Tiered link building is one of the most effective methods of link building at the moment. It offers a huge range of benefits which can help protect you from future Google Algorithm updates.
A lot of people are confused by tiered link building so I wanted to break it down step by step.
What You Will Learn
- Exactly what tiered link building is
- The benefits of tiered link building
- How to use it to rank sies easily
- How to setup a multi tiered link building campaign
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Video Transcript
What’s up guys this is Matthew Woodward and welcome to my ultimate guide to tiered link building.
Today I’m going to take you through exactly what tiered link building is.
The benefits of tiered linked building.
How to use it to rank sites easily.
And ultimately how to setup a tiered link building campaign
So what is tiered link building exactly? It is a unique approach to link building in which you essentially build backlinks to your backlinks. That helps to give your first tier of backlinks more strength and authority. Over time your tier 1 backlinks will gain page rank and that link juice gets passed directly onto your site.
You can then take this a step further and create a third tier of links to strengthen your second tier. This creates a knock on effect passing huge volumes of link juice and authority all the way down the chain to your site. The other advantage to this is it gives search engine spiders millions of paths and oppertunities to land on your site which will further increase rankings.
Now I realise all of that probably sounds pretty confusing so let’s make things a bit easier to understand with a diagram. Here you can see your main and normally you would build a first tier of backlinks such as web 2.0 sites, blog posts, article directories and things like that. What makes tiered link building different though is you then build backlinks to each of those first tier links.
For example we might create a wiki link, blog comment and bookmark to your web 2.0 tier 1 link. This helps give the tier 1 link more strength and authority in Google’s eyes. We would then do the same for each of the tier 1 links. As you can see there is already a decent amount of link juice flowing through to the site just with 2 tiers of links in place.
What we actually want to do is repeat the process for the tier 2 links by building a third tier. The idea is to build as many tier 3 links as possible to boost the tier 2 links, which in turn boosts the tier 1 links and your site.
This is a very simplified example but hopefully you can see how powerful it is if each of your tier 1 links had 50 tier 2 backlinks, and each of those 50 tier 2 backlinks had 300 hundred tier 3 links.
It might all sound like hard work but tiered link building offers some superb benefits.
First of all it allows you to build a protective layer of tier 1 links around your site. This protective layer helps reduce the risk of getting a penalty and also means that we can take advantage of a lot of the riskier link building methods out there.
For example high PR blog networks such as ALN can be used to strengthen your tier 1 links. If they get caught out in an algo update then it is your tier 1 links that get penalised and not your main site.
Overtime your tier 1 links will become page rank 3, 4 or more which is passed onto your site. You can essentially manufacture as many relevant high rank links to your site as you want.
So what makes a good tier 1 link? First of all you should focus on only getting high quality links pointing to your site. These should be surrounded by relevant contextual content that makes sense, so no cheating by using auto generated content here. Although we do have a use for that in lower tiers.
Ideally you want your tier 1 links to come from domains Google already trusts.
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Tier 1 links are the foundation to your ranking so you want to make sure they will not get deleted or removed. Usually this isn’t a problem if you have used quality content on your first tier.
You should also have complete control of the link and be able to remove or edit it at anytime. While this isn’t essential it is a safety net that I recommend so you can quickly clean up your link profile if Google has a problem with it in the future.
Most importantly you need to be able to get the exact URL of a link in order to build a second tier of links to it.
Here are a few examples of great tier 1 links.
You could build out a set of web 2.0 mini sites that each have 5-15 pages of relevant content. Link out to related sites and include things like relevant images and videos.
Building great web 2.0 mini sites is a can of worm in itself, so I will be creating a separate video for them in the near future.
You can also get tier 1 links from things like
- Press release
- Wiki’s
- Article directories
- Social bookmarks
- Web directorys
- Blog posts
- Videos
Remember the key to tier 1 links is quality. You should only use high quality content across your tier 1 properties and target domains that Google already trusts.
With tier 2 link we can let the quality slip a bit to increase the overall quantity of links that we build.
You still want your links to be contextual and relevant, but you can use auto generated content on a second tier without a problem. You can worry a lot less about the overall authority and page rank of the domains you are building links from as we start to move the focus away from quality and towards quantity.
You need to be able to create these links quickly and easily and also get the exact URL of the tier 2 links so you can begin to build out the third and final tier.
This means you want to be building links such as
- Article directories
- Blog and image comments
- Web directories
- Social bookmarks
- Web 2.0 and Wiki sites
- And High PR blog networks like ALN and Rank Solver
Although getting the live URLs of these is a bit trickier
And last but not least we have tier 3 links. Tier 3 links are purely focused on quantity and we dont really care about the quality of these links at all. You can use any link type you want however you want, anything goes when it comes to tier 3 links. You will want to build as many of them as you can as quickly as you can.
You will also need a huge supply of target sites to link from as you will be building huge volumes of tier 3 links.
If possible try to get the live URLS of your tier 3 links as you can use something like an auto approve comment blast at the end of the process to index everything up.
Here are some of the link types you might used on your third tier.
Article directories, bookmarks, web 2.0, wikis and microblogs. Blog, image and document comments. Web directories, profiles whether that’s from forums or web 2.0 sites. Guestbooks and then things like statistic sites, pingback and trackbacks.
All of these will make great tier 3 links and you can build all of these quickly and efficiently.
Unfortunately tiered link building is one of those things that is easier said than done. Working out where to start and how everything fits together can be tricky. It is easy to get confused and give up on it all together. Don’t worry though I will step you through the entire process.
One of the toughest parts is keeping track of all the links that you have built. I recommend creating a spreadsheet for each URL you promote with 3 tabs. Tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3. Keeping things organised like that will save you a lot of time and frustration in the long run.
Creating the tiered link profile is a lot of work and it is time consuming. My tutorials will teach you all of the shortcuts and my personal tips to save time and money throughout the entire process.
Either way the reward far outweighs the effort.
To sum it all up in a slide you want to focus on building high quality tier 1 links to your site.
Then increase the strength and authority of those links with a second tier.
And finally build a third tier of links to the second tier using all of the dirtiest links you can lay your hands on.
In the next video I’m going to teach you how to build the perfect tier 1 link profile for your multi tiered link campaign.
You will be able to watch the entire process over my shoulder whilst I share all of my personal tips and tricks with you.
You will also learn how to schedule and automate the majority of the campaign with ease.
Well that wraps up the first video of the series.
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132 Responses
interesting where's the rest of the video series, its been a week now , I cant wait, are you sure this system is penguin proof, I have heard of a lot of penguin slaps from using this system, how have youre sites done, thanks for the video, just hurry up and finish the series, nothing worse than one video a month style blogging , well done.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
July 31st, 2012 at 8:20 pm
Hi,
The next video has been done since Friday but I had problems rendering it with Camtasia crashing at random with no real indication as to why but that has been resolved and I just need to upload it and write the transcript which will be tomorrow now.
Please bear in mind these videos take around 10-14 hours each to make and as I get deeper into the process it is going to take longer. The next video will certainly have you busy anyway. If you hadn't noticed I did create and publish another video in the mean time across the weekend.
I dont think you have a full understanding of Penguin. Penguin doesn't target specific link types or anything like that, it targets over optimisation. For example if 80% of your backlinks are the exact match anchor text that will trip Penguin regardless of what types of backlinks or the process you applied.
Anything is penguin proof as long as you vary your anchor text so it looks more natural and not over optimized for a specific term. E.g. if you want to rank for 'blue widgets' you should have 10% of your exact match anchor text as 'blue widgets' 10% of it as a phrase match anchor such as 'cheap blue widgets' or 'why are blue widgets best' 10% of it broad match like 'my favourite widgets are blue' and the rest just generic terms like 'click here' 'this website' and so forth. It has nothing to do with the type of links you build.
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Great explanation of tiered linkbuilding Matthew! Thanks for creating the video and I'm looking forward to the next one.
Cheers, SaSh
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
August 4th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
Thanks for the kind words, let me know if you have any questions
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I understand now, cant wait to see the rest, thanks really looking forward to it ,
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
August 4th, 2012 at 2:44 pm
The second video is available if you haven't seen it yet
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hi Matt, how many web 2.0 sites do you regard as a set?,
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
August 4th, 2012 at 2:45 pm
It depends on the value and competition of the keyword. Sometimes I will build out 5x complete web 2.0 mini sites and sometimes 10
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Hi, just found your website, some really interesting stuff.
Just watched video 1. Are you finding after all recent google penguin/panda updates that this type of link building still works and works well?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
August 16th, 2012 at 7:40 am
Hi Robert,
Panda and Penguin have absolutely nothing to do with with 'types of link building' they are purely about duplicate content and anchor text diversity.
The basic principles of ranking a website haven't changed in years
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Robert Kirk Reply:
August 16th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Hi Matthew
thanks for your reply. The videos where spot on by the way, so congrats on them.
I suppose its just mixed things what you read, people saying these techniques dont work, but sure you have seen good results if you promote doing it as a form of linkbuilding.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
August 17th, 2012 at 4:05 pm
The problem you get with SEO forums is when people post about their problems they say something like
"I spun some articles and submitted to some web 2.0 sites then did some bookmarking and my site dropped out the rankings"
That statement in itself could mean a million different things. Even spinning articles offers a number of challenges and theres a huge amount of ways you can approach that, nevermind the millions of options you have when building decent web 2.0 sites and social bookmarking.
No one provides any detail around what they have done and therefore you cannot take anything you read as gospel.
Imagine if I didn't make this video tutorial series and I just said 'build good tier 1 links, then build links to those and then some more links to those' that is essentially what people in forums are doing when explaining what doesn't work anymore.
You'll then find those same people come out the wood work saying 'se nuke x is dead' '<insert software name> doesnt work any more' '<software x> killed my site'
Software doesn't kill rankings, idiots do
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Hi Matthew, This is awesome.
I stumbled on your videos and have watched them at least 4 times each. I already use ultimate demon and have to admit it is great. However they have currently updated to include link tree building, have you seen this and is it something you would use as a cheaper option.
Thanks Craig Summers (london).
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
August 28th, 2012 at 4:39 pm
A few people have asked me that and the answer is no.
The reason is because UltimateDemon only supports 10-15 platforms which means we have a fairly limited target list of sites that we can post to.
GSA on the other hand has about 120 platforms which gives us an endless amount of link targets to use in the lower tiers which require an awful lot more volume.
Also you dont want to end up with the same site been used as a tier 3 link as a tier 2 link and so forth.
That's why I just use Ultimate Demon for tier 1 links and nothing else, and GSA which has a much wider scope for everything else.
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Hey Matt,
Thanks for the video explanations, they are a great way of comprehending linkbuilding in the post panda/penguin world. I have a questions for you though, would you recommend setting up Web 2.0's on popular domains like WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr etc. for the Tier 1's or register a domain and host your own website so that you have full control? Only issues with that is the shared hosting would be coming from the same IP and if you buy separate hosting services that could get expensive and confusing quickly.
Thanks let me know your thoughts.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
September 3rd, 2012 at 8:31 am
Hi Andrew,
Personally I dont think Panda/Penguin have changed anything. Everything that used to work, still does (inc blog networks) the only difference is a requirement for better content and varied anchor text which is SEO101.
I'm actually going to cover web 2.0s in the final video of the series but yes use the free ones and build them out like they are a real site.
Certainly doesn't hurt to register domains and hosting to build out additional tier 1 links that you own though
The future is owning all of your first tier imo
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Great video, just getting back into online promotions after a number of years of being out of it and getting myself up to speed trying to promote my new site.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
September 10th, 2012 at 6:51 am
Well my videos should keep you busy for a couple of hours
Did you previously do SEO for your sites?
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Love your blog man, honestly I have fear in me at the moment. I purchased a site that had over 15,000 in traffic without being touched in over a year and now it's around 5,000. I hired outsourcers thinking white hat will help but in all it cost me rankings and a lot of money. The software you use for this is search engine ranker (ser) correct?
I used to use senuke and article marketing robot but didn't see huge success with those after the updates, could have been the index rate and lack of anchor text variations though. Keep up great work looking forward to seeing more of your stuff.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
September 13th, 2012 at 3:21 pm
Hi Jeffie,
Don't let the Google fear mongering get to you, they are good at it and the fear is an essential part of their spam control.
Technically any link that you create violates Google's webmaster guidelines so try not to label things whitehat/blackhat to much, its all blackhat by definition.
Part of my process uses GSA Search Engine Ranker yes but mostly on the lower tiers.
Is your site under any penalty? Have you done any kind of analysis on it?
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Jeffie Hylands Reply:
September 18th, 2012 at 6:45 am
Thanks for your reply, I will purchase the software this week and follow your videos. The only Analysis I have is from Google webmasters. From what I see I feel the ecommerce site has similar products so that keyword is probably being over used. I can't really help that but hopefully if I target individual pages I will get back to page one for some big keywords.
I will go though all your videos, really like your blog and have seen you on Traffic Planet and see you know what your talking about.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
September 19th, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Hi Jeff,
No worrys – try and add a bit more meat to your product pages as well in terms of descriptions/images etc it is something most e-commerce sites overlook and just use duplicate content throughout.
You know where to find me if you have any questions!
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Hi Matt, just been through all 5 vids. Well done, they are great. One question; Why did you order and spin articles initially? Didn't you only input one into UD? What were the other 4 used for? Thanks, keep up the great work!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
September 17th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Hi,
Sorry I should of explain. I use them like this-
1 for the web 2 projects
1 for PR project
1 for wiki project
1 for AD project
^^
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Hi Matthew,
Thanks a lot for the videos, I watched them all. At the end, you say that if, by the time we are finished with this, our pages are not yet ranked, we should repeat the whole thing. My question is – how long does a link tiered campaign like this takes for you? A month, and then you watch the rankings, or more?
Thank you!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:44 am
Hi Jesse,
Each set of tiered links takes about a month to build out, but I start building a new set of tier 1 links immediately.
So-
Week 1-2: Build Tier1-Set1
Week 3-4: Build Tier2-Set1 & Tier3-Set1 & then start building Tier1-Set2
Week 5-6: Build Tier2-Set2 & Tier3-Set2 & then start building Tier1-Set3
etc etc
Hope that makes sense ^^
If its a new domain I don't check the rankings for the first 3-4 months of its life.
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after the panda update is this works.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
October 3rd, 2012 at 3:54 pm
The Panda update has nothing to do with link building
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Hi Matthew,
I Just found your Blog, very interesting.
Sorry for basic question below.
I have a amazon Niche Site (Homepage + 3 categories , and some article amazon reviews – posting),
Let say I have 10 amazon's product reviews. My Question are :
- whether I need create 10 campaign for each article amazon reviews products?
- how about "Anchor Text (URL Backlink)" , I have to pointing to Home Page or to URL of My article amazon reviews product?
Best Regards,
Williem Cruzz
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
October 21st, 2012 at 4:31 pm
Hi,
Each tiered link campaign targets 1 specific page / set of keywords – I think that covers both of your questions, hit me back if not!
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Hi Mathew, Thank you very much for your tutorials on tiered link building. I have SENUKE XCR and would be grateful if you would consider making a video on how to use senuke for tiered linkbuilding.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
October 26th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
This has being requested a few times so is high on the list of priority's – probably in a month at a guess.
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Hi Matt, what about sending spam links to you 2nd tier sites? Won't the 2tier sites get banned and then as a result 1st tier sites too? It is widely known and I have experienced it myself that most of the fiverr spam link gigs tank your site instantly – so I think same will happen to 2tier and then the domino effect will take palce. Am I wrong? Best regards
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
October 28th, 2012 at 5:49 pm
Hi,
Because we are not trying to rank the tier 2 or tier 1 sites, we are simply trying to power them up with page rank and create millions of unique paths for the search spiders to crawl and find your site.
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Hey Matt,
Thanks a lot for creating these videos. I learned a hell lot of new info in these videos. Your videos have actually forced me to update my existing backlink strategy(because they are so awesome
).
I am building tier 1 links for my old site inner pages. Do the directory submission(General+Niche specific) work for inner pages too? Most of the good web directories, I have checked so far provide link back to home page.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
November 2nd, 2012 at 9:46 am
HI,
No worrys I'm glad they have helped you out =D
Your correct that most web directories only allow links to the home page – you do get some that do allow deeplinks but not very many – just do a run/blast anyway and see what sticks.
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21cssindia.com I Just found your Blog, very interesting.
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Hello!
I have a question!
What is the minimum mini Web 2.0 sites that I can create? I ask because I can't order many articles written original! Budget is low! You understand me well!
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Thank you so much Matthew! nice video exactly what I needed.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
December 4th, 2012 at 4:12 pm
No worrys – Don't be shy if you have any questions!
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well I think this guy knows his stuff when it comes to backlinking!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 19th, 2013 at 10:27 am
Thanks =D
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Video downloads are not working. Media Fire says: "The file you requested has been removed from MediaFire for a violation of our Terms of Service."
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 19th, 2013 at 10:27 am
Fixed
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Hi,
I do the sharing and it still doesn’t show the download files…
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 5th, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Apologies, I have now isolated the issue and the host is putting a fix in today I hope.
Sent you an email with the links
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I’ve watched all the videos and I have a question about keyword variations –
On a per keyword basis I understand the diversity between exact, phrase and broad match but how many keyword variations per keyword do you tend to use?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 12th, 2013 at 4:51 pm
Hi,
No exact number just mix it up – the more ‘drunk’ you are the better!
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Great tips!
Thanks so much for sharing us!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 12th, 2013 at 4:51 pm
Thanks for taking the time to watch Adam!
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I’d like to start doing this.. couple questions:
should I stop blog commenting and leaving links back to my main site?
and
I’m using NextScripts, an automated post submitter… should I stop using that on my main site? maybe use it on my tier 2 sites?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 16th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Hi,
Yes if you were going to do this you just need to do this.
I have never heard of NextScripts sorry =/
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Hi Matt,
I have watched some of your videos and the content is simply amazing. Still, I have difficulty (I’m kind of a newbie in SEO) really grasping the meaning of each tier.
I’d LOVE if you could get back to me with simple terms.
So far what I understand is that:
1st tier: my money site. I t can be an adsense website, amazon website, a forum I’d like to monetize.. right?
2nd tier: what I understand is that one is like a buffer site. Could be squidoo, a facebook page, a blog.mymoneysite.com, any page basically that enable me to link to and that do not endanger my money site? Correct? I’m using SEnuke by the way.
3rd tier: well, not too sure to understant exactly what this one is..
Well you see, it’s not all clear to me, and probably ultra basic things for you. Do you have a minute to enlighten me on this?
Thanks MUCH in advance,
Alain
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 18th, 2013 at 1:45 pm
Hi,
I would suggest you watch video 1 a few times as that really breaks down the theory better than I could write it.
The first tier isn’t your money site, it goes 3rd tier > 2nd tier > 1st tier > money site
But other than that your are on the right track with your understanding, we use higher quality links on the 1st tier that point to our money site and power those up with lower quality links on the 2nd and 3rd tiers.
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Hi Matt,
What is UD as slow as people claim it is on BHW? What about its success rate?
And do I need a VPS to make it run efficiently?
Thanks
Kevin
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 19th, 2013 at 10:25 am
Hi,
I don’t think UD is slow at all =\ You can speed it up by changing the default human emulation settings though.
I run UD from a home computer without issue personally
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Hi again,
Good idea, that’s what I’ll do and will come back to you once everything’s well understood.
Besides, I followed your advice and signed up with Kontent Machine. However, all I get is pretty much garbage content – I mean not readable content, whatever the niche. Is that how it’s intented to be ? (I’m using the internal spinner of KM, not TBS) or can it be that I haven’t set properly KM?
In any case, it’s very fast and well structured. I just wished the content was more readable (I need to go over each article and work on it a lot) and it would be perfect!
Cheers!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 19th, 2013 at 10:26 am
Hi,
I haven’t actually used the internal spinner of KM and I use the TBS API and I’m assuming TBS is much more advanced than the built in spinner of KM. The output I get still makes sense to a degree.
Perhaps take out the TBS trial and see if that improves your results?
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Alain Reply:
January 20th, 2013 at 12:50 am
Yes, that’ s a good idea that why I have asked my VPS provider to install KM on the server so I can use it with TBS (the VPS provider I have provides several non cracked SEO softwares incl. TBS).
I’ll make a try and come to you later about it. I recognize though it’s a fantastic piece of software.
Finally, keep up the good work, you’re one of the very last SEO blogs I read very regularly -I had tons of them in my bookmarks but I ditched 90% of them lately – too guru-like for me). The content you provide is top notch and thanks for being so reactive to our questions, us SEO laymen. I’ll try to put in some of my personal findings as well on your forum.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
January 21st, 2013 at 12:23 pm
Thanks very much
Please let me know if you have any other problems!
Reactiveness might suffer this week as I’m ploughed with deadlines but i’ll do my best
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Hey Matthew
I have been implementing and shareing your videos amongs friends and let me just tell you I could not be any more grateful for the wonderful content you have openly shared for the rest of us….and I’m glad you’re able to make a few $ off this site as well! I have several questions ive been compiling over the last week, I understand if you can’t answer everything.
Questions:
-for your tier 1’s, you scroll down and grab the first 200-400, regardless of pr rank. Any reason why you don’t go after higher pr ranking sites for your teir 1st?
-How much credibility do you give the trustworthiness, Vendor Reliability, and Privacy Scales in Ultimate demon (the green/red circles)? You remove “de-indexed” using scrapebox, I have 10 semi ded proxies and I can’t get the bloody thing to stop banning my IP’s. I’m assuming you just remove any site that has “no-index”
-Contextual links – is it safe to throw in sister sites that you own with similar content in here?
-Are you using an avatar when your building your account profiles?
-You don’t offer a platform for Press Releases on your targets. Any recommendations on scraping PR targets? I only have a handful of PR targets (30 or so) since I haven’t scraped for them.
Thanks!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 5th, 2013 at 9:51 am
Hi Will,
Thank you very much
In answer to your questions-
1) I like to have a good mix of domains, some with high PR, some with like PR2/3 and some with PR N/A – a natural link profile does not just have links from PR5 domains etc
2) I ignore them – if the domain is in Google’s index, its good enough to link to my site.
3) Yes as long as you dont leave a footprint
4) I have a folder of about 20,000 avatar images that is pointed to
5) UD doesn’t support PR platforms
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Hi Matthew, Thanks for sharing this video. Going to try some of these methods.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 4th, 2013 at 12:02 pm
No worrys – you know where to find me if you have any questions!
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Really fantastic content Matt, this site’s a godsend for someone like me whose new to the whole thing and trying to get their head round SEO.
Thanks!
Dan.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 11th, 2013 at 9:31 am
Hi Dan,
No worrys =D
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Hi Matt,
I really appreciate and thank you for sharing this tutorial series and Advance spinning techniques as well. Crystal clear and I learn a lot.
I notice you have high success rate on Article and web20 account creation and submission. Would you mind share your tips to increase the success rate?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 11th, 2013 at 5:06 pm
Hi,
For the most part just spend time cultivating your list. Every month I import new targets and remove sites that have been deindexed by Google along with all of those that have constant failures.
Your link building campaign is only ever as good as your target list – but most people skip over that bit (which suits me just fine
)
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Dinar Emas Reply:
February 12th, 2013 at 4:59 am
Thanks Matthew,
I know you show a little bit scraping on video but I ask anyway. Do you use SB exclusively for scraping or use UD as well? I can scrape hugh list from SB (using your footprint) but have low success rate when it comes to import them to UD. Most of them (more than 90%) failed on UD. Any tricks on doing importing to UD?
Also, do you scrape niche-related target list or just general sites?
Any plan to create video on scraping, please?
Btw, I’ve already watch your video twice. I’ll be back to this tutorials when I start implementing your tutorial here.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 12th, 2013 at 10:13 am
Hi,
I only use SB for scraping.
Yes you will get a high fail rate like that on each import, make sure you run the import a couple of times and then a couple more times with the ‘site is stored in a subfolder’ option selected.
If you want to improve the success rate even further you get better results by importing ‘type’ by ‘type’ so do a scrape for all the web 2.0 platforms, then select web 2.0 during the import. Personally though thats to much like hard work and doesn’t warrant the additional success rate IMO.
Scraping is covered in these videos quite extensively already – if people feel like there is need for a separate tutorial though I will produce one.
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Great video again!
This might seem like an obvious question so please forgive the inexperience!
The process you’ve outlined in the video (if I’m right) is going to result in 100s of tier 1 pages for your site. Is it worth doing this for micro-niche sites? Or can you scale the campaign down in this regard?
I’ve ranked for highly-targeted 2/3 page sites by manually building no more than 30 links (though how long this will last I’m not sure). Surely a campaign of this size isn’t necessary for that kind of thing. Would it not be better to acquire a smaller list of highly relevant target sites?
Just wondering. Again, really appreciate the content, it’s absolutely fantastic! Nice to hear a British accent for once on an SEO tutorial too!
Regards,
Dan.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 12th, 2013 at 10:10 am
Hi,
Yes you will end up with hundreds of tier 1 pages. You can scale down the campaign if you want but really this is just changing a number in a box so why bother? Not like it takes any more/less time to setup by down scaling the first tier.
You probably wouldn’t use any of the supplementary tactics in video 6 for the micro niche sites your trying to rank, but I encourage you to try a run of this to benchmark how it performs and then adjust from there.
There is nothing to say you have to build out your tier 1 in the manner that I have – you can just take what works for you now and then bolster it with the tiered advice in the later videos.
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Hi Matt,
How do you manage to collect 20,000 avatar images?
Do they consist of photograph (like photo ID) or mixed up with generic images like logo etc?
I watch video tuts once again but you only cover scraping for short period of time. Today I manage scraping more than 200,000 URLs using your merge files etc and tested 10,000 URLs. I found UD rejects all those 10,000. I may missed some steps or something.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 18th, 2013 at 10:57 am
I use Google to search for ‘avatar packs’
Use your brain man
Why did you only test 10,000 urls from the 20,000? Did you also do a second run of the import with the ‘my site is stored in a subfolder’ box ticked?
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Hi Matt,
You mentioned you have 20,000 images for avatar. How you collect such a hugh number of images for avatar? Can I do that with scrapebox?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
February 18th, 2013 at 11:03 am
Just use Google to find packs
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Dinar Emas Reply:
March 1st, 2013 at 4:33 am
Thanks Matt,
I got 5,000 images for avatar packs
I guess the query is the key to get the best out of google search.
Keep posting great video tutorials as you did so far…
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 4th, 2013 at 11:03 am
Superb!
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I saw your amazing video about tiered link building, unfortunately I faced to the poor video image quality. I even can’t see what you typed at all when you give an example using Ultimate Demon software, how to spun embed video from youtube, etc.
Would you please share us highest quality of video image? I think there’s a lot of newbie including me which need a clear guidance.
Thank you and best regards,
Darrel
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 4th, 2013 at 11:04 am
Hi,
Head over to http://www.youtube.com/user/MattWoodwardUK to watch them
I’m aware of the video issue and know how I’m going to deal with it, just need time to deal with it now
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Such a good video tutorial with in depth information about tiered linking.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 7th, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Cheers =D
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Hey Matt quick question. I recently found your site via an article about your experiment to create a site that does well without building any backlinks. Now I find tutorials on your site about building backlinks.
I am confused. Do you build links or not? It looks like you are seeing success by not building back links but using other promotional strategies like forum posting and social media shares. But now you recomend link building which I thought you didn’t want to do because of all the google hype about punishing sites that use link building?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 8th, 2013 at 12:06 pm
Hi,
Have a read of http://www.matthewwoodward.co.uk/experiments/google-webmaster-guidelines-experiment/
That should clear up the confusion
Its an ironic experiment!
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Hi Matt,
Firstly thank you for getting back to my site review request early today. I shall get back to you shortly on that.
I read recently on other forums that google has now devalued large amount of back links. Can you please advise if the above method is still working with the recent good changes.
Regards Pari.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 11th, 2013 at 8:14 am
Hi,
No worrys
Yes they did devalue a lot of links – as long as you do not take shortcuts on tier 1 quality you’ll be ok
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Thanks for making this video, it is very informative!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 11th, 2013 at 8:18 am
No worrys hope it helps!
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Hi Matt,
I just wondered as these were started some time ago and Google has made some changes since the start of this video, that for someone like myself who is about to start doing some tiered link building to my niche websites, would you change anything now? And if you would, would you be so kind to elaborate on the required changes?
I understand the need to create quality, unique Tier 1 links with Full control for any changes, which i will do.
Thanks for all your help Matt, Tobias
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 27th, 2013 at 11:39 am
Hi,
Not really – possibly more emphasis on part 6 and diversifying your tier 1 as much as possible. Don’t be scared to pick up the phone to get links no one else has etc.
Nothing has really changed theory wise!
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What a goldmine of information your site is. Thank you for sharing. Now following on G+.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 27th, 2013 at 11:17 am
Cheers Simon =D
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I don’t normally post comments, only to spam lol.
But I just had to say thanks for the video, tier link building was unknown to me and u explained it so good, it just now seems that any seo strategy without tier link building would be a flop.
Thanks for taking out the time to make these videos.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 27th, 2013 at 11:08 am
Hi Frank,
Hahaha that makes two of us then =D
Thanks for reaching out!
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Hi Matt,
Thanks so much for these video series, they are very helpful!
I am just ponering whether to buy UD or not and wondered if you would be so kind to help:
I would like to make unique Web 2.0 Websites as my Tier 1. Can UD create Web 2.0 Based on my Unique Content that i have ready to post to these?
Or would it be best to stick to manual web 2.0 creation? Its just that at the moment i am spending a lot of time creating web 2.0 etc and feel my time could be better spent!
Thanks in advance, Tobias
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
March 27th, 2013 at 11:07 am
Hi Tobias,
Yes it can but I believe you need a mix of high quality hand built sites as well – please see part 6 of the series and you’ll see what I mean
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Fantastic resource Matt. You have saved me a lot of time, brought clarity and systems to some of the process I was labor intensive with.
I have a question: When you pull a tier 1 list of sites and check the links for being indexed in Google, do you check the pages or the domain? I have always used domain. Perhaps I should be checking the pages??
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 6th, 2013 at 4:39 pm
Hi Steve,
No worrys – I have found a lot of people struggle with putting the pieces/processes together in general.
You should check the actual page/url with the link on is indexed
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Steve Bailey Reply:
April 7th, 2013 at 12:56 pm
Thanks Matt. Rereading this I may not have asked my question very well.
Do you also check at the URL level when you are harvesting a custom list of potential tier 1 targets to submit to?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 8th, 2013 at 3:45 pm
Hi,
No just the domain level
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Okay, so I’m a total newbie, but I have a good feeling about your great video guides and I want to do this as correct as possible, the first time. But I think I need to get the steps clarified and summarized, before moving on to purchase UD etc.
I’m confused about:
To get 1 tier backlink to my money site, I will first need to:
- Manually create 5-10 web2.0 sites with unique content (similar to http://mymoneyguide.blog.com/) ???
and
- 3 x 500 word articles – 1 for web 2.0s, 1 for Wikis and 1 for AD’s/PR’s
+ 1x set of bookmarks titles / descriptions
+ 1x set of web directory titles / descriptions
+ 1x set of related tags/keywords
+ 1x video with title / descriptions
Will all this be used in the link building campaign for 1 tier backlink to the money site?
Because in the videos I can’t find where you’re using the manually created web2.0 sites?
All the links you create in video 2 will these go to the money site or the manually created web.20 site?
Sorry, I’m confused, but keen to learn your method properly.
Thanks for sharing your great knowledge.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 9th, 2013 at 8:23 am
Hi,
The manual creation of web 2.0s is just a supplemental tactic that you can use. The tips in video 6 are to give you that extra boost if you need it.
Yes those content requirements are all the content you will need for the entire campaign end to end.
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I’m confused, maybe you can clarify?
- All the links you create in video 3, will these go directly to the money site?
- The manually hand build web2.0 sites – should these just be added to the list when creating the tier 2?
- Should I use Scrapebox to create my personal target list? Is the target list the tier 1 sites?
I’m totally newbie, but I really want to learn this, however I’m afraid this is to advance for me after all?
Thank you
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 9th, 2013 at 8:22 am
Hi,
1) Yes
2) Yes
3) Yes
=D
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Hi Matthew,
Wonderful tutorials. Thank you so much for taking the time to share them with us.
I had a couple of questions, I apologise for how basic they are.
Firstly, I understand that you need to build a set of high quality minisites,
using eg web 2.0, for each keyword you are trying to rank for, that then point
back to your money site.
My first question is, does it matter if alot of links from the T1′s are pointing
directly at your home page, or is it best to point some links at your relevant
inner pages too?
Secondly, if you are trying to rank your home page for more than one keyword, would you need to set up a second set of high quality minisites, (using the same principles)?
Thanks in advance.
Megan
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 8th, 2013 at 4:03 pm
Hi,
No worrys
You should be building links to a mix of your home page and inner pages – dont worry about perfect ratios, be random.
Each page you want to rank requires one run of this process which can rank each page for multiple keywords.
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Hey Matt,
First off i would just like to say the information you have on here is amazing – I’ve paid for a lot of products than aren’t half as good as this.
I must say I haven’t watched all the videos yet but I certainly will be soon.
My question is – and I apologise if you have already covered the answer already – is when building your 1st tier am I right in thinking you build them all manually and if so how many do you build pointing to your main money site or does it differ depending on your competion??
Then how many tier 2 do you build to your tier 1′s.
Look forward to reading more great stuff by you.
Take care
Dan
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 8th, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Hi Dan,
No worrys
Watch the rest of the videos – all your questions are covered
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Matt, seriously exciting info. here!
A couple quick questions…can you give your best examples of high quality Tier 1 links for say a service business in the US? Also, about how many Tier 1 links is a good number to have pointing at your money site?
What about sites like:
Yelp.com
InsiderPages.com
?
?
?
Can you name more that you would trust as Tier 1′s?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 8th, 2013 at 3:50 pm
Hi,
Yes business directorys are good, also relevant blogs, local newspaper sites, national newspapers etc etc
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Hi Matt, Thanks for all the help finally tiered backlinking makes sense to me. Had a few questions and needed your advise
1. I am using Ultimate Demon to build web 2.0 profiles and have already posted my first article. Should I use the same profiles to post other articles as well, so that the web all my web 2.0, article directories build a authority of sorts or should I create new accounts for each new article blast?
2. My Ultimate Demon version shows only 51 web 2.0 sites whereas in your video it has thousands of them. How did you grow your list and can you suggest a service that sells lists for Ultimate demon, please?
Again thanks a lot for your tutorial and hope to hear from you soon.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 9th, 2013 at 8:18 am
Hi Manish,
1. Yes you can do this if you choose – re use them for the same campaign but add a handful of submissions to each account.
2. Watch the rest of the series
Thanks
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Great videos Matt, I’ve watched them all and really enjoyed them. Must have taken you ages to record them.
My question is that if you do all of the above in a medium sized niche what sort of time would you reckon till you start seeing some movement on your site. I’ts roughly no 3 on pg 2 at the moment.
The site is approx 4 months old on an EMD.
Thanks again Matt
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 11th, 2013 at 8:24 am
Hi Robert,
Within a few weeks – I’ve had readers write in and see improvements as early as a week in though.
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You’re a Star Matt..
Thanks so much for these Fantastic Video’s.. I’ve learned so much.. Honestly.. As some one stated.. this is far more superior and detailed than most of the Wso’s I’ve purchased..
Thanks again and Appreciate it.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 12th, 2013 at 9:39 am
Hi Niz,
No worrys =D I chose not to release them as a WSO in the end as you can see!
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So pleased i found your site. Love the info you have, I am following your tiered link videos and loving it. Very easy knowledge that even i can digest…
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
April 17th, 2013 at 5:27 pm
Superb – I spent a lot of time trying to make it easy for everyone to understand without boring the seasoned pros!
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Thanks for breaking down the entire process step-by-step. My problem has always been with my Tier 1 links. I need to focus more on creating valuable and unique content on my first Tier. Having those sites gain PageRank over time is an added bonus since some of the PageRank will be passed to my money site. I’m surprised you didn’t wrap up this training into a course and sell it. Thanks again for taking the time to put this all together.
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
May 5th, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Hi,
Exactly and each one of these will become valuable long term business assets.
Yeah a lot of people said I should of sold them, but I think turning them into a WSO would devalue them
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Great video although I am still rather overwhelmed by the whole thing. Will try and give it a go – I like he fact that you say you can rank on google – does this include ecommerce sites? as I know you dont have much of a good word to say about them?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
May 9th, 2013 at 9:12 am
Hi
Ecommerce sites are just generally thin pages listing thin pages of duplicate content which link to duplicate content and are perfect Panda food and soon Zebra food.
For the most part they need to forget about link building/SEO & focus on the user experience.
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Matt….I’m speechless! I’m a small time marketer who just about scrapes a living online. It’s taken me 2 years of work to earn a minimum wage!
I’ve always shyed away from using SB, UD, TBS and others because…frankly, they scare me! But by taking in what you teach in this series of videos, I can feel a little less nervous.
Now, if I can get my head around actually doing instead of watching, I may start seeing a bit more moolah come in.
These tools are essential aren’t they? I mean…you can’t really survive without them, right?
Brilliant content Matt, I’m so pleased you released these videos and really appreciate your hard work in making them.
All the best
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
May 13th, 2013 at 7:15 am
Hi,
Hopefully you have learnt a lot in that time which is worth more than money anyway
I wouldn’t say the tools are essential, there are multiple ways to skin the SEO cat and this is one of them
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Hi Matt.
Great article. Been pouring over all these stuffs for about 2 days now. Please I will like to know for small scale starters, can you assist with this whole process. Kindly let me know how much this will cost for a link building campaign. Will be expecting your mail.
Thank you
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
May 12th, 2013 at 11:14 am
Hi,
Sorry I only work on a consultation/coaching basis
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Natters Reply:
May 12th, 2013 at 2:27 pm
Hi I know the feeling – I too would like somebody to help me – I’ve gone through the videos and really dont think I can managed this tiered linking stuff – it seems way over my head – if you cant help with doing the work – can you recommend somebody who does a ‘proper’ job – I’ve used a few supposedly good guys now and the tiered 1 level of work is poor and is really badly written
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
May 13th, 2013 at 7:17 am
Hi,
Anyone you pay/hire to do SEO for your site has more control over your business than you do – so bear that in mind.
That is why I keep full control over things like that myself and as such don’t have anyone I can recommend.
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Hey Matt,
Do you care about domain PR when creating your Tier 1 links? Should I just post to all PR including PR 0 or is it better to go with PR1+ ?
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
May 15th, 2013 at 9:28 am
Hi,
Yes just go with a completely random mix of root domain PR’s
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Very thanks Matthew, great guide!, im from venezuela (My english is bad), but transcription the work is more easy, rewards from Venezuela brother master SEO!
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Matthew Woodward Reply:
May 15th, 2013 at 9:28 am
Cheers man – I HATE writing the transcriptions, and I mean HATE every second of doing it
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