[Project] Rank a free blog on page 1 for 'car insurance'

lol, no offence but I dont think you can pull this off

Dude, how did you compute these? are they local in your place or in general? I've checked your competition for "car insurance" and it was:

Broad: 142,000,000
exact: 88,000,000

Using blogspot, IMHO, I'm not sure if you can do it on blogspot considering those competition. Also, I am targeting that keyword as well. I am currently sitting on page 2 with a tendency of getting to page 3 then page 2.

Anyway, I would love to see the result and I'll be waiting for you.

That is not going to be easy. I wish you luck. You might need it.

Very ambitious project. Keyword has 823,000 exact monthly searches. If you can rank your website number 1 in google for only couple of months, i bet you will have enough money to retire.

I can see this url as number 1 :
gieco.com
It is pr 7 domain with about 200,000 backlinks. Big company with millions in marketing budget. Almost impossible to out compete.

Even the website ranking on number 9 is pr5 and 20,000 backlinks, 15000 index pages and 12 yr old age.

I think you are just wasting time if you aren't an expert in SEO.


Here is my rough plan :

1) Keyword in the domain with suffix - I mean - carinsurancex.com , carinsurancey.com, carinsurancex.blogspot.com etc
2) Proper on page optimization - Have 10,000+ words article optimized for the keyword on the page that you want to rank for
3) Try to rank for inner page like : carinsurancex.com/insurance/car-insurance-online
4) 4 high pr homepage backlinks per day right from the starting. Continue this for next 5 months - Thus, 600 high pr homepage links
5) In the mean while, lots of backlinks and syndication of your posts is needed. Join 4-5 blog submission and syndication network. Submit posts cont. for next 5 months.
6) Social media - have 1000s of facebook like, tweets, retweets, +1, digg votes etc - about 5000+ social links per month
7) Also 1 press release per week which gets syndicated to at least 50 websites.
8) Build authority of the site by posting 100-200 other unique post on the site - All internally linked.

If you can't get to page 2/page 1 within 5 months, leave it.

This will be a true David vs Goliath battle.

Yes that is a good point of view. even if you don't reached page 1, you'll still ranked for some other terms which in turn will make you dominant to others. And for sure, with this niche, it is not just a small slice of $$$. It is enough to satisfy our stomach. lol

Surely it is. Though if ever fairy google casts its wand to david, it'll be able to outrank goliath. lol anyway, I am in the part of "Vs" so I've been to david and ready to be goliath at any time.

That sounds incredibly difficult... David vs Goliath for sure!

Good luck though - I will be watching this thread to see how you do.

wow - this looks insanely difficult - i wish you the best of luck

Ohh.. this is going to be fun.
Looks like you have balls to challenge big guys in the open, which is good but it takes more than just balls to get there.
The most interesting part that you want to do it for free.
0 investment with this competition it's like being Matt Cuts and live in Utopian world where you wait when people discover you and bookmark you.
Well either way it's going to be a good lesson for you.
I wish you the best and keep us posted.

Good luck to you.

I started something similar a few days ago. I started in the health niche though. I am using AdSense for my monetization. So I hope that we can get on the first page of Google if not to #1. I would be satisfied with $10 a day, or even $5 for that matter.

Same here. I also started a health niche and under pilot mode. lol. 5$ to $10 a day is not bad to start or even for a 1 site earning.

By the way, if your back link methods does not work with your site. Use it to your competitors. ooopss.. that's a dirty trick. lol..

If you're doing using free methods, I promise you will fail. Ask anyone that knows anything about seo, when you're competing for big keywords, you will always need $$$. Don't waste your time, not worth it.

While I admire your ambition, you really don't have a hope in hell getting to page 1.

However, it will still be an interesting project to see exactly where you can get ranked.

I think if you can get anywhere in the top 50, you will be doing very well.

I agree. I am actually subscribed to this tools:

-senuke
-uaw
-buildmyrank
-linkvana
-scrapebox

and doing some manual backlinking for high quality backlinks but I was just able to reach page 2 or almost page 1. But ranks dances and I usually play to page 2 and three and sometimes page 4.. take note: this is for keyword "car insurance" which I am working with for over 7 months..

Its definitely ambitious! Not something I would go after, although I do not think that it is impossible. And in all reality, you probably have a better chance ranking for that term with a blogspot domain than a new domain. Simply because of the domain authority of blogspot.

Seriously though, this is a project that would take at least a year, if not more. Probably a very large budget, but you would make a fortune in the top 10.

I would be more concerned If blogger doesn't like the CPA.

I would go with Adsense since Google owns both blogger & Adsense.

I kinda doubt you'll hit page #1 for the target keyword, still you'll pick up a few long-tail keywords.

i have a question, what is your income source? just want to get the top one position?
what will you do later?
and, even all things are free,can it be easy to get the top one position?

i have a question, what is your income source? just want to get the top one position?
what will you do later?
and, even all things are free,can it be easy to get the top one position?

Bwahahahahah!
Car Insurance? Seriously? Really? Forget it ASAP!

Interesting project and I have subscribed to the thread. Regarding the free rule, I am sure you know, but nothing is free. It either is going to be time or money.

I would be most interested in heariing how much long-tail traffic you can pick up in the attempt, because that alone might make it worthwhile - a few $20+ clicks/conversions per day, sure, why not? I have pondered tackling an 'impossible' niche for the same reason so will follow with interest

is a nice try here..is not easy job but im sure it takes time for it to rank on page one...as long as you know SEO and provide unique content plus work extra harder as compare to those who are already one first page then you might have some success...

but what i can say one is going to take a long time...so good luck...

It is not possible if you can provide 1000 unique high quality content monthly though. And if you will use $$$$ then surely you will rank. however, miracles happen. praise the lord. lol

Another thing to bear in mind is that even if you were to rank on the first page for "car insurance"... it wouldn't be long before you'd receive a manual review with a keyword like that. At least I would of thought so.

You can bet your ass your fellow competition will be aware that you've suddenly appeared and will go about displacing you... possibly reporting your site to Google. This is one of the most profitable keywords for Google on the Internet we're talking about here. The chances are, your site won't be the sort that Google would deem the most relevant and useful to a user searching for car insurance... and adjust your ranking accordingly.

But as others have said, it will make for an interesting experiment and you could no doubt make some decent money off the long tail traffic.

This is quite the challange but it really depends on your mindset and how much time you are going to add to this site. To be quite honet i don't think you can do it, this is mainly because all those "car insurance" sites that are in page one usually spend thousands of dollars on SEO.

Are you able to produce better results than these big SEO companies?

We will just have to see.

Good Luck

This will be a great challenge but, as I've always have heard where there's a Will there is a way. Good Luck!

I was just saying that it is impossible for that keyword. Just looking the competition level of it, even I who had been targeting that for more than a year haven't got a chance to step to page 1. I was able to get my site a PR3 but wasn't able to get to top 3. lol Anyway, that is just me. I'm not sure about him.

Judging by your competition, I think you will manage to get to page 3 with a good bit of effort, but your blog will need time to age.

Page 2 is possible after a long time of consistent effort, but even then I'm left wondering if a free blog can manage for this keyword. I just don't think that a free blog fits well with the keyword "car insurance" and I'm not sure if G will like that much.

I truly believe page 1 is impossible for a free blog, or any new website for that matter. Everyone on the first page (at least for me) is an actual insurance company.

Either way, I am interested to see the results. Good Luck!

Hahahahaha, sorry for laughing, but I am pleading with you to please re-consider this project. Even using Bl@ckh@t methods, it's going to take a very long time to just get to page 1 for that keyword, but you on the other hand want to do for absolutely free?? You have 00000.00% chance of making this a successful project. If you value time, please don't do this, lol.

If you seek knowledge, this is not a wise way of getting it. Build niche blogs and just make money through accumulation. Niche blog + niche blog + niche blog ... building a solid business and learning as well.

Hey...in this field...everything is possible...it may just need a lot of hardwork though
Best of Luck!

Nice challenge, it would be interesting to see how you fare with no paid outsourcing for such a competitive keyword

I also think it would be a difficult job to promote such a highly competitive keyword in page 1, but who know, there are always exceptions, hope you can success!

Brief update for you good folks.

I officially launched this project on September 1 2011. So far the site has been indexed along with 1 inner page. I have 5 pages of content all of which have been pinged.

There have been 61 visitors between Aug 30 and Sep 2, all referrals from WF and cuinlalaland.

I am currently targeting the long tail keyword "cheap car insurance quote" which has an exact match monthly search of 2400 and about 2 million competing pages.

that's a nice start, 61 visitors in the first 2 days that you've launched the site, good work

So I bookmarked the main page and pinged those links. And today I have a little more news to share. The site has attracted its first google search hit as well as picking up a bit of social traffic.

But more important than that...DRUM ROLL...

It got its first adsense click! Yeaaa...76 cents...wooo LOL

Waste of time if you ask me.

Better to create dozens of pages around very low competition long tail car insurance keywords.

It's interesting to note that you have drastically changed the rules of your challenge.

You originally (and your first post and thread title says it) said you were going to rank on page 1 for "car insurance"

I see that you've now changed that requirement to go after a much, much easier long tail keyword:

"cheap car insurance quotes"

LoL, if you are 20, you have time, Good Luck
If you're 60, Take a break, enjoy your last days, dont loose your time with this keyword

Listen what other Fox are saying, Build 10-20- even 30 pages with Low Comp. Keywords for car insurance, you'll rank most of them easy and make a lot of money in 5-6 months...

I must be doing something right because the site has earned the privileged status of being worthy of getting comment spam

Traffic from stumbleupon has just exceeded traffic from all other referral sources, unfortunately the traffic seems to be low quality, they don't spend much time sticking around (or clicking ads).

Ack...on another company's site? Even if you were to be successful (which I highly doubt) you'd be KICKING yourself for not doing it with your own domain/property!

Stumbleupon continues to be the leading source of traffic. And I have some very exciting news: the site has finally showed up in the SERPs, buried on page 13, for a long-tail keyword LOL! OK so this could be a bit more of a challenge than I envisioned

Any update to this thread? How is it going? was the site dead?

Be aware if you do stuff like blog commenting blog owners are quick to report you blog to blogger for comment spam and get it deleted. Happened to me a few times.

Last comment on his blog is dated 10 Sep 2011.

I think it says it all:

It's all well and good to aim high, but you do need a good dose of realism as well.

Car insurance as with very competitive terms, will need an arsenal of weapons to compete with the big boys