Pagerank Update was good to one of my sites

August 3, 2008

One of my internet marketing focuses has been Courtney Tuttle’s concept of keyword sniping. After doing some significant keyword research based on his guidance, I settled on a half dozen terms and bought domains and began building out useful, original content.

One of the keys to getting traffic via good organic search engine rankings is external links to your site. I wrote a couple of articles and submitted them to article directories. I wasn’t looking forward to writing articles that weren’t going to be featured on my site, but I actually got pretty good at it.

Because I had such fun with the external articles, I launched the $5 article project last week. I’ve written about 20 “external” articles for other bloggers that turned out really well!

I also posted some links back to my site on some link indexes. I also wrote about 10 articles on the keyword that I “sniped” and posted them on my sniping site as well.

Today I hopped onto one site and voila! I have a Google PageRank of 2 and my targeted search term is on the second page of Google. Great! My three year old songwriting blog is still languishing at PageRank of 2 after three years! What’s the deal?

Courtney recommends at least 10 good articles on the keyword you are sniping, and that is the only site to date where I have the 10 articles - so I have learned good, relevant content is definitely key. I was also able to learn through my new search results ranking what seemed to be working and what wasn’t.

My plan over the next week is to implement those things that “worked” across a couple other promising sniping sites and get those up in the rankings as well.

I’m a little excited and I might have rambled a bit in this post. If you have any questions about the random phrases I was throwing around, feel free to ask for clarification below.

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