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17 years ago

Well done Will! Its great to hear about people hitting number one in the organics!
There are not a lot of feelings like the sense of achievement obtained from achieving such things!

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Barbara Eyre

17 years ago

Very nice! Congratulations!

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Asher

17 years ago

Woah, that's huge! Congrats!

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17 years ago

Wow, Congratulations!

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RichKent

17 years ago

I still see Steve Pavlina's site as #1. If you're logged into Google it shows you results that are customized to you, so that may be why you see your site as #1?

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ken_p

17 years ago

Originally Posted by RichKent

I still see Steve Pavlina's site as #1. If you're logged into Google it shows you results that are customized to you, so that may be why you see your site as #1?

from my end i see steve's on the second slot, and on the first is chuck g.
hmmmm interesting discrepancy.

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dimitri.richko

17 years ago

Congrats Will, but I still see stevepavlina in #1, wikipedia #2 and your on 3rd

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Asher

17 years ago

Originally Posted by RichKent

I still see Steve Pavlina's site as #1. If you're logged into Google it shows you results that are customized to you, so that may be why you see your site as #1?

Originally Posted by dimitri.richko

Congrats Will, but I still see stevepavlina in #1, wikipedia #2 and your on 3rd

It's likely Will's #1 in the UK Google. Nevertheless, #1's
still huge. And being page 1 for personal development
is quite a statement in itself.

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RichKent 17 years ago

Originally Posted by Asher

It's likely Will's #1 in the UK Google. Nevertheless, #1's
still huge. And being page 1 for personal development
is quite a statement in itself.

Asher

Ahh, you're probably right. Congrats then! I see more than 200M results pages, so that's VERY impressive.
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Orris

17 years ago

Excellent! I've managed to get on page 1 for my key words but that climb up to the final spot at the top is really hard to do. Sometimes I slip back to page 2, so you may not stay there. Keep at it.

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han55

17 years ago

that's just on your computer, that might have cookie

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Will Edwards

17 years ago

I think we are witnessing the Google Dance in action - if you didn't see me in position #1, try again & see if I'm there now. I think it takes time for the change to ripple through Google's sever farm.

Still feeling pretty Cool

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Killer Joe

17 years ago

You're at #72 on my Google for that keyphrase.

Steve Pavlina's site is #1.

KJ

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Will Edwards

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Killer Joe

You're at #72 on my Google for that keyphrase.

Steve Pavlina's site is #1.

KJ

Hey KJ - try again!

Will

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Killer Joe

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

Hey KJ - try again! Will

Still #72.

I use google.com, which search engine/version are you using?

KJ

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Will Edwards

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Killer Joe

Still #72.

I use google.com, which search engine/version are you using?

KJ

It is showing me as #1 on both Google.com and Google.co.uk

Again - I think it is called the Google Dance. I think it's just a matter of time before your see my site ripple through the farm.

Will

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Killer Joe

17 years ago

Will,

Is there something else I should be looking for besides White Dove Books?

KJ

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Will Edwards

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Killer Joe

Will,

Is there something else I should be looking for besides White Dove Books?

KJ

For this term - no - it's the White Dove Books - Personal Development, Self Growth & Motivation site - it's still right there at #1 for me on both engines.

Will

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Ryan700

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

For this term - no - it's the White Dove Books - Personal Development, Self Growth & Motivation site - it's still right there at #1 for me on both engines.

Will

Um, when I do a search in google for - personal development - you are at number 24, but if I do a search for - personal development books - you are number 2. Is this the keyword phrase that you are actually ranking for?

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AlexTampa

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

I think we are witnessing the Google Dance in action - if you didn't see me in position #1, try again & see if I'm there now. I think it takes time for the change to ripple through Google's sever farm.

Still feeling pretty Cool

you also have to think that many people that are seeing this thread will google it, and click on your page, and hit back. Which is a negative vote for you. Thats assuming your average user stays longer.

Even worse if they check out the competition after that.

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17 years ago

Congratulations!

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Dan C. Rinnert 17 years ago

Congrats. You're showing up as #2 for me though. Guess it's working it's way up there for the rest of Google's servers.
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scriptillusion

17 years ago

I see the same thing as KJ. I even used SEO Tools and checked it and it shows you at position 70 for the term "personal development" w/o quotes, but when i checked myself at google it showed you at #71.

Good luck though and maybe it hasn't gotten around to all of the google servers yet, but a jump from the #70's to #1 is a jump quite unlike I have ever seen.

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Will Edwards

17 years ago

Originally Posted by scriptillusion

I see the same thing as KJ. I even used SEO Tools and checked it and it shows you at position 70 for the term "personal development" w/o quotes, but when i checked myself at google it showed you at #71.

Good luck though and maybe it hasn't gotten around to all of the google servers yet, but a jump from the #70's to #1 is a jump quite unlike I have ever seen.

Yes - it's indeed odd - and I see I am now back at my usual positions on the 2 engines in question. I'm on page #1 of the .co.uk engine in position #8; and page #3 of the .com engine in position #24

Don;t know what's going on over there, but it was nice while it lasted. It actually gave me the shock of my life when I saw it there in position #1 of the .com site.

Still, perhaps it's some kind of indication that Google is thinking about upping my ranking - I'd like to think so.

Not so cool now

But still hopeful

Will

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s4nt0s

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

Yes - it's indeed odd - and I see I am now back at my usual positions on the 2 engines in question. I'm on page #1 of the .co.uk engine in position #8; and page #3 of the .com engine in position #24

Don;t know what's going on over there, but it was nice while it lasted. It actually gave me the shock of my life when I saw it there in position #1 of the .com site.

Still, perhaps it's some kind of indication that Google is thinking about upping my ranking - I'd like to think so.

Not so cool now

But still hopeful

Will

To find what you really rank, you need to view it through a proxy. Go to www.pagewash.com and search through google under the proxy. This should show your real rank.

It looks like you're nowhere on the first page using the proxy. =(

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17 years ago

Great work! Congratulations! Would you want to share for us how you did it, how long and wat secret SEO strategy used?

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Adrian Cooper

17 years ago

I am seeing you on page 3, but nevertheless it is a huge keyword and I see you have a PR5 site with plenty of backlinks which is a great effort.

My niche as well

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dsmpublishing

17 years ago

Congrats hope you get number 1 on lots more terms.

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raylm123 17 years ago

I just checked on google.com and I see you at #72.
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Tom Brite

17 years ago

Congratulations!

Keep building those all important backlinks so that you keep that top spot!

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17 years ago

Comes up number one on my machine.

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pluto1

17 years ago

Even showing on page #1 is an achievement. I checked your website, it is showing at #3. I guess you have another site that is showing on #34.

Using this position checker tool, you are:

#3 in Google (US)
#8 in Google (Canada)
#3 in Google (UK)

Job well done. Congratulations!

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s4nt0s

17 years ago

Originally Posted by pluto1

Even showing on page #1 is an achievement. I checked your website, it is showing at #3. I guess you have another site that is showing on #34.

Using this position checker tool, you are:

#3 in Google (US)
#8 in Google (Canada)
#3 in Google (UK)

Job well done. Congratulations!

Looks like your site is ranking high in the SERPS! Congratz Will!

BTW thanks for sharing the ranking tool Pluto! Good stuff.

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ChrisBa

17 years ago

Awesome work! Looks like there is a fair bit of competition for that term

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Sattarmalik

17 years ago

Congratulations:
But we are eager to know some secrets that how you got this?

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Tom Brite 17 years ago

Originally Posted by Sattarmalik

Congratulations:
But we are eager to know some secrets that how you got this?

There are no secrets.

Good content.

Good backlinks.

And voila you have top rankings!

Tom Brite
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younghamir

17 years ago

wow! wtg! i will be too. soon.

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jeffdean9297

17 years ago

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

... for the term 'personal development' - wow!

I have been on page #1 before but never actually the 1st result. Steve Pavlina's site has occupied that slot for years, but today I displaced his site.

I feel rather pleased with myself!

Will

Congratulations man!! How long did that take you to do??

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IMcruiser

17 years ago

Great result on a High value keyword

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4morereferrals 17 years ago

Tough keyword their champ ...

Ive got ya in at #70. Be sure your using google while NOT logged into webmaster tools or a gmail account ... that will skew your search results big time.

I make the top 5 slots anytime I search for google whilst unwittingly logged into my google accounts.

Keep rockin !

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BurgerBoy

17 years ago

Congratulations!

I have a bunch of pages #1 at Google for Collectible Dolls Shop also and they're not screen shots.

And, I have never looked for or build any backlinks for the site. It's a bit over rated to say that you have to have a bunch of backlinks for a site to do well.

Example:

Hannah Montana collectibles - Google Search=

collectible dolls shop - Google Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&r...h&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...s&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...q=f&oq=&aqi=g1

and thousands more.

Normally if I'm #2 instead of #1 the merchant that I'm an affiliate with is the only one above me.

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dburk

17 years ago

Originally Posted by BurgerBoy

Congratulations!

I have a bunch of pages #1 at Google for Collectible Dolls Shop also and they're not screen shots.

And, I have never looked for or build any backlinks for the site. It's a bit over rated to say that you have to have a bunch of backlinks for a site to do well.

Example:

Hannah Montana collectibles - Google Search=

collectible dolls shop - Google Search

Charles Wysocki Collectible Bountiful Tin Basket Collection - Google Search=

Mimi Jobe collectibles - Google Search=

Hummingbird collectible - Google Search

and thousands more.

Normally if I'm #2 instead of #1 the merchant that I'm an affiliate with is the only one above me.

Hi Burger Boy,

I sorry to burst you bubble, but those are obscure keywords that have little or no competition. "Hannah Montana collectibles" for instance has an average global search volume of about 1 search per day and there seems to be only one other website that has a backlink with that keyword in the anchor text.

It's not hard to rank #1 for keywords nobody much cares about. Now if you could do that with important keywords with commercial value, that would be impressive.

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BurgerBoy

17 years ago

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi Burger Boy,

I sorry to burst you bubble, but those are obscure keywords that have little or no competition. "Hannah Montana collectibles" for instance has an average global search volume of about 1 search per day and there seems to be only one other website that has a backlink with that keyword in the anchor text.

It's not hard to rank #1 for keywords nobody much cares about. Now if you could do that with important keywords with commercial value, that would be impressive.

That's strange. I make thousands of dollars a year off of that site so I guess people that are into collectibles are using those product key words and many others on my collectibles site.

In the site's Awstats stats it shown that Google is refering hundreds of searchs a day to the different products on the site that you say nobody is searching for.

Either you're wrong or Awstats is wrong - I'm going with you're wrong because I'm getting the sales to show Awstats is right.

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dburk

17 years ago

Originally Posted by BurgerBoy

That's strange. I make thousands of dollars a year off of that site so I guess people that are into collectibles are using those product key words and many others on my collectibles site.

In the site's Awstats stats it shown that Google is refering hundreds of searchs a day to the different products on the site that you say nobody is searching for.

Either you're wrong or Awstats is wrong - I'm going with you're wrong because I'm getting the sales to show Awstats is right.

Hi BurgerBoy,

I never questioned whether you were making sales or getting lot's of traffic, only that you were not getting much traffic from that specific keyword search term.

How many referrals are you receiving from Google for that specific search query? If you look deeply enough into your data you will see that I'm correct. Don't trust me, look closely at your own data for that revelation. You are likely to find that your traffic is coming from other search terms and while that is good, it doesn't make my original assertion wrong.

By having a clear understanding of exactly (not generally) where our traffic comes from we can learn and improve our techniques. I feel it's helpful for everyone on this board to get the most accurate information possible so we can all benefit. If you can show us actual data the contadicts my assertions that would be a revelation I would welcome.

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Ryan6

17 years ago

No, no, no. Wiki has the first place in Google.com and Steve Pavlina has the second place. Pretty much everyone will go to Steve Pavlina as well, he's a well known dude.

Well done on page one anyway, nice to see a fellow UK'er doing the business.

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chimeara27

17 years ago

congratulations for being the number one.

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17 years ago

Wow.. Congratulation Will Edwards you've done and reach your target goal

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17 years ago

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

... for the term 'personal development' - wow! I have been on page #1 before but never actually the 1st result. Steve Pavlina's site has occupied that slot for years, but today I displaced his site.

Excellent work Will.

I'm still working my way up for lead generation, and am currently 4th/7th respectively in .co.uk/.com. But I'm still very prone to the Google dance, and tend to lose 6-12 places within seconds of telling somebody I'm now on page one. So I better not check again today!

But your post gives the rest of us lesser mortals cause to hope, and the motivation to keep on keeping on.

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terrapin719

17 years ago

I always try to remember to log out of Google before I search for anything. I don't really like the idea of G watching every thing I search for... it kind of gives me the creepy crawlies.

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pluto1 17 years ago

Do you really think it matters whether you are logged in or out of your google account? I have read this before but it did not make much difference when I checked my web site rank.
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DrKnow

17 years ago

Well done and congratulations. But it will be better if you could share a few tips how you did it will be very helpful for all of us.
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olamilekan2

17 years ago

Congrats, keep up the work to stay up

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Matt Lee

17 years ago

Nice work! It's a satisfying feeling to say the least!

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17 years ago

Originally Posted by Will Edwards

... for the term 'personal development' - wow!

I have been on page #1 before but never actually the 1st result. Steve Pavlina's site has occupied that slot for years, but today I displaced his site.

I feel rather pleased with myself!

Will

That's awesome Will! Congratulations on the milestone achieved! Feels good to have a fellow warrior reach such an achievement. High five!

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17 years ago

Congratulations. That is a great keyword.

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