[Journey] A newbie ranks his first review site

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Hey everyone.

I first heard of affiliate marketing/SEO a week ago and have spent every day the past seven days reading up for 8-12 hours a day and trying to figure out how exactly to make money online.

I have two different approaches... one site will be a blog style site that I try to get clickbank ebooks sold on and another will be a niche site that I did the keyword research for myself.

This post will follow my progress on trying to rank the niche site on google. Here is the lowdown on the keyword...

KW 1 (main keyword) Exact Local Matches: 4,400 CPC: 1.1 Adwords comp:High

I have an EMD for this keyword.

Others I'm hoping to rank for...

KW 2: Exact Local Matches:5,400 CPC:1.08, Adwords comp:High
KW 3: Exact Local Matches: 1,300 CPC: 1.22, Adwords Comp: High
KW 4 : Exact Local Matches:6,600 CPC:1, Adwords Comp: High
KW 5: Exact Local Matches:480 CPC: 0.86, Adwords Comp:Medium

Here is the competition as far as google SERPs go according to market samuri
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SERP IQ is giving me a score of 44 (average competition) but I really don't believe it after checking out the SERP for myself and running it through market samuri.

I have 4 reviews up right now on the product KW 1 is. They are all original (I wrote them myself, they are entertaining, and realistic with no comparable content on the web). They average 450 words each.

I just threw up adsense on there, and they have yet to approve me. We'll see how it goes. I'm going to monetize through that and another program which gives me 8% on products sold through there site. I'll likely throw up a link at the end of each review with a link to their site and that product when I get approved to that network.

I'm still learning about different kinds of link building, but for week 1...

Week 1: 10 High PR backlinks/day manually.

Post up with some feedback or good luck!
 


Houdas said:
Where do you get 10 high PR backlinks a day, manually?
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I have a list of a hundred high pr sites that allow new members to sign up and create blogs with active links.

I actually only got about through 10 before I decided to call it quits. I'm wasn't sure that posting on a site completely unrelated to my niche was going to be that helpful (I'm sure it is, but it was boring as hell and I decided to go a different route).

So basically what I started doing was backlinking to forums where a link to my website had the potential to bring somebody in it was actually USEFUL for. I've done this for the past two days and my results are good so far!

For Keyword 1, I've hit 21 in the SERPS. I still have a long way to go, but wow, I think I picked a really good niche! I noticed yesterday that a guy that I approached about a domain name (yes I'm a noob...) started doing some SEO on his OLD site (talking it looks like a MFA from the 90's) and it's in spot number 2.

I'm going to keep on doing manual backlinking for now to see how far it gets me before doing some fiverr services or something.

BTW, this is a review site, and so far I'm monetizing with adsense and amazon. The past two days I've had a combined 60 views on my site, but no clicks on adsense, 5 clicks on affil links with no orders yet. I'm thinking of just taking adsense down so it looks like a legit site, but I'm not sure yet. I'll keep you all updated!
 
Cool. I would take adsense down. Unless your commission would be less than a couple dollars, you will make much more with amazon.
 
Thanks a lot for the kind words and advice everyone. I will likely ditch adsense today and just monetize (or lack thereof) with Amazon.

I didn't really do much yesterday, but I autopiloted my way to 26 views yesterday. After about an hour of backlinking, I have so far gotten 47 views today! Things are looking up. No clicks on adsense yet, but Amazon says I have had 10 clicks on the affil links.

Checked on my rank, and I moved up to 16 on big G! Yeehaw first page here I come. Of the views that I'm getting, some of them are for long tails and from organic KW 1 traffic.

Right now I'm tracking using the wordpress jetpack analyzer, just because I don't really want to upgrade to VPS hosting (so I can run prosper 202) until this month is over. What do you guys think?
 
instagator said:
Thanks a lot for the kind words and advice everyone. I will likely ditch adsense today and just monetize (or lack thereof) with Amazon.

I didn't really do much yesterday, but I autopiloted my way to 26 views yesterday. After about an hour of backlinking, I have so far gotten 47 views today! Things are looking up. No clicks on adsense yet, but Amazon says I have had 10 clicks on the affil links.

Checked on my rank, and I moved up to 16 on big G! Yeehaw first page here I come. Of the views that I'm getting, some of them are for long tails and from organic KW 1 traffic.

Right now I'm tracking using the wordpress jetpack analyzer, just because I don't really want to upgrade to VPS hosting (so I can run prosper 202) until this month is over. What do you guys think?
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Nice man!

I think now is a great time to start new stuff after the recent updates as many people got hit due to a lot of irreversible stuff, which actually gives you somewhat of an advantage starting from scratch.
 
Well guys, I was on vacation for a week in Hawaii. It was so beautiful and enjoyable, I decided to not do one thing for SEO/blackhat that week. I'm now back and ready to put in some work

First thing's first: How did my site do over a week of no work?

Well, over the week that I didn't do anything I was consistently getting at least 10 views a day, probably off of search engine traffic and residue traffic. I'm optimistic that I can eventually run this site just of SEO and residue traffic.

I had 3 orders off of amazon this week, leaving me at a grand total of $1.97 for just hosting and domain purchase costs. However, I've already spent a fair time on this site, which is the most valuable asset I have. I gotta start finding a way to get this site up on the SERPS.

I'll likely do some more backlinking today. On each update from now on, I'll let you guys know exactly how many backlinks I do a day so I can be more accurate with my counts.

Until then!
 
I guess I'll try to structure this a little more pretty so that the aesthetics are pleasing to everyone.

August 14
Backlinks created: 10
Hits: 22
Google Spot: 19
Revenue today: $0.00
Revenue to date this month: $1.97

I'm getting a little sick and tired of staying on page two of the SERPS for my main keyword so I ordered a social bookmarking service from fiverr. We'll see what it does but for now I haven't seen any change in rankings.
 
instagator said:
I guess I'll try to structure this a little more pretty so that the aesthetics are pleasing to everyone.

August 14
Backlinks created: 10
Hits: 22
Google Spot: 19
Revenue today: $0.00
Revenue to date this month: $1.97

I'm getting a little sick and tired of staying on page two of the SERPS for my main keyword so I ordered a social bookmarking service from fiverr. We'll see what it does but for now I haven't seen any change in rankings.
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Don't giveup. Every SERP is different but if you keep pushing and getting links, eventually you'll climb to the first page. Social bookmarks still work, it's just that you have to diversify your links sources, anchor texts and URLs and you'll be fine.
 
Greetings OP. I want to share with you the best tool any SEO could ever hope to acquire.

It's not SEnuke, or xrumer, or even scrapebox.

Nope.

By far, the most valuable tool for any SEO is:

Patience.

Really OP, if you think about it you're being a little irrational here. You're getting impatient because after existing for only two weeks, Google hasn't chosen to rank your site on page 1 for your keywords? You expect to throw up a brand new domain and edge out the other sites who've been there for weeks, months, or maybe even years?

If it were that easy, then every SERP would be mayhem, populated by two week old sites created by whatever derp decided he wanted to get into that niche.

Yeah, sure, there are exploits and tricks and loopholes and there almost certainly always will be. But the rankings gained from these little tricks are always temporary. Anything "gamebreaking" will eventually be fixed. And sure, Google is playing whack-a-mole with these loopholes - every time one is closed another one opens, or so it would seem.

So I guess what it comes down to is what you wanna do.

Do you wanna continually chase that new trick? Are you ready to start all over when they fix whatever's been working for you for the past few months? A perfect example of this is blog networks - they worked for a while, and they worked well! They ranked your sites high, hard and fast. Then it all came crashing down - and the best part is everyone was devastated like they didn't see it coming!

Or do you dig equity? You wanna build something that will last? Then you stay away from that new BST hotness. You build sites that are bigger than 1 page. And what's for damn sure is you don't get frustrated because your brand new site isn't ranking after two weeks.

Impatience always eventually leads to heartbreak in this game.

Unless you're Grindstone. Then you rank in 2 days for raspberry ketone and make thousands of dollars.

Well, ttyl.
 
mikeshinobi said:
Greetings OP. I want to share with you the best tool any SEO could ever hope to acquire.

It's not SEnuke, or xrumer, or even scrapebox...
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Thanks for the reply. I guess the reason I am a little frustrated (I don't even think that is the right word, less than frustrated) is because I followed a method with google alerts where I posted to forums on relevant topics and directed that traffic to my site. I was hoping I'd have some more sales by now since my product is what the people in the forums were asking for. But I suppose I'm not off to a bad start so far.

Scrapebox would be pretty nice though :-)
 
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