[Project] Rank a free blog on page 1 for 'car insurance'

[TheFBGuy]

Yay!! Looks like my foolish advice was ignored, lol...

Well, at least he has the right mindset.

[UMS]

It's interesting to note that you have drastically changed the rules of your challenge.

You originally (and your first post and thread title says it) said you were going to rank on page 1 for "car insurance"

I see that you've now changed that requirement to go after a much, much easier long tail keyword:

"cheap car insurance quotes"

[chukcha]

Originally Posted by UMS

It's interesting to note that you have drastically changed the rules of your challenge.

You originally (and your first post and thread title says it) said you were going to rank on page 1 for "car insurance"

I see that you've now changed that requirement to go after a much, much easier long tail keyword:

"cheap car insurance quotes"

And so he realizes his balls are not that big =) At least it's a smart move.
Aim low reach your goals =)

[ericnelsonator]

Thats quite a project you have taken up.. i'll be following.

[33centsaday]

Originally Posted by UMS

It's interesting to note that you have drastically changed the rules of your challenge.

You originally (and your first post and thread title says it) said you were going to rank on page 1 for "car insurance"

I see that you've now changed that requirement to go after a much, much easier long tail keyword:

"cheap car insurance quotes"

Nothing has changed. Ranking the site on page 1 for "car insurance" by itself is still my ultimate goal. But you'll notice I never said anything about NOT going after long tails as well.

"cheap car insurance quote" is the first of MANY long tails I will be targeting as I go along.

[GregRom]

Originally Posted by 33centsaday

Project Status as of 9/3/11
1. Pages of content: 6
2. Pages indexed: 3
3. Backlinks: 0
4. Income: $0.76


Some of you may have followed along with my first project: The $100/day AdSense Challenge that I started back in December 2010. Although I haven't yet reached my ultimate goals for that project it has been worth the effort as the site is now something I'm happy to have in my portfolio.

With summer winding down I think it's time to kick off a new project/experiment/challenge whatever you want to call it and share my progress with and ask for hints and tips from my good friends here at WF

My Experience
I'm currently generating about 9,000 pageviews per month and making $200-$300/month. So I'm not an expert by any means but I'm not a total noob either.

Project
As the title suggests my ultimate goal for this project is to rank this site (car insurance) on page 1 in google's serps for its main keyword. A tall order considering it is an insanely competitive term with over 6 million broad and 800,000 exact searches per month!

Rules
#1 - There's only one rule: Everything has to be free. No paid hosting, no paid tools, no paid ads, no paid outsourcing.

Traffic
The main targeted traffic source is organic google search.

Monetization
I'm using Adsense as the main income stream.

Finally, I will be mirroring the updates to this thread on my money blog and posting pics there as I did with my last challenge.

LoL, if you are 20, you have time, Good Luck
If you're 60, Take a break, enjoy your last days, dont loose your time with this keyword

Listen what other Fox are saying, Build 10-20- even 30 pages with Low Comp. Keywords for car insurance, you'll rank most of them easy and make a lot of money in 5-6 months...

[33centsaday]

I must be doing something right because the site has earned the privileged status of being worthy of getting comment spam

Traffic from stumbleupon has just exceeded traffic from all other referral sources, unfortunately the traffic seems to be low quality, they don't spend much time sticking around (or clicking ads).

[TryBPO]

Ack...on another company's site? Even if you were to be successful (which I highly doubt) you'd be KICKING yourself for not doing it with your own domain/property!

[33centsaday]

Stumbleupon continues to be the leading source of traffic. And I have some very exciting news: the site has finally showed up in the SERPs, buried on page 13, for a long-tail keyword LOL! OK so this could be a bit more of a challenge than I envisioned

[36burrows]

Originally Posted by 33centsaday

Stumbleupon continues to be the leading source of traffic. And I have some very exciting news: the site has finally showed up in the SERPs, buried on page 13, for a long-tail keyword LOL! OK so this could be a bit more of a challenge than I envisioned

You were given fair warning

[33centsaday]

Originally Posted by 36burrows

You were given fair warning

And I appreciated it, even though I didn't heed it

[arnie19]

Any update to this thread? How is it going? was the site dead?

[PhilJensen]

Originally Posted by 33centsaday

Stumbleupon continues to be the leading source of traffic. And I have some very exciting news: the site has finally showed up in the SERPs, buried on page 13, for a long-tail keyword LOL! OK so this could be a bit more of a challenge than I envisioned

How goes the battle? Ranking for those keywords is going to be tough.

Why don't you revise your goal to include a long-tail result for page 1. There's no shame in revising your approach. I just think it will take a significant amount of time to break through to page on given the competition.

That being said, if you're going to stick with it.......I'll be cheering you on!

Phil

[giseo]

Be aware if you do stuff like blog commenting blog owners are quick to report you blog to blogger for comment spam and get it deleted. Happened to me a few times.

[UMS]

Last comment on his blog is dated 10 Sep 2011.

I think it says it all:

And I have some very exciting news: the site has finally showed up in the SERPs, buried on page 13, for a long-tail keyword LOL! OK so this could be a bit more of a challenge than I envisioned.

It's all well and good to aim high, but you do need a good dose of realism as well.

[chrislangley]

Car insurance as with very competitive terms, will need an arsenal of weapons to compete with the big boys