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  1. shaunm

    Guest Posts & Link Insertions?

    Yea, I actually use naturallinks right now as its cheaper and provides similar links but I have used Crowdo a bunch too. Both services seem to use the same pool of forums and from my tests they had very similar retention rates too so it came down to price for me but I have been thinking of...
  2. shaunm

    Guest Posts & Link Insertions?

    Yea I am a big fan of forum posts and think that they are an underrated backlink source and they are cheap too! I usually use them with niche edits and guest posts tough but I know people who use nothing but forum posts and are ranking for some decent terms.
  3. shaunm

    How Much Do You Pay for Outsourced Writers?

    In my experience, the quality of the content has minimal correlation to the price. I have had much cheaper writers at the lower end of the pay scale easily beat the quality provided by writers 5x or even 10x their price. The video below is from an interview between Graham Stephan and the...
  4. shaunm

    Has anyone here used the Army Ants method successfully?

    I can usually find 3-4 sub header ideas from the google drop down/people also asked for each one. Its basically the same strategy that PhilReddit7 used for his case study last year on Reddit and the blog he built using it is bringing in over $3000 per month now. I like to use different keyword...
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    Has anyone here used the Army Ants method successfully?

    Totally agree, my focus right now is long tails with low search volume that are easy to write and take 30-45 minutes to churn out. They fit in with my schedule better allowing me to work my blogging stuff around my other projects and fit articles in when I have the time.
  6. shaunm

    Has anyone here used the Army Ants method successfully?

    You can run that domain through a free SEMRush account and it suggests there was over a 30% traffic drop on the domain from the June/July core algorithm updates. My blog had its army ants articles as well as other catch all article types hit on the July core algorithm update and I have had a few...
  7. shaunm

    Let's Talk About Outting Our Own Projects

    I like it as it shows a realistic approach of how long this stuff takes too, there's too many people selling ebooks saying blogging is fast and easy and its far from it. I have around 2200 subs on YouTube right now and I am starting to get one or two people reaching out for sponsored videos...
  8. shaunm

    Suddenly, I am DA 50 wtf

    Totally agree with this, if this resulted in a penalty for the target website then black hat guys would just buy a bunch of $100 servers and build millions of links to their competition each day and destroy them.
  9. shaunm

    Goals for April 2018

    I managed to reach my goals for March for my zero backlinking domain. I managed to get 110 hours in on the domain publishing a total of 118,602 words. My plan is to try to get 2000 words out per day for the domain now as I am pretty burned out.
  10. shaunm

    What Exactly Does Google Measure as "Page Speed" for the Ranking Algorithms?

    A few days after that tweet he posted this one when directly asked about TTFB.
  11. shaunm

    Google's New Zero-Result SERPs

    They have the show all results button beneath it so if anyone requires additional information then they are still able to get it.
  12. shaunm

    New Google Update

    Unfortunately I don't have any sites doing well right now as I am still building out my new one. The guys I talk to on Skype, Discord and Reddit seem to have managed to get through it without issue though.
  13. shaunm

    Goals for March 2018

    After focusing most of last month on my zero backlinking domain as planned I want to do the same thing this month. I am planning to try and put 20 hours per week into the zero backlinking domain while focusing on getting informational content out for it. I still plan to try to listen to audible...
  14. shaunm

    What other forums do you find valuable?

    I have used a bunch over the years. The GSA forum has a nice community IMO but Google is too smart for their toolsets these days. Reddit can be decent but I only really pay attention to /r/juststart these days as the mods on most subs don't seem to care. BHW is/has going the way of Warrior...
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    Goals for February 2018

    When I get to the end of this batch of content ideas I might start writing for some long tails and such. So far its getting low traffic though and its only around a month old. Curious as to how it will act after the 6 month part.
  16. shaunm

    Goals for February 2018

    I managed to meet my January goals, I got my YouTube channel online and did a bunch of testing on my sites. Unfortunately, one of my sites was slapped twice with the January rollouts, it also seems my main site was slapped towards the end of January. My main focus has shifted to a new zero...
  17. shaunm

    Review Sites & Google's Maccabee/Fred 2.0 Update

    Just out of curiosity, is it all of the hits on the front page that have the keyword in their title or like 1-3 of them?
  18. shaunm

    Indexing multiple sites at once

    What kind of link count are you after? Theres a service called Index Inject that basically submits URLs directly to Google for you using their own submit form but it can get a bit pricy as it required captchas.
  19. shaunm

    Review Sites & Google's Maccabee/Fred 2.0 Update

    @Samwise89 two are PBNs/BNs and Web 2's one is a whole bunch of different things. Were any of your sites hit? I would be interested in seeing what happens if you reduced your ads/affiliate links to see if they bounced back or not.
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    Review Sites & Google's Maccabee/Fred 2.0 Update

    Another one of my sites, this was one of them that was using the AAWP plugin for amazon, some of its pages ended up having over 100 affiliate links when manually checked. Each of its pages are now in the 5-25 links range and its traffic has seemed to bounce back. I migrated hosts on the 12th so...
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