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Hey AdultKing, just wanted to thank you again for all of your advice and give you an update on how things are coming along.
I followed most of your advice, with the exception of the 5 posts per week. I have a few blogs and since I'm still writing everything myself and working FT (and OT alot), I did what I could handle at the time. BUT the main thing is that one of my blogs has jumped from PR0 to PR2, which was a nice surprise and I have 20 sign ups for one affil prog and 1 on a brand new affil program! I took screenies but since I don't have 30 posts, I cant link them...
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The best thing about this business is that success is simple and achievable providing you put a little work into it. There are simple time proven methods to make sales and it looks like you have found that keeping at it consistently is one of them.
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I think I'm becoming addicted to purchasing domains. I have quite a few which are parked, but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to purchase a cool domain name for my niches. I also purchased an additional hosting plan, so that I have more than 1 IP. Maybe next year, I'll move everything to my own server.
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Don't fall into the trap of being addicted to domain purchases, if you buy a domain never park it, place a little content on the domain on a basic Wordpress install so Google gets a sense of what the site is going to be about. For example if you register bigboobies.com then place 4 or 5 posts on it about boobs.
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You know, you mentioned before not to worry so much about backlinks, and I haven't really. I've noticed that my blogs have less backlinks than many of my competitions' websites and many of them have less text/articles/posts than my blogs. It's sort of surprising that I'm ranking decent at all with hardly any backlinks. I guess it all goes back to fresh, original content.
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Backlinks are important however despite what so called SEO Gurus will tell you, relevant organic backlinks beat spammed back links any day of the week. Google is getting much better at determining spam backlinks and there will come a day where people with many spammed backlinks back to their site will be slapped down hard.
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You know, this blogging stuff is really fun. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I'm also enjoying incorporating some Social Media into the mix as well. I'm just wondering how the heck I'm going to manage so many blogs by myself. I have 3-4 hours a day during the week maximum to devote to blogging and phoning, and the weekends, I get drunk lol, hang out, and work on the sites and phone. I wish I had more time!!! Ugh.
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Obviously you are already discovering what methods work for you. What you can do to leverage that knowledge is to start outsourcing. Write down the method you use to add content to your blogs and get someone else to do that while you work on new blogs. You can hire good labor from around $3 - $5 per hour to update your blogs by going to
oDesk. All you do is make a job posting, add a credit card and then interview applicants. Once you have selected an applicant and hire them, give them the job of updating one of your blogs and then you can move on to creating a new one.
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Oh, as I re-read you post here, I noticed that you suggest changing the affil links to no-follow. Do you think that it appears more natural to Google if they're left as follow or do you think Google doesn't really take that into consideration? I was just wondering if Google may see the no follow links and assume that I'm trying increase my rank by not sending any juice to affils. (even though I want to keep as much juice as I can and I would attempting to increase my rank). What do you think?
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The best thing to do with links is to use your own generated shortlinks and have them set as nofollow, two reasons for this. One Google wont readily see your site as a thin site, meaning if a site just has links to affiliate sponsors then Google will see your site as a thin affiliate and this may affect your ranking. Secondly by using shortlinks, if a sponsor dies, or stops paying, then you only need to edit one shortlink entry to redirect all that traffic elsewhere. One edit is better then dozens, hundreds or thousands if you lose a sponsor.