Nine weeks ago I started a more advanced experiment designed to test how effective creating little campaigns targeted at certain long tail keywords would work in boosting your rankings for a related, short money keyword. I originally stated this objective like this: “to rank in the top 10 for the long tail that I have targeted while significantly increasing my rankings for the money term.”
To summarize all the things that I did in this experiment, the first four weeks I spent creating content and linking to that content from several different sources and the past 4 weeks I have been on and off monitoring the results. I created 14 different posts, articles, or hubs that use 17886 words collectively. According to the Yahoo Site Explorer I now have 190 links (up from 89 at the 4 week mark) links pointing to the page that was ranking for the longtail term, most of which are from my site’s domain. Google still shows 7 links just like it did 4 weeks ago.
Now that there has been some time for the links I have built to count in the search engines I think it is time to revisit the rankings:
keyword targets
| keyword | searches | rank prepublish | 7 hours | 1 week | 2 weeks | 4 weeks | 8 weeks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pack Gangster Switches Net 1 | 140 | (24) | (11) | (9) | (9) | (8) | (5) |
| Pack Gangster Switches Net 2 | 260 | (62) | (20) | (20) | (18) | (17) | (12) |
| Pack Gangster Switches Net 3 | n/a | (56) | (19) | (17) | (14) | (13) | (6) |
| Pack Gangster Switches Net 4 | 210 | (-) | (37) | (35) | (17) | (23) | (9) |
| Pack Gangster Switches Net 5 | 140 | (36) | (13) | (8) | (7) | (10) | (4) |
| Pack Gangster Switches Net 6 | 480 | (-) | (60) | (60) | (29) | (9) | (10) |
| Pack Gangster Switches Net 7 | 320 | (-) | (139) | (177) | (142) | (98) | (62) |
| Packing Gangster | 201000 | (42) | (37) | (42) | (27) | (27) | (27) |
| Gangster With Packing | 54000 | (36) | (34) | (35) | (24) | (31) | (23) |
As you can see, I now rank in top 5 for 2 of the long tails and in the top 10 for 3 more. My rankings for the money keyword have also improved significantly, going from 42 to 27 - a move of 15 spots.
I have received 641 page views to this post and have earned $19.86 with Adsense since it was published (around 10 views per day, around $0.31 a day) .
Overall I would say that this experiment has been a success and I am glad that I am currently working on a few different campaigns for this site. I can’t wait until I break into the top 10 for the main money keyword - then I’ll really be making some money online.