GFY SEO network
 

This is what I'm proposing: Basically, a GFY SEO network. I have been looking into launching a campaign like this for our website and thought to myself, if there was a few other people that did this with me, the benefits would be multiplied pretty much by however many people took part. Plus the amount of work would be cut down by however many people took part.

I will try to explain this as best I can and make it as easy as possible to follow. Say we have one web designer trying to increase their rank for a specific set of keywords. I went through this and came up with the following method as the easiest, most efficient way to effectively increase the rank of a website.. Use Wordpress (who here doesn't use WP?) to create a network of 5-10 blogs (using the handy 'network' feature built into the new WP release) and use autoblog software to submit spintax blog posts containing keyword backlinks. Also, use the blogroll/footer and other link spots to backlink using anchored links. I would then write 1 spintax article per network containing keyword backlinks to my network, website and authority sites like Wikipedia to let Google know that article is serious.

This would give me a lot of footer/blogroll/in-content/important relevant anchor backlinks to my website. Which is nice.. But.. If that network was say, 10 times larger, the benefit would be much bigger and each blog involved in each network would be more likely to become an authoritative website in their niche; making that blog's backlinks (to the users main website) that much more powerful.

What I am saying is this... Simply put, if 10 people got together, chipped in webspace for and set up 3-5 Wordpress blogs (1 network), 1 short article in spintax format per network (for blog entries on that network), 1 long article (for article submissions on that network), 1 list of links each month, and agreed simply to manage that 1 network (make sure your autoblog is running, moderate the 5 WP blogs, etc) and a couple of other *easy* tasks, then we could effectively build a large network of SEO monster blogs and basically have the ability to smash any website to the top of Google for any (realistic) keyword phrase.

This could mean an increase in business for everybody involved and/or happier clients for everybody involved.. Plus, could potentially allow everybody involved to offer SEO as a service, which is a very lucrative market.

If enough people got involved, this could potentially:

A.) Turn into a gigantic network of easily manageable, strategic SEO blogs with the ability to market any keyword for any website. (Imagine if we had networks of networks of networks... All simple autoblogs and basically rely on a community to submit minimal amount of work per person)

B.) I posted above about Xrumer requirements. If we really wanted to market these blogs and turn them into backlinking machines, each person involved could chip in $50 initial (say it costs $50 to join a network) to cover the cost of Xrumer. This would also mean that each network would need a dedicated host and private proxies, so it could cost about $6/mo. to be in a network, to help cover those costs. Very minimal cost per user and the flip side is, that would allow everybody in each network access to powerful SEO tools that most don't have, like multiple private proxies Xrumer and ScrapeBox via remote desktop to a dedicated server (100mb-1gb=SB/XR extreme). I know there would be 10 people for each Xrumer install, but 10 people sharing 1 install for personal use would be easy to manage. You can run an install of Xrumer twice from one computer, so one copy can do the actual blog SEO work and the other copy can be dedicated to only being shared between network members to build their own backlinks, offer SEO services to clients, etc. Get it?

C.) In Google's eyes, be a legitimate white hat network of blogs with quality content, a community of followers and plenty of marketing and social networking. Which will provide excellent SEO benefits for anybody involved.

This has been making a lot of sense to me... What do you all think? Any good? Or am I crazy?

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Meh no thanks, low quality content, spammy backlinks, shady content farm style tactics spells disaster.

Let me explain...

If each person is running 5 blogs, that could turn into quite a bit of work. I know that I don't have the time to manage 5 blogs on top of my job.. I could write some mean spintax, though and I would bet on 5 well spun blogs to outrank one well written blog that may make a little more sense to the reader. That would be one of the key benefits of this group would be the group learning experience. I will admit that this SEO thing is all pretty new to me, but with 10+ years of web design it's coming very naturally to me. I think if more people around here looked at SEO with the same eyes they looked at web design, we could all be at the very least above average.. Which who knows, opens up job opportunities, new clients and services. If one person is really good at spintax, shoot some tips to the people who aren't. If you're good at strategic linking, shoot some tips to the people that aren't.

That's how this community already functions as far as web design, why not throw SEO into that mix as well?

For the spintax, it's like I explain to my boss, we're not worried about what these blogs actually say. Who cares? We want their link juice.. We want to get them a respectable PR and just dump that PR into the users' websites and other blogs in the network. Google can't read, so if the grammar is a bit off, big deal.. This is how Google reads:

"Aadf asdaga asdfa wgwr WEB DESIGNER asdf PHOENIX dafaa iuig werwn nionvs."

Google is like one big CTRL+F button searching a giant network for your term. Whoever licks their boots the most gets the top spot, so we create a boot licking machine. They may not be the best ranking blogs on the internet, but they will be respectable for their niche, which is all that matters. We're not ranking them for "Tom's Auto Blog" we need modifiers to find low-competition niches like "Tom's import auto repair guide blog." Things that we could just conquer the top spots for.

The only people who would read these blogs are, A) people who are searching within that niche. Who cares? They will just say, "well, this is stupid.. Why have a blog on the first page that doesn't help me?"
B) Your competition who is checking out your backlinks. In which case, let them look and say "holy fuck, Batman. Are there any other keywords we could go after?"

No, Robin. Our blogs eat them all. Go refill my drink.

I see it happening a lot, our main competitors do just this.. They are linked to about 5-10 blogrolls and footers that are all obviously spintax blogs with a PR of about 4. Since they started doing that, they've become #3 in our top keyword, behind only the 2 biggest puppy listing websites on the internet. One way to mimic this, which we have done to catch up short-term, is to purchase these blogroll/footer links... Which I will tell you are 90% of the time on some weird spintax 4+PR blog and will cost you about $10-100 depending on the PR, Alexa, etc and whether you want blogroll or footer. I will also tell you that these work like magic.

In addition...

It's never a good idea to spam backlinks to your main domain, the best thing to do is spam backlinks to a blog which raves about your main domain.... Now, if there are 30-150 legitimate blogs out there, many of them dealing directly with computers/electronics, all raving about how great of a web designer 'cloneofclone' is in Phoenix, that gives you a HUGE, HUGE boost in ranking for those keywords.

Backlinks are powerful, don't get me wrong. But I've seen it done, a few relevant backlinks will smash on a lot of irrelevant spam links. Especially in little niche markets like most of us are in, where there is not super strong corporate influence in the top rankings... We will shitroll the competition in ANY niche market.

(So don't plan on this making you #1 for 'website design' or 'seo'... But you can be confident about 'phoenix website design,' 'phoenix seo,' etc.)

100,000's of links raving about each of these 30 blogs which brings the search engines in... All of these blogs are raving about each other, which makes them more relevant and authoritative... 5 of these blogs have your content, keywords and links plastered all over them... All of the relevant blogs have direct links to your website using your keywords as anchor text in their footer/blogroll links.

That is extremely powerful SEO right there and that is the benefit. These are some of the most authoritative types of back links in the eyes of Google and the other search engines and each member will have access to tons of these links. If you have 50 blogs each with 100,000 Xrumer backlinks raving about you being the best web designer in Phoenix and your competition has 100,000 Xrumer backlinks, guess whos's the best web designer in Phoenix? You are.

Plus, this strengthens any other relevant keywords you want to shoot for. Say you have this network of blogs boosting you for "phoenix web design" but that's not your only keyword. You're in luck because another benefit of this is access to Xrumer on a dedicated server.. For cheap! So you go Xrumer your other keywords like "phoenix seo" and "phoenix web marketing," guess what? Web design, seo and web marketing are relevant keywords, since you're already very well ranked for web design, that makes seo and web marketing much easier to take over.

Herding cats.

Exactly the phrase that came to mind.

I run seo/blog projects that are basically a minimum of 10 - 15 posts per blog, unique content only, and are designed to be left alone save for tweaking every few months as regards to checking trades (individually), though there isn't any limit obviously for those wanting to update on a regular basis. It's always a case of the more the merrier, so skype jel-new for more info if anyone is interested in being a part of those :thumbsup

He sure seems nonchalant about his proxies...

Footer links are worthless.

The strategy outlined might have been workable once but in 2012 it's a recipe for disaster.

If you want devalued links, the possibility of a Google slap and don't have a problem with spammy , shallow content linking to you then it's probably a good deal.

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I think its a fantastic idea potentially but each person running 5 blog .... count me in potentially, if there is option just to run one blog. I am after "dating related" keywords.

Thanks

Sorry guys, I write a lot when I drink.

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I did something like this on a smaller scale back in 05 or 06. Worked quite well. The secret is don't open it up to GFY. Find 5 or 6 people you know and trust to keep up their end of the deal.

That is true. If you cant have trust with this type of project it will fail.

Been there done that :upsidedow