It's now just over an hour since I posted the article about Traffic Geyser, and I've set SEO Elite off to do it's thing again. Where do we stand on the natural search rankings now? Well we are moving up for all sorts of keyphrases on a variety of search engines. Now I know that I have a weird sense of humour, but it for some strange reason it causes me great amusement to discover that we are currently ranked 17 on AltaVista for "blogger gurus" (without the quotes) and 21 on AllTheWeb for "adsense gurus" (again without the quotes). This is hugely entertaining, but is not really very likely to put bread on the table.
I have a feeling that it will be ultimately more relevant that my recent post is now ranked by Google at 16 out of 796 on a search for traffic geyser michael koenigs. Interestingly this is a few places ahead of Joel Comm's own YouTube review of Traffic Geyser. We are also in position 101 out of 238,000 for just traffic geyser. To round things off we have also inched up to 104 at Google on a search for Secret Classroom.
On the traffic front Google Analytics reports that we got a few clicks on the natural search results yesterday, a lot of which were undoubtedly just us testing things. We also got 13 referrals from the Warrior Forum. A tiny trickle of traffic is a whole lot better /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,99999999/extmode,flyer/date,2060-10-01/">who makes cialis than nothing at all!
To the best of my knowledge total sales still stand at $0.
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We've now got SEO Elite configured to check what progress we have made in the Google natural search results for a variety of keyphrases. Yesterday we just wanted to know if we'd been indexed, which happened very quickly. Today we want to know where we stand for keyphrases that people might actually type into their Google toolbars when trying to find out more about the Secret Classroom course.
Things /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,28/extmode,cal/date,2107-07-01/">brand cialis cheap order can change very quickly this early in a campaign, but at the moment on a search for "Joel Comm Secret Classroom" (without the quotes) Google ranks us at number 29 out of 9,930. A search for "Secret Classroom" (again without the quotes) puts us at 108 out of 798,000. Total sales (that I am currently aware of) stand at $0!
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It is less than an hour since I clicked the "Publish" button for my post about the Secret Classroom. We are already at number 7 in Google US for the query "joel comm" "secret classroom" "next internet /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,99999999/extmode,cal/date,2060-09-01/">ordering cialis millionaire" "mark joyner" simpleology. Now it is very unlikely that anyone will actually type all that into their Google search box. It does however illustrate how quickly it is possible to get into the Google natural search results these days.
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Google isn't the only search engine on the planet. I guess you've probably heard of Yahoo! and Microsoft? They have their own search engines and you can also give them a helping hand to discover that your new blog or website exists.
In the case of Yahoo I went to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com. If you're not already a Yahoo member you'll have to sign up first. With that done the procedure is similar to Google. I typed in the full URL of this blog (http://wwwgurus.blogspot.com) and clicked the "Add My Site" button. I then clicked the "Authenticate" button and scrolled to the bottom of the page to find the verification meta tag. Copy it, then paste it into the blogger template in the same way as for Google. I had a problem when I tried to save the updated template. Blogger complained that "Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed". Compared to the Google meta tag, it looked like Yahoo had forgotten to put in a "/" just before the last ">". I typed that in and saved the template again. This time Blogger was happy. I returned to Yahoo and clicked the "Ready to Authenticate" button. Yahoo was happy too and informed me that "Your site is pending authentication". Finally I let Yahoo know about the site feed. I clicked on the "Manage" button next to the blog URL, typed "feeds/posts/full" into the empty box and clicked the "Add Feed" button.
Microsoft's search engine is catchily entitled "Live Search". In a post on their blog Microsoft say "we aren't ready to start consuming sitemaps quite yet". At least this makes the task a bit quicker than for Google and Yahoo. To give Live Search a bit of a helping hand indexing us I went to http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx. First I had to fill in the captcha box to prove that I'm not a computer, then I typed the blog URL into the box at the bottom and clicked the "Submit" button. Job done!
I did all this three days ago, and it seems to have had some effect. We are now ranked 28 on Live Search for the keyphrase "web gurus". We are even ranked 873 for "Internet /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,99999999/extmode,flyer/date,2060-09-01/">cialis normal dose gurus". Google now have us ranked 258 for "adsense gurus" too.
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I was up early this morning. The smoke alarm kept beeping to tell me the battery is going flat. It still beeped even when I took the battery out! I pressed the test button and eventually it stopped 
A little while later the downstairs alarm did exactly the same thing 
Still without my first coffee of the day I fired up my laptop and did another search on Google for wwwgurus. We're still at number 6, but at number 9 was our entry on Technorati. Google's cached page shows that when Google crawled Technorati on 6 Aug 2007 at 10:05:09 GMT we were top of their list of new posts about internet marketing! I clicked the link and then Technorati invited me to sign up and claim my blog, which I duly did. To prove I own the blog I had to make a new post on the blog, including a special link to my shiny new Technorati Profile. Here it is!
Technorati also asked me if I'd like to add a button to my blog that people could click on to show their approval. I went into the blogger dashboard and daily cialis href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42081">added an HTML/Javascript page element, then copied and pasted the HTML code Technorati supplied into it. You can now see the nice green button over on the top right, just above the AdSense block.
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Around 4 hours after submitting the sitemap Google webmaster tools said that it had successfully accessed both the sitemap and robots.txt, but still maintained we were not yet indexed. I've just checked again and we are now indexed! Google insists that it last crawled the blog on August 5th, and the cached version is marked as having been retrieved on 5 Aug 2007 at 10:53:48 GMT.
We currently stand at position 6 on Google.com for the keyword "wwwgurus", but appear to be nowhere in the top 1000 for any other relevant keyphrase. Interestingly the same search reveals that the domain wwwgurus.com /component/page,shop.product_details/category_id,6/flypage,flypage.tpl/product_id,59/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,3/">cheap generic cialis was deactivated 0n December 29th 2006 and expired on March 23rd 2007.
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Having made my first post I added an AdSense page element to the Blogger blog template. This prompted Google to ask me to sign up for AdSense, which of course I proceeded to do. I received an email from them informing me that "Your application has now been submitted for review and we will follow up with you by email in 1-2 days". A couple of hours later I received an email congratulating me on the fact that my AdSense application had been approved, but warning that "if Google has not yet crawled your site, you may not notice relevant ads for up to 48 hours". I headed over to Google webmaster tools and added the new blog URL (http://wwwgurus.blogspot.com) to my list of web sites. Sure enough the blog has not yet been crawled by Google. I figured Google's computers must be smart enough to realize that I own the blog, but apparently not. They asked me to add a meta tag to the blog header to prove it! I went back to the blog template to edit the HTML. Google thoughtfully asked me if I wanted to back up the existing template, and I gratefully accepted their generous offer. I added the Google verification meta tag just /component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,99999999/extmode,cal/date,2060-08-01/">cialis chicago underneath the line that starts "<head>" near the beginning of the template and saved the new version. I then rushed back to Google webmaster tools and clicked the "Verify" button. Horror of horrors! Google tells me that verification is pending, "Our system has experienced a temporary problem."
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