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Site 3 Update 2-5-13 - Ranking for secondary keywords
kamali
Published on February 5, 2013
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Hey everyone, so here is the latest and greatest on my experimental site. I call it "site 3" but I'm finally willing to share the URL as it does not affect what I'm trying to do.
Feel Free to check out the other "site 3" blogs to see how I set this site up and what kind of plugins and settings I had to use. Now on to the update.
Here are things I tried and my conclusions so far...
Keyword in the domain EMD dd not seem to help much
I have been deliberately waiting for weeks at a time to see what was making a difference and what was NOT making a difference. So I basically do one thing and wait patiently to see the rank results before doing something else.
My first goal was to choose a domain name with the Keywords in it. This is also known as EMD (exact match domain) for those that don't know. Well, this did not seem to have any effect at all.
Social Bookmarking? Jury still out on this one.
I then set up (or tried to set up) some social bookmarks by going to some social directory sites and just submitting my websites there. Majority of the social bookmark sites said (unless I paid a fee) it would take several weeks for the review process to go through and there were no guarantees. I did the free submissions anyway, but it is hard to say whether this method was effective or not.
Building Backlinks using Article Submissions seems to be doing the trick
Aaaah, the good ole backlink. My current method has been building backlinks to the site. I have mentioned in a few of my other posts that I use a paid service which automates my article submissions for me, which in turn adds two backlinks per submission.
This is no different than manually writing articles for Ezinearticles, Streetarticles, GoArticles or even guest posting. The only difference is that this service automatically submits the articles to different sites for me once i write them.
This is something I simply don't have the time to do effectively, so (for me) it is worth the money to have someone else do it for me.
Since I started doing this I am pleased to say that using my rank tracker plugin I am starting to see rankings for keywords I was not even thinking about.
Unfortunately, I am still not ranked for the main keywords I'm interested in.
Not sure how clear the picture is but you might be able to see that I am ranked (and rank position is increasing) for some words but there are 3 keywords where I am not ranked. These are actually the main keywords that I'm targeting. It is a little frustrating but some progress is better than no progress.
Things to note about the site.
Site URL: http://howtobuytaxliensnow.com
I'm trying to keep things as basic as possible
I am trying some new themes as of today. (open to suggestions)
So far I only have 10 posts on the site and 3 pages. I may up this number as one of my tests to see if this improves my rankings.
Conclusion
There is a lot of debate about paid services being spammy and potentially harming your site so I am treading with caution on this one. I think these services can still be effective if you use them in a natural way and not try to overstuff your keywords.
Things like link (anchor text) diversification come to mind here. I'm still no expert on the whole SEO thing. But, by trial and error I'm slowly figuring it out.
I've been following a few bloggers (not within the WA community) and testing out some of their methods. I'm also subscribed to warrior forum which is VERY helpful. That in addition to all the tools here in WA and I should be able to make some serious headway.
So now that you know the latest and greatest, I'm anxious to hear all comments.
Feel Free to check out the other "site 3" blogs to see how I set this site up and what kind of plugins and settings I had to use. Now on to the update.
Here are things I tried and my conclusions so far...
Keyword in the domain EMD dd not seem to help much
I have been deliberately waiting for weeks at a time to see what was making a difference and what was NOT making a difference. So I basically do one thing and wait patiently to see the rank results before doing something else.
My first goal was to choose a domain name with the Keywords in it. This is also known as EMD (exact match domain) for those that don't know. Well, this did not seem to have any effect at all.
Social Bookmarking? Jury still out on this one.
I then set up (or tried to set up) some social bookmarks by going to some social directory sites and just submitting my websites there. Majority of the social bookmark sites said (unless I paid a fee) it would take several weeks for the review process to go through and there were no guarantees. I did the free submissions anyway, but it is hard to say whether this method was effective or not.
Building Backlinks using Article Submissions seems to be doing the trick
Aaaah, the good ole backlink. My current method has been building backlinks to the site. I have mentioned in a few of my other posts that I use a paid service which automates my article submissions for me, which in turn adds two backlinks per submission.
This is no different than manually writing articles for Ezinearticles, Streetarticles, GoArticles or even guest posting. The only difference is that this service automatically submits the articles to different sites for me once i write them.
This is something I simply don't have the time to do effectively, so (for me) it is worth the money to have someone else do it for me.
Since I started doing this I am pleased to say that using my rank tracker plugin I am starting to see rankings for keywords I was not even thinking about.
Unfortunately, I am still not ranked for the main keywords I'm interested in.
Not sure how clear the picture is but you might be able to see that I am ranked (and rank position is increasing) for some words but there are 3 keywords where I am not ranked. These are actually the main keywords that I'm targeting. It is a little frustrating but some progress is better than no progress.
Things to note about the site.
Site URL: http://howtobuytaxliensnow.com
I'm trying to keep things as basic as possible
I am trying some new themes as of today. (open to suggestions)
So far I only have 10 posts on the site and 3 pages. I may up this number as one of my tests to see if this improves my rankings.
Conclusion
There is a lot of debate about paid services being spammy and potentially harming your site so I am treading with caution on this one. I think these services can still be effective if you use them in a natural way and not try to overstuff your keywords.
Things like link (anchor text) diversification come to mind here. I'm still no expert on the whole SEO thing. But, by trial and error I'm slowly figuring it out.
I've been following a few bloggers (not within the WA community) and testing out some of their methods. I'm also subscribed to warrior forum which is VERY helpful. That in addition to all the tools here in WA and I should be able to make some serious headway.
So now that you know the latest and greatest, I'm anxious to hear all comments.
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