a) we don't really know where your site was beforehand, whereas with mine we did know exactly where they were;
I deliberately chose the same keyword you did so it would clearly be a new result - I am sure anyone following the results would be able to see that it was a new entry in top couple of pages.
b) we don't know what else has been done to your site, whereas with mine we knew nothing had been done to them;
Its not my site so I don't control what else happens with it, but it would be a huge coincidence if the owner of a poorly promoted site suddenly started to build links in the same day that I chose his site to test bookmarking.
c) The site we did for nursery equipment had no optimisation whatsoever for that phrase, whereas yours has (title, etc);
That is irrelevant since the phrase is so uncompetitive.
d) we did 20 links, you've done considerably more;
Also irrelevant. You should look at it from a time/money angle. My test cost me 5 minutes and £20 - £30 so how many links the spammer done for me for that doesn't really matter does it.
As pointed out at the start, this isn't a measure of social bookmarking links, rather whether a small number of links can move a site if the links are what Google wants to see.
But I just proved the opposite, its nothing to do with your links actually being any good. Its just any links at all will show slight movements.
And as Chippy mentioned, he's tried 100 bookmarking links and seen no results whatsoever, so do we really believe what "postman jackson" tells us when he says he built only social bookmarks to his site?
Anyone can go look in the backlinks of the site I chose. You can sit there and accuse me of secretly building extra links to inflate my test results - but anything I could have done there, you could have done also. So if my test is irrelevant because of this, then yours must be also.
He has a vested interest in playing down any successful ideas to look after his own interests, while the rest of us want to help each other to do better.
I don't have any real vested interest in this, regardless of what you think. I don't agree with "while the rest of us want to help each other to do better." though. You are attempting to disguise a sales pitch as some sort of scientific testing. You are here to help yourself, not anyone else. Your dishonest testing is proof of that.
While you mention that nursery equipment is a phrase no one searches for, which is debatable, payday loans most certainly is, as is horoscopes which is now half way up page 2, what does my name mean is top of page 2, we've done it for scrap gold, car finance, holiday rentals, wedding presents, and a variety of other very competitive terms.
Post some proof of all of these rankings then please. You want to cry that I might be deliberately altering my test results, but then you want to just add a list of keywords it apparently worked for, without posting any proof at all?
I think you would be doing yourself a favour if you just stopped trying to pretend this is something that it isn't. Its a sales pitch for low end link building. Why not just post a price and start taking customers…. your "testing" is impressing nobody.
And as Chippy mentioned, he's tried 100 bookmarking links and seen no results whatsoever, so do we really believe what "postman jackson" tells us when he says he built only social bookmarks to his site?
I think anyone with any common sense will take what I am saying at face value, it is easy to check the backlinks and see that I'm telling the truth though. I will be surprised if you can find any recent non social bookmarking link building to that test site. You just seem to be trying to deflect from the fact that I easily replicated your results with no time or money spent.
If anyone thinks I have any reason to alter the test results, then you should run your own test. Choose a non competitive phrase, and select a site from page 3 to 6 of the results. Buy a batch of links from
http://www.wlmarketing.com/ and see what happens. Don't tell anyone what you are doing and then you will be certain the results are valid
I would do it again myself but its pointless. I am wasting £30 to prove something I already know and Dashu is going to discredit my results by saying I tampered with them. So everyone who has interest in this should go test test test, and the truth will become apparent.