The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part II – Ranking Results
It’s been now almost 1 month since the first part of the link experiment and I can show you some interesting results.
One reason why I had to wait so long was that buzzle.com takes sometimes 2 weeks to publish the article and then it can take a few days for Google to index it. This eventually happened with the article on ezinearticles.com, hubpages.com and buzzle.com but NOT on squidoo.com.
I cannot find the article on Google even if I search for the title of the article in quotes. Squidoo stats also tell me that there has been no traffic to that page which is live now for almost a month.
I’ve used googlerankings.com to check where each site ranks for the keyword best central vacuum. I’ve had 2 articles written and then rewritten so I got 4 versions of articles which I believe don’t trigger the duplicate content penalty in Google.
Google Adwords Reveals Real Number of Searches Instead of The Green Bar
I was doing some keyword research with the Google Adwords tool when I saw that Google returned number of searches for a specific keyword instead of the familiar green bar.
The green bar before gave just some idea of the traffic but you couldn’t really tell whether that was 50 or 500 searches per day.
Chitika Alternatives
If you are a Chitika publisher, then you’ve surely noticed a big change in your average CPC and earnings in May. Unfortunately, for most publishers this resulted in much lower earnings than before.
You can see some of the comments in this post:
What the f is going on with Chitika?
There was also quite a bit of discussions in the Chitika forums and other IM forums like Digital Point.
I use to get around 0.35 per click 6 months ago in my vacuum cleaners niche. Later, the CPC dropped to around 0.21 to 0.25 and was quite stable there.
