I’ve been quite busy for the past week or so, but that hasn’t stopped me from tracking results. There are 10 main key phrases that I consider vital for my traffic. As of this morning I am on the first page of Google for all 10. One of the more popular phrases has 54 million results and is quite competitive, so I have to say i’m quite pleased about that. Traffic is up, subscribers are up, and i’m ranking for all of the phrases I need at this point. Now that i’ve seen the results, all I need to do is target a few dozen other phrases and take things to the next level. Stay tuned.
In case you missed it, this is a multi part series about Link Exchange. You can get caught up to speed on the details and setup here: Link Exchange
For the rest of you, lets dive into the numbers. This is now the 4th day of use. I am still running without a link throttle and averaging 16-18,000 link views per hour. Let’s take a look at the screenshot:
I have of course removed the link ur’s and the keywords i’m targeting. We can see a tremendous number of google link views which really seems to be translating into increased
indexing and higher rankings. The domain is now pretty much 100 percent indexed, and as the following image will show, the traffic has really increased. Rankings for nearly all of my target keywords are now showing up on the first page of Google with several in the number 1 position. Now, we all know Google is important, but hardly the only game in town. Lets take a look at Yahoo and MSN/Live. Yahoo at the start of this was showing 0 pages indexed. We simply didn’t show up. As of today, we have 71 pages indexed and show 506 incoming links. Quite impressive, and even more impressive is the fact that we now rank in Yahoo for two of our most important target keyword phrases. In fact, today we received our first human traffic from yahoo for our main target phrase. I expected Yahoo to take several weeks, but the sheer linking power of LE seems to be reducing that expected lag. As for msn, the same starting scenario with us having 0 pages indexed just last week. Today, we see 29 indexed pages. Definitely an impressive start for only being 4 days in.
Next we will take a look at the most important data. The analytics:
As we can see from the graph, it’s quite the increase over our starting point. Recall that we were averaging 0-2 searches per day. Yesterday we had 98 incoming hits from search engines, and in fact we had several new members register as a result.
That’s about all for today. Expect another update on Monday as we follow the progress 