The Billion Dollar Quest

I have spent much of the past few days contacting other webmasters and trying  get more inbound links.  Although this process has a very low success rate (I probably only hear back from about 20% of the people I contact), I have managed to get about 25 links in the past couple days so that’s a decent haul.  Hopefully more will trickle in over the next few days.

I also signed up for HubPages and created 3 hubs:

Brain Training Games

Brain Fitness Programs

Brain Fitness Tips

each of which contains a link back to my site.  These should help a bit with SEO.

In addition to these hubs I also registered 6 more on various relevant keywords which I will be creating in the coming weeks.  After that, I will move onto Squidoo.com which is another community where users can create their own pages.

I have also been working on building my brain directory and my typing resources directory.

I applied yesterday to be a DMOZ editor, not even sure if anyone is still managing that site but we will see.  It would be nice to get into that directory.

I have also written a number of articles recently and begun distributing them:

Brain Training with Brain Games

Brain Fitness Tips

The Web’s Best Typing Tests

An Interview on Neuroplasticity

Once I write a few more I will sign up for some sort of article distribution service and hopefully get them out there a little more.

Finally, on a search engine position note, I have now made the front page in google searches of “brain fitness program’ and ‘logic games’.

More updates coming soon

I am very pleased with my progress in the past 3 weeks.  Consider:

#1) I have moved up in nearly every important search engine term and my traffic is steadily builing.  I expect this trend to continue with all the work I have been doing in the past few weeks getting inbound links (link trading, writing articles, commenting on relevant posts, submitting to directories).

#2) I have moved up 100,000 spots in the Alexa traffic report in the past 2 weeks, from 475,000+ to 372,386 today.  My goal is to make it in the top 300,000 by the end of September and top 150,000 by the end of the year.

#3) My revenue has increased two-fold in the past 3 weeks.  That’s a good sign and good positive reinforcement of my efforts.

I have all sorts of plans for the coming weeks (too many, as always) and I will keep you updated on my further progress.  One thing I will be working on a bit is my new Brain Directory that I am building.  This project will bring more traffic to my site and increase my search engine standings on brain-related searches.