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So I have been testing the effectiveness of focusing on boosting TF. I know there is a lot of speculation out there, and many have opinions on TF that may or may not be accurate. The most common one I hear is that TF has no effect on SEO. Well........
I ran a test on one of my affiliate site in a low/med competition niche. My keywords range from 10 searches a month to 20k searches per month. So I started with only social signals. I actually was ranking pretty well with only social signals, and no backlinks at all. My medium comp keywords with the majority monthly searches and obviously the kws that were my focus, slid up to position 30 or so with in 2 months of building the site and no linking and only producing about 50 pages of content. Most of the pages were WooCommerce pages and even those are ranking after removing the affiliate links and directing the WooCommerce product page to a review. (When I started the site I didn't realize my link cloaker didn't work on Woo pages, in case you're wondering)
Well I wanted my site to get a boost so I added 15 blackhat links on pages with high TF. The content was terrible, especially for a 1st tier link.
Needless to say I shot up to the first page for my target keyword and many others, in between position 9 and 6. My TF shot up from a 5 to 29 on the same day all of my keywords began ranking.
Now the question I had to ask was "Did the TF spill off the links and thats what boosted me to pos 9, or did the ranking happen and then the TF jumped?" Only because of the speculation that TF doesn't matter did I wonder this.
Sooooooo I threw 200 social bookmarking and profile links at the site on accident. Didn't realize my money site URL was in the order details when I ordered and intended them to be my 2nd tier. Well my site dropped out of the SEs for my target KWs and my TF plummeted. Coincidence?
Well maybe it was. So what I did then was purchase 400k Xrumer links to blast at the profiles. So 2k links (randomized on the amount per profile to look natural) per profile approxiamately. Some I didn't add but a few links and social bookmarks. Also sent a few social signals here and there. I get my social signals from SocialsBox, as they are extremely cheap. Best in my opinion, excluding the fact that there isn't a drip feed option. Anyone know of anything as cheap as them with a drip system let me know.
So after the the blast I waited a few weeks and:
I am back up to the 2nd page and have been climbing up more and more everyday. Not to mention my trust flow is still absolute sh%t! Would this indicate TF means nothing in terms of ranking or what do you think? Will Majestic be a solid metric to evaluate in the future?
Whats your thoughts?
I ran a test on one of my affiliate site in a low/med competition niche. My keywords range from 10 searches a month to 20k searches per month. So I started with only social signals. I actually was ranking pretty well with only social signals, and no backlinks at all. My medium comp keywords with the majority monthly searches and obviously the kws that were my focus, slid up to position 30 or so with in 2 months of building the site and no linking and only producing about 50 pages of content. Most of the pages were WooCommerce pages and even those are ranking after removing the affiliate links and directing the WooCommerce product page to a review. (When I started the site I didn't realize my link cloaker didn't work on Woo pages, in case you're wondering)
Well I wanted my site to get a boost so I added 15 blackhat links on pages with high TF. The content was terrible, especially for a 1st tier link.
Needless to say I shot up to the first page for my target keyword and many others, in between position 9 and 6. My TF shot up from a 5 to 29 on the same day all of my keywords began ranking.
Now the question I had to ask was "Did the TF spill off the links and thats what boosted me to pos 9, or did the ranking happen and then the TF jumped?" Only because of the speculation that TF doesn't matter did I wonder this.
Sooooooo I threw 200 social bookmarking and profile links at the site on accident. Didn't realize my money site URL was in the order details when I ordered and intended them to be my 2nd tier. Well my site dropped out of the SEs for my target KWs and my TF plummeted. Coincidence?
Well maybe it was. So what I did then was purchase 400k Xrumer links to blast at the profiles. So 2k links (randomized on the amount per profile to look natural) per profile approxiamately. Some I didn't add but a few links and social bookmarks. Also sent a few social signals here and there. I get my social signals from SocialsBox, as they are extremely cheap. Best in my opinion, excluding the fact that there isn't a drip feed option. Anyone know of anything as cheap as them with a drip system let me know.
So after the the blast I waited a few weeks and:
I am back up to the 2nd page and have been climbing up more and more everyday. Not to mention my trust flow is still absolute sh%t! Would this indicate TF means nothing in terms of ranking or what do you think? Will Majestic be a solid metric to evaluate in the future?
Whats your thoughts?