Fitness Blog Training

Jeff:

Hey Rusty,

I’m looking forward to your new product!

Recently, I’ve been getting around 8000 visitors per day, not sure if this boost is because of the holidays. Can’t wait to make even more progress.

Keith,

I noticed that a lot of my backlinks were de-indexed after the panda update and they no longer counted. All I did was build new ones and my rankings came back stronger than before.

For example, I had 300 indexed backlinks for one article. After the panda update, only 50 remained indexed and my rankings dropped like a rock. Just build more links and you’ll see the recovery. I prefer to focus my resources on ranking 1-2 articles at a time.

The new algorithm updates extremely quickly, most of the times you can see if things are working within a few days.

1WL still works great for low competition keywords. Kris covered some great points about it in his guest post. I do things slightly different regarding 1WL, but you can’t go wrong if you follow his method closely.

Jeff:

I used to use Yahoo Site Explorer, unfortunately they shut down recently.

Now I just focus on building backlinks. If it’s working, I’ll see my rankings move in a few days/week.

Jeff:

@Jason

As I said before, it still works great for low competition keywords. However, I believe that most people are doing it wrong. In the end, they don’t get any results.

It should do well on a term like ‘how to get bigger arms’. Yahoo answers seems to rank #2, always a easy spot to take.

But it has little impact on a medium competition keyword like ‘high intensity interval training’ and no impact on high competition keywords like ‘lose weight’…which requires something a lot more heavy duty.

Here are some guidelines I personally follow using 1WL:

1) High quality spins, every variation needs to have high readability. Articles that read well have a higher chance of getting indexed and stay indexed longer.

I have tried low quality spins and they perform very poorly in comparison.

2) 1 link per article. I tried it with more links and I found that 1 link per article produced the best results.

3) I don’t spin my original article. I always write another unique article to spin, at least 500 words.

4) Distribute each spun article up to 75 times, 1-3 a day.

5) At least 2-3 anchor variations for the first spin. Once it’s done distributing, I’ll write another unique article and spin it. I will only have the most important anchor text in this one.

After the first article is done distributing in 1WL, I’m usually on page 1 or 2. After the 2nd article is done, I’ll be in the top 5. After the 3rd article, I’m usually top 3. 200-300 links dedicated to 1 article. Sometimes it may take a bit more, other times it takes lot less.

Jeff:

@Mike

As I said before, link networks can only get you so far.

If you can pay for a membership, your competitors can do the same which leaves you with no competitive advantage in the link building plan.

Chances are that they are using multiple public link networks in combination along other strategies. I know that some sites build their own private network of high pr sites for backlinks, constantly buying new high pr sites and adding them to their network.

This is why I talked about getting links from other legitimate authority blogs for high competition keywords. They are the highest quality links and it’s significantly more difficult to get a lot of these. This becomes a competitive advantage for you if you can get it.