Comments on: Race to a Thousand Post Update – Advice Needed on Backlink Strategy http://www.makemoneywithnowork.com/race-to-a-thousand-post-update-advice-needed-on-backlink-strategy/ Helping you to make passive income Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:16:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Patrick http://www.makemoneywithnowork.com/race-to-a-thousand-post-update-advice-needed-on-backlink-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Patrick Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:57:19 +0000 http://www.makemoneywithnowork.com/?p=218#comment-414 Yep I am going to shift gears here. What is the point of having an extra 1,000 posts on your site if they are not making a single penny of income? Not worth it. As for dumping links into my income producers, that has largely been my strategy up until now (when I did build links). For most of my money terms I own spot 1 and 2. I make over half of my money from the long tail. With another 1,000 links over the next few months I think that I can get at least a 50 percent boost in income by activating these dead posts. I have already milked my money posts and boosted them with links to become PR3 pages....added 5,000+ words of content to some of them. They have hundreds of comments for added content to be crawled. I think that route is dead for me until new "winners" surface. Right now I need to "wake up" the rest of the site and that is going to require at least a thousand new links, spread out quite a bit. The goal is to eventually have 5 solid links pointing at the majority of the URLs on the site. I know one person who did exactly that and their 100 post site is now a PR5....they add new money posts and can rank easily without building a ton of new links. That is the level of link juice that I need to build up to....that I should have built up to a long time ago. The key now is to go back and to put the work in. Build the links. Yes it is tedious work. But if you do it methodically, eventually the network effect will start taking over and the entire site will rise. I thought I could bust out a 1,000 posts and have them rank magically. I was wrong. So now it's time to put some real work in.... Yep I am going to shift gears here. What is the point of having an extra 1,000 posts on your site if they are not making a single penny of income? Not worth it.

As for dumping links into my income producers, that has largely been my strategy up until now (when I did build links). For most of my money terms I own spot 1 and 2.

I make over half of my money from the long tail. With another 1,000 links over the next few months I think that I can get at least a 50 percent boost in income by activating these dead posts.

I have already milked my money posts and boosted them with links to become PR3 pages….added 5,000+ words of content to some of them. They have hundreds of comments for added content to be crawled. I think that route is dead for me until new “winners” surface. Right now I need to “wake up” the rest of the site and that is going to require at least a thousand new links, spread out quite a bit.

The goal is to eventually have 5 solid links pointing at the majority of the URLs on the site. I know one person who did exactly that and their 100 post site is now a PR5….they add new money posts and can rank easily without building a ton of new links. That is the level of link juice that I need to build up to….that I should have built up to a long time ago.

The key now is to go back and to put the work in. Build the links. Yes it is tedious work. But if you do it methodically, eventually the network effect will start taking over and the entire site will rise.

I thought I could bust out a 1,000 posts and have them rank magically. I was wrong. So now it’s time to put some real work in….

]]> By: Josh http://www.makemoneywithnowork.com/race-to-a-thousand-post-update-advice-needed-on-backlink-strategy/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Josh Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:45:48 +0000 http://www.makemoneywithnowork.com/?p=218#comment-413 Given how many current articles you have on the site I would use some of that content generating to build a link or two towards the income producing posts. It is much easier to grow something that has roots than to make a seed sprout roots then grow. Throw 400 links towards those 200 income producing posts and watch what happens. I wouldn't go about it the same way as that will take more time and effort getting that content on such a wide variety or websites. Not quite like posting an internal blog post. I understand wanted to keep towards your 1000 articles goal, but that is not the same as doubling your income. For doubling your income on the site focus on the income generation and what it takes for a post to go from page 3 to page 1 for a given keyword. That will make the biggest difference $ wise. What a tremendous undertaking you have aimed for and I love seeing your results. Given how many current articles you have on the site I would use some of that content generating to build a link or two towards the income producing posts. It is much easier to grow something that has roots than to make a seed sprout roots then grow. Throw 400 links towards those 200 income producing posts and watch what happens. I wouldn’t go about it the same way as that will take more time and effort getting that content on such a wide variety or websites. Not quite like posting an internal blog post.

I understand wanted to keep towards your 1000 articles goal, but that is not the same as doubling your income. For doubling your income on the site focus on the income generation and what it takes for a post to go from page 3 to page 1 for a given keyword. That will make the biggest difference $ wise.

What a tremendous undertaking you have aimed for and I love seeing your results.

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