Affiliate Project UK Lauch Day – Ranked #1

Posted on February 1, 2009 by Gary · Posted in General, Search Engine Optimization, Track our Progress

We decided the site is about ready to index into Google’s search engine. We still need to add more content to the site.

A few hours later and we are in position number 5 for both affiliate project (broad match) and “affiliate project” (exact match) searches on the web out of a total 11,700,000. Our Site is also number 1 out of 197,000 pages from the UK. We are really impressed with the results, especially as this was our first website with no web design experience between us.

I think this is helped by a few factors;

Our domain name is very strong for those chosen keywords searched.
We have installed one of the most popular wordpress plugins called All in One SEO Pack. We customised the SEO plugin options with some strong keywords and a strong description.
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We tried to focus on strong keywords, based on Google’s Adword keyword Tool.

According to Google Adwords Keyword Tool, the broad match for affiliate project shows an approximate average monthly number of search queries of 5,400 per month.

The exact match for this keyword in quotes “affiliate project” shows only 91 searches per month.

We will monitor our Website statistics to see how many visitors and traffic we get to our site over the next few weeks and report back on our findings.

We hope to improve our ranking to get to the number 1 spot and hopefully maintain top 5 position with a mixture of more site optimization, additional appealing content and perhaps lots of blogging or networking on related sites.

Please note, at this stage we haven’t even used Google Adsense ads to our site. This was purely site content and SEO.

Comments

2 Responses to “Affiliate Project UK Lauch Day – Ranked #1”

admin on February 2nd, 2009 8:59 am

2nd day and we’re now at position number 3 in google search engine for the entire web and still number 1 for uk search
admin on February 3rd, 2009 9:45 am

3rd day and we’re now at position number 2 in google search engine for the entire web search and still number 1 for uk search. Let’s see if we can be at number 1 on both uk and global searches.