This is my 5th post in my Keyword Academy Case Study series. If you missed the earlier posts you might want to start at the beginning
This is too early to be doing an update – but I thought some of you would find this interesting. BTW I use the excellent rank checker of Market Samurai to check my rankings with a single touch of the button – saves me a lot of time:
Site launched 31 March 2010
Site indexed 1 April 2010
Rankings on 8 April 2010 (14 April 2020 in brackets)
15 pages indexed in Google (13 pages)
1 backlink recognised in yahoo (and its the same directory which got me indexed) (0)
domain name exact match long-tail: 17 (17)
main keyword: 61 (34)
main keyword singular: 61 (31)
cousin keyword #1 ; 47 (63)
cousin keyword #2: > 100(43)
cousin keyword #3 > 100 (>100)
cousin keyword #4 > 100 (>100)
cousin keyword #5: 37 (49)
cousin keyword #6: 71 (60)
cousin keyword #7: 67 (60)
Backlinks Live
Number of postrunner posts live: 7
Number of postrunner posts indexed: 6 one of the most recent ones is not indexed.
Note all those posts indexed organically i.e. it happened without any effort on my part. Whether the site owners built links to the posts I have no idea – but if you have been around Internet Marketing for more than 5 minutes you should realise that this is a truly awesome result!
So who else has got some results to report? Send me the link to your post and I’ll add here or updated us in the comments!
Loreecee has an update up: Post Runner Case Study
Alana has an update up: Make Money Blogging Keyword Academy Experiment Day 17