I broke into top 10 in Google for a competitive keyword !!
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Don't get mislead by the title, I hold multiple #1 rankings and many more page-1 rankings. And some of them are competitive too for sure, in every sense.
But...
Today I got a tremendous satisfaction to break into a top-10 for a keyword that I had worked on and off for some time. Surprising, seeing that it comes from me? No.
Because, in my opinion, this keyword is far more competitive than the standard tough examples as "fat loss" and "**** berry" and "internet marketing". This is a single-word keyword term.
To be honest, what I did is nothing revolutionary either and I know I can improve on this, but still, just wanted to "vent out" my sheer pleasure with this forum and also wanted to contribute.
I'll tell you what I did, even though it was never a focus keyword for me and I'm only at #10 at Google for this one. But let me illustrate the competition first. Each of the others in top-10 are heavily backlinked from a ton of sites, and almost each have tons and tons of spontaneous backlinks from all kinds of great sites (including bunches of spontaneous backlinks from multiple EDU sites). So, imagine the competition.
Page rank of top-9 competitors? (I'm at 10, so not going into mine).
#1: PR 8
#2: PR 8
#3: PR 9
#4: PR 9
Then are image and video results. Then ...
#5: PR 7
#6: PR 5
#7: PR 7
#8: PR 8
#9: PR 9
#10 - My page (now PR 5)
And of course, this is a 1-word keyword. And I have http://www.generic-category-keyword....2/keyword.html as my page.
This makes me pretty pleased - to see that I got into top-10. Competition in double quotes = competition without double quotes = 71 M (oh wait, for a single word keyword this is a different ball-game - I have been #3 with 15-20% of this effort for one of the so-called toughest multi-word keywords that are said to exist, which had 119M search results, and then had shifted focus - so when I say this 71.1M is a different ball-game I know what I am talking about). Even allintitle is a very high number for the single-word keyword, and of course the same for allinurl.
What did I do? As mentioned earlier, I have been on and off on this page. I started a year and half back or maybe a little earlier, when I tried an got some good backlinks by simply mailing other webmasters. My keyword page provides tremendous value. So I had got around 5-6 solid backlinks from these strong pages.
Then, I had used my best outsourcer to create profiles - around 5K links. Also, there were around 200 UAW submissions but I don't suppose that had helped much.
Over time I have written around 8-10 articles, and have syndicated them to a ton of directories (some went to 300+ including top ones like EZA etc, all of them had gone to EZA).
I used a private network for create 500 posts - I knew that was a network to which Google usually responds - typically indexes many of those pages within 2-3 hours only.
I wrote a couple or press releases over time and distributed. Plan to do more.
The social bookmark was an obvious thing to do. But I started slowly and manually marked around 40-50 over a week or maybe a little more (long back, don't remember the exact duration).
Syndicated a screensaver with a backlink to 50-odd sites using a service from a fellow Warrior.
Did not do RSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wanted to but somehow never did it !!!!!!!!!!
Posted to a network of 50 blogs, of which one was PR-6, 16 were PR-5 and many of the rest had good PR too.
Created five-six profile linkwheels, some small ones with 5-6 sites and some larger ones with 10-12 sites.
Created a few web 2.0 properties but could have done more on it. Hope to do that to raise rankings.
Distributed one video if I remember correctly, to a wide network. Maybe two - don't exactly remember.
Got a bunch of edu links - and hope to get another bunch of gov links.
AFAIR that's it - if I remember something more then I shall add to the post (edit it) later.
Why did I do this SEO? Just to practice the art. In terms of monetization, I can think of a few hundred niches off the hat that I am not into, and I could monetize a lot lot more than this one much more easily. So to me it was more of an art for art's sake, and I guess that also explains what made me go on and off rather than staying onto it like a bulldog.
Hope I could help to motivate some of you Warriors !!
But...
Today I got a tremendous satisfaction to break into a top-10 for a keyword that I had worked on and off for some time. Surprising, seeing that it comes from me? No.
Because, in my opinion, this keyword is far more competitive than the standard tough examples as "fat loss" and "**** berry" and "internet marketing". This is a single-word keyword term.
To be honest, what I did is nothing revolutionary either and I know I can improve on this, but still, just wanted to "vent out" my sheer pleasure with this forum and also wanted to contribute.
I'll tell you what I did, even though it was never a focus keyword for me and I'm only at #10 at Google for this one. But let me illustrate the competition first. Each of the others in top-10 are heavily backlinked from a ton of sites, and almost each have tons and tons of spontaneous backlinks from all kinds of great sites (including bunches of spontaneous backlinks from multiple EDU sites). So, imagine the competition.
Page rank of top-9 competitors? (I'm at 10, so not going into mine).
#1: PR 8
#2: PR 8
#3: PR 9
#4: PR 9
Then are image and video results. Then ...
#5: PR 7
#6: PR 5
#7: PR 7
#8: PR 8
#9: PR 9
#10 - My page (now PR 5)
And of course, this is a 1-word keyword. And I have http://www.generic-category-keyword....2/keyword.html as my page.
This makes me pretty pleased - to see that I got into top-10. Competition in double quotes = competition without double quotes = 71 M (oh wait, for a single word keyword this is a different ball-game - I have been #3 with 15-20% of this effort for one of the so-called toughest multi-word keywords that are said to exist, which had 119M search results, and then had shifted focus - so when I say this 71.1M is a different ball-game I know what I am talking about). Even allintitle is a very high number for the single-word keyword, and of course the same for allinurl.
What did I do? As mentioned earlier, I have been on and off on this page. I started a year and half back or maybe a little earlier, when I tried an got some good backlinks by simply mailing other webmasters. My keyword page provides tremendous value. So I had got around 5-6 solid backlinks from these strong pages.
Then, I had used my best outsourcer to create profiles - around 5K links. Also, there were around 200 UAW submissions but I don't suppose that had helped much.
Over time I have written around 8-10 articles, and have syndicated them to a ton of directories (some went to 300+ including top ones like EZA etc, all of them had gone to EZA).
I used a private network for create 500 posts - I knew that was a network to which Google usually responds - typically indexes many of those pages within 2-3 hours only.
I wrote a couple or press releases over time and distributed. Plan to do more.
The social bookmark was an obvious thing to do. But I started slowly and manually marked around 40-50 over a week or maybe a little more (long back, don't remember the exact duration).
Syndicated a screensaver with a backlink to 50-odd sites using a service from a fellow Warrior.
Did not do RSS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wanted to but somehow never did it !!!!!!!!!!
Posted to a network of 50 blogs, of which one was PR-6, 16 were PR-5 and many of the rest had good PR too.
Created five-six profile linkwheels, some small ones with 5-6 sites and some larger ones with 10-12 sites.
Created a few web 2.0 properties but could have done more on it. Hope to do that to raise rankings.
Distributed one video if I remember correctly, to a wide network. Maybe two - don't exactly remember.
Got a bunch of edu links - and hope to get another bunch of gov links.
AFAIR that's it - if I remember something more then I shall add to the post (edit it) later.
Why did I do this SEO? Just to practice the art. In terms of monetization, I can think of a few hundred niches off the hat that I am not into, and I could monetize a lot lot more than this one much more easily. So to me it was more of an art for art's sake, and I guess that also explains what made me go on and off rather than staying onto it like a bulldog.
Hope I could help to motivate some of you Warriors !!
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