Build a Niche Website:Update Post 3
Following up with another short update on progress of the case study site after one month in action. The updates will start to space out further and further apart from here, but wanted to put a quick update in on the one month numbers.
Search Engine Rankings:
In Google it is still sitting at #9, Yahoo still at #2, and now in Bing it is down at #84.
Google Analytics snapshots (one month):
195 Visits, 454 Pageviews, 2.33 Pages/Visit, 64.62% Bounce Rate, 00:01:51 Avg. Time on Site, 91.79% New Visits
These differences between Yahoo and Bing search rankings are strange and with the ongoing integration of Bing search results into Yahoo they provide some cause for concern about the search engine traffic potential from the non-Google side. Determining the factors driving the substantial ranking differences and how to reconcile them if Bing has more influence on Yahoo than the other way around will be significant and may foreshadow a new challenge for webmasters if these anecdotal results hold true across other sites.
As mentioned above, this will likely be the last update on the case study site for a while as it has now been walked through the building process, the initial first couple weeks, and now the first month here. There will be some additional work on the actual site itself coming up from me, but no plans for regular posts on it here unless something changes. I think it has served its purpose as a training tool and a content generator and now some other content areas will be explored here. I hope you have enjoyed it.
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Filed under Build a Niche Site, Niche Site Series by on Aug 29th, 2010. 
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