Comments on: SEO Testing Results: CTR & Social Shares in 2015

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 23:27:48 +0000

In reply to Joseph Cartwright. Pogo-sticking works, but its hard to pull off. Remember, Google makes PPC money off clicks so they're pretty darn good at not being fooled.

By: Joseph Cartwright

Joseph Cartwright — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:49:05 +0000

Let’s say you are doing reputation management, could you use that service to have people click all the good websites except the negative one, would the negative one eventually fall from the first page?

Also what is the company called that outsources people to click websites.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Sat, 17 Dec 2016 17:06:01 +0000

In reply to Matt Diggity. Great to hear. Thanks for answering!

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Fri, 16 Dec 2016 03:41:51 +0000

In reply to Alvaro. I think tiered link building definitely has its place, but PBNs are working so well right now there really isn't any need to deviate.

By: Alvaro

Alvaro — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 18:19:50 +0000

In reply to Matt Diggity. Hi Matt! Could you elaborate on why you stopped tiered link building? Is it just not worth the effort having the PBN you have and you would still do it if you were starting all over again or... You think it isn't valuable anymore at any stage? Thanks for the great work on your blog and sharing. I discovered it recently and I just can't stop reading it! Cheers!

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 05:36:18 +0000

In reply to Joe. I used to use them for trust tiering. These days I don't bother with tiered link building anymore.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 04:41:27 +0000

Hey Matt,

Awesome post like always. Question: Do you use FCS Networker solely for Social Signals? I’m going through their tutorial videos and it looks like you can do a lot more than just send social signals. Just wondering if things like link wheels & pyramids are necessary. It would be awesome if you could go into more detail of the features you use in FCS… Thanks in advance!

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:52:24 +0000

In reply to Tom. 3rd party social signals that appear to be coming from 3rd parties.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 08:12:17 +0000

Having 3/4 company social accounts and linking back to my company website is the social linking I am currently doing. Is this what you mean in the article? or are you talking about creating multiple user accounts on social and linking back to money (company) site?

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 08:29:17 +0000

In reply to Michal. I don't pick up domains that have a drop history.

By: Michal

Michal — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 13:02:20 +0000

In reply to Matt Diggity. Hey Matt, Very appreciate for your blog and case studies, they helped me a lot. I have one question: When you mean not expired, you talk about those you catch that are still indexed, but not necessarily hosted for a while (like year or so)? That will mean they still have age factor, am I right? Thanks Michal

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:20:31 +0000

In reply to Matija. Pretty much all my PBNs show a result in a maximum of 10 days. But then again, I'm not using expired domains.

By: Matija

Matija — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:54:31 +0000

So Matt, looking at your tests, you are actually saying you see benefist of pbn almost imeddiatelly. So you don’t believe in 3 weeks or a month google dance, sandbox, etc…
Question from this: if I put a pbn link on my let’s assume solid site, I should see results within a week?
Matija, Slovenia

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:24:43 +0000

In reply to Craig. That's correct, Craig. However I haven't quantified the benefit of doing so. That's for the next case study coming next month or so. :)

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 17:26:27 +0000

Nice case study.

As well as the money site do you also send social signals to the PBN links?

By: Andrew Crain

Andrew Crain — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 07:05:01 +0000

In reply to Matt Diggity. I have the same opinion as you Matt. Maybe in some years Google develops an algorithm that detects and understands the interests of each profile but that is not the case right now.

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:28:34 +0000

In reply to George. Well the theory makes sense. Google should want to rank sites higher that people are clicking on. However, I don't think CTR should be getting all the hype that its getting lately. CTR boils down to who has the best TITLE and DESCRIPTION metas... hardly an indication of site quality.

By: Matt Diggity

Matt Diggity — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 06:26:50 +0000

In reply to Marko. Hi Marko, I doubt it because social profiles are usually tied to people personal accounts. Twitter, Facebook etc... these are all real people and not niche-specific entities. Sure, a Facebook profile might have "interests" in specific niche related categories, but I highly doubt Google has access to this. At least right now they don't. Best, Matt

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 05:18:35 +0000

Been looking all over the place to find out if Social Signals do actual help or not. Do you think that if the social signals where more niche specific they would help ?

By: George

George — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:45:39 +0000

Nice case study! It would have never crossed my mind that ctr signals could be a ranking factor. Although you prove that they don’t really do anything at least i know now i don’t have to have to include it in my ranking strategy.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 03:39:43 +0000

In reply to Mike. No problem.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 02:37:32 +0000

I would like to say thank you for taking the time and doing this case study. It saves me many hours of testing and trying to figure this out. I had always wondered if CTR had any affect on rankings.