I can't find any of hers. Do they all have your name on them?

I see that they are published on many sites. I take it that's because you spread them around? I don't know where you got your girl from, but not even 3rd world countries would write a lengthy article for $4 - maybe not, anyway - and most of them couldn't write English well enough.

Even so, having articles written is costly for most website owners. You've fallen on your feet, but it must be rare. One thing that would bother me about an article writing service is where the writing came from. It can be checked of course, but I wouldn't like to pay up front for an article, only to find that it's been lifted from one or more sites.

No I don't think you class her country as 'third world', but I'm not sure.

This is her's - http://www.richardmackenzie.co.uk/smoking.htm

PM me if you want to be put in contact.

Richard

What country is it?

India

Then I'm very surprised at the quality of the English. Did you make corrections?

No corrections needed - which is great on my part! I did go through loads to find this little gem though. She lives in a very westernised area of India and speaks English daily.

Also my site http://www.feminization-hypnosis.com has now been indexed, but is is at about 170th on google for 'Feminization Hypnosis' - does this mean that it is in the sandbox?

Richard

I wouldn't think so. It'll probably mean it needs more good anchor texts.

How does get the information to write? - researching the Web?

Hi Phil,

I just forward her articles that I have writen so that she can understand my current style of writing and then give here anything that I have writen on the subject and then she finishes by looking on the net and in books.

I am working on the anchor text this morning for http://www.feminization-hypnosis.com.

I am also working on the search term 'Hypnotherapy' for http://www.richardmackenzie.co.uk as I am now eighth, but want to push it home into the top three.

I mentioned the heat map earlier, but is there actual stats to show what percentage of searchers click on what sites?

Richard

If I were to give her a reasonable subject (say, a city), without any information at all, do you think she could write an article for me for $4? If she can do that sort of thing, and write in good English, she should be in our Marketing sub-forum - it would be a good thing for people here.

I think you offered me her email - would you PM it to me please?

PM sent

Richard

Hi All,

I keep working on the IBL for my site but I don't seem to be shifting - could this be that it is a new site?

www.feminization-hypnosis.com

Richard

I have had a heck of a lot of researching and work in building my writing team there Phil, (we have a team of 4 and 2 freelancers). It is not easy. We believe in an article as a marketing tool, not a back link. So quality is everything. They must be educational/entertaining or both. I also am not a fan of 500 word pieces as it is not enough real estate to get anything accomplished.

I pay a premium, but it’s worth it to me. We’re paying around .025/word or $25/1000 article in general. Done right, you can get EXCELLENT distribution, syndication and traffic. Why> Cause there is so much CRAP out there a well done piece gets a ton of mileage…

Just my 2 cents 4 ya….

That's good for articles for distribution, David, but I was thinking more of padding out a site that doesn't naturally need any padding - a niche directory - hence the cities.

I saw her work, and it's good for that kind of thing. But what I don't know is how she did it. I don't know if she got stuff off the Web and reworded it slightly, or if she got stuff off the Web and completely rewrote it, or if she got the stuff from a library and copied it, or what.

Phil,

Why not ask her? I did send her contact details to you.

Richard

Yes you did, and I emailed her, but I didn't receive a reply. At least I didn't notice a reply - I'm back to receiving all my emails in my Inbox and I delete all spam in blocks after a very quick glance at the Froms list. I could have missed a reply, but I suggested she register here and post where Nameeta and Tony post, and she didn't do that.

Ah ok, well her guess I suppose. Anyway getting back to my site and search term

My keyword is 'Feminization Hypnosis', however would it carry more weight is I point it into the page as two separate keywords? Example - 'Feminization' and 'Hypnosis' - so two separate links.

Richard

Together as one page NOT divided over 2. Using a Hyphen of course :0)

Feminization-Hypnosis.tld

Hey David,

I didn't mean the URL. I was meaning, should I get IBL's with the link text 'feminization' and 'hypnosis' or should I just get links with 'feminization hypnosis' in the anchor text?

Richard

Aahhhh

Ok..SURE..... Are you talking text link ads? Article marketing?

Heck I can target 2 sites in an Author Bio for an article;

About This Author
David Harry has been creating custom website designs since 1998. His firm, Verve Developments, currently specializes in OsCommerce and Joomla development services..

As you can see I have targeted 2 terms and 2 pages on the site.

That helping?

Richard

If you are asking whether there is benefit to having some IBLs with only the anchor text hypnosis and others with only the anchor text feminization, in order to target the term feminization hypnosis, my view would be that it isn't particularly helpful.

It is however important that you mix the anchor text up a bit and I would suggest that 20+% of your anchor links to the page should have some additional qualifying terms or reversed word order. Building all the IBLs to a page using the same anchor text can have a detrimental effect.

Gavin

Well it CAN on a large scale and where you are NOT running any other LB activities. I always watch the RATIOs with BLs

If it's one way: recips
or the number of times a Link Text is usd

A usefull discusission on KeyWords is here; http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/vie ... hp?t=13818

Hey...

I merged this in with another post for a Big Picture View

http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/vie ... hp?t=13859

Cool guys, thanks.

So I got tony to do 500 submissions with the term 'Feminization Hypnosis'

Is that not such a good thing then?

Richard

Hmmmm... not really

We want to vary the link text. Go to the post I created (link above) and see what I mean. I put a generalized approach that may shed light.

Whenever possible we want control over the individual link text. Slapping out 500 of the same one can actually lift a red flag or 2 these days...

Oh shoot!

I think that Tony only links in with one anchor text. This must have been what happened when I got him to do 500 for http://www.richardmackenzie.co.uk with the text 'Hypnotherapy' as it dramatically dropped from 8th to over 60th about two weeks after completion

Richard