Page 5 out of 1.5 million results after 4 days...

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Hey guys,

I wanted to share a little story... to some it may not seem a big deal... to others it may seem the turning point in your online journey...

Four days ago I was messing around with the adwords keyword tool whilst eating my cereal... I found a nice keyword term that gets around 70,000+ searches a month and after checking out the competition I thought there was a slim chance I could rank well for the keyword. (the TOP three competition are authority sites like about.com so i'll need to work extremely hard to outrank them!)

Now, the thing is, I don't have any time to build another linking campaign to this site... I just registered the exact keyword.com domain name, installed wordpress and configured a static homepage.

I wrote a 600+ word article optimized for the main keyword and installed "All In One SEO" and optimized that as well.

I installed "XML Sitemaps" plugin and changed my permalink structure to "sitename.com/postname"

I also wrote five 300-400 word articles on other popular topics around my main keyword.

Once my site was indexed, I simply left a comment on three blogs in my niche with anchor text being my main keyword.

I then took three of the five articles I wrote and put them on Goarticles with the anchor text in my bio containing my keyword.

That's it. Four days later and I'm on page 5 out of 1.5 million results for a keyword that is searched over 70,000 times a month.

Although I didn't have time to dedicate to this site I am going to sure as hell find some and get more backlinks with a view to getting up to page one in a month or so.

You see, sometimes people overcomplicate this SEO business. You see questions like "My site is no where to be seen" or "I'm on page 20 after 6 months" type things.

Well, there is proof that all you need to do is;

1. Find a keyword that gets 50,000+ searches a month.
2. Regsiter the EXACT keyword phrase as a domain (.com is possible)
3. Set up your wordpress blog and optimized a static homepage for that keyword.
4. Add "All In One SEO", "XML Sitemaps" and change your permalinks structure.
4. Add a few more articles to beef up your site.
5. Get as many links back as you can.

It really is simple.

If you do this and don't see a climb in your rankings them it's obvious Big G fnds something about your site that is not relevant to the keyword.

Hope that helps at least someone... back to getting more links for this site it is!

JM
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  • Profile picture of the author StephenJJackson
    I am definitely going to give this a try. Thanks for the great post.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    You mean Page 5 out of 100

    Google only returns 1,000 results for any search query. At the default 10 results per page, that is 100 pages. Most searches return less that 1,000 results. Ignore that big impressive results number google throws out, it's meaningless.

    The fatal flaw with your whole premise: You're ignoring the competition at the top.

    The 50's... might as well be the 500's. The top 10 is where the action is.

    By ignoring the competition you may be putting a lot of time and effort into a site that'll never rank past a certain point.

    Some food for thought.
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    • Profile picture of the author J.M.Wilson
      Originally Posted by jasonmorgan View Post

      You mean Page 5 out of 100

      Google only returns 1,000 results for any search query. At the default 10 results per page, that is 100 pages. Most searches return less that 1,000 results. Ignore that big impressive results number google throws out, it's meaningless.

      The fatal flaw with your whole premise: You're ignoring the competition at the top.

      The 50's... might as well be the 500's. The top 10 is where the action is.

      By ignoring the competition you may be putting a lot of time and effort into a site that'll never rank past a certain point.

      Some food for thought.
      Indeed. I've got sites ranking in the top ten in many different markets. I spent a lot of time on thsoe though.

      This one took me around 2 hours all in.

      I was just trying to point out that it's very easy to get ranked in search engines and not have to deal with your site "being no where to be seen" or "stuck in the doldrums"

      And I've not ignored the competition. Did you not see I wrote that I researched them? I know what I need to do to outrank them... apart from the top three as I can't ever seem to outrank sites like about.com or ehow.com for anything.

      Thanks for the input!
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  • Profile picture of the author seoindiaforu
    IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT YOU WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET A "DOMAIN" SIMILAR TO YOUR "KEYWORD".
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Thanks for the encouragement but I would say you were lucky! Lately I have been building this sort of site, all the same kind of criteria (I am not an SEO noob by any means) and I would say it is rare for this to happen, and I put that down to some Google tweak that reduced the ranking value of EMDs. That 'trick' worked great until the whole Xfactor thing but now just doesn't seem as effective. Sure the domain wasn't registered before? I had this exact effect with a 'previously enjoyed' EMD and after a while it slipped off page one.
    Not to downplay your success, but you have to be realistic...
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