Crunch time – three months with 1waylinks

January 20th, 2010

OK, now it’s crunch time. Three months with 1waylinks and spent $95. What are my results?

Well, considering that I used to hate the SEO side of things submitting to hundreds of directories, I’d say that 1waylinks has made my SEO 100x easier. It’s not the stellar results some people are claiming, but it certainly works as an easier and more effective method of submissions.

My handbags website (yeah, I know, why am I doing a handbags site!) is flipping between page 1 and 2 and has earned about $63 since it started – all from AdSense.

My gardening website and diy website (as previously discussed, I’m not allowed to give you the URL’s as it’s against the terms of 1waylinks) are getting more traffic and Adsense has increased across all my sites.

I have a number of review sites as well which are doing well with commissions (but I probably need to work on the sites a bit because although I’m getting more commissions, I’ve noticed the conversions are slipping).

So after three months, here’s the break down:

Subscription cost: $95
Domains cost: $85 (I have 10 blogs in the system now which gives me 5500 posts)
Total: $180

6 Month Average AdSense Income BEFORE 1waylinks: $498
Last months AdSense income: $574

6 Month Average Commission BEFORE 1waylinks: $335
Last months commission income: $512

Total Average BEFORE 1waylinks: $833
Total Average AFTER 1waylinks: $1086

As you can see, my average income has increased by a couple of hundred dollars, but the most significant benefit for me is the amount it has cut down my manual SEO submissions.

My concern still remains about the overall quality of the network, but from my own experience it does seem to be working. If you can afford to spend $95 to automate your SEO (I know some people spend upwards of $400 a month on outsourcing their SEO) then it’s well worth it.

I have increased my income and reduced the number of hours I’ve spent doing manual SEO now that it I all automated. I think 1waylinks would work for most people.

End of month two – 1waylinks review

December 20th, 2009

So here we are at the end of month two and I’m going to give my opinion on whether I think it’s worth continuing using 1waylinks.

First, the good news: rankings have generally increased across the board and my adsense income is running about $80 above my 6 month average for this month, which does pay for the next months subscription for 1waylinks.

The bad news: I seem to be losing rankings on some of my long tail keywords, I’m not sure why, but the increased traffic from my main keywords was more than the drop in traffic from the long tail stuff.

All in all, I’m fairly pleased with the service, it’s obviously working as the handbag website I talked about in my previous post is now top 20 for it’s main keyword and starting to get a bit of traffic. Go check it out if you’re thinking about it, it’s only $1 for the first month, so very little to lose really => 1waylinks.

Ranking jump! 1waylinks working?

December 5th, 2009

I was checking the rankings for a handbags (don’t judge me, I just go after the high paying keywords and commission products!) website today and it has jumped several places from over 200th to 50th.

The site is a brand new registered domain (but the terms of 1waylinks says I can’t give out the URL – sorry!) and powered with Wordpress (of course). My writer creates articles on fashion related to handbags and I’m hoping to generate commission from ebags.com affiliate program and adsense. So far the site has had very little traffiic and made no money, but I’m pleased to see it’s finally jumped up the rankings after 4 weeks.

I’ve only promoted the site on the 1waylinks so I can only attribute the success to the 1waylinks network. However, I can’t say directly how much money 1waylinks has made me, I haven’t seen a significant jump in my income so far. I’ve so far spent $48 on 1waylinks and $250 on the writer in India (who I pay anyway).

Update: Sorry, forgot to add the $33 for domains (from namecheap, don’t forget to google for coupons).

1 month update – renew 1waylinks subscription?

November 30th, 2009

I’ve been using 1waylinks now for very nearly a month, submitting an article every other day. I started off writing the articles myself till I was happy with the system and have since outsourced it to my Indian buddy who writes the content and spins it for me. All I have to do is copy and paste it in to the system.

I’ve added two more blogs in to the system to give me a submission total of 1100 posts per month.

To be honest, I haven’t noticed an immediate improvement in my rankings, some things have moved up slightly, but I think it’s just because the blogs in the 1waylinks network don’t have any pagerank and therefore link juice.

The experienced members reckon I need to give it at least 3 months to start seeing some significant results, so I guess the question is can you afford to pay $95 for three months till you see results (the first month costs $1).

Gambling Sites Not Allowed – 1waylinks terms

November 23rd, 2009

Oops! I’m a bit of a naughty boy. I wrote an article about gambling the other day and it got declined. Apparently gambling articles are against their terms which is a bit of a pain.

Other sites that are against 1waylinks terms include adult sites, pharmacy sites and religious sites. Not sure why the religious sites are banned, but hey I don’t have any of them.

I’m still concerned about the quality of blogs in the 1waylinks network, not one of them has any pagerank and I haven’t noticed a significant improvement in my rankings.

I’ve used 700 of my allocated 1000 submissions so I’m going to have to put another blog in to the 1waylinks network again soon!

Article Approved – 1waylinks update

November 21st, 2009

Well that didn’t take long, my article was approved by 1waylinks over night. It was only around 300 words (the minimum is 250) so pretty quick to write. Using thesaurus.com I was able to come up with loads of synonyms for different words so re-writing it took hardly any time at all.

Anyway, my article was approved and has been submitted to several sites already. I set it to go out to 200 blogs at a rate of 3 per day.

My first thoughts is that I’m a little concerned about the quality of site that my articles are being posted on. Where I registered a brand new generic domain, a lot of people seem to be installing a wordpress blog on an existing name.

Again, I can’t tell you the URL’s (which I think is a good thing), but it’s things like fight-acne-today-123.com/blog2 (that’s a made up domain, just to make a point) which is someones website about acne which will have articles posted about all sorts of things.

I asked in the 1waylinks members forum (which is pretty active and has loads of good advice) and the consensus is that it doesn’t matter about the domain name. I’m not convinced, but we’ll see.

Also, it appears that all the blogs are very low Pagerank (I haven’t even seen a PR 1 blog yet) which is quite worrying as I don’t know how effective many PR 0 links will be.

Blog Approved – 1waylinks is go for launch

November 20th, 2009

Right, my newly created blog was approved last night and I’ve been allocated my block of 1000 submissions. I’ve already written an article and submitted it. 1waylinks tells you what the spin percentage is before you submit it. My article had a 22% spin rate which is not that great I guess.

Anyway, they said your articles need to have a 20%+ spin rate to take advantage of some new system, but this was last discussed over 6 months ago so I guess that’s on the backburner for now.

Just waiting for approval by 1waylinks on my article (they review each one to make sure it’s suitable, which is a nice touch and makes sure there’s no crap out there).

Unfortunately (or fortunately) I can’t tell you the URL to the blog I submitted to 1waylinks because it’s against their terms.

1waylinks Review – Initial Thoughts

November 2nd, 2009

OK, I’m now a member of 1waylinks and have it open in one of my browser tabs. The first thing I had to do was submit a blog to the network so I just registered a domain, installed wordpress (and a few plugins and a theme) and submitted it to the system. I’m waiting for it to be reviewed now.

I get 1000 submissions per month and an additional 50 for every blog I add up to a total of 50 blogs, so theoretically (getting my calculator out here) I can have up to 2600 submissions per month. Wow.

When you write the article, you have the opportunity to ’spin’ it right in the site. So using special tags you can tell the site to use synonyms for different words. A bit more work but because of the duplicate content filter, probably well worth it but a bit more effort if you are going to do it all yourself!

The aim of the SEO game is to build up links and to do so naturally. Flooding your site with thousands of inbound links in a short period of time is a one way ticket to getting banned or at least poorer rankings.

1waylinks handles this by allowing you to set the number of submissions you want per day and then randomizes it around that number, so if you select 5 submissions a day for that article, it will probably submit anywhere from 1 to 10 per day.

Finally, the system lets you add up to 3 links per article, so I’m going to make use of that by deep linking my sites with secondary keywords.

Why is link building important?

October 30th, 2009

I thought I’d write a brief article on link building and why I think it’s important for your online earnings.

I’ve read several ebooks now about how great AdWords is and PPC in general. I don’t know about you but the thought of throwing away hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars just to test something isn’t my idea of good business sense!

I prefer tried, tested and proven systems, like link building to achieve my results. It’s well known that the more quality links you have pointing to your sites, the higher up the search rankings you’ll be and the more traffic you’ll get. Simple.

A few years back, getting good rankings used to be as simple as submitting your link to a few thousand directories and submitting an article to dozens of article sites.

Nowadays things are a bit different. Google in particular discounts directories and if you submit the same article to loads of places the duplicate content filter kicks in and renders most of the submissions useless.

What Google is looking for is quality, relevant one way links with them embedded in actual content. 1waylinks claims to provide exactly what Google is looking for by posting hundreds of articles to loads of different websites.

I’ve taken the plunge and signed up to 1waylinks. This website is my journal to show you what it does for me.

1WayLinks Journal

October 29th, 2009

Welcome to my progress journal which documents my success (or failure) with 1waylinks.

As I’m sure you are aware, 1waylinks is another excellent product from Jonathan Leger and it allows you to build links on autopilot. The links come from a wide range of IP address and are built up naturally over time.

It’s really attracted me because I have a number of AdSense sites and review sites that I want to get more traffic to through organic SEO. Directory submissions and other kinds of link building is just tedious and I don’t have the time for it anyway. I’m also convinced that directory submission is losing effectiveness anyway.

I tried to find a few unbiased reviews of 1waylinks but found them to be full of hype and very little substance. I hope you find this progress journal to be a bit more independent and allows you to make up your own mind whether it’s worth it or not.

Oh yeah, and my name is Brian, you can find out a bit more about me here.