I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !!

FredJones · 08-17-2010, 09:02 AM

Don't get mislead by the title, I hold multiple #1 rankings and many more page-1 rankings. And some of them are competitive too for sure, in every sense.

But...

Today I got a tremendous satisfaction to break into a top-10 for a keyword that I had worked on and off for some time. Surprising, seeing that it comes from me? No.

Because, in my opinion, this keyword is far more competitive than the standard tough examples as "fat loss" and "acai berry" and "internet marketing". This is a single-word keyword term.

To be honest, what I did is nothing revolutionary either and I know I can improve on this, but still, just wanted to "vent out" my sheer pleasure with this forum and also wanted to contribute.

I'll tell you what I did, even though it was never a focus keyword for me and I'm only at #10 at Google for this one. But let me illustrate the competition first. Each of the others in top-10 are heavily backlinked from a ton of sites, and almost each have tons and tons of spontaneous backlinks from all kinds of great sites (including bunches of spontaneous backlinks from multiple EDU sites). So, imagine the competition.

Page rank of top-9 competitors? (I'm at 10, so not going into mine).

#1: PR 8
#2: PR 8
#3: PR 9
#4: PR 9
Then are image and video results. Then ...
#5: PR 7
#6: PR 5
#7: PR 7
#8: PR 8
#9: PR 9
#10 - My page (now PR 5)

And of course, this is a 1-word keyword. And I have http://www.generic-category-keyword....2/keyword.html as my page.

This makes me pretty pleased - to see that I got into top-10. Competition in double quotes = competition without double quotes = 71 M (oh wait, for a single word keyword this is a different ball-game - I have been #3 with 15-20% of this effort for one of the so-called toughest multi-word keywords that are said to exist, which had 119M search results, and then had shifted focus - so when I say this 71.1M is a different ball-game I know what I am talking about). Even allintitle is a very high number for the single-word keyword, and of course the same for allinurl.

What did I do? As mentioned earlier, I have been on and off on this page. I started a year and half back or maybe a little earlier, when I tried an got some good backlinks by simply mailing other webmasters. My keyword page provides tremendous value. So I had got around 5-6 solid backlinks from these strong pages.

Then, I had used my best outsourcer to create profiles - around 5K links. Also, there were around 200 UAW submissions but I don't suppose that had helped much.

Over time I have written around 8-10 articles, and have syndicated them to a ton of directories (some went to 300+ including top ones like EZA etc, all of them had gone to EZA).

I used a private network for create 500 posts - I knew that was a network to which Google usually responds - typically indexes many of those pages within 2-3 hours only.

I wrote a couple or press releases over time and distributed. Plan to do more.

The social bookmark was an obvious thing to do. But I started slowly and manually marked around 40-50 over a week or maybe a little more (long back, don't remember the exact duration).

Syndicated a screensaver with a backlink to 50-odd sites using a service from a fellow Warrior.

Did not do RSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wanted to but somehow never did it !!!!!!!!!!

Posted to a network of 50 blogs, of which one was PR-6, 16 were PR-5 and many of the rest had good PR too.

Created five-six profile linkwheels, some small ones with 5-6 sites and some larger ones with 10-12 sites.

Created a few web 2.0 properties but could have done more on it. Hope to do that to raise rankings.

Distributed one video if I remember correctly, to a wide network. Maybe two - don't exactly remember.

Got a bunch of edu links - and hope to get another bunch of gov links.

AFAIR that's it - if I remember something more then I shall add to the post (edit it) later.

Why did I do this SEO? Just to practice the art. In terms of monetization, I can think of a few hundred niches off the hat that I am not into, and I could monetize a lot lot more than this one much more easily. So to me it was more of an art for art's sake, and I guess that also explains what made me go on and off rather than staying onto it like a bulldog.

Hope I could help to motivate some of you Warriors !!

Jerky · 08-17-2010, 11:06 AM

Congrats!

Dellco · 08-17-2010, 11:19 AM

How long did it take you to do that? Also, did you check other datacenters? Sometimes from your end it may be 10, but 12 or 13 at other people's screens.

All the same, congrats.

DireStraits · 08-17-2010, 11:34 AM

Congratulations man. What does the traffic look like for your keyword(s) in page 1, position 10?

Hopefully the traffic your keyword attracts can be monetized somehow, and if so, I'm sure you're going to see some wonderful monetary returns from all that effort you've put in.

FredJones · 08-17-2010, 08:58 PM

Thanks everyone !!

The tough part is that I have dropped back to #11 now - lasted at #10 for a few hours only it seems. But hte indications are good and I hope to be back in top 10 soon enough.

The traffic was a little less than expected - that is because I was in top-10 in the USA (pagewash.com) but not in all the countries and this keyword sees distributed traffic all over the world - it is a famous novel on my classic literature website. Yes, apart from the Adsense monetization that is currently happening, I have managed to find a CPA that is not an exact match but a close match, and possibly Amazon for similar ebooks (since this is a piece of literature). The traffic potential for this keyword is tremendous - the EXACT search is two-thirds of a million and the broad search is more than two millions per month - going by Adwords external tool.

I took around a year and half, while working on and off, to reach here. had I prioritized it, I would have made it hopefully in 6-8 months.

seoweb2000 · 08-18-2010, 10:55 AM

Congrats. It is a wondering feeling to be #1, i have some sites there now. The next challenge is keeping them there.

lbtillmanyoung · 08-18-2010, 11:23 AM

Keep up the good work OP. I know the feeling! I have a website that is currently in the same situation as yours. I originally targeted a long-tail version of the word but now I'm actually ranking #12 for the main keyword. I had no intention of ever ranking for the main keyword, but it gets about 100K searches a month and is very competitive. I think that you're hinting on the ultimate SEO strategy which is to slowly work your way from the outside in.

Again,
Kudos.

FredJones · 08-19-2010, 11:06 AM

You are bang spot on - one my the messages of my SEO thing here was indeed that.

And hope you achieve your high rankings too on your main keyword.

In this example of mine, it is also a throughly searched keyword and I believe the #1 rank for this site (a Wikipedia page) gets around 10-12K pageviews every day at least.

Thanks for your motivating words!

Quote:

Originally Posted by lbtillmanyoung

Keep up the good work OP. I know the feeling! I have a website that is currently in the same situation as yours. I originally targeted a long-tail version of the word but now I'm actually ranking #12 for the main keyword. I had no intention of ever ranking for the main keyword, but it gets about 100K searches a month and is very competitive. I think that you're hinting on the ultimate SEO strategy which is to slowly work your way from the outside in.

Again,
Kudos.

08-17-2010, 09:02 AM	#1
FredJones GegeTech Consultants War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,530 Thanks: 235 Thanked 500 Times in 258 Posts Contact Info	I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !! Don't get mislead by the title, I hold multiple #1 rankings and many more page-1 rankings. And some of them are competitive too for sure, in every sense. But... Today I got a tremendous satisfaction to break into a top-10 for a keyword that I had worked on and off for some time. Surprising, seeing that it comes from me? No. Because, in my opinion, this keyword is far more competitive than the standard tough examples as "fat loss" and "acai berry" and "internet marketing". This is a single-word keyword term. To be honest, what I did is nothing revolutionary either and I know I can improve on this, but still, just wanted to "vent out" my sheer pleasure with this forum and also wanted to contribute. I'll tell you what I did, even though it was never a focus keyword for me and I'm only at #10 at Google for this one. But let me illustrate the competition first. Each of the others in top-10 are heavily backlinked from a ton of sites, and almost each have tons and tons of spontaneous backlinks from all kinds of great sites (including bunches of spontaneous backlinks from multiple EDU sites). So, imagine the competition. Page rank of top-9 competitors? (I'm at 10, so not going into mine). #1: PR 8 #2: PR 8 #3: PR 9 #4: PR 9 Then are image and video results. Then ... #5: PR 7 #6: PR 5 #7: PR 7 #8: PR 8 #9: PR 9 #10 - My page (now PR 5) And of course, this is a 1-word keyword. And I have http://www.generic-category-keyword....2/keyword.html as my page. This makes me pretty pleased - to see that I got into top-10. Competition in double quotes = competition without double quotes = 71 M (oh wait, for a single word keyword this is a different ball-game - I have been #3 with 15-20% of this effort for one of the so-called toughest multi-word keywords that are said to exist, which had 119M search results, and then had shifted focus - so when I say this 71.1M is a different ball-game I know what I am talking about). Even allintitle is a very high number for the single-word keyword, and of course the same for allinurl. What did I do? As mentioned earlier, I have been on and off on this page. I started a year and half back or maybe a little earlier, when I tried an got some good backlinks by simply mailing other webmasters. My keyword page provides tremendous value. So I had got around 5-6 solid backlinks from these strong pages. Then, I had used my best outsourcer to create profiles - around 5K links. Also, there were around 200 UAW submissions but I don't suppose that had helped much. Over time I have written around 8-10 articles, and have syndicated them to a ton of directories (some went to 300+ including top ones like EZA etc, all of them had gone to EZA). I used a private network for create 500 posts - I knew that was a network to which Google usually responds - typically indexes many of those pages within 2-3 hours only. I wrote a couple or press releases over time and distributed. Plan to do more. The social bookmark was an obvious thing to do. But I started slowly and manually marked around 40-50 over a week or maybe a little more (long back, don't remember the exact duration). Syndicated a screensaver with a backlink to 50-odd sites using a service from a fellow Warrior. Did not do RSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wanted to but somehow never did it !!!!!!!!!! Posted to a network of 50 blogs, of which one was PR-6, 16 were PR-5 and many of the rest had good PR too. Created five-six profile linkwheels, some small ones with 5-6 sites and some larger ones with 10-12 sites. Created a few web 2.0 properties but could have done more on it. Hope to do that to raise rankings. Distributed one video if I remember correctly, to a wide network. Maybe two - don't exactly remember. Got a bunch of edu links - and hope to get another bunch of gov links. AFAIR that's it - if I remember something more then I shall add to the post (edit it) later. Why did I do this SEO? Just to practice the art. In terms of monetization, I can think of a few hundred niches off the hat that I am not into, and I could monetize a lot lot more than this one much more easily. So to me it was more of an art for art's sake, and I guess that also explains what made me go on and off rather than staying onto it like a bulldog. Hope I could help to motivate some of you Warriors !!
	1. Invest $1. Cut you backlinking by 50%+. Click here. Seduce Google. 2. Find tons of high-commission easy in less than a minute here. 3. War Room release on off-page SEO: Gege Robohop -"Incredible", say Warriors 4. Mindset matters. Look at my last year - nothing to do with IM.

08-17-2010, 08:58 PM	#5
FredJones GegeTech Consultants War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 2,530 Thanks: 235 Thanked 500 Times in 258 Posts Contact Info	Re: I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !! Thanks everyone !! The tough part is that I have dropped back to #11 now - lasted at #10 for a few hours only it seems. But hte indications are good and I hope to be back in top 10 soon enough. The traffic was a little less than expected - that is because I was in top-10 in the USA (pagewash.com) but not in all the countries and this keyword sees distributed traffic all over the world - it is a famous novel on my classic literature website. Yes, apart from the Adsense monetization that is currently happening, I have managed to find a CPA that is not an exact match but a close match, and possibly Amazon for similar ebooks (since this is a piece of literature). The traffic potential for this keyword is tremendous - the EXACT search is two-thirds of a million and the broad search is more than two millions per month - going by Adwords external tool. I took around a year and half, while working on and off, to reach here. had I prioritized it, I would have made it hopefully in 6-8 months.
	1. Invest $1. Cut you backlinking by 50%+. Click here. Seduce Google. 2. Find tons of high-commission easy in less than a minute here. 3. War Room release on off-page SEO: Gege Robohop -"Incredible", say Warriors 4. Mindset matters. Look at my last year - nothing to do with IM.

08-17-2010, 11:06 AM	#2
Jerky Rockin' Roller Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 58 Thanks: 3 Thanked 14 Times in 8 Posts	Re: I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !! Congrats!

08-17-2010, 11:19 AM	#3
Dellco HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 447 Thanks: 33 Thanked 69 Times in 62 Posts	Re: I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !! How long did it take you to do that? Also, did you check other datacenters? Sometimes from your end it may be 10, but 12 or 13 at other people's screens. All the same, congrats.

08-17-2010, 11:34 AM	#4
DireStraits Senior Warrior Member War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Yorkshire, UK Posts: 1,828 Thanks: 653 Thanked 979 Times in 647 Posts	Re: I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !! Congratulations man. What does the traffic look like for your keyword(s) in page 1, position 10? Hopefully the traffic your keyword attracts can be monetized somehow, and if so, I'm sure you're going to see some wonderful monetary returns from all that effort you've put in.

08-18-2010, 10:55 AM	#6
seoweb2000 HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 161 Thanks: 0 Thanked 17 Times in 14 Posts	Re: I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !! Congrats. It is a wondering feeling to be #1, i have some sites there now. The next challenge is keeping them there.

08-18-2010, 11:23 AM	#7
lbtillmanyoung lbtillmanyoung Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Everywhere Posts: 27 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts Contact Info	Re: I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !! Keep up the good work OP. I know the feeling! I have a website that is currently in the same situation as yours. I originally targeted a long-tail version of the word but now I'm actually ranking #12 for the main keyword. I had no intention of ever ranking for the main keyword, but it gets about 100K searches a month and is very competitive. I think that you're hinting on the ultimate SEO strategy which is to slowly work your way from the outside in. Again, Kudos.