This Is Why You Shouldn't Give Up

Hey Guy's, I haven't made any new post recently so I Just wanted to take a time out and hopefully drop a little motivation on someone that might need it.

Those of you that know me know that I'm not the biggest fan of SEO. Now just because my primary marketing strategy doesn't involve SEO doesn't mean I don't dip and dab every now and then.

So, about three months ago I was sitting here board out of my mind, so I decided to start a small seo project in the weight loss industry. I did a little (well actually a lot) keyword research but couldn't find an available exact match domain so I just added an the word "new" to the front. The keyword research actually didnt go as good as it normally would have due to a particular tool in my arsenal not being updated any longer but I managed without it.

Once I registered my new domain I used a regular old free wordpress theme that I randomly picked. After setting up the blog with the usually plugins such as, seo pack and google xml sitemaps. I had the sitemap submitted to the top search engines and that was it for preparation. Now that the blog was ready for content I out sourced 60 articles, 2 per day for 30 days. After the third day I had the rss url submitted to as may rss directories as possible and from that point I continued to post 2 articles per day until the 60 articles ordered were depleted.

I had a few social profiles created at places that allow links to my blog on my profile page and that also allow the profile pages to be viewed by the public, EXAMPLE: Twitter, Identi.ca, Linkedin, Myspace and there's tons of others. At this point I went over to fiverr and hired a few of those guys to do so mass backlinking to the profile pages every week or so.

I started this blog 3 months ago and it has now been #1 for it's targeted keyword for over a month now for a highly searched keyword, I'm getting over 800 visits per day. I'm monetizing with pay per call so the conversions are pretty good too.

If anybody understands how hard it is to work your fingers to the bone without based on the advice of people that you don't even know, it's me. The first and second blog I ever created flopped but seeing those blogs flop showed me exactly what I was doing wrong.

My first blog made it to the top for the targeted keyword after over a month of hard work but it didn't have as much traffic as I believed due to bad research. My second blog I simple gave up on because the competition was too heavy, again a result of bad research.

Most of the methods and advice being shared here by fellow warriors do work but if the keyword that your targeting has any value, 9 times out of ten it's going to take your dedication and drive to reach your goal. It's possible, just continue to push. It's not going to happen over night.