Am I just an SEO genius?

[Tsnyder]

Okay... I'd love to think that I'm an SEO genius but
I honestly have no idea how this happened...

I put up a simple one page site for our horse trainer.
I got him a domain name but it's actually redirected to
a folder on a site where I store works in progress. The
page has been up for less than 30 days.

I even misspelled one of the words in the title tag... lol

I have done nothing to get this site ranked... no video... no
back links except a mention on Facebook... nothing.

Yet... when I type his keyword phrase into google it comes
up in the 3rd or 4th position on the first page!

Granted... there isn't a ton of competition but we're only
concerned with people looking for horse training in our area.

Go ahead... google the phrase: eastern iowa horse trainer

You should find Dream Horse Trainer very high
on the first page.

Now... tell me why? LOL Evil genius or dumb luck?

Tsnyder

[Watch Store]

It is because it is a very low competition keyword

[The Oilman]

Dont make the mistake I have.

BE SURE TO log out of your gmail.com account.

Otherwise, google changes the results around how often you've clicked your own site... and it ranks it higher on your PC

In other words, the SERPS change for better personal usability.

But likely you did rank as its an easy term.

[Tsnyder]

Oilman...

I understand but I first discovered this on the computer
of someone who doesn't have a gmail account.

Tsnyder

[Tsnyder]

Watch Store...

Yeah... I said that in my OP. I kinda figure that's
what it's about. Still... that phrase perfectly fits what
we're trying to accomplish and delivers close to 50K
results.

I'm happy to be ahead of nearly all of them...

Tsnyder

[Ken Durham]

Well done.
You are #4 from here at this moment.
I just read an article yesterday about people concentrating on specific state areas for businesses, so this kind of encourages me as I have a friend that owns a local business I am just getting ready to help her rank locally with. She would be delighted to rank in 30 days.........very delighted I am hoping

[dburk]

Originally Posted by Tsnyder

Watch Store...

Yeah... I said that in my OP. I kinda figure that's
what it's about. Still... that phrase perfectly fits what
we're trying to accomplish and delivers close to 50K
results.

I'm happy to be ahead of nearly all of them...

Tsnyder

Hi Tsnyder,

Don't get too excited yet, it appears that keyword almost never gets searched. When you say "delivers close to 50K results" you are referring to how many pages Google estimated contain all of the words in your search somewhere on the page, but not in any particular order or even within the same paragraph.

[4morereferrals]

Results 1 - 10 of about 415,000 for eastern iowa horse training

Note the quotes ... in the search

Results 1 - 10 of about 75,300 for "iowa horse training"

Results 1 - 10 of about 6,710 for "horse training iowa "

In Quotes ....

Results 1 - 1 of 1 for "eastern iowa horse trainer"

... and that would be this thread.


Extremely low competition long tail. Awesome if people are actually searching that term. If they arent - kinda .... whats the point?

Do him another favor, hook him up with some long tails that get search volume, andhelp him build a LIST

[kkchoon]

Sometime long tail do have enormous searches, but that is very rare occasion...

However, if combined a lot of long tail keywords may give you some nice decent search as well

[Myheavens]

long tail keywords are easy to rank and bring targeted traffic that converts..

[saggy23]

Wow! Great! no.4 on the first page. But how competitive the keyword is?

[brucemendes0]

Hi,
I have just know the term "SEO"....So I see your thread. I think SEO is good field and get good information from this...So I thanks for sharing a link...

[iblbuilder]

LOL, so the actual "search" only has one result. Hmm, lesson learnt for when checking keyword positioning?

[Smokey_Joe]

The extent of your luck is to be measured by the traffic this particular search term is able to bring in. Long-tails can be and are extremely useful in terms of getting fine-targeted visitors, but then again there's always the danger of balancing on the verge of obscurity.

[Tsnyder]

I agree with everything that's been written above... not much competition.

But... and this is not my philosophy... I talked with him about
list building and all that but he only wanted a page so he could send
people there from his own off line efforts.

I did it for him for free so I'm not going to knock myself out! He picked
the phrase... I did the keyword research and reported the results to him.
I'm just surprised that it came up that high even with the low competition.

Tsnyder