The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part III – Final Rankings

Posted on August 12, 2008
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It’s been now 2 months since I’ve posted the articles on 4 different sites. You can check how the link experiment began in part I and what happened in part II.

Remember; all those pages also got another link from my previous post so that should have helped them somewhat to rank better.

So here are the final ranking results based on googlerankings.com for the keyword best central vacuum:

1. Ezinearticles
Google – 13

2. Buzzle
Google – 12

3. Hubpages
Google - 82

4. Squidoo
No rankings in top 200 sites in Google

It’s interesting to see that buzzle has now overtaken the ezinearticles article. I assume that they change rankings every now and then. Buzzle doesn’t show many internal links so it must be the authority of the site that shifts the rankings higher.

One reason why I chose the vacuum related keyword for this experiment was also to get links to my central vacuum systems page on my vacuum site.

Well, so far there have been no changes in the rankings despite 5 new links pointing to that page. 4 from the articles and 1 from my previous post…

According to google rankings it still ranks at 57.

I do get quite some traffic for keyword central vacuum reviews for which it ranks at #5 in Google. I am not sure why it doesn’t rank higher for the keyword that’s optimized for…

I will try to get a link from a PR3+ blog related to vacuums or cleaning or home improvement and get a sitewide link to that page. That should boost it’s credibility in Google’s eyes…

So the final conclusion?

The most powerful links are from ezinearticles.com and buzzle.com. The article on ezinearticles.com actually ranks #2 in Yahoo for the chosen keyword so it’s getting some traffic too.

Hubpages.com and Squidoo.com may rank well if you have many pages interlinked and if you send some external links to those pages. Their authority combined with external links could give you some good rankings.

But for just one article posted on hubpages or squidoo I haven’t seen good rankings in this experiment. What are your findings?

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12 Responses to “The Most Powerful Link Experiment Part III – Final Rankings”

Jerrick on August 12th, 2008 8:15 am

Hi Tomaz,

You mentioned you are going to try to get a link from PR3+ blog related to vacuums or cleaning or home improvement and get a sitewide link to that page.

May I know how you plan to actually get a link from such blog? And what do you mean when u say a sitewide link?

Perhaps articles directories links is really meagre in Google’s eyes now. (Judgin from the non-change of ranking status in your findings)
Tomaz on August 12th, 2008 8:31 am

Jerrick,

I’ll try and find a blog on this topic - probably through Technorati search - and email the owner for a link exchange. I’ll probably have to do that 10 or 15 times to get one “yes” answer.

Sitewide means that the link is in fact present on every page of the site - like a blogroll.
DR on August 13th, 2008 6:13 pm

Hi Tomaz,

Interesting results so far. Are you sure you want to go with a sitewide link? I’m under the impression these are viewed unfavorably by the SEs.

Best, Don Roberts

PS. I’m finally caught up reading your informative posts, and I did it all on my new iPhone 3G.
Tomaz on August 14th, 2008 12:50 am

DR,

As long as Matt Cutts and official Google blog have blogroll sitewide links to other sites and hundreds of blogs link to these blogs from a blogroll, so long will I consider sitewide links as something normal.

Don’t fall for every rumor you read online…

99% of all SEO talk is just a theory. There are no proofs, these guys just want to feel important and they keep writing some stuff that comes to their mind.

I am sure Google team quietly laughs reading all those theories…
DR on August 14th, 2008 4:52 pm

Hi Tomaz,

Interesting to know what Matt employs on his personal site. I think I came across the sitewide link caution from SearchEngineNews.

Best, Don
Carletta on September 3rd, 2008 4:25 pm

Hi Tomaz,I’ve done a few experiments with ezine, hubs and squidoos when marketing my SBI site, and I’ve also found that ezine articles rank very quickly.

Squidoos, Hubs and Wikihows have worked also well for me when I choose the right keyword. If it is a low supply keyword the pages can rank in as little as a week.

I use the keyword in the url, the title, and in a link back to my site from the page. I also point a link to the page from my blog.

I’ve been very inspired by your success with SBI and I hope to have equally successful results of my own soon. My SBI site is http://www.successful-homeschooling.com if you care to take a look and offer any feedback.

I’ve been working like crazy for the past 10 months and my income is just now reaching $200 per month. I hope my windfall is on the way, lol.

Great blog!

Carletta
Tomaz on September 4th, 2008 10:49 am

Hi Carletta,

Thanks for sharing. I checked your site and first thing I see is that on your homepage you have only one keyword: homeschooling. I don’t think you can rank high for a single word. You need to choose a keyword you think you can rank for and use it on your homepage, possibly in a second variation too. (like homeschool)

Can you rank high for “pros and cons of homeschooling” or “benefits of homechooling”? Or any other?

Then you also need to link back from every T2 and every T3 page (like the Action Guide tells you! ) with the anchor text using your main keyword…
Carletta on September 4th, 2008 8:39 pm

Hi Tomaz,

Thank you for taking a look at my site.

I am a bit confused. I have 2 keywords on my homepage - homeschool and homeschooling. Should I add another keyword to the home page as well even if I’ve already written a T2 page about it? Should this be a high demand keyword or one I can easily rank for?

Also, I have a link at the bottom of every page as the AG suggested. I thought we were supposed to use the page’s keyword in the anchor text. Did I miss something?

I’m off to take a look at your site.

Carletta
Tomaz on September 5th, 2008 5:52 am

I sent you an email, Carletta…
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Mark on October 23rd, 2008 7:49 am

Tomaz,

I was wondering if your experiment changed your rankings for “central vacuum systems” already??

Did you use some other stategy to try to improve your ranking for that keyword?

Best regards
Tomaz on October 23rd, 2008 10:44 am

Hey Mark,

No, not really. That page still ranks very low and I am not quite sure why. It has a pagerank of 3, is properly optimized and has some external links to it.

That’s some SEO mistery to me…