The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part II – Ranking Results
Posted on July 12, 2008
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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.
So here are the results:
1. Ezinearticles.com
The best central vacuum cleaner article on ezinearticles.com started to rank in the top 20 in Google just a few days after being published.
Googlerankings now shows position 10!
2. Buzzle.com
It took Buzzle 2 weeks to publish the best central vacuum article and at first it was ranking at #15 but has now slipped down to #21.
3. Hubpages.com
The hubpages article about best central vacuums was initially ranking at around #30 but has now slipped to nowhere! The page that gets found for my main keyword is my account page on hubpages! The article page got only 10 visitors from Google in the last 30 days…
4. Squidoo.com
As mentioned before, the squidoo article on best central vacuum cleaners is not even indexed and gets no traffic from any search engine. (this link will surely help 
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Conclusion
Ezinearticles.com offers the highest rankings and the most powerful link for the same version of the article submitted to other sites.
One reason for that is the pagerank of the author page which links directly to each article you post with additional internal links from related articles. Yahoo shows 51! links pointing to that article!
As you have noticed, I have also linked to each article from this post with the relevant anchor text so it’s going to be interesting to see how the rankings of these articles change in a few weeks because of these links.
What comes in Part 3?
One reason why I choose the best central vacuum keyword is because I want to improve my rankings on my vacuum site for the page about central vacuum systems.
While it passes the SBI Analyzer and has lots of relevant T3 pages linking back to it, it ranks only at 59 in Google.
All 4 articles that were used in this experiment link back to that page with proper anchor text and so does this post. The pagerank will pass from this post to the 4 articles and from there to the vacuum site and in the Part 3 I’ll let you know how each article ranks and whether that page on my vacuum site has improved its rankings.
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Good Result Tomaz!
Thanks for sharing the info. Now I know Squidoo is a waste of space.
Tomaz,
I really have enjoyed this experiment. I have had the same exact results with squidoo!
What are your thoughts about the SE’s devaluing article marketing in the future and the links you get to your site from writing articles for sites like ezine article?
Thank you!
Hi Melissa,
I do have one squidoo page about tennis lessons that gets around 15 visitors per day and has a pagerank of 2. I gave that lens some links from my tennis blog and ezinearticles article and it does the job well. So not all is lost with Squidoo as long as you can send some link juice there…
As for Google – I think Google knows for a long time what Ezinearticles, Squidoo, Hubpages and other sites are all about. I don’t think they de-value the link totally, they might count it as a 0.8 value of the normal link or something like that…
Hi Tomaz,
I’m curious about how you are checking the rankings of these pages. Looks like a useful little program/tool.
Mike
Mike,
The fourth paragraph of this post starts with: “I’ve used googlerankings.com to check where each site ranks…”