Ok, we’re about 36 hours into the case study. I completed the work for day 2 late last night, which included another blog post, pinging, an article and some social bookmarking. Including the work I did for day 1, I’ve put in a total of 2 hours- that’s it. The blog has been indexed in Google, and is currently ranking #2 for the primary keyword phrase. I’ve received a total of 2 clicks on my affiliate link so far. I really should have installed analytics on this blog so I could have a better guage of traffic.
One spot where I strayed slightly from the report is in the social bookmarking. Kevin suggests using a service called Social Marker to make things a big easier. I somewhat prefer Only Wire for their higher degree of automation, although they don’t work with as many higher quality sites, so I found myself still manually submitting a few bookmarks.
As far as SEO is concerned, we’re off to a roaring start. In 36 hours, I’ve gone from nothing to getting indexed in Google and ranking #2 for my primary keyword phrase, I’m shocked and delighted. If nothing else, Kevin’s report shows you an excellent way to pick a primary keyword and optimize for it in any niche.
I have a holiday party tonight, so I may have to postpone day 3 of the case study until tomorrow. I’ll try to find time as I’m excited for this final step- Squidoo. I haven’t had much luck wth Squidoo in the past, but admittedly my tinkering with them was truly half-assed. I’m hoping the integrity of a case study, along with Kevin’s report telling me the right way to leverage it, will be motivation enough to do it up right.
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Glad to see you applying this so well. As for using Only Wire instead of Social Marker, either is fine. I used OW a year ago, but it lost all my logins and I migrated to SM instead. No other reason.