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I don’t know the exact cause, but my Amazon Affiliate Google Traffic has jumped a bit today. The site is about 10 days old and thus far I’ve been getting between 0 and 1 Google Organic visitors per day. I’ve got a few hours left in Wednesday, and I’ve gotten 8 Google Organic visitors so far. They have all been on long-tail search terms (shortest is 3 words, longest is 9 words) which is fine by me. My end goal is to get some steady traffic, mainly from long-tail searches.

My hypothesis about why I have this little jump in Google Organic traffic:

1) Just dumb luck, it will go away tomorrow
2) I’ve been updating daily and things are getting around through the Google machine
3) People are getting anxious about Christmas and doing more gift-related searches

Anyways, this was a little exciting for me so that’s all I’ve got for now.

I didn’t do any work on my Amazon Affiliate Site this weekend. From Fri-Sunday, I had one organic Google visitor. I’m going to need to spend some time getting some backlinks to my site, just to help raise the relevancy. Right now I have a few inbound links from other sites that I own, but I need to widen that reach a little.

I have posted one item today and will post another item this evening. My goal is to post two items each day and that might eventually allow me to get the Google Webmaster Tools Fast Crawl Rate for the Amazon Affiliate Site.

In other news, traffic to Blog Project A dropped off over the weekend. There was a big event that I ranked well for and it was driving good traffic to the site, but now that event has passed. On Friday I had 140 visitors, Saturday I had 70, Sunday I had 53. Today looks like it is going well but you can never tell until the day is over since Google Analytics don’t constantly update their display. As long as I start to climb up again, keep posting relevant material, building my base of articles, things will go good for Blog Project A.

Continuing on my Amazon Affiliate SEO path… After some playing around, it seems to me that using “click here” might be the best option for my new Amazon Affiliate site. I’ve been running 2 updates per day. Yesterday I had 2 visitors via Google Search Traffic and 1 Amazon Affiliate Click. As stated in my Amazon Affiliate NoFollow post, I added rel=”nofollow” tags to all of my outgoing Amazon links, so that might explain why I had 22 click-throughs to Amazon on my first day - I think it was Google doing all the ‘clicking’. Compared with my Blog Project A, this is fair enough traffic. You really can’t judge much this early on, but it’s good that I’m getting 2 Google Search Results visitors already.

Using “Click Here” throughout my posts allows me add as many links as I want and I don’t need to worry about giving away all my keyword juice for the search terms.

Other News…
Blog Project A is going good and traffic continues to increase. There are of course a few posts that are bringing a lot of traffic, so I just need to make sure that I keep posting. This blog flows with the seasons, so the posts that are popular now will not be so popular as time goes on, but they will continue to be valuable.

I recently read DNSEO.net’s article about How to Eliminate Duplicate Content and realized that Blog Project A had 3 or 4 different pages where each post was showing up - Previous Posts, Monthly Archives, Category Archives, Actual Post Page - so I read that article and took a few minutes to implement the suggested changes. I doubt that I’ve seen any results from those changes yet, but hopefully that will help boost some of my pages even more in the SERPS.

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I woke up this morning and was pleasantly surprised to see that my all new Amazon Affiliate Site is already listed in Google - about 14 hours after it first went live. This site is using Wordpress and will function like a blog, so this further shows me that Google loves Blogs and that Blogs have several valuable streams into Search Engines which static sites do not have access to. I haven’t gained ground in any particularly strong search terms, but that will take time. I will be looking more for long-tail search terms revolving around the different items that I list.

In other blog news, my big-niche blog is still gaining ground via Google Organic Traffic. I will usually have a day where the traffic drops bit, then 3 or 4 days where the traffic his higher than ever - then a drop, then 3 or 4 days of higher traffic. I think the key here is that I picked a wide niche and use each post to focus on a specific set of search phrases within that niche. Yesterday I received 76 visits from Google Organic Visitors. I post on this blog usually once per day, Monday - Friday and it seems to be working well for now. This blog will have more to post about during the summer so I look at it as that I am building a base of articles now and will ramp things up (2-3 posts per day) when the weather starts to warm.

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One thing that I’ve learned through my recent SEO undertakings is that Google Updates Often. Blog posts can jump to the top of a particular search very quickly, and items that you spend linkbuilding, such as my PHP eBOOK can drop just as quickly if you don’t keep some fresh content and links flowing the right direction. In the matter of the same day I have seen posts go from the top listing, to non-existent, and back to the top again.

I was ranked in the top 4 for the term “PHP eBook” and now I’ve dropped to the middle of the second page. I’ve done some recent linkbuilding and I will continue to do so, so we will see what the effect is.

In related news, one of my other blogs has continued to see good growth via Google organic traffic. I haven’t spent much time trying to figure out Yahoo, but I am not getting much traffic or high rankings from those other search engines…