I'm In Love With SEO

[Daniel Molano]

Ok guys, let me tell you something that happened this week. It's probably the fastest possible way to make money online.

This sort of happened by accident.

I was doing some keyword research for one of my clients and stumbled upon a long tail keyword phrase (5 words) that has 4,000 daily search results and at that time (one week ago) it had less than 3,000 competition.

Anyway, I was able to grab the hyphenated .com domain for that keyword.

Being way too lazy that day (and hangovered as well) I couldn't bother myself to build a website, I went to Blogger opened a blog, made 10 blog posts optimized with the keyword, transfered the domain to that blog and submitted the site map to the search engines.

Then I used a social bookmarking submission automated software (BIG Mike's SocialBot) to get backlinks to all the pages of my blog (every blog post is considered a page and so are the comments for each post).

Take into account that the keyword is completely informative, it doesn't really have commercial value, but I thought what the heck ANYTHING can be monetized. So I went to Clickbank grabbed a related product and spread my affiliate link all over the blog.

Today I just did a Google search for the keyword and I'm in position #1. I logged to my Clickbank account and I already made 7 sales in ONE day.

All this costed me $8 for the domain name, about 2-3 hours worth of work and it will make me passive residual income forever without me having to lift a single finger.

Myths Dispelled:

1. Hyphenated domains are crap for SEO.
2. Keywords need to have commercial value (This proves ANYTHING can be monetized).
3. Making fast cash is not possible.
4. Out ranking authority sites is hard (My 1 week old PR0 blog is out ranking PR8 websites for that keyword).
5. Mass instant backlinks don't work.

Enjoy!

Dan

P.S: Take into account that this can also be done in Wordpress and for better results you can even use the All In One SEO Pack plugin.

P.P.S: For more information about Keyword Research, go to this great thread I made about it: Keyword Research & Implementation 101

P.P.P.S: Techie Turtle a fellow warrior made a video of how to set up a custom domain in blogger. Here it is: Video: How to set up custom domain at Blogger.com

[Tony X]

Great job Daniel...

Did you host the blog or just masked (or redirected) the domain to your blog?

[matthewd]

Way to go man... The power of SEO is amazing. I would much rather invest in SEO that PPC any day

[Aaron H]

Got to say I've no problem buying hyphenated domains either, you only have to look at experts - exchange dot com for proof that they're not a huge problem (mind you I think there was another reason they put a hyphen there ) I think you only run into problems when your domain name is repeated verbally.

Nice one

[mookinman]

Superb and inspiring, Daniel - thanks for posting.

The only thing I struggle with is keyword research... I seem to have some kind of mental block with it sometimes. Everything else in the process you describe is well within my abilities. Still, I'm doing okay.... but I want to do better

[JJOrana]

Great Job Daniel.

Action Action Action.

Surely SEO is the best traffic source ever.

[livetheriches]

Awesome Daniel! Curious too if you are just 'redirecting' the domain to the blogspot..

[Adam Kenzington]

Great Work, Daniel!

Hey, what ever happened with the guy who was going to e-mail his massive list for you? (From you speaking at the school group that you really didn't want to do).

How did that work out for you? Any news, yet?

Adam

[UcheO]

Good work.
You'll have to keep us updated on how well the blog does.

[jan roos]

Nice post and welldone. I also found a really good keyword phrase with 1400 daily searches and 148 competing websites. Got the domain made the blog and went to number one on google only to find out that wordtracker got it wrong. I am yet to get a single hit from that keyword phrase.

I'll keep searching though. Let us know how your blog does. Inspiring post.

Cheers

[Daniel Molano]

I host the domain in Blogger, no redirect.

And Adam, the broadcast will be sent next week, I'll update on that thread.

[TheMagicShow]

I have been there and I know this method, but make sure you keep your rankings, getting to the top of the mountain is somewhat easy, staying there is the real task at hand.

[anomaly]

Nice post Daniel ...

by coincidence I was reading google's view of URL's today and they said something along the lines of urls-like-this are more easily decipherable than urlslikethis ... i expect they'll become more and more popular!

[write-stuff]

Great report, Dan. Thanx for sharing your experimentation with us. You have it going on.

- Russ

[Dana_W]

Great post! I'm just confused about one thing - what do you mean you transfered the domain to the blog? How?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

Great post! I'm just confused about one thing - what do you mean you transfered the domain to the blog? How?

Dashbord>Settings>Publishing and click on advanced to add your own domain to the blog.

First you need to point the DNS settings from GoDaddy (or wherever you register domains) to ghs.google.com I believe.

OR you could always pay $10 and set it up immediately through Blogger in that same Publishing page.

[Cali16]

Great post, Daniel! 7 sales is impressive. You seem to have the magic touch!

[Dana_W]

Wow, Daniel, I did not know you could do that. So you get to have your own domain name, airline tickets cell phone deals at whatever.com, and all the SEO power and the templates of Blogger.com?

[guillopuyol]

Great job Daniel!

When you checked the number of results in Google, did you enter the keyword in quotes to get the 3000 results?

What keyword research tool do you use to get these results info?

Keep us updated of your success with this page.

Guillermo

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Dana_W

Wow, Daniel, I did not know you could do that. So you get to have your own domain name, airline tickets cell phone deals at whatever.com, and all the SEO power and the templates of Blogger.com?

That would be correct Dana, you basically get to leverage Blogger.

Originally Posted by guillopuyol

Great job Daniel!

When you checked the number of results in Google, did you enter the keyword in quotes to get the 3000 results?

What keyword research tool do you use to get these results info?

Keep us updated of your success with this page.

Guillermo

Yes, to check the competition I entered the keyword in quotation marks.

I use the Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool and I will keep you guys updated.

[Niche]

Talk about great ROI
Thanks for sharing

[Darth Executor]

Originally Posted by ste25

Whats the keyword phrase?

I'd love to befriend the sucker who would actually give something like that away.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by ste25

For 5 word keyword phrase 4000 searches per day cant be right surely, thats 120,000 searches per month.

Whats the keyword phrase? How much traffic is your site getting?

Since yestarday when it hit page 1 in Google it's getting over 1,000 unique visitors between today and yestarday, so I guess around 500 per day.

There is no way I'm revealing the keyword.

[Tony X]

Another quick question Daniel, when you sumbitting the site map...did you use this address, www (dot) google (dot) com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

[TheMagicShow]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Since today when it hit postion 1 it's getting over 1,000 unique visitors.

There is no way I'm revealing the keyword.

Mass linking can be a instant boost of seo rankings, but google cab spot un-natural linking and will lower your serp if you don't keep up with your linking, if you had 200 links come in in less than 7 days, you better keep getting 200 links coming every 7 days or google will see the linking as not being natural and will lower your rank.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by ste25

Ive been doing SEO for several years and trust me there arent any long tail 5 word phrases getting 4,000 searches per day.

There are hundreds if not thousands of those keywords.

I have articles that get 500-1,000 views per day based on such keywords. My best one is optimized around a 6 word long tail keyword.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by ste25

Ok give me just one of the 100s of 1000s of these keywords (not one you're using)

I'm a SEO expert and have been doing keyword research for years. There simply arent any long tail phrases of 5 words that get that much search volume per day.

I'll give you 3 I found in 30 seconds. None of which I use.

top 10 banks in the us

top 10 party collegesc (typo)

top 100 baby boy names

And I'm no expert, I've been doing Internet Marketing for 4 months.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by ste25

"top 10 banks in the us"

According to the Google keyword tool that keyword phrase only has 110 searches per month.

SEO Book's estimate of 1,277 per day is not at all accurate.

Time for research.

Read these 2 threads:

1. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...imization.html

2. Article Marketing 101 - Everything You Need To Know About Article Marketing In One Place!

The Google Keyword Tool is useless for SEO, I can't believe you've been relying on that.

That tool is for PPC research, not SEO.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by ste25

Hmm maybe the SEOBook keyword tool is more accurate than Googles.

"Scary" eh?

Every keyword tool out there (including WordTracker) will give you similar results, EXCEPT the Google tool.

MANY millionaire Internet Marketers bash on the Google keyword tool for providing useless results (SEO wise).

But then again it's your money you're losing, not mine.

Originally Posted by JJ Manning

Daniel I love your posts--but let me get this straight. You have several aticles that target 5 word longtail keywords that get 1000 views per day?

Lets say you have 3 articles that qualify thats £1.095m views per year from 3 articles.

That great marketing....

Well not many, I was exagerating. I have 3 and I backlinked the living hell out of them so they would stay in position 1. The thing is these 5 word long tail keywords are usually "hot trends", so that heavy traffic will eventually fade away.

I wish it would be consistent traffic, but it's not. They do work for quite a while though.

[Andrew Maule]

EXCELLENT work dude! Incredible.

[David Surk]

grr my post is getting all fubar for some reason, i'll edit again in abit.

[TheMagicShow]

First of all, WT and many other KW tools give you an guesstimate, not 100% actual truth, the google tool as mentioned before many times is great for adwords, but not for seo .

I deal mainly with the ppc side and that google tool is excellent among the other great tools that are out there for testing and making sure that the phrase /keywords are profitable.

I still stand behind my earler comment, getting massive inbound links in a short frame of time can raise some flags for google, natural linking is key.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by ste25

I notice your blog is ranking on page 2 now of Google (#13) for your keyword phrase.

Nice job, but the blog you mention is not the one I speak of in this thread. That one is another experiment I'm onto after the success of the first one.

The one I speak of is still in position #1.

Originally Posted by Magic Mel

First of all, WT and many other KW tools give you an guesstimate, not 100% actual truth, the google tool as mentioned before many times is great for adwords, but not for seo .

I deal mainly with the ppc side and that google tool is excellent among the other great tools that are out there for testing and making sure that the phrase /keywords are profitable.

I still stand behind my earler comment, getting massive inbound links in a short frame of time can raise some flags for google, natural linking is key.

I agree 100% with everything you have said. The Google tool is still great for PPC research and yes those results from the other tools are not precise, but they do give a fairly accurate estimate.

And yes natural backlinking is the key, but once you get your site into the spotlight with the massive amount of instant backlinks, natural backlinking will occur by others if the content is good, especially if the domain is for the keyword.

[TheMagicShow]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

I agree 100% with everything you have said. The Google tool is still great for PPC research and yes those results from the other tools are not precise, but they do give a fairly accurate estimate.

And yes natural backlinking is the key, but once you get your site into the spotlight with the massive amount of instant backlinks, natural backlinking will occur by others if the content is good, especially if the domain is for the keyword.

Good content indeed breeds new incoming links, keep up the good work.

[elitesalesgroup]

You got an additional 17000 competition in one week?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by elitesalesgroup

You got an additional 17000 competition in one week?

Yup, it happens with such keywords. It wouldn't happen if it didn't work.

[elitesalesgroup]

So that keyword is sitting dormant until someone discovers it, and then you've got instant competition? Are they copycats?

[Jeff Seely]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

top 10 party collegesc (typo)

So "top 10 party collegesc" gets 2,580 searches a day and "top 10 party colleges" gets 972 searches a day.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by elitesalesgroup

So that keyword is sitting dormant until someone discovers it, and then you've got instant competition? Are they copycats?

I don't think it was dormant, I think it was new and hence the low competition at first, then people started picking up on it.

I think these keywords like I said in a reply above are "hot trends", something happens that triggers a sudden amount of searches for a while, but it eventually fades away.

SEO is also part of the competition increase, since people start backlinking, the backlinks get indexed and therefore the amount of "competition" increases.

[Darth Executor]

Originally Posted by Jeff Seely

So "top 10 party collegesc" gets 2,580 searches a day and "top 10 party colleges" gets 972 searches a day.

Given the priorities of those doing the search it's not much of a surprise.

[steve m]

can some one please explain to me what the "do in the key word search" the quotation marks, ?

[Michael Dominic]

So many possibilities. SEO is very powerful.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by steve m

can some one please explain to me what the "do in the key word search" the quotation marks, ?

When you go to Google and do a search for a keyword in quotation marks, it's done to measure the amount of competing websites for that keyword.

[Alex Sol]

Great Job!

May I add another Myth Dispelled?

- There are still keyword phrases with LOTS of Searches and Very little competition

[Hackbridge]

Daniel

Thank you very much for your post.

I would like to know, without deference to "Big Mike", is there anything that is equal or cheaper to SocialBot V3. It looks great and all, but the dollar is so strong at the moment that it makes it out of reach for me at this time.

Kind regards

Brian

[Mattkau]

ste25 is right - only 654 a day for 'antivirus software' how can that be right.

[AndrewCavanagh]

Keep in mind you may not maintain that position because the web 2.0 type backlinks you have lose quality as they get older (they go down the listings and off the pages on the sites that have higher google page rank).

Having said that using a .com domain name that exactly matches a keyword phrase is one of the biggest SEO secrets I've seen.

There's a good chance you'll maintain a good ranking simply by doing that.

You're also likely to pick up other longer tail keyword phrase traffic by having the 10 articles on your blog at that domain.

So even if your google ranking drops you'll probably still be picking up good traffic.

Now if you take some of the money you made and hire an article writer and start adding 2-14 new blog posts a week to your blog (and also submit them to ezinearticles and other article sites linking back to other pages on your blog) then you should end up with some really exciting traffic within the next 30-90 days.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

[Alton Hargrave]

How do you transfer a domain name to Blogger?
Thanks,
Alton

[Skribblez]

Pretty much what I did once. Found a keyword to rank for and built backlinks like crazy. Mostly social links and blog comments. It lasted for 3 days, until I disappeared completely for that keyword. (was still indexed though)

To be honest, I think the same might happen for you. Hopefully it doesn't. Let us know how it works out in the long run.

Would you by any chance be willing to mention the niche?

[Dana_W]

Originally Posted by Alton Hargrave

How do you transfer a domain name to Blogger?
Thanks,
Alton

He answered that question for me on the previous page - incredibly helpful!


Quote:
Originally Posted by Dana_W
Great post! I'm just confused about one thing - what do you mean you transfered the domain to the blog? How?
Dashbord>Settings>Publishing and click on advanced to add your own domain to the blog.

First you need to point the DNS settings from GoDaddy (or wherever you register domains) to ghs.google.com I believe.

OR you could always pay $10 and set it up immediately through Blogger in that same Publishing page.