I rank #75 for this hot keyword(making money online) after only a few months!

This not a thread to show off or brag. I am posting this thread to get some advice and I am hoping this thread can be a motivation source (no matter how small) for some warriors.



I started my blog around September 2009. I was a total newbie(and still am). To give you an idea of how new I was, when I bought my domain name, I entered the url and went to see my blog, but couldn't see anything. Yes I thought when you buy a domain, you go to your site and the site is already there, you just start adding articles! I was clueless.


So you can imaging at the time that I started my blog, I didn't know anything about ranking, competition, niche and the rest. And of course since I was making money online(just a little) with things like paid surveys, gpt sites and any other way I could, my blog become about making money online.

Fast forward 3 months ahead, and I just learned about niche and how you have to build backlinks and this and that. Then I realized what I have gotten myself into! I was in one of the most (if not the most) competitive niche. I felt pretty stupid!
But, I didn't care. I wasn't even thinking about making money with the blog. Just the though of having my own blog with my own domain was enough to make me happy.

Anyway, I started doing everything I have learned and continue to learn til today. I didn't spend a dollar on buying any tool or advertising (I only bought a $27 software, which is a good tool by the way, but I only used it a few times). I have been out of job for the past 6 months, so I didn't have any money to spend any way.

Everything I did was free and with the knowledge I have gained from you guys. I am telling you this, because we know this niche has many big guys who are spending thousands of dollars on advertising and SEO, so I am hoping that others can see that it is possible to do thing without having to spend money. Although I am still not making much money from my blog to even call even a part time job, but I think with a little more effort I can get there.

Any way, I just kept on learning and applying things I learned from people like you in this and other forums. Fast forward to this evening. Today I checked to see how I rank for few top keywords in "my niche", I didn't think I would be anywhere under the 1000, so I didn't think I would even see my blog. But what you know:

Ranking= #75 keywords= making money online

And I rank around 200 for a few other keywords like "ways to make money" as well.

Now, I know for most of you these numbers are no big whop. And I know these ranking go up and down every day. For me just having my bog listed under 1000 despite thousands of other competitors is enough to keep me motivated and going. So I kind of felt good for coming from sep09 and knowing nothing about SEO(I didn't even know what seo stood for until few months ago, lol) to ranking 75 for one of the most competitive keywords in a few months.


As I said in the beginning, I didn't tell this to brag or to say I accomplished something, as a matter of fact I think my work is just begging. I know that as I move higher and higher, the competition will start noticing me and will wan to push me aside. What can I do to protect myself from going down? Is it best to just do what I am doing(mostly article marketing and building backlinks that way) and work as natural as possible or should I be more aggressive?

I know most of you guys are very experienced and have been in the game for years, so please if you think its not really that big of a deal at all, and that is normal and not anything unexpected, please feel free to let me know. I wont be offended. I would rather know where I exactly stand even if its going to be a bit disappointing. That way I would know that I have to work way harder than this, and hopefully eventually get there.
Any other tip for going higher would be appreciate as well.


I appreciate all warriors for helping me and teaching me things that I could never learn anywhere else, unless I would have spend hundreds of dollars taking classes and paying for a coach or mentor.


Although I know I haven't achieved anything yet, I would be happy if this thread would motivate even one person to keep pushing through.
Thank you.