The Daily Feed Issue #31: How long does SEO take - Update!

Welcome to Issue #31 of The Daily Feed. If this email was forwarded to you by a friend, you can subscribe on this page. You can read previous editions of The Daily Feed on our blog but note that posts to our blog are delayed 24 hours or more. If you have questions about SEO, SEM or getting traffic, please post them to 503me.com (it's free).

Today I'm going to post an update on how long SEO takes. But first I'd like to draw your attention to the best traffic related advice I've seen on our question/answer site 503me.com so far. A few hours ago DomainNameNinja answered a question from a blogger asking how to get more traffic to their art blog. Great SEO and general marketing advice. 

Today we also added a few new features. We launched spam filtering on comments. And if you are one of our top users (by karma) and you flag something as spam, it's now instantly removed. 

A week ago in Issue #25 I wrote about early stage SEO and how to measure your SEO progress. I used 503me.com as a case study and I said that we're tracking a search query for "is the meta keywords tag still important" (without quotes) and monitoring where we rank for that query. At the time we ranked 250th. 

As of today we rank #1 for that query. Not bad for a domain that was registered 12 days ago. Lets chat about how we climbed the SERP rankings so quickly...

We created a site with lots of new, unique and useful content. We made sure that Google could understand the site structure and that the URL's were descriptive. We also let the right people know about the site i.e. we got a bunch of high quality links from sites related to SEO and to getting traffic. It's that simple.

I know I've beaten this horse to death, but I'm going to (yet again!) remind you of my basic SEO philosophy:

"Create new, unique and useful web pages, host them on a user-friendly website that Google can understand and make sure the right people know about them." 

Now that we're number #1 for our control query, we're going to have to find another query to monitor our performance. I'm going to choose something similar, but more general and competitive. Lets go with the search "meta keywords tag" without quotes. Right now we rank 550th for that query. OUCH! But hey, the team at Feedjit likes a challenge. We'll keep using 503me as a control for our SEO conversation and we'll track how we do for that query in the coming weeks. 

I hope your week is exceeding your expectations. Have an awesome Tuesday!

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO.

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