Hey everyone!!  Today is my birthday.  March is always my favorite month of the year.  Today I turn 32 years old and I’m very excited to see what this new birth year will have in store for me.  When I woke up this morning to check my stats, as I do everyday, I was greeted to a few surprises this morning. If you have been reading all the industry reports, you’ll know that Google is updating their algorithm to basically get rid of spammy websites or sites with thin amounts of content.  As you all know I’m working on getting my business card website SEO’d to the top of Google.  Well, I’m pleased to announce that my site is back up in the rankings again and all but 1 of my keywords is ranking on the the 1st page of Google.  In addition to this, I made my 1st sale worth $14.50 yesterday via my site.  I know you are probably thinking, “It took your 4 months to make $14.50″.   Yes in essence it did, but this is an investment.  Remember this is all FREE TRAFFIC.  So once my rankings get higher and higher in Google, the amount of traffic I receive with grow exponentially and in theory I should be able to make even more sales.

Sales Report:

New Spokes Model Hired

In talking about the site, I also made some more tweaks to the site.  I hired another spokesmodel that helps keep people on my site and pre-sale people my business card offers.  The script I wrote engages the user to click through to my Vistaprint.com offer.  I attempted to make sure my model looked more business like this go around.  Blazer, shirt, skirt, pantyhose, and heels.  I think I did pretty good this time, although my wife says the girls skirt is too short..lol.  I’ll be mindful of that on my next video shoot.

As I stated before my it looks like I hit one of my major goals related to keyword ranking.  I will say that this past month has been pretty up and down as it relates to rankings.  One moment I’m on the 1st and 2nd pages of Google and the next moment, I’m on page 20+ of Google. If you look at my Google Analytics over the past month, you’ll see this illustrated pretty clearly.

Google Analytics Report

I stated before, that although your rankings will change over time, if you keep building consistent links to your site that your rankings will eventually improve.   This past month (Feb) I hired another link builder to go through and build me a set 100 Page Rank (PR) 3 and above links to my site.  I believe these links where the cause of the huge jump in rankings.   We’ll see and I’ll keep you guys posted.

Summary of Post

So in summary,  I HIT MY GOALS set 4 month ago!!!!

1.)  Get my keywords to the 1st page of Google (save 1 really really really competitive keyword).

2.)  Make sale of a product from my website.

Next Set of Goals:

1.)  Rank all your keywords within the top 3 positions of Google in 2 months:  (May 3rd, 2011)