Here we are at wednesday night already. I cannot believe how fast this month is going by.
This week I was able to build 8 xfactor sites so far. Not bad. I am still struggling the most with trying to back link my pages. My organization and method right now is not working out too well since I often am getting my articles spun days after I already built the site, so then I must return back to a site that is 3-4 days old and then back link. For example, let’s say I built a site today (Wednesday) but I receive my spun articles to back link for this same website a few days later (Friday). On Friday, when I find some free time after building my sites for that day, I will have to then go back and back link the sites I built on Wednesday. I just simply do not feel as though I have enough hours in the day.
So basically it boils down to this, either I must cut back on my site building for the week. Maybe do only 10 sites a week and then spend the rest of the days for the week back linking all the sites built for the week or I need to outsource someone to do the article marketing part for me. The only thing that would suck about that is then I would have to take up more time to compile a list of pages for them to back link that correspond with the write articles and keywords to use etc. Such a royal pain.
I had a bit of a keyword research block yesterday. I just was not finding much success after about an hour of research but I did stumble upon something very interesting. Twitter updates are now being included on page 1 listings. Check out this photo.
I bought Clickbump’s template today. I know I had read about Clickbump’s template through the thread on WF about 1000x but I never had any interest to pick it up. I was happy with my own template I had built. But to be honest, my template seemed to be more work and everyone seems to be raving about Scott’s template. So after reading on the xfactor private forum, I was convinced and bought the template. The reason why I bought it was not only because it is easy to use and really clean looking but his latest version doesn’t look like the ugly black and green we are all sick of looking at. The new design CE2, looks simple, clean and when you add your images it makes your site look more enticing. I found today a heck of a lot more pleasant building my sites than previously. That’s a good thing.
Another thing I did was buy a new hosting account on Hostgator. I guess the general rule of thumb according to most xfactor site builders is that they only host 15-20 sites per a hosting account. Seeing how my first account already had quite a few, I decided to purchase another account. I will probably host about 30 on each account.
Now the main reason why I decided to both; buy Scott’s template and purchase a new hosting account is because yesterday during my keyword research stump, I decided to look back over my sites that ranked easily and are earning decent money. I decided to buy up the rest of the TLD for them. Now obviously if you are going to have the site redwidgets.net and you buy redwidgets.org; you don’t want the sites to look similar. So I figure I can use Scott’s templates for the new TLD sites. The other thing is I have read on the private forum that Google frowns upon multiple sites with the same TLD on the same hosting account. One guy had reported that when he did this, his 2nd site was sandboxed and it hasn’t reappeared since.
Anyhow, I don’t know how much of this is true but it is still worth taking precautions for.
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Maybe you just need to dedicate one or two days per week (or every other week) solely to linkbuilding. It might be a nice break from building sites. That’s my plan eventually – to do certain things certain days to maximize on momentum and hopefully reduce burn out on any one function.
I imagine just overseeing your outsourcing efforts takes alot of time also. But maybe if you have some relatively simple tasks you could hire a VA on Odesk to try and free up some of your time. You’re working hard!
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Hi Carrie,
You are wise and I am going to take off one day from building sites and make that one day be dedicated to back linking the sites I built from the week before.
I think especially now that I am using Scott’s template, my site building should be much faster that I could probably even bust out 3 sites on one day.
I think I need to really get organized. You’re right, managing my outsourcing does take up quite a bit of time. Not only because I have to conduct daily keyword research consistently but just getting the keyword lists out to them etc can be time consuming as well. I like the idea of hiring a VA but then I am not sure what duties I could actually give to them without further work on my behalf of gathering information for them about what should be done.
I would love to hire someone to do my UAW submissions. i think that would really help out tremendously but I haven’t seen many people available on oDesk that are familiar with UAW.
I was asking about UAW on Mike’s blog and not sure if you saw his answer, but he didn’t recommend outsourcing UAW. For me I still think it is fine since I can’t justify the cost of buying it myself, but since you are already an expert it may not be something to outsource.
I haven’t done too much outsourcing, but what I have done has usually been less than expectations. I think writing is a good thing to outsource (if picky like me) because you still have some quality control – you can check articles before posting. For linkbuilding I worry that someone will do something dumb or spammy and at worse just waste my money.
You know there are people on WF who will do KW research, right? Don’t know if that would help. Yeah, a VA sounds nice but you still have to work to keep them busy.
When you are buying hosting are you buying the reseller hosting package? I don’t understand why this is more beneficial.
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With reselller packages, you can setup unlimited domains, emails and more. WIth most hosting sginle/business hosting packages you can’t really do this.
If you’re domain has privacy options enabled, you can host as many sites as you want since Google can’t really pick up the nameservers. It is quite beneficial to host your sites on several hosting accounts if you can though as it allows you to spread yoru risk.
Thanks for explaining that Zaheer. It definitely seems like the way to go now. I’ll keep that in mind for my next purchase.
Your welcome
Zaheer
I actually did not buy a reseller package although I may consider it after I have filled my new account up with 30 sites or so. I just bought another baby croc package with Hostgator.
I use JustHost who have been really good.
Hi Sara,
Good to know that you’re still keeping up the momentum…lol
I have same TLDs and as far as I know, none of them have been sanboxed. In fact, I just set up the WordPress installations and let them get picked up by Google. In some instances, I don’t even have content and they still are ranked. An example is 2 domains a .net and .org rank in position 8 and 12. I was quite su[rised to see that the .net got 6 clicks yesterday at $5.08 which was quite nice….lol
They don’t look comepletely different, just make sure that the HTML is slightly different otherwise Google can pick this up. I just change the theme slightly in Artisteer and make some code changes to ensure they aren’t identical.
With regards to backlinking, personally I think its definately worth you taking some time out. In fact although you may not like me sayign this but it may be even worth you taking out like a week or 2 and just focus on backlinking. This doesn’t mean Social bokmarking or profile link backlinks but ‘quality’ backlinks like from various article directories and rss feeds. I do find it to be quite loborious but I’ve found that after like 2-3 months it DOES start to kick in. Even like 1-2 article links to each deep linked page can work wonders. Becuase you use spun articles it definately helps. Recently I drip fed my spun articles out to like 6-8 directories over a period of 2 weeks and saw a big jump in rankings.
Anyway, just some food for though. I’m focussing on more building up my credibility and solidifying their rankings as opposed to building more sites. However both methods work, just depsnds on which angle you want to take.
Zaheer
Wow, so you still rank your sites with 0 content? That’s awesome!
I think my plan of pumping out sites should be my primary focus. Some sites have been able to rank on page 1 right away with no back links while obviously the ones that are just hanging at the top of page 2 will need some back link love to push them forward.
I do think Carrie is right about taking some time off to back link, maybe even if I just did 1 day a week of reflecting on the sites built the week or two before that need a little extra lovin’.
Actually the sites I mentioned above do have 1 500 word article on each of them but they only had a paragraph or a few lines which i wrote and still ranked well.
I think you would be very wise in your decision to dedicate 1 day to backlinking, remember its about 70% of your overall SEO effort so you do want to do it. Maybe you can outsource some backlinking on oDesk? You dont need anyone to be particularly great at speaking English and you can pick up someone really cheap.