My first Journey – Watch me Build and rank a niche site within 90days

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Update coming up soon.

My articles were long ready but my domain don?t did not successfully propagate with my chosen hosting account despite waiting for days (usually takes few minutes though). The funny thing is on a closer scrutiny, it turned out that I had pointed the domain to a wrong nameserver. Now the domain is all setup with the right namesever. Will be back with update soon.
 
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UPDATE #3

DAYS SPENT: 5

DAYS LEFT: 85


[FONT=&amp]What I have accomplished while I was gone?[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]I was able to write 6 articles for my chosen keyword, setup wordpress on the domain and published all content to it. The blog has a total of 6 contents comprising of 5 blog post and 1 static home page excluding privacy and contact us pages. The 5 blog post articles are product review articles I am promoting at Amazon.[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]Theme: premium theme form themeforest.net (free ones are also OK)

Domain Bought on:


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[FONT=&amp]All in one seo pack:[/FONT][FONT=&amp] for On page SEO Optimization

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[FONT=&amp]W3 cache:[/FONT][FONT=&amp] tweak site loading speed[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]Easyazon:[/FONT][FONT=&amp] linking to Amazon Products

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[FONT=&amp]Xml Sitemap:[/FONT][FONT=&amp] generate sitemap of my site

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[FONT=&amp]Site Structure:[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]The site has a static home page with an SEO optimized content targeting my primary keyword. (I did something unusual this time around. Usually I target one keyword per post, but here I am writing content that is keyword optimized for 2 keywords).[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]Interlinked:[/FONT][FONT=&amp] the other post are published and well interlinked together for juice flow.

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[FONT=&amp]Why you should Interlink Related Contents together

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[FONT=&amp]I learnt a great deal about the power of interlinking your related contents together when one of my post I wrote a while back and published for a keyword with a search volume of 1,600 suddenly popped up #10 on SERP without doing any single external backlinks to that post page. On further investigation, I discovered that the post in question was boasting of 37 backlinks which I honestly had no idea where it came from since I never did backlink on the page. Looking closely at the backlink source revealed that it was coming right from main site the post was published on? INTERNAL LINKS from other post pages. Needless to say that when I added just 2 backlinks from High authority sites, the page moved up in rank from #10 to #4 and has since remain there.

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[FONT=&amp]Ever since then, I make it compulsory to have a new niche site start out with a min of 5 contents so that I can interlink and send the juices following through the site.

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[FONT=&amp]While still working on the site?..Something Happened!!!

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[FONT=&amp]I was going to wait for couples of hours for my site to be indexed after setting it up and tweaking to my satisfaction but while still building it, I noticed that a few of the pages were already indexed on Google when I ran a search for my site URL.COOOL!!!

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[FONT=&amp]Am not done yet as??Something more cooler Happened!

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[FONT=&amp]On an impulse considering how fast Google indexed my site I ran a search for my targeted keywords using SEOBOOK keyword tracker and BOOOM!!!! All my keywords are all ranked!

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This is turning out to be more interesting and exciting than I expected.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]N/B: there is nothing wrong with your site being ranked in a day or two. My sites at times get ranked in 2 to 3 days at times.[/FONT]

[FONT=&amp]Is the foundation of your niche site well laid?

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[FONT=&amp]Usually after building out a fresh niche site like I just did, I usually like to run what I call ?Acid test? to test if indeed my site is well setup to rank for its targeted keywords. How? I perform a title search on Google for my home page and other page titles that I am interested in after 24 hours of setting up the site. If it pops up in top 20, that is a green signal to proceed to phase 2. In phase 2, I do my primary keyword search on Google after 48 - 73 hrs without any backlink or social signal done on the site. If it pops out on top 150, then I know beyond doubt that the site is ok.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]N/B: this is just my way of testing out things. It does not mean that your site is not ok if does not pop out on Google after doing both search.[/FONT] [FONT=&amp]

Progress Bar

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WHAT NEXT?[/FONT]


[FONT=&amp]Am going to wait for some days for the rank to stabilize before starting out with my backlinking campaign! Yes, I have my backlinks plan of actions for this niche site and you will hear all about it on my next update.[/FONT]

please leave all questions here....no PM please.

Cheers!
 
A Quick Update:
just to be sure of my ranking....here is another tracking from serpbook.com
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Great post dude, I have yet to rank a niche site, but I just started a new one today. I hope to follow in your footsteps! Hopefully we aren't ranking the same keyword ;)
 
[FONT=&amp] UPDATE: #4

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Days Spent:8

[FONT=&amp]Days Remaining:82
Money Earned:
$0

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[FONT=&amp]Hey guys, I have nothing much after the site was all setup except write and publish some content. But the good thing is ranking is getting more stabilized and so far I have not done a single backlinking on the site yet. See current ranking stat below!

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[FONT=&amp]I will wait for a couple of days for the ranking to be more stabilized before doing any form of link backlinking.
Cheers!
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UPDATE: #5



Days Spent:22

Days Remaining:68
Money Earned:
$0



So after waiting for sometimes for the site to stabilize, I went ahead and built 2 high PR links to the niche site and after 5 days, the site rankings for the primary keyword and other secondary keywords I have chosen to also rank the site for are as seen below.

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Keyword A is my main keyword which the site was built on and it is the one that I am currently building links to rank on top 5 spots. Keyword A and C are my secondary Keywords which I may rank the site in time.
In order not to mess things up and possibly get penalized also, I was like to pick my SEO battles one at a time. That is why I am only concerned with ranking the main keywords first.

The actions behind site current ranking

My actions were pretty simple. I pointed 2 backlinks from a PR domain to mu home page. One of the links was an exact match with my keyword while the other was just some generic anchor. Actually, it was I used an anchor text which has now turned into my secondary keyword B currently ranked #25

Plans to move the site forward
I plan to wait for a few more days for the site to fully absorb the effect of the first 2 PR links pointed the site then I will build 2-3 more links without using my primary keywords.

cheers!
 
UPDATE: #6



Days Spent: 36

Days Remaining: 54
Money Earned: $0


Ranking

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Rank Analysis


Previous RankNew RankChange
#36
#19+17

What I have done

Aside from adding 2 PR links to the site, I have done literally nothing to it. I will keep adding links slowly and monitor ranking till I reach the top spot.

Cheers!
 
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Nice progress.

How many words are your articles in average?
Hi hameem,

My article words average between +500 to +800 words.
I know some people preach the +1000 words article rules but I personally find articles that are +400 words to work well for me. That way, I can easily control my keyword density without overshooting it.

More precisely to your question;

Homepage article = 857 words
Secondary keyword A article = 505 words
Secondary keyword B and C are are home page rank.
I hope I have answered your question.

Cheers!
 
Nice going. What about your secondary keywords? Any improvement on them?

Hi KnightRider,

There are improvements on my secondary keywords as well. I just did not not want to include them because I don?t want them confusing and distracting me from my primary goal which is to rank my primary keyword on Google top spot. I might decide to also get them ranked once am done ranking the primary keyword although they are ranking well on their own with very minute help from me.
As you will see from the screenshot below, another secondary keyword also pop up in the SERP. The search volume is not much. It?s about 260 exact search for me.
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KEYWORDPREVIOUS RANKCURRENT RANKDIFFERENCE
SECONDARY KEYWORD A7830+48
SECONDARY KEYWORD B2523+2
NEW SECONDARY KEYWORD C-19-


Cheers!
 
Hi KnightRider,

There are improvements on my secondary keywords as well. I just did not not want to include them because I don't want them confusing and distracting me from my primary goal which is to rank my primary keyword on Google top spot. I might decide to also get them ranked once am done ranking the primary keyword although they are ranking well on their own with very minute help from me.
As you will see from the screenshot below, another secondary keyword also pop up in the SERP. The search volume is not much. It's about 260 exact search for me.
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KEYWORDPREVIOUS RANKCURRENT RANKDIFFERENCE
SECONDARY KEYWORD A7830+48
SECONDARY KEYWORD B2523+2
NEW SECONDARY KEYWORD C-19-


Cheers!

Nice jobs on these keywords as well. What kind of links have you made so far?
 
you're going good. keep doing it. you are about to reach your goal. Don't worry about the days, just focus on work each day and optimize it more.
 
you're going good. keep doing it. you are about to reach your goal. Don't worry about the days, just focus on work each day and optimize it more.
wow! thanks for the kind words. The days i set for the completion of my journey is just there as a motivator but i still intend to go on with the journey even if i don't reach my goal when the 90days elapes. But from the look of things I'm positive I will reach it in record time.
 
UPDATE: # 7



Days Spent: 41

Days Remaining: 49
Money Earned: $17



Today I just want to make a brief update on my journey to building a profitable niche from scratch within 90 days.

Well the site has made its very first sale and has also started earning affiliate commission from Amazon.

Yesterday, the site sold a niche item of $449 and earned a commission of $17.96

The site is currently still climbing the SERP and will improve in sales once it hit the top spots. When that happens, I will flip it
and move on to my next project.
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Thats all for today's Update

Cheers!
 
Congrats on your first sale! That has to be a great feeling knowing your hardwork is paying off. Keep it up, and keep us updated. This journey is really motivating
 
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