SUPER LOW competition - EASY to rank!

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Hey guys,

I have a long list of keywords I want to rank for, and the competition is super low (9-10,000 SERP's). Can anyone recommend a service that builds a small linkwheel or something to boost my article on my site to the top of google for these super low competition keywords?

Any tips or advice for me?

What do you guys do to rank for these low SERP's keywords?

thanks,
landon wiggs
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  • Profile picture of the author petevamp
    The smaller the competition just means that it is that much easier to get ranking for. With only 10k competitors you should be able to get to the top of the serps with very few links. So there is no real need to purchase a linking package. So long as you have optimized your meta tags and on page seo.

    Make sure that your main keyword is in the title and description as well as on your page atleast 2%. Typically you want your main keyword on the page once every 150-200 words. Then different variations on the page as well.

    You then just need to make sure that you are building links with the ancor text to your main keyword. As well as those very closely relavent keywords. Depending upon how many links your competitiors have you should be able to get that front page listing with out a problem.

    Also keep in mind that the serps also look for the keyword in the domain as well. Now it does not have to be your homepage domain but it does need to be there in some way. Or at least contain a variation of some of the main keywords. Now if you are trying to build a brand just remember to keep building your links for your main keywords. With very little competition keywords the domain is not hte most important.

    You can easily create your own link wheel through the article directories. How this is done is you simply publish an article at eza, hub pages and trcb. These three articles would all link to your inital sales or optin page. Then take veriations of that article to 3-5 other smaller article directories and submit different variations linking back to each of the 3 inital articles.

    Keep repeating this process Then start taking your articles and turn them in to pp presentations. Doing this same process by linking the main sites like youtube to your home page then other variations to your youtube pp p. You just created a nice little link wheel all of which will help push you to the top. But keep in mind you do want most of the links pointing back to your site first. So try to keep this in mind. Best of luck to you hope this helps.
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    • Profile picture of the author Odhinn
      I have a whole bunch of sites in markets like these, and the biggest thing that has worked well for me is a simple directory submission. I just put up the material, blast them to 600 or so directories, and I'm usually on the 1st page in about two week's time. If you're having trouble after that, a few articles should do the trick.
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      • I'd just start building quality links and not worry about the wheel too much. You shouldn't take too long to rank
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    Originally Posted by landonwiggs View Post

    What do you guys do to rank for these low SERP's keywords?

    thanks,
    landon wiggs
    For these kinds of keywords I have always built a hub over at Hubpages. Often times with the authority and trust rank their domain has I have ranked for keywords without doing a damn thing.

    For those keywords that do need a little push to the top social bookmarks have always worked for me. I've always outsourced that aspect though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Shazia Mirza
    Believe it or not, Auto Traffic Monopoly is a link wheel builder (the main product not the upsell)

    Pretty weird, but cheap price.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    Usually all I have to do is write a blog post, rewrite it and submit it to a few article directories and link back to my post, then let my wordpress plug ins do the rest. If it is low competition ranking for it is not that difficult to be honest.

    Benjamin Ehinger
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  • Profile picture of the author bravo75
    Why do people think that low competition has anything to do with getting to the first page of Google. It does not matter if there are 10,000 or 40,000 competing pages. You are competing against 10 pages, the first 10 in the serps. That's all that counts. You can try to rank for a keyword phrase with 200 competing pages but if the first 4 or 5 have Thousands of strong backlinks it will make it all the more harder. I have ranked for several keywords with several Million competing pages with less than 20 backlinks because top ranking competition was easy to beat. Keep that in mind the next time you are doing competition research. Competing pages don't mean Jack sh.t, to a certain extent. Obviously you don't want to be going after keywords with half a Billion competing pages for obvious reasons.
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    • Profile picture of the author Landis
      Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

      Why do people think that low competition has anything to do with getting to the first page of Google.
      number of competitors is not the only factor in determining how easy it will be to get to first page, but it is still a factor.
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      • Profile picture of the author bravo75
        A small factor, mind you.

        Originally Posted by carpetmuncher View Post

        number of competitors is not the only factor in determining how easy it will be to get to first page, but it is still a factor.
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    • Profile picture of the author Syamsul Alam
      Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

      Why do people think that low competition has anything to do with getting to the first page of Google. It does not matter if there are 10,000 or 40,000 competing pages. You are competing against 10 pages, the first 10 in the serps. That's all that counts. You can try to rank for a keyword phrase with 200 competing pages but if the first 4 or 5 have Thousands of strong backlinks it will make it all the more harder. I have ranked for several keywords with several Million competing pages with less than 20 backlinks because top ranking competition was easy to beat. Keep that in mind the next time you are doing competition research. Competing pages don't mean Jack sh.t, to a certain extent. Obviously you don't want to be going after keywords with half a Billion competing pages for obvious reasons.
      What are you said is true. But competition give is a good glance on how hard to rank on that specific keyword.

      It is small factor, I agree, but you don't want to check every site to make sure that it have strong backlink or not do you?

      By looking at competition, you can create quick decision about competing in that keyword phrase or not.

      IMHO anyway...
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      • Profile picture of the author bravo75
        There is no reason to check each site manually. That is what SEO Quake is for.

        Originally Posted by alampintar View Post

        What are you said is true. But competition give is a good glance on how hard to rank on that specific keyword.

        It is small factor, I agree, but you don't want to check every site to make sure that it have strong backlink or not do you?

        By looking at competition, you can create quick decision about competing in that keyword phrase or not.

        IMHO anyway...
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    • Profile picture of the author Marvin Johnston
      Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

      Why do people think that low competition has anything to do with getting to the first page of Google. It does not matter if there are 10,000 or 40,000 competing pages.
      Why do you appear to think low competition doesn't affect getting to a page one ranking in Google? Or is this a case of guessing?

      To date (about three years), I have yet to hear anyone else think that low competition is not a very good thing when getting page one rankings. That includes The Challenge, Immediate Edge, StomperNet, and countless other marketing posts.

      Marvin
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      • Profile picture of the author bravo75
        Competition is extremely important in regards to a good ranking in the SE's but not in terms of competing pages. I used to have the misconception that in order to analyze my competition, I had to google my keyword phrase in quotes and if anything less than 50,000 competing pages and anything over 2000 searches a month (broad match) popped up, I found a winner. This is not the correct way to research competition. The proper way to go about things, is to analyze the strength of the competition in the top ten positions. This has little to do with the number of competing pages. However, a low number of competing pages can be a good indicator whether a keyword phrase is worth pursuing or not. The less, the better but it is only a small part. The more sought after a keyword is, the more people will be trying to get it ranked highly in the serps and therefore the on page and off page SEO will be stronger. So I do agree with you that the number of competing pages are a factor. However, solely relying on the number of competing pages to determine if you can rank for a certain keyword phrase is not an effective strategy.

        Originally Posted by Marvin Johnston View Post

        Why do you appear to think low competition doesn't affect getting to a page one ranking in Google? Or is this a case of guessing?

        To date (about three years), I have yet to hear anyone else think that low competition is not a good thing when getting page one rankings.

        Marvin
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        • Profile picture of the author Marvin Johnston
          Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

          Competition is everything when it comes to a page one ranking in Google but not in terms of competing pages. I used to have the misconception that in order to analyze my competition, I had google my keyword in quotes and if anything less than 50,000 competing pages and anything over 2000 searches a month (broad match) popped up, I found a winner. This is not the correct way to research competition. The proper way to go about things, is to analyze the strengh of the competition in the top ten positions. This has little to do with competing pages.
          Are you talking about competing in a niche or a market (defined by the number of competing pages)?

          I agree that the strength of competition is a big factor in deciding to go into a given market or niche.

          But I disagree with your conclusion that it has little to do with the number of competing pages.

          Among other things, the chances of finding a niche opening are greater when there is less competition since it may not be worthwhile to go into for the bigger guns in the market to consider that niche.

          And less competition can sometimes translate into more opportunity. While the potential for a given set of keywords can be found by research, they can only be verified by testing.

          BTW, I use Market Samurai for keyword analysis but I've heard good things about some of the other keyword tools.

          Marvin
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          • Profile picture of the author Big Money
            I recommend hitting up fiverr for some cheap back links. I've been using some people on there lately and I'm seeing good results.
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          • Profile picture of the author bravo75
            Take this phrase for example: financial aid for under 18. This particular phrase has over 24,000,000 competing pages (broad match)
            The number 5 on google for that phrase is FAQ: Financial Aid, Scholarships, and Fellowships [Monthly posting]. This page (not domain) has only 10 backlinks but a fairly high PR4. the domain links are around 600,000, which is, well, astronomical. However, I know for a fact that I can outrank that particular page (not domain) for that phrase. Now, I know that a lot of people (not just newbies) wouldn't even consider that keyword phrase because it's just to much "competition". Who in their right mind would go after a keyword phrase with that much competition in such a competitive niche/market? Do you get my point when I say competing pages aren't everything?

            Btw, that phrase was just an example.
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            • Profile picture of the author Marvin Johnston
              Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

              Take this phrase for example: financial aid for under 18. This particular phrase has over 24,000,000 competing pages (broad match)
              The number 5 on google for that phrase is FAQ: Financial Aid, Scholarships, and Fellowships [Monthly posting]. This page (not domain) has only 10 backlinks but a fairly high PR4. the domain links are around 600,000, which is, well, astronomical. However, I know for a fact that I can outrank that particular page (not domain) for that phrase. Now, I know that a lot of people (not just newbies) wouldn't even consider that keyword phrase because it's just to much "competition". Who in their right mind would go after a keyword phrase with that much competition in such a competitive niche/market? Do you get my point when I say competing pages aren't everything?
              I think we are talking apples and oranges here.

              Generally speaking, broad match (without quotes) is used to find the total traffic while phrase match (with quotes) is used to find the competition.

              What you are calling competition numbers are really traffic numbers.

              The total traffic using "financial aid for under 18" is about 22,000,000 while the competition is 1.

              The problem with using broad match to define competition is other mixes of the words in the phrase get counted, and those variations may or may not be competition.

              Marvin
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              • Profile picture of the author bravo75
                I am just saying that a lot of people go about analyzing competition the wrong way. To much emphasis is put on the number of competing pages and not enough on the actual page strength of those pages that need to be "outranked" in order to receive any kind of decent traffic.

                Originally Posted by Marvin Johnston View Post

                I think we are talking apples and oranges here.

                Generally speaking, broad match (without quotes) is used to find the total traffic while phrase match (with quotes) is used to find the competition.

                What you are calling competition numbers are really traffic numbers.

                The total traffic using "financial aid for under 18" is about 22,000,000 while the competition is 1.

                The problem with using broad match to define competition is other mixes of the words in the phrase get counted, and those variations may or may not be competition.

                Marvin
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        • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
          Originally Posted by bravo75 View Post

          Competition is extremely important in regards to a good ranking in the SE's but not in terms of competing pages. I used to have the misconception that in order to analyze my competition, I had to google my keyword phrase in quotes and if anything less than 50,000 competing pages and anything over 2000 searches a month (broad match) popped up, I found a winner. This is not the correct way to research competition. The proper way to go about things, is to analyze the strength of the competition in the top ten positions. This has little to do with the number of competing pages. However, a low number of competing pages can be a good indicator whether a keyword phrase is worth pursuing or not. The less, the better but it is only a small part. The more sought after a keyword is, the more people will be trying to get it ranked highly in the serps and therefore the on page and off page SEO will be stronger. So I do agree with you that the number of competing pages are a factor. However, solely relying on the number of competing pages to determine if you can rank for a certain keyword phrase is not an effective strategy.
          I totally agree with this.

          Landon, if you are just building a couple linkwheels you can actually find some good outsourcers on Fiverr for that.

          My suggestion would be to build high quality links on blog networks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Thompson
    Here is what I do for keyword that I want to rank for ... usually I'm going after <30k SERP results.

    First, use Unique Article Wizard to submit articles. Each article will tend to go to about 600 directories or blogs. You'll usually get a couple hundred links from every article if not more. Some of the sites the UAW system use are better than others, but at the end of the day UAW DOES WORK.

    Second - this is a fine point in the use of UAW, make sure that you use a resource box file that contains MANY of your target keywords. For example you might include 20 keywords in a single file. This way you'll end up with about 30 article submissions for each keyword on each article submission.

    You would then submit one fresh article every few days using your resource box file. Within a month you will notice a very substantial improvement in rankings. It works for me pretty much every time. The key is repetition. Don't just submit one article. Submit them regularly.
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  • Profile picture of the author coollife84
    Hi Chris Thompson,

    Thanks for explaining , Is the unique article wizard best for article rewriting???
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  • Profile picture of the author TZ
    For competing pages that low 5-10K you don't need any linking unless you are in a hurry. Just put up some decent content and ping it.
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