11-17-2014, 03:50 AM
I've been experimenting with a new technique for ranking and it works - sort of - often producing really dramatic ranking improvements. (I mean taking badly ranking sites to the first three SERPs)
I'll show you the idea and then explain why I need help:
This is how it works:
a) First get the target site ranking somewhere on Google - it doesn't have to be high, so long as the site is indexed and can be found with a chosen keyword.
b)We need the redirect URL of the SERP link, which we're going to adjust and then send cheap traffic to. Google then thinks it's getting lots of clickthroughs and so raises the site's ranking, because clickthrough is a very strong ranking indicator. (There's a software tool to do this that's been on sale here. With my idea you don't need the tool)
To get the redirect URL, click on the SERPs link to be taken to the target site, go back to the SERPS page and look again at the link again and copy it. It looks something like this:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=32&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCUQFjABOB4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golang-book.com%2F12%2Findex.htm&ei=7N5oVP-qJ-OasQT4j4GAAw&usg=AFQjCNH0uUB6xJ9rky16e4FEYyONuN6dFA
You have to enter the search keyword after the "&q=" term because Google removes it in the redirect link. So in this case, the search term was "testing example", which is rewritten as "testing%20example" because you have to replace spaces with "%20"
We'd rewrite the link as:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=testing%20example&esrc=s&source=web&cd=32&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCUQFjABOB4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golang-book.com%2F12%2Findex.htm&ei=7N5oVP-qJ-OasQT4j4GAAw&usg=AFQjCNH0uUB6xJ9rky16e4FEYyONuN6dFA
This is the URL we are going to send cheap traffic to. I've used daily-traffic.com which sends really cheap traffic, but it could be any cheap traffic site. I don't care if it's bot traffic - so long as each visit is from a different IP address.
I've found that blog sites can jump 20 or 30 ranking positions when this is run (and these were stable older sites with nothing happening to explain the jump) I ran pulses of 2000 visits from cheap-traffic and they maintained their position for a few days and started slipping down again. Not much change with YouTube sites to be honest.
So - great idea if it works, yes? The problem is that it doesn't work all the time and it doesn't work very well with YouTube in my experience.
I'd be interested to hear SEO expert opinion about this - how to tweak the method to work more reliably?
I think the hashed strings (&ei=7N5oVP-qJ-OasQT4j4GAAw&usg=AFQjCNH0uUB6xJ9rky16e4FEYyONuN6dFA) may be part of the problem because they contain encoding, possibly about the original search. If Google thinks it's the same user clicking through, then it won't rank the site, which is why different IPs are important.
Anyway - that's the concept; I'm sure it works and can be improved - anyone care to share suggestions and results?
I'll show you the idea and then explain why I need help:
This is how it works:
a) First get the target site ranking somewhere on Google - it doesn't have to be high, so long as the site is indexed and can be found with a chosen keyword.
b)We need the redirect URL of the SERP link, which we're going to adjust and then send cheap traffic to. Google then thinks it's getting lots of clickthroughs and so raises the site's ranking, because clickthrough is a very strong ranking indicator. (There's a software tool to do this that's been on sale here. With my idea you don't need the tool)
To get the redirect URL, click on the SERPs link to be taken to the target site, go back to the SERPS page and look again at the link again and copy it. It looks something like this:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=32&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCUQFjABOB4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golang-book.com%2F12%2Findex.htm&ei=7N5oVP-qJ-OasQT4j4GAAw&usg=AFQjCNH0uUB6xJ9rky16e4FEYyONuN6dFA
You have to enter the search keyword after the "&q=" term because Google removes it in the redirect link. So in this case, the search term was "testing example", which is rewritten as "testing%20example" because you have to replace spaces with "%20"
We'd rewrite the link as:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=testing%20example&esrc=s&source=web&cd=32&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCUQFjABOB4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golang-book.com%2F12%2Findex.htm&ei=7N5oVP-qJ-OasQT4j4GAAw&usg=AFQjCNH0uUB6xJ9rky16e4FEYyONuN6dFA
This is the URL we are going to send cheap traffic to. I've used daily-traffic.com which sends really cheap traffic, but it could be any cheap traffic site. I don't care if it's bot traffic - so long as each visit is from a different IP address.
I've found that blog sites can jump 20 or 30 ranking positions when this is run (and these were stable older sites with nothing happening to explain the jump) I ran pulses of 2000 visits from cheap-traffic and they maintained their position for a few days and started slipping down again. Not much change with YouTube sites to be honest.
So - great idea if it works, yes? The problem is that it doesn't work all the time and it doesn't work very well with YouTube in my experience.
I'd be interested to hear SEO expert opinion about this - how to tweak the method to work more reliably?
I think the hashed strings (&ei=7N5oVP-qJ-OasQT4j4GAAw&usg=AFQjCNH0uUB6xJ9rky16e4FEYyONuN6dFA) may be part of the problem because they contain encoding, possibly about the original search. If Google thinks it's the same user clicking through, then it won't rank the site, which is why different IPs are important.
Anyway - that's the concept; I'm sure it works and can be improved - anyone care to share suggestions and results?