My Case Study On SEO

A The first site happens to be a blog on dating. I have it setup in Wordpress and I'm going to consistently add content to it.

Format: Wordpress
Content: Blog Posts
Twist: Viral Web 2.0 Content

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B This is my site that is going to be developed around one product that I think is in a really unique niche.

Format: HTML
Content: Landing Page on Root, Articles in Subdirectories
Twist: Just one product

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C This is a site designed around the Christmas Subniches Newbie Project. It isn't going to be entirely oriented to Christmas, but it'll be structured similarly.

Format: HTML
Content: Hub on Root, FPAs in the subdirectories
Twist: Primarily no content (like articles), just FPAs

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D This is my site in the sleep niche, which has been sort of been being developed over the last few weeks.

Format: HTML
Content: Hub on Root, FPAs in the subdirectories, Articles in Subdirectories
Twist: Old school methods I used as adult webmaster

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E This is the site that is in a niche that is extremely new and has no profit potential today. I'm going to develop it with the hopes that a year or two down the road there will be profit potential and my site will have authority.

Format: Wordpress
Content: Blog Posts
Twist: Not monetized

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What I Am Watching

The plan is to watch the SEO of these sites and try to at least extrapolate the methods that appear to be working and the way the sites are structured. I'm not going to give out details on the exact measurements; ie: I got a link for this URL, etc etc etc. But I will state what I do and what I've actively went after.

Rules

I came up with some simple rules that I want to apply. I want to avoid sending these sites into Google's sandbox because it really fucking sucks there. One of my sites has been in there since July 5th and it hasn't come out yet.

1. The first week a site gets content put on it, I cannot actively seek backlinks. Week 2, I can actively get 5 backlinks. Week 3, I can actively get 10. Etc.

2. The link text is going to Vary. So instead of all links to my site coming from the text of "My Main Keyword", they'll be mixed up a bit.

3. Each site will only at a max recieve 1 linkback from one site a week. That means I can't create two backlinks from Ezinearticles for one of my sites in a week. It has to be spread out.

4. Link sources are going to be very diversified, both for on topic, off topic, directories, article sites, blog comments, etc etc etc.

5. The philosophy I'll try to follow was said by an employee of Google, "A Link is a Link, no matter where it comes from." - Matt Cutts

6. Content for my site will always come first. I'm not going to waste a ton of time writing content for someone else. Content for me first, than the article directories can fight over the scraps.

Documentation

The documentation of this is going to be rough. That doesn't mean you're not going to learn, it just means it's going to be a little rough around the edges and quite direct. It isn't going to be like reading an awesome book. It will be the information needed and that's really all that's it.

I'm going to use the term "indexable pages" to describe the content on my site. Since some sites are going to make blog posts, and others are going with articles, FPAs, hubs, landing pages, etc - I'm going to view content created as indexable pages. All that means is that there is enough text on the page for Google to index it.

It's nothing special. If I have 10 indexable pages for site A (dating site), you should know I have 10 blog posts. If I have 10 indexable pages for site D (sleep site), you'll know that is a mix of articles, hubs, fpas and whatever else I feel like making.

I'll try to document what I do for the site, how much and how many searches I'm getting. I hope that helps.

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