Week 1 Update

I will be writing weekly updates on the progress of this blog. If you still have not known yet, I am trying to prove that it is indeed possible to rank high for a search term using only free tools and of course, some efforts on your part.



Aim : To get #1 spot for the terms "SEO Singapore", "Singapore SEO" and "Singapore SEO Consultant".



When I started this blog, I have no clue at all regarding the competition I'd face as my keyword researching proved to be futile due to Singapore being a very small populated country, there isnt enough keyword searches to aid in my optimizing my content for the keywords that I want.


Therefore, I typed in the terms "SEO Singapore" and started looking through each of my competitors' sites, viewing their source code and tried to figure out what my long tail keywords that I can use.


My short term aim was to get this blog indexed as quickly as possible so that I can focus on link building and optimizing my content after that. Well, I did achieve that.




Search Engine Indexing Progress


As of now, my 7 articles on Search Engine Optimization, SEO and SEO Singapore have been fully indexed on Google and I can focus on the other parts of Search Engine Optimization now.

It wasnt without help that I got my articles indexed relatively quickly with respect to the creation date of this blog. (Which was early in 2008 by the way)

I got a boost from the following sites : Digg , StumbleUpon and BloggingZoom. These sites gave me the link authority needed to boost my pages up the SERPs for the keywords that I was aiming for.



Search Engine Results Pages Progress

These are the rankings I am currently at for the following terms :

• SEO Singapore
  
  - Blogging Zoom : Similarity Between Search Engines Article RANKED 30
  - Blogging Zoom : Search Engine Optimized Content RANKED 36
  - Home Page of SEO Singapore RANKED 47



• SEO Singapore Consultant
  
  - CheckList for Search Engine Optimized Content RANKED 10
  
- Blogging Zoom : Truth About SEO RANKED 19
- How to Rank Number 1 On Search Engines RANKED 25
- Blogging Zoom : Search Engine Optimized Content RANKED 34
- DIGG : Importance of On Page Optimization RANKED 41

• Singapore SEO
  
  - Home of Page Singapore SEO RANKED 101

• Singapore SEO Consultant
  
  - How To Rank Number 1 On Search Engines RANKED 21
  

All the rankings here are based off the rankings from Google. Surprisingly, SEO Singapore and Singapore SEO gave off 2 very differing results. Looks like I still got some work to do :)

At this point of time, the only links back to this site are from Digg, StumbleUpon and BloggingZoom. So in a way, I have not really started on my link building campaign yet. Hope everything goes well in the next few weeks.


PS : If any of you would like to help, then you can help with a link back to this blog using one of the terms above. Drop me a note and I'm sure to love you :D


Till then,

Jasa, Singapore SEO Consultant