For My 3k Post
- Thread starter tencentpiece
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it looks like nowadays people call authority sites to blogs with 10 posts and a few hundred links (those you get in bulk). I'd like to know what an authority site really is, so I vote for #1
Naw, I am talking about sites where you make a post and start ranking #1 for random long tails and top10 for medium competition terms without any other links.
Alot of members here have been effected in this thread here:
http://www.wickedfire.com/traffic-content/147703-massive-serp-drop-across-nearly-all-my-sites.html
you chimed in a few times with some great advice would be great if you could talk about it more in your 3 k post thread and share some input.
It is already decided but I am posting instead of subscribing so someday I could make a 3000th post too.
TBH if you had a decent site get slapped (which was making good money) you should've been doing your own research on the side and not putting all of your eggs in one basket. If you had a site which got slapped (which wasn't making good money) then look at what other people have written - think about WHY google might make changes and what makes LOGICAL sense and then try to reverse engineer the top10.
I'm not going to make specific references to updates, because so far none of my 'authority' sites have really been affected by panda or anything post panda - so I really have no input other than what I am doing is working for the moment.
many people had their eggs spread out across multiple money sites but still want to see if they can get back the revenue lost by the google slap.
you posted a thread about how you have been on WF forever and have an absurd amount of posts and thus want to contribute to the forum. Telling someone who just got slapped that they should "do their own research" is sorta dick.
...his thread gave two options. I didn't see a 3rd option that said "I will figure out why you're site got penalized and help you get out of it"
Sorry, but having multiple money sites across multiple niches is not having your eggs in different baskets if you're using the exact same linking techniques. If you were using different techniques (i.e, anchor diversity, social factors + links to inner pages) all of your sites wouldn't have got hit in the first place. If this is your only job and source of income, then I hope you have a nice cash reserve. I sure as shit didn't quit my day job as soon as I starting making decent money online.
If you're making crappy one page MFA sites with terrible onpage SEO and crappy bounce rates, then you're playing a different SEO game to me (not that I don't have those type of sites, but it only makes up a small portion of my income. Diversify or die) and you're better off playing the numbers game like lukep and secretagentdad are doing successfully.
I never made a post mentioning anything to do with:
"you posted a thread about how you have been on WF forever and have an absurd amount of posts and thus want to contribute to the forum."
Please reread my original post.
If people have specific questions and have shown some indication of personal reasoning (rather than just 'my site got slapped and I'm not sure why?), they are welcome to PM me or ask me on skype.
If you haven't done any research then heres how to start:
Whats your bounce rate like?
--Guess what, it's different from niche to niche. If you haven't done any optimizing chances are it sucks. Do some heatmapping for starters and see where your moronic users are clicking because they think it should be a link.
Whats your anchor text diversity like?
--Look at the current top10 and see what theirs looks like (using your favorite tool or multiple tools - if you haven't already tried to duplicate all of their links then do so. Match and exceed. Eli + bluehateseo FTW).
Whats your link spread like?
--Again, look at your competitors.
Then you can start to look at social factors and start worrying about different link types and all that fun stuff
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#1 too - the convo will be great. 2011 was spent with me doing a lot of this, mostly win - some loss - and I'm now reaping the rewards.
I'm speaking for other people, not myself.
I personally only have legit sites, not one page mfa's.
I'm not trying to start anything, I just thought it was interesting that you said someone who got slapped should "do their research". Sorta like telling a basketball player they should practice a lot. No shit.
Also imo having multiple sites is spreading your eggs out. By default (at least in my experience) no two sites will have the exact same link structure unless you are doing everything with bots/automation.
