[ChrisPic]

About 3.5 weeks ago I created a batch 10 niche sites. All followed the same template: wordpress site, optimized on-page SEO, 5 500+ word articles.

Here's the interesting thing:

After creation, I worked on backlinking 7 of the sites. My backlinking method was spin an article and create 10 web 2.0 (e.g. tumblr) and/or high quality article dir (e.g. ezine, squidoo) sites with 1 page of spun content. I then used UAW wizard to blast the 10 sites with links. This was all done within 1-2 days of putting up the site.

Now, a few weeks later, the sites with a backlinking campaign are performing much worse than those without any backlinking. Of the 7/10 backlinked sites, most started on page 3-5 and have slowly dropped, most landing on page 20+ as of today. Of the 3/10 non-backlinked sites, all are now on page 2 or 3.

What do you think? Link velocity issue? Should I keep backlinking? Add backlink diversity? More content?

[travman]

To me it sounds way too soon to blast with backlinks
i dont even start backlinking for about 2-3 weeks, very slowly, I know thats overkill but yours sounds a bit too eager to backlink

[ChrisPic]

You think? Based on a previous post I made here most people said go ahead and blast - it won't make a difference since big G will index the backlinks slowly.

[seodisaster]

Could be a dance. Are you backlinking the homepage as well?

[ChrisPic]

Do you mean creating backlinks that go to the home page of my niche site? If so, that's pretty much all I've been doing. Should I add variety and link to individual pages within the niche site?

[Mat51]

I am a MNS creator, I do this for a time, and I strong recommend buying a subscription to 20-30 High pr sites . That helped me in almost all of my micro niche sites .

[TerryKyle]

Brand new domains are touchy - that's why I prefer to work with aged domains with PR, they are much more robust.

Without aged domains or 301s, work on a timeline of 2-3 months to gain traction with a brand new site (depending on the competition of course).

[marti]

How many keywords are you targeting to each site?

[ChrisPic]

One main keyword per site, half are exact match .com.

[JSP]

Could just be dancing.  I know that I usually take a drop before coming back a little stronger.  Though I would prefer to create a smaller number of higher quality links instead of a higher number of lower quality links.  (And use the lower quality / automated links on the higher quality links.)  

  <--- That's my brain after typing that.

If you want to shorten the process then 301 an aged domain.

Edited by JSP, 18 February 2012 - 10:58.

[marti]

Your anchors need to be distributed better. Your inital links need to be diverse.

main page keywords
some inner page keywords or category
url
some phrases
stop words