Now we're going to see how my site progressed through the rankings. I purchased a site on April 4 2018, and started to build it just a few days later. For this case study, I needed a means of tracking up to 100 keywords. For this purpose, I used a software called SERP fox.com. And it costs $10 a month to track 100 keywords. This is the only time that I used a paid service at any time to rank my site.

And this is not strictly necessary. My strategy was to identify 100 keywords closely related to my site content, and to track them regularly. As I added content to the site. It's important to get your posts indexed in Google So added the site to Google Search Console and added the site map. There is a free plugin for WordPress to generate the sitemap. You simply upload it to Google Search Console to get the ball rolling.

From this point on, Google Search bots will crawl your site regularly as you add content. You can also check how many posts are indexed in Google using this console. You'll notice that there'll be more URLs indexed than there are posts on your site. This is normal as he takes into account category pages, and also tags. Tags are treated as separate URLs. Some experts say that tags shouldn't be overused as it can lead to duplicate content penalty.

From Google search, I haven't found this. And anyway, it doesn't make sense. Google search is sophisticated enough to understand that tag URLs do not constitute intentional user content to application. It's just a result of a content management system such as WordPress. Even though Google may show a certain number of URLs, it may not decide to show all of them in search results. For example, currently, my site has over 1600 also URLs indexed.

But if I use the site colon command for Google search, it shows considerably less than 590 or so. Even so, there are many more than the number of posts My advice is to add 10 to 20 tags to each post. As tag URLs often rank and bring traffic. On the search analytics page for my site, you can see the tag URLs are ranking. Even though the monthly volume is zero, this is not true. It's just very low.

But it's important to get traffic flowing, and it will grow over time. Each week, I track 100 keywords on SERP fox.com. A good way to build this keyword list is to add the focus keyword as you create a post and then add four or five variations about one month after site creation. My keywords started to rank the key word what are subplots entered quite strongly position 27 and then drop back before steadily climbing again. It was page one position eight on July the third, three months after I created the site. Two related keywords, definition of subplots and subplots definition, followed soon afterwards.

This was particularly pleasing for their volumes of 1300 searches per month ever interesting. All of these keywords continue to move slowly upwards. And it has to be noted that progressing through the top half of page one is much harder than the bottom half. Of course, any page one position brings traffic, but the top positions bring much more. In addition, my site has more keywords on pages two, three, and four, just ready to move up. Over the next month or two, I will be focused on promoting them and building backlinks to start moving them up to page one.

I'm confident that this site will continue to grow, continue to bring traffic and build a solid income over the coming months. And now it's up to you. It's up to you to take action. Without action. Nothing can happen. Using the information and strategies that I've given you within this course, you can build a very good solid site and build your own online income even though it may take three months to rank anywhere near page one, and something like six months to nine months after this, to build that solid income.

If you take no action now, within six months, you'll still be wondering where to find extra income. Start now, let me know how you get on. I'd love to hear from you. I hope you've enjoyed the course. Bye bye