Sorry for the lack of posting today – got my hands totally filled up right now. I’m searching for a full-timer who can take some of the burden off my back – help me with some of the writing and prep for what’s coming up soon. So that’s gonna take quite a bit of input.

Further, I’m in the process of setting up something else which is also very much related to this thread. Can’t say on here but by all means check the blog for info on that – link in the sig below.

And even further, been talking joint venture with a lady who frequents the thread here and it would appear our skills complement each other nicely (think offline meets online ), plus other work besides, which hopefully will lead to even more great things, so that’s just about to begin too.

So you can perhaps see the reason for lack of posts today – 19 hours infront of your laptop within a 24 hour period does not encourage good health!

Anyhow, I just popped open the HideMyAss .com proxy to see what juicy info its got for me today regards site rankings…

TwilightPosterz .com is way down, thank you… around 30th. Still, its sitting very pretty in Yahoo at 2nd so not all bad stuff there!

However, although this was not what the Challenge was about, its very interesting to note that according to most people’s stats over the past week or so, I think I’ve had 3 different sites in top 5 for the keyword “twilight poster”.

If I’m not mistaken, a number of you were seeing the primary Posterz site in 5th – maybe for a day or 2. I believe the Squid got a top 5 too, although I think I saw it 6th for a few days – using Scroogle Scraper (darn, where are you Scroogle??). And now, today, using HideMyAss .com I got my blogspot .com site in 5th (wordpress .com there in 9th).

Now I don’t know about you but within an 11 day period (11 days since I purchased the domain) I feel this is fairly impressive. Up till now I have been doing this alone with no help of any kind. No writers, just my software. And yes, for sure, its the Posterz .com site I truly want to sit in top 5 and stay there for a bit, but it does show you what is possible given the desire to do so.

You could argue at the moment that none of these sites are sticking around for long. Yes, agreed – but the point being is, I really do not think it would be tough to get them to stick around – long term – in top 5. In no real way have I been pursuing top 5 for any of the secondary or “anchor” sites – the backlinking has been “rough and ready” with no true keyword as the main aim.

I don’t think these secondary sites will hang about too long, but if I wanted them to, its not at all difficult. Or take an ezine article. Again, I did not WANT to rank it for “Twilight poster” thus had to ensure my backlinks were non-specific. But if need by, I could, and I would – top 5 for sure! And you could too!!!

Yes, again, I have the software to help me. Without that (especially the spinner and UAW) I would not be able to do this – top 5 for 3 sites within 11 days of “lift off”.

I do think the Blog Blueprint links will be starting to kick in now – perhaps a little anyhow. These sort of links are thought to be more of a long term thing – to get rankings over the longer term, but I’ve seen them pop a site up from 10th in Google to 5th within 5 days of using this thing! And that’s with no other backlinking and no site changes. Purely down to the fact that I had some strong backlinks in place from months before, and then it just takes a bit of a nudge from the likes of a few links from BB (or similar product, or even free stuff like Squid – as mentioned already).

You may remember I made mention a while back re Christmas? So what-da-ya think? I just let my sites drift away with no intention of re-optimizing them for that particular time?

I can tell you that I have around 20 sites or perhaps more, sitting in or around top 10, simply waiting for some gentle link love from me – a bit of care and a bit of attention, and I know for a fact that most of these (if not all) are gonna happily be sitting top 5 – if not top 1 or 2) for November December.

If you are not thinking Christmas yet (who does at this time of year?) then perhaps its no bad thing you do spend a little time pondering a potential strategy. That time of year is so hot, that it simply would be a mistake not to take a few minutes and assess your own potential for it.

Need to go freebie? Hubs! Squids! Even blogspots – I’m top 5 apparently, so why not you?

Back to the main point…

I do indeed expect very very much to see my Posterz .com site sitting very pretty in time to come. If it can indeed beat the 40 Day Challenge (if not already) in that it can sit inside top 5 for at least a few days, then that of course is a bit better.

However, for most of us, the main thing is to see a site (I should be saying web page) ranking very well in Google (Yahoo is a real bonus, I have to admit!) with some fairly simple techniques that you yourself can implement time and time again. And this keyword is certainly no push-over!

Thus take your longer-tailed keywords and apply similar techniques and you WILL SUCCEED, given belief in what you are doing (and I have just given you that belief!).

There is no rush here. Do not go all-out like I am! If you do, you simply risk Google wrath, as David pointed out only yesterday – sandboxing or supplementals, if you like. There is no need for lots of fancy SEO tools. Forget that. If you can’t afford them then fine. Just take your time, follow these techniques and bingo! You will be successful in ranking your own sites each and every time – providing you choose your keywords well, of course.

Now, please do not worry – if you are still struggling with some things – the jigsaw pieces are still not fitting right – I am still gonna be around to help you out as much as I can. Just cos I have a mass of other things going on right now simply does not mean I run off. I’m here for the duration and more! Trust me on that, please.

Most of you, if not all, also have my personal email. You can even shoot me a mail and I’ll get back to you one way or the other.

Now, even though its only 2pm here in lovely Malaysia, I’m in need of a siesta to say the least. I’ll be back soon to answer any and all questions or just to have a bit of banter. (oops, I see another couple of emails just landed in there to be attended to!).

I wish you success!

Kind regards
Joseph