On another note there is some rumors going around on some blogs that Google might be doing another update on 9/8/2010. Which is today since I am still up and it is 1:09 AM. Geez I got to get to bed. Anyways I hope it is not something like MayDay. I am crossing my fingers that everything stays the same for me or gets better. i am just starting to get things back on track… I don’t need another set back.

I am really excited about this new process because I think it will make my sites hold their positions longer and not be as susceptible to a MayDay scenario that really threw me for a loop a few months back.

After doing a lot of research I came up with my next niche site, Generators For Home Use. In the future I will go over the process I went through to decide this was one that I wanted to move forward with. I did use SEOPressor on this site to optimize my on-page SEO.  I also modified the theme a bit to remove duplicate H1 and H2 tags since I am placing them in the post now wit SEOPressor. This is something I might go back and do on some of my last few sites then to see how it affects them.

Almost everything I am learning is coming from the warriors forum. If you don’t get in there every once in a while you should. Granted there is a lot of crap to sift through… but if you find the right thread you can strike gold too.

So step by step I did what the SEOPressor plugin said to do and I am now sitting at 94.44% for those keywords. This plugin literally forced me to write more content then properly set my keyword density. It automatically bolds, underlines and italicizes my keywords throughout the post or page. It tells you to add an image and set the alt text on the image. Actually if you add the image you can have it add the alt text automatically for you. It also makes recommendations for placing your keywords in all 3 header tags. This site has more content then the other sites I have been putting out recently all because SEOPressor told me I needed it.

I think this plugin is exactly what I needed! Someone or I guess something to sit over my shoulder and tell me what I needed to do. In this case I have backlinks in place since it is an expired domain but normally after in page optimization all that is left to do is build backlinks through various methods like article marketing. Maybe after I wait and see were this one moves to with the optimized post I will then add some more backlinks. But for now I am not touching another thing for a few weeks and I will let you know what happens. I am very happy with my purchase of SEOPressor. It will be on every site I create from now on.

I am excited about this site for several reasons. It was ranked number 3 in Google for the keywords Anna Faris. Unfortunately the site was taken offline about a week ago and Google dropped it from its index. In the past I was able to hold the positions of expiring domains without them ever being dropped. I really hope I can get this one back into Google soon and rank on the first page. I am a little skeptic on this one.  Gtrends show those keywords getting about 3,000 hits per day for the number 1 spot in Google. The Adwords keyword tool shows 110,000 exact searches per month. That is about 3,666 searches per day. I would love to just capture a fraction of this traffic. Who am I kidding I want it all. LOL.

So I think this domain name was a steal for $69 and I just have my fingers crossed that I can get it back into Google and ranking well again soon.

I decided to continue to use DropDay.com for my domain research even though it is no longer free and I have to pay a monthly fee to use the service. I made this choice when I could not find an alternate free service that provided the same level of detail.

Overall traffic to a few of my sites is rising but I am still struggling overall. With the changes that Google made back in May you just can’t throw up a site and expect to do well. You need to spend the extra love and do the article marketing and get backlinks. This is the stuff I hate to do so I am either going to have to outsource it like someone recommended in a previous post or possibly buy existing domains that the work has already been done for me.

Since then I have tried several attempts and have had some ok results but not what I am looking for. I did the Antique Cash Registers site with article marketing and original content posts. It is getting some traffic but nothing like I was hoping for.  I just started the Idiot Talk site and I still have hopes for that since I have 100+ followers on FaceBook but I am having a hard time getting them off facebook and onto my site. So what next?

Well I thought this through and have came up with yet another plan. I really want targeted keyword traffic. That is what works best with my EPN sites. So I am going to do some keyword research and pick just one keyword that gets a fair amount of traffic and focus on driving my site to the number 1 spot on Google for that 1 keyword. Now I have micro niche finder and I use Google’s keyword tool and I always end up picking a good keyword and maybe getting in the top 5 and I get hardly any traffic. Turns out this is usually because those keyword tools are flawed and don’t have correct numbers.  One way is to use Adwords on my new keywords and monitor how much traffic I get but that can be costly. Another way is to use Google Insight and compare your new keywords against some other keywords that you know the numbers on. This is more acurate then the keyword tools and can save you time from setting up a site and marketing it just to find out that you wasted your time for 1 or 2 clicks a day.

So there you have it… my next plan of attack. I would love to hear how others are combating the loss of long tail keyword results in Google.

The email went on to say that this time they would not reinstate my accounts unless I moved to a VPS or dedicated server. They made me a good offer to move to an unmanaged dedicated server so I made the jump. I have to say that I was not happy to see my sites down for almost a day. But boy was I dreading the thought of having to move the files and mysql data on each WordPress site. The Host Gator support guy offered to handle the move for me if I stayed with them on a dedicated server. So low and behold they did just that. Things are still working through DNS at this hour but I manually flushed my PC’s DNS and the sites started working great.

So I am going to finish checking all my sites tomorrow and move on from this. I felt like sharing this experience so that others can learn from it. I would recommend anyone starting out making many sites and using WordPress to spend the extra in the beginning for a VPS or even better a dedicated server. Your host will not shut you down for hogging resources if you are the only one on that server.

I was not given an answer yet for sure what exactly about my sites was using the CPU usage but the last time this happened it was the CUIL search engine hammering away at my sites. I will be going back to Host Gator tommorrow to see if they can answer that question for me.

All this happened just when the site I am focusing on, www.antiquecashregisters.net, was having its best traffic day to date. It followed through to EPN also and it was the highest number of clicks through for that site as well. I think my efforts on that site are finally starting to kick in. More to come on that in a few days once I get stuff back to normal.

My earnings for EPN in June 2010 was $361.48. This is substantial drop. It had nothing to do with EPN or eBay. In fact it all had to do with traffic. I lost a ton of traffic coming from Google and without that traffic you just can’t make the money. So I know my EPN piece would work if I could get the traffic back to my sites. Easier said then done…

I will keep everyone updated as I try different things.

My antiquecashregisters.net site has been in Google’s index for a while but not in the search results for any of the keywords I targeted. I found this strange and then finally yesterday, almost 2 weeks I think, since I started the site Google started to send a little traffic to me based on my targeted keywords. So I am hoping that this site gives me some ideas on what I need to improve on.

Here is hoping that July is better then June!