Profile Settings Explanations and Examples

[jimbobo2779]

Since v2.0.16.0 of No Hands SEO there has been a new tab in the Settings section for Profile Settings. These settings are designed to allow you to easily add some variation to your link submissions to help improve variety in your link profile.

Recently Google has rolled out some updates that seem to punish sites that are highly targeted on one or just a few keywords (anchor text), ideally you should have lots of variations to your anchor texts so you can rank for more than just a couple of keywords. In reality the Google updates do not so much punish websites with a low level of anchor text variation as they reward websites with a varied natural looking link profile.

These new settings allow you to easily add a bit of extra randomisation to your link profile by using giving you the option to add in certain generics a certain %age of the time. These settings are shown below:


I will go into each setting individually to explain what it does and how it works but each has a value that can be assigned so that the option is only used for a certain percentage of the submissions. The "Vary Posting URL with Capitalisation" option is independent of the other options whereas only 1 of the other options could ever be applied at any one time.

Vary Posting URL with Capitalisation
This option will add some randomised capitalisation to the domain of the posting URL, this is your page that is being promoted. Using this option will not change any case settings of inner page structure, it will just affect the domain, so it will not break any of your page addresses.

If you enable this option and set it to 10% of the time for every 1 in 10 (on average) posts will use some random casing on your domain:
If you are promoting http://domain.com/pages/content.html
The output could be something like http://dOMaiN.cOm/pages/content.html or some other random capitalisation.

This option is completely independent from the other options so if you set it to 100% then the posting URL will always have some random capitalisation added to it.

I have to admit I am not totally sold on how effective adding random capitalisation to the posting URL and wouldn't use it on my own profiles but it was requested via email so I have included it along with the others, which have a much stronger case for being useful promotion tools.

Vary Anchor Texts with X
These options are cumulative and only one of them can ever be applied at one time as the anchor text is determined by these settings. If you have one or more of these options checked then the anchor text that is posted will be replaced with a generic type, generic anchor text such as "Website" or "Click Here", random name, domain of URL being promoted or a random capitalisation of your chosen anchor texts.

If all 4 of these options are checked and have a percentage of 25% then that means that every time a post is made a generic type anchor text will be used (25% x 4 = 100%). Also if you have all selected and choose 10% that means that 40% of the time your links will have a generic type of anchor text.

Vary Anchor Texts with Generics
A generic is a link with an anchor text such as "Click here", "Website", "more", "read more" etc. Most websites will have some of these links so you can choose to set a percentage of the time that you wish to replace your input anchor text for one of these generics. There are over 200 of these generic anchor texts in NHSEO so it is a good way to get some variation to your anchor text profile.

Vary Anchor Texts with Domain
This will replace your input anchor texts by the domain of the page being promoted.

Vary Anchor Texts with Capitalisation
This will change the capitalisation aspects of your anchor text randomly. It will output a random anchor text that you have input with random capitalisation; all lower case (45%), titled (first letter of every word upper case)(45%) and all upper case (10%)

Vary Anchor Texts with Name
This will replace the anchor text with a random name. No Hands SEO comes built in with XXXXX names from all different countries and backgrounds.

I hope this helps to clear up a few questions that some users may have about these new settings. If anything is confusing or you need more clarification on any of this I would be happy to answer any questions below or via email.

[hackersmovie]

Thanks for the clarification!

Is there anyway to set NHSEO so that it will only post names in the 'namefield' for blog comments? I'm still getting a lot of complaints about spam comments because the namefield is being filled in with anchor text instead of a name.

[jimbobo2779]

Usually the name field is what the anchor text will be so doing this would essentially be the same as setting the "Vary Anchor Texts By Name" option to 100%.

When the platform has a name input separate from the one that results in anchor text a random name is already added by default which is what I think you are suggesting.

To be honest if you are getting more than the very occasional complaint you probably have something setup incorrectly, you could enable the "Post once per domain" option in the Platform tab so that each profile will only ever be submitted to any domain once. I have been running NHSEO almost constantly since its release (coming up to 2 years now) and have only ever had 2 complaints and I wouldn't expect much more when using this option.

[hackersmovie]

Thanks Jimbobo, I do have the "Post once per domain" box checked (always have) and I just increased the "Vary Anchor Texts By Name" from 10% to 30%. I probably average about a half dozen complaints a month (couple a week) and the biggest problem is when the complaints come from my clients. I could care less if people complain when it's my own money site but, I can't risk losing a customer. I may just increase the "Vary Anchor Text By Name" to 100% for my clients websites. As blog comments aren't weighted heavily anymore the anchor text is nearly irrelevant nowadays plus, I'm using NHSEO for 2 major reasons:

1. The link building never stops so if my other software is down, I still have links being built
2. Reduce/Remove my link building foot print

I really do like NHSEO and it is a great piece of software. (especially with all the recent updates!)

BTW, NHSEO seems to be working better with Captcha Breaker than it ever did with Captcha Sniper....

[Shenpen]

If "Insert random links into article" is checked, will those links then show up under "Posted Url" when doing a "link check"?

I have had a few strange looking urls showing up where I would expect to se the urls of my promoted site.

[jimbobo2779]

No the random links are not tracked, just the profile specific links.

There was a bug in an updated a couple of weeks ago that would track an incorrect link but the effects of this should be limited and shouldn't have affected the correct link being affected. It has since been fixed.