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SEO Clinic Thread [Help Thread] (39)

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Hey guys,

So a lot of people seem to have tons of questions on SEO.

I've been in SEO for over 6 years now, run of the biggest SEO Blogs (see sig) in the industry and am currently looking towards about $450,000 revenue in 2014 from SEO alone.

Though I specialize in Black Hat SEO.. I've worked with Agencies for 1 year of my career, I own an agency that works with huge clients and mainly does white hat and am an all around focused SEO.

If you need help or have any questions in regards to SEO, drop me a question (or multiple ones) here.

I'll try to reply within a few days to every question and check back often - I'll also link resources that can better further your understanding or help you in regards to your question if needed, so to give you a more detailed answer in the form of a blog post or video etc..

Thanks
- Charles

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Welcome to STM Charles! About to scour through your blog, it's looks great!

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Charles Floate - an honour to be on the same forum! some nice work you have done there - I have read your blog (infact have it book marked) some fantastic info on there.

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Thanks man Glad you like it! ^.^

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Added you on Facebook as well man.

Wanting to get a bunch of guys to the London meetup! So could use some help with details etc.. Also organizing a conference for next year, would love to have you in attendance. Actually got referred to STM because of some of the guys that have you on Skype, they sent me your deets

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Hi Charles. Love your blog and thanks for starting this thread.
I was banking pretty big in garcinia niche for many months, but this sand box/waiting period really destroyed my ability to rank. Are the same techniques still working for you? What, if any, are the main changes to the way you rank black hat sites now rather than 6 months ago?

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What are the top 10 blogs for SEO worth reading these days?

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Top 10? I'm not to sure in all honesty.. I don't read specificity SEO Blogs, most are IM or specific, I'll list a few of my fav IM blogs though

- My blog (derp, ofc)
- ViperChill (I know Mr Green is friends with Glen, as am I)
- Matthew Woodward (All around IM Blog, good for tons of newbie tutorials, especially SEO Software)
- NicheHacks (Niche selection blog, has some epic case studies e.g. http://nichehacks.com/survival-life-1-million/ )
- Money Over Ethics (If you're on WickedFire you'll know CCarter)
- LionZeal (New blog, epic stuff so far)
- Niche Pursuits (Spencers good, though recently he's been changing his logic a lot and that ain't good for an SEO blog)
- VisibleHQ (Shaun posts some sick case studies and has a load of really cool guests for his case studies0

Blogs Not to follow:
Moz, Source-Wave, DripApps, Money Mindset, Search Engine Journal (very rarely got some good stuff)

Hope that helped! ^^

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1) I ONLY used aged domains now.
2) I build links a lot slower than before
3) I vary my anchors a lot more, I actually buy this service - http://www.adss30.com/niche-related-...ments-package/ to diversify my anchor texts and only use branded anchors for it, $40 for 200 good quality branded links is fantastic.
4) I no longer spam.. I haven't used GSA in Months and I stopped using it for Tier 1s in February. Only SAPE or PBN or HQ Links now, mostly all direct, maybe a few links for indexing purposes but tiered link building is pretty much dead now.

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haha, we're in the same boat
I was banking a lot from garcinia, burned quite a few sites, all until the may google update which killed my rankings.
I'm trying a lot of strategies to make my ranking strategy work again, but it's not that easy. Hence why I want to start paid traffic too.

@Charles sorry for hijacking the thread and thanks for the tips, I will try some strategies again with the new tips.
Any recommendation on anchor text an what is the max you use nowadays (blackhat seo)?
Too much of the same exact anchor doesn't really help with rankings nowdays, while before this may update I could push it to 20-30% before getting the hit.

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Yeah garcinia was amazing for me. It paid for my house

Not many seoers on here so gonna keep on asking Charles questions if that's ok.

I always have ranked small sites targeting a handful of high value kw. One of my new projects is a much larger site targeting lots of long tail and lower value kw. What link building strategy would you recommend for this Charles?
Lots of homepage links to boost authority which will pass to inner pages? Then a few links to each inner page?
The domain is brand new. Should I 301 some aged relevant domains to the homepage? If yes, how important is it that the 301 domains are themed?

Thanks!

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Yes, a niche relevant, aged 301 then blast some HQ SAPE (PR3+) at it, with PBN links direct and a mixture of niche relevant, branded links.

Inner pages are perfect to build up overall authority.

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Check out my live case study thread in the affiliate section I generally go about 10% exact with a mixture of partials and branded afterwards.

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Charles, for SAPE - do you buy directly or go through a reseller?

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Both, depends if I'm being lazy or not.

HQ SAPE Seller - Bash_M < Skype
LQ SAPE Sellers - SEOlutions & Ranksster

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Hi Charles , thanks for the above info! With regards to the pbns- what would be your recommendation for starting out with them or for a churn and burn- would you build out your own pbn or will some links from a paid service suffice? I know of the likes of the Hoff pbn ( although think it just got a slap) where is the best place to find them?

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Depends how big your operation is and if you're going after the same niche every time.

See one of my posts here -
http://godofseo.ca/research/ultimate-seo-vendor-list/

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Great to see more intense affiliate-focused SEO discussion here - keep it up Charles!

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One Question. Are you the one bidding against me in CIRA TBR auctions?

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Awesome to see SEO getting some more lovin on this forum. Love what you're doing Charles.

Question for you - in building out new sites, you said that you only use aged domains. Any particular place you like to get those from? Wasn't sure if that would be the same as the ones you referenced in your SEO vendor list.

Looking to build out some more local lead-gen stuff, so I'm curious on the best places.

Thanks man!

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lol, no..

I get my domains from Vendors I know who give me 'em for 1/10th the price

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Namecheap Marketplace, search your keyword and then sort by price Low>High then just use an age checker to find a ton of aged domains for under $50!

I picked up a TF12, 8 year old domain with 95 backlinks (17 ref'ing domains) for $15 last year! Used it as a 301 for a payday site and worked wonders.

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When you say this do you mean you 301'd the payday site to this new domain and rebuilt the site on it. Or did you just use the domain as a link and 301 it to the payday site.

Thanks

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I always rebuild the sites, get all the pages back up that have inbound links and link out to my main site.

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Same here.

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No, I 301'd the domain I bought from the namecheap site to my payday money site.

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I use 301s for protection vs links - The age of the domain protects vs link velocity.

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Nice to see seo expert here.

Your blog is on my top SEO list Some fantastic text there!

I have one question Bro: Several my websites hit by Penguin 3.0 on oct.18.
What You advice for me? To wait few weeks and then try to remove some links and disavow via WMT or???

Thanks for answer Charles and All The Best

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Hey man,

Thanks ^^ Glad you enjoy my site.

I made a video on Penguin 3.0 here -


In terms of recovering, use the disavow tool and also make sure you find out WHICH pages have been hit, generally if it's algorithmically hit then it'll only affect a few pages and not the entire site.

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Hey Charles, I'm quite new here but I've been in the SEO game for about 5 years now making decent money, however recently I've noticed a problem with my keywords and the pages that they are ranking on. What has been happening, is the primary keyword shows up on the page it was meant for and ranks quite well, then it drops off and shows up on a totally unrelated page like the "Terms And Conditions" page at a much lower ranking. This is happening on a lot of my newer affiliate sites, I've been told it could be to over optimisation of anchor text? I wonder if you've ever had any experience of this?

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* Sorry for late reply

Definitely haven't had any pages changing in rank to random pages. Though it's more than likely due to your anchor text AND the content on your site, if all the anchors are fired at your homepage then G now tends to distribute the rank across other pages for those keywords, and in turn, if your TOS Page has a whole bunch of unique content on it.. Then G will favour that for that reason, especially as over optimized anchor text probably led your first page to be penalized, so instead of ranking that page it ranks the TOS Page which hasn't been.

Try new pages, make sure to balance out your anchor text and don't go smashing tons of links at it from day 1 or you'll get the page penalized due to high link velocity mixed with anchor text ratios

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Hi Charles,

Thanks for introducing me to this forum!

Love the fact that you recommend not to follow source wave....I have some issues with Mr B and his sleazy sales patter too!

Great to be here

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Glad you're here man Hope you enjoy it! Plenty of EPIC stuff around.

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Thought SEO was dead but after reading this thread it seems it isnt and some guys are still making big money with it. Happy to see that!
One side remark is that although you are making a huge amount of money with it (congrats), its very time consuming, hard to measure the impact of your moves/actions and you could have probably made even more by focusing on paid traffic sources (email, display, content lock, offerwall, CPI, etc).

Best is of course if you can combine both :-)

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The thing I like about SEO, is that I can do it for free - Paid traffic is great, if you have the capital to fund a large scale campaign.

Whereas if you're a 12 year old kid (Like I was when I first started) with no $s, you can become one of the best SEOs in the world and earn serious money! ^^

SEO is super time-consuming, and it changes a lot.. But it's also a very passionate industry to be in.

I don't JUST do SEO anymore, and I joined STM as I was thirsty to become an all rounded internet marketer - It's helped me a lot, so much so that Mr Green even gave me an aff. link for STM, which only a handful of people have!

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Respect, you are doing a great job. Any possibilities to advertise on your blog or to buy traffic from you on a CPI, CPL, CPA basis? If yes, don't hesitate to email or skype me.

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Hey Charles,

what do you think about Serpzilla ?

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Sorry, I don't do any deals like that for my blog etc.. I keep it very clean

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It's just English, more expensive SAPE. Learn how to use SAPE instead

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