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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Thirteen

May 23, 2008

May 23rd (Day 13)

* Started at 12.00 noon
* Social Booked more pages
* Submitted RSS Feeds to Various places like MY Yahoo!
* Submitted to more link directories
* Submitted to more article directories
* Got some more forum posts
* Adsense earnings so far $23.28
* Finished for the day - Time spent on project 2 hours 43 minutes.

Hey everyone

Sorry about yesterday, A few things came up that I had to take care of and couldn’t get it all done in time so I had to give yesterday a miss. Also, I’m going to have to give next week a miss too, to take care of this other stuff that I was doing yesterday, Plus I’ve got more testing to do for SEO Website Builder Pro, since more modules have been added and I need to test how they install and uninstall, etc on different servers and web hosting companies.

So with this week off, it doesn’t mean you can…lol Keep on doing this stuff until I get back. Ok?

Any ways up, today is really just like GroundHog Day, same stuff really. But the articles are starting to get approved now, even Ezine Articles, 3 days it took to approve.

I now have articles spread across 7 article directories, the blog is set up to have 90 posts posted automatically.

All my a href links are all set up in another file. I’ve got loads of Bio sections already made for pages that have already been published on the blog.

Adsense is still climbing averaging around $1.00 or so a click.
Daily average is $1.01, which one can’t grumble about at this stage.
I mean, that’s $365.00 a year spending approx 3 hours a day on one site. Now if you did 12 hours a day, you could really get 4 websites up and running. Quit after one month, and get another 4 websites up and running. So what’s that? 4 websites per month, x 12 months = 48 websites. That’s almost $15,000 a year (basic wage for some people). As the content that’s set to get published at a future date, the more money you’re going to make, and more traffic you’re going to receive.


Traffic seems to remain steady at 60 or so visitors a day at the moment.

I know I have repeated this a few times, but let me repeat it again for those who might be embarrassed to ask this question.

Submitting to article directories. The matrix linking is somewhat confusing.

All we are doing is submitting our first 5 articles that revolve around Keyword 1. these articles have links that point to our blogs pages, home page and two inner pages.

The next day, we do the same again, but for Keyword 2, and have 3 links in our bio section pointing to our home page, and two inner pages of our blog / website. These anchor text links are named the same, ie, if the page is about Personal Loans, then I’ll link up the article bio section anchor text link to that page about personal links with the actual name of that keyword (personal Loans) and so on. It’s still ok to add other related words to those pages too, since it’s nice to mix it up somewhat or even add 3 worded phrases that contain the same keyword, ie, “Personal Loan Assistance’, “Faxless Payday Personal Loans”, see where I’m coming from here?

As the days go by, the articles are being approved, as before, I jot down the links to these articles that were approved to a note pad. On my next submission of articles to article directories, I add these links to my bio section, again with the same related keyword(s). It’s still ok to link up say for instance, An ezine article that was approved to another Ezine Article that was approved, and so on, and share some link love from ezine articles that were approved to another article directory, but always leaving at least one pointing to my home page of the blog / website with the main keyword that I am aiming for.

Now I don’t expect to rank for that keyword for quite some time on the first page, it’s gonna probably take me around 100-300 one way back links to get there. I could shorten the gap more by building up the article’s importance that contain these phrases via other 3rd party websites. Remember, when a 3rd parties article is ranking high, so will yours too. :)

What I would also like you to concentrate on next week while I’m not here is to focus on creating some article snippets to post to hubpages and squidoo lens pages, and find other related websites that do the very same. So for instance, create 5 article keyword snippets and link them up to 5 of those related article snippet pages on your blog / website. Create about 5 of them, that’s 25 links pointing to your site. Then do the same for hubpages. Then create another 5 more from each but this time, link them up to squidoo to your hub pages, and to your articles that were approved.

Also, what I want you to do, is go to Yahoo! Answers, create two user names. one will be to ask a question, the next day, or the day after, I want you to answer that question. ;) Do this for every page that is live on your website / blog, articles that were approved, squidoo len’s, hub pages, social bookmarking pages. Ok. :)

Keep doing this for a while, we’ll probably be doing this along with what we have been doing so far, for at least 4 - 6 weeks more. Then when I hit the 12 week mark. I’m going to stop. And let nature take it’s course. I’ll probably review the site in about 2-3 months and repeat a few things I did 3-5 months prior.

I’ll draw up an image of what this looks like week from Monday. 2nd June when I recommence.

I also want you to find some rss feed places, take “My Yahoo!” you can add a rss feed to it. You can do the same to Google, Ask, and various other places.

With this week off, hopefully it will allow some of you guys to catch up. :)

Until 2nd June everyone, thanks for your comments, please do not be afraid to ask a question if you have any, it’ll be my pleasure to help you’s all out.

Have an awesome weekend all. ;)

All the best

Loz

Traffic So Far


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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Twelve

May 21, 2008

May 21 (Day 12)

Morning everyone,

Now I want to say something here and it’s a little off topic, but all the same. I wanted to say this due to an event that I was confronted with by some 47 year old who was acting like a child yesterday and being totally insultive, not appreciating what I am doing here and the methods in which I approach these posts in and totally disregarding everything of what I have said - I take on the picture that not everyone is the same where a lot of people do not have this experience or may not know exactly what to do, or thought about it, but needed some kind of re-assurance of what they have been doing is the correct approach, or before they attempt it - I don’t go by illustrating things from the middle, up. I start from the rock bottom and work my way up, unlike what this other guy’s way of doing things taking it for granted that everyone should learn from the middle, upwards with no fundamentals in place - no one is going to learn quickly that way, people are still going to need to go back the roots and understand the fundamentals.

So if there are any guys here who are at a more advanced level, I apologise if some of this bores you.

Now, this is about profitability and business modeling…

So..I need to get this off my chest cos it kinda pissed me off. The logic that this person had just didn’t make any sense what so ever. One can not compare apples with orange’s and start forecasting what is going to happen in regards to traffic, and or earnings. Not in this game, affiliate marketing with PPC, yes, viral marketing, yes, but SEO, NO WAY. There are too many factors involved such as search engine algorithms, and how fast pages are indexed and when those pages of yours start getting traffic via organic searches or those sources you get links from that delivers traffic to your sites, etc.

As I have said before, in which method you use, is not wrong, sure there are other ways to get traffic fast and earn big money. But in SEO, no. Did Brad Fallon (my wedding favors) get those 5,000 - 10,000 visitors a day in one night? No, It took him years to get to that level, with over 33,000 back links. Brad knew first hand that it would take some work, and if he stuck with it, it would pay off eventually, and it has, 100 fold. It takes a lot of work, even it means to invest your time before things turn profitable, or gets to a point that you’re happy with.

Now you may be thinking, “what the… man that’s a lot of work”. You’re right. I personally don’t spend much time on article directories to be honest these days, I’m past that stage, but two years ago when I didn’t have the amount of sites that I have now (568 and growing), I had no choice. I was new to the SEO Industry, and finances were very tight, some of you may know of my situation explained in my E-Book that people downloaded when they joined my Pre-launch Waiting List for SEO Website Builder Pro, which coincidently has a more complicated linking structure, which I’m trying to illustrate on this blog, but in tiny bite size lumps and the methology behind it. Any ways as I say, my finances were on a very tight budget to get myself out of this whole I was in, so spending more money on what I knew that I had to do to push the envelope to speed up the process in time and effort spent to get the results I needed, wasn’t an option at that time.

I’m a pretty patient guy, and know eventually the work I put in will pay off, and besides all that, I wanted to learn the ropes of SEO and thanks to Brad Callen I was able to learn it and pick up tips on my own and learn how to test things out, and what was actually involved before I decided to spend thousands on dedicated servers, domain names, C-class IP addresses - which I might add was money generated via Adsense - so my upfront out of pocket cost was ZERO.

My Success can be duplicated and achieved in about 2 years or sooner. And by no means am I saying you’ll be rich over night as you can see this SEO stuff is very time consuming, at least to start off with, but we have to start from somewhere. When you get to the stage I have, a lot of this stuff I do here you wont need to worry about, you can use your own websites. You see, I have my own social bookmarking sites, RSS Feed sites, tons of blogs, normal websites, article directories, link directories, forums, social networking websites, and a crap load of yahoo group ezine spam free lists, which todate has a little over 100,000 people on related to all sorts of topics driving traffic to my blogs and other related websites. Yes, they took a little while to promote, but eventually it went viral and other people were joining the list that were interested in that particular topic.

I’ll get into that stuff later in the weeks to show you what you can do to get more traffic. It’s an investment well worth considering, but yes, you will need to put the time and effort in, you may not earn big money straight away like some people think you should and totally dismiss the idea cos the business model isn’t worthy enough to pack in your day job right there and then. Personally I think that’s a wrong attitude to have and more so to relate what we are doing here with offline businesses.

All businesses start off in Debt, most of those who have started businesses have to get some kind of loan, unless one was fortunate enough to have the money to start with a huge chuck of change and still some left over before ones business becomes profitable to live on. In any case, based on an example of a jealous person I was confronted with yesterday put this case study down, insulting my methods of getting traffic cos at this stage, Day 12, was not a good business role model to follow, because it worked out that I was earning around 45 cents a day - so far. Sure, not a great amount of money. But at least this method is not in debt, it’s ALL profit, and profit is profit no matter how anyone measures it. And with time, it will increase, just like fine wine as it gets older, it tastes a lot better, and so will your success as you let it mature and keep on chugging along.

I could of approached this case study in a method to say… hey, stop what you’re doing, you don’t need to do SEO to get traffic. Do this, do that, go here, post this, post that, go to forums and spend 3-6 months in the sector that your site is about, get to know people, more forums you join and mingle in with, you’ll be on your way to earning not $10 a day, but hundreds in adsense income. Or I could say, hey, don’t do this, don’t do that, post out loads of classified ads in your area, yes, it works, there are places out there that cost anywhere between $10 - $150 to have your ad posted out to hundreds of classified news paper ads.

Or I could say, don’t do this, don’t do that, do this, pay for Radio advertising. Or What ever. Sure, there are many ways you can generate traffic and earn a lot more than what we are doing here. But this is not about being in a race, it’s not about earning as much money as possible, but the many methods in which we can get traffic from. What you do with this information is free for you to do as you wish with, follow or not. It’s completely up to you. We all have to start somewhere, and in my opinion, I think the best place to start is the very bottom, and work our way up to the top. And that’s exactly what I am doing here. :)

Ok, now I got that off my chest… let’s move on. :)

Okey dokey then, I’ve enclosed an image of the 2nd step of the article directory linking process in the hopes that it will iron out any confusions. Refer to Day 9’s post for the first step.

As you can see from the first step all we merely did here was what a majority of us do; post articles to article directories with links pointing back to our home page and an additional two inner pages.

Article Directory Linking

The image above illustrates the process AFTER our articles to these other article directories have approved our articles. In most cases, unfortunately we have to wait about a week before the articles are approved, but that’s ok, don’t let it stop you from continuing, work around it until they are approved. If you find that article directory 3 was the only one out of the 5 that approved your article that day or the very next day, no problem, what I would probably do is link up another article that I know will be approved that day or the next, back to the article I did the day prior. It’s still ok to create this chain of related documents even if they are on the same site, I do it all the time on mine, just as wiki-pedia does. So by the time the others are approved, I’ll have article directory 1, 2, 4, and 5, linking up to article directory 3’s articles so doing it on others sites is always a good approach that many decide not to do, while article directory 3 links to the articles I posted there. Which is all good. I’m going to be doing the same any way on these other articles.

Any ways… To the left we have our first article directory posts and these all point to our home page, and other inner pages as described on Day 9’s post. And to the right we have our second article directory posts. Each of these posts are written around our main keyword. As you may remember, I choose for this example, to post article keyword 1 to article directory 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 on the first article directory step. The next day I did the same, but this time I used my articles that revolve around keyword 2.
I pointed these articles back to the article that was approved - then next week when the others are approved, I’ll concentrate on giving those links some more link love with more back links from other article directories and other sources that we will go into next week.

Just remember to jot down those approved article links and which sources they are having links pointed from so you can keep track. Around 10 or so is a good number which should generate at least a PR1 - PR2, and in some other cases high PR on those articles which eventually will funnel down on to your other pages of your blog / website, giving it more authority and speed up the process of article indexing.

I’m also going to mix it up a little bit here, and point more links from forum signatures to these articles as well today, and submit them to social bookmarking sites too. Sky’s the limit here.

Traffic So Far

May 21 (Day 12)

* started at 9.05am
* Traffic received before starting 18 visitors
* Submitted approved articles to social bookmarking sites
* submitted RSS Feed again to directories using RSS Feed Submit
* Submitted to more link directories
* Created more snippets and replied in quotes to forum posts
* Submitted more articles for Keyword 3 to article directories
* Before starting another $1.22 in an adsense click, almost approaching $20.00 or so in total so far.
* Time spent on project - 3 hours 56 minutes

One thing before I go, a reader of this blog submitted a resource that I wanted to share with you. And worth checking out.
http://trafficnymphomaniac.com/?cat=6 Worth Checking out. Also, one good resource that stuck out like a sore thumb is one I use regularly, and that’s RSS Matron. You may also want to check out ClipClip.org social bookmarking too.

Now here’s a tip that I share in my Video Guide To Profits videos (amongst many others), when you visit social bookmarking sites have a good long think about the keyword tags you are going to use, don’t use too many, 5 is ample. Actually thinking about it I think that’s the most you can do now on clipclip.org, before it used to be a lot more. Any ways, keep it at around 5 in any case. Before posting your tags run a search for the ones that you think is related to your niche, when the results show up take a look at the other tags people are using for their submissions, right click and open it in a new window tab, take a look at the page rank of that tagged page. Does it have a page rank? No, okay, keep trying and locate a tag that has a PR and write that down. Of course this is tiring too, but hey, it’s worth it. There are many social bookmarking sites out there that don’t have the “nofollow” attribute to stop the PR from being applied to your page, but in any case, the initial research you do will help the process of doing this again for future submissions a lot easier and of course, less time consuming.

If you’re starting out for the first time it is going to take a while to build up this resource. Back in the day when I was doing Viral Marketing, it took me years to gather over 4,000 highly responsive yahoogroup lists to post to, with a combined total of over 1,000,000 subscribers on them - of course, minus those that could be on the same lists. All the same, I found that each month that went by my list that I could post to was growing and so was the affiliate commissions I was making too. So it’s all good. :)

Oh, one more thing before I call it a day. RSS Feeds, not many people use these. If you have the cash, and you have prepared articles for several websites, think about setting up an RSS Feed for the new pages. I personally create my own and add links inside the descriptive text to get more one way back links than the norm. These RSS Feeds are then placed on my other related websites or a web page that is related which update automatically each time the page is visited. The good thing here is although the content from one RSS Feed’s website can provide more back links, the thing you need to think about is to avoid having this rss feed on a lot of pages that show the same content, although duplicate content is ok for websites, I still prefer to have random RSS Feed Item descriptions to be different on each page. I have a script that allows me to set a randomizer of which items it should display out of the many pages it displays. ie, on page 1, it may display Item 10, 20, 30, 40 and item 50. On page two, it may display item 1, 14, 17, 32, 27, and so on. This feature is also going to be added at some point in SEO Website Builder Pro too.

Okey doke Ladies and Gents, sorry for the long post and allowing me to get my little rant off my chest, I feel better now. :)

So, same time tomorrow then.

All the best

Loz

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Driving Traffic To New Blog Day Elven

May 20, 2008

May 20th (Day 11)

Ok, Today was a little more productive. Hours, hopefully should be back to normal, up at 6am today, got some stuff sorted then finally managed to get today’s work for this case study sorted.

* Time started 8:12am
* Submitted another 5 articles to article directories.
* Copied article links approved from yesterday to a note pad, added to new articles today.
* Submitted more pages to social bookmarking sites (only a few rather than all of them)
* Got some more forum back links
* Submitted to more link directories
* Traffic received before starting - 19 visitors
* Finished for the day - time spent on project 4 hours 26 minutes.

Ok, I’ve repeated a few steps as described in the other posts; forum links, social bookmarking.

In day 9’s post, I mentioned that we’re gonna start submitting articles to article directories now and jot down the approved articles to a note pad, remember?

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Ezine Articles (source 1)
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articledirectory-one.com/Article-Post-1.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 2)
articledirectory-one.com/Atticle-Post-2.htm (links pointing to it = 3, via source 2, & 3)

and so on.

GoArticles (source 2)
==========

articledirectory-two.com/Article-Post-1.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 1 & 3)
articledirectory-two.com/Article-Post-2.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 1 & 3, 3 links)

and so on.

Another Article Directory (source 3)
====================================
articledirectory-three.com/Article-Post-1.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 2)
articledirectory-three.com/Article-Post-2.htm (links pointing to it = 2, via source 1 & 2)

and so on.

Keep updating this file so you can keep track.

All I am doing here is simply keeping track of where I have previously had approved articles on, jotting down the FULL URL to the article. Then the next day (like today), I submit some more articles to article directories and add one of these links to a new article post, then move on to the next article directory, and once again, copy the 2nd approved article and add that to the new article I posted today on the article directory.

I do this in the fashion where I take Keyword 1, create 5 articles around that keyword, post them on the first day to each article directory. Day 2, I’ll create 5 articles on Keyword 2, and add article keyword 1 link to this second article, along with 2 of my other pages of my blog or normal website inner pages in my bio section or within the body text (which ever is allowed by the article directory). Then some weeks later, what I am going to do is fetch all of the articles that I have posted on my blog, and article directories, and other 3rd party websites and import these into Website Content Wizard and spin these articles again to make them even more UNIQUE. These will be submitted out using Article Post Robot to heaps of article directories, excluding the ones that I have already posted to. Whilst using Website Content Wizard to create all the bio-sections, subject lines for me so I don’t have to. :)

This step is what a LOT of people miss. You see, why people miss this step is beyond me. It’s like as if they are wasting all their SEO efforts. All new pages indexed don’t really have much authority on them, It’s not good to just rely on the website in question authority status. Ok, sure, their pages will get indexed quickly, thus having your new pages indexed in a preferred timely fashion, or a back link counted more or less instantly (varies from search engine to search engine) as that new article from the authority article directory gets indexed.

We ALL get links to our own pages, why not to the articles that we post to these article directories or other sources? Is it that we feel that it’s not our website, why should we be helping them have their pages rank higher? Well, hey, don’t have that attitude. What we are doing here is funneling the PR to our pages AND increasing the importance factor of the article itself, which is then passed on to your article, pushing your article up even higher in the rankings. ;)

Eventually we’re going to have more links pointing to our pages any way than the sources we get links from and in time your pages will rank higher and higher and remain stable beating everyone else, unless of course you’re in a competitive niche where rankings change all the time; another reason why I choose niches in the sector that pay high, there’s not many people out there that decide to go for niches that they feel people aren’t searching for things unless they have like thousnads of visitors a day.

Now, you know when you want to check to see where search engines have indexed your back links, let’s use google as they seem to be a little fussy which back links they want to show. I’ll give you a tip, something I noticed many months ago. And in essence, this is going back to the authoritive nature of how an article is ranked. How are they ranked? Votes right? Well, sure, amongst other things such as onpage factors, other points of relevancy, etc and how many links there are pointing to that document.

Sites that are regularly updated will be shown in googles back link index more or less all the time. Sure, for a while those links you get from places like goarticles, ezine articles are shown, but they don’t hang around for long? Why? Cos you’re not pointing links to them. Once you leave an article as is, published and that’s it, it’s like you sitting on some island on your own, with no company to have fun with. How boring.

Start pointing links to those articles you made on a regular basis, or every other week, it wont hurt and in fact holds far more power making your articles appear more relevant by giving it some link love.

As the weeks ahead come closer, you’ll see me using the same tactic here with these other places that I place content on. And even some other places that you wouldn’t think I would do. if you can think back, are there any other links that are left abondend, not including the forum links? If you can’t guess, the answer is, somewhere in the other posts here, but if you can’t find it, not to worry, it will be revealed in the posts in the near future.

As yesterday, I’ll post the images below, the first one is the traffic, with the average daily visitor count hitting 62 visitors a day. I got some more adsense clicks today before starting, not checked since then, but will give it another check tomorrow.

The next image shows my blog, I’ve blurred out the blog name and the text of the article and links used to ensure authenticity of the results that I show every day of the traffic received.

What I’ve done here today was removed one of the 468 x 60 banners from the top of the article, just under the first paragraph. Then hacked the wordpress code to allow the installed width for recent posts to show more than 15 recent posts at any one time, and added a 160 x 600 wide skyscraper to the left, 2nd virtical column, I’ve also added a blue lined border. I’m just testing something out, I don’t usually use blogs for adsense I don’t find that they convert as well for adsense clicks than normal websites. Any ways. The other 468 x 60 banner is just below the article, above the last paragraph. I decided that if these people are coming from search engine traffic, I’ve already got their attention and I didn’t want to put them off by displaying an advert just under the first paragraph and added one to the right in the column instead, to make it appear that it’s a part of the link navigation.

I’ll leave it like that for a while then test it again without the blue lined border.

Also notice the in-content links? K, as I mention before, it just gives the search engine the feeling that you know what you’re talking about, adding more points of referrences to futher increase user experience. It’s also a good SEO tactic as well to not just place these links anywhere, but to concentrate on the proximity of the links, ie, how far away is the link from another related keyword. This works especially well in Yahoo and MSN too. But just requires more links than Google.

That’s it for now folks,

Hope ya enjoying the posts so far.

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All the best

Loz


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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


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Placing Links On Sites, Overcoming Spammer Status

March 14, 2008

Placing links to my site on forum/blogs and even articles sites such as eZine, is sometimes problematic - not always they allow you to do that and sometimes they consider you as spammer, how to overcome that?

Another question from Yaron. Once again, thank you for your question. :)

Regarding forums, there’s a right way and a wrong way. The wrong way is to just join a forum add a link to your profile, and or submit a post that’s not related. Read more


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Manual SEO compared to Automatic SEO

March 14, 2008

As an SEO Specialist, what is your attitude towards manual SEO compared wtih automatic software-based SEO?

Great question Yaron and thank you for asking.

There’s lots of software out there these days that claim they do some sort of SEO Analysis, and some even do the SEO for you while you sleep. There is one piece of software of which I will not mention its name as I don’t want to come across that I’m competing with them or be unfair in any way. Read more


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Keyword Rankings In Different Search Engines

March 7, 2008

Ranking For Keywords in Different Search Engines like google.co.uk, google.ie, google.com.au etc.

A question was brought to me by a member of my Search Engine Optimization Forum asking how do you rank for keywords in different search engines. Read more


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Search Engine Optimization History

March 5, 2008

History Of Search Engine Optimization / Marketing

Where did it all start?

For many people it was back in 1995 / 1996 during the early days of Yahoo! where people would stuff keywords all over the place then check back later to see where they ranked. It was pretty easy back then to get indexed, submit your site and within 72 hours there you were. Read more


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