Goals

Here is the structure I'd like to have for the marketing strategy. I think this is going to change though.

Originally, I had envisioned my job board website to exist on its own page with 100 or so pages with #1 keyword rankings referring traffic to it. Here are all the keywords, and the traffic volume per day from smallest to largest
searches/day #1 clicks

217 91
217 91
217 91
217 91
217 91
217 91
217 91
217 91
217 91
223 94
266 111
266 111
266 111
266 111
266 111
266 111
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
325 136
398 167
398 167
398 167
398 167
398 167
487 204
487 204
487 204
487 204
487 204
487 204
487 204
595 249
595 249
595 249
595 249
730 306
730 306
730 306
730 306
730 306
850 357
891 374
891 374
891 374
891 374
1088 456
1088 456
1088 456
1088 456
1088 456
1088 456
1088 456
1088 456
1088 456
1332 559
1332 559
1332 559
1332 559
1332 559
1332 559
1627 683
1627 683
1627 683
1627 683
1627 683
1627 683
1627 683
1720 723
1989 835
1989 835
1989 835
2433 1021
2433 1021
2433 1021
2433 1021
2433 1021
2433 1021
2975 1249
3616 1518
3616 1518
3616 1518
3616 1518
4438 1863
5425 2278
5425 2278
5425 2278
6608 2775
9896 4156
14795 6213
As you can see, I haven't listed the exact keywords, but I have listed the amount of searches per day, and the expected clicks you'd get on an average day if you were ranked #1

While I was going through the 30 day challenge the first time, I created a site along with it, and I ended up spending way to much time building the site, because I didn't know all of the tech stuff and didn't have an automatic social bookmarking program. it took me way too long and I wrote way too much content, and didn't even sell anything on it. I don't think the page exists anymore, but the keyword was "microsoft applications". I actually got a high ranking in that phrase match, but it stopped there. I was getting about 2-5 visitors a day after leaving the site alone.

for my next project, I figured out all of the keywords that would have some relevance for my job board website to receive traffic from, and there were something like 500 keywords. however, a lot of them were either jumbled, out of order, or not as relevant, so I reduced it to a list of about 97 keywords, which are listed above.

The lowest of these words has 217 searches per day, whereas the highest has 14,000. since i had done keyword searches for less competitive keywords and I still needed to learn how to use wordpress the right way, I tried making a page with the keyword "11i job", referring to a type of database application. the search engines only had 9 searches a day with 3 clicks, but it was just for experimentation. i got more comfort with hubpages, squidoo, and a lot of the other things. it took me less time than the microsoft page, and I learned a few more things. still, it was not worth anything becasuse of the extremely low amount of traffic it could ever hope to gain.