Day 5

So, it’s been 5 days officially now. And I haven’t done anymore work, (been working pretty hard at work and preparing for my vacation). But I have been watching and tweaking very small tweaks with adding search terms to the sites, checking link backs, etc. etc. And for Day 5 we really just get a status report on the two different projects.

Main Project ( area + niche )
On the Movies, Pictures microsite of the larger target site I’ve noticed has slowly starting to get indexed. It literally has hundreds of thousands of pages to it, (which if you read Day1 I don’t hardly store anything on my server), but currently as stands here is how yahoo & google index it:

1. Google – Indexed Pages: 18 pages / In-Links: 0
2. Yahoo – Indexed Pages: 1 page. (index) / In-Links: 6 ( from the 3 wp blogs

Page Rank: N/A

The goal of this site was to generate several thousands of pages in the index. So let’s say my goal from here on out is 5,000 pages. That means:

Current Goal Status: .03%

However, I have noticed something. If you remember from Day 1, I pointed all the links to an old – non-related established site of mine ( 5+ years, page rank 2) and watched it within the past couple days jump up from mid page 2, to mid page 1 for the phrase in the links from this site. So, I added the same stuff to my affiliate site. Links to the old established site to see how it effects it. If it does have the same effect and I jump up in rankings again, then wow.. this really works, a LOT easier than I thought. I would just have to identify all the variables (e.g. Did it jump up only because of age in domain? Number of pages new site has? Competition? etc. etc.) But, it would still be very promising. Also another really cool thing is starting to happen, I am seeing some consistent, low competition long tail keyword terms because I am pulling latest/top stories from Digg, Flickr for the homepage, and hottest/newest videos/pictures from YouTube & Flickr. So this will be good to have when I go back to SEO marketing for the main site.

Affiliate Project
Little recap, used 40 templates, 600+ seo terms, and am generating content from term + template on each page request. There is somewhere in the ballpark of 650 unique pages you can generate from the page and after 3 days of being live and having only 1 wordpress linking to it, with 1 post on it (testing the bare minimum) here are my current stats:

1. Google – 15 Pages Indexed – #3 For Targeted Phrase
2. Yahoo – Nothing

So I will watch and see if I stay at #3, and how if I get any traffic. Will post my stats on here

So What Now?
Well, from a milestones stand point it wasn’t a very productive past 3 days. As I said, been swamped. However I have gotten some planning and domain accumulation out of the way. Over vacation, next to the beach, I may scribble down some notes on paper. But I have two totally different “case studies” in effect now, so I don’t feel as bad with taking a step back and getting my feed underneath me while these do their thing. That way, when I get a solid game plan I’ll already have two different use-cases using two different methodologies & tactics with SEO strategies to know if they both work, don’t work, or one is superior. All in all, not a bad start in my oppinion.

Recap
It’s been 5 days and here is where we stand:

• Area + Keyword Case Study

1. Built One Large (Media) Microsite of Goal Site, Pointing to Old Established SIte. Has 18 pages Indexed.

• Affiliate Marketing Case Study

1. Built One Large Keyword Centric Site, #3 on Target Phrase, 15 pages indexed.