About a month ago I told you that I was undertaking an experiment to see whether I could get duplicate content ranked in google.
I thought I’d give you an update to let you know how I was doing.
The site in question is not under my control (it is an online store) and all affiliate’s have the exact same store, the only difference being the affiliate id on the end.
Therefore I can’t change the content nor do any onpage SEO on it. But was I able to rank it (including my affiliate id at the end so I get credit for any sales) in the search engines?
Before I started this challenge I was nowhere to be found in the SERPS (or at least not in the top 200 – I stopped looking after that).
Around 26th April I finally found myself ranked at No. 192 .. and since then I’ve been slowly climbing the serps. Today I am at No. 81 in Google for my main keyword, and have been getting a lot of little hits and long tails as well.
Ok, so I’m still not high enough to get any significant traffic or sales (I have only had one sale in the last month via that site – total commission around $30), but I’m pleased enough with the results that I’ll continue my backlinking campaign and see where I am in another month.
Overall I’m still very confident that I’ll be able to get this online store much higher and my goal is to get it on the front page (if that’s possible).
I’ll keep you posted ..
Hi Tracey, I read this post with much interest and would be keen to find out how you are progressing with the rankings in G please? Personally I really struggle with backlinking as it seems very hit and miss as to whether it actually works. I scratch my head about it. But with your own reporting – its valuable to learn this indeed!
Thanks!
On the site that I mentioned in this post, I’m on Page 1 position #5 in Google, #21 in Yahoo and #9 in Live.
Not bad eh
Live being Bing.com?
Your stats are excellent considering this particular site was no where to be seen until fairly recently, and (more to the point here) its duplicate content!
You have left me with LOTS of “food” for thought Tracey – thank you!
Regards