I have done this in the past, although I’m not doing it at the moment. I deal with a lot of local clients, so throwing a PBN link or two their way is about all that is needed after solid optimization. As a result, often times diversification isn’t needed because they already have a natural link profile that you’re just adding a few links…[Read more]

10 Spikes for every one point? Works for me! :p

I do think that creative ways to put the points to use is a great idea. The forum here seems to come and go as far as how often it is used. Although, I do suspect that the chat feature has a lot to do with it – I know that I wind up using it most often. I do love it, I just wish there was a b…[Read more]

I can’t say I’d go back to SeNuke after GSA. SeNuke is super footprint-y (with the limited targets). At least GSA can be configured to be less so.

It is only more user friendly because there are less options, more preconfigured in a sense. Which, IMO is bad for SEO – again, footprints, low diversity.

I would check out SERlists GSA SER lists.…[Read more]

Just to get semantics out of the way, there are 3 primary webserver hosting options:

Shared hosting – Your typical hosting that is around $5/mo. You share resources with others, as a result their issues can effect your site. Your resources are also very limited
VPS – Virtual Private Servers are virtual machines where a certain amount of a…[Read more]

I’ll have to try some of that – I’m sure the size of sitemap that I’m pinging G with is causing them to wait to touch it.

Another concern of mine is pinging G from the same IP. I wonder if it’s better to have a VPN, or if that isn’t any better since they likely know the IP is from a VPN.

Essentially, it should be that once it’s indexed, it will head to its ranking position. What I don’t know is if the sheer size of the site influences rank, which in turn pushes the site up in ranks as it gets further indexed and G realizes how large the site is. 

Rankings aren’t the concern – traffic is. Build a site, give it a week or two to…[Read more]

Hey Ben, 

Lookup the videos here on using Cloudflare. With CF you can use just one host. 

It really comes down to doing the due diligence Matt said and then just building a site and seeing how it does with traffic after you’ve given it some time to index. 

Bare in mind that just because G’s keyword planner tool doesn’t say there is traffic doesn’t mean that there isn’t traffic, it’s always been that way. They just don’t track traffic for small fish. On top of which, people search for the same thing in so many variations that it muddies it all too much anyway. 

The SS and SerpSpike model is to…[Read more]

Looks like there was a hiccup, but everything is back up and running..

It is the SemEasy Plugin itself? IA? DA?

Contact support if you haven’t, they’ll have the best idea on how to solve it. 

In CF you have the option of pausing it. This removes and security or performance benefits you get from CF, but the site is still fully accessible. In my experience there’s no need to pause it for IA, though.

Will take a look and see what is up…

Early on G’s servers aren’t all synced up, so it will show different indexed pages depending which one you’re connected to.

RPM is Revenue Per Mille (your revenue per thousand visitors). 

The formula is Earnings/Pageviews x 1,000.

The thing is, your sample size of 15 pageviews is quite small which means there is huge room for anomalies. 

If you had even just 100 pageviews with say, 25+ clicks, then you’re starting to have at least a little bit more of a fou…[Read more]

$15-$20 per day for a site is great! I’m curious, when you run IA, how many pages do you run it on? 

Also, when you’re checking out a niche, have you determined a good way of figuring out what the potential CPC will be?

Totally – I guess my thinking is that those accounts would be connected with your name. Although, thinking on it, connecting a bank account doesn’t necessarily require a name – right?