Going to do a case study

[davidm19]

Thought people, and Jimbo, would like to see this on here.

I've been extremely interested in no hands seo, and I've decided that I'm gong to put it to the test, I'm a fool for testing and tweaking, I love analyzing results. Probably why I am an econ major!

Anyway, here's my planned case study, I wanted to share it here so that any of you could give me tips or advice for what you wanted to see:

The Plan: Create a blogger blog in a slightly competitive niche. Focus on long-tail keywords, and rank it with nohnads seo.

How : For the first month of my blog I will only create original content, one article a day, based around a different long-tail keyword. I will not monetize the site at all for the first month, I will not build any backlinks.
After 1 month I will power up nohands seo and let it do it's business, I will keep adding 1 article a day while I'm running it, I have a free laptop so it will run 24/7. Every week I will update with results.

Settings: I'm trying to decide what type of setting I should use for no hands. I've though of doing either pr 1 or greater, or just 100 OBL or less. I'm worried about eating through proxies with pr1. What do you guys think? Any other settings you'd like to see me test? Or any advice from Jimbo?

I won't be monetizing the site until it's getting traffic.

Note: I am a little worried that the site could get shut down, I guess it's the problem with going with blogger, it's a risk I'm willing to take.

Let me know what you guys think! I'll be purchasing no hands here as soon as my check comes in (next weekend) and figured I'd post my results.

[jimbobo2779]

I for one would be very grateful of any case study that you could post.

If I could give any advice it would be to use as much variation in your anchor texts as possible, not just 2 or 3 or even 10 variations but as many as you could possibly think of. If you can think of different variations for different sections or pages of your website then even better, the more the merrier.

The same can be said for your comments, the built in comments are very variable for a reason, variation really is the key. Ideally the comments will be custom so they are adding relevancy to your backlinks but just having relevant comments is not enough, they need to be very varied as well. There are lots of tools in NHSEO for creating well written and readable comments that are also very varied so make use of the Text Rewriter/Add Profile Wizard for making these variations easily.

I'm sure there are more things for getting good gains but that has always been the key for me. I hope others feel free to post their advice as well as this could be a really helpful thread for many.

[jimbobo2779]

I forgot to mention that you shouldn't have to worry about any sort of backlash from making backlinks to your blogger blog. Big domains such as blogger, youtube etc are relatively robust as far as backlinks go and you are unlikely to ever see any negative affect from any amount of backlinks of any quality to these domains. You should also never get a blogger blog banned for generating backlinks.

People are very weary of backlinking these days because of all of the crazy ignorant stuff that is posted by a lot of people when there is very little to be worried about in the huge majority of cases.

[davidm19]

While I would love to do a case study I MAY hold off

I just quit my day job and my full income is from fiverr, which is great and all, but I'm trying to decide between paying for this software, or paying for some high pr blog posts on a private network.

Jimbo, I know you don't have skype but do you have an email that I could contact you at? I have a few questions to ask you if i'm going to do this case study but I don't want to make some of them too public

[jimbobo2779]

You can email the support email address which is just support AT nohandsseo.com or you could PM me here

[davidm19]

No problem, sent you a pm, we'll get things rolling

[davidm19]

Just wanted to say that I've started messing around with this software today, I'll post a case study when I get the hang of how to run everything.

[aqt1seo]

Did you ever get around to doing it?

[davidm19]

I'm still testing around with it.

The first website I tested it on was basically an autoblog, not much original content, no social signals.

It actually started to rank up pretty high for the long tail keywords it was based around. It was up around the 30's then it started dropping down. I think this is because over time Nohands stopped creating as many links as before, I think this was due to my internet having a few issues for a few weeks.

Now I'm doing it the right way, once again it's going to be a blogspot blog, I've been running it for about 2 months now, and it gets around 20 to 150 visitors a day from social media traffic. I'm going to try pointing Nohands at it just to see what happens. It's taken me a little while to see how to best use this software. I think that I want to grow this blog a little bit more before I try any SEO.

I am also going to try using a low OBL this time. No more than 50 or so I think should work, or maybe no more than 20. Any advice or opinions on what you guys want to see?

I'd really like to get a VPS to put this on, but right now I want to keep the budget low.

Interesting note: It seems that sites with affiliate links don't rank very highly in Google. I'm going to try changing my link away from an affiliate link and use a redirect, see if that doesn't work.