I want to thank you all for your patience and support. It’s been a pretty stressful week (or so) but things should be getting back on track now. Tomorrow I will start posting daily summaries again but today I wanted to post a status update for my sites.
Since I’ve been gone I haven’t done too much in the way of promotion (just a few article submissions) but I did launch one new site in the work at home niche.
Here is the current status for my 5 sites:
key:
- K = Keyword (M=main, 1, 2, etc.)
- Date = Date launched
- I = Indexed (Google, Yahoo, Bing)
- R = SERP Rank for broad search (p = exact phrase)
- B = # of Backlinks
- V = Visitors since the site launched
- $ = Income from site
- S = Searches
- C = Competition (broad search)
- SOC = SOC
| K | Date | I | R | B | V | $ | S | C | SOC |
| Site 1 = Home | |||||||||
| M | 21-Sep | G / Y | 329 (p) | 3 | 10 | 0 | 1,900 | 719k | 2,330 |
| 1 | 21-Sep | G | - | 0 | - | - | 320 | 901k | 19 |
| 2 | 21-Sep | G | - | 0 | - | - | 7,300 | 213k | 32 |
| 3 | 21-Sep | G | - | 0 | - | - | 4,600 | 497k | 49 |
| 4 | 21-Sep | no | - | 0 | - | - | 880 | 71k | 5 |
| Site 2 = Financial | |||||||||
| M | 24-Sep | G/Y | 75 | 13 | 18 | 20.68 | 6,600 | 26k | 19 |
| Site 3 = Financial | |||||||||
| M | 24-Sep | G/Y | 0 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 9,900 | 19.4 mil | 31 |
| Site 4 = Pets | |||||||||
| M | 26-Sep | G | 109 | 4 | 3 | 0.35 | 9,900 | 385k | 29 |
| Site 5 = Work from Home | |||||||||
| M | 7-Oct | no | - | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8,100 | 1.9 mil | 29 |
| 1 | 7-Oct | G | 324 | 0 | - | - | 6,600 | 387k | 26 |
| 2 | 7-Oct | G | - | 0 | - | - | 1,000 | 1.36 mil | 12 |
NOTE: I updated the competition numbers. I realized that I’d put for exact phrase not broad search.
Site 1 - I kind of screwed up on this one. I initially launched it with Dreamweaver and then switched to XSitePro. When I switched it changed the URLs for keywords 1-4 so I was backlinking to the wrong pages. The original pages have 3 backlinks each but the new pages (I only discovered this yesterday) have none. I’ve set up redirects for the old pages to the new but backlinking is starting from scratch.
Site 2 - On this one I also used affiliate links and that’s where the $20 has come from. I’m also ranking ok for a few random other phrases but they don’t get much search action.
Site 3 - I knew this one would be a challenge and I’m not in the top 1000 yet for my main keyword. However, I am on page 1 for 2 other keywords but they don’t get many searches so won’t do me much good.
Site 4 - I haven’t done too much to promote this one so it’s not surprising that it’s not ranking better though really, I can’t complain considering how little I’ve done. I also have several more pages to add to this site content.
Site 5 - I’ve done hardly anything for this site so I’m just glad to see it’s in the top 1000. Once I get the existing keywords to a higher spot there are additional keywords that I’ll start targeting that get good searches but have a LOT of competition.
TIP: I was using the channels function on XSitePro to track my adsense but I found it wasn’t really working so I switched to the URL channels on the adsense site itself and I’ve found that it works much better so if you aren’t doing that, you should consider switching.
