Honestly?

Who the **** knows!

Just play it safe and do a few a day for a month and see what happens. If all is good then up it, but whatever you do I can pretty much guarantee that at some point the site will take a dive for a while, they all do. But the more aggressive the more likely it is to happen, and for longer.

Yeah, Squids got hit a while back but are not like Hubs now, but I still say that now is the time to really work more on your own sites, more secure long term. But Squids can still be good for extra cash and, of course, some links.

Just backlink for all the keywords

Um, sorry Dude but there ain’t much more to it than that. Write content with the main terms you want to go for in the post title and then others in h2′s in the content.

Plus add in lots of longtails in the copy and backlink for them all. Over time a site will then simply rank for anything and everything to do with the products and all the terms for them. You don’t need to write a post for every buying term or keyword, authority sites pick them up without even trying.

But you are looking at a year or two of hard work to get to that position, with many bumps and disappointments along the way.

Keeping up is not really an issue. You just work hard every day and do work on different posts or sites and you simply carry on. There is no end to it, it is a daily thing that you simply do.

Sorry if there is no real technique involved, I kind of just do it. And I always aim for the main terms (the hard ones) while at the same time going for a ton of longtails, it mixes up your link profile and gives some real surprises along the way.

Looks like some legit info from a number of resources – outcome is pretty clear if it’s all true.

IMO I feel Squidoo feels & looks like a whole lot less like a content farm and more of a real site than Hubpages (or most other article directories). I’m a still a total noob and I’ve only just started up on Squidoo but it took me the better half of 5 seconds to decide between Hubpages and Squidoo after visiting both their homepages. Seth Godin is a pretty well respected IM too. makes me more confident knowing someone well established is driving things.

Then again, you never know what big G might pull out the bag next

How do you possibly keep up with everything? I know you are a big fan of product sites and like to use socks as examples so here is what I mean.

You obviously want to rank for “socks”.. So you build links on that to the home page, inner pages, etc.. That’s easy. But, then you want to rank on “blue socks”, “white socks”, “pink socks”, so I assume you build category pages for those and build links to them as well. I’m still following, but keeping track of my different pages, keywords, etc is starting to get a little more unorganized. Now, we throw in the products themselves “Dave’s Awesome Blue Socks”, “Dave’s Awesome Pink Socks”, “Dave’s Awesome Blue Socks”.. So I build pages on those, build links and try to get them ranked.. Multiply that by the many different products in each category and it becomes a bad dream to manage it all.. Now lets throw in your buying keyphrases “Buy Dave’s Awesome Blue Socks Cheap”… Now it becomes a nightmare; for me anyway.

So, now that the illustration is out of the way I ask again how do you keep up with it all, and since you don’t do much keyword research how do you know what to attack first? I guess one school of thought is to go after the low-hanging fruit and the other side says attack the big money. But, if you don’t have much faith in keyword tools, and I understand why, then how do you decide what to do first.

Yes, a long comment, but really only one question .. And, I just know that one of other readers is wondering the same thing so they will benefit too… You are welcome

I know, Dave. But I think with the tools available to us (Postrunner, Linkvana, BMR, etc.) you can schedule your posts reasonable as opposed to just blasting them out and do more damage than good.

But what I meant with my previous post was that you impressively demonstrated (again!) that volume matters. For instance, I have a product website that is almost 4 months old and I started to moderately built links to the individual product pages (60 + products). So far so good. But I think I should also start trying to promote the main-term corresponding with my product category (e. g. “widget review”). After reading your post, I checked and I realized I am already ranking for that term with my domain, because all my posts have “….widget review” in the title. Trying to go after “widget” might be a little bit too ambitious, but I can clearly see me ranking for “Widget reviews” in the long term.

Just don’t go mental on new sites and ensure you mix up the link profiles, but yeah, don’t worry just do, at least you find things out for yourself that way.

To be honest Ken I no longer do. I would look for other ways to build support sites. orbs.com is good, they take a while to index and rank but slowly rank well, and look for other properties where you can use the medium to get links and also put your own aff links in.

I am not saying don’t build the odd lens etc but just don’t put too much backlinking work in to them. To be honest, long term, you would even be better buying a ton of .info domains and building them up or just buying normal cost domain names, in a year or two they are worth a fortune to you and you control them.