Probably the most ambitious search engine ranking experiment yet.
I looked in Google adwords search engine tool for high value medium high volume search terms in respect of expenses management software.
I exported fifty of tbe better ones into a text document, and then copied them directly into namecheap’s domain availability search tool.
Out of those still available http://expensemanagersoftware.com and http://expensesmanagementsoftware.com were the most promising, so I registered them each for a year.
I then wrote a new article on the main website for the Time Worked software, gave it a menu link, and sent out a tweet via su.pr.
Next step was to divert these urls to the Time Worked site, and see if they generate some visitors.
Prior to taking these steps, TimeWorked would not come up at all if the search term ‘Expense Manager Software’ was entered into Google.
I will have to wait a day or two to see if this achieves some visibility for the Time Worked site in search results.
But – as an indicator – kStats results a few moments after the tweeting this article are as below:
| Time | IP | Page Viewed | OS | Browser | |
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| 18:01:37 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 18:01:36 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown |  |
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| 17:59:02 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:59:01 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | |
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| 17:55:10 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | Mac OS X | Firefox 3.6 | ||
| 17:53:58 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:53:48 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | Linux (Ubuntu) | Firefox 3.6.8 | ||
| 17:53:31 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:53:21 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | Firefox | ||
| 17:53:14 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:53:11 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:53:00 / 12-13-2011 | /page/3/ | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:52:55 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:52:53 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:52:53 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:52:52 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:52:52 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:52:52 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | Windows Vista | IE 7.0 | ||
| 17:52:51 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | unknown | ||
| 17:52:51 / 12-13-2011 | /using-su-pr-and-twitter-to-ga… | unknown | PycURL 7.21.3 |
A few months later – and the search term below appears on the second page of Google – so the answer is close – but no cigar.
For other search terms such as ‘time sheet software’ – there is only the occasional first page result. Otherwise down to page two or three.
Conclusion: getting a site or a page indexed in the search engines by using a combination of su.pr and twitter, and other social media if applicable is a good SEO method. Registering URLs with appropriate search terms, and directing them to a page on the site, gives a marginal improvement in search results if the right URLs are available, but will not guarantee a first page result.
