SEO Case Study – 4 Sites: Basic Competition Analysis
Hi!
If you follow my posts, some time ago I prepared for the creation and SEO promotion of 4 picked sites for some Clickbank products.
I use the so called “sinping” approach, meaning that every site is targeting and being optimised for only 1 keyword.
Each keyword has 2 unique characteristics: traffic volume and level of competition. 3rd one that I miss here iskeyword relevance to my offer, but let’s take relevance as granted here, since we’re not complete noobs )))
So, I’m trying to find a perfect balance between traffic volume and competition strength, in order to achieve my #1 goal – top 10-5 rankings in Google in 1 month (as fast as possible). I suppose to see some income from these sites in 1 month.
Next, the competition strength – I measure it by 3 factors:
1. # of SERP results for my keyword in quotes – “keyword”
2. # of sites having my full keyword/keyphrase in thier backlink strategy: allinanchor:”keyword”
3. On-page and off-page SEO strength of top 10 sites in Google for my keyphrase.
As you remember, in my SEO sites experiment post I’ve picked up 4 different keywords with different values of these 3 factors.
The goal of this case study is to determine which combination of factors reflects the speed and difficulty of taking my 4 sites to the top. Let’s look at the factors again:
Site #1 Top 10 Competition:
Site #2 Top 10 Competition:
Site #3 Top 10 Competition (oops – I’m scared!):
Site #4 Top 10 Competition (lot’s of on-page optimization here…):
Well, for all 4 sites I can see lots of backlinks and even on-page optimised sites for keyword #4. I see ezinearticles, youtube vids, authority sites, and even sites like mine… will I be able to compete in this mess? 
(!) The good advice is to hunt for keywords with PR up to 3 in top 10 and some top 10 sites with less than 50 backlinks. (!)
Market Samurai also lets me quickly analyse the PR and anchor texts of each of top 1o sites. This will allow me to determine how many backlinks I need to hang around these guyes.
Ok, I’m not going to post any more screenshots with in-depth analysis of my competition, but you can see that factor #3 is really tough! (This is VERY saturated niche by the way).
So, let the experiment begin!
4 keyword-rich Domains bought, wordpress installed, SEO plugins and topic-related themes added. I will use the same strategy promoting all 4 sites, and all of them are hosted on 1 host. THis will help me to get more clear results.
Stay tuned, as this is gonna be interesting!
Related posts:
- SEO Sites Experiment
- Case Study 2 – “TruthAboutAbs” Campaign Day 2 Results
- My Recent SEO Success and Failure
- Case Study 2 – “TruthAboutAbs” Campaign Launch
- GC Keyword Research Case Study
Filed Under: Case Studies • SEO
Doing the same!
The only difference with me is that I’m using Joomla.
It’s gonna be interesting!
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Hi!
wow thought Joomla is a bit hard to learn) is it good for SEO?
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Good luck, man. i just build my micro site by dreamware to rank. I will give you my site later.
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Hi Giannis!
Glad that you’re moving on as well. I will update my blos soon as the content is 95% created and I’m building these sites, doing social bookmarking and all the stuff.
I’ve also found interesting kw and bought a domain already, now uploading plugins and themes. I hope to get some rankings fast in this niche. I also have all the content and just need to rewrite it a bit. I’ll show this site to you and can explain what and how I did for fast rankings. It will take time though as I need to finish these 4 sites first.
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