Unique Article Wizard

For those who don’t have a Unique Article Wizard (UAW) account, it is a service that helps automate a lot of the tedious article marketing that is a must for building backlinks to your niche sites.  Using Unique Article Wizard’s methods it is very possible to blast out unique articles to hundreds of different article directories while varying the pages you are linking to and varying the anchor text as much as you want.  There is also the added feature of being able to control how often these links get sent out.  So rather than sending out 1000 links all at the same time, instead you can send out 50 links a day, or 10, it’s up to you.  These links add a good foundation for your other link building strategies and work well to hide your really good links from your competition.

Using UAW is very effective but can be a lot of work.  Writing the article and then doing the necessary variations can be very time consuming but recently UAW partnered with a content creation site called MyArticleExpress.  Now we can order a “UAW” article from MyArticleExpress with the topic we choose and once finished upload it directly to UAW.  You can also add all of the of the other work required, like a resource box and extra titles, to the order for a small fee.  The result is a very automated way of building hundreds of backlinks that do not look automated to Google.  A UAW article costs about 11 bucks right now and is well worh the cost considering the time it would take to write the article myself.  I do the resource box myself, otherwise it costs an extra buck.

Use UAW and MyAricleExpress to Build Thousands of Backlinks

With the partnership of UAW and MyArticleExpress I have streamlined my article marketing efforts even more than before.  Now I will detail an awesome strategy for getting the most out of MyArticleExpress articles and the UAW system.

First off I need to have a site that is ready for some good link building.  Typically I wait a few months at least before I start using some serious article marketing for it.  If I remember right, The Keyword Academy recommends three months before using UAW on a site, or at least trickle the articles out over the span of a month or two rather than a week or two.

Once a niche site is ready for some UAW links I can put in a few orders for articles from MyArticleExpress.  Typically I want to parallel these articles with the articles on the niche site.  So if I have a niche site about cordless electric knives with 10 posts related to that topic I would order 10 articles from MyArticleExpress on each of those same 10 topics.  These are $11 each for 300 words and well worth the cost as you get three 300 word articles on each topic.  So $110 gets you thirty 300 word articles on the topics of your choice!  Keep in mind that these articles are good enough to use on your money sites so the quality is very good.

Now that you have your articles you can start sending out UAW submissions right?  Slow down!  Let’s do something with each of those articles first.  Have a list of parasitic websites you use for backlink building.  As we have determined, if you purchase 10 UAW articles with the MyArticleExpress service you now have 30 articles to work with.  Thirty unique articles!  Before you blast these out to low ranking directories, use this content on heavy ranking sites like EzineArticles, Hubpages, GoArticles and others to get some decent backlinks to your site first.  Also use these articles on your own money sites as they are unique and on topic.  If you have decent ranking support sites, use the articles there.  Or you can create a parallel site for the purpose of support and post some of those MyArticleExpress articles there.  This is a lot of work for something that was supposed to be automated right?  Right!  But you just spent $110 on these articles, you need to squeeze as much out of them as possible and take advantage of the uniqueness of these articles.  Here is a quick list of sites that you can use to post to and create your own links with.  Remember to vary your anchor text, vary the pages you link to, vary the parasitic sites you use to link from, vary EVERYTHING!

http://squidoo.com
http://wordpress.com
http://livejournal.com
http://blog.com
http://blog.co.uk
http://jimdo.com
http://blogger.com
http://weebly.com
http://blinkweb.com
http://blogsome.com
http://freewebs.com

There are more, look around, build links!

Alright, now you have 300 unique articles out there and lots of links.  Go back to your MyArticleExpress account and start getting these articles blasted out to article directories.  Since we put so much effort into varying our link building efforts on our parasitic sites we are going to put that same focus into varying the links we get with the UAW submissions.  Create resource files for each of the articles you are going to send out with the UAW service.  You have the opportunity to put in two links back to your site from each of the 10 article submissions you are doing with UAW.  You also will vary each of those sets of two links with different anchor text.  You have plenty of opportunity to throw in your parasitic sites in there as well.  Not a must for sure but something to think about if it’s right in your situation.

With each Unique Article Wizard submission you should change up how many links are trickled out per day.  If it is a fairly new site with not to many links it is probably best to send out these articles no more than 50 a day per submission.  I would do an average of ten a day per submission for a newer site and 50 a day per submission for sites that are older.

If you work it right you will have 1000 article submissions per UAW submisssion with two links in each resource box.  Since we are doing ten submissions right now that is potential for roughly 20,000 backlinks to work with from these MyArticleExpress articles with just UAW alone (not counting the articles and backlinks you put up on your parasitic sites) so you want to make sure to vary what you are linking to.  These links won’t all be indexed and won’t all count but do try to avoid looking automated where possible.

Remember to vary everything you do for each site and each of you link building strategies!

Using Unique Article Wizard To Build Backlinks is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

Alright so the SubmitEdge case study did not go so great.  I cannot say that I would recommend SubmitEdge for major link building stuff.  In short, I do recommend their service for submitting to directories but as of now I would not recommend their niche link building service and below is why.

Basically I spent $170 on 10 one way relevant links from PR2 or higher sites to one of my niche sites using SubmitEdge.  To start off they only allow two different anchor texts and only allow links to one page.  I didn’t mind this because, relatively speaking, the price is pretty low.  I submitted my two anchor texts and the link I wanted to point to and waited for my report from SubmitEdge detailing the sites mine was submitted to.  Ten days after submitting my order I get my detailed report of backlinks and the first thing I did was visit one of the sites.  This is a small screen shot of what I saw:

You can click the image to make it bigger. Basically the page is a small farm of links that would not pass any kind of human inspection by Google or other search engines. I visited the other sites and they were more of the same. Bad news for my site. I am by no means no expert as far as what happens with a human visual inspection but best case scenario, if one of these sites were to get reported and looked over by a Google employee they would penalize the link farm and disregard any links given out (I’m out $170.) Worst case scenario? All the sites being linked to would get deindexed (ouch.)

So this is a fairly new site I submitted and I plan on burying these shady links with UAW links and lots of other link building strategies so I’m not to worried about it.  Will I use SubmitEdge again for building these types of links?  No.  I will stick with their directory submission service but this niche link building thing is not their forte.

Next post I will discuss a better way to spend $170 or so on link building and get much more for your money.

Update on SubmitEdge Case Study is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

Do You Know What You Are Talking About?

So you just found a great keyword, and it passed all the criteria Court and Mark tought you at The Keyword Academy, what now?  If you don’t know squat about how to remove warts how are you going to build a niche site around it?  If you are making money with your niche sites you should consider sourcing the content for some of the more obscure niches you are targeting and that’s where services like TextBroker come in handy.  It just might be that you have found a great keyword that is easy to rank for but you do not have the funds to source the content for your niche site.  If that is the case than you are going to have to buckle down, do the research and write your own content.  Stay away from scraping for content or copying and pasting unless you plan on using the site for support reasons.  If you are serious about getting a site to rank and making money with it, then you will have to either source or write decent unique content that can pass a human inspection.  I find that for topics that I am not familiar with, sourcing the text is best.

When Time is a Factor

There have been times when I have found so many good keywords to go after that I just could not write the stuff fast enough.  I like to do niche site building in stages so I tend to do heavy keyword research, pinpoint what I am going to target and buy domain names in bulk for my niches sites.  I want all of these domains to have live sites on them like YESTERDAY, so I need the content fast.  I drill down on each of keywords (using Google’s Keyword tool) that I have decided to make focused niche sites for to find out what the article topics will be, then I put in an order at TextBroker for each niche site.  Five posts for each niche site is good but it really depends on the keyword and how deep you can go with it.  If you can have ten or fifteen posts for your niche that will give your site that much more authority, why not do it?  Longtail organic search results just make money so go after them!

Example of what the hell I just said:  Say I want to go after a niche site on the Blackberry Storm (I wouldn’t by the way.)  I would plug in ‘blackberry storm’ into the keyword tool, take the five or so highest searched for related keywords and build a site around those.  And since I am building niche sites in bulk I would need to source those articles.

While I am waiting for my content to be written and submitted to me I am installing wordpress on each of the domains, using different themes for each domain, hosting domains with different hosting accounts and pretty much making it very difficult for a competitor or Google to tie any of these domains to one another.  I do this for each domain in one session.

After I have each wordpress install done I use an FTP to go in and add the few plugins that I want, All in One SEO, All in One Adsense, phpBay (for my eBay stuff, not on every niche site) and maybe RSS Footer if I plan on putting more content up in the future.  I have these plugins ready to go in a folder that I just transfer over via FTP.  Then I update any that need updating and then activate them.

After that I work on some generic monetization and tracking stuff, again doing this in bulk for all of the domains I am about to develop.  Statcounter, adsense channels with All in One Adsense, whatever it is you might use for your niche sites.  You can use Google analytics to but I generally don’t at first unless I plan on making a rather large site.  If a site starts getting decent traffic, then I consider throwing in some Analytics code.

Now I go into each site and create the posts.  For example if I am going to create five articles for my Blackberry Storm niche site I spoke of earlier, I will create 5 posts using the terms I found with Google’s Keyword tool.  I will find an image for each of those posts and optimize the names and alt tags and captions.  I know some people say image traffic sucks and doesn’t convert at all, but my analytics account tells me otherwise, so I optimize for image results.  (Don’t get me wrong, Court has tought me a ton, and I am a happy TKA member, I just don’t think he cares about $5 a month per site.  I do.)

Then I do any editing these themes might need.  I try to take out all instances of ‘Date Posted’ and ‘Author Name’ and footer links.  Sorry theme builders, I just hate footprints on my sites and really I am doing you a favor, I mean sitewide footer links?  C’mon.

After doing all that work I’m typically starting to see my articles come in and ready for me to approve and stuff the articles into the posts that I already setup.

When To Not Source Content for Your Niche Sites

Don’t source content for niche sites if you are broke.  Don’t source content for super obscure stuff that not many people are likely to know about.  Don’t source content if you have found an amazing keyword that has high traffic potential and no competition.  I might sound a bit paranoid here but I don’t want to chance giving away my great keyword to some TextBroker writer.  Don’t source content for hubpages, ezinearticles, goarticles or any other parasitic sites.  I usually use articles that I have sourced and rewrite them for these types of sites, kind of like writing a UAW article set.  In short you only want to source content for your money sites.  If you have a lot of money to spend then, by all means source the other stuff to.

Knowing When To Source Content For Niche Sites is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

I am doing a bit of an experiment using SubmitEdges’ service and plan on documenting the results here at Niche Link Juice.

I have used SubmitEdge before as a supplement to my link building but only in a very minor way.  Specifically I used it to blast out directory submissions for some of my old school very thin BANS sites I used to throw up.  I say old school but it was just last year and really those sites used to do very awesome before Google shook things up a bit.  I would put up one of those sites, use SubmitEdge to get some good anchor text backlinks out there and let the ePN earnings roll in, it was magic stuff.  I know everyone frowns on directory submissions but they work and I still get traffic to the sites I built those links to.  Much cheaper to submit them manually but SubmitEdge just saves so much time.

I haven’t used SubmitEdge for awhile and I build and market niche sites way different than before.  But I am going to do a little test run with a site I built a few months back that I have not done any link building for yet.  It’s got plenty of content, is fully indexed and has enough age to it for some good link building and I am going to use SubmitEdge for some links.  I am not going to do any other link building to it other than SubmitEdges’ service.  I ordered a niche link building package of 10 links to PR2 or better sites at $170.  Pricey?  Yes!  But it would take me a week of searching around for these types of links and I want to see what SubmitEdge has to offer.

SubmitEdge is a very straighforward SEO service and I would love to add it to the niche site tools I already use but I wanted a way to test how well it works and the return a service of this type offers.  So I will track the results and post them later.  So far this niche site does damn near nothing for me and I expect that as I only have done on-site work for it.  It is a pretty competitive niche and I rank nowhere near the first 10 pages of Google’s SERPs for the term I am targeting.  I will follow up soon with how this experiment is going!

SubmitEdge Case Study is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

This begs the question: How much time should you spend on one site?  I have heard some very different ideas of how to spread your time between link building and on site work.  The Keyword Academy recommends spending about 20% of your time working on an actual site and the other 80% of your time building links!  This is pretty extreme but very effective.  It is well proven that a site can have very little content but, if it has enough links, it can still outrank a site with much more content.  On the flip side I have read other authorative niche site builders that 80% of your time should be spent on the actual site.  I can’t say either of those ideas is wrong, it’s all about implementation.

I have done well myself in the middle of these two ideas.  I spend about 50% of my time building links and the rest with on-site stuff but lately I have been making enough money with niche site building to be able to outsource a good amount of my work.  I love using Textbroker (I wish they had an affiliate system) to get my on site work done.  Writing unique content for my sites is a huge drag and tends to put me right to sleep if I don’t have some coffee in me.  There is only so much you can write about cordless knives before you go completely numb!

There are other places that are much cheaper than Textbroker but for my real money sites I want good content that someone would actually be willing to link to.  For that I use Textbroker as they are very good writers over there and after a few times you get to see who the really good writers are.  There are two ways to purchase content from Textbroker, you can put out an open order for the entire Textbroker community to fight over or you can ask an individual to write your content for you.

I have visited other places to source content from but have been pretty intimidated by the way those sites are setup.  Textbroker is so easy!  Very straightforward signup, very easy to place an order with a place to put in the topics you want written on and exactly the amount you want to pay.  It is amazing how soon you get your articles written.  Sometimes I get articles back within a few hours, very awesome.  You get emails letting you know your articles are ready and have the opportunity to reject or accept the article, or you can just ask for improvements.  This is an awesome way to leverage your time.  Recently I put in an order for fifty three 300 word articles and four 900 word articles and had them back in less than 5 days.  That is leverage.  It would have taken me quite literally months to get that amount of writing done.  The only time I spent on the site was adding the content using proper on site SEO and adding a bunch of pictures.

If you can outsource your content it makes it so that you can focus your time with your link building campaign (not something you want to outsource.)  If you have the money to spend on unique content rather than writing it yourself it is definitely the way to go.  This way you can build an authoratative site with the same amount of time it takes you to build a small site.  No doubt that a site with lots of content looks more authorative to the search engines and will beat a site with the same amount of links but less content.

I read a post today from The Honest Way blog where he was kind of bashing niche site builders that are trying to build authoratative sites.  I guess what an authoratative site is can be a matter of opinion.  I can toss up fifty-plus pages onto one site, build backlinks to the different pages and make it look authorative without spending lots of time on the site itself.

How To Leverage Your Time With Niche Site Building is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

I was doing okay with ePN and thought that I would keep setting up sites and worry about the monetization stuff later.  Recently the eBay Partner Network did some major restructuring with how they pay out traffic to their site.  You can read about the changes here although if you are using ePN you are well aware of this.  This change in payment structure had a big impact on my ePN earnings as soon as it kicked in and it prompted me to dig into what was hurting my earnings.

Before I was not using different campaign ID’s to track what each of my sites was making daily.  I would just use the Tool ID features or track sales through my Transaction Downloads.  I knew this was not the best way to track my different sites’ performance after awhile but chalk it up to newb status, I just left things as is.  With the changes to ePN however it was time to get my hands dirty with creating different campaign ID’s for each site and tracking which sites were doing poorly with ePN and which sites would keep eBay ads.

Biggest Affiliate Month Yet

A few days after creating the new campaign ID’s and changing each of my sites phpBay settings I immediately spotted the problem.  It was a site I own that was getting the most traffic but had the lowest EPC!  That was the last thing I would have suspected.  I took action right away.  I did not remove very much of the phpBay ads, I just added Adsense at the top of each page using the All In One Adsense plugin and some sitewide Amazon ads.  I also signed up to be an affiliate with the actual product that site is promoting.

Within a few days the results were VERY positive.  I am not doing much with adsense, that’s just another monetization option that I hadn’t gotten around to yet.  So far I am very happy with adsense on that site.  It is making as much as eBay was before their changes.  And my eBay earnings have tripled!  I think because of the volume of visitors that site gets, there were many clicks going to the eBay listings that were useless to eBay.  Now the clicks on those eBay listings are from customers who are more interested in purchasing, not just from random visitors clicking around.

Amazon is doing very well for me on that site as well.  The only monetization strategy that is not working out on that site is the actual affiliate links to the official product page.  I think that is pretty wierd but whatever works.

Tracking Affiliate Earnings

The main thing to learn from this is to track your affiliate earnings!  If you get a good grasp of how your visitors react to content and ads you can fine tune that sites earnings potential.  Use channels for adsense ads.  Use different campaign ID’s for each of your sites that promote eBay listings.  If you are running multiple sites with different monetization strategies it is best to implement tracking methods from the go with each site.

I gotta say I love the changes ePN has made.  I have heard complaints from other affiliates but I really think there is a ton of room to make more money with the eBay Partner Network with these new changes.  Besides that, these changes have gotten me to focus on my monetizing a bit more.  I saw a post from Mark at the Niche Store Builder on ways to increase your ePN earnings and he seems to have had similar results by decreasing his ebay listings clicks.  This just goes to show that more clicks are not always better.

Learning Better Monetization Methods is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

Connect Content was originally designed and launched by R.T. Cunningham and was received with excitement by most.  The idea of a centralized place to do link exchanges got the interest of a lot of the money makers in the niche site building industry.  The small cost of joining the system ($12) was supposed to keep out people who were not serious about link trading.  The problem, in part, was the point system as a webmaster who linked from a page with some decent PageRank would not necessarily get back the same juice from the links he got from others.

Enter Mark and Court of The Keyword Academy.  They “aqcuired” Connect Content from R.T. Cunningham and have changed the model of the point system for exchanging links and have also disallowed credit for links from free article submission sites and shady links from some blogger and Wordpress.com pages.  This is an awesome change as it should clean up some of the ways users were using to get points.  These shadier methods of linking back to get points took away from the usefullness of the site and made it difficult to get quality backlinks for webmasters.

Mark and Court have decided to make it free for members of the The Keyword Academy.  This new feature creates huge value for the already awesome TKA site.  Normally the Connect Content price is $12 a month but you get it free with your membership to The Keyword Academy.  Add that to the first months cost of $1 and it has never been a better time to become a member.

The Keyword Academy Announces Connect Content is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.

I have not been doing this niche site building thing for very long, less than a year in fact.  I have been building and working on different websites for awhile but I was not doing it the right way.  Content, links, content, links.  Those two things are working for me right now and that is what I will continue to do!  I don’t have trouble with either of those things much but I have learned that one good quality, relevant backlink from an already established site is gold.

With that in mind I am making a stab at a community driven site.  I do not expect many people to associate or have need of what this site has to offer and so it is pretty basic really.  Visitors here that need a good on topic backlink can hopefully find what they need at my Find Niche Links page.  If not then they can submit their topics to me and I will add them to that page!  I sincerely believe that trading links with another webmaster either reciprocally or through a three-way link exchange is a win-win for all parties.

Niche Link Juice is setup with a large focus on the privacy of the webmaster.  I do not want your real name, your real email, the details of your niche site or anything else that a casual visitor can use against you.  Please use a pseudonym when submitting your topics to Niche Link Juice.  Please use a fake email.  Please be very vague about your niche topics.  Open up with these things only if you are communicating with another webmaster about a potential link exchange.

Beginnings is a post from Niche Link Juice. Check us out and submit your niche topics.