One of my websites is Myomancy, a site all about ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia. I’ve been running it for about four years and there is a lot of unique content on the site. Its gets a fair amount of traffic from certain keywords but I’ve never been able to crack the big ones ‘ADHD’, ‘Autism’ and ‘Dyslexia’. In fact for a long time you could not even find Myomancy on those words, no matter how far down the list you looked. This is highly frustrating as its hard to fight your way up the rankings if you aren’t even on the list. Nowadays I have made a small amount of progress. For ‘Dyslexia’ I’m around about 400th in the Google results. For ‘ADHD’ I’m about the 500th and on ‘Autism’ I checked all the way down to 900th and Myomancy still was not there.

So I’m going to try an experiment to boost my rankings for ‘Dyslexia’. I don’t want to write any articles about dyslexia as I have written lots on the subject and anything I have to say about the subject I would post on Myomancy itself. Neither do I want to build links reusing existing articles from Myomancy as the effects of duplicate content are not clear. Some SEO commentators say its OK to have duplicate content out there as long as its doesn’t appear on the same site as the original. Others advise that duplicate can have a serious negative impact.

What I’m going to do is a halfway house. I’m going to grab all my dyslexia related posts on Myomancy and create ten new articles based on them. I plan to quote chunks of the original articles and add a few new sentences to give the extracts some context. In short I’m going to create a fairly typical blog post. In each article on MiceLife, I’m going to link back to Myomancy using the keyword Dyslexia.

What will be interesting about the results of this experiment is whether it makes any difference to Myomancy’s ranking for the other keywords of ‘Autism’ and ‘ADHD’. Do links from different keywords harm your ranking or is simply any link is a good link? Lets find out.