Micro Niche Sites : Please Take Note

[unlimitedwealth]

Hi,

Just an observation. I was making decent earnings from micro niche sites (xfactor - consumer product niches) until recently most of my top performing sites (ranking #1-3) are being pushed down further by Google to accommodate their own "shopping results".

Previously there were no "shopping results" in these keyword search results. And the funny thing is that all these happened in the past couple of days to all my top sites. Coincidence? LOL.

My traffic dropped significantly as I suspected that most of the clicks went to the "shopping results".

I have another bunch of sites ranking up and hope they don't face the similar fate.

Is this part of the change in their new search logic?

Now got to go back to my drawing board on how to tackle this.

[cbreceipt]

That's not good to hear. Maybe get out of doing product niche sites?

[thomarv29]

you should take the keywords your ranked on and submit your products to shopping comparisson feeds using the keywords in the link from your site to the comparisson site. You then need to make sure that you submit your product feeds to Google Base. This will allow you to still get traffic from the same keywords you were getting traffic from before. Google has been starting to rank shopping comparisson results as they are more relevant for people wanting to find products. Try using this technique and you will see very good results. You will also want to open and Ebay account and tag your ebay listings with that specific keyword and add that to your product page as well. This will give you two links on the first page of the search results in addition to the others you will get. If you add a PDF File you can also get that ranked on the first page. Once again you must place the keyword in the URL. Each product page needs to have all the page elements reflect that keyword string as well. The Page Title, H1 headings, Image Alt Tags, Anchor Text, keywords, and meta-tags need to be all specific to just one keyword as well. I have one site ranked on 81K keywords using this technique.

[unlimitedwealth]

Originally Posted by thomarv29

you should take the keywords your ranked on and submit your products to shopping comparisson feeds using the keywords in the link from your site to the comparisson site. You then need to make sure that you submit your product feeds to Google Base. This will allow you to still get traffic from the same keywords you were getting traffic from before. Google has been starting to rank shopping comparisson results as they are more relevant for people wanting to find products. Try using this technique and you will see very good results. You will also want to open and Ebay account and tag your ebay listings with that specific keyword and add that to your product page as well. This will give you two links on the first page of the search results in addition to the others you will get. If you add a PDF File you can also get that ranked on the first page. Once again you must place the keyword in the URL. Each product page needs to have all the page elements reflect that keyword string as well. The Page Title, H1 headings, Image Alt Tags, Anchor Text, keywords, and meta-tags need to be all specific to just one keyword as well. I have one site ranked on 81K keywords using this technique.

Thanks for the above method.

One question though, does Google Base takes in listing from such micro niche sites?

[unlimitedwealth]

Originally Posted by cbreceipt

That's not good to hear. Maybe get out of doing product niche sites?

Yup, this is one of the plans.

[thomarv29]

If you do a google search for JU Dolphins T-Shirts you will see my clients site listed on the top two spots, two spots in the shopping results, the other spot in the shopping results is us under another URL.. If you click on the other links they all go to the same website or sell my clients products. In effect, i was able to take over the whole first page of the search results for that keyword and also i got them ranked on 81,000 other keywords. Just proof that what im saying is legit and works.

[blog]

My niche also push down & disappear from Google 1'st page ranking

[yukon]

Originally Posted by thomarv29

If you do a google search for JU Dolphins T-Shirts you will see my clients site listed on the top two spots, two spots in the shopping results, the other spot in the shopping results is us under another URL.. If you click on the other links they all go to the same website or sell my clients products. In effect, i was able to take over the whole first page of the search results for that keyword and also i got them ranked on 81,000 other keywords. Just proof that what im saying is legit and works.

That's cool!

I see an affiliate ID in most of those URLs. My Google search says you own the first 5 spots (counting the Ebay user name) in Google SERPs for that keyword search.

Nice work!

[thomarv29]

Thanks, we try to do a good job for our clients.. We took them from 6M to 128M in just two years and set them up on a revenue share with Yahoo who we were helping build and monetize their sports section back in 06.

[thomarv29]

Originally Posted by unlimitedwealth

Thanks for the above method.

One question though, does Google Base takes in listing from such micro niche sites?

Yes they do.. sorry it took so long to write back with an answer... good luck and God bless

[yukon]

So, you don't actually submit anything to Google Base?

Is that correct?


Thanks,

[thomarv29]

Originally Posted by yukon

So, you don't actually submit anything to Google Base?

Is that correct?


Thanks,

Yukon.. were asking me or the post originator? If me then the awnser is yes but only products. Dosent matter how nitch they are it still helps. I dont get much traffic from Google base however because im too lasy to resubmit my product feeds or CSV Files lol

[yukon]

Originally Posted by thomarv29

Yukon.. were asking me or the post originator? If me then the awnser is yes but only products. Dosent matter how nitch they are it still helps. I dont get much traffic from Google base however because im too lasy to resubmit my product feeds or CSV Files lol

Yea, I was asking you.

I'm lost on the first step you posted above "shopping comparisson feeds", who did you post to for your example site to get the top 5 spots in the SERPs?

I can handle all the on-page seo.

Thanks,

[thomarv29]

Amazon, shopzilla, Yahoo Shopping and ebay always gets listed.. the trick is in how you write your anchor text with the exact keywords you want to get ranked on. Let me know if you need more help, i love this trick and it works great so pass it along.

[ambiz830]

Wow, thanks for the great info thomarv29! I have a few sites with products that got bumped as well. Gonna try to incorporate this technique.

[thomarv29]

Originally Posted by ambiz830

Wow, thanks for the great info thomarv29! I have a few sites with products that got bumped as well. Gonna try to incorporate this technique.

Not a problem, glad i could help.. feel free to PM me if you run into a road block.

[thomarv29]

Originally Posted by thomarv29

Yukon.. were asking me or the post originator? If me then the awnser is yes but only products. Dosent matter how nitch they are it still helps. I dont get much traffic from Google base however because im too lasy to resubmit my product feeds or CSV Files lol

Hey Yukon,
Sorry, I do submit all my products to Google Base but i dont get as much value out of it as i do with Yahoo Shopping, Amazon and Ebay. Hope that helps!

[billallridge]

Excellent information,
Thanks for the gift!

[Ryan Edward Parker]

This sounds very interesting. Would certainly help with the silly shopping thing google has done with the new update.