Comments on: Follow Up Q&A on Link Pyramids

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:37:37 +0000

Quads;

Thanks for the follow up. I think I’m starting to get a feel for the sort of scale you’re talking about.

This is probably a whole other post topic, but can you explain how you create those bottom three layers of sites? What automated tools do you use for 300K bottom layer sites? Certainly it must be hard to create that many Squidoo lenses without some good automated tools.

So how do you create the 300K, 20K, and 800 sites? What automated tools do you use? And what sort of content do you fill them with? Does it ever get updated? Even managing 800 sites seems like a difficult thing.

And like a comment described above, you’re saying that you have 20K domain names, right, for the second tier? That’s $160K / year (20K x $8 / domain). That’s got to be a pretty lucrative niche to make that pay.

I know you’d never want to describe your own sites but can you name some keywords that are dominated by this sort of strategy in the SERPs?

By: reteep

reteep — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:55:30 +0000

How much of a problem is the duplicate content stuff for the bottom layer autogenerated sites? Does it matter?

By: karoshi

karoshi — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:06:07 +0000

Hi Quads, awesome series of posts! One question though: For each level, what is the average time a site stays indexed (if done intelligently)?

By: groneg

groneg — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:54:25 +0000

sorry — “i CAN’t envision the scale”…

By: groneg

groneg — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:42:47 +0000

I’ve got the same ques as stewart. I can envision the scale in my head. How do you find time for the top layer (whitehat) & the second layer. I assume the bottom 2 layers are autogeneratecd over time — does the same go for the authority/niche sites?

Also, you’re talking > $200K in just yearly registrar renewals? oomph.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:47:16 +0000

Good answers

Are .infos/other cheap TLDs off limits for the bottom feeder type sites? How about subdomains off existing sites like wordpress.com?

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:14:04 +0000

A registrar can’t access private customer information of another registrar, when you use private registration your personal info only resides in your registrars customer database…which again is only accessible by your registrar.

It’s impossible for Google to have access to your personal information when you use a private registration service.

By: Steward

Steward — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 19:51:30 +0000

I wonder how you find time for the No. 1 Site of the pyramid. How do you manage your working time, can you give numbers for the different levels? And how many people work on the pyramid you described above?

Thanks for sharing these ideas!