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Zero To #8 With 70,000,000 Competitors In 2 Months

by ewenmack
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Just wanted to show you what it took to get to first page of Google with 70,000,000 competing broadmatch keywords.

I know there are many ways to do SEO, just using this as a case study and what went in behind the scenes to get there.

This is a little different than other methods, so should be a good study.

I bought the domain in June of this year. It has keyword in domain. So does main competitor.

He has .com, I have .net.

I left it sitting around doing nothing and had a couple of goes selling it.

It was in August I listened to a interview by Brett MacFall with an Englishman living in Cyprus. I'm referring him to that because for the moment I have forgotten his name.

Anyway he shared his simple system which he makes a lot of money from his large number of sites. Primarily Adsense.

Copy and paste was his content method.

And that is what I have done. On my travel website, I have copied and pasted over 500 articles all following the TOS of each directory.

Started with my targeted keyword and then added ones from the adsese blocks I could see around directory articles.

Have now added videos from Youtube.

For backlinking I would bookmark each new entry to eight bookmarking sites then ping after last entry for the day. Used Pingoat then it started to go offline so moved to Pingomatic.

Joined socialadr to share bookmarks so that there is a widespread trail of isp's.

Site was bouncing around in the rankings a lot untill I added my target keyword to front of title, front of first sentence and at end of content. Site just slowly but surely rises now.

Added related articles after seeing Adsense blocks on the article directories. Videos for those keywords too.

Would email and phone content owners to tell them I'm promoting them by having their content on my website and direct them to it so they can see. Would then ask if they would be kind enough to put a link from their website to mine.

Have found a wide assortment of high page ranking sites to comment on. I would use my keyword as my name and use Easy Hyperlinks - Free Links Creator - from Links Maker - Links made simple to create the code for it.

Some of the sites are related to my website while others aren't.

Sent out a press release yesterday and it is listed on four solid pages of google.

Have bookmarked on those sites where you can do it.

One of the press release sites has an option to have it as a PDF file.

Will spread that over document sharing sites as it has my keyword as an anchor text.

Have had an article made into a video with good male voiceover for $5 on Fiverr.
Another Fiverr person will open accounts and submit video to 50 video sharing sites.

Where the video and file sharing sites allow bookmarking, then they will get bookmarked.

Use the following Wordpress plugins...
auto tagger
sitemap
bookmarker
onlywire
all in one seo

As you can see it isn't complicated and is very, very cheap to implement.

Not mentioning monetization so we can just stay on track with SEO for the purpose of this
case study.

Would of been great to see it all layed out like this when I started, so enjoy.

All the best,
Ewen
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  • Profile picture of the author marieluy143
    wOw... I do same strategy as yours...
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    Phrase occurrences are NOT competitors.

    Don't worry so much about Relevancy in your linking campaigns (Meaning don't second guess Google) and focus on AUTHORITY of links.

    A listing in USA Today may not be specifically relevant, but it has a whole lot of authority. If Google is rewarding a site with a high PR for a specific page then that page has authority and that's good enough for linking campaigns.

    Think about that!

    And your method is fine because information is aggregated by a number of sources all the time. This is what Newspapers are!

    Google wants quality, authority, and then relevance.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Theres no way you have 70 million competitors. Of all the things I wish I could correct in people's thinking on seo its that results count has anything to do with competition. Only important thing is who on the front page is trying to rank for the term and how many searches the keywords receive..

    result is just how many times the word occurs in Google's database like counting how many times the word whale comes up in Moby Dick. If you are getting lots of traffic from it then good going. Thats what matters
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    • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
      Guys,

      The purpose of this post was not to debate which method works
      or why something works, just showing what was done to get this result.

      As I pointed out at the beginning, people go about SEO differently and
      am not discrediting their methods.

      For people like myself when starting I would of liked to see a case study
      laid out like this.

      People have different learning styles, and if this helps them, GREAT!

      For those who have a different learning style then the way this is layed
      out won't suit them.

      For those who are using same or similar methods, then this gives them
      confidence they are going down the right track.

      I'm still open to learning, and if somebody would like to lay out what
      was done to get their front page ranking, I would love to see it and
      I'm sure others would too.

      All the best,
      Ewen
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      • Profile picture of the author jazbo
        BUt your thread title makes the point that you were up against 70 million competitors. We are just pointing out that the whole premise of that is false and misleading.

        Your only competitors are those on page one, and there are only ever 1000 pages displayed in any set of SERPs. The 70 million results is just instances of those words within webpages Google has indexed.

        Starting off on such a false premise hardly makes your case study convincing I'm afraid. You could actually have picked a term with a few hundred pages containing that phrase, making the whole process you went through a massive overkill. You make no mention of how you analyzed the sites ranking on page one etc.

        Originally Posted by ewenmack View Post

        Guys,

        The purpose of this post was not to debate which method works
        or why something works, just showing what was done to get this result.

        As I pointed out at the beginning, people go about SEO differently and
        am not discrediting their methods.

        For people like myself when starting I would of liked to see a case study
        laid out like this.

        People have different learning styles, and if this helps them, GREAT!

        For those who have a different learning style then the way this is layed
        out won't suit them.

        For those who are using same or similar methods, then this gives them
        confidence they are going down the right track.

        I'm still open to learning, and if somebody would like to lay out what
        was done to get their front page ranking, I would love to see it and
        I'm sure others would too.

        All the best,
        Ewen
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
          Originally Posted by jazbo View Post

          BUt your thread title makes the point that you were up against 70 million competitors. We are just pointing out that the whole premise of that is false and misleading.

          yes Jazbo but they seem offended that we took the time to teach them a basic SEO principle instead of letting them go on believing in their metrics for competition. we were pretty bad for nudging them in a direction that makes ranking more precise and doable. So we ought to quit.

          I guess I am just different. before I made money online I wanted people to point me in the direction of cash. Thats the pat on the back I wanted - ranking for traffic terms that make me money.
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      • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
        I think you missed the points everyone was making. It is not about what method works.

        The issue is that your title and first sentence are just blatantly wrong and misleading. There are not 70 million competitors in this instance.

        Tom



        Originally Posted by ewenmack View Post

        Guys,

        The purpose of this post was not to debate which method works
        or why something works, just showing what was done to get this result.

        As I pointed out at the beginning, people go about SEO differently and
        am not discrediting their methods.

        For people like myself when starting I would of liked to see a case study
        laid out like this.

        People have different learning styles, and if this helps them, GREAT!

        For those who have a different learning style then the way this is layed
        out won't suit them.

        For those who are using same or similar methods, then this gives them
        confidence they are going down the right track.

        I'm still open to learning, and if somebody would like to lay out what
        was done to get their front page ranking, I would love to see it and
        I'm sure others would too.

        All the best,
        Ewen
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
        Originally Posted by ewenmack View Post


        For people like myself when starting I would of liked to see a case study
        laid out like this.
        Ewen thats really not the point. the point I and others have made is that you DO NOT have a case study of how to rank until you state the real competition level for the term.

        Sorry to bore the regulars with this again but I think you are honest about missing the point so here is a search term that gets 75 Million results

        internet man girl phone

        http://www.google.com/search?q=internet%20man%20girl%20phone

        It gets ZERO traffic. Check your keyword tool. No one searches for it and it will make you ZERO dollars ranking for it. No one is competing for it. Not less than 75 million competitors - ZERO competitors.

        So a case study of how to rank only matters for search terms that get traffic that there are real competitors for. If you leave out the traffic that the keyword gets then there is no case study. Its just noise and like jazbo said misleading until you fill in those critical details.
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  • Profile picture of the author jhonsean
    Well said by ewenmack our concerns here is to have more experience and knowledge on how we can extend up our capabilities as an SEO.
    Other old SEO thinks that everything is learning no matter if it is simple and basic.
    Good Strategy of yours ewenmack. keep it up.
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    • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Keep posting, I always like to see what others are up to when trying to rank a site!
      Thanks Yukon and to the others who are showing appreciation.

      This is my first real go at giving SEO a good shot.

      Still working on this one site, so don't have other sites to
      report back on.

      I see no point in starting over on another site yet as this hasn't reached #1.

      All the best,
      Ewen
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  • Profile picture of the author mooble
    You make good money with adsense from it?
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    • Profile picture of the author ewenmack
      I stand corrected guys about the 70 million competitors in my title.

      I am referring to the number of times that term is mentioned according to Google.

      It is now ranked #5 for term which gets 2900 daily searches from the big three search engines.

      All the best,
      Ewen
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