I have purchased hundreds of courses/systems over the years. Only a handful of them are truly useful. Some systems work for a while, then they fail as the market changes. Well, I have to say that Stupidly Simple SEO trump them all by having the shortest life. I am putting this product on the top of my “Not Recommended” list.
I purchased Stupidly Simple SEO myself on the launch date (3/25/2010). In a nutshell, the system is based on creating mini-sites on a popular high-ranking site that Google loves. By leverage the ranking of this existing site your mini-sites are able to rank high in Google. I have actually used this site myself in the past so I know it works.
However, I thought when people bought the system started to go crazy on it, this method may be viewed as SPAM. Since the content is built on a third party web site, you really have no control over what they would do.
I decided to give it a try the very next day (3/26/2010), reasoning it should at least have a few months to 1 year before the system starts to fail. Well, I was wrong!
I created a few mini-sites and very quickly, within 20 minutes, all of them were deleted by the moderators from this high-ranking site. It didn’t even have a chance to get indexed by Google.
I also watched several mini-sites made by other people with similar tactics (common footprints – another bad thing about using this type of systems) and sure enough they were all deleted in short period of time.
Furthermore, the mini-sites that the vendor created himself and used to demonstrate this system all got deleted! In fact, that particular account he showed in the video was banned on 3/26/2010.
After emailing the vendor, he mentioned he’s got another high-ranking web site you can build your mini-sites on. But he cautioned it’s not as good as the first one. I did try building one mini-site on it and it stands at #19 for a super long tail keyword (very low search volume) with only about 4,000 competing pages.
I am sure if I build more sites some of them will probably rank on the 1st page. However, I am sure it will soon start to fail just be like the first site.
Just think about it. If you were the owner of these high-ranking sites, would you have risked your ranking and your visitors by allowing people spamming your site with low quality, cut-and-paste, duplicate content?
I don’t know about you but I am not going to spend my time and effort on something only works for a few days.
As a result, I do not recommend this system as the way it is taught by the vendor. You can still leverage these high-ranking sites as I have done in the past. But you have to use unique, quality content that actually provide useful information to the visitors.
Since your mini-sites will rank high in Google, you can then funnel the traffic to your own sites for long term profits, or monetize it using the monetization techniques described in Stupidly Simply SEO course.
Of course I can’t tell you what these two high-ranking sites are in this post (don’t need a lawsuit from the vendor), but if you go to Stupidly Simple SEO here and skip the “Upgrade” offer, you can still see a 13-minute free video that will reveal one of the sites.
You only need to upgrade, which costs $97, if you want to see what the vendor’s monetization techniques are. But remember, whatever you do, do not cut & paste like he shows you. Use unique, high quality content on all your mini-sites or risk your account being banned.
Click here to see the free Stupidly Simple SEO video.
The #1 system that I recommend for long term, real profits from SEO & free traffic is still the one that I have been recommending since July of 2009 – The Commission Ritual by Brian G. Johnson. This system uses the core principle of SEO and it is the only way to withstand the test of time.
I am also active in Commission Ritual’s member forum. So if you do investing in Brian’s course, look me up in the forum. I will help you anyway I can.
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great review on this, i have tried the “Stupidly Simple” using his technique with writing articles on xomba- it actually worked on a review i wrote on an Amazon product- my review is still on page one, but who is going to find it?
Because, in the technique you have to use the actual name of the product including the actual model instead of keywords, and you have to wonder- who is going to do a search on the actual model and description on the product- people use basic keywords when they start searching for a product. Maybe somebody someone who is looking for this specific will find my article one these years! And boom- i’ll make a sale.
But i had my article on page one for months now and i have read myself a few times. Maybe someday i’ll have some use for that- or i can write 2 million articles on all the amazon product- hey there’s a plan.
thanks
HStone
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Yes, the demo shown on the sales page is somewhat deceiving. You have to search for the 8 or 10 word super long title exactly like Amazon listing to get page 1 result, but just like you said, how many people are searching for that exact super long tail phrase?
Also, this strategy falls apart when there are multiple people on Xomba targeting the exact same product keyword. Google won’t show all those Xomba pages.