The kids are back at school so I’m now back to work, although I still have one child home for another day yet.  I have spent the last couple of days working on just one of my new blogs.  I have done some more keyword research on the niche and found some related long tail keywords.  I have created blog posts and categories for three of those keywords.

My plan is to try and rank well for the other long tail keywords as well as the main keyword phrase.  By doing that I should receive more traffic to my blog than if it was just coming from one keyword phrase.

I then rewrote the articles on my blog posts and submitted them to some article directories and also some of my own backlinking blog sources.  I have a number of my own general purpose blogs like a general wordpress blog and one at SOSBlog and a couple of others, so I add my article to these blog sources for backlinks.

I also submit some blog posts to 3 Step Ads, Unique Article Database and Writers Block Unblocked.  As a member of these three sites you can go in and submit blog posts as often as you like to get backlinks to your website.

So with the blog posts and article directory submissions I think I’ve added around 36 backlinks over the last two days, although I will need to wait until the articles are accepted and the backlink pages indexed.

I also social bookmarked all my blog posts which helps to get them indexed a bit quicker.

I also went through and commented on some .edu blogs to try and gain some .edu backlinks which are great for having authority sites linking back to your site.

My site is still ranked #3, but I don’t expect it to rise too soon without some more work as the top 2 sites are a bit more established so it will take some more work to outrank those, but I’m quite confident that I can do it with this keyword phrase.  Perhaps once these backlinks are all indexed I may hit #2 or #1.

So that’s my progress, I haven’t touched site #2 over the last couple of days, other than adding a couple of backlinks by commenting on blogs.  I may focus on blog #2 tomorrow, I’m still a bit undecided whether to spend a couple more days solely on blog #1 or to let that go for a couple of days and work on blog #2.

Thanks for reading
Sheryl