Make Money Online Experiments

Engaging in activities that seek to manipulate search engine results (like building a link farm) is against Google’s terms of service and can get you into big trouble with them if they catch you.  With that being said, building link farms is not that easy to detect if you do it well and is done by many people trying to make money online and even by some large corporate entities like the Wall Street Journal.

Since I am a noob, I have only recently begun experimenting with this technique but haven’t had a good starting point to get it off the ground.  As a result, my efforts have been scattered, mostly ineffective (at least so far), and taken up a good portion of my internet marketing time.

I think this could all change with my discovery of a high quality video about how to create a blog farm.  It is an hour long video from Justin over at SEO Zombie that outlines his method for creating a farm that has a low profile and reduces the impact on your “money sites.” If you have an hour and want to learn some of the basics of SEO farm building then you should definitely give Justin’s video a try.

His blog also provide some really good SEO tips if you are interested in how SEO impacts your ability to make money online.  If you are doing a business model that targets free, search engine driven traffic then you are going to need to know how to optimize your site for the search engines - and Justin’s blog offers free information for those seeking to find all the information available on it, not just the party line message of Google and other search engines.

One word of caution about the video is that you are going to have to sign up with an email address - so use the one that you do all your sign ups for but never really check.  That way you won’t get offended when you get opt-in newsletters and whatnot trying to sell you stuff.  The fact that the video is being used as a way to build an email list should not deter you from watching the video - it is great content on how to build a useful blog farm.

I do have some questions about how this whole farming system works, like:

• How quickly do you begin to see results?  My first foray into farm building did not generate that much improvement in terms of SERP rankings for the targeted keyword.  I do have some hypotheses about why this is (not enough variation in the platform used, links clustered together in time, etc.), but not certain answers yet. It would be nice to hear some answers from someone who knows their stuff to help speed up my own implementation.
• When is it best to add the links?  Do you just add them to the post right away and then try and get the post indexed or do you wait until the post is index and then add the link?
• How quickly do you build up the farm?  Do you target a keyword over the course of days, weeks, or months?

That is just a few of the questions I have about it.  Well see how things work out with my own experiments, but if you have any answers I would love to hear what you have to say.