30 Day Authority Site Challenge: Day 8

This is my 1 week update for the authority site challenge. For those of you new to my blog, you can read about my authority site challenge here.

My first ezine article for this site challenge was actually published 6 days ago and today it finally showed up in YSE. I pinged it once it was approved so getting it indexed in 6 days is not too shabby. I also submitted my ezine author’s RSS feed with RSSbot 4 days ago so I think that will help get my articles indexed a bit faster. I’ll ping the feed each day a new article is approved.

Back links update: The site has lost some back links as the excess blog commenting tags and categories have dropped off. It was at 285 links last week and today it has 87.

Google position update: It was #6 one week ago and today it is at #7

Inner pages: So far the inner pages are not ranking very well. One inner page is ranking at #401 and another at #250 while the other 5 inner pages are sandboxed.

SEOLV: The SEOLV articles I submitted are producing back links and showing up in YSE in about 7 days time. They are not on high PR blogs, in fact I only have found them on PR- blogs.

Blog Blueprint: I am very disappointed to see that NONE of my posts I submitted to BB for my day 1 (last Monday) inner blog post are indexed or showing up in YSE. The norm for BB has been about 4 days to be indexed and show up in YSE. However; 6 posts out of 20 are showing up in YSE for the post submissions I did on my 2nd (posted last Tuesday) inner page blog post and they are all on PR 3 blogs. So not sure what’s happening here. I’ll be keeping an eye out on those first posts. If they never show up then there is a real problem here.

Authority site’s earnings from May 10-16, 2010: $5.65

Yesterday I did $29.48 in adsense. The highest earner was $3.87.

Matthew DC

says:

May 17, 2010 at 10:33 am

Hey Sara,

I have also noticed very inconsistent results from BB. The indexing in YSE is fairly random, but my sites still tend to move around in the rankings when I make new posts, whether they ever show in YSE or not. I am not sure what the deal is with the randomness of the whole thing.

At first I thought the system just simply wasn’t getting results, but the 20 post runs do make the sites move, just for some reason YSE is weird about picking them up. Certain blogs from their network get indexed every time however, so I am thinking that maybe it has to do with their plugins, or ping settings, or some other factor. I am wondering if their blog setup is inconsistent. If one blog has all of the SEO plugins, sitemaps, etc, and is getting indexed every time one of my posts is listed there, maybe the others aren’t showing because that blog doesn’t have all the addons?

I’m just thinking on screen really…. any thoughts on the matter?
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JamestheJust on Elance

May 17, 2010 at 7:53 pm

Alright, you got me. I HOPE your “The Best Spinner” link was an aff link – because I dug it up in your search bar. I figured you were the one who sold it to me (because you’re like that) – so now the comparison is on.

Too bad payday came this far into my too-much-week-at-end-of-money trick, because I only have one article now to spin. I spun 9 w/MAR and was so impressed I wrote the review…

And: I am thinking with you and Matt’s questions re: the backlinks showing up: it all depends if the page they are posted to are indexed themselves or not. This is what “The Indexing Tool” is all about, a WP plugin that handles getting your backlinked 2.0 properties (like articles) to be indexed. I’d give it time…many of my sites’ have inner pages that don’t show up in rankings at all according to SEOBook’s rank checker for FireFox.

I’d imagine it’s the same for your blog posts etc.: they’re not indexed, perhaps? BTW, I haven’t purchased “the indexing tool” yet, but plan on it and will review it’s results later down the road.
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NoteworthyTips says:

May 17, 2010 at 9:21 pm

That was my aff, so thanks James. lol I’d love to hear how you think The Best Spinner compares to MAR. I’ve tried Brad Callen’s spinner, Link Dozer’s built in spinner and the one by the creators of Traffic Kahuna and once I tried TBS, it just lived up to the name. It really is the fastest and easiest to use of those I tried.

I think Matthew’s speculation about BB’s site setups is probably the cause behind some of the blog posts taking longer to post. Google must really love some of the blogs in the network over the others and so they index certain blogs faster.

I just checked out my posts from last week and of the 7 I posted only 4 are indexed. I can’t say that “aha! so that’s why BB’s posts aren’t showing up” because my first blog post was indexed within 24 hours. And even right now as I look at the back links, it is showing 10 back links all from the RSS feed. I have back links coming from 3 different squidoo lenses (score!) and several other blogs that are autoblogs just using feeds as content.

- JamestheJust on Elance says:
  
  May 17, 2010 at 11:28 pm
  
  So, on your autoblogs – are they self-hosted sites? And: if self-hosted, do they produce an income?
  
  I’ve always wondered about the use of autoblogs and why they seem to be so popular – couldn’t figure the use of them, or if they actually work.
  
  So far, btw, TBS = the hype
  
  I would know. It’s my second spinner… O.O
  .-= JamestheJust on Elance´s last blog ..Earnings Disclaimer =-.
  
  - NoteworthyTips says:
    
    May 18, 2010 at 7:19 am
    
    Oh I do not have any auto blogs. I thought about giving them a try once but they just seem to risky to use with Adsense so that’s a path I would never take. Adsense is my future so I wanna built my sites right.
    
    I merely meant that as I checked out where my back links were coming from I noticed they were on autoblogs (not owned by me) and their autoblogs are just pulling RSS feeds so I am getting back links from my feeds without me doing any work.
    
    - JamestheJust on Elance says:
      
      May 18, 2010 at 10:42 am
      
      It didn’t sound like something you’d do, the autoblog deal, but I’m so new at this that I figured you knew what you were doing and I just didn’t discover that particular gold mine yet.
      
      Thanks for clearing it up! Makes more sense. Oh, and I pinged my RSS feeds on EZA – will be submitting them via RSSBot later today per your suggestion (bloody genius, I never thought of RSS feeds that way).
      
      Thanks for *that* tip as well. I’ve taken notes and action.
      
      If the empire falls, it’s your fault, in other words.
      
      .-= JamestheJust on Elance´s last blog ..Article Spinner Challenge: Magic Article Rewriter Vs. The Best Spinner From A Freelancer’s Perspective =-.