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1st page search traffic from major search engines without even trying. Any one else?

by Free Business Training
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I have several sites receiving search traffic from the first page of the major search engines. All I did was build them with basic SEO in mind that I learned from Steve Weber. I didn't submit them to any directories. One site was just sitting there waiting until I had time to work on it and it started receiving search traffic - the site is currently 100% PLR content.

Also these sites were built with a "Wizard" which I had read was the "kiss of death" for organic search.

The niches are well researched and I think I did pretty well with optimizing for the right keywords.

Has any one else experienced this?

Got any theories on why this is happening?

I'm sure not complaining, just real curious.

Thanks for any comments.

FBT
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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Most sites for which I was successful were a result of a plan that I followed through with over time. To get on the first page for a high traffic keyword will nearly always involve some work. Feel free to post the URL for which you achieved this result, and maybe we can take a look at yours as a case study.
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    • Profile picture of the author Free Business Training
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      Feel free to post the URL for which you achieved this result, and maybe we can take a look at yours as a case study.
      This is the site that suprised me the most. I built it, ran a splash page on several traffic exchanges which received about 25 hits, then left it sit.
      About two weeks later it started to get hits off the first page of MSN for several different pages.

      It receives hits almost every day now.

      Perfect Date
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  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    I personally get a decent amount of free traffic from the articles that I wrote. Many of them get #1 ranks.

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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    What key phrases are you getting traffic from?
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    • Profile picture of the author andyelite
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      What key phrases are you getting traffic from?
      Just what I was going to ask? Have you been throughyour stats/analytics to see which pages are getting hits for which keywords?

      My experience is that, in the early days, you get picked up by either MSN OR Google but not both. Sometimes it sticks but mostly you drop off suddenly for no apparent reason. Whether or not you come back (or stay) will depend on your off-page SEO efforts i.e. links, so don't rest on your laurels for too long.
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    • Profile picture of the author Free Business Training
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      What key phrases are you getting traffic from?
      The keywords producing traffic for "Perfect Date" are all over the place.
      Some only match two or three words of the page title but still match the content.

      My FBT site is getting first page Google traffic, #6 out of 26.5 million results. I've done a little more promotion for it, but not much.

      Is this just a fluke?

      I plan on doing further SEO on "Perfect Date" including some original content (it's currently 100% PLR)

      Should I leave it as is for now and see what happens?

      Thanks for your input.

      FBT
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      • Profile picture of the author andyelite
        Leave it as it is until you can establish some kind of pattern but drip-feed a few links (submit an article to EZA on first date tips or something similar).

        I just bookmarked the site on StumbleUpon and Delicious but it wouldn't do any harm to create a Squidoo Lens with similar content and link to it from there too.

        When a pattern emerges, target your promotion towards the keywords that are getting you the most traffic.
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        • Profile picture of the author Free Business Training
          Originally Posted by andyelite View Post

          Leave it as it is until you can establish some kind of pattern but drip-feed a few links (submit an article to EZA on first date tips or something similar).

          I just bookmarked the site on StumbleUpon and Delicious but it wouldn't do any harm to create a Squidoo Lens with similar content and link to it from there too.

          When a pattern emerges, target your promotion towards the keywords that are getting you the most traffic.
          Thanks.
          That's what I'll do.
          I built the site in about 4 hours on a spare afternoon as a traffic exchange test idea, so it's all gravy.
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  • Profile picture of the author jbode
    How are you getting first page google traffic if your page rank says n/a?

    MSN gives rank to pages with new links popping up all the time, which was probably the case from using traffic exchanges.
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    • Profile picture of the author Free Business Training
      Originally Posted by jbode View Post

      How are you getting first page google traffic if your page rank says n/a?
      I have no idea.
      That's why I started this thread.
      I'd really like to know.
      Thanks for your input.
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  • Profile picture of the author fwblack
    PR (Page Rank) of 0, or of anything for that matter, does not relate to your ranking in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)... It's very common for pages with a lower PR to rank higher in SERPs than pages with higher PR for a particular keyword phrase. PR is a measure of a lot of things about your page/site, but it's not related to a keyword phrase - so it does not carry that much weight in the ranking algorithms used to fulfill searches. When a user searches for something, the main objective of a search engine is to return the pages it thinks are the most relevant to the search phrase the user entered... it could be a brand new site that it just indexed with a PR of 0, but if it is the most relevant site in it's index, that PR0 site will be ranked #1.

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    • Profile picture of the author Free Business Training
      Originally Posted by fwblack View Post

      PR (Page Rank) of 0, or of anything for that matter, does not relate to your ranking in SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages)... It's very common for pages with a lower PR to rank higher in SERPs than pages with higher PR for a particular keyword phrase. PR is a measure of a lot of things about your page/site, but it's not related to a keyword phrase - so it does not carry that much weight in the ranking algorithms used to fulfill searches. When a user searches for something, the main objective of a search engine is to return the pages it thinks are the most relevant to the search phrase the user entered... it could be a brand new site that it just indexed with a PR of 0, but if it is the most relevant site in it's index, that PR0 site will be ranked #1.

      Fred
      Thanks for the information.
      That's kind of how I thought it worked.
      Do you think driving traffic from traffic exchanges has anything to do with these sites getting indexed so fast?

      Thanks for your input!

      FBT
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