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All I can say is wow, never in my wildest dreams could I of ever imagined SEO coming to this.

I ranked Cheap SEO Service in less than 24 hours to rank 1 in the world I also hit rank 2 for cheap SEO Services, inexpensive SEO services, and many others.

All I can say is that this is beyond crazy and I am not sure if I am ready to release this to the public yet or not and maybe I shouldn't.

This new tactics is 100% white hat and very ethical.  You can analyze my site all you want, you will never even see 1 anchor text for cheap seo service at all nor will you find it on my site anywhere.    No I didn't 301 sites to my site, no I didn't hide links, etc, etc.. This is real and it's legit.

Now to find out if the ranking's stay. I will be curious to see if they do and if they do drop to see how fast I can rerank them again.

I have ranked 1000's of keywords from low comp to very high comp keywords and never before have I ever come across a tactic like this ever.

All I can say is hold on and get ready for SEO to change!

Have a great night everyone.

Hello,

I have 11 exact match domains for SEO and I rank for every one of the keywords 90% of the links are to the domain itself and not an exact match.  I have a 1% density on most and highest of a 3% density for the exact keyword and ranking for them on every site.  I feel that the exact match domains are still working to an extent.

Also the EMD updates didn't mean exact match was going to just be gone forever, it just meant that it wasn't going to help you as much.

Have a great day.

I have ran across a very good .CO domain and am thinking about making it into one of our main websites.  I have no experience with them.  I have used/bought just about every other domain type out there, but I have never used a .CO yet.

The domain I was able to purchase was seobusiness.co  for $5.00 - regardless if I am able to use it for our main brand if they don't rank up the same, I will use it for something else.  The site isn't up yet btw, so  no need visiting it...

The keyword gets 1600 exact hits a month give or take a few of course - thats just the Google tool estimate.

Matt Cutts says that they can rank up the same, but I am looking for more than this.

Does anyone have some proof that .co's can rank up?  I hate to put 2-3 months of solid work into this to rank it up for SEO business and it doesn't want to rank due to the .co.

Thanks in advance for your time.

Hello Gina,

It seems that Google has had an update.  I have been following very closely and analyzing everyone's site that has had similar problems.

This is what I gathered so far.  It seems that everyone that was ranking with onpage SEO tactics before is no longer ranking due to them.

For example, In the first 10 pages of your backlinks on site explorer I couldn't even find your keywords used as an anchor text in any of your backlinks.

This is the 16th out of 17 sites I analyzed that claimed they had issues like this and everyone site is all similar; they had a sudden drop in ranks like yours.

I am curious to see if yours return, because theirs haven't yet and it's been 1 week to 2 weeks for all of them.

I am willing to bet their are 1000's of others as well out there that haven't realized it yet.

I could be wrong, but it seems like something that is trending and it's obvious with your site.

Have a great day and sorry for your ranking loss.

Godaddy changed their layout of their site and our tool isn't work atm.  So we will have some down time until our programmer can fix this issue.  I am curious what others are using?  Please share what you feel is easiest way to check 100 domains at once?  We have a tool that will show pr, pa, da, and much more all at once for 500 domains at once.  It's a bit laggy at times, but it gets the job done.

Have a great night and thanks in advance.

Thanks,

@carla - don't you love when clients help you with your link building lol.  It's always fun to fix that.  We had a few clients help us too with link networks they used with our tactics, the outcome wasn't good. They penalized their self 1 month after using the link network.

Performing SEO right the first time, or at-least trying until Google changes it, is less time consuming than going back and manually deleting links.  Sure you can use the disavow tool now, but who wants to manually look at every backlink of a site if you don't have to.  Not to mention the refresh time of the disavow tool is a bit long right now.  I had 1 site just refresh around 6 weeks.

Have a nice night.

Hello,

I will do my best to help you, but there are many reasons why you may not be rankings.

After doing a research I started to find links like this to your site  http://www.casinoreviewpages.com/?category=Shopping_10

I can tell you that this isn't going to help do anything but hurt your site.  I am not a trophy expert, but I know that trophies aren't relevant to casino reviews.  I found many questionable links like this.

Not to mention the fact that you lost thousands of backlinks to your site in the past year.

I feel that your building to many backlinks per month to your site, and I don't feel the quality of your backlinks are good enough.

I highly recommend the following.  I feel you should take a month or 2 and remove all bad links to your site.  Run a detox report as a start.  A detox will get some, but not all.  Make sure you review all links from a detox report too, some are still good.  I would then start to build high quality backlinks to your site.

It looks like your using some kind of software for submissions purposes too.  I also seen very low quality writing to your site.

I recommend hiring good writers, find someone that is willing to manually submit, make sure that what is submitted is to relevant sites.  I would also make sure that all sites submitted to are high quality and not just a submission to submit.

Did a SEO company do this for you? I know that we have never done anything like this before and am sure that what they did isn't very ethical or white hat, because none of the tactics used are in our playbook here.  I would start only submitting to quality sites.

Have a great night and I hope this helps.

Matthew Boley

Hello Carla Dawson,

You have a few issues, 1st you have a 26% anchor text ratio for that keyword which is very high.  2nd you lost 234 backlinks since Nov 19th.  I would find out why your losing backlinks that quick.

I would do the following

1. analyze your competitors densities and find out what is working for them, then use it.

2. Figure out if the quality of links your building are high enough quality, because it doesn't look like they are all sticking.  However never count on all of them sticking, but 234 in a little over a month is a lot and I would question it.

3. Start working on diversifying your backlinking structure with Ip, region, Anchor, and platform diversity.

Have a great day.

Matthew Boley

What is the site that you analyzed?  Comparing PA versus PR isn't going to help you btw.  Page rank can be manipulated as well very easily.  For example I seen a pr4 for sale on  godaddy auctions today for $5.00.  The site had 0 backlinks.  The site has been down for 1 year.  So how does it still have a pr4?  Pr4 to me isn't a good indication to link to anymore at all.  People buy high pr sites daily and can make them look like they are 10 years old fast.  I count on PA and DA to give me a good indication, because most people aren't cheating DA and PA if there is truly a way to do it.  Also, to cheat it, you would just be cheating for your own confidence and it wouldn't do anything to help you rank better if you cheated yourself to a high one.

So to sum it up, I feel that PA or DA is much more accurate and up to date than PR.  Sure PR still has some weight if your going to buy a site, i think it's burnt into our brains that we need a good one, but it's not everything.

Have a great night.

Hello,

You have a total syndication amount of 380 on that press release.

Search here: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=d&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q="The+study%2C+which+shows+an+association+between+Psoriasis+and+obesity+in+children+is+recently+published"&oq="The+study%2C+which+shows+an+association+between+Psoriasis+and+obesity+in+children+is+recently+published"&gs_l=hp.3...430.1112.0.1287.3.3.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.les%3B..0.2...1c.1.Fa2ZBLL6Vlo&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.cGE&fp=f182791b62bf034e&bpcl=40096503&biw=1583&bih=745

To me a very good press release is around 8,000 to 10,000 results.  The higher the results the more it will help.

We use methods on a daily basis where we guarantee 3,000 + results.

You could get the higher end prweb and I think this gives you around 1500 or so, but I am not sure, I haven't used prweb in a while, since we have other methods that I feel are just as good if not better.

Great post,

Very interesting points.  I like the part he puts "however".  He always leaves off certain factors where something could help in a specific instance ha.  It's hard to say with press releases, but I know that they work.

I ranked for a diablo 3 term in only 3 hours after making a press release when diablo was popular.  So this tells me that if I can rank for a keyword in 3 hours at first in the world for something they are working.   Now the keyword wasn't very hard to get, but it was 2 words and it was about diablo.  So to me, press releases will always be worth it.

Have a great day.

Matthew Boley

I would also think in this manner as well.  You need diversity of platforms and Ips.  So if anything it's good for that.  They are also natural looking links to your site since they get syndicated.

I would however make sure that that you aren't making your press releases to over promotional, they link to a source other than your main site and you don't use to many anchor texts.

I personally like to link to my website and then a source like wiki, gov site, a health site for facts, or anything in this nature to help show where you found your facts at.

Have a great day.

Matthew Boley

Hello,

This is a tactic that has long been used by many SEO experts around the world.  This is known as a network.  There are many ways to use the network, however not all of them are ethical. I think that you should sit back and think about how ethical it is and if you still want to do it.

If you still want to do it, I don't recommend redirecting the site to yours.  I recommend hosting the site on a different host, different ip, and different who is info.  After that, make a site that looks good, put 5 or so articles/pages on it and then on the front page somewhere near the bottom place your anchor text with your keyword in it, but not the footer, because it will go on every page.

Make sure that all domains have high authority and stats according to the SEOMOZ siteexplorer.   There are other stats you can look at, but this is a great start for you.  I personally buy pr3 + domains with 40 + domain authority if I do something like this.   There are tools on the market to help you buy domains like this on the godaddy auctions for about $20 per domain.   If your keyword is competitive you should build about 2 - 10 per week pending on how competitive your keywords are per week to make it look natural until your keyword is ranked up.  Make sure that you are also using other SEO tactics so all of your backlinks aren't just a network.  Use anchor text diversity, platform diversity, and ip diversity and you will be good.  Don't use the same templates btw or platforms.

Your site will probably get caught eventually and will last about 3 - 9 months.  So the question is, is it worth it to you?  Will you make a profit by using these tactics for a short period of time you will be ranked on top?

Also, yes the exact match domains can help to a certain extent.  Matt Cutts has announced though that they have decreased how much.  However, I can still verify that they do help more than a normal domain for the exact terms.

As for using your network as sniper sites, sure that can work to and you can redirect people to your site.  I have found though that using the small sites for both ranking purposes of ranking your site and sending traffic through some type of form is the best method.

Have a great night and if you have any questions at all please ask.

MB

Hello,

Yes this has happened to me.  You need to contact eBay's intellectual rights section and let them know, so they can make sure that the backlinks are removed and they stop claiming to be you.

I hope this helps you like it did me.

Have a great day and a happy holidays.

Matthew Boley

Hello,

Yes everyone has experienced a drop that used questionable tactics.  There are many threads floating around here with others saying the same thing.

Have a great day and a happy new year.

Matthew Boley

I have ranked 100's of keywords on sites that I wasn't allowed to touch the front page of.  The keywords were not mentioned on their pages at all either.  In some instances your keyword doesn't even need to be on the page to rank like i this instance.

Have a great day.

I noticed a huge decline in AU clients about 3 weeks ago and have heard others talking about it in the USA today.  This is due to fake likes I assume.  Someone talked about a messaging method he used to attain likes and was a bit unethical, that is a possibility as well that Facebook has figured out now.

Let us know what you find if your going to search in depth as to why.

Thanks

MB

Hello,

It's working for me, it just updated for me as well a few hours ago for all of my keywords.  Did you just sign up today?  Maybe refresh your browser, clear cache, etc, etc.  I personally use though for my clients, ibp, because it emails them their rankings on a daily basis if needed.

Have a great night and a happy holidays.

MB

Daniel Tan has a great article out on how to write amazing press releases.  I suggest you look for that as well.  To me it's the best on the net right now and I personally use the same methods.

Have a great night and a happy holiday.

MB