by Michelle MacPhearson on February 9, 2008
“Will 30 Minute Backlinks work for my niche/skillset/site?”
Yeah. Linkbuilding is essential in any niche. Linkbuilding is the foundation of your site getting (or not getting traffic).
With 30Minute Backlinks you create content that is valuable to your niche, distribute it through software distribution channels, develop those all-important backlinks and human traffic.
You probably already have content your niche is interested in - articles, RSS feeds, pictures, video, etc. All of these are re-purposed in the creation of your software.
You do not need software development know-how. I don’t know how to code software. I know very little HTML, for that matter. You just fill in boxes - “Company Name,” “URL,” etc. Then add content - those articles, RSS feeds, pictures, video that you already have. Click “Create.” Software is produced.
Is this a product YOU need right now?
Linkbuilding is the life of your site. Without a link building plan, you’ll see very little action on your stats pages.
However, if you’ve not yet built ANY links to your site, you should go over Social Media Daily first. Then implement 30 Minute Backlinks. Why? Because Social Media Daily creates a foundation of interconnected links for your site. 30 Minute Backlinks builds upon that in a more direct and aggressive way.
Steps:
1. Put up a site! Don’t buy stuff about getting traffic if you don’t have a site yet!
2. Follow Social Media Daily guidelines to give your site visibility.
3. Run 30 Minute Backlinks for the keywords you still need a boost on.
by Michelle MacPhearson on February 8, 2008
(To read the beginning, click here…)
I didn’t have the technical know-how to build massive linking networks, and while my business was doing well, I didn’t have money to burn on paid link campaigns.
In the meantime, I put up a few products for sale in different niches, and they did ok. It was passive income, just like my Adsense sites.  I also did a few affiliate promotions, one of which is STILL my biggest affiliate earner today. The particular product converts like ganbusters, it’s incredible. As long as I could send traffic to it (which I was through my cloaked sites) it made me a LOT of money.
I was *very* sick for a while, and wasn’t able to work. But, I had good income streams, it was ok.
Then, late 2005, Adsense took a proverbial sh*t. Well, more like I’d been sick, not building new links (have to constantly build links to keep ahead) and my sites dropped out of the search engines. Even whitehat sites I had lost a ton of traffic. I was losing money - fast.
At that private forum I was a member of, I posted for some advice. Money was running out fast, since I had no traffic. A few incredibly kind members provided some links from their sites to mine to give me a boost in the rankings, and they recovered fairly well.
And that’s when I realized that you can have the squeakiest-clean white hat site, or a cloaked monster, and all that mattered was link building. Meta tags are great, title tags should be optimized, but without backlinks you’re dead in the water.
I took the $ from Adsense and plowed it into Adwords campaigns for my #1 affiliate program. It did well - until my ads were shut down because I couldn’t use the product’s proper name in the ads. Fortunately, I’d made enough during that campaign to keep afloat for a while.
While my Adwords campaigns were running and giving me a little breathing room, I spent my days wandering the net and looking for other sites I could place my links on.
Web 2.0 was just sorta getting started, blogging was becoming huge, so there was a lot of opportunity to do so (as there is today).
I started leaving links every which way I could, anywhere I could, to continue to build my sites up. I got #1 for several keywords through the methods I was using - and because most of the sites I was linking from were established and had high PR, the “link juice” flowed fairly quickly to my sites.
During that time is when I discovered that MySpace profile pages often had very, very high PR. Some as high as a PR7. Many in the 4-5 range. I bought several automated MySpace bots to leave comments linking back to my sites on people’s high PR MySpace profile pages to further boost my sites in the SE’s.
Unfortunately, all the bots sucked. They were buggy, and the main thing I hated was that you had to buy an individual license for each profile you wanted to use it with. I was running about 10 profiles at the time (it was easy back then) and sought out to find a better solution.
I went to a freelance site and put a bid request out to see how much it would cost to have my own custom MySpace bot built.
And Badder Adder was born.
(To be continued…)Â
Do Nofollow Links Count - Redux
by Michelle MacPhearson on February 19, 2008
I like blog commenting as a link building strategy. If you can add to the conversation, it’s an easy way to get both human visitors and backlinks.
But what about “nofollow?”
Nofollow is often ignored. Last year, Ben Fisher did a case study to see if nofollow links counted - they certainly seemed to, based on his results. Neil Patel “broke” the story with screenshots, and that post is now recognized as the “nofollow is BS” authority.
Because I recommend tools like CommentHut and Comment Sniper (which server 2 very different purposes when trying to get traffic from blog commenting), I often get emails from folks asking about the “nofollow” issue - why comment on blogs if it’s nofollow, blah blah blah. So it’s clear there’s still some confusion within the population on the value, if any, of nofollow links.
I thought I’d run the same study as Ben did last year and see if I could get my site to rank for a keyword that (1) is not on my site and (2) only use blog comments to get anchor text links for my keyword. I, like Ben, chose a misspelling simply because I’d be able to see results very quickly that way.
The term: ultilevel marketing
The results as of 5:44pm PST on 2/18/2008 after leaving about 15 blog comments with the help of Comment Hut to find relevant blogs are that I am ranked #1 for the keyphrase in Google, Yahoo and MSN:
What does this mean?
Some 30 Minute Backlinks users have noted that occasionally, software directories nofollow their links. Clearly, based on the results above, nofollow links *do* still contribute value to a site’s rank in all three major search engines. Any links that happen to be nofollow received by way of 30 Minute Backlinks continue to add to a site’s overall link profile and ability to rank for it’s keyphrase.
Edit 2/22/08 to correct my misspelling of the misspelling
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