New SEO experiment.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by stackman, Aug 16, 2006.

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    I've been conducting some experimenting on a new site (see signature) with some SEO techniques that I can't easily try on established sites.

    I discuss most of what I'm doing in the blog on the site, but some other techniques won't be discussed until later. Maybe I'll write an ebook and get rich :D

    The site purposely violates or ignores some common SEO rules so that we can see the affects of making changes later. The site topic was also purposely selected as one that is very competitive and difficult to rank in.

    The site has been operational for about 3 weeks and ranks #1 in Google, Yahoo, and MSN for a chosen keyword. Indexing to ranking took about 1.5 weeks.

    Comments would be appreciated.
     
    stackman, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    tonyrocks Active Member

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    You know,
    actually I came accross your site today just to play with your adsense calculator. But then got roped in reading your blog posts. If I didnt know any better, id'a thought it was a legit site ;)

    So what are you doing that violates or ignores some common SEO rules? I can't seem to find?
     
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    Examples:

    1) Title of site not SEO-friendly. Will be changed later to reflect selected keyword focus.

    2) Titles of articles not totally targeted to common high-frequency keyword search phrases. Will change later when appropriate keywords are chosen for each article.

    3) External backlink potential has not yet been exploited. Internal linking can be improved.

    4) Needs additional content for related keyword variations. Will go for highly competitive two-word keywords.
     
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    interesting! So how is it goin? What kind of numbers (traffic) are you getting?
     
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    Here's something new that's happening on my test site. I've never encountered it before (or maybe I wasn't looking closely before).

    My logs show hits a few times a day from a collection of about eight sites with names like trafficpanther and easykeywords. The sites are entirely spam and all the hits from the different sites come at the same time -- obviously related and automated. The only way they could benefit is if webmasters examined their logs, as I have done, and go to the sites out of curiosity. They must be trolling these forums looking for site addresses because it's never happened on my other sites.

    Anyone else seen this?
     
    stackman, Aug 19, 2006 IP