Minisite #1 Timeline Case Study
This post is my draft now and will be published after I see some positive results with the rankings of the site.
06.02.10
Got all the content ready from my writer. 5 articles each targeting a single keyword. Total 5 posts/5 keywords for the site. Installed a hosting, blog and Flexibility 2 theme. Installed all the necessary plugins (All-in-one-SEO, Akismet,Easy privacy policy, etc…) Added 5 posts and must-have pages, like contact, privacy, about.
It took a LOT of time to customize the theme – not the easiest comparing to Thesis 1.6. Spent over 5 hours reading forum and customizing it.
Added adsense blocks (top left of each post + sidebar right after feature box) and 1 main product from MarketHealth + 1 product from CJ.com. This is my monetization.
Once the site created, I pinged it, and bookmarked with BookmarkWiz.
Created project in EVO II and run a social bookmarking campaign on it as well.
Created a tracking for all 5 keywords in Traffic Travis.
Note! The domain was registered with the misspelling I’ve accidentally made! Will this domain rank for my main keyword?
07.02.10
Checked the site via site:http://site.com and found that all pages of my site are indexed by Google.
Positions across google, bing and yahoo – all 5 keywords not in top 100.
08.02.10
Did nothing, positions for all keywords are not in top 100 across all serach engines.
09.02.10
Created a network of satellites, blog.com, wordpress.com, tumblr.com etc. Submitted unique articles to all the blogs, pinged the network and created RSS feeds for all the blogs and submitted it to RSS aggregators.
10.02.10
Did nothing to the site, didn’t check the positions at all.
11.02.10
Toaday I’ve added an article to all my satellites, also pinged them and updated their RSS feeds in agregators. Social Bookmarked the site once again. Positions of the site for my main keyword are below top 100 still.
12.02.10
Today I’ve done nothing to promote the site. I’ve checked rankings in Traffic Travis (did you know that you can dig up to 1000 top results across search engines?) and found that some of my secondary keywords get positions like 350-380 and the site is ranked #15 for my main keyword in Google.
Main keyword: #15 Google
13.02.10
I’ve did nothing to promote a site. Current rankings are higher than yesterday. Now between 320 and 340 positions. Top keyword is in position 15 in Google. 3 out of 5 keywords are now already ranked in google. The tendency is positive.
14.02.10
Today I procastinated all day. That’s it. Did nothing. Played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And then just updated this post.
15.02.10
Today I’ve updated my satellites with a new article. Also checked the rankings and see one of the keywords gone from top 1000, and the main keywords is stick to position 15. The second keyword holds position 323. This is kind of google dance with these secondary keywords, but I’m glad to see the main keyword close to page 1.
16.02.10
Today i’ve did nothing to the site. Didn’t check the results.
17.02.10
I’ve checked the site’s SERPs and found that the site is in pos #15 for my main keyword and in position #32 for one of the secondary keywords. Now I’m adding more writers to my team and will be working more on this site in the near future.
18.02.10
The site’s positions are growing slowly. Main keyword – position #14 in google. 2-tier keywords are also showing some nice increase in rankings. Did nothing to promote the site.
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I just put up 2 more AdSense “snipers” this week, planning on a third. I’m trying MikeMan’s RSS/BMD/Digg and UAW run technique, but for all my other AdSense sites, I’m on 1-2 of G, 1-2 of Bing, Yahoo….hmmm….and they make me money every day.
All that was done the old-school way: bum marketing, posting Ezine articles I wrote (without any adjustments to content or title) to ArticlesBase and GoArt’s…it worked.
Checked my estimated value on some site-value checker, and the one site I didn’t think was all that great was worth the most: $900! The others were $200 and $450, so I’m a happy camper.
I WAS going to check out a new theme, but wanted instead to keep pushing forward – like you said, it takes a while to get familiar with a template/plugins, so, I figure why fix a good tire?
Anyhow, it took me about 1 month with the first site to get to high up on page 2 of G’s SERP, and 2 months for the 2nd to get up past page 4 (it is now on page 1), and less than 30 days to get #3 ranked onto page 1-2…very happy, it just takes time.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts – my wife thinks I’m CRAZY for AdSense this and Commission Junction that…but I’m obsessed. Now I just have to run.
If I left you with anything, it would be this: keep building. Don’t keep checking rank but once a month. It will happen, so long as you did your SEO and KW research right.
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Hi James!
I’ve published this post accidentally. I was writing in a draft and supposed to publish it once I get some high rankings
But anyway, I’ll still be updating it every day.
RSS+ social bookmarking – I also do it as it really helps the new site get ranked in 1 day. Using BookmarkWiz but to be frank I’m not very happy about it now:
1. It doesn’t post to Digg (big flaw!)
2. 40 to 60% of submissions fail due to some errors, so instead of getting 40 links I usually get 20 links from SB sites…
Now I’m seriously turning to SENuke
Really nice that your sites are on page 1-2 on all top search engines! And making money… What keyword search volume do you usually taget when creating these adsense sites?
I’ve chosen 1900 to 2400 exact searches per month, but I have a feeling that until the site hits #1 position, it’ll get much less traffic and clicks/sales.
Sure the rankings take time, I wrote a post some time ago how my empty blog got #4 position in google. Now it’s filled with targeted content, has some backlinks and it’s on position 150 !
Just checked another empty blog that I’ve created in 20 minutes and pinged about 1 week ago. It’s now on pos 16 in google for my main keyword. Interesting to see what happens if I fill it with content and get some backlinks as well )))
James, what value checker you use? I’m interested since I plan to estimate one of my old sites.
Absolutely agree with you – keep building! This is a system, ongoing work and repeating the same tasks every day! Build a site, submit articles and build backlinks slowly, keep doing the same next day with a new site… Results will come.
I think you’re 100% right about adsense and CJ (or other aff programs) – this is the easiest way to make money – aff sales may vanish due to many factors, but until the site gets traffic, adsense income will come every day! All these ppc, CPA offers, media buying etc – just the rest. adsense and many small internet properties that get traffic – this is the foundation to build upon!
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Hey, Grand -
Keyword traffic volume, as a metric for me, is anything above 1000 searches in Micro Niche Finder – which has served amazingly well.
Across all 5 keywords for a domain, I want to be sure I get 5k+ collective, local searches monthly, on average 1k/each, though I do try for the bigger, 2.5k+ range when I can.
Tracking – I don’t have a centralized system, I use SEO Book’s Firefox toolbar plugin. I have to check each one at a time.
As to getting the first page of G or whatnot – I have no idea, all I do differently is use 2 different social bookmarkers and 2 different RSS feed submitters, as well as at least 1 article to EzineArt’s which I do cross-publish to GoArticles and ArticlesBase, they still rank very well for their respective keywords.
I notice you’re doing the “back up your back up” system that seems to be pretty popular – haven’t tried that yet, though it makes sense. I’m trying to do as little as I can – I’ve recently put up 2 more sites with 4 more on the way thanks to my re-writers from oDesk.
Personally I’m busy with: family day job, Elance freelancing…site building gets third. When I quit the day job I’ll have more time to build, but from 3 sites –> 8-12 sites in a month, I’m going the right way at least, if not s l o w l y.
I think, because I’m using the Micro Niche Finder, so long as I get the keywords with really low competition (sticking with as many zero competes or ultra-low), I’m on the right track.
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Actually, forgot to mention that I also use the Unique Article Wizard for my campaigns, and I re-write content from a PLR collection to submit with on those runs. One article for the main page.
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