I’m interested as well. I’ve heard of others having brands go after them when using them to drive traffic. Do they have a legal standing? I don’t know. However, you and I don’t have the budget to find out. 

I’d like to know where the line in the sand is or isn’t for this.

Sam3 said
Thanks for the double clarifying!  
Sounds great apart from the elitist application process..i get that you want a mastermind group but perhaps it’s worth considering that being in a mastermind group is what makes a mastermind!
I have no staff, use outsourcers and work full time on SEO..and online projects..am I keen..hell…

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Staney said

Craig said
Hey Adrian, I have an SS (1.06) site running the Semeasy plugin and haven’t had any problems at all. Do you have the Semeasy plugin activated when you’re building your shaker pages or activate after they are all built out?

Hi Craig, Are you saying that SEMEasy DA has to be activated before build out? I never had to…

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When you say that you’re sure, you’re using a stock theme and you only have those two plugins active, right?

By no post content, do you mean that the page is blank, or the content area for the post is empty, only? Speaking of which, it is very important to make sure that Serpshaker is installed and active when you have SS posts, since it…[Read more]

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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?
All of my sites that I use FCS/GSA for pillowing survived Penguin 3.0.  Actually they went up in rank because some competitors fell out of t…

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Sorry to hijack the thread…

Any word on how fast Limestone builds with SS?

I’m looking to get started with a cloud server from them (2 core 1gb mem) note sure if it’s worth starting out small, though.

Matt Diggity said
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.  A…

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Ben Gheliuc said
I still use it quite a bit as well as people buying services for epic link boosts (essentially running GSA with a private link list for campaigns for people). It still works greatly for higher tiers delivering juice, you just need to know HOW to use it and where.

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I would do this:

Create another identical site or two (just with different spun content.)

Track your traffic, have the banner enabled on one but not on the other. Compare your conversion rate after a few weeks (or however long it takes to get a solid bit of clicks for data) and then report back here with your answer.

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@dmitriynam if you’re using DA, I wouldn’t both using anything other than the standard themes mentioned above. Not only will they definitely work, but they’re going to be more lightweight than most other themes which is important when you’re effectively loading two webpages in quick succession or at the same time.

I think that’s what I had wrong – I was optimizing for Fanta drinkers. 

I’d be curious as to whether this is 180,000 geographic areas or if that includes duplicates of geographic areas because you have pages in each area for multiple keywords 

Do the search with misspellings and see how different the results are – that should give you some idea of whether or not it’s worth it.

I haven’t been in here in a almost a month – I was scared that SEMEasy somehow fell by the wayside when I logged in and didn’t see any new semlive archives – glad to see its just corrupt file issues.

hopefully they get sorted, can’t wait to see them!

Mark said
Some good old fashioned do follow comment links should be just fine for juicing up these pages. A handful of links using the url should be enough for each page. And then using PBN’s for more competitive cities. 

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Mark said
I have experimented with SS on prebuilts with many preexisting pages and rankings. I have zero success with the new pages, but nothing has affected my rankings on the old pages yet. Time will tell. 

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Peter P said
OK thanks Jake, then after i scrape those URLs, should i use complete URLs or strip them onto the domain level?

Stick with complete URL, or you’ll be spending quite a bit of time hunting for the ones that have an entire site dedicated to your niche. (The gov’s won’t be, of course)

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If you have a decent machine, building offline is very easy with MAMP/WAMP. It also makes it very easy to manually duplicate sites when you want to make a bunch of them.