Experiment Failed!

A few weeks back I wrote about how I was going to test out a project. Well that experiment failed.

What was the experiment? Well…I was testing geo-targeted self-hosted websites for U-Save Moving.

I bought a really affordable Wordpress template that was supposed to be SEO friendly. I liked the template and still would like to use it, but for this next experiment I can’t use it.

These websites were geo-targeted for two of the major Mid-Michigan cities where I get a lot of traffic from. They were five pages and had my Twitter feeds on them as well as my RSS feed from my primary U-Save Moving website.

While these websites do trickle in traffic (1 or 2 hits per day) they just are not bringing the goods as I would have liked.

I did everything that I Supposed to do for SEO with them. I booked marked them on social bookmarking sites. I created Twitter accounts for each of them. I did backlinking for each of them, but I just was not getting SERP love for them, thus little to no traffic.

I still think this is a viable road to test so I have altered the test a little bit.

So instead of self-hosted Wordpress websites, I going to make 5 page Wordpress sites that hosted by Wordpress.

Wordpress gets a lot of SERP love and they tend to rank very high in the search engines for their targeted keywords. So I am going to target each major Mid-Michigan city with a Wordpress hosted geo-targeted 5 page website and see how they fare.

Wish me luck.

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