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	<title>Comments on: My Current Obsession: StuckinNY.com</title>
	<link>http://www.nerdynomad.com/2009/10/16/my-current-obsession-stuckinnycom/</link>
	<description>Backpacking around the world on my income from the internet.</description>
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		<title>by: Kirsty</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdynomad.com/2009/10/16/my-current-obsession-stuckinnycom/#comment-36619</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>@goldfish I'm finding the same thing with all of my new sites. They generally appear for a short amount of time pretty high in Google and then vanish for various periods of time up to several months before coming back again. Might be the sandbox thing or it might be that I didn't put enough (any) effort into building links.

@dan In the past I did zero keyword research. Since then I built two small websites based around keyword research but I found out later I was using the tool wrong so who knows how they'll do. I've since figured it out but for this New York site I've only really looked up the major terms I'm targeting. Once I get some more content up there I will do some research to see which keywords I want each article to target and then tweak them to suit. It's sort of doing things backwards but oh well. Once the site is up and running and has a good amount of content I will start having new articles written based around what keywords I want to target. I would rather have the site live and doing well first and then worry about that stuff later. 'Living in Sydney' and 'moving to sydney' seem like they would be competetive but I think it comes down to whether other sites are as targeted to those keywords as mine in and how much they build links with those keywords in mind. So far I've managed to rank well so maybe the other sites are focused on different terms or not focused at all, who knows. It looks like the competition for New York, especially for 'moving to new york' is a lot stronger so I'm curious to see how I do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@goldfish I&#8217;m finding the same thing with all of my new sites. They generally appear for a short amount of time pretty high in Google and then vanish for various periods of time up to several months before coming back again. Might be the sandbox thing or it might be that I didn&#8217;t put enough (any) effort into building links.</p>
<p>@dan In the past I did zero keyword research. Since then I built two small websites based around keyword research but I found out later I was using the tool wrong so who knows how they&#8217;ll do. I&#8217;ve since figured it out but for this New York site I&#8217;ve only really looked up the major terms I&#8217;m targeting. Once I get some more content up there I will do some research to see which keywords I want each article to target and then tweak them to suit. It&#8217;s sort of doing things backwards but oh well. Once the site is up and running and has a good amount of content I will start having new articles written based around what keywords I want to target. I would rather have the site live and doing well first and then worry about that stuff later. &#8216;Living in Sydney&#8217; and &#8216;moving to sydney&#8217; seem like they would be competetive but I think it comes down to whether other sites are as targeted to those keywords as mine in and how much they build links with those keywords in mind. So far I&#8217;ve managed to rank well so maybe the other sites are focused on different terms or not focused at all, who knows. It looks like the competition for New York, especially for &#8216;moving to new york&#8217; is a lot stronger so I&#8217;m curious to see how I do.
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		<title>by: Dan</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdynomad.com/2009/10/16/my-current-obsession-stuckinnycom/#comment-36613</link>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Do you spend much time on keyword research for your adsense sites? I imagine they are pretty competitive for things like "living in sydney" or "moving to sydney". I've been doing some recently and looking forward to see how effective it will be targeting high search term with low competition in the SERPs. Have to get them indexed first though as they are new sites.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you spend much time on keyword research for your adsense sites? I imagine they are pretty competitive for things like &#8220;living in sydney&#8221; or &#8220;moving to sydney&#8221;. I&#8217;ve been doing some recently and looking forward to see how effective it will be targeting high search term with low competition in the SERPs. Have to get them indexed first though as they are new sites.
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		<title>by: Ask Goldfish Care</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdynomad.com/2009/10/16/my-current-obsession-stuckinnycom/#comment-36608</link>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Will be watching :-) I just launched a new site www.koicare.org  took a little longer than normal to get a little traffic coming in, seems like their is a time out period unlike a few years a go, the site was indexed in a couple of days
&#38; just sat ou around the 500 mark for a few weeks now it is showing up for the correct terms in the right places in less than a month.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Will be watching <img src='http://www.nerdynomad.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  I just launched a new site <a href="http://www.koicare.org" >www.koicare.org</a>  took a little longer than normal to get a little traffic coming in, seems like their is a time out period unlike a few years a go, the site was indexed in a couple of days<br />
&amp; just sat ou around the 500 mark for a few weeks now it is showing up for the correct terms in the right places in less than a month.
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