DocStoc - 12 docs = 9 page 1 rankings + 2185 visitors in 10 days
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I recently decided to give document sharing sites a try as a method for generating traffic and wanted to post the results from my first experience.
I registered at DocStoc using a relevant keyword as my user name. I then edited my profile to include the URL to my website along with a brief description.
Over a one week period, I took content from one of my websites, tweaked it, added a cover page with a large title, website logo and URL. I included a few links to my website throughout the text and a list of link at the end of the document. I inlcuded a tracking code in each link. I then converted the documents to pdf and uploaded them to DocStoc.
I really was not expecting the documents to be indexed as soon as they were. By chance, I was doing a search for one of the keyword phrases to see where my website was ranking and found one of the documents on page 1 of Google with a little note that read "added 20 minutes ago".
Ten days after uploading the first document I checked the results. Nine of the twelve documents were on page 1 of Google for my chosen keyword phrases. The remaining three documents were on pages 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Here is a breakdown.
keyword phrase 1 - #3 of 160,000
keyword phrase 2 - #2 and #3 of 86,000
keyword phrase 3 - page 4 of 9,040,000
keyword phrase 4 - page 3 of 1,720,000
keyword phrase 5 - page 2 #14 of 23,600,000
keyword phrase 6 - #10 of 3,610,000
keyword phrase 7 - #6 and #7 of 15,400,000
keyword phrase 8 - #2 and #3 of 4,080,000
keyword phrase 9 - #4 and #5 of 1,950,000
keyword phrase 10 - #9 of 77,900,000
keyword phrase 11 - #8 of 467,000
keyword phrase 12 - #7 of 1,270,000
When a keyword phrase resulted in two page 1 rankings, it refers to the document itself and the docstoc tag page that has my document on it. In fact, some of the tag pages have three or four of my documents listed first.
Five of the documents also ranked on the first page of Yahoo's results.
During this 10-day period, my website received 2185 visitors who arrived via the links in these documents. Adsense and affiliate income is up about 23% as a result.
One of the things I noticed was that the high page rankings were for exact (or near exact) keyword phrase matching. For example, if one of my documents was titled "How to Bake a Chocolate Cake", there is a good chance it would rank on page 1 for "how to bake a chocolate cake" (without quote marks) rather than "bake chocolate cake" or just "chocolate cake". The document could be found for the latter keywords but usually on pages 3,4,5 or beyond.
I am encouraged by the results from my first experience but have some quesions about the next step. I know that some warriors have uploaded thousands of documents to document sharing sites so I hope some of them will provide some tips.
1. Would it be better to keep adding more documents to this same account or start creating accounts at other document sharing sites?
2. When uploading documents to multiple document sharing sites, is it best to maintain the same title and keywords or modify them?
3. Should I be concerned about the number of downloads (or lack thereof)? While I have received a lot of click-thrus, I noticed that very few of the documents are actually downloaded.
Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.
William
I registered at DocStoc using a relevant keyword as my user name. I then edited my profile to include the URL to my website along with a brief description.
Over a one week period, I took content from one of my websites, tweaked it, added a cover page with a large title, website logo and URL. I included a few links to my website throughout the text and a list of link at the end of the document. I inlcuded a tracking code in each link. I then converted the documents to pdf and uploaded them to DocStoc.
I really was not expecting the documents to be indexed as soon as they were. By chance, I was doing a search for one of the keyword phrases to see where my website was ranking and found one of the documents on page 1 of Google with a little note that read "added 20 minutes ago".
Ten days after uploading the first document I checked the results. Nine of the twelve documents were on page 1 of Google for my chosen keyword phrases. The remaining three documents were on pages 2, 3 and 4 respectively. Here is a breakdown.
keyword phrase 1 - #3 of 160,000
keyword phrase 2 - #2 and #3 of 86,000
keyword phrase 3 - page 4 of 9,040,000
keyword phrase 4 - page 3 of 1,720,000
keyword phrase 5 - page 2 #14 of 23,600,000
keyword phrase 6 - #10 of 3,610,000
keyword phrase 7 - #6 and #7 of 15,400,000
keyword phrase 8 - #2 and #3 of 4,080,000
keyword phrase 9 - #4 and #5 of 1,950,000
keyword phrase 10 - #9 of 77,900,000
keyword phrase 11 - #8 of 467,000
keyword phrase 12 - #7 of 1,270,000
When a keyword phrase resulted in two page 1 rankings, it refers to the document itself and the docstoc tag page that has my document on it. In fact, some of the tag pages have three or four of my documents listed first.
Five of the documents also ranked on the first page of Yahoo's results.
During this 10-day period, my website received 2185 visitors who arrived via the links in these documents. Adsense and affiliate income is up about 23% as a result.
One of the things I noticed was that the high page rankings were for exact (or near exact) keyword phrase matching. For example, if one of my documents was titled "How to Bake a Chocolate Cake", there is a good chance it would rank on page 1 for "how to bake a chocolate cake" (without quote marks) rather than "bake chocolate cake" or just "chocolate cake". The document could be found for the latter keywords but usually on pages 3,4,5 or beyond.
I am encouraged by the results from my first experience but have some quesions about the next step. I know that some warriors have uploaded thousands of documents to document sharing sites so I hope some of them will provide some tips.
1. Would it be better to keep adding more documents to this same account or start creating accounts at other document sharing sites?
2. When uploading documents to multiple document sharing sites, is it best to maintain the same title and keywords or modify them?
3. Should I be concerned about the number of downloads (or lack thereof)? While I have received a lot of click-thrus, I noticed that very few of the documents are actually downloaded.
Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.
William
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