar as SEO optimization is concerned, this widget has both positive and negative aspects. Let me tell you about what happened to one of my websites this year because of this widget. Normally when I create a new website, I get a few links from social bookmarking or web 2.0 websites and add links to the new website from my other related websites. In most cases, it is enough to get the site indexed in search engines within a few days. If I start getting too many backlinks in a relatively short period of time, Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search engines may consider this as dubious and unnatural. This is the reason I try to obtain the most relevant and reputable backlinks first. Sometimes, if the new website has not been indexed within a week after getting backlinks from social bookmarking websites and my other websites, I start posting a couple of comments with links to my website per day.

A few weeks ago, I created a new website; we’ll just call it website X for the time being. As per normal, I bookmarked it, added it to web 2.0 websites and added a few links pointing to website X from my other websites. However, I was very surprised when it wasn’t indexed in Google after four days. I decided not to wait anymore to get more backlinks, so, I started posting comments on blogs relevant to my niche. Ten days passed and the website had still not been indexed. I decided to find out why and checked with Yahoo Explorer. Believe it or not, this is what I saw:

600 links in only ten days! As you have probably guessed, those reputable blogs that accepted my comments with links to my website had hundreds of indexed pages. Because of the “recent comment” widget that showed the latest comment on each blog page, my links where placed on every blog page. This was the reason why Google thought I was using black hat techniques while growing my initial links too fast and therefore decided not to index the site.

So what do I conclude? Well, if your website is new, try not to add comments to blogs that have a “recent comments” widget as it will do nothing but harm. However, if your blog has already been indexed and already has quite a few backlinks from other websites, you can do it without any worries. At the moment I am trying to delete my comments with backlinks to website X from these blogs. This plugin will add a list of the most recent comments posted to your blog and they are sorted in descending order with the newest at the top. That is why after posting a new comment it appears at the top of the list. What I do in this case is simply post 3-5 comments without any links and hope that blog owners accept them.

Up until now, website x is still not indexed. I will let you know when it has been indexed and how high it will rank.

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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.

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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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On September 7th I went abroad for a week. I didn’t take my laptop with me because I wanted to spend a week sunbathing and drinking cocktails on the beach. While I was abroad, my position checking tool was monitoring my websites positions every day so I could check them when I got back. On September 14th I finally returned home. I checked the positions of some of my websites and they were fine, but when I saw the position of my top money making website, the one that I had been working on for more than two years, drop by 360 places, I was shocked. The website’s traffic, and hence income, decreased by almost 80 percent.

I guessed that Google had updated their algorithm, so I immediately checked some reputable search engine optimization forums looking for any information on this update. However, I didn’t find anything on this topic at all. The problem was with something else. I always keep logs and write down each action I take with all my websites. I checked these logs trying to understand what I did wrong and what caused such a fall, however the only thing I had done with the website before my trip was add a new image.

Finally, I decided to check the logs and the source code of the website and found out that somehow there were some hidden links to “adult” websites added, that were full of spyware and viruses. Someone had hacked my website! I am absolutely sure that it was one of my competitors because the keywords I had dominated were very competitive and profitable. Their goal was not to promote those crap url’s they posted on my site, but to harm my website and make it lose its position in the SERPS. Well, they certainly achieved what they set out to do…

I immediately started trying to resolve the situation:

• I deleted all of the hidden links and set a new password.
• Then I slightly altered the content on my home page and added five more pages of new content, bookmarked them and placed links to the new pages from some of my old relevant websites.
• The next step was to start posting blog comments. At that moment I had about 6000 incoming links and my website was more than two years old, so I did not worry about the quantity of links I was adding per day so posted more than 30 blog comments each day during the next week.

The fluctuations continued until October 20th. Then my websites ranking skyrocketed to number three in the rankings and remained there until October 27th when my website again dropped to four hundred! However, the next day it was back up to number three again.

To sum up I would like to say that almost four months have passed since my website was hacked. My website has already restored its former position for the main keywords but they still fluctuate and are not as stable as they used to be. I did not know for sure what would happen If I only deleted the hidden links; some people might have thought that that was enough but for my part, I thought it was worth increasing the quantity of incoming links in the first instance and if something similar happens to me in the future, I will follow the same procedure I did with this website.

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There were many solutions I could try to attempt to solve this problem. One of the first ones which sprang to mind was to write a unique article for each article directory in my list. It would take me almost three days as there were more than 200 articles in my list at that particular time. I soon ditched this idea and started to Google. Not long after I came across information about article spinning and found the concept very interesting. The only thing you needed to do was write one seed article, which looks something like this:

{Hello|Hi|Greetings} {John|Mark|David}, {how are you|how do you do|how’s life}?

Then you use a special script or piece of software which spins the seed article and generates many unique versions for you. Just from the example above, it is possible to generate 27 different variations of the sentence. Imagine how many unique articles you could generate from a 400 word article? I think you’re getting the idea.
I decided to test this method on one of my websites and the results were amazing. After just one month submitting spun articles to various article directories, I was seeing lots of valuable links as well as positive changes in my search engine positions.

Before writing this post, I made a small case study. I created a new mini affiliate website optimized for a keyword that was not very competitive (about 1,000,000 competitors in Google). There were only two link building methods I used with this website: article spinning and social bookmarking. I actually only submitted my website to couple of social bookmarking sites because it is proven to be a very fast method of having your website indexed in the search engines. Almost three weeks have passed and here are the results so far:

On December 6th my website was indexed in Google at number 60 in the search results and I then started submitting my spun articles. As you can see, the very next day my website dropped to number 75 and then disappeared from Google’s index for four days. This is a normal occurrence with brand new sites, so I continued with the article submissions. From December 11th my positions have been constantly improving and there haven’t been any negative fluctuations since then. The website generated more than 400 USD in three weeks through affiliate sales. Some of these sales were from traffic that came from the article directories; however, the majority of sales are from Google organic searches.

Judging by initial results, I can honestly say that this link building method is undoubtedly worth continuing. Moreover, it has two positive aspects: first, you can get sales from the article directories because if you have written a quality seed article, so generated articles will also be of good quality, and second, you can get sales from organic search engine traffic.

To sum up, I would like to say that today there are many quality article spinning services, some free, some not. However, I have written my own simple script which I use and have decided to share it with you, so here is the link: Lorens Article Spinner. You can also find the link in the right menu. I am going to continue improving the script as best I can and as always, I appreciate your comments with any suggestions on how I can improve it. This was the first part of this particular case study and in a couple of months I will post the second part so we can all see the results.

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