My initial impressions of jetsubmitter2 were very positive, and I didn’t write about them here.  I decided to give it a little time, but I’m just going to dive right in to my impressions thus far. 

Jetsubmitter2 is VERY beta.  There’s a lot of features from the first version this one leaves out.  There’s been several bugs, and the site itself is DOG slow to use.  I can go get a cup of water in the time it takes to load a page.

I set up some promotion on several of my sites, and was unpleasantly surprised to find that even though I set a rate of one post per day, Jetsubmitter2 decided to post over a hundred with a few of them.  What’s worse is that there was weeks in between the last post and the sudden explosion of posts.  It was highly frustrating.  Then again it IS beta.

 Getting support is very difficult.  By the time someone finally gets back in touch with me, I’ve already worked on a contingency.  They’ve assured me that the above bugs are fixed, but I haven’t seen that.

The interface is beautiful.  It’s much more organized than the interface it replaces, and a lot simpler.  Also the posting to article sites is much more reliably accurate.  I get so few errors in the posting process now whereas with the old version it was like there was more errors than successes.  Out of a possible several hundred article dirs with the old version, maybe a bit over a hundred were actually successful.  With this version, I don’t remember seeing any failures at all.

Some things I’d like to see: Some kind of follow up on the site as to whether the post is actually live, if it is still live, and the link to it.  Speed.  They need to improve the speed of the site.  Right now my wife could probably bring a child to term before one of their pages load.  It’s pretty bad.  Their support needs to get a bit more responsive, and they need to iron out the bugs.  Now I will say that any time I DO talk to support they’re always courteous and friendly.  So there is that.  I’ve also been able to get in touch with the owner on a few occasions directly about some of this stuff.  Having said all of that this IS BETA, so I’m sure they’ll have all of this ironed out in the final release.

I haven’t noticed anyone else noticing this before, but one of my more successful sites is being promoted PURELY through article spinning.  Now I’ve observed before how the high keyword for that site in G has changed over time as my method of promotion changes . . . One other observation I pulled from that experience was that most of those links don’t show up in the search engines, but yet it’s obvious that they’re positively affecting how my site is showing in people’s searches.  I’m on the first page for a two-word search term, but here’s the kicker.  Only one of the articles I’ve tossed out there show up as links to my site in both webmasters tools, and in all of the SE results.  BUT it still counts.  I’m promoting the site in a completely different way than it was being promoted before I acquired it, and it shows up pretty dramatically in webmasters tools.

The next thing I’m curious about is what it is about the marketing I’m doing now that makes it so “stealth” and how I can achieve that effect any time I want?

Hi everyone — I have a bit more to mention about spinning and article marketing.  I can tell you now that for certain article marketing works.  I have a SERP of #3 for a 2 word search term as of now, which is a spectacular thing.  I get plenty of trafic from the SEs from this term, and it’s because of article marketing/spinning.  How do I know this?  Simple.

In Google’s webmasters tools, under statistics, you can view historically which keywords have helped out your site.  So I can go back up to six months, and tell what the keyword for my site was, then compare to what it is now.  Well my test site was actually purchased from another individual who had promoted the site in his own way.  When I acquired the site, I decided to have an article written, and I created a “seed article” out of it from which I spun hundreds of unique versions of the same article.  I then posted (automatically) these articles out to various article directories.

Now in the anchor text in many of those articles, I had the very same keyword that my site ranks highest in.  So the promotion I’d been doing in the past six plus months has paid dividends.  Also funny thing about that . . . Webmaster tools only shows a small fraction of the number of links that are out there for that term.  I don’t understand why, but clearly their systems have counted those links anyway whether the show up in webmaster tools or not.

Hi there everyone.  I wanted to write about something that I decided to try out today.  Now I have a few delisted sites, so I know for a fact that those sites do not appear in searches of Google’s index.  So if I were to search for any keywords associated with that site, or even use the search term “site:www.mysitename.com” it would return no documents.

I’m delisted.  It’s the end of the world, but what if I continued to promote that site.  Would Google notice or care?  Well I decided to find out.  Now I’ve continued to post spun articles to the internet even after the site was delisted.  Now I can’t see backlinks for my site in G because it’s delisted, but I can get around that problem.  I simply find an article that I know I posted out there sometime after the delisting, and I search for it.

All I do, is I select a phrase (it’s best to select an incomplete phrase, like part of a sentence, and part of another as well) then I copy and paste that selection into Google as a search term.  Now I surround that with quotes, so it searches that EXACT phrase, and I run the search.  Lo and behold my articles still show up!  So it’s still likely that the searcher could search for my keyword, find my article, and click the link at the end of the article, even when searching Google, and even AFTER Google has delisted me.  BANG!

Okay I have to confess, I have completely let this experiment go.  I’m going to have to start over on a new site but the good news is that what little promotional work I have put into this site has paid off to a degree.  I am now starting to see more steady traffic to the test site, and yes **gasp** minor amounts of revenue!  Although I can’t tell you for 100% certainty, I personally believe that more effort put into it would have paid off.

 Here’s my thing though . . . While I believe it’s a fine service, I still can’t ignore the simplicity of the TAM.  It’s been successfull enough for me to work it as a promotional technique regularly, and as a result I have been neglecting the other techniques.

 Additionally, I’ve gotten positive results from article spinning.  Actually it has worked out REALLY well as a way to maintain traffic (at a minimum).  The best part is that once finished it’s set and forget.  The site you’re promoting continues to receive steady traffic and revenue.

I’m still running this promotional technique, and have been pretty happy with it thus far.  I’m getting close to the three-month point and I’m starting to see more stability in the earnings.  I have more days per week with income from my first test site than not, at least as of now.

 Additionally my revenue for last month was tripple what it was for the month before that . . . A very positive sign indeed.  I’m a little annoyed though since my second test site didn’t perform nearly as well as I had hoped.  It could be a seasonal thing, who knows, I’ll have to give it a little time and see.  It’s barely working on it’s second month now, so it has a ways to go before it starts to mature.

 In short I’m seeing defintite maturation taking place with this method.  I am a bit disappointed thus far that there seems to be a burst of income in the beginning, but it tapers off quite a bit after that only to come back up again quite a bit later.  I wish it was a little more evened out.

I’ll be putting together three sites to promote in this manner with this month.  The following month I may do more, who knows, but we’ll see how it goes.  That’s it for now though.

One thing you hear a lot is that you always need to be creating content on your sites or you’ll loose adsense revenue.  First I have to say I am sure that this technique is successful somehow.  In fact, I sorta proved it here: http://www.backlinklabs.com/?p=61 but that doesn’t mean that it’s the ONLY way.  Don’t be fooled into thinking that you have to be constantly adding content on your site to get traffic from search engines, and income from Google.  Here’s why: I can tell you that I know for a fact that I have a site that is well over 3 years old that hasn’t had content added to it in well over a year now, and it STILL produces income.  I have another site that has been online for nearly half a year now, and hasn’t had content added to it since then.  Yet it still gets traffic, and income.

Does that mean I’m doing absolutely nothing with them?  Well actually yes with one of them, I’m not doing anything with it.  No promotions, no new content nothing.  The other site however is constantly getting new content every day, but in the form of slow spread article promotion.

Well as you know one of the tests I’ve been running has to do with posting stuff every day for two months solid.  Well I actually missed a day or two (at most) but I have some results to post anyway.  I stopped promoting about this time last week (12th).  Below is the graph for the traffic since then

You’ll notice that traffic indeed DOES continue!  There are a few down days, but it does continue to get traffic much to my surprise.  I was sure that it would just stop getting traffic but it does seem to work.  Now this is a week after I stopped, so who knows what will happen next week and the week after.  I’ll keep tabs on it though, and we’ll go from there.

I finished promoting my second site.  I had a pretty nice burst of clicks and income for a couple of days, just like with the other site, and also just like the first site, it trailed off pretty quickly and not much is happening right now.  I expect to see more action in the coming weeks.

 With the first site, I can see my projected income for this month (based on my income thus far) will more than double last month’s income.  This is a good sign.  It indicates the site is still growing.  That’s all for now.

To test out the theory, I ran a search for whypark sites with some popular keywords.  Here’s how the test went:

1. Find something that shows up commonly on whypark pages: Found the phrase, ”Powered by WhyPark.com”
2. Google for “Powered by WhyPark.com” to see what comes up.
3. Tons of stuff comes up, so I decided to pare it down by keyword and add “credit repair” to the search.
4. Now I checked the third site on the list, and I ran the following checks: Does the domain rank at all for the term “credit repair”?  What are the top keywords on the site? Does it rank for any of the main keywords on the site?

To check the keyword density, I used the following tool: http://www.blackhatworld.com/tools/.  It showed me what keywords appeared most at the site.  I checked most of the top keywords listed there, and the site didn’t rank for a single one of the ones I checked.  Here’s the tool I used to check the SERPs: http://www.iwebtool.com/search_engine_position

Now I repeated this for one other keyword in a similarly popular niche with two other sites.  Not a single one ranked in the SERPs.  More than likely they won’t be terribly profitable.

Now the REAL test would be to actually create a few whypark sites, and utilize proven promotional techniques to see if I can get one to be profitable.  More info on that to come but for now I will say that I have created a few whypark sites before, and yet they can produce income.  I have personally only made trace amounts, but I’ve never launched into a serious promotional campaign for one either.