Wow, it’s already day 18 of this year’s Thirty Day Challenge.
A quick recap of what’s happened so far:
- Found a niche through exhaustive market and keyword analysis.
- Built a blog around it that provides quality content.
- Built backlinks by developing sites on web 2.0 properties.
- Written articles and submitted them to directories to build further backlinks.
- Socially bookmarked everything.
And here are my stats for this project:
- Blog indexed, but not ranked (no PR yet).
- For my main keyword, I am 85 on broad and 51 on phrase.
- For my secondary keywords, I am respectively broad/phrase: 111/71, -/-, 7/2, 162/90, 78/50, 68/67, 184/-.
- According to wordpress stats, my blog gets on average 45 visitors a day.
- I have sent 250 clicks to the affiliate program I am promoting, and received 0 sales.
Other observations:
- I have begun streamlining my blog. Adding in a twitter account, facebook page and so on and so forth. I have also added some fancy-pants keyword-level tracking.
- I’m going to wait for another 250 clicks and if there is no sale made then I’m switching out the affiliate program.
- I will continue to post articles to both the blog and offsite properties.
- Market Samurai is working again – sort of. Their proxy system seems to be suffering under the increased load and having to use my own IP to query google results in fast banning. Hmmm…
