Comments on: My Latest Method For Working Smarter – Super Blogging!

By: Muratos

Muratos — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:33:55 +0000

Just keep the copied content small, even better to rewrite some parts, at least a few crucial words. I had bad experience with one of my sites by doing exactly the same way and have lost SE positions after some months in Google.

By: Did Blogging Smarter Work? Well… Kinda!! » UK Affiliate Marketing Blog - Kirsty's Affiliate Marketing Guide - Affiliate Stuff UK

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:24:54 +0000

[...] Did Blogging Smarter Work? Well… Kinda!! General Add comments A while back I made a post about a new technique I was using to bulk post shop-like pages to my Mens Underwear Site. You can refresh your memories here. [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:03:14 +0000

Lammo: That sounds amazing any dates on that?

Kirsty: I know how you feel, 90% of my keywords are clouded by spammy sites like nextag.co.uk that have about 6 million backlinks and therefore rank for anything. Like you said it’s economies of scale and when you have a few million products ranking on page 1 life must be good lol

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:30:12 +0000

As always Matt it’s very hard to tell. I doubt they will unless sites of that nature become a problem for their index quality. However, a lot of businesses use blog based solutions for sites that appear static because of the powerful content management system and cheap web design option it provides.

Any targeting of “plogs” (love it!) would be more likely to be looking at busting people doing churn and burn spam type operations, I can’t really see Google having a reason to target them because, as you say, they are doing what they say they will!

By: matt

matt — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:16:10 +0000

In the longer term, do you think G will be able to differentiate between blogs that are really blogs (eg, like this, optimised for subsribers) and “blogs” that are really product sites being updated (and are optimised to SEO)? (I guess Feedburner will help them there, product style blogs (“plogs”? ) probably have a much lower subscriber rate than blogs.

On the other hand, while should they? OK so noone is writing real blogs about (for instance) underwear, but provided the site does what it says on the can, and is useful to visitors doing a product search, why should it matter?

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:14:07 +0000

Hey Mark, yes I will post an update. It’ll probably be in about 8 weeks time which is the usual amount of time it’ll take Google to get upset about things.

That said, I can’t really see any reason why pages with content like that would be slapped. Not taking anything for granted mind you, but I do feel that a page doesn’t have to be 100% unique to be considered useful content.

My own feeling is that the Google bots make their calls based on a percentage. Get the percentage of dupe content wrong and you’ll soon know all about it!

I’ll let you know!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:33:52 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see if google hit you for duplicate content..?? (how do their bots work anyway, if only we knew..)
I guess it’ll take a month or so before it shows on any stats, but this is a great idea..and I guess it also allows you to tie in nicely with the merc site once the user clicks the link…
Will you post in a couple of weeks to say whether this new method has worked??

By: Kirsty

Kirsty — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:29:04 +0000

@RobH – arrgghh! Thanks for the heads up. Fixed that now.

@matt – I’m not really intending to compete with large price comparison engines with this method I was only talking about them to show where I got the inspiration from and what I’d like to move towards. Theres a huge amount involved in what these guys create. I just wanted to see if I could improve on current productivity using a flavour of feed / unique content fusion.

@Razvan – ‘fraid not, it was almost a year ago.

@Richard – I’m nice but I’m not THAT nice!

@Vince – I absolutely won’t be sharing the technical details just the same as anyone else who has worked on something new for several weeks, lol.

@Russ – yeah I’m aware of that… still trying to work out what to do with it going forward!

By: RobH

RobH — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:57:35 +0000

I have wondered about doing something like this, thanks

ps some of your links on your lingerie brands site don’t work, its saying something like unexpected ] in links.php, its been like that for about a week.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:55:20 +0000

“ranking for many of my target terms with their sites …. The result is they rank well for a huge range of search terms and enjoy a beautiful economy of scale within their business”

Regarding working smarter not harder, is “improved sort-of-blogging” actually going to help in competing with that? (That’s not a rhetorical question – I don’t know).

Maybe it’s time to get a programmer on your team Kirsty. There must be loads in Aus.

Myself I wouldn’t be able to sustain that volume of creative underpants description writing anyway, but then I’m a bit ADD (and, thank god, I can write code).

- m