#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.

[nostih]

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

[nostih]

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.

[JanisP]

This was a great article with good, solid advice. Thank you for taking the time to share with your fellow Warriors.

[turbohips]

Just wondering if creating multiple accounts and ranking up your own lens, bookmark etc. will actually help speed up the process. I suppose if you create additional accounts then you might want to have an IP switcher to make a small footprint. You said only having 10 people/accounts do this will help speed things up right? Your thoughts?

[TKO]

In terms of bookmarking, I don't have multiple accounts.

Instead I've spent some time on Propeller, Digg and Mixx and built a presence. On each site I have approximately 200-300 friends. When I submit a post, I send the link to my friends. About 15% of my friends who see it will "prop it", "digg it" and "mixx it".

Most of my posts get to the front page of propeller and mixx and then the rest is up to the public. But the post gets a lot of exposure. If you provide quality information, 250 votes is very achievable.

Most posts on these sites get around 50-125 votes. The traffic the site gets is not targetted by any stretch of the imagination.

However,

Google recognises these votes as backlinks. After a little experimenting and the use of googles webmaster tool to check, it seems I have internal pages on my blog with over 200 backlinks.

Guess what? I never did any backlinking to these pages. When checking the backlinks using Webmasters tool, all the backlinks are from digg, propeller and mixx. Not only that, these pages have a PR of 2-3 when the whole site has a PR3 that I've worked my arse off trying to get.

Everyone lately has been complaining about digg and the nofollow attribute, who cares. Google are still recognising these backlinks.

Test for yourself and make your own decisions. Posts that have done well on Digg, dominate the serps for long tail keywords. The more people suggesting that digg is dead, the better for me.

The strategy I've used for social bookmarking at the start is this,

Submitted my own work to various bookmarking sites.

Identified which sites actually gave me results.

Used James "the richjerksnet" bookmarking service. Best value in town by miles and is a great warrior.

Built a presence on the sites which gave me results. (digg,propeller,mixx)

Added over 200 friends on each site and provided quality content.

By providing quality and building a presence I'm recieving 200-300 backlinks to internal pages without even lifting a finger, auto-pilot baby.

Once you submit a post, share the link with your newly added friends. They will vote it up. Remeber to return the favor.

Hope this helps warriors.....I am by no means an SEO expert, this is simply what works for me. I've tested it....

Have a great day, if this helps please use the thank you button..

Thomas

[jejaka]

your post is very inspiring... thanks a lot

[InternetMarketingIQ]

There are not 195 million competing sites.

[jacksonlin]

Yes, I use MyArticleNetwork (AKA Article Marketing Automation) alongside with UAW.


These two things work wonders.

Try it yourself. Wait a few months and just suddenly appear on the first page of Google!

[livinglife247]

I also use UAW it works really good and gets you lots of back links.

here is a tip when using UAW....

After an article is done being submitted to all the sites on its system you can go in your article section and click on the article title. when you do this UAW will display your article.

Now...

hit the back button then click on the article title again. You will then get a BRAND NEW ARTICLE.

If you take the first article and the second artilce they are normally at least 30-40% unique when you put them in Dupe Cop Pro/checks uniqueness of content.

If you keep doing this you will keep getting unique articles. Get a list of 100 article directories with at least a pr 4 + and submit a *unique article* to each directory.

200 back links! always have one link to home and one to subpage

This is what i would do and it works great!

do this for 5 articles at a time, each article targeting a different *Long tail keyword*

now you should have 1 link in each article you post go to a EZINE article and then second link rotate between home page and subpage.

5 articles + 100 directories = Possible 1,000 links > 100 links per ezine article and 250 links to homepage and 250 links to subpage

(this is not counting all the links you will be getting for UAW itself)

If you do this you should at least be able to rank all 5 ezine articles if you do not rank your home page.

Then all your ezine articles will PASS LOTS OF LINK JUICE TO YOUR SITE because they have lots of back links

All this is one method to get back links just using UAW!

give at least a week for the everything to get indexed and time for
People that are accepting articles through UAW to post your articles to their websites or blogs

hope all this was understandable

[cg101]

Very nice job ! and yeah that sound about right lol.. But to everyone else, there are all kinds of different strategies that can be used to achieve top results.. this is just one.. and again not all niches are so hard to crack either so bear that in mind as you work your way up the SE ladder

Originally Posted by TKO

Having been part of this forum for a while I'd like to offer something back.

By no means is this a secret, magic or anything else that games the system.

This involves alot of sweat and tears and alot of elbow grease. But if you are willing to replicate this, you can dominate any niche. That's right any niche!

If you take the long term approach, you can climb even the biggest mountain. I hear alot of warriors saying, go for the low hanging fruit, long tail keywords and so on. Why! If you are willing to work, write about your passion or something that inspires you if its profitable.

This is what I have done to date (duration so far 8 months)

1. Content, but not just any bull****, real original content that looks to inspire, teach, educate and touch the emotions. You want to build a community with plenty of returning visitors. The more pages you have google index, the more love you will recieve and the higher PR value your site will recieve.

2. Once you have a decent amount of content ( I did this after 10 posts), pay one of those services to submit your site to the directories. I know many warriors will argue that this is no longer practible or viable, but I did it anyway. I'm not preaching any method just explaining what I did. The service I used was SubmitEdge and the job they did was fantastic.

3. Submitted articles to Ezine and a handful of other directories. There is plenty of information here on the forum so I'm not going to explain the ins and outs of article marketing. (I read & listened to Tim G, Steve Wags, Andrew Hansen, Josh Spaulding & Allen Graves) Learn't alot and could never repay this guys for the information they provide.

4. Built my own little network around the main site. Squidoo and other web 2.0 sites and worked on them to increase their presence in the Serps. After a while the PR goodness and juices start to flow to your site. The backlinks that I've found to work best are within the posts. Links within posts from relevant sites are the backlinks you should chase.

5. Joined Unique Article Wizard and went on an article writting spree and submitted like crazy. Set each article to 50 submissions a day and never got sandboxed. Result, not alot of traffic, but a **** load of backlinks.

6. Joined Matt Callen's MyArticleNetwork and proceeded to write and submit articles. This service is by far the best because it allows you to add 3 backlinks within the article you write, which inevitably end up on a blog network of over 10,000 blogs. For me this has been a real winner, backlinks and a decent amount of traffic. Not only that, my blog authority since joining this service has skyrocketed and technorati is now showing me some love.

7. While all this was going on, I still added content to my blog. Original posts, the best content I could possibly write. Post length average is about 1,000 words. I'm not writting for the sake of writting or rewritting rubbish. Great Content, so the visitors that find my site are returning visitors. ( trust me returning visitors has a snowball effect)

8. Social Bookmark the **** out of your articles, network and main site. This has worked well for me. My Digg account has over 1,000 friends, once i submit something new, share it. Get them to vote it up. My propeller account has over 60 friends, but gooood friends. Once I share my posts with these guys, they prop up my article and guarantees me first page status with a dofollow backlink from a PR8. Sitting on the front page gives me an avalanche of traffic (not targetted I know, but traffic isn't my objective for this) Certain posts from these sites dominate the serps during the madness. Once they settle, this juice is passed on to my main site. Tip: If you can get 10 props from Propeller in a short period of time, you will get front page status and all the juice your site can handle.

9. If you follow the above, your network by now will have acquired some love from the serps and the PR of your network will have increased. Breaking news within your niche, no problem, write a post about it using the exact keywords, and like magic, your on top of the hill for that keyword.

10. As your site grows, its always a good idea to interlink your site. Certain keywords you want to rank for, use them as anchor links within your posts to other relevent posts on your blog. Trust me it helps and for some reason Yahoo loves it.

11. Started Outsourcing- Once you gain momentum you want to lift the bar.

Services used- Kathleen a fellow warrior started writting articles for me.
Another warrior started to write my UAW articles for submission.
James from the RichJerks.net(warrior also) further social bookmarked my site using his service called the authority bookmark. Can't recommend this service enough. Quick, proof of work and guess what, it F&^%ing works like a treat.

12. Continued to write posts for my site with the bots visiting daily now. Good times.

13. Guest posts on relevant Authority blogs. Once you start to dominate the serps other bloggers and site owners start to knock on your door. This is an excellent way to network. I've done several guest posts on the condition that I could have 2 backlinks within the posts. No problems. This is gold. Find the authority sites in your niche and write a few posts for them. Remeber backlinks within the posts.

14. Fast forward till now (after 8 months) I no longer worry about backlinks. Others link to my site. As long as I continue to write and update the site, I've managed to stay on the first page of google. It fluctuates between #3 and 9# out of 195,000,000 sites and I just keep adding content.

15. End result, traffic, traffic, traffic. Not just any traffic, targetted traffic.

16. The keyword I rank for has 19 million searches a month. Uniques are always climbing. But the returning visitors are the key. It snowballs every single month when I go over the stats from google Analytics.

Hope this helps or even inspires you to finally write about something you love. If your passion has alot of competition, so fu^&*ing what. Work and in a years time you will reap the rewards.

If you have any questions, shoot away I'm happy to answer or clarify things. If this is common knowledge I apologise in advance.

Before I go, On site SEO, why bother to learn it. There are plenty of themes that are optimised already for you. If you're going to worry about anything, worry about great content and more pages for google to index.

Love to hear your comments......Thomas

[stradafee]

So you recommend doing both Unique Article Wizard and My Article Network?

[TKO]

I've used both and was extremely happy with the service. At the moment UAW have revamped the service and offer a 7 day free trial so check it out before you purchase.

Every warrior and every situation is different. Would I recommend them? Yes.

Are they suitable for you, only you can decide this.

Thomas

[stradafee]

I cannot seem to find the social bookmarking plan by richjerks. do you know of any other source?

[TKO]

It's not a plan, its a service James provides. His profile name is therichjerks.net and he will bookmark your URL/s.

He has a WSO for this service. Look it up, you can't go wrong.

Thomas

[bryrho]

Thanks TKO, it's nice to read a proper post with useful information.

How long did it take for myarticlenetwork's links to actually count towards your seo?

[TKO]

Difficult to say because I was doing some serious backlinking. Where the juice or SEO benefit came from, I couldn't dissect that accurately.

But what I'd like to add is this, MyArticleNetwork works because my blog was receiving about 20-25 (on average) pings from the blogs that are in the network. Every time I posted a new article in the system, the pings were insane.

Another positive, once your blog receives a ping, you can trace the site linking to you. Then bookmark it using digg,propeller and mixx and your network grows and over time these links will be very powerful.

[Mellinge]

Great thread TKO.

Some fantastic results here and just imagine when monetized!!

I am researching some of the best threads on WF and have bookmarked yours to keep coming back to.

I have had a domain and plan for nearly a year now and I am just about to get it moving so will start with some of your techniques and will hopefully be page 1 within 3 months for a few of my keywords (not mega competitive but will still no doubt be a bit of a challenge)!!

Thanks again!!

[imwarrior84]

Wow this is what I call quality post, amazing! You are right about quality content is the king...