Intro
So as the title says, this is my first go at a Niche Website. I'm not a total n00b. I worked really hard at college where I was studying advertising and when I graduated I got a bursary to do a short course in SEO. I recently finished and now I want to apply myself, work hard and make money! The reason that I didn't end up going into advertising is that, in my country, I would be earning $600 per month. :cow04:
My Niche Website
I've been working on this project for about a month already. So far I've picked a niche:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: left"]
[TR]
[TD]Keyword[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Monthly Searches
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]CPC
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Google Results
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]61,500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$3.24
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]244,000
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9,900[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$1.87
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]95,700
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2,500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$3.014
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17,200
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4,500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$2.27
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5,610
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
#1 is the main one that I'm aiming to rank for, but I know it's going to be considerably more difficult in comparison to 2, 3 and 4.
Link Building so far:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Social Bookmarks[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Money Site[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tier 1 (5x Web 2.0s)[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]55[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Current Strategy (Each week, spread throughout):
What do you think of my little strategy? I'm doing everything manually myself at the moment as I don't have any budget for tools yet.
Here's how I've been ranking so far:
Google
Not really seeing much progress here.
Yahoo & Bing
As you can see I'm ranking at position #4 for keyword #4! Which might sound like nothing to get excited about to a lot of you but it feels like progress to me
Traffic:
With my current rankings I'm not getting any organic traffic, so 99% of the traffic that I'm getting is from the articles I post to Reddit. As a result my Bounce Rate is horrendous (91.59%). I think that's the reason anyway, let me know if my logic is sound: I think that people on Reddit are keen to get back to Reddit and are very unlikely to browse the website. That being said, I just installed a Related Posts plugin yesterday to try improve it as much as I can. Yesterday's bounce rate was 78.95%, so it looks like that could have helped.
That's it for now. Let me know if you think I'm on the right track, or if you think I'm an idiot and I should not be doing Y but doing X instead, please reply below. I'm going to be doing a proper update like this each Sunday so stick around, it's gonna be a fun (hopefully profitable) ride.
So as the title says, this is my first go at a Niche Website. I'm not a total n00b. I worked really hard at college where I was studying advertising and when I graduated I got a bursary to do a short course in SEO. I recently finished and now I want to apply myself, work hard and make money! The reason that I didn't end up going into advertising is that, in my country, I would be earning $600 per month. :cow04:
My Niche Website
I've been working on this project for about a month already. So far I've picked a niche:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500, align: left"]
[TR]
[TD]Keyword[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Monthly Searches
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]CPC
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Google Results
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#1[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]61,500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$3.24
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]244,000
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#2[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]9,900[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$1.87
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]95,700
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#3[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]2,500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$3.014
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17,200
[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]#4[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]4,500
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]$2.27
[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]5,610
[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
#1 is the main one that I'm aiming to rank for, but I know it's going to be considerably more difficult in comparison to 2, 3 and 4.
Link Building so far:
[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD="align: right"]Social Bookmarks[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Money Site[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]17[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Tier 1 (5x Web 2.0s)[/TD]
[TD="align: right"]55[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Current Strategy (Each week, spread throughout):
- 3x Articles to Money Site
- Reddit/Tweet/G+ Each article
- Send Fake social signals (retweets/favorites/G+ Shares) - just a few for each
- 2x Article Directory Submissions
- 1x Set up Tier 1 Web 2.0
- ~5 manual social bookmarks for money site
- ~10 manual social bookmarks for each Tier 1 Web 2.0
What do you think of my little strategy? I'm doing everything manually myself at the moment as I don't have any budget for tools yet.
Here's how I've been ranking so far:
Not really seeing much progress here.
Yahoo & Bing
As you can see I'm ranking at position #4 for keyword #4! Which might sound like nothing to get excited about to a lot of you but it feels like progress to me
Traffic:
With my current rankings I'm not getting any organic traffic, so 99% of the traffic that I'm getting is from the articles I post to Reddit. As a result my Bounce Rate is horrendous (91.59%). I think that's the reason anyway, let me know if my logic is sound: I think that people on Reddit are keen to get back to Reddit and are very unlikely to browse the website. That being said, I just installed a Related Posts plugin yesterday to try improve it as much as I can. Yesterday's bounce rate was 78.95%, so it looks like that could have helped.
That's it for now. Let me know if you think I'm on the right track, or if you think I'm an idiot and I should not be doing Y but doing X instead, please reply below. I'm going to be doing a proper update like this each Sunday so stick around, it's gonna be a fun (hopefully profitable) ride.
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