#1 for 110,000 Search Keyword! Going for 1.2 mill keyword, Details inside

[JayVance]

I am number #1 for one of my blogs for a very competitive keyword with 110,000 searches and 4.1 million competing sites (exact quotes). It took me about 6 months to achieve this and a lot of hard work.

I wrote articles, press releases, used backlinks from Paul and Angela, a couple guest blog posts, and was able to become friends with others in my niche and jumped on several blog rolls.

I have recently been able to make good money from adsense and clickbank products that are embedded on my blog. It's been a long journey, I've been frustrated, I've thought about giving up on it, but in the end it paid off. Sure I am #1 for many other keywords but they are low comp and much lower searches. I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it and compete with the big dogs.

So to anyone new out there who is looking to get into IM, anything is possible if you develop a plan and work hard at it. There is NO magic bullet.

I have decided to try and go for a very tough keyword in my niche, and no it isn't a money making/IM niche, that has 1.2 million searches and 3.9 competing sites. I think it is going to be brutal since the top 5 are huge sites with hundreds of backlinks but If I can pull it off it will be a serious gold mine.

Some tips I'd like to share that I use,
1. Use Press Releases! I've had one get into google news for huge traffic!
2. Guest Posts can bring serious traffic! (I've had an extra 2000+ visitors in one day)
3. Just a few articles to Ezine or GoArticles can go a long way.
4. Forum Posting in your niche can help build rep and traffic.
5. I've heard others bad mouth using forum profile's for backlinks but they have been a large part of my success.
6. Don't fear making videos, just a couple videos on youtube can send good traffic to your site.

As far as a backlinking strategy, getting your backlinks indexed can be the hardest part of ranking up sites. The method I use is create an RSS feed of all your backlinks and articles (There is many sites where you can make these, I personally use IceRocket) then put that RSS feed into RSS aggregators. I bookmark the RSS feed with social bookmarks then use ping-o-matic on the feed. This will typically get google to index all of my backlinks allowing my sites to rank up quickly.

I hope this information can help others out there trying to rank up sites, I wanted to give back to this forum because I have learned so much here and it has really jump started my entire IM business.

Thank you all.

[Nick Lotter]

Awesome! Thanks for posting this. It just goes to show the value of working consistently on a set plan, and being persistent.

I'm sure all the hard work is paying off nicely for you right now

[Nickolie0990]

Nice work, thanks for sharing.

[JayVance]

Thanks. I think the best moment was when I showed this to my family. They were shocked that I pulled if off.

[Biggy Fat]

Is that 110,000 searches a broad number or exact number? If the latter, congrats. If the former, look at the exact number next time you do your KW research.

[GoodnightSweetRatRace]

Originally Posted by Biggy Fat

Is that 110,000 searches a broad number or exact number? If the latter, congrats. If the former, look at the exact number next time you do your KW research.

What he said.

Assuming your getting around 50% of the traffic, thats around 55,000 searches per month. So you should be getting around 1,800 clicks per day. Does this sound about right OP?

If not you may have looked at the Broad Number instead of exact.

[JayVance]

It's exact, the broad is over a million.

[GoodnightSweetRatRace]

Originally Posted by JayVance

It's exact, the broad is over a million.

Good job mate.

[Kevin Williams]

Weird, I don't remember him saying that he wasn't making good money off of it. Are you guys trying to insinuate that he shouldn't have been able to do this in six months - because that's completely reasonable...

Oh and good job/congratulations

[Biggy Fat]

Originally Posted by JayVance

It's exact, the broad is over a million.

Sweet, then you deserve a good pat on the back for such hard work. You obviously did your homework.

[JayVance]

Originally Posted by GoodnightSweetRatRace

What he said.

Assuming your getting around 50% of the traffic, thats around 55,000 searches per month. So you should be getting around 1,800 clicks per day. Does this sound about right OP?

If not you may have looked at the Broad Number instead of exact.

I've heard wild claims from all ranges on how much traffic you will get from the top spot. I think I read from a google source that 32% of all users will click the first link. Daily traffic from that keyword is usually around 800 to 1200 and occasionally I have noticed some wild fluctuations.

I am planning on writing my own e-book and creating a sign up list for my site. I think that will be the next big key to monetizing this traffic and seeing some huge profits.

[Mike Anthony]

Originally Posted by JayVance

I wrote articles, press releases, used backlinks from Paul and Angela, a couple guest blog posts, and was able to become friends with others in my niche and jumped on several blog rolls.

Nice Mix. Just how I teach to do it. Don't just blast a bunch of forum profiles.

[thomasr]

where do you launch your Press Releases?

[JayVance]

Originally Posted by thomasr

where do you launch your Press Releases?

Here's the sites I use,
bestsyndication dot com
bignews dot biz
free-press-release dot com
i-newswire dot com

About 3 to 4 weeks after my first press releases I found they were being picked up by other websites and auto blogs.

EDIT: Also wanted to add the free-press-release was the first one I used and had the best results with.

[jhonsean]

This informative post is new to me it reminds on how to be more resourceful when it comes to SEO.
I was new to Press Release, Can you post some tips or ways to be more effective in that method?

[LAF Riot]

Thanks for the inspiration and the guide! I am new to this, built one site and have been paying for forum link blasts with little results and it is FRUSTRATING! I realized that I need a plan and will definitely be referring back to this one.