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  1. pitin

    I’m glad I didn’t see automated social media sharing on the list. I have been scheduling posts to be shared on my social media sites (except Google plus, I do it manually) for 2 months now.

    • Kyle

      Automated social sharing can be a decent thing, but not in the sense if you are not contributing any value on top of simply sharing the post.

      When you share anything to social media, you ideally want to consider your audience and get them engage in your content. To accomplish this you need to share your opinion along side the content you are sharing, or it will seem robotic and lead to far less trust within your social accounts moving forward. If you don’t seem real when you are posting, people are going to interact with you in a limited way.

  2. DrBernadette

    I can not tell you how much I am appreciating the things I am reading. Just beginning to blog I sure do not want to make these mistakes and waste my time. I call it caring when someone tells me there is danger up ahead. The desire to get all these fast and quick 1000 traffic and backlink packages was exactly what I had planned to do.

    Earlier said someone was banned from Adsense, can they ever return when that happens?

    Gratefully,
    DrBernadette

    • Kyle

      Yeah, there is a lot of “bad” ideas that people are still trying to sell you on. The reasons are very selfish, because they make money doing so knowing full well (in most cases) that things like automated content, backlinking, clicking, and the likes can adversely impact your business. Most of the time the best and most powerful way to accomplish success with your website will be through hard work. Most are unwilling to do it, so if you do, you are going to have a competitive advantage.

  3. Kyle I really appreciate your insight into the backlink topic. Frankly speaking I have been thinking about this also. If everyone is doing it clearly it is going to soon burnout that is for sure. Therefore, I agree with you I doubt if backlinks would be part of google future algorithms

    • Kyle

      Exactly the case. Anything that can be gamed within the SEO world, will be gamed. Google will eventually patch up those holes in their algorithm and that is what they have done with in respect to people gaming backlinks. Lots of folks have lost their businesses (and rankings) as a result of trying to game Google search through backlinks.

  4. andy

    Well said Kyle! It’s sad that there are many people who seem to buy into the seemingly ‘automated’ ways to make a gazillion dollars while they sleep… Let’s face it… If you had the ‘secret’ method to increasing your traffic to your site, you’d be better off keeping it that way rather than sharing it with world + dog. I don’t see KFC selling their secret blend for $199 (30 day money back guarantee).

    • Kyle

      So many people are looking for this simply because there are so many high profile scams out there (even by the so called “reputable” gurus) that claim that instant success is viable. It isn’t. There are proven ways to build a business online and there are no secrets about that. That is what we have been teaching at Wealthy Affiliate for the last 8.5 years with a very high success rate because we get folks to step into the reality of what it will take. Hard work, education, time and a bit of persistence.

      Anyone can do this, but the minute they try to find instant success, is the minute they are going to suffer a huge set back in their progress.

  5. dwayne

    Hey there kyle, while on the subjectof backlinking and indexing; do you do alotof social bookmarking such as reddit etc?

    • Kyle

      It will serve little benefit, you can get a decent amount of traffic flow from some of the more popular social “bookmarking” sites like Reddit, but it should not longer be part of your SEO strategy. Also, do note that the traffic you receive from networks like this is FREE so it can and should be another angle if you want to immerse yourself in the community (like Reddit) and generate traffic from it.

  6. Charles

    Well, I beg to disagree. You can’t get ranked in Google without backlinks unless you are publishing your content on a website that already has backlinks to it’s root domain, such as streetarticles.com or submitting guest posts to established blogs in your niche. But if you have a new website, trying to rank in Google without backlinks will definitely be a fruitless attempt, unless you are targeting the most obscure keywords, such as keywords that receive no searches at all.

    I would like to see you prove that you can rank for a decent keyword that gets at least 1,000 exact searches per month on a new domain without any backlink. In fact, I’d like to see a case study on this. Meanwhile, I’ll continue building backlinks because if it wasn’t for the backlinks I am building, I wouldn’t be getting anywhere near the 100+ visits I’m getting per day from Google – and this is to just one of my websites.

    • Kyle

      Actually, you would probably be getting more than 100+ visits per day if you didn’t spend so much time on backlinks. Unfortunately Charles what is going to happen is that with every update, you are going to see a “hit” every time Google makes an update going forward as I do believe at some point they are going to completely phase backlinks out of their algorithm.

      Why? Because they are highly gamed and the fact that you can go out and just get “more” backlinks tells me right away something is wrong with that. Backlinks are continuing to get devalued and if you don’t have to be a genius to realize that everything that Matt Cutts talks about in his latest video leans more and more towards punishing sites that work to get back-links as it is the one component that people who don’t know what they are doing spend too much time with.

      I never work to get backlinks. The very site you are only gets 1,000’s of unique visitors per day, WITHOUT A SINGLE BACKLINK. I have many sites like this and I work with 1,000’s of folks that are doing the same thing. You can keep doing what you are doing, but I can tell you that it is not the way of the future. You are going to eventually get burned by “over seo’ing” your website and not focusing enough on the user experience, which Google is after.

      Hope this adds some clarity to the idea of backlinking for you Charles.

      • Charles

        I think the reason why you are getting thousands of visitors is because you have an outstanding online internet marketing community (I have to give you credit for that) and you are using the same name you are known by within the same community. Also, this site is within the internet marketing niche. Can you build a site like this in a different niche and start gaining 1000+ visitors per day without any backlinking? I very much doubt it.

        By the way, I’m a former paying Wealthy Affiliate member, so I’m not some newbie that just appeared from nowhere. I think I’m gonna implement your advice, but I doubt it will work.

        • Kyle

          If you are automating back-links or making them a major focus in your SEO activities, then you are taking advice from someone with newbie knowledge or that are very outdated. I am by no means calling you a newbie, you are however doing things that will adversely impact your business.

          And yes, I can build a website in different niches and get lots of traffic without any backlinks. That is the point I am trying to get across here. Google does not give a rats about backlinks, they care about your content and your user experience. A backlink may help you get indexed quicker, but too many of them are going to look out of place to Google and you are going to end up in their “not so friendly” sandbox.

          BTW, the traffic from this site is 95% search traffic and the same goes for any site that I own (outside of WA) 🙂

  7. Johnney

    Very well said Kyle. I tried an auto backlinking service a couple of years ago, and yes they delivered mega backlinks, none of which made any sense to me let alone google, result… I got banned from adsense. Thanks for getting the truth out about the right and wrong types of automation.

    • Kyle

      Yeah, people are still doing this, but now they are calling it ethical backlinking. You don’t need to do any backlinking to obtain high rankings in search engines and I have proven this over and over again. Also, any program, SEO package, or automated script that will get you backlinks will kill any rankings that you have and red flag you for any future success that you may have had within search engines.

      Hopefully this thread will prevent others from getting sucked into the idea of automation schemes going forward and spending their hard earned money, but worse yet, killing their businesses potential because of one wrong move.

  8. Hello Kyle,

    About automation, propio yesterday I received an email from a certain Peter Garety ..

    in his sales page offers a plugin “WP RSS Magnet” in which he says to bring traffic to your website automatically, from 3000 – 5000 visitors per week. What do you think about it?

    See you soon.

    • Kyle

      An absolute hoax…stay away from it Anthony. If you ever used this on your website, you would likely be looking at some really poor rankings and Google would be all over you for link spamming. Avoid at all measures!

  9. Ivan

    Great article Kyle. I was reading in the forums a while back on how people loved the auto backlink tools and the success they got. Then a couple months later they were on the same board saying they got flagged by Google. Bottom line, high quality content will win in the end. Thanks again.

    • Kyle

      This happens all the time. The people that are touting the success of any tool of this nature is always short-lived. They find a little hole in Google’s algorithm, they expose it, Google patches it, they are out of business. The unfortunate part is that they end up creating a tool and selling it to 100’s of people (or more) and then all of these people go down in flames when Google swings their might fist with a Google Panda or Penguin update.

      I couldn’t agree with you more, quality content will always prevail and focusing on the visitor, not the process.

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