Are some niches too hard for SEO?

laganja

13 years ago

you are probably doing it wrong . unless you picked credit cards or loans which are impossible.

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brandony 13 years ago

I agree with laganja...may have chosen wrong niche/kw's, but probably not doing it right...
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Mike Hlatky

13 years ago

If you have been promoting for 6 months and you haven't seen any results, you are either doing something, or not doing enough.

You should see vast improvement if you have been working hard for 6 months.

Could you be more specific to exactly what strategy you are using?

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Lilwarrior 13 years ago

I have a blog on my website, and I choose a different keyword for each post. I have set up a facebook and twitter account, and I notify there whenever a new post has been made.

All the content is unique, I send traffic from forums and a little from blogs (since I cannot seem to find any bloggers willing to give you a chance to comment if you have a website URL in this niche)

Any advice?
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CBMoneymachine

13 years ago

No niche is too hard for SEO. A tough niche simply needs more work and more hours spent on it. If you are in a very competitive niche then you need to make sure that you have a game plan written out before you start. You need to know which keywords (10 or so) that you are targeting. You need to see who your competitors are for those keywords & then you need to start link building. Every 2 weeks or so you should update a spreadsheet with your sites position in the big 3 search engines for each keyword you are targeting. Keep a list of all the links you are getting and this should give you an idea of how things are progressing and where your link building efforts need to be focused.

No niche is unbeatable, they just take time & lots of effort to crack.

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Jack Duncan

13 years ago

Lilwarrior,
Can you give an idea of the general market that you are talking about?

Also, you mentioned that you see no results...how many of the results are you scanning...?

Is there any chance that your site has been banned?

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Lilwarrior

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Jack Duncan

Lilwarrior,
Can you give an idea of the general market that you are talking about?

Also, you mentioned that you see no results...how many of the results are you scanning...?

Is there any chance that your site has been banned?

It is a competitive niche, although nothing as competitive as credit cards or loans...

I do get very little traffic from Google so I just assume it means I am not banned, but I try to rank for long tail keywords, and not the 5-10 main niche keywords.

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anuj291

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Lilwarrior

It is a competitive niche, although nothing as competitive as credit cards or loans...

I do get very little traffic from Google so I just assume it means I am not banned, but I try to rank for long tail keywords, and not the 5-10 main niche keywords.

I think you should try and post new content mor eoften on your blog (if you ar enot doing that already) -- stay focused on a few keywords -- if you have 20 keywords and 20 articles each for a different keyword then you will not rank for any of the keywords.

Its better to first focus on some main keywords and then once you see some results you can start focusing on others.

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Michael Shook 13 years ago

I don't know if there are any niches that are too hard for SEO, but it might cost you more in time spent than you get back in return. I don't know that because I do not know your niche, but that is possible.
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beachhappy

13 years ago

I tried to rank a website for credit cards once. It took about 1.5 years for google to rank me on the front page for my exact domain name and I had the dot com.

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Lilwarrior

13 years ago

anuj291 - But if I post 20 articles for 1 keyword, they will compete with one another, isn't it better to link from every new page to one single page that has this keyword?

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Clint Butler

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Lilwarrior

I have a blog on my website, and I choose a different keyword for each post. I have set up a Facebook and twitter account, and I notify there whenever a new post has been made.

All the content is unique, I send traffic from forums and a little from blogs (since I cannot seem to find any bloggers willing to give you a chance to comment if you have a website URL in this niche)

Any advice?

One quick suggestion, I used the same theory, different related long tail keywords for each POST. And I was having the same problem getting ranked, and my site was in an easy niche. NOW i use the PAGES rather than POSTS. My primary keywords are the categories, then I write one article for each category. This content is keyword optimized.

Originally Posted by Lilwarrior

anuj291 - But if I post 20 articles for 1 keyword, they will compete with one another, isn't it better to link from every new page to one single page that has this keyword?

They don't compete with one another, if your internally linking within your site, your showing Google that your sight is highly relevant to your chosen keywords.

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GeorgR.

13 years ago

You can rank EVERYTHING. Just a matter of dedication/time. You can PM me, i might be able to help you.

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TZ

13 years ago

That is a negative my friend. No such thing.

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mandark

13 years ago

Have you checked how you are ranking in Yahoo and Bing as well as Google? It is possible you are having better luck in one than the other. If you are having bad luck in all, either your niche is way too saturated (it is possible!), or you're doing something wrong with your SEO.

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Gerald Arno

Banned 13 years ago

The more skilled you are, the more competitive keywords
you can aim for.

Tell us more about your history wit this site!

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Orator

13 years ago

Your asking the wrong question.

The question should be "Is it worth it to put forth effort to required to get a high rank in this niche?".

Now I could get a website ranked 1 for the keyword "real dragons", but is that going to make me any money? If I were to say target a keyword like "sex", do I have the resources required to actually take on this search term?

It's a matter of choosing your battles.

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cashins

13 years ago

You can buy an old domain that contains the competitive keyword, shoot in the keyword in the meta tags, description, head-tags and in the title and start backlinking. Maybe hire a seo consulent from the phillipines or find another way of backlinking.

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yukon

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Lilwarrior

I have been trying to promote one of my websites via SEO and social marketing for about 6 months now, and I see almost no increase in organic results.

The niche is packed with websites, so I am wondering if that ever happened to you to, is it possible to see no increase, even if you are doing all the right things?

No offense, but If your not ranking (& you want to rank), then your not doing all the right things.

Just because you think your doing all the right things won't get your pages ranked.

Do better research on your competition, what are they doing that your not?

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SEOChief

13 years ago

It all depends on how you are going about marketing to the niche in question. There are niches that are more difficult than others to break into, but I've not found one that is closed to new promotions as long as you market it correctly.

Best method is to cut your teeth on an easy to access niche and then build up to the real money makes as time goes by. One tool that helps in this process would be Micro Niche Finder and another would be Traffic Travis, though I prefer Micro Niche Finder best.

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Lilwarrior

13 years ago

Thanks everyone for their thoughts,

Clint Butler - I have set up a page now instead of a post so I will be able to check your theory.

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