Since I check my Web stats obsessively, I thought I might as well share. I’ve been doing light SEO promotion for this site for the past couple months. Stats have just started showing up in Google Webmaster Tools. I’ve been targeting terms related to dofollow, dofollow search, and dofollow blogs. So I consider this a good opportunity for a snapshot.
Unfortunately, Google still isn’t showing many back links. Webmaster Tools reports 0 Pages with external links. A Google search for link:pagerush.com yields only about 10 results. As usual, Yahoo is much more forthcoming, showing inlinks from other domains at a healthy 386.
As long as this continues to get better on a week over week basis, I’m happy. Building a successful site is a combination of creating something remarkable, and promoting it intelligently. Oh, and one of these days I’ve got to get over and figure out how to better capitalize on the StumbleUpon phenomenon.
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Kai Lo 03.16.09 at 3:56 pm
What kind of SEO promotion are you exactly doing? Do you write these keywords “dofollow”, “dofollow search”, etc. in your titles all the time? Please explain.
I have to agree that content alone cannot help get traffic, SEO and social networking can help tremendously.
becky 03.18.09 at 1:03 am
ya you are right google will show only few links where as yahoo shows something difference…because google use diff algorithm and yahoo use diff. but google approved back links will help you to get your site ranked higher….thanx
adam 03.18.09 at 9:39 am
I do use those words a lot because I want to rank in Google for them. I maintain a list of dofollow blogs that I sell subscriptions to. Thanks for visiting, good luck with your link building efforts!
InternetStrategist@GrowMap 03.19.09 at 6:49 pm
The difference in links shown by Google really makes one wonder why they aren’t showing valid incoming links, doesn’t it? Let’s see if we can create a Mt. FriendFeed or Mt. Twitter from sharing this and other posts and pages here.
Before StumbleUpon changed hands I could have told you exactly how to get a Mt. StumbleUpon. I don’t know how much it has changed since then or if the strategy I used still works there. This PC and SU don’t get along for some reason. I’m looking for another used PC and will see if I can find out when I do.
Cristian Eslava 03.20.09 at 4:23 am
Hi,
I noticed you have not included the meta-tags description and keywords.
You have short description only in your homepage but not a keywords meta-tag.
This may help with search engines.
You may include them with a conditional in your header.php but since you use WP I recommend you to install All in One SEO plugin.
Best regards
(sorry for my english- it´s not my first language)
Lisa- Free GSD Files 03.20.09 at 11:04 am
Have to laugh at you checking your stats obsessively- I do the same thing. I am sure it would be MUCH better to spend the time creating more content for my site but its a bit addictive to crunch the numbers!
adam 03.21.09 at 1:12 pm
Cristian – Thanks for pointing out my meta-tags! I will get that fixed up. Your English is perfect!
Lyrics Hawk 04.16.09 at 7:04 am
Don’t be nervous ^^ google and Co don’t want you to see all links
if you want a really good backlink analysis you are forced to use special tools like WebCeo (which aren’t for free unfortunately -.-).
By the way seems like your blog does rank well for many dofollow terms
thats a good keyword for making money from infoproducts I think.
GreenLava 05.02.09 at 8:18 am
“check my Web stats obsessively” yeah me too. But the hardest part is IMHO coming up with good content.
BTW you might be interested in my latest article about adding meta tags.
Thanks
Nick 05.03.09 at 7:35 pm
you are doing a really good job. building a successful site takes alot of work and alot of attention to details. stumbleupon and twitter are a little helpful, bu i have not been able to get long lasting results out of either, just a few peaks here and there.
jennifer / bumblesea 08.01.09 at 8:10 pm
I’ve found that stumbleupon helps out quite a lot for me as well. stats peaked at ~4,000 hits in one day? it’s amazing.
Qoutes 08.22.09 at 8:22 am
Please remember that Google will not show the actual back links for some good reason. If you want to check your actual backlinks you may visit http://www.backlinkwatch.com/.. If you are not ranking on the particular keyword, this are my tips for you. Check the backlinks of your competing websites. Put a link with anchor text on your Forum Signature. The more post you have the more backlinks you will get. Just make sure your forum is related on your niche.
Erwin Sigterman 08.28.09 at 8:37 am
Google only shows backlinks with higher or equal pageranks…
This is done for every webpage, not for your domain.