Number One on google with 12 million competing sites

It's stories like this that inspire others.

When you work hard enough, you can get what you are trying to achieve. No goal is impossible.

It must depend where you search from - when I do that search (with quotes) it only returns under 14,000 pages and you're not in the top 10.

I did a search on google.com for press release writer without quotes and you show up #1 for me!! Congrats, that is a great success story

Thank you! I didn't even really aspire to those kind of results when I created my website - I just wanted to have a website so I could market my press release writing services.

The same thing holds true for an adsense site that I recently sold. It was in a super competitive niche and when I checked out my competition three years ago, when I first created the site, I was sure I would never rank for it. Then I wrote a bunch of articles on ezinearticles, wrote a bunch of blog posts on the site...and eventually got to page one on Google for a number of keyword phrases I wanted.

And I started making money from that site within a month or two of writing those articles and linking back to it from article directories. It was having good content that got me started.

The number one takeaway here is quality content. And number two is, patience.

I see a lot of people who put up sites filled with incomprehensible spun PLR, and then they're angry and frustrated because they haven't started making thousands of dollars within a month or two. Nothing in life is that easy, unfortunately. I'll say it again - time and quality content.

I assure you that WHATEVER niche you are trying to crack, if you start today, write great articles on your website - and they don't have to be more then a couple of hundred words each - and you link to your website from other sites like article directories and online press releases and forums - you WILL eventually get excellent search engine positioning - because most of your competition isn't as good as you, and because they give up and go home.

And by the way, being no. 1 on Google gets me a lot of inquiries, many of which turn into paying customers who buy press releases from me at $150 per press release. So it's all been worth it.

Dana:

Great job! Glad to see you've hit #1, you deserve it. I refer folks to your site all of the time.

With google (and adsense) you need time. Nothing happens in a few months. You need at least 2 years to be able to have a decent ammount from adsense.

Of cource the above stands if you have a good website and work with it.

Fantastic! More people need to hear that working hard and smart pays off! How are you handling the increased traffic and work requests?

Congratualtions Dana! It's threads like this that can inspire and show others what effort, time and patience can do for your business.

I loved reading this. As many have said.. "very inspiring!" Congrats, Dana!
Amy

Dana,
After reading your post, I started searching to see if my newest website was showing up for any major keywords yet (It's #1 for many long tail keywords).

My site (web-design101.com) is 2 days away from being only 1 month old and I'm page 2 (#15 overall) for the term Web Design 101... not using quotes! (Alexa Rank = 461,951) Not too bad for over 9,000,000 results I think! Especially considering I have not even started a back-linking campaign of any kind so I currently have 0.

Also, to those reading about Dana's outstanding success (and getting to #1 for any decent keywords is a great success), remember that when your PAGES are competing against other pages (not sites, pages -- Google doesn't rank sites, it ranks pages) your only actual competition is the top 10.

If you're ranked at all, the most number of pages you're competing against is 999. So don't be afraid of the "number". Competition should be evaluated on quality, not quantity, and it is Dana's quality that helped her get to the top spot.

well done!



what was your link building strategy? i'm sure your quality content helped with natural link baiting but were there any other techniques involved?

article submissions? anything?

thanks!

Have you checked how many exact match searches are done each month for your keyword phrase? How long did it take you to hit the top 10 and then #1?

Congrats Dana,it really worth it,jurt that everyone is not been patient enough to see resuits,all want immediate cash.But to ask,how do you get that kind of 22,000 twitter follower?

Nice work Dana! How long did it take to build up that many followers?

Congratulations on the #1 spot!
Roughly how much traffic are you getting each day for the keyword phrase "press release writer"?