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Keyword Academy Case Study: Does Postrunner Work?

Written by Lis on September 27, 2010 · 32 Comments

Wellington Harbour Entrance - looking towards Pencarrow

OK this is my last Keyword Academy Case Study post – its a review of where I got a new site to in the rankings by solely using Postrunner for back links and some thoughts about the quality of the Postrunner system. As of 27 September – my postrunner promoted site had the following statistics: Rankings on 27 September (2 August, 2 June | 30 April ,14 April 2010 in brackets | 8 April 2010) 15 pages indexed in Google (18, 24, 26, 15 |13 pages) 23 backlink recognized in yahoo (15, 13,13 ,6,1, 0) domain name exact match long-tail: 5 (8, 12, 14, 17 | 17) main keyword: 9 (14, 21, 17, 34 | 61) main keyword singular: 1 (12, 19 ,19 , 31 | 61) 4 other cousins are on page 1 and the other 2 are on page 2. A qualified success I think – but only qualified. Why only qualified? I have published 69 posts in Postrunner to support this site the most recent went live on the 23 August 2010. However of those 69 fully 22 are not indexed. Now each and every one of those posts went to a different site in Postrunner – so I [...] Read more »

Keyword Academy Case Study 4 Month Update

Written by Lis on August 2, 2010 · 9 Comments

OK so its been two months since I did the last Keyword Academy Case Study update! Postrunner Articles Live Since the 6 May I’ve published another 13 articles – with five sent but not yet published – so yes most of them have been published in the last couple of weeks! However I now have some regular writers on board so I will hopefully get a more consistent number of articles published this month! Rankings As of 2 August 2010 Rankings on (2 June | 30 April ,14 April 2010 in brackets | 8 April 2010) 18 pages indexed in Google (24, 26, 15 |13 pages) 13 backlink recognized in yahoo (13,13 ,6,1, 0) domain name exact match long-tail: 8 (12, 14, 17 | 17) main keyword:14 (21, 17, 34 | 61) main keyword singular: 12 (19 ,19 , 31 | 61) Sorry I’ve stuffed up the tracking of the cousins – to the point I can’t remember which was which LOL. Suffice to say that they have all improved since 2 June and are now all on page 3 or 2. Note about the rankings – as I am still only getting trickle traffic – according to scroogle.org I am 14th [...] Read more »

Keyword Academy Case Study 2 Month Update

Written by Lis on June 4, 2010 · 22 Comments

How was the month – well not very productive – as I have already mentioned. But I did say I would keep on updating the Keyword Academy Case Study series – so here we go! Rankings As of 2 June 2010 Rankings on 2 June ( 30 April ,14 April 2010 in brackets | 8 April 2010) 24 pages indexed in Google (26, 15 |13 pages) backlink recognized in yahoo 13 (6,1, 0) domain name exact match long-tail: 12(14, 17 | 17) main keyword: 21( 17, 34 | 61) main keyword singular: 19 ( 19 , 31 | 61) cousin keyword #1 ; 33 (24 ,63 | 47) cousin keyword #2: 15( 22, 43 | > 100) cousin keyword #3 90( 82 ,>100 | > 100) cousin keyword #4 >100 (100, > 100 |>100) cousin keyword #5: 38, (25 (and 78 double listing),49 | 37) cousin keyword #6: 50 ( 39, 60 | 71) cousin keyword #7: 35 (33 , 60 | 71) Postrunner Articles Live 27 articles are live – and yes I’m slack and haven’t added any more! So really should go away and right some more articles write now! How’s the Competition Alana seems to be the only one left updating her [...] Read more »

Keyword Academy Case Study – One Month Update

Written by Lis on May 3, 2010 · 5 Comments

End of the first month with my little Keyword Academy Case Study with the statistics for my new site after a month of Postrunner submissions. Basically the site seems to be growing naturally with solid page 2 rankings for both my exact domain match and my main keyword. I have the distinct feel that the exact domain bonus drops siginficantly down if you have more than two words in the domain (this domain has four). Rankings as of 30 April 2010 Rankings on 30 April (14 April 2020 in brackets | 8 April 2010) 26 pages indexed in Google (15 |13 pages) backlink recognised in yahoo 6 (1, 0) domain name exact match long-tail: 14 (17 | 17) main keyword: 17 (34 | 61) main keyword singular: 19 (31 | 61) cousin keyword #1 ; 24 (63 | 47) cousin keyword #2: 22 (43 | > 100) cousin keyword #3 82 (>100 | > 100) cousin keyword #4 >100 (> 100 |>100) cousin keyword #5: 25 (and 78 double listing) (49 | 37) cousin keyword #6: 39 (60 | 71) cousin keyword #7: 33 (60 | 71) Postrunner Articles Live 25 articles live 2 still waiting review. Over all iIve had [...] Read more »

Keyword Academy Case Study – Link Building Timeline

Written by Lis on April 9, 2010 · 19 Comments

Is there a link out there? Nope just the Tasman Sea!

This is the fourth part of the Keyword Academy Case Study series – if you are new here you may want to start with part 1, part 2 and part 3 (Postrunner tutorial) So now we have the keywords chosen, the site installed – now what? Well first – particularly if this is a brand new domain – which mine is – you need to get the site indexed. There is a sure fire way to do this – find a site which is being crawled by Google a lot – and get a link from it. I used Postrunner obviously – and many people there will tell you their site has very fast indexing – most of them don’t lie either. Once I find a site that gets crawled a lot and gets sites indexed easily I carefully document and remember it (i.e. I scribble its name semi-legibly on a post it note and stick it on the white board). How To Know If A Site has Quick Indexing Two types of sites seem to get quick indexing in my experience: authority sites sites whith lots and lots of updating content This site is an authority site (google lissowerbutts.com [...] Read more »

Keyword Academy Case Study – PostRunner Tutorial

Written by Lis on April 6, 2010 · 28 Comments

UPDATED: April 2012 Check out my Postrunner V2 Review . I will update this these once the new Postrunner is live OK I am seeing quite a few questions about Postrunner – The Keyword Academy’s link building tool – so I thought I’d throw an extra post into my Keyword Academy Case Study series detailing the how and, probably more importantly the why of using the PostRunner system (formerly the Guest Posting System, GPS). Even if you aren’t a member this might be helpful if you don’t understand why some of us get excited about giving away our content for free! This post is about Postrunner from an article submitters point-of-view. If you are interested in being a Postrunner Review for publishers – see my second post about Postrunner- Adding a Site What is Guest Posting? There are lots of ways to get links – but high on most lists is “guest posting”. You contribute as a guest on another blog and in return get a link back from the site and maybe some traffic as well. Here’s a guest post I did recently: Building an Online Income. Now, finding places to contribute guest posts, if you are in the niche [...] Read more »