Ask the SEO Guy Anything!

[LookItsMeTerryG]

@ Simo - I'd host them on the same server. Unless you're using the blog for something else... I've always had my business blogs at domain.com/blog.

@ vuedoolor - Yeah, kinda. They aren't as strong as if you'd get 3 separate links from 3 separate ips... but they'll do.

@ tvanslooten - There isn't one. You've got to actually analyze the efforts of the sites ranking high for the term to figure out what's going on.

[Harmony]

Hi,

How can I manually check if a blog allows pingbacks?
How do I manually search for blogs that do allow pingbacks?
How do I check if a blog or webpage uses "no follow"?

I curious how to do these without a software tool. I'm just not sure of the exact wording to put into a google search for the above.

Thank you.
Harmony

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by Harmony

Hi,

How can I manually check if a blog allows pingbacks?
How do I manually search for blogs that do allow pingbacks?
How do I check if a blog or webpage uses "no follow"?

I curious how to do these without a software tool. I'm just not sure of the exact wording to put into a google search for the above.

Thank you.
Harmony

I don't know of a way to check, but a google search would be this: "trackback from your own site"

Google that and you'll get a list of sites that accept it. To take it a step further, try: "trackback from your own site" keyword like this: "trackback from your own site" tea - Google Search

[Lorens]

Hi Terry,
Thanks for helping warriors in your thread. I also would like to ask you a question.

How much traffic is getting #1 ranked website and other websites in google's top10. I have noticed that there is no difference between #1 and #2 ranked websites, however, some people say that #1 website gets about 40% of traffic. What can you say about it?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by Lorens

Hi Terry,
Thanks for helping warriors in your thread. I also would like to ask you a question.

How much traffic is getting #1 ranked website and other websites in google's top10. I have noticed that there is no difference between #1 and #2 ranked websites, however, some people say that #1 website gets about 40% of traffic. What can you say about it?

I'm not exactly sure. I find it varies between niches. I know a lot of guys quote the AOL data that can be found online... One of my clients sat at number 3 and when he moved to number 1, did 3 times as many sales for the same keyword. I know for one of my own ecommerce projects I currently sit at number 5 for a keyword, have been 8, 10, 12... and to be honest, no noticeable difference in sales or traffic..however, the sites that outrank me are much less usable and my site is better in terms of design and usability AND product offerings.

[mistyone]

Thank you for being willing to help us all with your knowledge, it is very much appreciated.

My questions are:

(1) I have WP site that I never did anything with until this year, then I started building links to it and it was starting to do very well.

Jan 516 uniques
Feb 358 " "
Mar 835 " "
April 1,051 "
May 2,110 "
June 2,494 "
July 4,301 "
Aug 3,217 "
Sep now while this month isn't complete I can tell by the daily visits that it is on the downwards spiral.

A couple of other sites seem to be heading in the same direction.
I don't believe this is the Google dance but you may tell me otherwise. I have done some link building with Angela's link packages, some social bookmarking, pinging, RSS submission and some article directory submissions. I don't want this site losing so much traffic as it is selling an affiliate product. What would you suggest?

(2) When I search to see where my sites rank in Google I can't use Google.com to search, it keeps reverting to my local Google site, how do I overcome this or doesn't it matter. Do I see the same result in Google.co.nz as someone else would in Google.com?

(3) When I look at the results of 'backlinkwatch', for the above site, it shows predominantly links from one of my other sites, as I have a link to it on my landing page. Will this be harming my site? (They are both weight related and both PR3)

(4) When I look at my sites in webmaster tools I see lots of URL's being shown as 'not found'. How do I get rid of these results, could these not found URL's be harming my site. (I have an automatic posting plugin, sometimes I cull the posts out because they aren't on topic enough, which is what I think these URL's are)

Look forward to your response

Cheers
Viv

[mj39weeks]

Hi

I've been trying to crack this whole SEO/Google/PR/Backlink riddle and whilst I've made progress, I think it's now time to bow to greater knowledge.

In your opinion/experience who offers a good SEO service I can pay to try and boost my Google rankings?

Thanks

[actionplanbiz]

What Kind of Index i should have for my domain name?

I promote Mutliple Referral Programs.

Should iit be a blog?
should it be a squeeze page?
should it be a review page?
should it be a testimonial?

whats best for SEO and Humans?

[rimam1]

Hey Terry,

This is turning out to be one of the most popular posts on the Warrior Forum. It's much appreciated.

I have two Wordpress blogs that are optimized pretty well but they don't show up anywhere in the first 100 pages of Google (1000 results). They are relatively new domains (one month) and have lots of competing pages, but some results on the first page of Google have less than 200 links to their specific pages and/or domain. Do I need to give it more time and build more links? I've optimized sites before and gotten on the first page of Google in as little as 3 weeks before, so I'm confused as to why this is taking so long. The only difference is that these two keywords have more competing pages (about 15 million for each one) but I don't pay attention to competing pages. I'm more concerned about how well the pages are optimized. I've written the basic SEO steps I've taken below but am stumped as to why I'm nowhere in the Google results for my keywords.

I don't mind being on page 87, because I can move up quickly from there by getting links. Funny thing is that both sites ARE indexed. I'm sure they'll appear soon, but I wanted to get your opinion.

Thanks,
Raza

[rimam1]

Lorens and Terry,

Google released some stats saying that the first result gets about 42% of the clicks and it goes down from there. Market Samurai takes these stats into consideration when calculating their SEOT (SEO traffic) estimates. Contact the Market Samurai folks to get these stats. They can probably direct you to the Google report that breaks down the amount of clicks each position gets.

[G Singh]

Hey Terry,

How do you personally get links to your website?

Also which link building services if any do you use? Do you use any automated tools?

Gurpreet

[LookItsMeTerryG]

@ - mistyone
1 - Is this a seasonal product? Also, the links you've been getting are temporal and most will be removed at some point, thus creating a decay anomaly and hurting your rankings.

2 - Use something like Google Data Center Multiple IP Address SEO Research Tool

3 - Interlinking isn't bad, but you're not getting full benefit of those links. If the sitewide links make up a large percentage of your link profile, bad news.

4 - 301 redirect those to the appropriate pages.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by mj39weeks

Hi

I've been trying to crack this whole SEO/Google/PR/Backlink riddle and whilst I've made progress, I think it's now time to bow to greater knowledge.

In your opinion/experience who offers a good SEO service I can pay to try and boost my Google rankings?

Thanks

PM me for recommendations.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by actionplanbiz

Should iit be a blog?
should it be a squeeze page?
should it be a review page?
should it be a testimonial?

something with lots of content. Optimize for sales first and foremost.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by rimam1

Hey Terry,
I have two Wordpress blogs that are optimized pretty well but they don't show up anywhere in the first 100 pages of Google (1000 results). They are relatively new domains (one month) and have lots of competing pages, but some results on the first page of Google have less than 200 links to their specific pages and/or domain. Do I need to give it more time and build more links? I've optimized sites before and gotten on the first page of Google in as little as 3 weeks before, so I'm confused as to why this is taking so long. The only difference is that these two keywords have more competing pages (about 15 million for each one) but I don't pay attention to competing pages. I'm more concerned about how well the pages are optimized. I've written the basic SEO steps I've taken below but am stumped as to why I'm nowhere in the Google results for my keywords.

I don't mind being on page 87, because I can move up quickly from there by getting links. Funny thing is that both sites ARE indexed. I'm sure they'll appear soon, but I wanted to get your opinion.

Thanks,
Raza

More time, more links, better links, more content.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by MrEyeconic

Hey Terry,

How do you personally get links to your website?

Also which link building services if any do you use? Do you use any automated tools?

Gurpreet

I've laid a lot of that out in this thread already, but:

1. I create sites to be link magnets, therefore I don't "get" links, links come to me.

This is a bit more information than I wanted to give in this thread, but for example: I own a tea ecommerce site, we hired a well known tea video blogger to do on-page video product reviews and overviews. He links to us, as do his fans, etc. For my instrument string ecommerce projects, I have authoritative histories of instruments, interviews with players, I offer discounts to teachers with a coupon code (their name) and have them link to our site.

2. I email/call high authority sites.

3. I produce quality linkbait.

4. When I've exhausted the list of industry resources and such to get links from, I create my own resources and link back. This helps me get those links from competitors and so forth that aren't available to a commercial site.

I don't use any services, other than my own, but everyone once in a while I'll play with SENUKE for fun.

[thegamecat]

Hi there, thought I'd help out with something regarding building your own network of sites and gaining backlinks between them - in reference to:

I personally prefer a dedicated IP for each site, especially since I tend to focus on ecommerce. Your question though brings into mind the whole "bad neighborhoods" theory... I'd really not worry about it yet though. If you find you're doing everything else perfectly and you can't seem to move then perhaps look into it.

Every domain needs a seperate IP.
Every IP must be on a different class C IP range - you can usually achieve this by putting each domain on a different host.
It is even believed that you should either reg the domain with different contact details or use a WhoIs Guard (you can get this free for a year if you buy your domain with namecheap.com).

Building link networks is harder than it initially looks but once you have the strategy in place the deployment can be smooth and re-usable so win win.

[Leads4Builders]

Hey Terry,

Is there an SEO Reporting Software that you use to send reports to clients? I do it the old fashioned way with Excel, and was wondering if there's an affordable software out there that will allow robust reporting and white label reports I can send to clients.

Thanks

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by Leads4Builders

Hey Terry,

Is there an SEO Reporting Software that you use to send reports to clients? I do it the old fashioned way with Excel, and was wondering if there's an affordable software out there that will allow robust reporting and white label reports I can send to clients.

Thanks

I don't do reports for clients, other than send them Google Analytics every month (and that's only in some cases where we're doing conversion optimization, etc). If you're clients are THAT intense about exactly what spot there were they particular day at that particular time, I'd drop them Anyone that's hired me knows I don't deal with the daily "my site dropped a spot" phone calls. That's one of my main criteria before taking on a client, I ask "are you going to call me every day and ask me why your site is doing this or that?". I don't focus on ranks, I focus on ROI because in the end that's all that matters.

However, to answer your question: for Mac I'd recommend "Advanced Web Ranking", and for PC go buy a mac

[Leads4Builders]

I agree...I focus on ROI too, however, I think it's critical to give them reports for those first few months when they aren't ranking yet. If not, I've found that they wonder if you're really doing anything, even though you're working hard behind the scenes to get their site ranked. I give them the expectation that it can take a few months, but they often forget, or get impatient, so reporting their progress is key.

Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG

I don't do reports for clients, other than send them Google Analytics every month (and that's only in some cases where we're doing conversion optimization, etc). If you're clients are THAT intense about exactly what spot there were they particular day at that particular time, I'd drop them Anyone that's hired me knows I don't deal with the daily "my site dropped a spot" phone calls. That's one of my main criteria before taking on a client, I ask "are you going to call me every day and ask me why your site is doing this or that?". I don't focus on ranks, I focus on ROI because in the end that's all that matters.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by Leads4Builders

I agree...I focus on ROI too, however, I think it's critical to give them reports for those first few months when they aren't ranking yet. If not, I've found that they wonder if you're really doing anything, even though you're working hard behind the scenes to get their site ranked. I give them the expectation that it can take a few months, but they often forget, or get impatient, so reporting their progress is key.

I guess I'm ruthless... If that was the case, I'd say "cool, go work with someone else." I've never used contracts with my clients or needed to. However, I screen them pretty hard... I'll accept maybe 1/10 leads. It's a luxury that comes with years in business and a rolodex that requires its own room

Terry,

We really appreciate the time and effort you are taking to give us all this great information! Thanks so much...

Sheila

[babuni]

I am a beginner in this SEO subject so if my questions are foolish just excuse me.

1) Does on page optimization of basic static site and a CMS/e-commerce site will be similar? How to optimize on page a flash site... does it also similar to a static site?

2) How to use a low competitive keyword in a site whose content is created following LSI.....I mean to say how to use keywords in a LSI followed content so that a search engine find it as a keyword among synonymous/related?LSI keywords?

It will be a great help to a beginners to me if you spare some time and answer these questions.

[islander1]

Hey SEO Guy,

I have a site that I started in April and it was ranking Google page 1 for several keywords till last week, when they were all gone. The search sitename.com still comes up with my site, so it is still indexed, but I'd like to find out what happened and how to fix it.

I don't use any 'black hat' techniques that I know of, only articles, social bookmarking, and Angela's backlinks. If I PM you the site name, could you take a look at it for me?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by islander1

Hey SEO Guy,

I have a site that I started in April and it was ranking Google page 1 for several keywords till last week, when they were all gone. The search sitename.com still comes up with my site, so it is still indexed, but I'd like to find out what happened and how to fix it.

I don't use any 'black hat' techniques that I know of, only articles, social bookmarking, and Angela's backlinks. If I PM you the site name, could you take a look at it for me?

Sure, PM me, I'd be glad to check it out for you.

[islander1]

Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG

Sure, PM me, I'd be glad to check it out for you.

Sent you a PM, thanks for looking at this!

[rimam1]

Hey everybody,

Let's think of how we can pay Terry back. If Terry helped you in any way, please think about referring clients to him, or offering him a link from your site.

The only way we can encourage more people to step up and share on this forum is to show our gratitude to those that do.

What else do you think we can do to pay Terry back for his time?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Thanks rimam1. Really appreciate being appreciated, ya know?

[jacksonlin]

Terry

1. Is the duplicate content issue a myth? I have heard that duplicate content does not affect you unless you have the same content on the same domain. Otherwise if it's on a different IP address it's known as Syndication. However, I have done a Google search of a few of my article paragraphs in "quotes" and I have found that sometimes the articles that come up on the first result that Google considers to be first importance is not my site! I know my articles are 100% unique, but then I use AMA and UAW and spin 3 versions of the same article and get it syndicated.

I have been able to achieve first place rankings for many keywords on this on Google, however I'm worried that some day this might be detrimental to me?

2. How long does the Google dance last for? I have a site that's 9 months old and there are a select few pages that I have been doing more aggressive backlinking. These pages got on the first place of Google and were there for a few months, but suddenly these few days they have disppeared - they aren't even in the top 1000 and they are just "not found" according to Market Samurai.

I have been constantly building backlinks slowly and steadily however, I have occassionally used Angela's and Pauls backlinks as a link boost a few times in the past 2 months. I have never had an issue with it, but now some of the pages are not even ranking. This is strange because I have had 7 pages that have received this kind of backlinks and half of them have no problem and are ranking well, whereas the other half are gone.

Could it be a Google dance?

Thanks Terry!

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by jacksonlin

Terry

1. Is the duplicate content issue a myth? I have heard that duplicate content does not affect you unless you have the same content on the same domain. Otherwise if it's on a different IP address it's known as Syndication. However, I have done a Google search of a few of my article paragraphs in "quotes" and I have found that sometimes the articles that come up on the first result that Google considers to be first importance is not my site! I know my articles are 100% unique, but then I use AMA and UAW and spin 3 versions of the same article and get it syndicated.

I have been able to achieve first place rankings for many keywords on this on Google, however I'm worried that some day this might be detrimental to me?

2. How long does the Google dance last for? I have a site that's 9 months old and there are a select few pages that I have been doing more aggressive backlinking. These pages got on the first place of Google and were there for a few months, but suddenly these few days they have disppeared - they aren't even in the top 1000 and they are just "not found" according to Market Samurai.

I have been constantly building backlinks slowly and steadily however, I have occassionally used Angela's and Pauls backlinks as a link boost a few times in the past 2 months. I have never had an issue with it, but now some of the pages are not even ranking. This is strange because I have had 7 pages that have received this kind of backlinks and half of them have no problem and are ranking well, whereas the other half are gone.

Could it be a Google dance?

Thanks Terry!

Duplicate content is definitely not a myth. There's waaay more to this subject than I can even spell out here in a 500 page thread. If you really want a good understanding (and geek out a bit) read the patent here: United States Patent: 7158961

"A similarity engine generates compact representations of objects called sketches. Sketches of different objects can be compared to determine the similarity between the two objects. The sketch for an object may be generated by creating a vector corresponding to the object, where each coordinate of the vector is associated with a corresponding weight. The weight associated with each coordinate in the vector is multiplied by a predetermined hashing vector to generate a product vector, and the product vectors are summed. The similarity engine may then generate a compact representation of the object based on the summed product vector."

Even spun articles can be considered duplicate content... If you were doing this though, at LEAST spin to 50%, ignore the 30% generally recommended. Someone once told me that any 2 articles in the english language can be a maximum of 70-80% unique, regardless of the particular topic they're used on (due to speech patterns, sentence structure, etc).

For the 2nd question, look at your backlinks over time using MajesticSEO or similar. Do you have any decay anomalies? The angelas and pauls type backlinks often are temporal links with inflated decay profiles. As are bookmarks, directory listings and bought blog posts, comments, etc. All poor quality links, IMHO. They work yes, but temporarily at best (most of the time).

[carlo_sim]

So what is the best way to create backlinks and where can we get quality links?

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by giansim

So what is the best way to create backlinks and where can we get quality links?

For some ideas, check my reply here: Backlinking Experts...Time To Fess Up

[smam]

First off, great thread and thanks for sharing, its been really helpful.

What things/topics do you need to learn in order to become a seo professional and be able to offer a service to others. What services does a competent seo professional offer?

I can glean some from reading posts and searching the net, but would like a definative outline so i could focus my efforts.

[Dr Dan]

Great info and thanks so much for sharing. I have got so many of my questions answered in this one thread alone.

[islander1]

Terry thanks for looking at my site and for your recommendations. I sent you an email with some further questions.

[Gabung]

Wow TerryG, you are so nice giving free seo advices for others. Two thumbs for you...

[Shaun Lee]

Hi Terry, I've got some questions related to SEO and I hope you can solve them for me.

Questions:

1. Can a Blogger blog hit the No.1 spot in Google?
2. I have been linking to my landing page (Blogger blog with only one post). Is it effective? I'm linking to the main page, and not deep links.
3. I have been building 12 links per day since weeks ago, and I have yet to see any results in this relatively easy niche. Why is this the case?
4. How long could I see some results, at least in the Top 50 with my current rate? I have around 750 inlinks according to Yahoo! Site Explorer.

Here are some stats to help you:

Number of competing pages
Exact search: 58,000
Phrse search: 557,000
Broad search: 557,000

Number of open-source pages on first page (exact search): 7

Number of inlinks for the No.1 website (as displayed by Market Samurai): 100+

Thanks Terry! Any help is appreciated!

-Shaun

[rliddle]

Hey Terry, been following this thread forever. Thanks for all your advice. You really know your stuff, and I can't believe you do all this for free. Can I give you a link or 2 for one of your sites as a Thank You!!!

[amerigo]

I have a network of sites, I used the same kind of template for each (customizing it for each site though)

I covered h1-h2-h3 headers, meta keywords, onsite text (unique per page) internal relevant links, keyphrase in url, files, and path.

I ranked well, then all of a sudden dropped of the face of google for all of my keyphrases after the google algorythm update about a month ago.

an example of one of the sites
What am i Doing wrong? Traffic gone for over a month

I have continued to add content (and plan to add more) continuing with web 2.0 page creation (unique content) and link wheels around those.

Yet my traffic completely died for the entire network, and I no longer show up in serps (but don't appear to be penalized).

I have no msgs in my webmaster account, even after sending multiple reconsideration requests (no replies).

I am at my wits end, and any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[jacksonlin]

Originally Posted by LookItsMeTerryG

Duplicate content is definitely not a myth. There's waaay more to this subject than I can even spell out here in a 500 page thread. If you really want a good understanding (and geek out a bit) read the patent here: United States Patent: 7158961

"A similarity engine generates compact representations of objects called sketches. Sketches of different objects can be compared to determine the similarity between the two objects. The sketch for an object may be generated by creating a vector corresponding to the object, where each coordinate of the vector is associated with a corresponding weight. The weight associated with each coordinate in the vector is multiplied by a predetermined hashing vector to generate a product vector, and the product vectors are summed. The similarity engine may then generate a compact representation of the object based on the summed product vector."

Even spun articles can be considered duplicate content... If you were doing this though, at LEAST spin to 50%, ignore the 30% generally recommended. Someone once told me that any 2 articles in the english language can be a maximum of 70-80% unique, regardless of the particular topic they're used on (due to speech patterns, sentence structure, etc).

For the 2nd question, look at your backlinks over time using MajesticSEO or similar. Do you have any decay anomalies? The angelas and pauls type backlinks often are temporal links with inflated decay profiles. As are bookmarks, directory listings and bought blog posts, comments, etc. All poor quality links, IMHO. They work yes, but temporarily at best (most of the time).

Just giving you an update:

1. My articles are spun 3 times for each sentence, and I have done article comparison tests for uniqueness and the least amount of uniqueness I get is 60%. So I think should be fine in regards to the duplicate content issue?

2. My sites are back again in the rankings! I think it was a bit of a Google dance of sort, the ones in question have their SERPS back!

Hmmm...Interesting isn't it?

J

[clarissa25]

hi terry, u mentioned that directory links, blog commenting social book marking and profile linking is just temporal. so is there any point in even doing this sort of linking? When u say that it seems i should spend most of my time on article marketing instead since its more long term. am I thinking right?

[lonniewa2]

Can you please take a look at my question below?

Hostgator and clean ips

[McBrett]

Hi Terry G. I've got an SEO business question for you.

What's the best technique you've found to generate SEO leads? PPC, Referrals from past and current clients, positioning yourself as an expert in niche communities like the Warrior Forum?

I appreciate you starting the thread and look forward to your reply.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

Originally Posted by babuni

I am a beginner in this SEO subject so if my questions are foolish just excuse me.

1) Does on page optimization of basic static site and a CMS/e-commerce site will be similar? How to optimize on page a flash site... does it also similar to a static site?

2) How to use a low competitive keyword in a site whose content is created following LSI.....I mean to say how to use keywords in a LSI followed content so that a search engine find it as a keyword among synonymous/related?LSI keywords?

It will be a great help to a beginners to me if you spare some time and answer these questions.

1. To optimize for flash: convert to html . They say they can read it, but I wouldn't want to take any chances. Yeah, optimizing a CMS and a basic site are the same, you'll want to highlight the same elements etc. One just normally takes longer than the other.

2. I'm not sure EXACTLY what you mean by this, but as long as you use keywords and related keywords, you'll be fine. Well, as long as the spiders see them anyway.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

@ smam - Learn to consistently rank a site in the top positions for long term timeframes. Learn to focus on providing ROI to clients, instead of just rankings. Lean superior customer service, time management, frugality and budgeting. Learn to be humble, never trust Google and always be working on your own projects (for testing and income).

@ SRLee -

1. Yes.
2. Depends on the niche, I'd always have more than 1 page though. Hard to build trust and authority with only 1 page.
3. Your links take a long time to show up but, you may be acquiring low value links that aren't being indexed.
4. Depends on how IP diverse they are and how tough the competition is. 750 links from 1 site is nothing, 750 separate sites linking to you is great.

[LookItsMeTerryG]

@ amerigo - Stop with the link wheels and build more diverse links. Build links to internal pages. Stop sending reconsideration requests, to my knowledge you aren't doing anything wrong.

@ clarissa25 - Yeah, I didn't mean NOT to do them, they do have their place in a good link profile. Article marketing fits in with those too. I call them all "b level" links. A level links are those with editorial review implemented in the approval process. Anything with trust, authority and age will pack a much larger punch than the freely available links. For my clients... I'm not out building thousands upon thousands of links per month. A good month I may only get 20-30 links for a client... but those 20-30 will be MUCH more effective than 1,000 of the lower quality links. It's quality over quantity, for sure. I prefer to work smarter not harder, wherever possible.

@ McBrett - 99.9% of my clients come from referrals. I don't actively market my services. My business website hasn't been finished nor updated since we redesigned almost 2 years ago. I'm nowhere to be found in Google and don't care to be. It seems that when you make someone a lot of money, they can't stop talking about you.

[Kirahster]

Hi Terry,

Do you think that directory submissions are worthwhile for SEO. If I submit my site too 500 directories, will that count as 500 backlinks?

Thanks,

Ciara

[GIahGroup]

Nice of you to offer some free SEO tips.

Tell me whats going on with Google SERPS, do you think an exact KW specific URL still ranks well?

EXAMPLES:

Site A
I have 1 URL ranking at position 7 page 1 on G - competition is 18,100 000 approx broad match.

It has one post, zero content, and I forgot to update for 4 months still page 1.

Site B
Again exact match KW URL with 18 posts added daily over past 30 days and pinged ranks position 38 with 297,000 compitition in SERPS??

Also do you think having dashes-in-your-url.com effects the SERPS in any way.

Looking forward to your feedback as based on the above results its hard for me to build a strategy around what works and what should be working.

[pakidesigner]

my quick question about seo is that:
is there a tool available which create a unique content automatically..if so please let me know the link

[LookItsMeTerryG]

@ Kirahster - Yeah, it'll "count", I wouldn't recommend it. However, you'll rank well in Bing Instead, opt for the main 3-4 directories, LII, DMOZ, etc.

@ GIahGroup - I find that the url is somewhat inconsequential in terms of SEO. I basically choose mine in the interests of branding. Exact match domains are really doing well in caffeine, according to my limited tests.

@ serps - Promote it the same way you would with a normal site. Identify your target demo, figure out what they're searching for and rank for that. That'll get the SEO taken care of. Overall marketing is another story. As far as successful affiliate, there are literally hundreds of more qualified people on here that can answer that. I'm just a SEO guy

@ pakidesigner - Not really. Just software that spins content.