I have a confession to make…
If you are just arriving at this post, this is a blow by blow analysis of a niche site campaign I am setting up. You can start at the beginning HERE.
The other day after I posted about writing articles, I got a little antsy with my sample guitar site (which by the way I’ll reveal to you after this campaign is ranking and making some sales). You see, I am waiting on some articles to be written, so I thought I would give my site a little link juice while I was waiting. Well, I got a little carried away…
In the interest of full disclosure, here’s what I did….
I first tried out an idea I got from a free ebook called “Top Spot Sniper” by someone named Brenden Clerget. The gist of the idea is to submit your site to Digg, and then bookmark your Digg submission. Apparently this gives a little extra link juice.
Since he has a free ebook on the method, hopefully he won’t mind me posting about it here!
So, what I did was take my guitar website url and submit it to Digg. In the topic and description in Digg, I ONLY put my keyword/keyphrase I was trying to rank for, then submitted it.
I then copied the URL of the Digg submission and pasted it to a Wordpad document so I could easily grab it later.
In his ebook, he then describes how to bookmark your bookmark. His first method is to do it all manually, which is the hardest. This is where you would go to every bookmark site, create an account, and submit your link.
His second option is to use a free service called http://www.socialmarker.com, which I have used plenty of times in the past.
For some reason though, when I went to their site yesterday, I kept getting a warning that something on their site was trying to get on my computer? I tried a few times and kept getting this message, so I figured it wasn’t good and left.
I was kind of bummed because the third and easiest option to bookmark my Digg submission was to use SENuke.
SENuke is a paid option, and I didn’t want to pay for anything.
So, here’s what I did…
When you go into SENuke, you have the option of getting a FREE 7 day trial. There are basically 2 options – a somewhat stripped down version for $67 per month and the “deluxe” model for $127 per month.
At first glance, I thought, “HOLY CRAP” that’s kind of pricey.
Well, anyway, I signed up for the 7 day trial through Paypal for the $127 one because it had the features I wanted.
Of course, I didn’t take the advice given and watch the intro tutorials, I just jumped in with the goal of bookmarking my Digg submission. Maybe I should have watched them, but I was in a hurry and the software is pretty self-explanatory.
I can honestly say, SENuke has WWAAYYY more cool features than I had anticipated. It easily saved me 7-10 hours of work. This is because it carries out a number of very mundane tasks like signing up for various sites, and confirming emails, automatically.
So, I input a few details and SENuke went in and created random names and login details for me for 1) a ton of social bookmarking sites, 2) a ton of RSS feed sites and 3) a ton of high PR backlink sites. It creates these accounts for you at all the sites AUTOMATICALLY. Oh, and these 3 things are only 3 of the 6 features this software has.
Then, it verified the emails for me that these sites send to verify that I was setting up the accounts – ALL AUTOMATICALLY.
Then, it went in and submitted my bookmark to all of the social sites AUTOMATICALLY, to the RSS feeds AUTOMATICALLY, then it posted backlinks to all the high PR sites AUTOMATICALLY.
All in all, I estimate that I got close to 200-300 backlinks to my site within 2 hours.
This EASILY would have taken me 7-10 hours to do manually. And while it was doing all this in the background of my computer I was doing other things.
I checked last night and my actual site was on page 2 of Google, 12th position for one of my keywords, and for another keyword, 2 of the social bookmarks were on the 2nd page! Not too bad in my opinion.
Now, will I continue the trial and actually pay for SENuke? At first I flat out did not want to, but now I’m sort of middle of the road. So, I’m still undecided.
I can see the power of this software and I think the time saved alone is worth the price, but I want to see some sales in some niches from it before I commit to it. I’ll keep you posted.
Do I think you should try the trial just to at least build some links and get exposure to your sites – by all means, an emphatic YES. Download it, use it for all your sites (the trial is a full copy), and then cancel your subscription.
You’ll probably get a nice boost in your rankings, and maybe even some sales!
Anyway, I got my articles this morning and will begin my promotion schedule today. My next post is going to detail out my daily schedule for promoting my niche site. If you can detail out your schedule and take action EACH AND EVERY DAY, you will be successful, I can guarantee it.
And there is some really cool stuff I am going to show you that I KNOW you have never seen. Stay tuned…
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