Hey Everyone,
Had some more time to look into the analytics, so I will give another brief UPDATE:
Traffic is up definitely up. Took a look at average unique visitors per day between APR and MAY.
APR: 6.00
MAY: 28.17
To adjust for flux in the week and to have an average number to report, I am going to be using the average unique users per day (AUUD) stat from now on.
YSE back online and continuing to rack up back links. Almost at 22k with 21,961. 11 pages indexed in YSE as well, so that continues to rise. In GWT keywords and impressions are both up to 99 and 6,500 respectively. GWT lags by 3 days and am definitely seeing an up trend. Can't wait to see what yesterday will register in GWT.
Main keyword still on front page. Hopefully the gravity of the site continues to push it up.
Adsense is starting to gain some traction as well. Right now this is a $50 a month site. Not bad for a micro-niche, but I really think I can get more like $300-500 at max potential. Then using a 12-14 times revenue to estimate the value of the site for sale, the side could fetch between $3,600 and $7,000 on Flippa. Not to damn bad if I say so. Got to get there first though. I sure would love a new rack mount server with enough power to run SB on a few virtual servers.
Steps moving forward:
1) More backlinks! I am scraping some new lists, re-compiling others, as well as link checking. When I have a new round of targets, I'm going to hit it hard.
2) Content. Whether you consider content to be king, or just a prince, you HAVE TO HAVE CONTENT. What else is Google going to rank you with. Now yes, there have been a few sites that have ranked for hard keywords based solely off of inbound links (G.W. Bush White House site and keyword 'Failure') but this takes a HUGE effort with millions of backlinks. So since I don't want to go this route, I will continue to add content. I think I will schedule 1-2 new pieces of content through the end of June.
3) Do another site wide SEO audit. If I see a page is ranking for a new keyword and that keyword isn't on the page or in the meta tags, put it there! The big search engines are constantly re-evaluating pages for content, so help yourself by strengthening the connection between page and keyword.
Now, as promised, here is a sample of some of the AA links I am using in SB to post. There is a total of 1,056 links from 440 domains.
https://rapidshare.com/files/1116617139/BHWSBShare.txt
I am in the process of setting up a way for people to buy lists from me per popular demand. I will announce that in this thread and with a banner in my signature once I purchase the Jr. VIP (or is it Donor?) membership. So, for now please no more requests to purchase as I am just not ready yet to sell. Still lots to do like verify lists, check for dupes, etc.
Thanks again to everyone. Questions and comments welcome as always!