Penguin Killed One of My Sites - Or Did It?
Posted 30th June 2012 at 07:58 AM by rosetrees
Like most of us I have several sites. One in particular has turned into a nice little earner, bringing a steady $750+ per month.
My main work is offline and online tends to be where I work when I'm stuck in bed being ill. I do that a lot and it's nice to know that I can still be earning money even when I can't get out.
I used an VA to do some seo work for me on this one site. Initially his efforts worked, but sadly the mightly Penguin didn't like what he'd done! I might just pay him to remove some of the obviously unconnected one. I have his reports so we know what to look for.
Meanwhile, has my income from the site dropped? No, it hasn't. I've been replacing the traffic with paid sources. Facebook has been great and I am also using Bing (I found a coupon for free clicks!)
Interestingly I have a blogspot site in the same niche. It was the original site, before I realised the potential and set up my own site. The blogspot site has doubled it's traffic. Before you think, wow, that was must be great numbers, I'll tell you straight off that it now gets an average of 11 - 15 uniques a day. Not huge numbers, but they do convert.
My plan has so far focused on developing other sites in the same niche. A year ago I bought another keyword targeted domain in the same niche. I never got round to developing it, so simply forwarded it to the main site. At the same time I sometimes used that in my own link building efforts.
A couple of weeks ago I removed the forward and started developing the site. I did some keyword research and identified 3 new keywords to target, including "how to play bridge". As soon as the site went live it had PR2, presumably because of the existing backlinks.
I also bought another domain name, identified 2 more keywords, including "bridge lesson" and am building yet another site in the same niche.
I also have a hub page in the niche, which sends me visitors. It has a good hub score and the advantage of these new sites is the ability to add more content to the hub page, as they whinge if you have more than 2 outgoing links to any one site.
I also noticed, just a few minutes before writing this, that an old video I made and put on YouTube is now ranking position 7 for one of my keywords. I don't recall building links to it - in fact it wasn't till I clicked to go and view it that I even realised it was mine.
I've also started a new blogspot site. It hasn't started getting visitors yet, but hey, who knows with the big G - it could be in position no1 next week. Nothing surprises me about their search results these days!
My main work is offline and online tends to be where I work when I'm stuck in bed being ill. I do that a lot and it's nice to know that I can still be earning money even when I can't get out.
I used an VA to do some seo work for me on this one site. Initially his efforts worked, but sadly the mightly Penguin didn't like what he'd done! I might just pay him to remove some of the obviously unconnected one. I have his reports so we know what to look for.
Meanwhile, has my income from the site dropped? No, it hasn't. I've been replacing the traffic with paid sources. Facebook has been great and I am also using Bing (I found a coupon for free clicks!)
Interestingly I have a blogspot site in the same niche. It was the original site, before I realised the potential and set up my own site. The blogspot site has doubled it's traffic. Before you think, wow, that was must be great numbers, I'll tell you straight off that it now gets an average of 11 - 15 uniques a day. Not huge numbers, but they do convert.
My plan has so far focused on developing other sites in the same niche. A year ago I bought another keyword targeted domain in the same niche. I never got round to developing it, so simply forwarded it to the main site. At the same time I sometimes used that in my own link building efforts.
A couple of weeks ago I removed the forward and started developing the site. I did some keyword research and identified 3 new keywords to target, including "how to play bridge". As soon as the site went live it had PR2, presumably because of the existing backlinks.
I also bought another domain name, identified 2 more keywords, including "bridge lesson" and am building yet another site in the same niche.
I also have a hub page in the niche, which sends me visitors. It has a good hub score and the advantage of these new sites is the ability to add more content to the hub page, as they whinge if you have more than 2 outgoing links to any one site.
I also noticed, just a few minutes before writing this, that an old video I made and put on YouTube is now ranking position 7 for one of my keywords. I don't recall building links to it - in fact it wasn't till I clicked to go and view it that I even realised it was mine.
I've also started a new blogspot site. It hasn't started getting visitors yet, but hey, who knows with the big G - it could be in position no1 next week. Nothing surprises me about their search results these days!
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