I would start by reconsidering retiring

Not being funny, I have been in the top 10 on googles first page for months for my particular keyword, whats the use of being number 1 on google, if the products on your website are not what people want, a keyword ranking of 10,000 is too broad a match, I use keywords between 500 and 5000.

Put your keyword that as a search ranking of 10,000, in google search, and I bet you have got at least 10 million competing websites lol

I can never understand why people get so hung over on being on googles page 1, like I say,I find it very easy to get on page one, simply go over to twitter and keep tweeting, people will send you tweets and follow you, within 4 or 5 days your twitter name will be on page 1 of google like mine always is @nigelonthenet

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i have other sites, niches where i AM on #1. It is already a significant difference whether you hold #1 or #2.

Also..i dont care about a twitter name. There is no doubt in my opinion that google position gives the most/best traffic, especially if its a highly searched for "buyer's keyword". This is why i am so excited, because for the KW and search volume given i think #49 is very good - it can only get better!

And no, no problem to rank for some micro-micro niches or obscure keywords. But thats not the point. The point is to rank for something competitive what many thousands of people are searching for every day.

Well the one thing to check in MS would be the value of the keywords. If they're above $30 there is potential there. If it's in the $400,$500 etc you're on to a real winner.

Aim high! Go for it, there are fewer people out there with big time SEO knowledge and skills than you'd think, not to mention that 99% are to scared to even attempt 'weight loss'.

Work more to bring your site to the first page. Check again the potential of the niche in people ready to spend money. Some niches have high search volume but with little desire to spend money.

If you get a ridiculous offer for the site TAKE IT!
There was a story of a guy who had a "trendy" social media site and was offered $627 MILLION dollars. He REJECTED the offer feeling that if he monitized the site first he could get even more.

A year or so passed and the site became not so trendy. The offered was pulled but the guy scrambled to get $2 million for the site, not bad, but a huge difference.

Take it and RUN!

It all depends on the market. I am #4 for a search phrase that KWTool says has 49,500 searches per month and over 27,000 local, and I am nowhere close to retired yet. The phrase is quite competitive. How much does Google say it costs for a click in your niche?

talk about counting your chickens. traffic does not equal money directly, you will probably need to spend a lot of time testing and tweaking your site, and even then you are unlikely rake the cash in on the merit of some additional traffic.

Anything is possible when you believe in yourself and your quest to become an Internet Marketing Champion.
Gold Chicken Nugget Keywords taste like money.

Re: PR

It has been really slow to update and according to many sites, hasnt updated since june of last year.

Would you be interested in a Joint Venture? I get your sit up to top 10, making money and we both win - I work mainly with adsense - Good passive hands free income once you have the traffic -drop me a PM if you are interested.

Need to give an udpdate:

Now, i jumped up from page #5 to top of page #3, going on page #2 soon as it looks.

From when i posted this 6 days ago, when i realized this site/keyword has potential i did some additional stuff, added new content and used the help of some guys on fiverr. Within several hours (!) i jumped up 2 whole pages in Google.

Needless to say i am very excited. This is one keyword where i never expected to rank at all.

I am in the process of thinking now whether i should keep affiliate offers on that site (its without a question a big buyer's market!!) - or replace affiliate offers with AdSense. Because there is a likelihood that replacing affiliate offers with AdSense might give an additional boost.

Traffic right now is already increasing, although still not anyway near what i want/need.

OP, your getting traffic, are you getting any sales?

It might be a good idea to test Adsense, you never know until you actually test the traffic & see what they want. Have you already started Adsense on the site?

No *significant* traffic and no sales on this site (however i might double check my clickbank stats just to make sure). As said, traffic is still minimal...the whole thing really just started taking off the last few days.

I did not do ANYTHING (literally) with this site since last May..just now started to put more attention to the site.

The site uses the same format/theme and structure as two other sites of mine who make some money (one on #1 in Google)..however those niches are way easier.

The format is quality articles paired with product reviews and (custom) banners. It works pretty well on the two other sites where i did *some* testing already. (Although the niches are different)

Eg... what seems to go pretty well is "Adsense like" Ads within text/articles pointing to some clickbank offers.

For extensive testing and Adsense/CB comparisons i still need more traffic...so priority right now is SEO still to get the site more up in rankings.

How did you manage to get all the niche related backlinks?

I've found that even for highly searched terms the traffic is non-existant until you get towards the top of Page 2.

I'd be finding all the long tails for your page and grabbing the traffic for them. Optimising for the long tails will help push up the ranking for the main keyword while getting you traffic quicker.

What is the number of phrase searches? Subtract the Exact searches from that to get an idea of the traffic you can get from the long tails.

If you are already 'in favour' for the main keyword then it shouldn't take too many 'anchor text targeted' backlinks to rank for the long tails too.

Keep an eye on your Webmaster Tools to see the long tails coming into play. It will also let you see how many people are reaching Page 3 and then Page 2.

What would be the best way to get the long tails, aside from looking at analytics?

What would be your strategy? Simply back linking using the long tails - or adding content targeting the long tails?

Eg... article about long tails on article directory -- link to --> sub page on site with article about long tail (deep linking) or --> main site?

Just focus on the page that is ranking well. Adding new pages wouldn't take advantage of the hard work you have already done for that page.

All you need to do is go to the Google Keyword Tool and search for your 'main keyword'. Make sure you select the option to only show terms containing your keyword. It will produce a list of long tails such as... "what is the best main keyword"; "does the main keyword really work" etc.

Look through the list and see which ones are either in your content already or ones that can be easily added to your page without making it unreadable. You can always add more to the page.

Then just build some links to the same page using the long tail anchor text. You don't need to target every long tail, just the ones that require none, or just a little manipulation.

Webmaster tools is also great at picking the long tails you might not have thought about before. If you see a long tail sitting at Position #5 with 1000 impressions per month and you haven't built and links to it yet, build some links using that anchor text and get it to #1. That will get you an extra 400 visitors per month without creating any more content.

Just try it on the weakest long tail you can find and see how quickly Google picks it up. You might be suprised.

Edit:

If your main page is the one ranking then...

Article about long tails on article directory -- link to --> Main Page (using long tail as anchor text)..

Hey, i would do pretty well from $9000/month passively from ONE single site

Fraggler, VERY good info.

Here is something of interest:

What i did was redirect the index.php of my main page (example mysite.com) so every hit to "mysite.com" actually becomes "mysite.com/some-phrase-with-keyword/"

(in other words: If i go to my site mysite.com you will start at mysite.com/some-phrase-with-keyword/ )

According to analytics the main volume of searches lands there - while in the Google index it only shows mysite.com/ when i enter the keyword and search in Google.

Question here is whether to target the TLD domain only or mysite.com/some-phrase-with-keyword/ as entry point for the backlinks - or whether it even plays a role in the eyes of Google... (Since TLD and the longer one are the same thing.... )

That's a hard one and I honestly don't know.

You might need to specify the canonical url as the destination page and send new backlinks to that.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Specify your canonical

You'll need to track down someone who has done it before to know the best way to go, sorry.

I think what I would do, if I was you, is to sell me your site for $20. Then I would back link the crap out of the site.


Let me know your PayPal address and I will send you the money.

A good way (and very easy compared to Google analytics) is to use statcounter.com - it has free keyword analysis section, which could be help and it quickly shows you have people are getting to the (links to long tale ranking terms)

As far as numbers, it more accurate that Adwords external because it is actual searches that got to your site.