Hi Ldimilo,

It seems that you have removed the video. I'm not especially interested in this subject but I'd wish to follow your YouTube channel.

I tend to agree with this statement, you can have all the content in the world but if you don't have the backlinks to show Google that its important you may find youself without traffic...

Good blog.......some very useful stuff here

I'll weigh in on this one.

I've been trying to do the same thing for several years now and have tried the 'fake' credibility craft.

When it worked for 'real'... like you, I had a list in an industry I was a guru in before I knew what a guru was. And I think that's why I had that following. I didn't know I had the golden list.

I believe that newbies don't get it (the marketing) and they're open to the spam by authority figures. However, the general warrior is too jaded to fall for the pitch of email personality sales. You have to be really good and I mean into the niche as an ego deal to have authority status. Like you were before it was, not for profit, but for personal satisfation or ego boost that gave you the credubility. Your devotees were aware that you were there for them and your reward was self satisfation. Not profit. So, to gain the status I believe you have to really be involved to a point that you don't care if you profit. And then you will of course. It's the catch 22 of this whole marketing mess!

If this person has hard facts to back up what they're writing -- it's hard to disagree with their experience. However, the definition of "competing listings" is debatable.

Some people think that the number of listings that show up in search engines when you perform a search for a term are the competitors. Others, like myself in some ways, think that the competitors are those who are making an effort, even if unintended, to actively optimize their on-page elements for the phrase (such as the title). While I think that the true number of competitors lies somewhere between these two sets of numbers, I also think that there should be a distinction between "related listings" and true competitors.

From my experience, you're not going to get any substantive results relying on content alone, at least in moderately popular keyword markets. However, that depends on how you build your content, if it's link-bait material, and how you structure your website's on-page elements (title/page names/internal linking structure, etc.) This also depends on the market itself. You can have two keywords in two separate niches, with the same estimated search volume and roughly the same number of listings, and one will be substantially more difficult to rank for. Even with all other things being equal, all keywords are not equal in terms of difficulty in getting top placement.

I guess, bottom line, is that it takes more than just "content" to rank in moderately popular keyword markets. Sure, if you want to rank for an obscure term -- that's easy enough with limited off-page exposure. However, when you get into markets where there are a lot of people competing for the top spots, regardless of the number of competitors, or even the estimated search volume, it's going to take a lot more than just words on a page to get you to the top position. Especially when you get into high-paying, yet sub-niche markets, like those in the SEO / Insurance / Web hosting industries -- content alone won't cut it, unless you have off-page elements in place to help things along.

sounds good to me ..if complicated ...why not just hook are those up to the rss feeds from appropriate sites ? wouldnt that do the same thing with out all the work ..having a bunch of blogs connected and those blog gettting the feeds is a rather simple approach ...pm if you comment ..thanks