39 days…key phrase only made to #18

seo backlinksI am supposed to be learning and improving with each backlinks project I test.  Oh well,  not this time.

For this project I used a “How to ‘keyphrase’.  I will not mention it here because it is a low competition phrase with 22K local searches per month.  If my site does not make to the top, I will try another.  I feel it will be easy to get #1 with this phrase if everything is done right.  The last case study I did gave me poor results.  I want to repeat the same strategies to see if the same results come back.

Day 1 = Keyword research and  6 original articles were ordered to be written.

2 = Registered exact match domain name.

3 = Set up blog following my blog setup page.

4 = Submitted my 1st article to ezine and posted article 2 to the blog as a post.

7 = Article 1 spun and submitted to authority article directories.  Also posted a slide show to slideshare.

8 = Article 3 to ezine and article 4 posted to blog.

10 = Article 3 spun to directories,  5 to ezine,  and 6 to blog post at web site.

15 = 1st Month fiverr gigs ordered:

  • Social bookmarks
  • 2.0 profile links
  • Edu links
  • 9 angela links page rank of 9
  • Web 2.0 properties with link attack.
  • One video made and submitted to video directories.

18 = Current ranking for my key phrase is #96

23 = Rank is #31

24 = Rank is #24

25 = Now at #17.  Looking good so far for less than 30 days into this project.

32 = Ordered 6 more original articles and posted articles 2,4,6 to blog.  1,3,5 posted at ezine as originals,  then auto spun those 3 and posted them at the article directories.  I did this over the next 2 weeks.

35 = Made another slide show and uploaded to slide share and the 4 other slide show sites.

36 = Did my own blog commenting to 25 relevant sites.

38 = 2nd Month fiverr gigs that were ordered:

  • Social bookmarks
  • Web 2.0 properties with link attack.

These are the only 2 gigs I ordered for this month.

39 = Lost one position in ranking.  Now at #18

53 = I have finished spinning and posted the rest of the articles.

54 = Site dropped to #45.  What is going on now?  Must be a Google dance going on.  Or my auto spun articles are starting to hurt my rankings like the last site.  This is just a guess.  I have no proof that this is the cause.

63 = I guess the dance is over.  Site is ranking at #23 now.  I was ready to give up on this site when it drop in rank.  Maybe not all is lost.  I will see if it keeps gaining rank and maybe order a seo package for the site.