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HELP! What should I do?

by tgfilegal23
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Hi warriors. Okay so here is the deal. Right now I have about 5 domains. I am trying to focus my seo efforts on two in particular...(More like hire someone else for the seo)

The first site is Stop Panic Attacks Dead in Their Tracks and the other is

http://www.HowToCookAHam.net

The panic attack site is actually a blogger blog and the domain is not an exact match phrase and isn't listed in google at all! However I do have 75 backlinks to the panic attack blog. It is 3 months old. "Panic attacks" gets about 300,000k searches a month

The ham domain IS an exact match phrase and is listed in google on page 5 number 6. I do NOT have any backlinks to this wordpress blog and its less than 2 weeks old. I created this blog in anticipation of Easter. This exact phrase gets about 60k searches via google and 45k local searches a month.

Should I focus on the ham blog since it is time sensitive or should I focus my seo efforts on the panic attack blog since its older and has some backlinks?

ALSO any suggestions on how I can improve my sites is greatly appreciated.
  • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
    Tough call.

    I would go ham, but I just found you will be up against some big guns there on page 1.

    So many things I'd do to that site too.

    Between the two, I would clean up the Ham site,

    IE:

    You can Get a Ham Here: ADD YOUR AMAZON BANNER HERE
    That needs to go, clean up the sidebar where the title of one of the categories goes into the back drop, Get some ham picture to replace that turkey up top and the others, don't stick a link in so soon (your reference to Ron's site), and look into signing up directly with a company(s) that will deliver the hams on order - I have a friend who did this with the organic turkeys at thanksgiving and did well.

    Anyway, this was probably not the advice you were looking for, lol - but before building any more back links I'd clean up the site, get some more content on it -

    1. Fully-Cooked Ham: Ham that has been heated through the middle to temperatures exceeding 147 degrees F. Ready to eat without further cooking.
    2. Partially Cooked Ham: Ham that has been heated through the middle to temperatures exceeding 137 degrees F requires additional cooking.
    3. Uncooked Ham: Ham that requires cooking to eat.
    4. Boiled Ham: Ham that has been boned, cured and cooked using a boiling process. Ready to eat without further cooking.
    5. Whole Ham: A cut that includes both butt ham and shank ham from the pig's leg. Weights 10 to 20 pounds. Available bone-in or boneless.
    6. Butt Ham: A cut taken from the top half of the pig's leg. Contains more fat than a cut from the shank, but has more meat and is easy to carve.
    7. Shank Ham: A cut taken from the bottom half of the pig's leg. Contains less fat than butt ham, but is not as meaty and is harder to carve. Has a slightly sweeter flavor than butt ham.
    8. Spiral Sliced Ham: A precooked ham that has been pre-sliced in a spiral or continuous cut.
    9. Wet-Cured Ham: A wet-cured or "city" ham has been cured with a brine. The majority of hams available in grocery stores are wet-cured.
    10. Dry-Cured Ham: A dry-cured or "country" ham has been rubbed with a salt or sugar seasoning, dried and aged. The most common type of dry-cured ham in the United States is a Virginia or Smithfield Ham.
    You know, this is like 10 more articles (at least!) you should have on your site. I would go into the history, detail, etc about each of these things.

    Take that content, add the articles to the article directories, and find some video or better yet make some with that keyword.

    You're off to a good start and If you are looking to rank I think you'll do quicker with the ham - JMO.

    PS: G does a dance thing and a whole major shuffle about every 3-4 months. I'm not sure when the next date is but you may get in there before Easter.

    And if you can swing it do get yourself Market Samurai so you can get an overview of all those front page sites and have some idea of how much work to get there.

    Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author tgfilegal23
      Thank You for the feedback! It's greatly appreciated and I will hop right on those things to clean up my blog. Since I still have a lot of work to do on the ham blog I think I am going to promote the panic attack blog while I get the ham blog worked on. Even though I would like to have it ranked before easter, it might be a really tall order so at least if I get the panic attack blog up on page 1 of the serps (via outsourcing) it will buy me some more time on the ham blog to really make sure its ready for the fall. Thank You for the suggestions and I will definitely get to working on that
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      • Profile picture of the author tgfilegal23
        Another thing too is that I live in RI and Amazon Associates program is not available to affiliates in RI, NC and I think Denver. Amazon is the only affiliate program that "I know of" where you can purchase a variation of hams.
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  • Profile picture of the author BradBergeron
    Mate, these terms don't get anywhere near the amount of searches you think they do. How to Cook a Ham got 6600 local searches last month. Panic attacks doesn't get 300k searches/month. It's actually about 20k local searches and 40k worldwide.
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    • Profile picture of the author tgfilegal23
      really! wow how did you find that out. I actually just went to analytics and typed in the keyword.
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      • Profile picture of the author Boris_yo
        I would not rely on Blogger and go with Hams.
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