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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Ten

May 19, 2008

May 19th (Day 10)

Hi everyone, I bet some of you thought I given up right? heehee, nah, not me. Sorry about not continuing this last week I had some important stuff that I needed to attend to. Hope you all don’t mind.

Back to business, since this is the first day back, I’m gonna take it easy and get back into the grove, plus my excuse is my hours are completely messed up after doing 18+ hour days last week, it’s currently 1:45am right now, and woke up like 5 hours ago. So my mind isn’t all that with it to be honest.

* Submit one unique article to 5 article directories.
* Of those article directories that approve the article when submitted, I’ll jot these links to my article in a note pad.
* Traffic before starting 1 visitor (well it is 00:45am)
* Submitted other pages that were published last week to social bookmarking sites
* Time spent on project - 1 hour 23 minutes

I would like to state one thing, this is not about dreaming up big numbers of traffic, i.e, finding which keywords get most searched, ranking in top position to automatically assume one is going to get that traffic. In fact, who ever tells you that if you get X amount of links, have X amount of keywords ranked in top position, you’ll get X amount of traffic. It’s complete poppy cock (nonsense). Later you’ll find this out yourselves as you start to rank for phrases that state have X amount of search volume for keyword phrases. More often than than not, you’ll get a small fraction of that traffic. And most cases you’ll rank for phrases that you didn’t even aim for.

I’m already ranking #1 for 3 and 4 worded phrases, when ran through keyword research tools these phrases are “supposed” to generate over 300 visitors a month.

I’ve enclosed an image that I will show below since this blog for some reason doesn’t want to show the images under text and wraps text around it making accompanied text hard to follow.

As you can see from the image, I’ve also included Organic results, 23 visitors so far from Google, a combined 12 keyword phrases, you do the math - sure doesn’t add up to 300 visitors a month does it? Right, my point exactly.

Bear in mind, the case study blog in the personal loans sector is only 18 days old. Don’t expect a miracle over night, it’s not going to happen, no matter what the Guru’s tell you.

I would like to remind people again the purpose of this case study as it appears that a few are misunderstanding what I am trying to show here and placing their SEO experience in front of what I’m doing adding 2 cents worth and making 5. It helps that everyone is on the same page here to avoid confusions.

First off, this is not about Conversion rates.

Secondly, this is not about how to monetize your website - although I have added Adsense here as an example since a lot of people these days place Adsense on their pages and it’s a start to have people hold on to something they can relate to.

Thirdly, it’s not about getting traffic from other 3rd party sites - however having traffic from 3rd party sites is always nice. If people want to spend time doing that, then one is going to need to spend as much time on forums like I do on my own, SEO Elite, Keyword Elite, Warrior Forum, PPC Classroom forum and leave the rest of what we are doing here alone.

This case study is about the methods used to get traffic from organic search results, ranking for keywords. Yes, you will find that some of the places that you place links on via these 3rd party sites will generate traffic. It’s been noted that some of the methods I use to get traffic to optimize my pages are not targeted traffic, we’ll they’re wrong. Over 70% of the links I get and provide content for these 3rd party sites are in fact 100% targeted. If that were not the case, then I wouldn’t have generated the visitors I have so far varing from 40 visitors a day up to 164 visitors.

Take note that on 9th May was my last post here before resuming again today.
May 10th - May 18th I did absolutely NOTHING, I had no time to, I was busy on another project. As you can see the traffic remained STEADY averaging around 50-60 visitors a day. Yesterday, blimey, traffic went through the roof.

If you take the time that I have put in already, which really isn’t much, approx 25-30 hours you will see results, slowly. No one said this is going to be easy, and it sure is time consuming.
After which you will see how long it takes for pages to get indexed, when you start receiving organic results from the search engines.

We have barely touched the rim of the ice burge here.

These results are realistic results, based on a few hours a day, and even having a week off like I have. I’m not going to dream up big numbers, dreaming isn’t going to give you those UNREALISTIC results.

On that note, the traffic I get for this particular sector of personal loans, is going to differ from other niches. No one niche is going to be the same and therefore you’ll have different results.

Alexa rank has jumped to 361,791 from 444,877, up by another 83,086 positions, almost hitting our target of 350,000 in 4 weeks.

Adsense earnings are “slowly” increasing too. $16.13 so far, few clicks day before yesterday and one yesterday, all still above the $1.00 mark.

Ok, let’s get some numbers out of the way.

May 9th (Day 9) you may remember me posting these numbers below - I’ve added underneath those with a hyphen to add today’s results, and added new ones from Keyword 4 - 8.

Keyword 1 ranked 630 in google.
- Keyword 1 ranked 347 in google (moved up by 283 positions)

(article 1)
Keyword 2 Ranked 216 in google.
- Keyword 2 Ranked 353 in google (lost 137 positions)

(article 2)
Keyword 2 Ranked 213 in google.
- Keyword 2 ranked 350 in google (lost 137 positions)

(article 1)
Keyword 3 Ranked 536 in google
- Keyword 3 DISAPPEARED..lol (it happens, but it will be back)

(article 1)
Keyword 4 ranked 6 in google

(article 1)
Keyword 5 ranked 21 in google

(article 1)
Keyword 6 ranked 17 in google

(article 1)
Keyword 7 ranked 7 in google

(article 1)
Keyword 8 ranked 1 in google

Tracking these keywords with SEO Elite comes in extremely handy, giving you a birds eye view of what needs work on. But before I start doing that I’m going to let nature take it’s course and continue with the main plan of getting links to our inner pages to build up an authority figure on them. That’s just me, others may have different rules of action - there really is no wrong or right way to go about doing this, I just prefer to do it in this order, starting something from start to finish - have a plan and stick to it, optimize what I can while combining keyword phrases which gives me two bits of the same apple.

ie,

If I hyperlink a keyword “personal Loans” and Hyper link “Faxless Personal Loans” I’m killing two birds at the same time for the same page.

It’s the same method I have used with “SEO Website Builder Pro”, I also rank for “SEO Website Builder” in google too. Well, yesterday I was, but google has just now gave me an indented result for “SEO Website Builder” and placed me 11th & 12th, but wont be long before that gets pushed to the top middle of the first page taking up some serious real estate with the indented results.

Any ways up, that’s about it for now. As soon as I can get my head back in gear I’ll add some more recaps of what we are doing.

Til’ tomorrow then, have a good one.

All the best

Loz

Traffic So Far

Adsense Earnings


Written by Loz · Filed Under Casy Study 

Comments

6 Responses to “Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Ten”

  1. John on May 19th, 2008 4:43 am

    I didnt think you had quit but i am glad your back at the helm.

    keep up the good work

  2. Jon on May 19th, 2008 8:59 am

    Loz,

    I needed a week to fully comprehend your last post, so the time off worked well for me.

    In this post, you mention that when an article directory approves your article- you jot down the link in your notepad. Then what do you do with this link?

    Thanks,
    Jon

  3. Anish on May 19th, 2008 1:02 pm

    Hey Loz,

    Those are some real big clicks you got there….

    I missed reading you report the last week. Its kind of addictive.

    Keep posting

    Anish

  4. Jeremy Berger on May 19th, 2008 1:54 pm

    Thank you so much for doing this! I have just started a blog a couple of months ago and really had no clue but am extremely interested in the seo part of all this, which you are doing a fine job of laying out. My blog ranked #1 for “interior painting diy” for quite a bit.

    In turn every article I wrote brought traffic in every day from google. It was very targeted and I would recieve many clicks ( some very low paying .03 to 1.50) on my adsense. This was very exciting to me being new at this. Then one day May 8th my key words disapeared. I recieve absolutely no trafic from google except for 1 keyword phrase that I have no clue why and it brings up a totally unrelated page in my blog. “Interior Painting DIY” went from #1 to literally the last one in Google search.

    This site was experimental and will be attacking a new site using Wordpress instead of Blogger and my own domain. I will be going over your stuff again and take some notes so that I can apply your process. Thank you again, very much. Very intriguing

  5. Loz on May 20th, 2008 5:43 am

    Hey Jon,

    The links to our articles that we post on 3rd party article sites we copy to our note pad. I think It was Day 9, that I talk of, to place these in a note pad, and jot down the sources in which they were found.

    The next day (today, day 11), we’re going to take those links and link up article 1 (from article directory 1) to article 2 (article directory 2) from todays submissions.

    I’ll draw up an image today to show you what it looks like so it’s easier to follow. :)

    —
    Hey Jeremy.

    If you want to find out why google ranked your page for a page that you feel is unrelated, right click the “cache” link on the google search engine, and google will highlight that keyword for you.

    Take a look at how many links are going to that page, and how many are going back to the other page that you feel is more relevant. There could be some hidden elements there that’s behind the reason why it ranks for that other page.

    Google will rank pages based on how much weight is applied to that page, it sounds like that the onpage optimization is slightly higher than the other.

    It’s hard to know without looking at it. You’re more than welcome to send me an email, use the contact Loz link to your right, I’ll take a look at it when I have the time bud.

    –

    P.S
    Thanks for the comments everyone, most appreciated :)

    All the best

    Loz

  6. Jon on May 20th, 2008 5:19 pm

    @Jeremy,

    The same thing happened to me. Yesterday, I stopped getting traffic from Google. I checked some of my keywords and I didn’t even show up in the search results- even though I was on the first page the day before.

    Jon

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