Of course the only way to get traffic to your site (besides paying for expensive click through advertising) is to get the search engines to rank your site high in their listings. A top ten ranking is the best, but a top twenty on Google or Yahoo will get you some traffic. One of my goals, hopes, aspirations, was to get a top twenty ranking in Google and Yahoo before the busy Holiday shopping season. So now it is about a year since I started www.madluckbooks.com and maybe a month from the busy season - where do I rank??? A few sites around the web make it easy to find out: yahoosearchrankings.com, nichebot.com, and googlerankings.com.
First you need to know what keywords you want to rank for, and nichebot.com can help you there as well. For Personalized Books by MadLuck Books, the key words I am most interested in are personalized books, personalized children's books, personalized childrens books (yes there is a difference), and personalized story books (how's that for gratuitous linking.) And the rankings (Drumroll please...)
For Google:
personalized books - Not Ranked
personalized children's books - Not Ranked
personalized childrens books - Not Ranked
personalized story books - #41 (that's better...)
For Yahoo:
personalized books - #44
personalized children's books - #84
personalized childrens books - #46
personalized story books - #29 (Almost a top twenty!)
So there we are, not quite where I want to be. But the good news is... Actually I am pleased with these results because they are all (well except for the non rankings on Google), improvements from where I was a month ago, again I am moving in the right direction. And though I would like to see better ranking from Google (any rankings for those top three keywords would be nice) - I do show up in the top twenty for some weird keyword combinations like: nursury books, and personalized story of a lifetime. And the MadLuck Books Blog is sixth on the list for Google for Newberry Winners.
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