Zevoltai
Senior Member
- Jul 29, 2013
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I have some big dreams, really big dreams. There?s a lot that I want to accomplish in the future, and I?m going to fight tooth and nail to make my dreams come true. This fall will mark my last semester as a full-time engineering student at a top 20 American university, and I?ll be entering the tech start-up scene full force with mountains of ideas behind me ? and little to no financial security or funding.
Realizing this last year, I?ve searched frantically for a good means of generating income on a student budget, while maintaining my studies on a heavy courseload. Eventually, I stumbled upon blackhatworld and started reading. I took action and built a thin affiliate site that made me a good $800-1000 a month, which was pretty cool until Panda 4.0 rolled around. Now that site is on the back end of page 3, although it?s still managed to generate the occasional sale over the past 2-3 weeks.
The good and bad part about that site is that I took action quickly ? I played around with several different offers, wordpress themes, and link types, but ended up with a classic amateur IMer site riddled with mistakes. The site has about 8500 backlinks, of which 35% target main keywords, 20% target generics/raw url, and 45% target LSIs of the main keywords. The overall link quality ranges from junk nofollow bookmarks, to PR6 homepage blog posts.
Obviously it?s not a good recipe for long-term rankings, so I?ve decided to just cut my losses and point a large package from t0mmy?s speedrank at it through a redirect. With that done, I?m going to take the lessons I?ve learned from building that site, and apply it to the mini-authority I?ve been building over the past three months.
The site I?ve been building is a mini-authority site targeted at a medium competition segment of the beauty niche.
Rather than being silly and giving away my keywords, I?m going to use ?Car? or ?Widgets? as a filler for the primary keyword I?m trying to rank for. I?ll be using the Prose child theme from Genesis for this site, with a silo structure based around the major brands of this product.
Keyword Research
Broad topic keyword (Let?s say Classic Automobiles or something) ? 165000 m/s
Car ? 74000 m/s
Best Car ? 6600 m/s.
Car reviews 9900 s/s
My domain is a .org EMD for ?Car Reviews?
The Homepage
I?ve written a high-quality 1700 word article on the homepage of the site targeting my 4 primary keywords. It starts off with ?Best Cars 2014? as the h1 title tag with a table comparing 5 products, with links to amazon for all of them. Underneath the table, I?ve written a comprehensive buyer?s guide on choosing a product based on individual needs, ending with links to the silo landing pages I?ve made (Anchors: Toyota, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, etc) and useful user?s tips below that. The navigation menu has the typical ?Home, Contact, About us, Terms of Use, Private Policy?, and the brand landing pages on a dropdown.
Homepage Rankings
My keywords show up in h1 and h2 tags, the meta title, meta description, and meta keywords. All external links are nofollow
Classic Automobiles: #289, 1.58% keyword density
Cars: #165, 1.82% keyword density
Car Reviews: #53, 1.09% keyword density
Best Cars: #124, 0.74% keyword density
I have to go see my adviser now for summer physics research, I?ll continue the thread once I?m back
Realizing this last year, I?ve searched frantically for a good means of generating income on a student budget, while maintaining my studies on a heavy courseload. Eventually, I stumbled upon blackhatworld and started reading. I took action and built a thin affiliate site that made me a good $800-1000 a month, which was pretty cool until Panda 4.0 rolled around. Now that site is on the back end of page 3, although it?s still managed to generate the occasional sale over the past 2-3 weeks.
The good and bad part about that site is that I took action quickly ? I played around with several different offers, wordpress themes, and link types, but ended up with a classic amateur IMer site riddled with mistakes. The site has about 8500 backlinks, of which 35% target main keywords, 20% target generics/raw url, and 45% target LSIs of the main keywords. The overall link quality ranges from junk nofollow bookmarks, to PR6 homepage blog posts.
Obviously it?s not a good recipe for long-term rankings, so I?ve decided to just cut my losses and point a large package from t0mmy?s speedrank at it through a redirect. With that done, I?m going to take the lessons I?ve learned from building that site, and apply it to the mini-authority I?ve been building over the past three months.
The site I?ve been building is a mini-authority site targeted at a medium competition segment of the beauty niche.
Rather than being silly and giving away my keywords, I?m going to use ?Car? or ?Widgets? as a filler for the primary keyword I?m trying to rank for. I?ll be using the Prose child theme from Genesis for this site, with a silo structure based around the major brands of this product.
Keyword Research
Broad topic keyword (Let?s say Classic Automobiles or something) ? 165000 m/s
Car ? 74000 m/s
Best Car ? 6600 m/s.
Car reviews 9900 s/s
My domain is a .org EMD for ?Car Reviews?
The Homepage
I?ve written a high-quality 1700 word article on the homepage of the site targeting my 4 primary keywords. It starts off with ?Best Cars 2014? as the h1 title tag with a table comparing 5 products, with links to amazon for all of them. Underneath the table, I?ve written a comprehensive buyer?s guide on choosing a product based on individual needs, ending with links to the silo landing pages I?ve made (Anchors: Toyota, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, etc) and useful user?s tips below that. The navigation menu has the typical ?Home, Contact, About us, Terms of Use, Private Policy?, and the brand landing pages on a dropdown.
Homepage Rankings
My keywords show up in h1 and h2 tags, the meta title, meta description, and meta keywords. All external links are nofollow
Classic Automobiles: #289, 1.58% keyword density
Cars: #165, 1.82% keyword density
Car Reviews: #53, 1.09% keyword density
Best Cars: #124, 0.74% keyword density
I have to go see my adviser now for summer physics research, I?ll continue the thread once I?m back
