Thread: Help With Affiliate Blog?

From just a quick look at your backlink profile, it looks a little spammy IMO. Lot of blogroll links and forum profiles on unrelated sites. Probably overoptimized for your keywords too.

You might try building out 30 web2.0's with unique content, 2-3 pages each, with some pics / videos on the pages and have them point to your site without using your keywords. Instead use stuff like click here, website, diamondrings.org, etc. as the anchor text. Throw in some links from authority sites as well on some of the pages.

Basically try watering down your anchor text optimization to make it look more natural and build higher quality links. (I have to do this too on my authority site that got hit from the Penguin update.)

You mentioned that you're getting 1000 visitors a month, where's your traffic coming from just out of curiosity? From the tool I'm using (ahrefs), it doesn't show your site higher than page 4 for any of your keywords.

Originally Posted by kwerner

From just a quick look at your backlink profile, it looks a little spammy IMO. Lot of blogroll links and forum profiles on unrelated sites. Probably overoptimized for your keywords too.

You might try building out 30 web2.0's with unique content, 2-3 pages each, with some pics / videos on the pages and have them point to your site without using your keywords. Instead use stuff like click here, website, diamondrings.org, etc. as the anchor text. Throw in some links from authority sites as well on some of the pages.

Basically try watering down your anchor text optimization to make it look more natural and build higher quality links. (I have to do this too on my authority site that got hit from the Penguin update.)

You mentioned that you're getting 1000 visitors a month, where's your traffic coming from just out of curiosity? From the tool I'm using (ahrefs), it doesn't show your site higher than page 4 for any of your keywords.

Google Analytics shows around 75%+ of my traffic still coming from Google. Not sure how it's actually getting there (SERP's suck, obviously).

Do you think just adding content will help bring in more traffic? My thinking is that Google will see new content being added consistently and start to "like" my site more.

Then again, I've already been penalized AND had my site reconsidered unsuccessfully. Maybe it's beyond repair?

Maybe it would just be better to start over on a new domain? My domain is still a PR3, though, so maybe it can be brought back?

I'm still scared to do any link-building though (haven't done any in a year). Is it safe to?

Originally Posted by bernieshawn

I'm still scared to do any link-building though (haven't done any in a year). Is it safe to?

There is only one way to find out - try it. I don't think there is anything wrong with building some links in a way kwerner recommended. Just stay away of mass links.