Day 62 – Changing My Criteria In Selecting Keywords
This month plan is to build at least 20 new sites in my portfolio. Spend a couple of frustrating hours looking for micro niche to build. Found many, but the main TDL had been snapped up. Some niches and keyword are really a steal with the kind of competition on page 1, I think I should able to rank in page 1. Not wanting to miss the opportunity I decided to use hyphens and suffix for the domain names.
I had resisted using anything other then the exact keyword for my domain choice because my initiate method is to get a site show up in page 1 ASAP. But after these few months of testing, I realise that even the site can appear in page 1 almost immediately once she got index, she will drop off eventually. Backlinking and adding content is still necessary. Since it this is not going to be set and forgot business model, I am changing my criteria in selecting keywords.
Few days ago I was testing out a suggestion in WF about a potential method for increasing the CTR and eCPM. The first day my stat dropped like hot potato. Second day, increase more then my usual stat and the third day was fantastic, nearly 100% more then my average. I almost conclude that is method works. But for the next four days, my stat took a nose dive again. Enough of testing, I set it back to default.
Today sales form Ad$en$e $12.77 (still based on the trial setting). Amazon wise, there are 8 sales made, but all are rather small amount. But in all, I think I still make $3.
4 Responses to “Day 62 – Changing My Criteria In Selecting Keywords”
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I’d like to hear how the dashes works out. Another thing I’ve heard is that you can use “search engine stop words” as they are ignored by the search engines. Words like a, the, and. Have you tried that at all?
.-= Mike Roosa´s last blog ..Monthly Review – May 2010 =-.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 1:51 pm
No I didn’t. I was stubbornly sticking only to the exact keywords for the domain. And give up the opportunity if I can’t find the three TDL. I guess time to change..
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Oh that’s interesting that you’ve decided to use hyphens. What Mike mentioned is something else I’d heard of and I have put in extra words (only at the END of the domain) but haven’t got enough results to really know whether it made a difference or not yet. I’ll be interested to see if it makes a difference to you, because like you I’m also finding it hard to get some exact match domains.
.-= Ruth – Web Career Girl´s last blog ..Looking Back on May and Forward to June =-.
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June 3rd, 2010 at 1:58 pm
That shows how popular Xfactor book is. I guess in a year time when the fad pass, and most people will give up renewing their domain, then those who are still in the game will benefit from it.
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