Got a simple experiment and here’s the result.
I created 2 websites with the same content
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mydomain.com
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mydomain.net
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Mydomain.com was posted to more than 300 article directories, 100 forums, 100 social bookmarks, and 100 blogs in just 1 months - got more than 4000 backlinks.
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Mydomain.net was submitted to top 5 article directories, do a little than 20 forum signatures, less than 20 blogs, and less than 20 social bookmarks in 1 month.
After 2 months
- Mydomain.com - 5000+ backlinks
- Mydomain.net - around 600 backlinks
After 4 months that I stopped promoting both websites (both are earning in CPA with the latter having a little more earnings)
- Mydomain.com 0 PR
- Mydomain.net PR 4
I am not an expert on SEO but my knowledge is and experience is enough to deal with competition, and based on the above experiment, I think its better to focus on gradual promotion, not like by flooding of backlinks… Although both sites are on first page of Google, I still prefer the one that has PR…
I am by now means a seo expert. However, there is so much about the nature of SEO that is voodoo IMHO. Thus, it makes it difficult or impossible to draw scientific conclusions.
That being said, here are some questions that may shed some light on you results.
Where these two domains ‘virgins’? Specifically, you where the the first one to ever register them? If they where not virgins and the previous owner used those domains for bad thing; then maybe your observing the residuals of a search engine penalty.
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Mydomain.com was posted to more than 300 article directories, 100 forums, 100 social bookmarks, and 100 blogs in just 1 months - got more than 4000 backlinks.
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Mydomain.net was submitted to top 5 article directories, do a little than 20 forum signatures, less than 20 blogs, and less than 20 social bookmarks in 1 month.
What where the quality of these forums, article directories, blogs etc. Where they dofollow. What about the PR? Where those quality forums and blogs? Where the links placed on profile pages?
My experience social bookmarking sites links are no follow and do not give any link juice.
After 2 months
- Mydomain.com - 5000+ backlinks
- Mydomain.net - around 600 backlinks
After 4 months that I stopped promoting both websites (both are earning in CPA with the latter having a little more earnings)
- Mydomain.com 0 PR
- Mydomain.net PR 4
I am not an expert on SEO but my knowledge is and experience is enough to deal with competition, and based on the above experiment, I think its better to focus on gradual promotion, not like by flooding of backlinks… Although both sites are on first page of Google, I still prefer the one that has PR…
Since sites both are earning; them presumable both sites are getting traffic.
I will assume that you are using the exact same monetization on each site.
Where are the number of unique visitors to each site?
I think the results of your experiment may be a classic example of quantity vs quality. Maybe Mydomain.com got a lot of low quality links and MYdomain.net got low amount of high quality links.
We get hundreds of backlinks every day. I think the big difference is if the backlinks are naturally created, or if it is some “seo strategy”.
Where these two domains ‘virgins’? Specifically, you where the the first one to ever register them? If they where not virgins and the previous owner used those domains for bad thing; then maybe your observing the residuals of a search engine penalty.
Yes, both domains are virgins and I have good keyword phrases.
What where the quality of these forums, article directories, blogs etc. Where they dofollow. What about the PR? Where those quality forums and blogs? Where the links placed on profile pages?
Both with high and low quality with PR ranging from 0 to 7.
My experience social bookmarking sites links are no follow and do not give any link juice.
I agree… but my purpose was for immediate and temporary direct traffic, not for SEO
Since sites both are earning; them presumable both sites are getting traffic.
I will assume that you are using the exact same monetization on each site.
Yes, exact same monetization with the same ads… with slight difference on earnings.
Where are the number of unique visitors to each site?
Do you mean “What”? These sites are designed specifically for one time visitors (not for recurring visitors). The .com is having around 170 to 200 uniques daily and the .net is having an average of 350 uniques daily.
I think the results of your experiment may be a classic example of quantity vs quality. Maybe Mydomain.com got a lot of low quality links and MYdomain.net got low amount of high quality links.
My conclusion is that, even if the site has a lot of high quality backlinks, it will be useless if it has also a lot of low quality links… I am not really sure but I could use this as benchmark for my next projects… By then, I can only focus on specific sites where I can promote…
You have to do as much work on the site itself with keywords, meta tags, etc
It’s basic and already considered…