6 month link experiment
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About 6 months ago I registered 12 domains. All .com’s. All with ‘names’…. things like toddloveslinks.com
I made them all into fake “people” pages. All about ‘Todd’ for example. I put up fake bio’s, dogs, family pictures, etc…
I buried in the back of the sites “Todds favorite links” and started scrapping yahoo serp results with my links embedded every x results. I also attempted to ping a trackback to every place that showed up – obviously most weren’t blogs but a number of them were.
I put one blog up another site, and just did a single post about each person once a day for 12 days. (normal wordpress ping list)
No other links, although I did put some additional links out there for the blog with all the pages on it… in effect I built up some links for each blog page there was (even tags, and what not).
So all of these “name” pages have zero links except for the blog and ping – and any scrapping that was done by others for the blog…. and a random trackback very deep in the site.
6 months later (or 5ish since I was slow setting it up), all the named sites are ranked with some pr 1,2,or 3. Each one is getting traffic, and even sending the occasional click through to the sites I buried.
Not bad – probably not paying for itself unless the link juice is worth more than I give it value – but since I’m about to start adding “Todd’s favorite products” and spending some time at kaboodle for each ‘person’ it will turn around.
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As a little update – I created the Kaboodle accounts for a few of the fake people last week. The sites are profitable now and I think they are even going to pay for my time in the long run as I add more to kaboodle.
For this to really work though you would probably want to get someone else handling kaboodle – it sucks up to much time. I’ve probably spent 30 hours on these 12 sites (maybe a little more) and it’s turned into about $150 bucks so far. Basically paying for domain and hosting and that’s it.
I think in the future I’ll do them on a ELGG install since it’s free and you can pull in feeds and stuff.
In the long run it will be worth my time between the link juice and the commissions. Just have to make the process faster.