*** 2nd UPDATE ***
Project Started: January 5th, 2011
FULL SERVICE PACKAGE CHOSEN
Starting Rank: Page 22, Position 216
Competition for my niche is as follows:
broad keyword shows 1,840,000 page results
exact match keyword shows 3,830 page results
allintitle exact match shows 111 results
allinanchor shows 3540 results
Average PR in top 10 results is around 1.2, with 5 of them being 0.
Average backlinks to those pages ranges
between 0-63 according to Yahoo explorer.
Submission Progress Thus Far: January 11, 2011
Status: Complete
Web 2.0 Posts (17)
Article Posts (17)
Bookmarks (12)
Article Tier 2 Posts (1)
Doc Share Posts (1)
Microblogging Posts (1)
Results Thus Far: January 11, 2011
Duration Since Beginning: 6 Days
Previous Rank Position on January 8, 2011: Position 100
Current Rank: Position 228
I will now submit the RSS FEED to rss directories using RSS Bot.
Thoughts: This is VERY typical. I want to assure people (newbies) that I was EXPECTING the loss of rank to happen by now. This is more than likely due to a Google Dance, whereby they are upgrading their servers with data. Google has many servers, therefore a rank drop (or jump) will often shift dramatically from day to day as data is accessed from other servers, whereby their data hasn't yet been updated. I am not worried at all and expect a bigger jump within another week or so as other servers *catchup* with the current back links. I suspect by the next two weeks, this is when I will really see jumps in the serps and hopefully will reach my goal.
Reminder: The domain I chose is an exact match keyword domain with no hyphens (.net extension.) The domain was registered on 01/01/2011. It has only 2 posts and I posted them about 2 days apart. I made sure the entire site was cached in Google before doing the linkpush.
On page optimization scores an A+ in Traffic Travis Pro, with keyword density set at 3.79% for about 1879 words. All h1, h2 and h3 tags covered. Title tags and description contain main targeted keyword phrase twice.
Google adsense has been added for the first 2 days to help with indexing and then was removed. I will add it back once the site reaches a good rank, as I do not believe you should add your adsense onto the site until you get where you want to be. This is Google after all, and you don't want to throw up any red flags.
I will post again in another 4 days.