I am starting to see a bit more consistency with my xfactor sites. Some sites seem to have finally settled in their place on page 1 and some that disappeared off the map from the get-go are slowly climbing positions. Not only are the rankings for these sites improving but the clicks are also more consistent. I have one site that has received at least 1 click (sometimes 2-3 a day) for the past 3 days.
I now have 20 xfactor sites up. Yesterday I built my last site. I am now out of keywords so today I will need to do some keyword research.
I began using UAW about 2 weeks ago and of course I was skeptical about long term links etc. but after reading Mike and Jeff’s findings with using UAW on their inner pages, I have decided that UAW is going to be a vital asset for my sites too. So far in a 2 week run of using UAW on one of my sites that dropped out of the SERPs almost immediately after being indexed and has been MIA for nearly 3 weeks, is now sitting on page 2. I honestly think it only had a chance with runing UAW on it. I actually have been running it for the inner pages set at 40 per day but I lowered it to 20 per day after reading jeff’s comment. I have the main keyword set for only 7 submissions per day.
I also signed up for the linkjuicer last week and have run some campaigns to see how those turn out. This method is a much slower method of back link building but it is suppose to offer a more long term means for your back links versus UAW. So far I have used it on a few inner pages on some xfactor sites and on the specific hubpage that earned me a $7.00 click last week. I can already see it has helped boost my hubpage. My hubpage was on page 4 for its keyword but it is now #10 on page 1.
Since I have no sites ready for building at the moment, I have outsourced my oDesk writers to write me articles that I can use for UAW submissions since I absolutely hate the process of getting my submissions ready. Having them write the articles for me will help me out tremendously!
Oh! I did find an amazing keyword yesterday but before I get to that part let me say that I have been thinking for some time that I should still try and work on building up some Google Sniper sites. Now, I never have a problem with “sniping”. My sites have always claimed their respectable positions on page 1 and held steadfast but my problem is I am HORRIBLE at sales copy. I fail to get my visitor to want to click on my affiliate links. I met a fellow WF member about a month ago and he is doing alot of direct article marketing with clickbank products set up on blogger and he has had some success but obviously since he is not setting up specific SEO strategies, he is not getting organic traffic to his blogs. Therefore he is relying solely to earn money based on his articles and sadly he is discovering that the days he isn’t writing new articles, he isn’t earning very much. He is extremely talented in his sales copy. He showed me his first blogger and I was very impressed. So I briefly mentioned to him last week that I should hire him to write some sales copy for me and he was serious about taking up the offer.
Ok..so now back to the keyword I found. Since I finally made up my mind to have him write my salescopy, I decided to check out Clickbank. I found a very good product that is in the weight loss niche. Now I know everyone is like “Man, forget that niche. It’s so hard to get in there because it’s so competitive”. Well I typed in a basic weight loss term into MNF and then I clicked “broad search” on a specific keyword and bam! I hit gold. I found a keyword that has 4k monthly searches and had the greenlight in MNF. When I checked out the competition there were only a few PR 1-2 pages on page 1. So I ran over to Namecheap to see if the domain was available and nearly wet myself when I saw there was the .org and .net available. So you know what I did right? Yup! I snagged them both! No way I could let another person get in on my weight loss keyword! I figure if I fail at making it a google sniper site, I can always turn it into a niche blog and earn some adsense from it.
Ok, I am off to do some more UAW submissions and then KW research! Ta-ta!












Hey Sara,
Glad to see you’ve hit 20. I’m pushing out XF sites as fast as I can, and hope to join you at 20 soon. Anyway, just wanted to comment on linkjuicer, since I’m also signed up for it. Maybe it’s just me but their website is so spotty, that sometimes I’m able to do what I want like set up a campaign without any fuss, but sometimes the darn thing just sits there, as if it’s suffering from some sort of DOS attack. I got the impression that the dude who put it all together is quite a techie, but the spotty service is just so frustrating that I might just take my monthly $47 elsewhere. What’s your experience with it like so far?
Hello Stacey,
I haven’t had any problems with link juicer’s site. It’s funny because as I am setting up my campaigns and editing the spyntax, I make sure to copy and paste what I am working with in notepad just for safe measure. I somehow could picture spending 15-20 minutes spyntaxing only to have the site not load or something after hitting the submit button but really it has never done that to me.
I’m still on the 30 day trial though so I will have to see how it goes once I start paying for the monthly fees. I was going to decide at that point whether to stick with UAW or LJ but since you are rather limited on LJ campaigns with a set maximum of links allowed for the day, UAW as a permanent back linking campaign is winning the war so far.
Hey Sara,
Google really loves your blog. I was doing some IM work when I googled this phrase -alternative to linkjuicer- and bingo, this latest post of yours shows up in the #9 spot
I agree with your assessment of the LJ limitation. I mean, if we followed LJ’s recommendation (i.e. 20% links to the domain page, 80% to internal pages) then that means with the typical XF site being 5 pages (that we care about), then that’s 5 pages = 5 campaigns, so that means a max of 10 XF sites that the LJ account (50 campaigns max) can support.
Of course, you could swap out a site for another XF site, but you’d lose link velocity on the XF site you swapped out, and that site could end up taking a nosedive in the serps.
LOL That’s too funny about “alternative to link juicer” because I didn’t even mention an alternative to it, only that I was using it and UAW.
Definitely would be frustrating that you can only run 10 xfactor sites on LJ. I wasn’t planning on changing up any of the current campaigns I have right now. I was going to let them sit there and run a few months so I can understand what you are saying about losing link velocity.
I know some other people have purchased more than 1 account but at that point I definitely see UAW as being the better choice. Why have to spend almost $100 just to run 20 xfactor campaigns with LJ instead of just slapping down $67 a month with unlimited campaigns with UAW? UAW would just make more sense. Although LJ comes at you with the angle that the links are long term as opposed to UAW.
So glad to see you’re getting results. I just wish I had the time to crank them out at the same rate! I am using UAW though so I should porbably work a little harder on getting some articles done for that.
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Well every day that I chat with Mike on IM he still encourages me to just build more sites. Not to worry about rankings or spending time back linking but just to crank them out so he definitely pushes me. I really got behind this week though. I only managed to finish 1 site so I need to make up for it over the weekend and tomorrow. (I work at the dental office today so nothing will get done. I am beat when I come home on Thursdays. lol)
Nice! Care to share some of your websites? How do you profit from them? What venue are you using to make money online? I didn’t see any adsense on your pages here.
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I will have to see how it goes once I start paying for the monthly fees. I was going to decide at that point whether to stick with UAW or LJ but since you are rather limited on LJ campaigns with a set maximum of links allowed for the day, UAW as a permanent back linking campaign is winning the war so far.thanks..
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