You make a good point about the importance of the site description. I didn’t even realize what it was Google used in the searches to describe a site. I went through and changed all of my site descriptions to something that fit in the space allowed and was catchy(kind of). It definitely worked as far as increasing clicks to the site. Thanks.

Encouraging results! I had many blogs go through rank and tank as well. Its good that you are documenting phenomenon (if you can call it that) for everyone. Just as a tip, and this is not an affiliate link, I use google apps for my business and checking results on google and having to log out all the time is just not realistic. I use http://www.hidemyass.com to do quick google checks to keep the results real. This is a free proxy service that works great if you can get passed the name… =)

Thank again,

Kevin

Thanks for giving us the update on your niche process.

One thing we can all learn from this is that going for “beginner” or “basics” can really be fantastic for niches, traffic and monetization.

I have a niche site aimed at beginners and it’s been pulling in big traffic for well over a year now – if I went after the mid or higher levels I don’t think it would be as much because (at least my reasoning) is that people want to start something, not all will finish.

If you can at least help them out in the beginning you’re golden. From there, you could always do a follow up site that teaches the more advanced stuff.

Maybe, advanceguitarlessons.com? From the list you build you can point them that way afterward hehe.

These are excellent points — I agree with all of them and need to add them to the list for my VA. The problem is that I have not sent the VA a complete list of “site build” tasks yet. All of these items are covered in my standard list.

Thanks!

50 or so. There is a bunch of unrelated PLR junk in there that I am trying to clean up too — I am just deleting that stuff.

Glad you are enjoying it. Rank and Tank is a term that I stole from someone else (maybe Lynn Terry).

Mark, it’s been great following the challenge, kudos to you Pat, and Tyrone for your transparency.

Good luck with the new site!

Congrats on the page 1 victory!

Very nice results ! page 1 : )

So what is the traffic looking like to your site so far ?

Sara

Excellent question. Google modifies your search results based on your browsing history if you are logged into iGoogle or GMail. They put sites you “like” higher in the results based on past visits.

Why do you say: “(And yes, I am logged out of iGoogle, GMail, etc)” ?

Congratulations to reach that excellent position in Google, and thanks to share in so open way your methods, something that is a true aid for those who (like me) are looking for an effective way to get profits thru Internet.The honesty and clarity of your articles seems very refreshing to me!

The collection of videos in your page of LBG is impressive and even not being a guitarist, I stayed more of half an hour seeing them, later to end up clicking in some of your ads 🙂

I comment to you some things that catch my attention, from the point of view of a new visitor to your page of LBG: Particularly I like to see the About page to know a little about the author. I do not do it in first instance, but after reading some articles, if them seems to me interesting, generally always I go to that part and, in the case of your LGB site, the About information is the one that brings WP by default (duh)… I believe that you would have to personalize it, in the same way that the name of the author of the articles (admin seems to me too cold and do not help to establish confidence and empathy with the reader, I think).

And one last thing… I noticed that your permalinks are in generic way. I’ve heard it is better to customize it with /%postname%/ only, but maybe it isn’t an important thing, is it?

Anyway, I think your blog is awsome and you can count with me like a devote reader.