We’ll, the 30 day project is getting close to wrapping up. We’ve implemented the use of the Digital Point keyword tracker and are tracking about 300 keywords. Since we’ve started doing this, I’ve been amazed at how quickly Google and MSN are picking up our new posts and getting them in the index. 
I noticed a few of my posts we’re ranking in the 150 range on the first day the post was live and down to the top 10 within 3 days. Granted, these are long tail keywords, but it’s still great to see such a quick success from MSN. Google has been getting our new posts into the index and SERP’s within a day or two. See the screenshot to the right for an example, the post was made live on November 20th.
As of 10/24 we have a total of 23555 total uniques. Just to remind you, last month the site had 88 total uniques. Since our original goal was 2,000 uniques, we’ve WELL surpassed that goal. You can see that a vast majority of those uniques are from StumbleUpon. Unfortunately those visitors only come for our linkbait, and not for our content.
As for our second goal, 150 total posts, we’re close. To date we have averaged 4.2 posts per day. Our goal is 5 posts per day and in the next 6 days we need 49 posts. In the next 6 days we need 8.16 posts average. That is 4 posts per day. I’ve seen Andrew have 10-12 post days and I’ve done 10-15 posts per day so I know it can easily happen.
Our third goal was $100 net earnings. To date we’ve earned a couple bucks from a few different affiliate, less than $5 total. Adsense, our biggest earner is at $36.99. Average daily income is around $1.66 per day. We need that to go to $9.8 per day if we’re going to hit the goal. Unless we really pick up our organic search visitors I don’t think we’ll hit that goal.
Here are a few screenshots from the project:
Daily traffic.
Visitors from Search Engines (including StumbleUpon and Digg):
I think the concept of what your doing is interesting…. how hard is it really to post as much as you are though?
I’m trying to do the same thing, more or less… but launching 1 blog over a year, and tracking it on another blog. My goal is 1 quality post/week, no where close to the 4+/day you guys are doing… But its interesting to see others try to grow a blog to profit too
Dave, the posting isn’t that hard. I can get on a streak and do over 10 in a 4-5 hour time period. I try to stay ahead of that goal, but I’ve fallen a little behind. 1 blog a year seems like such an easy goal when you’re doing 1 per month!
This is a really awesome idea and it has inspired me to try similar things. So many posts up is going to get you a lot of traffic in the coming months because sometimes SERPs can take a while. So, if you don’t reach your 100 this month, it’ll come and then keep going up. Awesome idea.
This experiment is similar to projects we’ve been launching in many respects, however, we add many more pages. Google indexes them super-fast, yet it takes around 10-14 days before the SERPS start to get good.
Then, interestingly, we get a second wave of ranking increases as we achieve some backlinks / social network links etc.
There seems to be a real pattern to this, and its interesting to see (we’re launching several sites over time).
The biggest advantage we have is a good number of PR 5/6 websites to link in initially – that way our new sites are indexed and ranking very fast from day one – then no-one in your niche will miss what you are saying…
Hi,
How interesting. I started a blog from scratch, and wondered how original or otherwise my idea would be. Needless to say, we are along similar lines. Just out of interest, is your project still going, and if so – how much progress have you made recently?
Maxi
23555 uniques ! It took me 15 months to get that to one of my sites.
You talk about time problems, do you have scheduled posts plugin to help you with that? (If there is one!)