A customer came in to the takeaway we run and mentioned that he got to our website (Fired Wok Chinese Takeaway) only after he added the word ‘takeaway’ to his search term.
Confusing because, I was quite pleased with how the SERPS are for Firedwok and ‘chinese takeaway lancaster‘ which results (at time of writing) to this..
Straight on the map and number 1 on results (with added tags)
It turns out that he was searching for ‘oriental food delivery lancaster’ which made the site past page 5 on the results!
Bring on the featured links!
A few days or weeks ago, ComLuv got put up to PR6 on the homepage from Google. How nice! I mentioned this in the email newsletter and within a few hours, two links were sold on the sidebar for 30 days each. One with a subscription! woot!, might this be the first month Comluv pays for itself? lol
I thought I’d take advantage of this PR increase and put a text link for ‘oriental food delivery lancaster’ on with the paid ones and left it a while. In the meantime, I put some more posts on the blog portion of the takeaway website and put in some ‘oriental food’ references on the homepage.
Got me some SERPs
And now, a search for ‘oriental food delivery lancaster’ results in a number 1 position (and number 2)
1 portion of SERPS please
Very happy with my text link purchase, and because I own the site it means it was free! haha 
I guess I can take it down now, it’s done it’s job and it can make some space for another paid ad.
It’s not just me
A paid customer bought a link for UK payday loans back when that search term had them after page 10 (I tested it when they first bought the link) and now that term results in them being on page 1 of google.
They even asked why I had no subscription option for the ads! I switched it on and straight away, I had 50$ per month subscriptions coming in. Very nice!
Get YOU some links
If I can sell a few more links on subscription, I’ll have enough to upgrade the server to more memory and a faster processor. It’s typical that the first time the site has made enough money to pay for it’s own server and bandwidth, it reaches capacity again and needs upgrading! lol. what a fun ride!
You can buy featured homepage links and network wide footer links on the ComLuv page here
January 20th, 2010 on 10:21 pm
Twitter: InteractOne
It’s nice to see someones experiments with links and the results you got. Most of the reading I find these days is just bland suggestions that you’ve heard a million times. Thnx!
January 21st, 2010 on 4:14 pm
Twitter: commentluv
thomas: I’ve been using links on high PR pages to get my other sites noticed for a long time and it’s nice I have some proof that it does actually work
January 22nd, 2010 on 1:50 am
Congrats and thanks for letting us see that your efforts have paid off. Good Luck!
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January 22nd, 2010 on 9:39 pm
It’s always fun to hear success stories (well except of course when it’s the guy showing off that he’s making several million a year making crummy sites) A useful plugin for firefox I just started using called SEO link analysis shows what the pagerank of the incoming links to your site are in Google webmaster tools. Very helpful in conjunction with CommentLuv when you dig through all the links coming to your site from blogs – you can see which posts are most beneficial to leave a comment on.
You deserve some rewards for your hard work Andy – congrats! (and you should charge more than $50
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February 2nd, 2010 on 6:56 pm
Twitter: commentluv
Chris: thanks for your feedback! I think I’ll keep them as 50 for now. That seems to be a fair price.
February 2nd, 2010 on 10:53 pm
Twitter: 1cardude
Its all about page rank. If your PR 3 page only has 3 or so out bound links then all that page rank will be passed to you chinese food takeout place. and since the competition is probably low for its keyword phrase…this is enough to move it up.
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February 12th, 2010 on 1:53 pm
Sorry, a newbie question about the backlinks. Since the purchased link is only temporary, wouldn’t the effect on the SERP be temporary as well?
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February 19th, 2010 on 12:43 am
Twitter: commentluv
frank: in my experience, it hasn’t made any effect. as soon as your site is noticed, as long as you keep getting traffic and adding content to your site. It’ll pretty much stay there. My chosen terms are still having the same results months after the link got taken off the high PR page.
February 19th, 2010 on 4:32 am
Congrats on the success!
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April 2nd, 2010 on 4:01 pm
Twitter: seosheffield
I agree with the other comment about low competition, as long as you do a little work this phrase is not so difficult to succeed for.
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May 14th, 2010 on 2:28 pm
Twitter: commentluv
seo sheffield: yes I agree, it’s finding the low competition words and making them stick that allows you to rank better for the higher competition words. I thought everyone knew that was the way to start getting attention, dominate the low competition and work your way up to the high competition… it’s what I’ve been doing for the past few clients anyway, that and relevant content with inline links
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June 3rd, 2010 on 6:48 am
Twitter: GrowMap
Hi Andy,
I thought you and your readers would be interested to know how valuable all the links on the ComLuv site are. Last week I edited my site name in my profile to the phrase Social Media Marketing Strategist.
My blog has already moved up to the bottom of first page in the Google serps for that phrase in quotes. I have never used that phrase for links anywhere before and that phrase only appears rarely anywhere on my site.
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