Yesterday it was pretty hot here, at least it was pretty hot for a day in the Bay Area and a rest day from P90X was much welcomed. I didn’t feel like sweating downstairs since I sold the family room floor fan off at one of our first yard sales and it was too warm upstairs to sit at the computer for very long. I made the mistake of attempting to play my The Sims 3 game with the room being so warm that the game crashed after only 5 minutes of playing. So what else could I do? That’s right nothing better than to check on some rankings. I decided to check out some of the sites that were ranking on page 1 before the Mayday update that I had listed last month as being lost in the abyss but to my surprise a few sites are slowly making a come back without me doing any work to them. One site is on page 3 for its main keyword and another site is on page 4. It was also surprising to see that a site that was not affected by the Mayday update and was at #11 last month is suddenly ranking at #2.  But the best surprise of all was hitting $32.77 in Adsense yesterday.

There is still a lot of hear say as to how to get micro niche sites that were affected by the Mayday update to rank again. You have Joe Schmoo that says you need to add fresh content every week, then there is Above-Average Joe that says you need to back link, back link and back link some more and then there is Average Joe that says you need a combination of both. I recently read a post by someone on John’s forum where a guy stated that when he notices sites that are no longer ranking what he does is he adds another paragraph to his main page content which uses LSI words, I recommend using a software like The Ultimate Keyword Theme Extractor for this, then over the period of a week he will add a few pages of new content. Its unclear how many pages he means by “a few” but I would interpret that to mean at least 2 new pages. He then tosses a few back links with articles at the new pages. He did state he doesn’t do all of these steps at one time because he likes it spread out over a few days.

I have decided to try a method similar to this only I am going to add in profile back links. Yesterday I was checking up on one of my competitor sites that did not budge during the mayday update. My competitor’s site stood its ground. The content is average and the layout is that of an xfactor style site. The site is also only 2 months older than my site. I looked at the back links and it only has 70. 15 of those are ezine articles and all the rest are from profile back links. Obviously there is still much weight given to profile back links. So my plan is this:

Monday – Add a new paragraph (about 250 words) onto my main page, write 2-3 pages of new content, upload the new pages and ping the RSS feed.

Tuesday – Write 2-5 articles for ezine to back link the new pages

Wednesday – Create new accounts for forum profiles

Thursday – Ping and bookmark the articles that have now been approved from Tuesday (this is an easy day I’ll have to find something else to do this day)

Friday – Go back to my created profiles and add my links then ping the profiles

Noteworthy Tip For Preventing An Adsense Ban
A further warning on preventing Adsense account banning. A few days ago a member on John’s forum reported his adsense account was banned because his account “poses a risk of generating invalid activity”.  The poster was using Clickbump’s theme and had the line of text under the title post. The general consensus on the reason for the ban was the possibility of  the use of advertising phrases such as, “Find The Best Prices”, “Get Cheap Widgets Here”, “Buy Widgets At Discount Prices” and the like. I could see why Google would frown on these phrases when thrown onto a content site since our sites do not actually sell goods, unless you are directly placing amazon links or other affiliate product links then that would be ok. So I would suggest that if you are tossing around phrases on your sites to lead visitors to believe you are selling actual products but you are not, remove the phrases. I tend to use those types of phrases in titles and content but its usually along the lines of offering tips on how to locate or shop for good deals on product x, I never directly make it look as though I am offering “widgets on sale”.