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NO BACKLINKS! How I Got The #1 Listing in Google for a 3 Million Results Keyword Phrase.

by Jimian
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Hey Offline Warriors...

Ok...the key word phrase: offline marketing strategies

(Site offlinemarketingstrategies dot net)

[offline marketing strategies] WITHOUT " " quotes = 547,000 results.

Now here's the weird part... WITH quotes = 3,260,000 results.

Typically, when you ADD " " quotes to a phrase, the number of search results go DOWN.

But not with this keyword phrase. (Would anyone want to explain WHY)

Now, how did I get it to #1 -- WITH NO BACKLINKS! (I'm looking for 3 answers.)

I'm taking what I learned from this simple example and ranking websites first-page
on Google for local busnesses. (Will explain more later.)
#backlinks #google #listing #million #phrase #results
  • Profile picture of the author Mike Grant
    I'd guess the EMD + visitor/click activity.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jimian
      Originally Posted by mgtarheels View Post

      I'd guess the EMD + visitor/click activity.
      Exact Match Domain is one reason...
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      • Profile picture of the author MRomeo09
        Basically because no one really is going after this keyword phrase.

        Do the search for allintitle and you have roughly 13 people with that as the title of their page.

        I don't really believe the allinanchor results.

        So my answer is basically no one else really wants it.

        So if that's the case, all you have to do is three things(as your blog post attests).

        Get the keywords in the domain name.
        Get the keywords in the Title Tag.
        Get the keywords in an H1 Tag.

        Anyone can rank 1 phrase that way. But what happens if you mismatch plural/singular, position of the words, etc? "offline marketing strategy" isn't in Top 100.

        Plus finally "offline" really is a made up term, it's only used here on WF. If you go into a plumbers office and tell them you specialize in offline marketing, he's going to look at you like you're an idiot. It's not descriptive of what we really do. We're really Internet Marketing Small Business Experts, or something like that.

        Do I win?
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        • Profile picture of the author Jimian
          Originally Posted by MRomeo09 View Post

          Basically because no one really is going after this keyword phrase.

          Do the search for allintitle and you have roughly 13 people with that as the title of their page.

          I don't really believe the allinanchor results.

          So my answer is basically no one else really wants it.

          So if that's the case, all you have to do is three things(as your blog post attests).

          Get the keywords in the domain name.
          Get the keywords in the Title Tag.
          Get the keywords in an H1 Tag.

          Anyone can rank 1 phrase that way. But what happens if you mismatch plural/singular, position of the words, etc? "offline marketing strategy" isn't in Top 100.

          Plus finally "offline" really is a made up term, it's only used here on WF. If you go into a plumbers office and tell them you specialize in offline marketing, he's going to look at you like you're an idiot. It's not descriptive of what we really do. We're really Internet Marketing Small Business Experts, or something like that.

          Do I win?
          NOPE.

          Nobody is interested? Would Google's search engine make it available, if there was no interest in it? (see below)



          "offline marketing strategy" isn't in Top 100. .... True, that's why i chose 'offline marketing strategies'

          "Plus finally "offline" really is a made up term, it's only used here on WF.'

          true, the outside world doesn't use that term but again, this is an example... however, you can use the same principle for in-demand keyword phrases.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Grant
    Ok. Just looked at it.

    You used your own domain for wordpress.com. I'm pretty sure it creates a redirect of the one you created for wordpress.com to your OFFLINE Marketing Strategies | Local OFFLINE Consultants | Marketing For The Offline Consulting Pro so you're harnessing wordpress.com backlinks.

    Btw, you have 23 backlinks now, hooray!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Grant
    301s from other websites? Your site has 6 IPs lol
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  • Profile picture of the author jrod014
    One reason is the term is not that competitive. If you search with the following operators

    intitle:"offline marketing strategies" inurl:"offline marketing strategies"

    you get a little more than 4k competing websites.

    A decently optimized website can rank well especially if it's a relatively new site because of QDF or "Query deserves freshness".

    Matt cutts explains this here.



    If you don't mind me asking, how new is your site?

    Jerry
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  • Profile picture of the author jrod014
    Also, could it be that your name servers are from wordpress.com??

    .....................interesting.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jimian
    I got it May 2010... I love the comments. It's because it's "NEW"... "(Query deserves freshness")..and, it's because it's "OLD".

    It's been #1 before ANY backlinks for like 6 months.

    Basically, I think it's because
    1) The muscle of WordPress
    2)Get the keywords in the domain name.
    3)Get the keywords in the Title Tag.
    4)Get the keywords in an H1 Tag.

    MRomeo09 was right...but not about the lack of "interest")

    Point being, even with an UGLY blog -- given the right domain name in a not to competitive market -- you too should be able to do it. (Why pick a super-competitive market?)

    It's the old saying, "You want to be a BIG fish in a SMALL pond."

    - Jeff Paul (...and then leap from pond to pond to pond. -Dan Kennedy)
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