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Should I try this keyword?

by havefunandlive
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Alright, so I've found a keyword that must have fallen under the radar.

1. It's sort of a desperate buyers market, I would imagine (not any sort of matter of life and death, though.)

2. None of the people on page 1 of this serp are actual competitors or internet marketers, but there's a lot of money being invested on adwords for it.

3. Market Samurai gives me an estimate of 167 people per day if I get to the #1 spot for this term

4. There are 4 pages in total on the front page with a PR of 0

5. All of the people on the front SERP of this term have pretty low backlinks, all of which I'm sure I could beat in a single day.

6. it's for a product that has a very high conversion rate.

Now, on paper this term seems pretty good, but I'm a little hesitant to try it.

With my last term and niche, the keyword for it seemed pretty good as well, with an estimate of 259 people for the page on #1, and a couple of PR0 pages with very little backlinks on the front page.

I consistently backlinked my articlesbase article almost every day so it would hit the front page at the very least, but it would never actually make it to page 1. Right now, it still sits on #11 for the term, even though it has more backlinks, was on a consistent backlinking schedule, had a pr6 backlink (none of the other pages on the front page had anything like this. In fact, most of them had N/A backlinks), and of course, was on established domain articlesbase.com, that had a PR of 7.

Because of that, I decided to switch gears, and try to get for a lot of terms with 50 or so searches a day for #1 and see if I could make the numbers add up, but I found this term and I'm not sure if I want to invest the time. I don't want to invest all of the time I could be using to get articles on #1 for easy terms for this term that could just be another deceiving keyword.

What are your thoughts? Should I go for it? Or should I just go ahead with the other plan I had to make a lot of articles for smaller searches?
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
    you dont just want article sites.. here is a little tip..

    1) goto google and set the advanced search to top 30
    2) check if any of the following web 2.0 sites are present in that list
    - zimbio
    - weebly
    - hubpages
    3) if not then create an account on those sites and put a site up with 1/2 links back to your site and article. ie.. 1 to article and 1 to your site
    4) add some content etc (make it unique content for hub pages)
    5) socially bookmark the pages on digg / propeller / stumble etc
    6) create an rss feed of the bookmarks and site urls.
    7) submit the rss feed

    This way you will give power to your article sites and also rank from the other sites as well.. and take more than 1 spot in the top #10.
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    • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
      Originally Posted by TrafficMystic View Post

      you dont just want article sites.. here is a little tip..

      1) goto google and set the advanced search to top 30
      2) check if any of the following web 2.0 sites are present in that list
      - zimbio
      - weebly
      - hubpages
      Hmm... this keyword looks better and better all the time. It doesn't have any of those in the top 30.

      3) if not then create an account on those sites and put a site up with 1/2 links back to your site and article. ie.. 1 to article and 1 to your site
      4) add some content etc (make it unique content for hub pages)
      5) socially bookmark the pages on digg / propeller / stumble etc
      6) create an rss feed of the bookmarks and site urls.
      7) submit the rss feed

      This way you will give power to your article sites and also rank from the other sites as well.. and take more than 1 spot in the top #10.
      Solid plan!

      1 link back to my main article that I want to rank and 1 backlink for my site.

      When you say "site" do you mean I should make a website centered around this term, as well, or did you mean my affiliate link?
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  • Profile picture of the author learningstuff
    Originally Posted by havefunandlive View Post

    I consistently backlinked my articlesbase article almost every day so it would hit the front page at the very least, but it would never actually make it to page 1. Right now, it still sits on #11 for the term, even though it has more backlinks, was on a consistent backlinking schedule, had a pr6 backlink (none of the other pages on the front page had anything like this. In fact, most of them had N/A backlinks), and of course, was on established domain articlesbase.com, that had a PR of 7.
    Articlebase gives you nofollow links, so I don't think that would help much to improve your rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author havefunandlive
      Originally Posted by learningstuff View Post

      Articlebase gives you nofollow links, so I don't think that would help much to improve your rankings.
      It was the articlesbase article itself I was trying to rank. I'm doing article marketing with clickbank products.
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