{"id":435,"date":"2011-08-04T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/?p=435"},"modified":"2011-09-23T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T03:15:25","slug":"live-case-study-case-of-the-supermodels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/live-case-study-case-of-the-supermodels\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s a live case study with some eye candy.  Case of the supermodels."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I stumbled across what may very well be the holy grail of search keywords.\u00a0 These are keywords that, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/adwords.google.com\/select\/KeywordToolExternal\">Google AdWords Keyword Tool<\/a>, have the lowest possible competition (i.e. competition score of 0) and receive tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of local monthly searches.<\/p>\n<p>I am referring to this as the holy grail, because we&#8217;re not\u00a0 talking about a small handful of search keywords.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not talking 5, nor 10, nor even 50 search terms.\u00a0 I&#8217;m referring to hundreds upon hundreds of these keywords that you can dig up in the matter of 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t worry.\u00a0 This is not an eBook sales page and I&#8217;m not selling you anything.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t need to spend $17 to discover what this big &#8220;secret&#8221; is all about.<\/p>\n<p>So what is this holy grail?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is celebrity names.\u00a0 I&#8217;m using the term celebrity lightly.\u00a0 Even someone on the D-list has the potential to amass 20,000+ local monthly searches, as I will illustrate shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at an example.\u00a0 Have you ever seen the show Pretty Little Liars?\u00a0 Neither have I and I never will.\u00a0 However, I have heard of it.\u00a0 (When I used to live in Hollywood, there was a billboard advertising it just down my street.)\u00a0 The show has a lot of pretty young faces, but none of them are famous.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I will show the potential of celebrity names using Pretty Little Liars.\u00a0 Here is their cast, as listed on IMDb (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1578873\/\">http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1578873\/<\/a>)\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/imdb.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-436\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"587\" srcset=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/imdb.gif 446w, http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/imdb-227x300.gif 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recognize any of the names?\u00a0 Probably only Chad Lowe.\u00a0 Next, type them into Google AdWords Keyword Tool and check out the results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/keyword.gif\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/keyword1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-442\" title=\"keyword\" src=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/keyword1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/keyword1.gif 567w, http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/keyword1-300x230.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only keyword with a hint of competition is Chad Lowe, because he is an established actor.\u00a0 All the other names get searched a ton on Google, but have 0 competition.\u00a0 &#8220;Lucy Hales&#8221; receives 110,000 local monthly searches and almost a quarter million global searches!\u00a0 There are 2 other names receiving about 50,000 local monthly searches, many with 20K+ and 30K+.\u00a0 In fact, the least popular search phrase still gets 4,400 searches a month.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t kid you.\u00a0 Pretty promising, right?<\/p>\n<p>Now, Pretty Little Liars is just one TV show.\u00a0 Plus, we didn&#8217;t even exhaust their full cast list.\u00a0 You can find thousands of TV shows on <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\">IMDb<\/a>, even more movies.\u00a0 Think about the number of actor name keyword phrases this generates.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, this is only a fraction of the whole celebrity name playing field.\u00a0 Beyond just actors, we have musicians, athletes, models, etc.<\/p>\n<p>These celebrity name-based searches cater to a number of different types of web sites.\u00a0 For instance, if we just focus on the TV &amp; Film industry still, you can create any of the following types of sites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TV show fan site<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity fan site<\/li>\n<li>Movie blog<\/li>\n<li>TV blog<\/li>\n<li>TV show spoilers<\/li>\n<li>TV show gallery<\/li>\n<li>Video download site<\/li>\n<li>And so on&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The question that remains is whether these holy grail keywords will indeed translate into massive amounts of search engine traffic.\u00a0 This is the question I hope to solve through this case study.<\/p>\n<p>In this case study, I will create a fashion models gallery site.\u00a0 There will be some nice eye candy, to keep you engaged. \ud83d\ude09\u00a0 Let&#8217;s call this the Case of the Supermodels.\u00a0 Like the <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/live-case-study-build-300000-page-autoscale-autopilot-site\/\">Case of 300,000 and Counting<\/a>, this will be a live case study.\u00a0 I will be posting updates in real time.\u00a0 The first phase of this case study will be to gain organic search engine traffic by ranking for the names of targeted supermodels.\u00a0 The next phase will be then to monetize this traffic.\u00a0 I have a couple thoughts around this already and will test some monetization tactics that will be new-ish to me.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I have already registered a fresh domain name: clubsupermodel.com.\u00a0 See my GoDaddy receipt below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/godaddy.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-438\" title=\"godaddy\" src=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/godaddy.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/godaddy.gif 664w, http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/godaddy-300x244.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have pretty much created the site.\u00a0 Later today, I will upload it and then run the <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/rapid-google-indexer.php\">Rapid Google Indexer<\/a> to get the domain indexed.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #999999;\"><strong>Day 1 &#8211; 8\/4<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Registered <a href=\"http:\/\/clubsupermodel.com\">ClubSupermodel.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Uploaded the site.\n<ul>\n<li>Club Supermodel is a photo gallery site of supermodels.\u00a0 In its current design, it is semi-autopilot and autoscale.\u00a0 I wrote a script that will automatically pull photos from various sites.\u00a0 However, the process isn&#8217;t completed streamlined.\u00a0 I need to moderate the photos to check that they are all relevant.\u00a0 (In the way the script currently works, most photos are not relevant.)\u00a0 For each photo uploaded, the site will automatically create a new page for it (i.e. autoscale).\u00a0 I am focusing on photos that are more &#8220;rare,&#8221; which constitutes personal  pics, cell phone pics, family and friends photos, etc.\u00a0 This is the  value-add component of the site and also differentiates Club Supermodel  from other galleries showcasing the same models.<\/li>\n<li>Upon launch, the site has 179 photos and about 200 pages.\u00a0 I picked 10 models to start off the site and will begin SEO over the next few weeks focused on only 2-3 models.\u00a0 With time, I will be adding more models to the lineup.\u00a0 There is not much text, yet.\u00a0\u00a0 I will be adding more text content over the next couple\u00a0 days and will provide more detail on this topic when it happens.\u00a0 I have integrated some social media components (i.e. Facebook Like button, G+ button), as social proof seems important in the post-Panda update era.<\/li>\n<li>Also, I added in a couple banners to fashion-related affiliates I found off <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/njCqAY\">LinkShare<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Integrated Google Analytics.\u00a0 As I start seeing SEO results, I will begin posting regular traffic statistics from Google Analytics.<\/li>\n<li>Ran the <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/rapid-google-indexer.php\">Rapid Google Indexer<\/a> for clubsupermodel.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #888888;\"><strong>Day 2 &#8211; 8\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today, I start on SEO for the site.\u00a0 The initial efforts will target 2 supermodels:\n<ul>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel keyword stats:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/clubsupermodel.com\/candice-swanepoel\/1\/\">candice swanepoel<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; low competition; 368,000 global monthly searches; 110,000 local monthly searches<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/clubsupermodel.com\/candice-swanepoel\/photos\/1\/\">candice swanepoel photos<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; low competition: 9,900 global; 1,900 local<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes keyword stats:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/clubsupermodel.com\/doutzen-kroes\/2\/\">doutzen kroes<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; low competition; 246,000 global monthly searches; 33,100 local monthly searches<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/clubsupermodel.com\/doutzen-kroes\/photos\/2\/\">doutzen kroes photos<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; low competition; 4,400 global; 720 local<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>On-site SEO:\n<ul>\n<li>For each of these girl, I will write up a 500+ word bio on their profile page.\u00a0 This will go at the bottom of the page.\u00a0 Note that these are unique articles.<\/li>\n<li>I will also add &lt;meta description&gt; tags across all pages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Off-site SEO:\n<ul>\n<li>I will queue up 2 3-tiered SEO Matrices using <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/a\/linkpushing\/\">Link Pushing<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/put-the-seo-matrix-on-autopilot\/\">this article for more info<\/a>) for the 2 girls.\u00a0 Then, I will overlay both Matrices with a 4th tier of social bookmarks (using <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/a\/backlinksgenie\/\">Backlinks Genie<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>I will use Backlinks Genie to social bookmark the 2 profile pages and 2 gallery pages.<\/li>\n<li>As a result, this will use up a few iterations of my Backlinks Genie account and slow down the <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/backlinks-genie-case-study\/\">Backlinks Genie case study<\/a> by a cycle or two.<\/li>\n<li>I will also put up some footer sitewide links anchoring &#8220;candice swanepoel&#8221; and &#8220;doutzen kroes&#8221; across a couple of my well indexed content sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #888888;\"><strong>Day 4 &#8211; 8\/7<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I added approximately another 150 photos between the 2 targeted models just now.\u00a0 To do find and gather such a large number of photos so quickly, I had to download them from other fan sites.\u00a0 I used this free software called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.httrack.com\/\">HTTrack Website Copier<\/a> to accomplish this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #888888;\"><strong>Day 6 &#8211; 8\/9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The off-site SEO work with both <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/a\/linkpushing\/\">Link Pushing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/a\/backlinksgenie\/\">Backlinks Genie<\/a> started processing today (i.e. they were in queue prior to today).\u00a0 Over the next week or so, I should start to see some SERP movements.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, out of curiosity, I checked my Google Analytics stats.\u00a0 So far, Google has sent over 13 visits.\u00a0 Though a statistically insignificant sample size, the results looked quite promising.\u00a0 Here are the aggregate stats for these visitors:\n<ul>\n<li>Pages\/Visit = 5.77<\/li>\n<li>Average Time on Site = 56 seconds<\/li>\n<li>Bounce Rate = 38%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #888888;\"><strong>Day 11 &#8211; 8\/14<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m vacationing in Vancouver now, but here&#8217;s quick update on the case study&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>I noticed some decent SERP movements:\n<ul>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel = 51<\/li>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel photos = 23<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes = 70<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes photos = 12<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #888888;\"><strong>Day 12 &#8211; 8\/19<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After a 5 hour delay, I finally returned home a couple days ago.\u00a0\u00a0 And, tomorrow, I&#8217;m moving to lower Manhattan in New York City. \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Before I get packing, here&#8217;s another update&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Content changes:\n<ul>\n<li>Added pagination to the galleries.\u00a0 This should improve the user experience, and hopefully also increase page views, lower bounce rates, and increase average page views per visitor.<\/li>\n<li>Loaded in more photos.\u00a0 I will be doing this every 1-2 weeks and will not post an update each time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>SERP movements:\n<ul>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel = 36<\/li>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel photos = 15<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes = 39<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes photos = 11<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m tracking SERPs for all other listed models and found some to have gained top 100 positions, despite not having done any SEO targeting those terms and URLs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #888888;\"><strong>Day 25 &#8211; 9\/1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sorry guys, I&#8217;ve been kinda neglecting this case study.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m still seeing some upwards movements in the SERPs from the <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/put-the-seo-matrix-on-autopilot\/\">link push SEO Matrices<\/a> I kicked off a while back.\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s very minor.\u00a0 So, yesterday, I decided to kick off more link pushes targeting &#8220;Candice Swanepoel.&#8221;\u00a0 Unfortunately, I have so many link pushes queued up that they won&#8217;t be fired off till the 13th.\u00a0 (I really like the <a href=\"http:\/\/themanwhosoldtheweb.com\/a\/linkpushing\/\">Link Pushing<\/a> service, as you can see, and am on the 50 pushes per month plan.) \u00a0 Unless there&#8217;s something significant worth noting, I won&#8217;t be updating for a few weeks, after the new SEO back links take effect.<\/li>\n<li>SERP movements:\n<ul>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel = 29<\/li>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel photos = 12<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes = 23<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes photos = 9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #888888;\"><strong>Day 47 &#8211; 9\/23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not where I want to be yet.\u00a0 However, still moving up the ranks slowly, but surely.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the latest.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SERP movements<\/span>:\n<ul>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel = 19<\/li>\n<li>Candice Swanepoel photos = 11<\/li>\n<li>Doutzen Kroes = 21<\/li>\n<li>Douzen Kroes photos = 10<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Traffic for 9\/17 &#8211; 9\/23<\/span>:\n<ul>\n<li>Only 60 visits, but 531 pageviews (i.e. 8.68 pages\/visit).\u00a0 People love &#8217;em pics of supermodels! \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<li>Bounce rate: 33%.\u00a0 This is very good.<\/li>\n<li>Average time on site: 2 min, 25 sec.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve received traffic from 17 keywords w\/ 10 related to either &#8220;Candice Swanepoel&#8221; or &#8220;Doutzen Kroes.&#8221;\u00a0 This week, I&#8217;m hovering between page 3 (bottom) and page for &#8220;Candice Swanepoel,&#8221; but the term still brought in 19 unique visits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>I will update this case study with status updates in real time.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, I stumbled across what may very well be the holy grail of search keywords.\u00a0 These are keywords that, according to Google AdWords Keyword Tool, have the lowest possible competition (i.e. competition score of 0) and receive tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of local monthly searches. 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