Randomise your links for better MSN rankings
Hi there,
Happy new year! I hope you had a great festive season and a happy and healthy new year.
Since I released Niche Internet Marketing last year, I have refined some of my methods to produce even greater consistency in my rankings for keywords and conversions for sales.
Today I want to focus on expanding the ideas I explored in my Niche Blog Mininet chapter. As you may or may not know, in the ‘Niche Blog Mininet chapter’ of Niche Internet Marketing I recommend you set up a network of tightly themed blogs to provide high quality backlinks to your sales pages for the products you are selling.
Over the last few months, I have been testing some additional tweaks that will make your blog network much more effective and targeted whilst allowing your sites and links to get indexed and registered in the fastest possible time.
Firstly I want to address the issue of using multiple C class IP addresses. If you have set up a network of blogs the traditional way (i.e. all on one hosting account), you now run the risk of the search engine algorithms identifying you as somebody trying to manipulate search engine rankings. Whilst this is not a 100% certainty, you do run the risk as the search engines have the ability to identify that all your blogs are on one server by checking the IP address.
To address this problem, I recommend you set up a multiple class C hosting account with somebody like http://www.webhostforseo.com. For about $50 per month you will get 10 different class C IP addresses which you can setup your blogs on. I recommend you set up a maximum of 3 blogs per IP address. This wil give you a blog network of up to 30 blogs which will be more than sufficient for increasing your backlinks to your sales pages. Additionally, you can setup sales pages on these IP addresses too.
Secondly, let’s address the issue of providing content for your blog network. You’ll agree that updating thirty blogs all with a different theme would be more than a full-time job. I am not recommending you update any of your blogs manually at all. Fortunately there is a WordPress plugin that will populate all your blogs for you automatically, it’s called Caffeinated Content.
Caffeinated Content is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to automatically make posts to your blog based on the keywords you specify. You can set date ranges for the posts to occur (in the past or in the future). If you set future dates, Caffeinated Content will dripfeed the content to your blog over a period of time. The actual content that will populate your blogs can be set to either articles, Yahoo Answers or YouTube videos.
It is very important that each of your blogs has a tight theme, and the content you supply to each particular blog adheres tightly to that theme. For instance, if I have a blog about ‘bird watching’, then that should be the title of my blog. Additionally, when I run Caffeinated Content from my wp-admin page, I would use the keyphrase ‘bird watching’ so that all the content added to my blog fit the theme. When you run caffeinated Content, set the items to be posted to 50. Then leave it at that. Don’t keep running it every week, as you’ll just put unnecessary load on your server.
Now you may be wondering about being penalised for having duplicate content on your blogs. Let me reassure you, that at this point in time you needn’t worry. The reason being is that we are not trying to rank our blog pages high in the search engines, rather we are using our blogs as a tool to provide backlinks to our sales pages. Our sales pages WILL have unique content and will therefore be ranked higher in the search engines due to the backlinks we are providing from our blogs.
Another area I have been testing over the last few months is the randomisation of the links displayed on each particular blog. There is a really good plugin for WordPress that you should get called Better Blogroll. Better Blogroll allows you to configure the number of links that are randomly displayed in your Blogroll. Now here is the sheer simplicity and beauty of this method. Each time the search engines visit your blogs and a different list of 4 links is displayed, the search engines will count them as ANOTHER backlink, even if it is the same link being randomised again. Additionally, once the links move off the list from crawl to crawl of the search engine spider, they will not be removed from your total number of backlinks. Therefore the number will always be rising. When you install the Better Blogroll plugin, set it to display 4 links. Make sure you add it in the Widgets section of wp-admin. Also, edit your theme and add your sidebar code to the bottom of the single.php file. That way your links will be displayed on the bottom of every single post page!
Once you have set up your list of links on one blog, you can access them from http://www.YourBlog.com/wp-links-opml.php. You can then goto your other blogs and import the links directly without having to retype them all. In your links list, you should have links to all your other blogs, as well as links to your sales sites. Remember to make your anchor text the same as your keywords and keyphrases you are targeting.
I hope this has helped clarify some of the intricacies of setting up your Blog Mininet. A lot of these strategies are discussed in depth in a new ebook called The Ultimate Search engine Loophole.
Leigh
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