Thursday, 3 December 2009

Rankings Of The Site

Well, in the absence of anything exciting happening on the site at the moment I thought I would investigate as to how well the site is performing in the page rankings on the search engines. Since the aim is to generate organic traffic to the site I thought it would be useful to find out how the site ranks.
To do this I am using a tool called WebCEO. I've used this many times and the free version is more than adequate for what I want to do. The basic idea is to set it to look at the search engines you want to check and enter your keywords. For this, I have selected to monitor:
  • Backlinks Experiment
  • Free Backlinks
  • Generate Backlinks
  • One Million Backlinks
  • SEO Backlinks

I'm kinda saying that backlinks is one of my key words for this practice and there are more but the free version restricts me to only 5. Anyway, the tool goes and performs the searches and locates the sites and displays the results as below:


As the above shows the pages are ranking well for backlink experiments and OK for generate backlinks and SEO backlinks. The real winner is if someone looks for One Million Backlinks which I guess should be obvious because of the title of the project.

Next time I will show you the changes and we can compare as to how the site is doing.

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Still Nothing

Well, there still hasn't been any new information added to the site. I'm at a bit of a loss really, I could do and post onto forums and say to my mates hey come and add your site but I think thats cheating a bit.

The whole point is to get a ranking naturally and increase that ranking over time. One area I am tempted to explore is the use of Facebook in order to see what that does to the rankings of the site and generating traffic, but I can't let it link to my exisiting profile because that would be driving my friends to give me backlinks which would defeat the experiment. Another option with I have ruled out is adding sites which I have not worked on. Currently the 4 that are listed are sites I personally have either created of developed from scratch, so in the interest of SEO for those sites I think its valid I add them myself.

Anyway, with a bit of luck I might get some more information over the next week to include a link back to my site.