77 days to a first page listing with Google

134 days my site is #3 on Yahoo and #3 on Bing

Starting with a brand new site

Day 1 = Keyword research.  With this first backlinks project, I will start out with a brand new webpage. This will be a true test to see if this backlinks method actually works.  I used my keyword research method and looked for a keyword associated with MLM. I found out that the term ‘multilevel’ has very little competition. This term also has very few searches. That’s alright, it’s a great keyword for this backlinks test.  If you feel a software product would be more efficient for finding niches, visit Dominating Niches by clicking the banner on the right.

2 = I registered the url ‘multilevelblogger.com‘ at godaddy. Always be sure to include your keyword in your url.

3 = Set up website. For the past few years I have only been using wordpress blog sites.  They are very simple to use and have an endless amount of plugins.  There are many hosting companies to choose from.  Blue Host is a top rated hosting comany that offers affordable and reliable hosting services.

4 = Post content on blog.  My main purpose for this blog and future blogs will be to do reviews of products or services.  Income will be earned by promoting affiliate products or services pertaining to my keyword.  To start out I just posted a picture, youtube video, and a short comment pertaining to my keyword.  I also placed my keyword on the site to obtain about 6-8% keyword density.  I read a lot on this subject and found too many different opinions on what is the proper keyword density.  So I just picked 6-8%. Last time I checked my site was at 8.74%.  Use this free tool to check your sites keyword density.  I also set up a few pages on the blog for more content and keyword placement.

5 = Added a link to my new site on one of my other sites for faster indexing.  I also added this new site to my Google webmaster tools account for future monitoring and checking backlinks.

This backlinks method involves a layered type system.  The goal is to post spun articles with backlinks in the authors area to about twenty primary authoritative sites.  Then submit more spun articles to hundreds of other secondary article directory sites that contain backlinks to those primary twenty sites.

8 = Finished writing article #1 and checked for duplicate content using this free plagiarism checker.  My article was 97% unique.

10 = I purchased The Best Spinner.  I submitted the original article to ezinearticles.com.  They usually take about 5 days to approve articles.  During this time I spun my first article into 20 more articles.  Once my article was approved at ezinearticles, I submitted the 61% spun articles to the rest of the article directories on my resource page.

11 = Time to set up some free blogs sites with my keyword in the url if possible.  The blogs sites are also listed on my resource page.  At each site I posted a picture, youtube video,  and another one of my spun articles.  I also posted a link back to my main site at the end of each post.  I mixed up the anchor text for each link but made sure my keyword was first for each backlink.

12 = Purchased an automatic article submitter.  I won’t mention it here because after days and days of learning and using the software, I didn’t think this type of software is useful.  I did keep using it for most of this backlinks campaign.  On day 12 I submitted a few hundred spun articles with backlinks to my Livejournal page.

13 = Uploading power point presentations is also an excellent source for backlinks. If you do not have microsoft office, you can download free slide show software from openoffice.org.  Make sure and choose a template with a title option on each page.  You can then turn the title into a backlink to your site.  I just do a five slide project.  Make a different one for each site you upload to.  The ones I use for backlinks are on my resource page.  For day 13 I uploaded one to slideshare.  On this day I also posted comments with backlinks to my main site at three mlm blogs with good page rank.  I continued using the auto submitter and submitted a few hundred spun articles with backlinks to three of the free blog sites.

14 = Used the auto submitter to submit more articles with backlinks to the three of the primary article directories where my articles are posted.

18 = Same as day 14.

20 = At this point I am starting the process all over with a second article.  Article #2 is complete and I posted the original to ezinearticles.  Also started spinning this article into many more.

22 = Same as day 14.

23 = Added TF social share plugin to main blog site.  I try and click the share buttons after each post.

28 = Added an outbound backlink to a high page rank site with low competition.  Usually this will be a wikipedia link. On this day, my main blog site now has a page rank of 1.  Some of these backlinks are helping.

31 = Added a slide show to myplicks with backlinks to main site.

33 = Added a slide show to slideboom.

35 = Posted spun #2 articles to all free blog sites, with backlinks of course.

36 = Used auto submitter to submit spun #2 articles with backlinks to the primary article directories.

37 = Multilevelblogger.com is at google position #21 for keyword multilevel.

38 = Oh no!  Checked my google webmaster tools and noticed their system is not showing any backlinks to my main site.  Not sure what kind of set back this is going to cause.  Is it going to be like starting all over? I have no idea.  Need to just press on.  Backlinks showed back up after five days.  Weird.

44 = Uploaded a slide show to authorstream.

Went on vacation for two weeks.  Did not do anything during this time.

66 = Finished 3rd article and submitted spun versions to eight primary article directories and the free blog sites.  Also posted a comment with a backlink to main site at another mlm blog site.

At this point I am not using the auto article submitter to submit articles to the secondary directories.  I am not seeing any indexed pages where my auto submitted articles were supposed to be submitted.  If my article link is not indexed,  there are no backlinks to the primary article directory sites.

67 = Submitted more spun versions of article #3 to six more primary article directories to get more backlinks.

68 = Added a job listing page by using Indeed.com.  Not sure if this helps or not.

69 = Joined Qondio.com. This is a social type site.  I paid the $10 for the premium account.  I figured the link juice was worth it.  You need to be a member for five days before your profile backlinks will be listed.

72 = Article marketing with backlinks is taking up a lot of my time.  I decided to try out a writing/submission service.  The one I chose writes an article and submits it to 500 article directories with backlinks.  They claim at least 300 articles will be approved.  Will see.  They finished the order today and have sent it to submissions.

75 = Yahoo is now listing my site at #15.

76 = Submitted site to TopicCraze.com.

Day 77 = This is the first time my site is on the first page of Google at #9.

78 = Oops! Spoke to soon.  Site fell to position #15.  Silly search engine.

79 = Added meta code to my header area for mobile, viewport, and apple applications.

84 = My site has moved back up to page one on Google #10 and #13 with Yahoo.

94 = I just noticed in my webmaster tools,  that Google is listing a lot more backlinks to my site.  For the first few months there was only about 12 backlinks listed.  Now all the sudden there are 117 backlinks listed.  My work is paying off.

Here is an update on using anchor text in backlinks.  SEO experts say to mix up your anchor text and keep your keyword in the mix.  I think this is a good idea if you are targeting different phrases.  What happened with my site is, I rank high with backlink phrases I never intended to.  Besides, very few people search these phrases.  So, did I waste my  backlinks juice mixing up my anchor text?  I’m not sure, that’s why I do these experiments.

Day 120 key phrase update:   My main keyword for this project was ‘multilevel’.

Multilevel blogger:

 #1 – that’s a given.

Multilevel blog:   Looks like I dominate the first page with this phrase.  To bad no one searches it…lol.

#1, #2, #3 – my site pages.

#4 – article post

#5 – slide show page I posted at slideshare.net.

#7 – my tumblr page

#10 – article I posted at selfgrowth.com.

Multilevel tips:

#7 – my site page.

Multilevel dreams:

#2 – slideshare.net page again.

Multilevel talk:

#2 – my knol page.

I think when I do my next experiment, I am going to have the keywords the same in all backlinks.

Now that I my site has been sitting at the bottom of the first page for some time, I still would like to go for top position. So I ordered four more articles to be written.  I will spin them and submit them to article directories.

95 = If you are keeping track of the number of articles I am submitting, I just finished posting my 4th spun article to the directories for more backlinks.

96 = Posted article 5 orignal to ezinearticles.  Once approved I will spin it and post to the other directories.

113 = Just finished posting the rest of my spun articles.  That adds up to 7 articles so far submitted for backlinks.  My site is still bouncing back and forth from the bottom of page 1 to the top of page 2.  I am still trying for top position.  I am currently involved in discussions with two forums.  I am also posting to mlm blogs for more backlinks.

115 = I have been looking around fiverr.com. I hired a few users to do the following tasks:  180 google +1′s,  50 edu backlinks,  five pr7 backlinks, and four pr6 backlinks.  Not sure any of this will be helpful or not.

116 = Besides having backlinks to your site, it is also just as important to have fresh content.  I spun the seven articles I have and posted them on different areas of the site.

120 = It has now been 4 months since I started this backlinks case study.  I am showing 157 back links in my webmasters tools for the site.  My site is still dancing from page 1 to 2.  Not sure what else to do.  I was hoping for top position by now.  Maybe I will try a few more things and see if I can get to 1st position.

125 = Showing 175 backlinks with webmaster tools.  Seem to be stuck at position #11.

131 = I am now showing 223 backlinks in webmaster tools.  Also my 200 social bookmarketing campaign from a fiverr user was completed today.  See if this moves my site up at all.  Still at #11.

134 = My site is #3 on Yahoo and #5 on Bing.   Article marketing seems to work well with these two.  I would still be #9 with Google but another site just jump in 1st position out of no where. I hope it doesn’t stick.  So back to #10

141 = Order two more gigs from fiverr for more backlinks.  Link wheel using senukex and 200 top authority profile backlinks.  This will be all I do for this project.  I am concentrating on backlinks project #2.

146 = My webmasters tools account is now showing 354 backlinks.

147 = My site has finally moved up with the big G.  The site is now at #7

154 = My site has passed the 5 month mark. It is now sitting at #8 with the big G.  Backlinks in webmaster tools has dropped to 297, it peaked at 354.  I ordered one more backlinks gig from fiverr.  See if the site moves up.

166 = My site has been slapped!    The last gig I ordered was 400 profile back links,  oops.  I guess this was way too many at once.  This is why I tested my strategies on an unimportant webpage first.  Keep that in mind everyone.

Just a quick 6 month update.  Site is still not even in the top 300 for my keyword.

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