*** 4th 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 18, 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 18, 2011
Duration Since Beginning: 13 Days
Previous Rank Position on January 8, 2011: Position 100
Previous Rank Position on January 11, 2011: Position 228
Previous Rank Position on January 14, 2011: Position 85
Current Rank Position: Position 89
Submitted the RSS FEED to rss directories using RSS Bot on Jan 11, 2011.
Thoughts: Not much movement at all -- lost 4 positions. Not bummed out though --
because it might be caught in a Google dance again. Who knows?
However, I am NO. 2 IN YAHOO now -- came out of nowhere. Again, I will wait it
out a full 3 weeks before making my final evaluation on January 26th, 2011. So, it
appears one link push is enough to get a great ranking in Yahoo. I am not listed in
Bing yet though -- they are so slow with indexing.
With Yahoo, you might really want to consider that route if your targeting high volume
keywords. If a search volume is HIGH in Google as is the competition -- try targeting
for Yahoo in the beginning and test out your conversion rates before targeting Google.
If one link push is all it takes -- then you might get some great data collected on how
to better tweak your site before tackling Google. Besides, I have always found
conversions to MUCH HIGHER with Yahoo Traffic than with Google anyway.
My next update in 8 days will be my last, along with my final thoughts of the service
I received and any recommendations I might give based on my experience.
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 my final results in another 8 days.