Simple SEO Experiment

[silveraden]

Got a simple experiment and here's the result.

I created 2 websites with the same content

1. mydomain.com
2. mydomain.net

1. Mydomain.com was posted to more than 300 article directories, 100 forums, 100 social bookmarks, and 100 blogs in just 1 months - got more than 4000 backlinks.

2. Mydomain.net was submitted to top 5 article directories, do a little than 20 forum signatures, less than 20 blogs, and less than 20 social bookmarks in 1 month.

After 2 months
1. Mydomain.com - 5000+ backlinks
2. Mydomain.net - around 600 backlinks

After 4 months that I stopped promoting both websites (both are earning in CPA with the latter having a little more earnings)

1. Mydomain.com 0 PR
2. Mydomain.net PR 4

I am not an expert on SEO but my knowledge is and experience is enough to deal with competition, and based on the above experiment, I think its better to focus on gradual promotion, not like by flooding of backlinks..... Although both sites are on first page of Google, I still prefer the one that has PR....

 

[soggyindo]

Thanks for posting! I have never liked shortcuts - even if they work now, you never know if they will in the future...

 

[mntor]

Thanks for sharing your results.

What about the other factors such as

1. Domain Age
2. Domain Development History
3. Did you use the same on page SEO etc

 

[ursimrankhanna]

Hi,

yeah new and unique experiment in seo field.

 

[elias75]

for mydomain.com did you use any of those spammy SEO softwares that submit your site to 1000's of places with one click? If you did, maybe Google penalised your site....

 

[enlytend]

I created 2 websites with the same content

One of them would be considered a duplicate and deprecated accordingly.