Cheap electronic gifts Wholesale

May 17, 2008 | By h20ho In Case Studies |

SEO Case Study: cheap-electronic-gifts.com 

Today I purchased a new domain name to see how well I can do with PageRank, Back Links, Alexa Ranking, MSN and Yahoo Results. The domain is a newly created domain so I will have to start from scratch. The content will be an eCommerce site focusing on discount electronic gifts with a focus towards wholesale. The Software package on the domain is osCommerce, Which I find difficult to search engine optimize. I installed the software in a subdirectory on the domain called /4u/ so the full URL will be http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com/4u/

I have setup the domain, email server and software package. I have created a permanent 301 redirect from http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com to http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com/4u/ and set up my keywords, phrases and description meta data.  I must admit that I did not spend alot of time developing keywords. I found a top ranker in google for where I want to be and did what they did.

I have also submitted the domain to a couple of search engines using http://submitexpress.com and http://freewebsubmission.com/ to get the domain indexed and spidered…. I will submit this article and ping this blog via one of my favorite pinger sites http://pinger.blogflux.com/ .

Current stats:

PageRank                             0
Alexa Rank                           0
Back Links                            0
MSN Search Results           0
Yahoo! Search Results        0

My next task is to get some back links from some electronic wholesaler type sites.

I will keep you posted.

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    • 4 Comments so far

    1. h20ho on May 18th, 2008

      I added PPC namely Google and Bidvertiser.

      I posted two similar blogs and seen one in Google already here:
      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cheap-electronic-gifts.com
      Which points to a great forum with lots of traffic and good PR, The Free Ad Forum, I posted an article their and you can post free classified ads as well.

      OK, it has been 24 hours. I have added alt text to images and generally made sure the products were legitimate.

      I noticed that two spiders visited me.

      spider-4.scrubtheweb.com
      crawl-66-249-72-229.googlebot.com

    2. h20ho on May 22nd, 2008

      Yesterday I found the main domain http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com in google SERPs when I searched google for the domain name http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com

      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fcheap-electronic-gifts.com

      Oddly enough, the original post from the free ad forums that was showing up one day after the registration of the domain has disappeared from this search. In addition, if I just search cheap-electronic-gifts
      the domain is beginning to populate the results.

      http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cheap-electronic-gifts&btnG=Search

      One thing I have noticed is that the 10 or so back links I have published via forums and blogs are not showing up at all.
      This domain is also being crawled by various sites….

      Here are some of my stats for this domain:

      Summary by Month
      Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals
      Hits Fls Pgs Vs Sts KB Vs Pgs Fls Hits
      May 6661 1296 385 35 83 137979 177 1928 6483 33306
      Totals 137979 177 1928 6483 33306
      Daily Statistics for May 2008
      Day Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes
      17 13470 40.44% 1544 23.82% 254 13.17% 25 14.12% 10 12.05% 20235 14.66%
      18 9881 29.67% 1537 23.71% 229 11.88% 42 23.73% 11 13.25% 22885 16.59%
      19 8283 24.87% 2945 45.43% 1282 66.49% 37 20.90% 12 14.46% 88026 63.80%
      20 1052 3.16% 374 5.77% 137 7.11% 63 35.59% 59 71.08% 5684 4.12%
      Top 8 of 8 Total Countries
      # Hits Files KBytes Country
      1 31715 95.22% 5180 79.90% 106859 77.45% Thailand
      2 1095 3.29% 871 13.44% 26140 18.95% US Commercial
      3 148 0.44% 126 1.94% 3082 2.23% Network
      4 102 0.31% 71 1.10% 686 0.50% Unresolved/Unknown
      5 86 0.26% 81 1.25% 557 0.40% Sweden
      6 80 0.24% 78 1.20% 357 0.26% Canada
      7 79 0.24% 76 1.17% 286 0.21% Romania
      8 1 0.00% 1 0.02% 11 0.01% US Military
    3. h20ho on May 24th, 2008

      I have changed the meta description tag a little. actually, I only added the word ‘gift’ in the description.

      I have posted on a couple blogs and forums. I seem to be having a problem with statistics in regard to back links… I figure this to be caused by the ‘-’ (hypens) in the domain name.

      PageRank 0
      Alexa Rank 0
      Back Links 554,001
      MSN Search Results 0
      Yahoo! Search Results 2,770,000

      Earlier I stated that there were no backlinks or search results. This was not true. There were no back links or search results but it was saying rediculous numbers such as above so I thought it was an error and would fix itself. I have seen this problem before with domains with ‘-’ in the name. I bought a different domain name myballcap.com and when I check that domain all stats show as 0.

      Here are some updated Stats:

      Summary by Month
      Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals
      Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
      May 2008 5366 1247 387 37 110 181167 261 2710 8732 37567
      Totals 181167 261 2710 8732 37567
      Daily Statistics for May 2008
      Day Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes
      17 13470 35.86% 1544 17.68% 254 9.37% 25 9.58% 10 9.09% 20235 11.17%
      18 9881 26.30% 1537 17.60% 229 8.45% 42 16.09% 11 10.00% 22885 12.63%
      19 8283 22.05% 2945 33.73% 1282 47.31% 37 14.18% 12 10.91% 88026 48.59%
      20 1052 2.80% 374 4.28% 137 5.06% 63 24.14% 59 53.64% 5684 3.14%
      21 1599 4.26% 880 10.08% 204 7.53% 43 16.48% 23 20.91% 12888 7.11%
      22 2496 6.64% 1281 14.67% 561 20.70% 41 15.71% 24 21.82% 27960 15.43%
      23 786 2.09% 171 1.96% 43 1.59% 10 3.83% 5 4.55% 3489 1.93%
      Top 11 of 11 Total Countries
      # Hits Files KBytes Country
      1 34633 92.19% 6310 72.26% 123938 68.41% Thailand
      2 1367 3.64% 1099 12.59% 30074 16.60% US Commercial
      3 940 2.50% 749 8.58% 18783 10.37% Unresolved/Unknown
      4 299 0.80% 261 2.99% 6745 3.72% Network
      5 86 0.23% 81 0.93% 557 0.31% Sweden
      6 80 0.21% 78 0.89% 357 0.20% Canada
      7 79 0.21% 76 0.87% 286 0.16% Romania
      8 41 0.11% 40 0.46% 144 0.08% Poland
      9 39 0.10% 37 0.42% 233 0.13% Lebanon
      10 2 0.01% 1 0.01% 39 0.02% Vanuatu
      11 1 0.00% 1 0.01% 11 0.01% US Military

      Here is a new stat that showed up a couple days ago which I like to keep an eye on. These are search string queries that people entered in Search Engines. cheap-electronic-gifts.com showed in the result pages and the user clicked the link through to my site. Some of these are me testing my keywords.

      Top 8 of 8 Total Search Strings
      # Hits Search String
      1 4 18.18% cheap electronic gifts
      2 4 18.18% http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com
      3 4 18.18% mp5 wholesale china
      4 2 9.09% cheap mp4 cheap mp3 cheap mp5
      5 2 9.09% cheap-electronic-gifts
      6 2 9.09% cheap-electronic-gifts.com
      7 2 9.09% http://cheap-electronic-gifts
      8 2 9.09% mp5 player wholesale
    4. h20ho on June 10th, 2008

      May 31 2008
      Stats for May for http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com

      Here is a quick rundown of the end stats for May 2008. At this point the domain has been in existance for 13 days. As exected the traffic subsided as most was development of the site. But it is slowly getting traffic.

      Summary by Month
      Month Daily Avg Monthly Totals
      Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes Visits Pages Files Hits
      May 2008 3038 793 248 46 273 238726 699 3729 11907 45577
      Totals 258471 1070 4393 13400 48020
      Daily Statistics for May 2008
      Day Hits Files Pages Visits Sites KBytes
      17 13470 29.55% 1544 12.97% 254 6.81% 25 3.58% 10 3.66% 20235 8.48%
      18 9881 21.68% 1537 12.91% 229 6.14% 42 6.01% 11 4.03% 22885 9.59%
      19 8283 18.17% 2945 24.73% 1282 34.38% 37 5.29% 12 4.40% 88026 36.87%
      20 1052 2.31% 374 3.14% 137 3.67% 63 9.01% 59 21.61% 5684 2.38%
      21 1599 3.51% 880 7.39% 204 5.47% 43 6.15% 23 8.42% 12888 5.40%
      22 2496 5.48% 1281 10.76% 561 15.04% 41 5.87% 24 8.79% 27960 11.71%
      23 2252 4.94% 601 5.05% 151 4.05% 46 6.58% 18 6.59% 11658 4.88%
      24 2219 4.87% 467 3.92% 187 5.01% 53 7.58% 19 6.96% 11863 4.97%
      25 734 1.61% 352 2.96% 135 3.62% 48 6.87% 27 9.89% 6900 2.89%
      26 597 1.31% 515 4.33% 131 3.51% 52 7.44% 18 6.59% 10988 4.60%
      27 498 1.09% 436 3.66% 141 3.78% 85 12.16% 102 37.36% 8404 3.52%
      28 800 1.76% 177 1.49% 97 2.60% 52 7.44% 26 9.52% 3065 1.28%
      29 355 0.78% 209 1.76% 75 2.01% 42 6.01% 14 5.13% 2327 0.97%
      30 496 1.09% 294 2.47% 66 1.77% 34 4.86% 15 5.49% 2710 1.14%
      31 845 1.85% 295 2.48% 79 2.12% 38 5.44% 10 3.66% 3133 1.31%
      Top 21 of 21 Total Countries
      # Hits Files KBytes Country
      1 39826 87.38% 7054 59.24% 133839 56.06% Thailand
      2 2754 6.04% 2298 19.30% 62645 26.24% US Commercial
      3 1216 2.67% 939 7.89% 20054 8.40% Unresolved/Unknown
      4 1057 2.32% 957 8.04% 19026 7.97% Network
      5 86 0.19% 81 0.68% 557 0.23% Sweden
      6 80 0.18% 78 0.66% 357 0.15% Canada
      7 79 0.17% 76 0.64% 286 0.12% Romania
      8 71 0.16% 36 0.30% 137 0.06% China
      9 43 0.09% 41 0.34% 290 0.12% Mexico
      10 42 0.09% 41 0.34% 249 0.10% Brazil
      11 41 0.09% 40 0.34% 144 0.06% Poland
      12 40 0.09% 37 0.31% 128 0.05% US Educational
      13 40 0.09% 38 0.32% 128 0.05% Australia
      14 40 0.09% 38 0.32% 128 0.05% Finland
      15 40 0.09% 39 0.33% 203 0.09% France
      16 39 0.09% 37 0.31% 233 0.10% Lebanon
      17 39 0.09% 37 0.31% 128 0.05% United Kingdom
      18 38 0.08% 37 0.31% 128 0.05% Hungary
      19 3 0.01% 2 0.02% 16 0.01% Seychelles
      20 2 0.00% 1 0.01% 39 0.02% Vanuatu
      21 1 0.00% 1 0.01% 11 0.00% US Military
      Top 20 of 25 Total Search Strings
      # Hits Search String
      1 8 11.43% cheap-electronic-gifts.com
      2 6 8.57% cheap electronic gifts
      3 6 8.57% cheap electronic mp3
      4 4 5.71% http://cheap-electronic-gifts.com
      5 4 5.71% mp5 wholesale china
      6 4 5.71% wholesale electronic gifts
      7 2 2.86% cheap electronic mp4
      8 2 2.86% cheap electronic mp5
      9 2 2.86% cheap electronic player
      10 2 2.86% cheap mp3 gifts
      11 2 2.86% cheap mp4 cheap mp3 cheap mp5
      12 2 2.86% cheap mp4 gifts
      13 2 2.86% cheap mp5
      14 2 2.86% cheap mp5 gifts
      15 2 2.86% cheap mp5 player
      16 2 2.86% cheap mp5 players
      17 2 2.86% cheap wholesale electronic gifts
      18 2 2.86% cheap-electronic-gifts
      19 2 2.86% china wholesale electronic gifts
      20 2 2.86% china wholesale mp3 mp4 mp5

      Here are some other keywords that people searched that helped them find this site:

      Keyphrases used on search engines  
      36 different keyphrases Search Percent
      cheap-electronic-gifts.com 7 10.9 %
      http //cheap-electronic-gifts.com 6 9.3 %
      mp5 wholesale china 4 6.2 %
      cheap mp5 4 6.2 %
      cheap chinese mp3 player wholesale 3 4.6 %
      cheap electronic mp3 3 4.6 %
      cheap electronic gifts 3 4.6 %
      wholesale electronic gifts 2 3.1 %
      cheap mp3 player wholesale china 2 3.1 %
      electronic cheap wholesale 2 3.1 %
      tft mp5 player wholesale 2 3.1 %
      sony mp4 mp5 player 2 3.1 %
      mp5 player wholesale 1 1.5 %
      cheap wholesale electronic gifts 1 1.5 %
      cheap mp4 gifts 1 1.5 %
      china wholesale mp3 mp4 mp5 1 1.5 %
      mp5 players 1 1.5 %
      mp3 mp4 mp5 gifts 1 1.5 %
      cheap mp5 player 1 1.5 %
      mp3 player wholesale china cheap 1 1.5 %
      download nes file games for mp5 1 1.5 %
      cheap electronic mp5 1 1.5 %
      wholesale mp3s 1 1.5 %
      cheap mp5 players 1 1.5 %
      china wholesale electronic gifts 1 1.5 %
      product by china mp5 1 1.5 %
      cheap electronic mp4 1 1.5 %
      mp5 gifts 1 1.5 %
      cheap mp5k 1 1.5 %
      cheap mp5 gifts 1 1.5 %
      cheap mp3 gifts 1 1.5 %
      cheap mp4 cheap mp3 cheap mp5 1 1.5 %
      cheap-electronic-gifts 1 1.5 %
      cheap electronic player 1 1.5 %
      wholesale mp3 1 1.5 %
      http //cheap-electronic-gifts 1 1.5 %

      Keywords used on search engines  
      27 different keywords Search Percent
      cheap 31 16.4 %
      mp5 24 12.7 %
      wholesale 22 11.7 %
      electronic 15 7.9 %
      mp3 14 7.4 %
      player 13 6.9 %
      gifts 12 6.3 %
      china 10 5.3 %
      mp4 7 3.7 %
      http 7 3.7 %
      cheap-electronic-gifts.com 7 3.7 %
      //cheap-electronic-gifts.com 6 3.1 %
      chinese 3 1.5 %
      players 2 1 %
      tft 2 1 %
      sony 2 1 %
      games 1 0.5 %
      file 1 0.5 %
      mp3s 1 0.5 %
      for 1 0.5 %
      by 1 0.5 %
      cheap-electronic-gifts 1 0.5 %
      nes 1 0.5 %
      product 1 0.5 %
      //cheap-electronic-gifts 1 0.5 %
      mp5k 1 0.5 %
      download 1 0.5 %

      Here are links that led visitors to this site.

      Links from an external page (other web sites except search engines)  
      Total: 15 different pages-url Pages Percent Hits Percent
      http://www.geekalerts.com/spy-sunglasses-with-wireless-lcd-recei… 15 18.7 % 15 18.7 %
      http://seo.peuan.com/ts/ 15 18.7 % 15 18.7 %
      http://www.techpin.com/augmented-reality-mask/ 9 11.2 % 9 11.2 %
      http://seo.peuan.com/ts/index.php 9 11.2 % 9 11.2 %
      http://seo.peuan.com/ts/in.php 8 10 % 8 10 %
      http://seo.peuan.com/ls/index.php 7 8.7 % 7 8.7 %
      http://seo.peuan.com 5 6.2 % 5 6.2 %
      http://www.geekalerts.com/keyshark-usb-keylogger/ 4 5 % 4 5 %
      http://peuan.com/seoblog/ 2 2.5 % 2 2.5 %
      http://www.geekalerts.com/portable-bill-counter/ 1 1.2 % 1 1.2 %
      http://whois.domaintools.com/cheap-electronic-gifts.com 1 1.2 % 1 1.2 %
      http://www.peuan.com/stc/component/option,com_weblinks/catid,28/… 1 1.2 % 1 1.2 %
      http://peuan.com/suspended.page/ 1 1.2 % 1 1.2 %
      http://hk.youtube.com/watch 1 1.2 % 1 1.2 %
      http://www.onelinkdirectory.com/Shopping/Consumer_Electronics/Un… 1 1.2 % 1 1.2 %

      Links from search engines:

      Links from an Internet Search Engine  
      4 different refering search engines Pages Percent Hits Percent
      Google 54 84.3 % 54 51.9 %
      Yahoo! 8 12.5 % 8 7.6 %
      Search.com 2 3.1 % 2 1.9 %
      Google (cache)     40 38.4 %

      So after two weeks, things look good. The domain is not invisible to search engines. I did tweak the keywords a tiny bit around a week ago but I have not checked to see if I the domain is found in search engines on that particular modification.

      At this point, I think I should focus on a few more backlinks, get a few more products up on the main domain and make sure that I stay visible in the search engines and not be sandboxed for one of a thousand reasons. I will post in the middle of June.

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