I’ve been actively building links to a bunch of my websites for a few months now and have seen some pretty amazing results. I’ve been using Linkvana (14 day trial for $5 affiliate link / 50 free outsourcing credits affiliate link), Build My Rank and Niche Tracker and I’m happy with each of them. At least the interface of each is easy to use and the outsourcing is straightforward. Of course, it’d be much easier to decide how effective each of them are if I kept better track of things… but that’s where this post comes in.
So far, results have been great. My living in New York site has rocketed from nowhere to the first page of Google for a couple of my major keywords. I have two sites that are basically made-for-Adsense experiments and they’re creeping up the rankings as well in what I think is a somewhat competitive area. I know the per click payouts are high so driving traffic to the sites will be key in making them work and, while things are moving slowly, the sites are getting there. I’ve also snagged the number one spot for some affiliate program related keywords that are pretty lucrative. I was surprised that one was so easy.
So now I’m going to target what I know is a very competitive term in an effort to test out and keep track of this whole links building thing and also bring my ebook sales back from the dead. I’m going to target ‘international volunteering’ for my international volunteering ebook sales page. Ya I know the domain should really have my keywords in it but as I have so many incoming links from other bloggers, it’s a bit too late to change it. But I’m going to have a crack at it anyways and where I can get to. There are some terms (like ‘volunteer overseas’) that get more searches per month, but I’ll start with one term and then branch out if I see any success.
This time around I’m going to use one link building service after another, instead of all at once. I’m hoping this will help me gauge the effectiveness of each. I’ll start with Linkvana and go from there. I’m also going to do a better job of keeping track of where my site starts in the rankings and where it ends up. At the moment I’m on page seven of Google (which is actually higher than I’d expected) so lets see if I can muscle my way on up the listings, beating out some pretty heavy hitting sites along the way. This niche is dominated by pay-to-volunteer websites and I expect they’ve probably put some money into their SEO efforts. To say getting to the first page of Google will be a challenge is a huge understatement! But what the hell, right?
So here goes the experiment. I’ll give Linkvana 30 days and see where my site is at the end of it. Stay tuned! Have many of you gone on big link building missions and actually managed to keep track of your results?
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