Ok with my foray into massive crappy reciprocal linking out of the way lets see what I did wrong next.

Next up I signed up with digitalpoint.com’s link sharing network. Essentially you place code in your page that displays 5 random links every time the page loads. This was fine back in 2005 when I was using it and this was before the big Google update which essentially killed this network.

So I put these links at the bottom of GameBrink, built up a bunch of weight (measured by how many pages were non-supplemental in Google) and pointed all that weight at another site. This other
site was for “video codes” which was a way of embedding videos from say yahoo and having them link back to your site. AKA before Youtube. So within 5 days I was ranking extremely high for the term “html video codes” which netted me around 30k hits a day just from Google.

Then came the Google update that checked for link relevancy and random links. Bleh. Not only did GameBrink go almost entirely supplemental but I lost the video code ranking. Boom. So as if GameBrink was enough in the shitter with Google, it was now piled higher and deeper probably still flagged as a SEO offender.

So at this time I gave up on GameBrink and decided to just use the digitalpoint weight to spam MSN/Yahoo for some quick rankings for what I like to call a one page wonder.

A one-page-wonder is a page with very few real links, some text content, and tons of adsense that looks like content.

The lucky domain I used was ffxi-gil.com which is a decent keyword phrase as ffxi = final fantasy xi and gil is the currency in the game that people buy for real money.

Next up I’ll talk about how ffxi-gil.com made me an insane amount of $ (most I’ve ever made online from a single source) with practically no effort. It’s a sick thing that to this day makes me angry as I and many others work their asses off while these little effortless things can make you rich.

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