Making Money With Wizzley

So we know the universal truth about making money online is you need high quality content and links to rank in the search engines. There are a million debates about how to build links, if you should even build links, or if you should just try to be social.

Anyway I’m not going to get into that because it’s a never ending fight. What I will tell you is I use web 2.0 sites to get links to my content. I write good articles on my web 2.0s, and try to provide relevant information that people will find useful, just like I do with anything I write. The sites I really LOVE to write on though are the sites that share revenue with the people who write content for them. Everyone knows about the big two, being HubPages and Squidoo. They are great sites and are easy to use for backlinks and to make money.

Introducing Wizzley

Anyway the real purpose of this post is to let people know about a new site that I’ve been using to build links called wizzley. This could be considered a wizzley review. It’s another revenue share site, where you get anywhere between 50-60% of the adsense and amazon impressions for the site. It’s a pretty easy to use interface as well. When I first started building on the site I was really just looking for a link (you need 5 articles for you links to become do-follow), but I was pretty surprised at how fast the articles took off and started getting some traffic. I kept throwing up articles and they kept ranking well.

The nice thing about a newer site like this is that it’s not saturated with articles. When you write on hubpages you compete not only against millions of other sites on the internet, but also with tens or hundreds of other articles on the same site. There are also just about any URL you want on the site. Using a new site like this a great benefit for sure.

Now don’t think you can go and toss a bunch of garbage up on the site and get away with it. New sites always get looked after pretty well, and so publish good content or you always risk getting banned. The only thing I’ve really seen them be tough on is adding affiliate links of your own outside of what they allow. They do provide a good service so use the adsense, and if you want an affiliate then use their amazon setup. They give a great service and you get the benefit of using a great site.

Anyway check out the Wizzley site here and get back to us with any tips or ticks you might find on the site. I’m going to keep adding to this post as I learn more and more about the service and some some tips of my own to share, so check back in regularly.

TIPS

Send in a good tip to help with our review of Wizzley and I’ll post it here and give you credit and a link to your blog or Wizzley account if you like!

When you start your page you have the option of setting your URL and title separately. In this day and age I would suggest you: a) set your title as something keyword related, but interesting for someone searching for information on the topic (think like you’re answering a question your searcher is asking) and; b) set your URL to your exact keyword.
Use keyword cousins and longtail keywords in your module titles.
Add an image or two, and always be sure to give them a related keyword for your image title. This is also a great place to add a link to one of your sites if you give one of your URLs credit for the image as the source URL, using your keyword as the “Name of Source”.

Wizzley can be great for making money online directly and for building links to your other sites to help you increase their rankings and earn money from them.

Poking the Panda

So there have been a bunch of theories floating around as to how the G Men are treating sites, namely how they have been slapping down sites that just seem to be getting off the ground. Sure that could be the sandbox, but it really doesn’t feel like it to me. I think there may be some very important on page factors that are signaling to Google that your site is (or may be) a spam site. Anyway that is why I will be beginning a little experiment to test out four theories that I have.

CS – First my control site… I started this one about a month ago and it went as I have described above… it climbed steadily (as high as 30^th position for its KW) but now it is nowhere to be found at all in the SERPs. I built it just like I’ve been building sites for years with pretty decent success, but since panda… well really since the hubpages slap happened just after Christmas… the game seems to have changed.

S1 – On this site I strive for very low keyword density. I plan on using the keyword once in my post, so it might make it onto the page 2 or 3 times with the title etc, giving the site a max of 3% KW density (compared to my other sites which I will have the KW density at a higher than I normally would 7-10%).

S2 – On this site I will slow the backlinking down to a snail’s pace. I’ll leak links to it at a rate of 1 per day (as opposed to the other sites which will get 3-5 a day each). This site will no doubt climb slower than any other sites since it will be getting less links, but we’ll see where it ends up.

S3 – On this site I will be sure that all the posts have different titles and URLs (the homepage will be the only page with the main keyword). Typically on my site I use cousins or variations of my main keyword for the post titles. I may even give the posts search unfriendly titles like “experimenting with making sites rank real well by mixing things up” instead of a keyword title like “Google serp slap experiment”

S4 – I will be cloaking affiliate links on this site just to see if Google is not liking the fact that I have links to Amazon on pretty much every page I build.

Things I will control for:

All the sites will be on the same host
All the sites will use the same theme
All the sites will be the same age
All the sites will have similar content (length, quality)
All the sites will target the same keyword
All the sites will receive BMR backlinks

If anyone has any other suggestions for my little experiment I’d love to hear them. It would be great if other people would play along too and run their own similar tests, maybe with some variations of the factors they will be messing with. I’ll keep everyone updated on the results of my little experiment over the course of the next few months and we’ll see if we can’t crack this tricky little nut called the Google algorithm.

–Best of Luck

Justin DeMerchant

Starting a Link Building Campaign

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they start a site is pounding it with links. These days that can get you in hot water with google because if your site gets too big too fast (ie. too many links) and you climb the SERPs like a rocket they figure something must be up.

For those people who believe in natural link building (ie. suckers) it’s not an issue generally. For people who post all over the web from hubpages, to squidoo, to infobarrel, to facebook, etc. it’s not a huge issue either because you simply can’t pound out 100 of those a day (or a week for that matter).

No it’s the people who pay for things like the Keyword Academy’s PostRunner system, or BuildMyRank that end up getting tossed in google’s sandbox. Sure the sandbox is only temporary, but when you are working on a site and seeing consistent growth in the SERPs it really is a kick in the nuts to see its traffic fall to near nothing in a matter of hours.

Ok so what can you do?

1 – Start out slowly: Two or three links a day for a few months. This slow rate of link building also means that you should be investing some serious time in getting the links. Look for relevant sites to write high quality guest posts on. Build some pages on web 2.0 sites like hubpages, squidoo, infobarrel, and whatever else you can find. The nice things about building on sites like these is then if you get to a point where you have too much content and don’t want to link it all to your site (or if you have 2 links to send from 1 article like in postrunner) these are great places to link to your links.

2 – Ramp up slowly: Increase the number of links you send your site per day slow and steady. Stick with two or three for like two months, and then maybe ramp it up by one additional link every couple of weeks. Slow and steady wins the race.

3 – Hold off on the blogrolls: I wouldn’t suggest sending your site blogrolls for at least six months. Despite the fact that all the links are coming from one site, it is still a buttload of links to point at a site early on. You used to be able to get away with hammering a site with blogroll links, but I do not believe this is the case. Even when you do get to the six month mark I would suggest just doing one blogroll trade a month.

4 – Build for a wide range of keywords: Don’t just hit your site for your site for its main keyword but work on a range of related keywords as well. Use the odd “click here” or your site name, or even your sites URL. I also like to build links for some really short keywords that just relate generally to the category your site is about.

Anyway if you keep those four things in mind you should be able to keep your site out of hot water. If your site gets sandboxed anyway don’t feel bad, stop building links, or give up on making money online altogether (although I do love buying sandboxed sites off newbies for a fraction of their value). Just keep working until it comes out.

Best of luck!

Poking the Panda

Starting a Link Building Campaign

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