#3 Out Of 195,000,000 competing sites

[TKO]

Anwar, you can get great results with UAW.

Lots of backlinks and you will definintely climb up the ranks in the serps. You don't need both.

If you work UAW by submitting lots of articles, you will definitely be happy with the results.

Also use TheRichJerks.net Authority bookmarking service and you'll be laughing in the serps.

[anwar001]

Thanks for the advice. I intend to try out UAW and submit articles like crazy to them over the next couple of months in order to build backlinks to my site becoz the terms I want to rank for have lots and lots of competition so I will need all the link love that I can get.

Btw, I went to the website therichjerks.net but couldn't find their social bookmarking service mentioned anywhere on the site. Can you help? ... Thanks

[TKO]

Anwar, james is a fellow warrior from therichjerks.net and has a WSO for the authority bookmarking.

To find it, go to the search tab here on the warrior forum and search for Authority bookmarking. Its the first post listed.

Hope this helps.........If I remember correctly his service costs around $9, but the service is fantastic and it really works. Gives you plenty of backlinks and love from the SERps

[FredJones]

Hey TKO, this seems to be a great achievement. Congratulations!

[anwar001]

Originally Posted by TKO

Anwar, james is a fellow warrior from therichjerks.net and has a WSO for the authority bookmarking.

To find it, go to the search tab here on the warrior forum and search for Authority bookmarking. Its the first post listed.

Hope this helps.........If I remember correctly his service costs around $9, but the service is fantastic and it really works. Gives you plenty of backlinks and love from the SERps

Thanks for clearing it out for me. Actually after I asked this question, searched the WF forum for "rich jerk" and did happen to stumble upon the thread you mentioned. So thanks for the trouble in answering my query.

They offer 2 kinds of bookmarking - authority bookmarks and normal bookmarks. Authority bookmarking is where they will bookmark our url using about 5 different accounts. Do I have to go for that service or just the normal bookmarking service is sufficient for search engine love.

[Ron.]

TKO,


can you give the website for UAW? I looked it up online and several UAW's are coming up.

Originally Posted by TKO

For those that have enquired about the programmes I use,

UAW and My ArticleNetwork are great programmes but they do not produce magic.

You still have to work hard to pump out the articles and re-write a portion of them to keep them unique.

The programmes help leverage your hard work, "hard work" being the key.

[anwar001]

It is uniquearticlewizard.com

[Ron.]

Thanks...I finaly got the correect site.

Originally Posted by anwar001

It is uniquearticlewizard.com

[esericsu]

this article is worth more than many seo products. I used these same strategies to rank my websites as well.

Thanks for the post!

[DougHughes]

Thanks for that Thomas. I agree. My experience has been that I get better results when instead of looking for shortcuts I just sit and do the work. Alternatively, I have also had decent luck outsourcing article writing on certain topics.

I have had incredible results by simply trying to provide my readers with value. That means good articles on relevant topics.

[TKO]

Thanks everybody for the kind words.

The key to high levels of traffic is returning visitors. If your niche allows it, try and build a community. Post quality content and post at regular intervals so your audience knows what to expect from your site.

Once you start to rank in the SERPs, you will get unique visitors as long as you maitain your ranking. If you get the majority of these visitors returning you start to benefit from the compounding phenomenon.

For example 1st Month 250 uniques
2nd Month 340 Uniques 65 returning visitors
3rd Month 832 uniques 280 returning visitors
4th Month 1120 uniques 578 returning visitors
5th Month 3200 Uniques 987 returning visitors
6th Month 4112 niques 1494 Returning Visitors
And so on.......

Before you know it, if you provide quality your returning visitors or your audience will grow virtually exponentially.

[searchguru]

Thanks for the amazing share TKO - got a lot of useful information!

searchguru

[cryptone24]

Originally Posted by Steve Crooks

What Loz means is that if you go to Google, click preferences and change the bit that says number of results to 100 and then save the preferences. Type in your keyword, I used "loan" as an example. The number of competing pages returned says 161,000,000.. Now scroll to the bottom of the google page and click on the number 10 to show the tenth page of listings. What you will see when you look at the top of that page is that it is only showing 701 - 794 listings on that page and you can go no further down the listings.

Effectively Google are saying that they have found 161,000,000 pages on the web through it's crawling that mention the word "loan" in that page but due to quality issues and SEO attributes they only think that 794 pages are worthy of being shown in the index.

This is a true indication of the number of sites you have to compete with and in reality Google will only ever have around 800 competing sites for any keyword. However, and this is the real point here, a keyword like marshmallows might have 800 "real" competing pages in Google's index just like the keyword loan does but to break into the top 10 listings (where it counts) for the keyword loan would be a lot lot harder than for the keyword marshmallows.

This is why I always, always look at the level of competition in the top 10 listings as the only yardstick. The number of overall competing pages is a good indicator of how many pages out there are trying but it is the level of competition which is the real deal..

I wonder why this is not used as accurate measurement of competition instead? So many marketers spread the wrong info on checking competition for a given keyword. Does this mean we should be look at competing websites, rather than pages as the real indicator?

[askloz]

well, it is websites, but before all the analysis of using those search functions, it's "pages", but after you've done it, it's then "websites" since google has removed all the pages a single site has that has different rankings for that phrase, and leaves the highest one to count as the competing site.

[truepers]

Writing as someone who just launched his first website recently, the temptation of signing up for quick high PR backlink subscriptions can derail you from your track if you're not careful.

(Not condemning the recent backlinking WSOs, but it's clear that even good ideas can be abused and rendered counter-productive in a short period of time.)

So it's helpful to be reminded that if we want good results, we have to earn them the old fashioned way - by working hard and providing value. Darn...

Thomas, thanks for sharing your experience and the tools/tactics you use.

Not having read your blog, I can see why people would find it a good place to visit - you're tone is humble and respectful, but passionate too. A nice combination. And being able to write value-rich content in good, clear English sure doesn't hurt.