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the necessary tool is still a dream

         

silverbytes

3:42 am on Jun 19, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I've tried so many tools and none does what is really needed. you need to combine 2 or 3 different to get what you want (when you do that you spend so many time that is useless again).

1-None of tools checks domains instead urls
2-None scans based on search enginge indexed and non listed imported domains
3-None builds pages with descriptions based on those results (some does but they don't do point 1 and 2 so it's useless again

I guess take control of linking campaigns is a dream.

neuron

1:56 am on Jun 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I guess take control of linking campaigns is a dream.

It is rumored that 80% of a page's rank comes from off-page factors, factors such as Link Popularity, PageRank, and perhaps LocalRank as well. This 80% comes from the links themselves and associated semantic indicators (anchor text) that point to your pages.

You can make a site rank high for "nasty tasting widgets" just by getting enough sites to link to your page using that term, without the term even occuring on the page itself. Yes, you can. With that said, it is essential that some degree of control be placed on linking campaigns in order to direct the rise thru the ranks of keyterms against other pages at different levels of competitiveness and optimization.

One time when I was working on a link campaign, after several days of work, with a dozen different apps open on the PC and all sorts of spreadsheets and databases, I got called away from the office for a school emergency kind of thing, I think my daughter had set fire to the principals office, again. Anyway, the crisis took a while to handle and by the time I got back to the office the following Monday, I had no idea of what I had done, where everything was, or why I had created such a mess to start with. Several days worth of work got trashed as a result thereof. Yet it was then and there I swore an oath on the descrated carcass of my link campaign that had been my greatest hope of high-SERPs, that I would avenge this brutal and senseless slaughter, and slay the beast of link campaign complexity.

What I have found out is that you can only automate so much. A human brain must be employed to review each and every site, for appropriateness for each and every link campaign. You can lower the degree of sharpness and concentration of the required human brain by automation of certain things, but there is no substitute for it.

There is a limited selection of software available all with limited functionality. So, if you really want to take control, you have to build your own. Also, a single-person link campaign takes forever. The more people you have the more you can break the task up into reasonable chunks.

If you were to analyse link campaigns you might find that there are 17 distinct functions that must be performed. Some of these have to be done individually, on a site by site basis, others have to be performed sequentially, and others can be done via a group process. Nevertheless, all 17 distinct steps must be executed correctly to order to receive that reciprocal link. The best link directories I've seen were all done by exerting the most control over the process, by executing those 17 steps one site at a time. These are also the most tedious and time consuming of link directories to build. On the other end, you mass process sites and lose a significant degree of control IF you do not adamantly stick to those 17 steps you previously identified. The key is chunking.

And that's all I have to say 'bout dat.