How are my sites scoring?

by Sapphire (April 8, 2005)

I have several sites I’m running right now, and I’m going to talk about four of them in this post. The first pair are very similar - we’ll call them the A sites. Then there’s another pair - we’ll call them the B sites.

The A sites launched a month apart, and the only big difference between them is the markets they’re aimed toward. Site A-1 got appeals to a fairly broad niche, which means loads of competition. It got indexed in the SE’s very quickly (Google first). Then after about a month, it practically dropped out of the SE’s, and I wondered if it needed changes. But I was busy with Site A-2, so I made no changes to A-1. After another month, it suddenly appeared in all the engines, ranking quite decently on a number of long tail searches. As of yet, it’s far from cornering any really competitive terms, but it is a pretty competitive market. I’m up against a lot of established sites that really deserve to be ranking ahead of me. For a start (the site is about 3 months old), I’m hopeful.

Meanwhile, Site A-2, which is only 2 months old, has just never really been indexed. For a little while, Yahoo had about 30 pages, but they weren’t ranking for any search terms, and the traffic was painfully minimal. It’s a very tight niche market, which I thought would be a good thing, but it looks like the competition may be even worse than it was in the bigger niche for Site A-1. A-2 is the site that sucked in my first sad little AdWords campaign. It may just be a loser site. Right now, pretty much nothing is indexed - everybody dropped it after the first month. But that’s what happened with Site A-1, so I’m definitely just going to let this site ride for another month or two and see what happens.

Tune in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion!

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