I decided to try and rank for the search term “SEO Experiment”. I did this since there were only about 24,000 pages to compete against. I also selected that particular keyword phrase since it seemed appropriate for an experiment on search engine optimization and would not spur a lot of copycats since there are only 320 monthly searches and the CPC is only $0.05.

 

 

Well here it is 17 days later, and last night I found that I had made it to page 1 in the fifth position. I couldn’t believe it! I thought it would take months and months. I have been following the progress in my blog (to which you can link in my profile) and had been all over the place. I even spent time in the so-called “sandbox”. Most recently I had been hanging out around position number 285. I don’t pretend to know all the how’s and why’s of SEO, but I think it has been quite an interesting experiment.