As many of you know, I’ve been doing my best to keep you up to date on the latest going-ons with my niche site challenge with Tyrone Shum. To make things easier for you, I recently created a niche site duel hub that will list all of the posts surrounding this challenge, from all of the competitors’ blogs.
Currently, it’s just me, Tyrone Shum and Mark Mason, but I’m happy to add anyone else’s case studies to the list who may be participating in this challenge too. All I ask is that you do not hide your niche and url in your reports, since the purpose of this challenge is to be as transparent as possible so our audiences can learn as much as they can.
If you’re participating, just contact me with a link to your first report and I’ll add it to the hub.
This post isn’t an official niche site duel update, but I am happy to say that as of 10:30pm PST on August 29th, I am currently ranked #186 in Google for my target keyword.
I definitely still have a long way to go to reach the first page, but for a brand new, one-week old site and 46,000 competing webpages, that’s not bad at all, and I expect to quickly climb much higher.
I’ll go over my exact strategy, in detail, in the next niche site duel update, but today, I wanted to share with you how you can track your website’s rank in the search engines for your target keywords.
It can be tough, especially right when you’re starting a new site, to know where you are on the radar. You don’t want to spend time flipping through each page of Google to find your site.
That’s why I recommend using one of the three methods I show you in the video below:
(Watch 3 Cool Ways to Find Your Google Keyword Search Engine Ranking (SERPs) on YouTube)
Items Mentioned in This Video:
- The Market Samurai Rank Checker Module
- SEO Keyword Ranking
- Firefox SEO Rank Checker Plugin
Hopefully, we’ll all get to a point where we’re all sitting in the number 1 position for our target keyword, in which case, these techniques wouldn’t be necessary. But until then, I hope you find these techniques useful.
Thanks for your support!
Cheers!
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Hi Pat,
thanks for the informativ Video from you. I just learned about the search depth on market samurai, never seen this before – nice one! Also the Rank Checker is a nice new tool, thank you Pat for your Tips and Tricks
No problem Sebastian! Thanks for the support. Cheers!
This is great Pat. I always learn something when I visit here hence your blog is like my morning coffee; if I don’t get my fix I’m grinding teeth all day
Haha, I never heard anyone put it that way before, but that’s awesome
So what do you do on Tuesday and Thursday when I don’t post
You don’t want to know
Seriously, I re-read your posts with a stronger coffee!!
Michael
P.s Is that Magentic Island in your photo slide?
Haha, I see it the same way!
I showed my mom your blog and we’re both on the path to creating passive income!
As always, thanks another helpful post!
Wow – this is really motivating for me! Thanks you guys, and good luck with your projects!
Hello Pat,
My tool also allows you to track SERPs:
http://easyseotracking.com/google-serp-checker.php
And it’s much cheaper!
PS You and Glenn are awecome!
Thanks for sharing Dmitry – I can’t recommend it, because I haven’t used it before, but I’m sure it’s good too. Thanks!
This is really cool Pat,
It is great to hear how you are progressing. My niche site is presently ranked on page 5 but for a less competitive keyword than yours.
Thanks so much for keeping us updated,
-Onibalusi
Thanks Pat, I am glad you did this, I can’t believe I actually didn’t do this before. Just shows, “you learn something everyday”.
Seems like you’re on the right track so far, Pat. Nice work!
How much time have you spent on backlinking so far?
Super Pat
Yo Pat if there’s is an lesson to be thought to all the newbies here online, is that it take time to build an business..the traffic and success is not going to come over night.
So this challenge is a good testimonial to that.. keep up the good work bro..
“TrafficColeman “Signing Off”
TC,
You are so right. I used to think this whole web traffic thing would be easy. It takes time and quality content. No get rich quick for me. Pat’s info does speed up the learning process a lot.
-Stephen
Yes it does Stephen
“TrafficColeman “Signing Off”
Merci beaucoup, Flynn!
U have definitely made my life easier. I’ve been using Market Samurai for a while now, but needed some form of tracking on computers where it isn’t installed. I’m getting the Firefox plugin at this very moment.
I’m participating in The Challenge, learning a lot over there. I love to see that all of you are taking different approaches. Great success!
Cheers
Patrick
Hey Pat,
Great video, all 3 tools seem very cool, don’t know which I’m going to use as of yet, maybe the seokeywordranking as that looked pretty informative.
Anyways, good luck with the niche site, hope everything goes well.
Cheers
Karl Hadwen
Hi,
Nice tools but i m using other tools for this purpose. I had a post Tools To Check Your Search Rankings having those tools. You may find them useful.
Direct Link: http://www.internetgeeks.org/blog/tool-check-search-rankings/
Thanks!
Maybe this was mentioned in the video, but on rank checker I’m ranked higher for most of my keywords than rank checker says in one case I’m ranked 2nd and rank checker says 55th! Do you know why this might be?
I had no idea market samuari had that option. I now learned more about my position and have changed my plan of attack to focus on one keywork which is working far better for me than I thought (more so than another). Thanks!
Agreed Wade! I’ve also just learned how to track bank links/anchor text of competition, making full use of it now! I have to thank Eric over at 4-Hour Workweek for that.
Pat, between your newsletter and your blog. I’m running out of time to read. Thx for the great info. Your site is my go to blog every morning.
Pat, great video.. I wish I had a bit more time to work on another site right now.. it’s exciting to watch though..
thanks for this
A friend of mine recommended your blog to me last Friday, I spent that last couple of days reading ALL of your archives. Post after post “light bulbs” went off. THANK YOU!
The wealth of information I’ve taking in over the last few days has given me plenty to do on my primary business.
Make sure to go over the backlink aspect of your exact strategy, that would be great. Thanks for the inspiration.
-To Your Success
Hi Pat, was just wondering, have you noticed any major jumps in your google listing in the first few days? I got my niche site indexed and was list at 247th out of 289,000 so i was quite happy with that. At the time I had 6 pages indexed from my site, that has now gone up to 17 but according to Market Samurai my ranking in Google has dropped and I am no longer in the first 1000?! What the heck could have happened here? I have only added better content …
Hey Erik – a brand new niche site will jump like crazy the first month or so, usually. This is Google trying to figure out where to place the site, and the process isn’t perfect. I’d give it a little bit of time to stabilize. Also, just make sure your domain and keywords are all spelled correctly. I did that once and obviously it seemed like I didn’t rank anymore.
Thanks Pat! thought that would be the case, but always great to get some confirmation… to know you’re on the right track. Will keep at it and hopefully I can continue to learn from your regular posts. Thanks again.
Hey Pat
I just bought Market Samurai after I was made aware of it through you, so expect some commission coming down your way
I downloaded first the trial version and also took the time to watch all the videos in the ‘dojo’. Man, this tool is awesome!! I am not blogging yet but am seriously considering it. Well, after having spent 97 USD just now I really should consider it even more
I mean, from what I see in the videos, this is as ‘easy’ as it can get, I would say. Provided that you produce also good and valuable content, of course.
Well, I hope to get started sooner than later with my own blogging activities.
Thanks again for promoting Market Samurai as I am really hoping that this will help me a lot to not make stupid mistakes.
Best regards from Greece,
David
David, hopefully you’ve taken some action! The best way to learn it to jump in with your own niche site… Hope you’ve taken the plunge. Best of luck to you!
Hey Pat,
That’s a great result! Guess what? I’m ranked 180th place in my niche so far and I smiled when you said I’m using “outsourcing” in the video to do all this.
So I’m catching up…
Let’s share in our next video perhaps our strategy on how we market the website in the niche?
Talks soon mate!
Just installed the Firefox SEO plug in for my new article marketing site – Thanks Pat.
Pat – Not sure if you would know or not, but how far does RankChecker go back? For a couple search terms I was doing some research on, I never got any solid results from Google or Bing, but returned results with Yahoo every time? Just wanted to know if you had experienced that before. Thanks again for the tip on these tools!
Same thing for me. I got results of 14 and as far back as 187 on google but for my main keywords I’m aiming for it didn’t give me any listings. My phrases are optimized pretty equally and I’d expect similar results from all the keywords so it could be 200 is the limit, if it’s beyond there than it doesn’t really matter much it means we need more optimization and linkbuilding. It would be helpful to know if we are like 201 so we know HOW MUCH more work we need
On Firefox I use SeoQuake to know the performance of my blog… It is not as efficient and potent as your tool of course, but it’s quite practicle. But thank you for the video
Nice tips
but what about when I want to check my rankings for all keywords that I am ranking for without knowing what the keywords are? is there such tool?
Spyfoo tries to do this but not sure it is accurate
Thanks Pat! Perfect!
I have another one for you. Rank Tracker, its really good.
just check out their site http://www.link-assistant.com/rank-tracker/
Thanks for the tip…I was wondering how folks keep track of their ranking
Especially when you are starting out and not showing up in the first few pages…
Thank you for showing the ‘Firefox SEO Rank Checker Plugin’ – I was not aware of this tool before!