*** 3rd 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 14, 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 14, 2011
Duration Since Beginning: 9 Days
Previous Rank Position on January 8, 2011: Position 100
Previous Rank Position on January 11, 2011: Position 228
Current Rank Position: Position 85
Submitted the RSS FEED to rss directories using RSS Bot on Jan 11, 2011.
Thoughts: As expected from my last checking, the loss in rank was due to a Google dance. I have now moved further up the chain to my highest position yet of 85. This is a jump thus far of nearly 131 positions in only 10 days since I started!!
I feel the power will really begin to show within the next 10 days, as the other links start to pass on link juice and get indexed. I will run this course for a full 3 weeks, if at the end I am not on Page 1, then I will take action and purchase another link push (standard package) and promote it, which should definitely get me to where I want to be.
The truth is, one link push may not have been enough -- in which case, a full service link push may not be enough for a
relatively new site. But this is why I am testing. I felt it might be enough due to the low competition -- but we all know that new sites might need more help to get that ranking simply because they're new.
Regardless, from what I see so far, it is working out to be of good use and doing its job -- so if you're on the fence, I would recommend it because it certainly won't hurt you -- plus, it's affordable. I would say based on the results I've seen thus far, if you were to use a standard package, you would climb at a much faster rate.
I wouldn't worry about the sandbox either -- because the way the links are handled, not all of them will be indexed at the same time. Using the standard package, run a push maybe every 3 days. And if you're targeting LONG TAIL for an adsense site (like I have done) -- then only stick with the one phrase. No need to have 3 keywords for each push if you're truly only targeting one phrase with less than 8000 searches per month. Just my opinion.
But again, if you would rather wait another 10 days to see my results first, then just wait it out.
Reminder to those who haven't read my previous reports: 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.
