The Experiment (Part 2): Huzzah! Backinks are Up!
WRITTEN by: Jerrod Swanton |
categories:
SEO
We have exciting news! Our little domain, complete with brand new CMS and updated content, has been cached by Google! The Search Team at Upward Brand Interactions is very excited, but at the same time we feel bad about our little domain: it never did anything to us and now we're gonna destroy it. But boy are we having fun. (Check out Part 1, which details our little spammy SEO experiment: The Experiment (Part 1): Does Spammy SEO Actually Work?) We decided to target four main keywords with our backlink campaign:
- Emergency Plumber
- Emergency Plumbers
- Plumber Services
- Plumbing Services
Currently, our domain does not rank for any of these keywords, which is no surprise because the plumbing industry is extremely competitive: some plumbing-related PPC ads are upwards of $50/click! Over the course of our experiment, we will buy a myriad of spammy backlinks with our keywords as the anchor text and see if we can get our site to rank for these keywords.
And Our Backlinks are Live!
We Googled "Black Hat Link Builder" and purchased our links, which ended up costing about 0.5 cents/link: not a bad deal!! (Of course this is a terrible idea. NEVER DO THIS: you'll kill your site! We're trained professionals, never do this at home.) After a few days of nail-biting uncertainty, in exchange for 1 easy payment of exactly $45, we received 10,013 backlinks! And these links are baad. We're talking Russian directories, completely unrelated content, you get the idea. Our site is cached, and our 10,013 links are live. Now we watch the SERPs to see what happens. Stay tuned! (We can't post the name of our site, because we don't want Google making the connection between our SEO efforts and our domain name. If you want to check out the site, comment below, and we'll message the link to you.)
