I owned the 1st page in less than 3 days!

I agree it is old hat for many here and they probably do it all the time. But it is new for me in some ways. From domain registration to top of the heap for a big service in my locale in less than 72 hours.

And there seems to be an open market for selling the site but that remains to be seen. The niche I built the site for is big business in this area but seemingly no online competition.

@lastwarrior Optimization of the sites tags, keyword rich content etc. Not the title tag specifically but general optimization for the site. The keywords are nothing obscure but the best keywords for a mainstream business in my area. And a YT video helped.

What I have to remember though is not everyone is so "unimpressed" as warriors who do this for a living. Some are very impressed when you can do this if they have no knowledge of how it is done.

Thats the selling point. Every "Joe business owner" hears the term "first page of Google" but has no comprehension of the details. The business owners brother or somebody built a site for him years ago and it never ranks and he doesn't know why.

Show him you can put him first page and he is likely impressed.

Yes, that is an honest straight forward reply of the situation, the way I see it too. It doesn't take much to rank at the top of a local search market because you're dealing with a smaller less competitive market. Try top 3 results for a keyword like golfing, iPhone, internet marketing on a national or global scale and that is a big challenge because now you're playing with the big boys and girls pulling out their full repertoire of skills, with some of them hiring additional pros to foster their own efforts. In local marketing, throw in some geo keywords, a keyword title tag, some <h1> SEO and do general on-page SEO and you're in like Flynn. When you get to a bigger city, like Chicago, then the challenge gets tougher than a city like Buzzard Breath Wyoming.

LastWarrior

Congratulations !
How can you rank for multiple keywords ?
Would you like to share ?

Thanks,

I assume that was aimed towards me, but in reality, I wasn't be negative at all. I said congrats, and I gave advice that he should continue to work at it because things aren't always as they seem. Unless you were referring to LastWarrior, which he wasn't being negative either.

Yes, it is good he actually did something instead of just read about it. However, some of us who have been in the game long enough know how it is to be naive and new to things. Our "pats on the back" and "high-fives" are a bit limited in a lot of things, not because we're cynical or negative, but because we know the ropes, and know not everything is the way it seems.

In no way was I discouraging the OP, I in fact, encourage him to keep working on it, because 50% of the time a new site can rank extremely well even for a couple months then take a major dip because people think what they did is enough.

And I still can't believe the ineptness of some people's lack of ability to
comprehend the written word, but to instead derive some convoluted
contrived perception that is obviously not what was said nor meant by
the said words... and to alternately manufacture a whole new meaning
no way resembling the original document.

LastWarrior

You could do what most people do... go into google adwords, use the keyword tool and type in some keywords, whatever you can think of, and see the traffic. Not a fool proof way, but it works. Other than that, SEM rush is a tool I have grown very fond of.

Sorry I forgot to answer this one.

When using the tools I recommended, you will find amazing gems that no one is using and its all for the picking. Everyone is fighting over the 100 or so keywords spit out of the dinosaur keyword tool. While we get to dominate all the hidden search phrases.

You said you don't use any form of the adword tool... but now that you don't deny using the Google API, you admit that you do use it because it ties into every program that uses the API. Anyway, not really important anyway. Enjoy your nap.

Interesting discussion going about about the Google keyword tool.

I use it for all my local clients because it will give me an idea what is being searched for across the UK in any niche then all I have to do is put the name of the city or town at the end "oak furniture London" ... then I set up a local Google Adwords campaign for the client and get the actual data through the Google campaign.

Once I see how many impressions each keyword is getting locally I know which keywords to focus on for the client.

Yeah, reveal some details man, let us learn some tricks, since you pick it up here, please...