I'm buzzing right now - in the last couple of hours I have discovered a few things that make me feel really optimistic. Cast your mind back to my introduction post when I mentioned that freebie site I have. I haven't updated it in months, haven't built any backlinks - nothing. It still gets traffic each and every day though. A few weeks ago we earned enough 'greens' to get a bank transfer of £34/$54. We can go months without getting anything but when you get two you qualify for a bank transfer instead of a gadget or gift if you choose.
Anyway, cutting to the chase, my wife is working on a new site that she is thinking of flipping in the future and I was helping her out with the SEO on it. I'm a big fan and user of the free tools offered by Link Assistant - inside the suite you download, there is a tool to check backlinks, one to check rankings, one to find link opportunities and one to give an extremely detailed report on how well optimized your site is for your chosen keywords. At the end of the analyzation, you get an SEO score. My wife's new site got a very good one(46%) and while I was using the tool I thought I'd check the freebie site out of curiosity.
The results? ALL 4 keywords that I targeted with it are getting scores of 70%+ - comfortably beating each and every respective Google top 10. Oh, and these keyword phrases get hundreds of thousands of searches per month EACH. I remember working extremely hard on it using other tools like Web CEO months ago, but I moved onto other projects and kind of forgot about it. No more! I was thinking of flipping it, but I think I'm going to get back into adding content to it, and building backlinks. It has a couple of hundred at the moment, but knowing what I know now, I think I can crack the top 10's for all 4 keywords. I firmly believe good SEO optimization is the backbone of a site's ranking, but it's the presence you create for it(i.e varied backlinks) that leverages the entire thing.
The list of things I haven't done with this site is pretty long, I'll write them down in fact. These are all things that I know contribute massively to a site's ranking performance in terms of backlinks:-
-Submit articles to multiple article directories
-Build web 2.0 properties
-Submit press releases
-Submit to directories
-Submit videos
-Blog commenting
...of course, Google loves fresh content, and this site hasn't had any for probably 5 months+. Doing everything above and adding fresh content should get the site in the top 10 for at least one of the keywords. One referral/sale is worth $27 so I think I'd be crazy to either flip this site or continue to be inactive with it.
When checking stats for it, I noticed I had 2 greens - which means another bank transfer! None of this counts towards this total BTW, the second green was done on Dec 31st. I'm really happy though, because I'm going to spend the entire $54 on IM tools. First up is a productivity tool that was created by another Warrior, called the Focus Master. You input all your daily tasks into it and set a time, and it generates reports too. It's exactly what I need right now. That leaves me with $37, not sure what to spend that on yet but I'm sure I'll find something soon.
OK, time to talk about what I have actually done today. In truth, not a whole lot, and certainly not enough. I had my first play with the Article Productions spinner and I am absolutely blown away by it. I took an already written article I have, wrote 2 alternatives for the title, and every paragraph except one and spun 10 versions. The result? The articles were ranging from 60-80% uniqueness! This took me around an hour, and that was only because it was my first try - I could have done it in half the time. The system it uses is intuitive, and very enjoyable to use. No wonder it's creator, James Stein, often comments that there are human controlled spinners out there that give great results as opposed to software ones that produce gibberish - this is absolutely the real deal. The other tools there are outstanding too. I'm probably going to submit the majority of those 10 articles to web 2.0 properties and maybe a couple of directories too.
That's pretty much all I did today - again not massively productive, but again I took a big step in terms of what I learned. I also helped my wife out a lot with her site. Money wise, myself and my JV partner made one sale of our PLR article pack, so I made $3 or so - hardly mind blowing, but I've actually made money on each of the 4 days of this challenge so far. I'm falling way short of my target, but I'm still very confident of reaching it.
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