The Private Network is a private network (duh!) of about 500 sites in size at the time of this writing… and growing
The domains are mostly PRr 2-4s, with some plans for some PR 5s and PR6s.
This is NOT your typical Homepage backlinks network with decent PR.
If you’re familiar with Build My Rank, then it would make sense to call it a Homepage backlinks service with Build My Rank thrown in for free.
Here’s some things to think about since I ‘m posting this review rather early on in the testing phase, and it’s something I want you (dear Reader 
) to take into consideration…
Build My Rank works, and works well still and probably will continue to do so. But BMR doesn’t offer up homepage backlinks with PR as part of its offering so maybe that’s part of the reason why it still works well. Maybe I’m paranoid, but if something works you don’t mess with it. BMR could easily offer up a premium version of its offering and add HomePage backlinks to its offering but he probably has good reasons for not doing so, who knows..
The main reason is that it seems to be working after only 2-3 weeks into it ( when I first posted this draft review ). I know that these kinds of links work best nowadays, but most importantly… they offer something called a keyword exclusivity feature.
What this means is that if/when you join them… if your competitors or someone in same niche as you joins TPN, then they (your competitors for that keyword) won’t be able to use TPN for the same keywords. ( sorry for the ADHD digression…)
What’s The Private Network got for us?
- Network is 500 sites and growing
- Mostly Pr2s and Pr 4s as was aforementioned
- Allows for article posting to the network. 1 article is equivalent to 1 link
- They have an outsourcing option in place for posting articles and it’s cheaper than Build My Rank’s outsourcing option (by half!)
HomePage Backlinks:
- 100 for 97
- 200 for 190
- 300 for 270
Testing out The Private Network, The Private Network Review
I got comped a review copy of this service in exchange for a review, but since I only tested out 1 url and 2 kws, I decided to ask some other people to join this service, and to privately give me their feedback…
Overall, there were about 6 urls tested, if we include the sites that are NOT mine nor in my TPN account…
8 urls tested… for the Premium High Page Rank Backlinks
- 3 did well, saw improvements
- 5 saw no movement and sometimes even drops in rankings
The 3 that did well:
(URL #1, tested 2 Keywords) Current rankings #3, #4 – This url was dropping rapidly in SERPs and has improved significantly and maintained rankings for 3 months…
UPDATE POST-PANDA 3.3- URL is #3 for both Kws now, impressive
(URLs #2 and #3) #6, #7 Page 1 of Google – Previously was ranked lower on Page 1, and was getting about 20 high pr backlinks each
The 5 sites that didn’t do well…
Site/url 1- I think this one had some sort of over-anchor text usage penalty, or just didn’t respond well due to shoddy link building methods employed on it, to it…in the past
NOTE: This url made it to #8 of Page 1 for the main kw tested for this site, and has dropped to #14 since the links were removed, so it had some effect…just not what I had hoped, for such an old domain with 30 pages of content with the main kw in the domain name (but not an exact match domain)
Sites/urls 2 and 3- didn’t move at all, no bounces, no Google dancing, nothing, had zero effect, which is very weird…
Sites/urls 4 and 5- dropped in rankings, basically these were abandoned sites, or more accurately…sites not posted to in a while..
Verdict/Opinion on the high pr backlinks A.K.A. Premium Links from The Private Network?
Well, knowing what I know about the sites involved, it’s worth a shot, and the success rates are about average for this kind of service. These links don’t always work, and they’re not magic bullets…
You get a lot of PR backlinks for a pretty low price here, which is good, but in order to satisfy their obligations, they have to roll these links out quicker than I’d like to see them rolled out.
If you take a site with very little link juice and age and fresh content, then throw 100 PR links at it, you can’t really expect miracles to occur, although miracles DO occur sometimes with backlinks like this.
Get TPN? Yes, but only use it on one/some of your best sites.
Quick Note: I speak to ADU from TPN every now and then on Skype and he sent me RankTracker screenshots of some his his current clients’ sites, rankings etc… and they all showed upward movement within their 30-60-day time period of link rollouts.
Part 2 of this review on The Private Network has to do with their Regular Links, which are basically like backlinks you’d get from BMR, whereby your posts will hit the home page of the high pr sites, then roll off the front page after a while, as should be expected…
I tested out about 100 Regular Links on 1 url and for 2 different keywords and got 1 keyword/search phrase to Page 1, and the other one didn’t fare so well.
A Skype buddy and reader of this blog told me that the Regular Links are working really well for him and he’s seeing improvements in rankings using both types of links from TPN (Premium and Regular). (he’s a reader of this blog so he must be smart, right? )
I think this is a good service, with lots of potential in the right hands and if used towards the correct kinds of sites (good sites with age content and no penalties…)
Before you go ahead and check this out, here’s my thoughts on this service, and something I’m doing now…
Use TPN for just the home page high pr backlinks and use Backlink Banzai for all your inner linking needs, so as you deep link to inner urls with Backlink Banzai, that alone will boost your home page rankings, but adding a horde of high pr Premium Links form TPB should seal the deal, too.
I generally don’t like to provide too much minutiae and detail on exactly how you should link up your sites, but I want to see you do well as I feel responsible for your results, success, failures, etc… so…
Use TPN Premium high PR links on your home page for a keyword or phrase you might have reasonable chances of ranking for.
Skip using the Regular Links from them and use Backlink Banzai to link up the inner urls of your site
The combination of both should be pretty effective…
Check out the Backlink Banzai post here
And please use this affiliate link of mine if you go ahead and order The Private Network service. Get TPN
Thanks, D
Additional note: There seemed to have been some delays getting login/access details after people signed up to TPN and I’m not sure if that’s been resolved yet by them, but they’re still a fairly new “kid on the block” as far as link building services go, and are adding in some thing to improve the overall customer experience, support-wise, interface-wise, and also… to improve the juice behind the Regular Links, which didn’t seem very powerful (judging form the 100 or so Regular Links I ordered from them).
Best use of this service in my opinion is to use the high PR Premium Links, and use a service like Backlink Banzai for linking up as many of your inner urls as possible.
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So you recommend BB and Private Network at the same time. Would you also suggest Synnd in tandem with BB and Private Network?
Is there any other service along with those 3 that will knock things out of the park?
Are there any non-services (i.e. article writing, blog posts, video creation) etc that you would also suggest at the same time with the 3 services you have suggested?
Hey Dan,
This video by Terry Kyle got me thinking about the possible demise of Homepage backlinks: http://sundayseo.s3.amazonaws.com/l7123q5/sundayseo-26feb-2012.html
Please tell me what you think of his analysis – whether you think he has some valid points or if think it is a just a “well-informed sales pitch”.
Thanks
I didn’t see any of the sites that link to me de-indexed yet. Then again I didn’t see any high PR links. Mostly PR1 and PR2 and a few PR3 sprinkled in here and there. That’s what I got from MajesticSEO, could be more links though.
I’m actually relieved I didn’t see many High PR links because of this Panda 3.3 Update. That makes me think that this network is relatively safe compared to HPBL networks.
I went from #4 to #1 so I can’t complain too much. I was also using Synnd and I just started on Backlinks Banzai (so it’s not a factor yet). But, after this recent shakeup 2 out of the 4 people ahead of me are at SERP 25+ now so I can’t say what really did it.
Hey Dan…..No problem, thanks for the response.
The only valid points that I think may still apply to all HPBLs are:
1) Google may start to devaluing websites that are not entirely topic specific – since most HPBLs usually have a range of topics that aren’t necessarily related. (I don’t even think I know of a HPBL that is ONLY topic specific)
2) “Footprints” could also just be any two websites that have the same homepage links in common, of which Google could start devaluing at some point.
Trust me when I say, I know you know what you’re talking about when you say they are still working – I’ve just trying to think like the “search engineer” so I can invest in the longest term results.
Thanks
Hi, well
my SERPs dropped the very day I posted the TPN review, and I’m anxiously awaiting some sort of rebound before I alter my opinion of it. I went down about 5 spots on page 1 for each keyword I used TPN for….after removing site-wide cross links and post Panda 3.3 my rankings are higher than ever before
Hi Daniel,,
“” after removing site-wide cross links “” what is this actually ?? I can’t get .. I think I’m doing the same mistake
Pls clarify with the same
Dan,
I have been a huge fan of this website and must say that you are doing a great job at it
so Kudos and please keep it up!!
Now to my main question … Have you heard about RevSeo.com? Can you please share your views about them?
Hey Sam, thanks for being a fan, reader, it’s appreciated.
Never heard of REV SE) sorry… I’ve tried so many of those kinds of services and few have satisfied me, so I ended up co-making one of my own
Thanks again for the encouraging words,
Dan
Dan,
Just you said “Hi, well after removing site-wide cross links and post Panda 3.3 my rankings are higher than ever before”
So TPN hurting you with their side-wide links, is it mean by you?
Oh no, sorry if I made you think that. It was a footer link, AKA site-wide that I removed.
In long run it didn’t matter, and I shouldn’t have mentioned it, was playing at BlackCAT SEO,
black cat crosses path,
rankings drop,
must be the black cat algo factor….kind of thinking
“Suderdude” I would highly suggest you listen to Daniel, he does know what he is talking about!
I watched/listened to the url you gave, meh…
To take what Daniel said any crappy sites, with bad inbound links juice domains will has no value. But high quality sites, that have been SEO’d appropriately will provide decent link juice and TPN seems to offer high quality stuff.
Hey AM, I definitely do listen to Daniel – that’s why I wanted to hear his response. You can see my response to Dan’s reply above…..
Terry Kyle is the originator of the contextual homepage backlinks technique. He’s probably the most practical of the original Stompernet SEO teachers.
Dan’s service has a limit of only 13 links which is far safer than the average HPBL system (TPN has a 40 link limit). So when he says HPBL’s still work he’s really talking about his own hybrid system. Almost no one offers as service with a limit as low as 13 outbound links.
And just 2 hours after this response he said his sites dropped down 5 spots for all the keywords he used with TPN. So I would definitely keep an eye out for any updates.
Thanks for noticing and pointing that out (about the OBLs on my partner and I’s service)
Briggs, since you seem to be a reader/follower of Terry’s, you might want to ask if if he think there’s gonna be a “301 slap” soon.
Meaning… People are buying domains that have PR and/or keyword relevancy and/or age, and 301-ing them to urls to boost their trust/relevancy, rankings etc…
In my opinion, there won’t be a slap on this if it’s kw relevancy that’s being 301-ed over, but the whole 301 thing seems to be one of the latest and greatest “loopholes”
If they do penalize 301′s then he will probably be blind sided once again. A couple of months ago in “SEO Experts Academy” he said “companies merge and rebrand all the time” saying that 301′s were perfectly safe.
He basically sells a system that tells you how to buy old domains, setup HPBL’s and 301 redirect them to your domain etc.
He’s not as accessible as you are. At one point he owned backlinksforum.com with another guy, but he left and founded another forum trafficplanet.com instead. He posts there frequently.
Yes, I’m familiar with him, disagreed with his views on using uniform anchor text and that low OBLs versus high OBLs weren’t ranking factors, so that’s when I stopped going to BF…
Hey Daniel,
I have a private forum I am apart of and had remembered someone commenting on their experience with 301 slaps, this is what they had to say……
“From my experience 301′s pass along the penalty to your money site. I have had sites penalized in the past. I thought I’d redirect them to a new domain. At first, all is well, you get the boost, and you’re back in action…then I was hit on my new domain with the penalty. Tested this 3 different times with the same results.”
I’ve heard the exact opposite, saw people taking sites with -50 penalties but still with credited backlinks and PR and redirecting to NEW sites to boost their rankings quickly
A 301-slap would be silly, as good domains do that within their own site.
I don’t know if 301 is a new “loop hole” but maybe more popular now that Google has started cracking down on things.
As long as their is an “algorithm” people will try the next thing to get their site ranked.
Have blog networks not been affected by the google 3.3 panda update this week. I use BMR sites and my sites have taken a hit?
For those of you looking for resources on the Panda 3.3 Update:
http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2012/02/search-quality-highlights-40-changes.html
http://searchengineland.com/google-confirms-panda-update-link-evaluation-local-search-rankings-113078
There have been a series of changes that have been coming into play since mid January, with a major shift in the algo on Monday 27th Feb.
Many networks have experienced massive deindexing.
Our members page contains some more info, analysis and advice:
http://www.backlinkbanzai.com/arrive.php?aid=dm1&src=blog
How many different platforms (a rough estimate) do you guys submit to? I noticed a question/answer plugin for Wordpress that I’ve never heard of before linking back to me.
The Private Network guys were on WF a month back and they were talking about all the stuff they do to avoid leaving a footprint and make each site “manual review proof”.
I was impressed with what I heard. I did see 1 domain de-indexed so it’s not manual review proof, but they are definitely good at hiding footprints. Else, there were would be a lot more de-indexed domains.
It’s just that this Panda 3.3 has me so worried I feel like it’s better safe than sorry and I’d just rather stick it out with Backlink Banzai and Synnd instead.
One warning I would give with this service is that when you cancel they will delete all your homepage links all at once. That means you will take a hit if you decide to leave.
Hi,
We recently joined the TPN service in hopes of battling the Panda smackdown. I’ve just finished looking at a week and a bit’s results, post-wise, and it’s quite interesting. Some thoughts:
As opposed to BMR and other networks, they DO NOT appear to place your blog post on the homepage first, gradually letting it slip off. Instead, they appear to bury the post within the site itself.
Perhaps (just guessing), they write a special post for you which counts as your “High PR premium link” for the month. It then sticks on the homepage for your month. So, every month your links would disappear on the site they were on. A bad thing?
About 25% of the sites we tried to click on said: “Error establishing a database connection”. Indexed yes, up, no!
Obviously, this network looks to be very much a “work in progress”. I will update our progress.
Hello Guys,
I am one of the TPN Co-Founders and i am here to respond to any questions that you have.
Also to clear up some things:
1. We have a very low OBL limit of max 20 per blog. So all the homepage backlinks have a very high quality.
2. Unlike most of the networks on the market, we didn’t have any problems with our network after the Google update in February. Why? Because our main goals are SECURITY and QUALITY. TPN is the safest network on the market at the moment.
Soon we will bring to the public a major update to the service called TPN 2.0. I cannot tell you further details at the moment, but i can assure you that it will bring major improvements based on customer feedback, research and market demands.
Stay tuned and subscribe to our site for more information and to find out the exact release date.
Feel free to ask me any questions.
Hi Andrei,
Can you please address the question raised by Maureen above? Is it right that the homepage backlinks are there only a month at a time? If so, can you share the effect it has on the rankings for the target sites.
Hi Mayank,
Our service at the moment consists in 100 200 or 300 homepage contextual backlinks. These backlinks stick to the homepage as long as the client’s subscription remains active.
Besides these homepage backlinks we also offer for free the possibility for clients to post 5 articles per domain each and every day. At our next update which is due to release in about 1-2 months all of these backlinks will hit the homepage, more than that they will stick there for at least 24 hours, not like other services where they stick on the homepage for 3-4 hours.
So if you do the math, i think that TPN is the best choice at the moment and also the cheapest. With very powerful homepage backlinks and also FOR FREE 5 posts per domain each day.
Interesting note I got last night emailing the ONLY the sites we placed in TPN:
“We noticed sitename.com coming from a
Blog network with a BIG footprint in Google.
We wanted to alert you of this before its too late.
Over the past 3 weeks, Google has cracked down
on Blog Networks like the one you are using.”
It goes from there, and it’s obviously a crappy pitch for a “high quality, small footprint Platform that gives you the power to intelligently and safely build and monitor your high quality link strategy. ”
It’s all rather “pay me $39 and I’ll give you a magic lantern that will hand you millions of dollars” of course, but it’s interesting that these guys targeted TPN users. Very interesting.
I wonder just how “footprint”-able TPN is?
Pretty swarmy stuff there. It’s easy to find one blog if you make a custom post on the network then e-mail everyone being linked to through the blog. The guy is just trying to scare up some customers.
I think TPN is better than most when it comes to footprints, but I have yet to see a network that didn’t eventually get hit by Google. And now that they are penalizing sites being linked to the stakes are much higher.
In response to this part of your comment “And now that they are penalizing sites being linked to the stakes are much higher”
So is this your opinion that any website using a blog network for backlinks will also get penalised if Google brings down the network?
I’m sure you’ve heard the talk over the years that backlinks won’t/can’t bring on a penalty otherwise people would be sabotaging their competitors?
Do you think this way of thinking is no longer true?
Yes, I followed that line of thinking myself up and til last year.
I haven’t received any -50 Penalties because of blog networks, but as my sites start losing links my rankings go down slowly.
I did get a -500 penalty to one of my Weebly pages after I sent just 500 profiles at it. So you can get penalized for outgoing links now.
I’ve also had a few sites with HPBLs get hit. 2 sites with HPBL got hit and the other 2 did not. The difference with the 2 that didn’t get hit was that they had built up more trust. However, they still slowly lost a bit of rankings over the past month or so.
Someone is doing a negative SEO test at Traffic Planet right now.
RE: <<I’ve also had a few sites with HPBLs get hit. 2 sites with HPBL got hit and the other 2 did not.
What do you mean by HPBL? Are you talking about links from Dan's HighPRLJ service?
Just a note: the latest Panda version took down BOTH sites we put into TPN really hard. They are pretty much penalized across the board.
Hard to say how much this is TPN’s issue, as both were BMR users (and of course BMR was just deindexed), but at the same time, our non-TPN sites have NOT been penalized in the same manner.
It’s curious, and I’ve decided to not renew as a result. I’m probably paranoid, but sometimes paranoia works.
Dan, how many keywords we can use for 2 domain plan (Starter Plan) and so forth??
I just singed up for this service and they are slow in approving domains or regular post content as compared to BMR approval time frame they are way slow and ticket response is also much slower i thought to be.
TPN people are really lazy, they won’t approve your regular links post, i don’t know what is wrong with this people
It took them a good couple of weeks before they even started putting up my premium links. I’m debating on whether or not to keep them since this is the last day for the SEO Content network discount.
They have 30 days money back guarantee, if they place all your 100 or 200 or 300 links after couple of weeks, than how one can asses their results/improvements for premium and regular links. They should place all links in 5-7 days time frame. It is website owner responsibility to use TPN kind of links in a smart way.
Please email me your username from our network, because you are most definitely lying here. We start posting for clients the minute they complete their campaign with our campaign wizard. So there is no way we started posting your premium links after a few weeks. You are probably from the competition and trying to say bad things about TPN.
Let’s all calm down here folks.
If you have a concern over a particular network the first place to take it up is at the customer service with the network concerned. Dan is not here quite so much for a few days with a messed up knee. Let’s keep the place civil till her gets back. Likewise network owners, best not accuse people of lying.
Mistaken perceptions are not “lies”.
Misunderstood subscription terms are not “lazy”
Let’s keep it all civil here eh lads?
I am sorry to have accused him of lying, but it’s simply not nice when you see someone telling bad things about your service that you know for sure that they are not true. I just wanted to step up here and not to let people say bad things which are not true.
He didn’t appeal to our customer service at all with any kind of issue like the one exposed by him.
I just want to ask people not to say unproved things about our service and if they have any problems or inquiries please contact us first. This is why we have a customer service, to help our clients benefit the most from our service.
Regards
Maybe I’m mistaken. All I could find was links posted a couple weeks after my order. Even if I am wrong that’s no excuse to go on a tirade. I said some good things about your service earlier so that’s really un-called for.
We need to be able to speak freely about these services without fear of the service owners jumping in and starting an argument.
Now getting Regular reply from TPN support ppl, they said they gonna roll out TPN 2.0 update which would be a big for all of us. Hope it should be a Good news for us
Hello,
Please do not say bad things about TPN if you don’t have real evidence, it’s not nice to attack someone just for the fun of it. We are doing a serious job here and we are the best link building service at the moment and i am not shame to say that.
We have all of our blogs indexed and we didn’t have any problems with Google Panda updates.
If someone had problems with their blogs and rankings is because they used BMR or other crappy link building networks. Do not blame TPN for your mistakes.
We are all about quality and network integrity here at TPN. We respect our clients and we do our best to fulfill their wishes and to help them with their campaign.
The homepage links posting time frame is determined by the client, however if the client doesn’t specify it we will post the links randomly throughout the 1st month. By the end of the month all of the links are in place.
We had a few days delay with approving the regular links because at the moment we are working hard to release TPN 2.0 update, which will bring a lot of new features and improvements like better security, new options for clients and much more. Subscribe to our mailing list for more information and a specific release date.
For any questions and issues about TPN please feel free to email me and i will get back to you with an answer in maximum 48 hours.
@Arshu – We’ll see. I did get a bump up in rankings with each of the URLs I put into the system. I’m thinking I should have just went all out and pushed 300 links to 1 URL.
But, with Panda 3.3 I don’t know the best way to use this service. Whether to link to my main site, buffer site or web 2.0 pages, IDK.
I have tried them for a Month to see effect, I know its a short time, but if its quality links you will also quick see results, tested one keyword which I did not rank for at all and came on page 3, but after I quieted I was down to page 12. Thats also what I was afraid of, that in a way you have to pay every Month to keep ranking, so its paid links in the old fashion way. I just dont like to pay for something when you know the effect is gone after a few Month, when you dont pay, I rather have something stable.
Hey Man,
Great piece of review of each item I spend daily of about 30 minutes reading this site..
My question is “” Is it right that I’m interlinking every blog posts to my page of my website?? “” Is this a correct thing I’m doing or this is not good in long run
Please help me with response
Take care
Any more update on this service after penguin massacre
It seems like this service is doing pretty good. All the sites I’ve checked are still indexed.
Yes agree, all sites are indexed passing some seo juice to money url, only thing is with penguin update, don’t know how things will work if one have used lot of exact anchor keyword with this service.
This is my second month with the TPN as per support people says, it takes month or two to show some substantial results.
@Briggstown – Did you see almost all the domains got expired and de-indexed, as i check my links, domains got expired where my link was and it is de-indexed, hence ranking dropped badly.
Yeah, I see the same thing. It seems like it happened pretty suddenly.
Yes, Briggstown all links are gone now and rank dropped badly, i think now TPN caught fire and whole domains got de-indexed as i cannot see single links live which was pointed out from their home page and regular links.
Just thought I’d leave a final review of ThePrivateNetwork before I cancel my subscription with them. I’ve waited 3 months, I’ve upgraded to the $270/month package (based on their suggestions), and now I’m done waiting.
Since I was not able to find my links being placed over the first 4 weeks of my subscription using any backlink checker or GWT, I added 2 different anchor text phrases to one of my projects over 8 weeks ago. My goal was to be able to search for that exact phrase in Google and find some of the links. For each phrase, there were to be 20 links placed.
Well, when I do a search for those phrases, I find the “High PR links” pages, but surprise surprise – the phrases are NOT hyperlinked back to my sites !!!!
I’ve sent support tickets, and all I get back in response is “your links have been placed, but we can’t show you the locations because we want to protect our network” blah blah blah.
Meanwhile, I’ve lost over $500 and I have nothing to show for it – and no rankings improvements…
Paypal dispute has begun.
Avoid this service!!
-Shawn
i have not paid them from 3rd month itself because where all the premium and regular links were placed got de-indexed by google and they are saying will replace the links with new domains with same PR, but this doesn’t make sense actually. We got nothing with them.
I think we must avoid such services, Dan, please remove his links from your effective link building services
Arshu, Shawn… I will look into this service again and make an update
Sorry for your troubles/bad experience,
Dan
I don’t blame anybody. It was a good plan, but it didn’t work out. None of the blog networks that supposedly survived Panda have truly survived Panda. Even the ones that claimed they didn’t have a “network” to get de-indexed got de-indexed (or the links didn’t stick for whatever reason).
Really, I should have just cut out all these services in February when Panda first hit blog networks.
Any service of value understood that “blogs” themselves would be scrutinized by Google. Thus changing the network to other types of sites was the only way to survive. Thus SCN only has about 38 “blogs” left in it, the remaining sites are a variety of other types of sites.
It is to bad PR private network only stuck to Blogs. I was hopeful to see others continue to strive as well.
Yep, I’m about to quit these guys as well. Their network is pretty crappy overall, and trying to find the posts is almost impossible. The posts I did find are on PR1 and 2 websites exclusively.
This is a poorly done network, with very little investment in its infrastructure. I wouldn’t be surprised if it wasn’t already deindexed and is just taking peoples’ money for nothing.
Finally lets conclude,
I and all are waiting for re-review for this TPN from Dan
@All, after panda and penguin TPN caught fire ??
Will this service work now?
So those links were kind of high page rank network or TPN or just from any random link broker??
First to say – this comment is not aimed at Dan or anyone here. But reading this thread after having a heated email exchange with a fellow affiliate who accused me of having an “unhealthy relationship with the application designer” of a certain product I’m promoting – it got me thinking “Why does he even think that”?
I’m being given a real hard time by affiliates in my latest niche generally (all my videos were flagged last moth – I make about 3 a day across 6 niches).
But It all kicked off over my first “SEO niche” website. I kept clear of the whole rather incestuous “making money on the internet” by having a site about “making money on the internet” till very recently. AMAZED how simple it was to rank highly simply by producing solid content daily and linking regularly to every URL you create.
I normally sell real products (physical deliverables) or service a network of local bricks and mortar clients, but I thought I’d try my hand at promoting an SEO product.
I was a late adopter but steamrollered 90% of the competition inside 3 weeks and have now started to knock some of the self agrandising “SEO Experts” off the top 3 spots for the competitive phrases.
Selling holidays, cars, insurance..now that took some work. Competing in the SEO product market is like hammering at a rotten door. Why? because 80% of the people in it are lazy and slack.
Harsh? Maybe – but I’m certain it’s true.
So they retaliate. Report my twitter and facebook account, flag my Youtube vids. Spam negative comments, try a DOS attack on my website, the works
My point?
Sometimes you didn’t drop becasue of some mythical change in algorithm – you dropped because someone else worked harder and better than you.
Get over your sense of entitlement with your crappy 300 word sinlge page site with a “Buy this product” here mini article and 50,000 Xrumer links.
Accept that if you want to sell a SKU with a good payout you need to bust a nut for a while.
Lazy feckless selfentitled SEO slackers..I really hope Google does hammer the backside off you and your shoddy 1 page sites.
Sounds like one guy in your niche is incredibly unethical and/or irrational. You can’t take a guy seriously who says something like that when he himself is your competitor. The whole purpose is just to harass you with nonsense. He doesn’t have a real point.
I’ve never heard of anything like that before.
I pushed two of his sites off page one. I also reported him to the developer of a well known SEO application for running A VPS service offering copies of his one license “Installed free” to subscribers, I know the devs use the product myself and have an interest in seeing it well supported for years to come. So I “shopped” the idiot. Then off he went on his sabotage spree.
Oh, I see. So how did he find out you were the one that told on him?
We have history