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Rising through the SERPS

// October 8th, 2008 // freeblogtemplates.net

In my last post I said that www.freeblogtemplates.net was position 3 on Yahoo.com and mid-way through the 2nd page on Google.com for the term “free blog templates“.

For the past few weeks I’ve sat at # 1 on Yahoo which is great, however Google is really the one I want to crack.

As of today I am position # 7 on Google and it is gradually climbing. I was at number 11 for a while (ie. top of page 2) and then I moved to number 10 and now it’s number 7.

This is without any targeted link building either – this just appears to be natural. The site does get links through link backs and people deciding to link to it, but I haven’t done any promotion of the site besides one or two links on other sites I own.

The site managed to get a PR2 in it’s first update too.

So far this month, 91% of the traffic is coming from search engines (53% Google, 32% Yahoo), 6% from referring sites and 3% direct.

So my little experiment in to SERP continues.

Since my last post I have also added Blogger templates but finding good quality templates for Blogger is a little more difficult than WordPress. The Blogger page is pretty well visited so I think my assumption that people using the term “blog template” could be looking for Blogger rather than WordPress was probably right.

I have also started putting ads on the site. I initially started with Adsense but I have now added some additional affiliate ads – targetting bloggers. I’m also using a “stripe ad” which runs across the top the page. Am getting some adsense clicks, but no affiliate sales yet.

Will try to update a little more often on this site as it will be interesting to have a full history of it’s progress.