Best of luck with your journey!
OP, how did you come upon those niches for the 3 sites? and what tool/site did you use for KW research and comp
how specific are your niches/ KWs? I try to look for Keywords such as best xxxxx or top xxxx and the comp is all high.Site 1's was basically a passion project, when I looked at the competition / KWs I knew it had potential.
Site 2's was found going through Amazon's categories.
Site 3's KW was purchased.
KeywordRevealer.com is one of my favorite tools for quickly judging the top 10 results, but I mainly used Google's Keyword Planner to check the volume of each KW first. Every now and then I use Traffic Travis as well in place of Keyword Revealer for competition.
how specific are your niches/ KWs? I try to look for Keywords such as best xxxxx or top xxxx and the comp is all high.
What search volume/comp do your keywords/niches have? Are they low med or high? monthly searches for keyword?
are you ranking on 1st page for any of your keywords?My niches are very specific. I always target KWs like "best xx", but never base the site around those articles. Obviously they have a ton of money making potential and you're going to run into competition for damn near everything with that phrase. It's a matter of finding the competition you can beat.
I try to base my big articles off of KWs with at least 1000 monthly searches, but I'll go for everything that has reasonably low to medium competition. I don't have the experience or budget with SEO for anything else right now.
Inspiring thread OP ...great informative posts....what are you using for rank tracking?
Are all your Web 2.0 manually written or do you outsource? Are you just working tier one linking at this stage or are you planning on a second tier?
are you ranking on 1st page for any of your keywords?
which hosting are you using?Thanks man! I use SerpBook.
I manually write my web 2.0s right now. I've been wanting to outsource them, but I'm really cheap so I haven't yet. Focusing on tier 1 at the moment and seeing a lot of movement from it. Tier 2 linking is something I want to work on at some point though when I can figure out a solid game plan for it.
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One of those is a small keyword sitting at #1. I should have at least 3 more KWs in the top 10 by the end of next month if not sooner!