Christopher said

Jay said

mkhitaryan said
If you use WordPress to build your site there really is no need to hire anyone to do this. There are thousands if not more WP themes out there, paid or free. It takes literally minutes to setup a wordpress site. With certain tool you can even automate this, including managing your sites.

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Unfortunately, this is the landscape we need to work in.  

But fortunately, if you can deliver results consistently, this can work to our advantage.  

When approaching a new client, market yourself as a premium no b.s. provider.  And charge nothing for the first month.  It shows that you’re confident that you’ll get results and you’re dif…[Read more]

gigsy said
Thanks Guy’s information overload at the moment Phew …

Haha. Welcome to the forums. 

What SEO techniques are you currently testing to plan for the future?

Tim said
Great points Matt!
Thats how I ‘felt’ about all of it. In the least, I couldn’t see them dropping juice – maybe just weakening. 
Most of my anchor text diversity comes from FCS, but a good point nonetheless. They could be used for anchor text diversity if they dropped all their juice anyway.
Besides, half of this probably just to s…

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Dodgy said
I might be mate, what is your pricing?

Please check your PM’s.

About orphaned PBN’s… I recently read, on the contrary that Google gives more value to older links.  Which makes complete sense.  I haven’t heard about inactive pages losing link just transferral power before, but I suppose it could be true.

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I’ll have to agree, the web spam team has indeed been doing a good job without him being there.  PBN De-indexing + Penguin 3.0 killed a lot of sites and scared the shit out of a lot of people.  The top tier SEO’s will continue to stay out of reach of these updates.  But, in all, the webs spam team has done a good job.

Running a link rental service, I have access to tons of testcases.  About 98% of the people that had penalizations had the same two things in common:

They sent software generated links directly to their money site.  Even those that used custom scraped lists were hit.  We’re still trying to work out if it was the spun content that caused th…[Read more]

Dodgy said
I might be mate, what is your pricing?

Still trying to work out if I should go for a cheap monthly rental ($3-5), or a more expenisve permanent version ($15-$20 flat).  Which do you gravitate more towards?

Putting the feelers out there: How many people would be interested in cheaper, lower-power PBN sites to use for pillowing?

Since Penguin 3.0, we’ve seen that the biggest cause of people getting hit was from sending poor quality links from software or weak web 2.0s.  In most cases, people send links from these types of sites for anchor text…[Read more]

Andrew Dale said
I don’t usually rent links either.  I have heard the feedback from some of the members and spoke to Matt about the network that he has.  I would recommend it to those that are not interested in creating their own.  Matt does it nicely with niched networks, which as we all know, is really the key here.
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Tibor said
Penguin 3.0 just hit and it looks like GSA became really dangerous.

How did it go with your site that you were pillowing directly with GSA?  Was it affected by Penguin 3.0?

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Like Ben, I’m still using it as well (a little bit).  It’s a great way to create some nice pillow link sources for free (minus the tool fees).  The only issue is that it takes a lot of work and time to get these things pumped out.  Setting up the Web 2.0s, manually customizing the first tier, dripping the 2-4th tiers, etc.  Also, I can’t be bot…[Read more]

Jereme said
Shout out to Matt on the links I got from him.  They are all high quality and better than most of the PBN links I have seen.  I have already seen increases in the SERPs for some of my secondary keywords.

Thanks Jereme.  Much appreciated.

Nice intro.  Glad to have you.

My thoughts are the same.  

Even in a completely miraculous environment where their claim that “there is 0% chance of penalty” is true, can they claim that tomorrow?  If so, then I need to know whats going on under the hood.  Sounds like it’s heavily based on social, since that’s the only thing that can’t really get you into trouble.  

Hey Joseph,

Try to convince your client to go for both local and national.

Short Term – Local

Start picking off individual cities with your optimized inner pages.  All the while using siloing to link back up to your homepage.  The homepage goes for the national terms.

Long Term – National

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