Friday, May 16th, 2008
Well its has been a month since I posted. Also the ebuytool.com site was down for a week due to the server change done by godaddy. Perhaps I was very lazy to update tld entries of domain registry.
Well, the organic traffic is on the march, niche video site has doubled its traffic. May never been a ghost of chance without social book markings widget and yahoo answers link on the deck. Yahoo seems trusting the links posted in answer.yahoo.com. I also did few social book marking by myself using the BookMarking software tool . I used to pay 100$ for 50 social links and 100 directory postings for video site promotion, but not any more.
There is significant changes in organic traffic nowadays. Yahoo is sending more traffic than Google does. 45% of Traffic comes from yahoo and 42% from google and remaining are direct traffic. MSN live has only 10 pages indexed so not much traffic. Live may follow the yahoo foot path soon. Alexa ranking also went up from 800,000 to 380,000.
Site Analytics on May 16 2008
Unique visitors 150-200 visitors a day. Site stickiness 4 minutes /average. Bounce rate: 33.04%, Page Views: 15 / average.
You might thinking my commitment of scoring high on specific keywords? Unfortunately I have opened two more projects, PPC and Black hat stuff. There is plenty of money in PPC marketing. So very less time to work on the SEO to promote the video niche site.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Just wanted to give quick update on promoting the 
video niche site. The site appear in first page of google for a domain related keyword “tamil video”. Don’t be sarcastic, I know it is easy to rank for domain name. Ranking for other keywords are still in progress.
The site was down for 3 days, because Youtube data API was returning zero videos in search result. Migration took almost a day to move from legacy Youtube API to Google Gdata.
Due to that fact, Google traffic went to bottom from 150 to 20 / day. Never mind, the site is recovering slowly from that disaster hopefully in a week.
Tags: Niche Video SEO, Optimizing the Niche video site, Rank Niche Video site in Google
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
At present me raiding on multiple projects. takes most of my times. Site doesn’t rank well even for the keywords in the domain name. Google was very reluctant to list in 3rd or 4th page for the keywords "Tamil videos", "Tamil video" .
Promotion Objective of this video niche site
Increase the traffic to 300 visitors/day. Should rank in first page for the keywords "tamil videos" "taml video" "tamil actress video" "tamil actress videos" "tamil comedy videos" "tamil movie videos"
SEO Progress made so far
I changed the home page title text and gained some links by social bookmarking and few from link directory. Changed Page Title and <h> Tags in page rendering. Now the site is ranked in second page. But many long tail keyword ranking is got dropped.
Increase user experience with quality external link
As this site is about video, Google expects following information. Links to video Download, mp3 songs download, at least two external video links related to the site niche. For example if the site is about "Tamil Video" then providing external link to "Hindi Videos" & "Malayalam Videos" has been expected.
So yesterday I have added some external links with link text "download", "tamil music", "tamil mp3" in their header and title text. I choose to put those links in my page because they are very boring, they have no content advertisement, has many government and .edu back links. I am pretty sure that visitors will bounce back to my site as soon as they click the external links. 
Providing related external links to your site not only increase the user experience, figured that page rank has also increasing. The page rank can be verified here
Monetizing Niche video site
The CTR on this site went below 1%, noticed Adsense serves public ads to some of the pages in that site. Few of the pages has offending word sex in url. It also related to smart pricing, ads click by visitor type
As many recommended to remove the adsense from the site I removed adsense put "friend finder" for time being. Need to find the alternative monetization soon. Currently this site gets 100 unique visitors day and 1000 page impression. 90% of the visitors are from India. Any recommendation to adsense alternative would be more helpful.
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