A slower week …
After the last update there’s not a huge amount to report back this week (although I seem to have written a small book again). It’s been a bit of a slower week, what with the Christmas break. I admit, I’ve taken my foot off the gas a little.
Even had a lie-in this morning 
When I tried the Neo free trial a while back, one of the operational challenges which quickly became apparent was keeping up with the tool … it’s so efficient at what it does.
To keep it running constantly (thereby getting the most value from the subscription) you really need to be creating unique content every day.
Having said that, after watching the (very entertaining) New Year SEO Neo Webinar, the advice from the trenches is that spun content still works well.
You may have seen examples of spun content in your online endeavours. The output is usually grammatical heresy, pure junk content with no value to man nor beast, and it’s what black-hat SEO’ers used before we all marvelled at our own magnificence and gave birth to AI (had to weave in a reference to The Matrix there … he he).
Anyway, Mike Merlino (part of the Stealth Code crew) insisted on the webinar that it’s fine to use just a single spun article in a content bucket. So in my latest campaign I thought I would test it out.
You can generate the content with Open AI and spin that directly within SEO Neo. I love this tool! Out of interest, I popped that spun article into GPT and asked it to estimate the number of unique versions that would create and it came out to approximately 10^300 possibilities.
That’s the number 1 with 300 zeros after it … mwah ha hah ah ha!
Even using all my free Open AI API daily allowance, it’d take over 10^295 years to create that many unique articles. The number is so big that all physics, maths and reality itself breaks down … lol.
Although the difference is, the AI articles are super high quality, perfect English (mostly) and very difficult for Google to detect. Almost impossible I’d say, to be perfectly honest with you!
So yeah, there’s an obvious trade-off with quality when you spin articles but the Neo power users I’m interacting with are adamant it really doesn’t matter! I will keep you posted with the results of my spinning exploits!
I’m so far down the black-hat rabbit hole now that I may as well go all-in 
Let’s talk results …
I’ve rambled on enough so it’s time to put some meat on the bone here.
Target #1 is a high-commission Clickbank product that was doing well for me when Reddit was riding high over the Summer. Before Neo it was sitting stubbornly on Google P2, near the top. Fluctuating between #11 and #13 most of the time.
Within a week it had jumped on to P1, near the middle of the page, between #7 and #5. It’s often just below the fold when I check it … so close!
The only campaign I have run so far on this is the DAS Wizard (Domain Authority Stacking). This campaign builds a “pillow” or buffer layer of links which is designed to dilute the backlink profile with generic links. Every link is the URL only. No focused anchor text.
So, theoretically, there should be no ranking movement for any keyword … but there is!
Once this safety layer is in place, you can be much more aggressive with the anchor text in subsequent campaigns. It’s designed for your ‘Tier zero’ money site (your pride and joy). I’m not confident enough to direct any of these links at one of my own domains yet so I’m using various parasite targets of mine that I’m not too bothered if Google nukes them … lol.
Anyway, Google core update notwithstanding, this target seems to have settled at around #5 in the organic results. I am now running a more aggressive anchor text campaign (started yesterday) with the goal of hitting that top 3 - I’m aiming for #1.
Target #2 is a Medium .com article which was hovering between #29 and #35 not too long after publication (decent traffic levels on this target keyword too). As I reported last time, within 6 days it jumped 10 places on to P2, around #18.
Then 4 days later it briefly appeared at #5, jumping another 10+ places or so. Really significant upward movement!
It has dropped back to #18 since then, but with the core update still running, it’s folly to make any concrete conclusions yet.
I’ve also run a campaign on Target #3 (a SaaS AI tool) over the last week. That’s not produced any significant movement yet although I have noticed I’m showing up in the AI overviews in Google since running this one … appearing right at the top of the SERP. Woop!
Target #3 is still dancing around the results and hasn’t settled yet so I’m reserving judgement.
Ok … let’s wrap this up.
SEO Neo is a beast of a tool and when used properly, definitely moves the needle.
I’m looking forward to setting up the S3 cloud blogs and blasting my local SEO project too.
Now … where did I put that extra day of the week? 
As always, if you have any questions pop ‘em in the comments below! Happy to try to answer to the best of my ability.
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Lovin’ it!
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