How do I get a high rank with only an opt-in page 'visible'

It will be difficult. And if you are eventually able to, I am sure one of the Google Panda updates will slap it back down. My advice is to try a different approach if you want to get traffic from Google. For instance, try to rank a page with lots of useful content, and then from that page attempt to get the visitor to the squeeze page.

Firstly it is very difficult to get a squeeze page to rank well in the search engines because they typically don't like them because they do not provide much value to the searcher.

What you can do is create articles on your website that you don't mind being indexed by the search engines and then linked to these articles from the homepage in the footer.

Because by doing this it will make your website seem larger than just a single page to the search engines and in these articles you can make them keyword which which will also help with the ranking of the site.

So if I was you I would start producing content that you don't mind linking to from the homepage as this will give your site more indexed pages and this will be essential to ranking your site.

But I would think every carefully about trying to rank just a squeeze page because this can be a very difficult task especially if it is a high competition keyword.

You may be better off creating a blog site and ranking that and from the blog driving traffic to your squeeze page site as the blog will be far more easier to rank than the squeeze page.

I agree with the gentlemen above. You will need to use other methods to get people to that site. I've had success with article marketing, forum and blog posting and ads. Of course, you could use Pay-per-click advert, but a novice will probably flounder without some guidance. It can be a costly lesson.

Another thought would be to set up your squeeze page as a page (wordpress lingo) and then go into Settings...Reading and make that the home page. Next set up another page as the 'home page' for a blog. You would establish that in the same place. Then start writing articles for your blog to start to rank for those pages.

Well, i think you should build external back links to the opt in page with diiferent blogs and articles with lots of content and make a hyperlink on the opt in page to other links on your pages so that google would see your page as a directory.

I agree with all the comments above. Squeeze pages aren't made to rank high in google. You need to make other pages with lots of content and then add a link to your squeeze page on you content pages.

You also need to find other ways to send traffic to your squeeze page other than google. Things like forum sigs, twitter, articles, solo ads are a better idea.

It is difficult but if you use something like Market Samurai or Traffic Travis or even Google Adwords tool to define your keywords and competition and find where there is alot of traffic and little competition and set so backlinks in place it will still work even with Panda. Hard work and doing the things Google likes still works it just keeps the honest people honest, and the rich richer... but that is a different story.

I think the idea here will be to write high-quality relative content that leads visitors to the opt-in - and then you rank that content. That is largely what article marketing is used for, and it still works very well as long as the content is good.

Take about 15 keywords related to your niche and try work on gaining one-way links for each keyword pointing to your site.

Make sure the websites you gain one-way links from are related to your industry/niche/subject - this is very important

Whether you put the blog on /blog or off of the root, it doesn't matter. Just to make it easy for you I would say go ahead and make it on the root (domain.com). But the important thing is to get your squeeze page off of the homepage. You will never rank with a squeeze page as your homepage with no content, navigation, etc.

Yes, you would want to link to your squeeze page from the rest of your site. But don't link JUST to your squeeze page. Link to other relevant articles on your site, relevant articles not on your site, etc. If you link only to your squeeze page, Google will see these pages as "doorway" pages and again you will eventually get hit by a Panda update.

Simple, create teaser pages for the premium content, rank the optin page with the related teaser pages/internal links + relevant quality external links.

OK, I googled tease pages and now know what they are Can anyone post a link to a good tease page?

Cheers,

GG