SEO Empire

The activity previously taking place on this site will in the future be conducted by the SEO Labs. The new site is in Swedish but will get a section in english too when it has grown in size.

Status: In Progress
Indexed: com:July 23,org -,net,July 24,info:-
Top 10:
fulldragon.com at pos 2 25th of  July
fulldragon.net at pos 3  26th of July
fulldragon.info at pos 10 28th of July
fulldragon.org at pos 5 3rd of August

Update August 5: All sites are now parked on the first page. The main problem now is that there are YouTube and image results on what appears to be place 2, 3 and 4, so my sites appear at positions 5,6,7 and 8 instead of 2,3,4 and 5. According to first page click share estimates, my sites now get 15% of the clicks instead of the 31% I would get if those results were not there. The top placement alone would give more that all my sites in either case, though.

The idea to once and for all find out how big of a difference the .com, .org, .net and .info top domains will cause in the search results came when I was buying the .com domain for fulldragon and the registrar flashes me a promotion to get 60% off for the other top domains. I fell for their offer and decided to do an interesting test. The term full dragon is a very common search term among Runescape players and it also has some decent competition so a good placement does not come for free. According to Google it has 2,900 searches per month with exact match.

Said and done, the domains are all placed on american servers and running identical wordpress installs and template. There is an article about the full dragon that was written by my collegue and it actually contains very good information that will keep visitors on the site and even appreciate the visit. In order to give the sites equal link power, I will link to them in reverse order on another site. The sites are: www.fulldragon.com, www.fulldragon.org, www.fulldragon.net and www.fulldragon.info.

Status: In Progress
Indexed: -
Top 10: -

As some kind of ending of my attempts to get computer gaming (virtual computer game currency sales to be more exact) market shares in Sweden I have made three more websites for wow gold, wow gold and again wow gold! For those who didn’t realize it yet this is all about getting in the first position of searches for World of Warcraft gold. I also made websites about mmorpgs and dataspel (computer games).

Technically speaking, we are talking about Joomla sites with the swedich installed. They are also .se and .nu domains (nu being “now” in swedish) hosted on swedish servers. I will continue working on these sites and even if I think it’s funny to create new websites, I still hope I wil get some kind of return for creating them.

Status: In Progress
Indexed: July 13 2009
Top 10: poker se: pos 8 July 22

I have just created two more poker sites: party poker and poker se. They are created with the tile being a question that gets answered in the meta desciption. I hope these sites can advance in the swedish serps with the help och som poker links and also swedish gaming links.

Status: In Progress
Start Position: 3 at July 13 2009
First pos: - (pos 2 at August 4th) 

One of the sites I have been doing some on-page SEO for is www.designsketching.com (this reminds me that I should add a dir rewrite to send visitors to the www. only). The site not displays first position and extra links for design sketching that has a monthly search volume of 2,400. Not bad. The other most popular related terms are design sketches (1,300 - 1st pos!) and sketch design (1,900 - 3rd pos), design sketch book (73, 1st) and finally sketch designs (260 - nowhere to be found). Now we will see if som linking to sketch design will give the site a better position so they can sell even more design books. It is a good book, I promise! As far as sketch designs is concerned, it doesn’t exist on the design sketching website so I will add it and the monitor the results.

Status: In Progress
Time Spent: 1 hour
Cost: -
Google Pinged: July 6 2009
Site Top 10: #8 July 13 2009
Site #1: -

The website empire-std.com that I previously setup at SEO Test 1 will now be optimized for the term “free std” (260 monthly searches), with the longer tails of “free testing std” (28 monthly searches), “free std clinic” (880) and “free clinics for std testing” (590 monthly searches). Not very much to hope for when it comes to PPC income.

Status: In Progress
Time Spent: 5 hours
Cost: $70
Google Pinged: July 3 2009
Sites Indexed: July 4 2009 (the next day!)

In order to get a bigger total market share of the virtual currency sales industry, I have been creating new sites in Queen’s English (as opposed to American), German, Spanish and Swedish. I got the proper top domains .co.uk, .de, .es and .se, however it seems harder to get the .ca, .it, .fr and .br, not to mention the main asian top domains.

I also managed to put the sites up on swedish and british hosting, however no german hosting yet. Now in order to get the sites to rank on the localized search engines, I would also need inlinks with the correct languages and from the corresponding countries. Again I can do this for UK, Sweden and Spain, but Germany will be harder.

Search terms in goal are as usual the Runescape, Maplestory, World of Warcraft and EVE Online gurrencies; Runescape Gold, Maplestory Mesos, WoW Gold and EVE ISK. The only alternation is the spanish WoW Oro for Gold.

Status: Mission accomplished August 16 2009, it took 48 days.
Time Spent: 2 hours
Cost: $14.99
Google Pinged: June 25 2009
Site Indexed: June 27 2009
Site Top 10: #8 reached July 4 2009
Site No 1: Mission accomplished August 16 2009

When looking at the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, I often get amazed by how many people search for terms related to Runescape. The other day I was playing around and I found out an astounding Global Monthly Search Volume of 74,000 for the term zezima with an Advertizer Competition not being at max. Zezima is the most known player of the game, and has made his name from obtaining the max level in all skills. A good opportunity indeed.

Said and done, a domain (zezima.org) is purchased and the website being built.

Update 1: The site is now in place but under construction. It was indexed 3 days after being created and already at #12 for the desired keyword!

Status: In Progress
Time Spent: 5h
Cost: $210 (!)
Google Pinged: July 2 2009
Site Indexed: July 4 2009
Site Top 10: -
Site No 1: -

In the hunt for interesting domains, I have purchased runescape.gp and a Catalan domain, the later being a so called sponsored domain. The purchased domain name is great but there is a catch:

You can apply for a .cat domain if you belong to the Catalan cultural and linguistic community in the Internet. .CAT is a sponsored domain and domain name applications require validation by the .CAT Registry.

Being a foreigner living in Catalunya, I sent them my registration documents with the city, however making the site in catalan will be a challenge. I will link it when it’s ready.

The other domain, the real test subject in this post; runescape.gp is using the top domain for Guadeloupe. I had to send my passport to prove my identity and pay a stiff registration fee but everything seems to go well.

The interesting thing is that gp is the abbreviation for gold piece in Runescape and pretty much an acronym for money inside the game. The Google Adwords Keyword Tool shows a Global Monthly Search Volume of 2,400 for runescape gp and that should be high conversion traffic.

The question is how long it will take to rank for the term. Timetable is listed at the top of the post.

Status: In Progress - No PageRank Update Yet
Time Spent: 30 minutes
Cost: $150 (!)

The idea is simple - Make a website and let the Indian dudes loose submitting it to all directories there are to find. By far the quickest, and also the most expensive test so far. Each submission is cheap, but doing over a thousand, it adds up to some dough. 30 minutes to write some submission variations with good link texts and entering the credit card details. Not harder than that. Now it will be really interesting to see how this works out. Submissions are made over a period of a month and then the approval process takes another 0-3 months, spreading out the links over a nice span of time. Some people are afraid to submit their sites to too many directories so this experiment will find the definite answer and find out if their fears are justified or not.

The site? it’s a Joomla poker affiliate site called Real Poker. I’ll update this post when it ends up in the top 10 SERP and gets some Google Toolbar PageRank.