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Can this be Conquered?

by TKO
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Gday warriors

I'm trying to target a keyword that has "580,000" competing webites. I'm already on page #2 for MSN and Yahoo. Unfortunately I'm not in the top 100 in google.

So Far

Submitted to Directories
Written 25 articles for Ezines
Forum posting
Squidoo lens that just posts my rss feed
Submitted my Rss feed to the rss directories

Any other suggestions? I would love some insight.

Also my blog has 70 unique posts with average word count of 750. If I can get on the front page of google for this term it would really make my day.

Thanks in advance
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  • Profile picture of the author freetraff
    Originally Posted by TKO View Post

    Gday warriors

    I'm trying to target a keyword that has "580,000" competing webites. I'm already on page #2 for MSN and Yahoo. Unfortunately I'm not in the top 100 in google.

    So Far

    Submitted to Directories
    Written 25 articles for Ezines
    Forum posting
    Squidoo lens that just posts my rss feed
    Submitted my Rss feed to the rss directories

    Any other suggestions? I would love some insight.

    Also my blog has 70 unique posts with average word count of 750. If I can get on the front page of google for this term it would really make my day.

    Thanks in advance
    I assume when you are talking about "580,000" competing webites you mean inanchor:"your keyword" (this search operator in Google shows how many other web pages are ALSO building backlinks for the same keyword).

    Because if you mean simple keyword insertion (not inanchor:"your keyword") into Google - then this competition is really simple.

    Ok, what to do?

    (1) What you have done is already great.

    (2) I would make sure that your site is properly optimized for a keyword that you are fighting for: which means this keyword is in the meta title and description of your site, and mentioned at least few times in the body of the page.

    This is simple, but helps.

    (3) You need seriously more backlinks (with the anchor text in the backlinks to be your keyword).

    With good amount of quality backlinks you can do miracles. Check my sig and you will see that I took 3,000,000 inanchor competition in 3 weeks and got Google page 1. This is all thanks to backlinks from inside blog posts, from relevant sites.

    I do not say this is the only way to build one way links, but at the moment the most effective that I have ever been using on the market.

    And I am sure - YES, it can be conquered!
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    • Profile picture of the author TKO
      Taking my time with backlinks because i want to make it look natural. Dont want to get sandboxed or delisted.

      Am i worrying too much?

      At the moment i have 462 backlinks according to Yahoo siteexplorer in 5 months.
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      • Profile picture of the author freetraff
        Originally Posted by TKO View Post

        Taking my time with backlinks because i want to make it look natural. Dont want to get sandboxed or delisted.

        Am i worrying too much?

        At the moment i have 462 backlinks according to Yahoo siteexplorer in 5 months.
        It is great to worry about the quality of backlinks, ALWAYS do that.

        I will give you more details:

        - backlinks are inside REAL blog posts (from inside the text of real blog posts)
        - on relevant sites (you choose the relevancy)
        - sites are on different IPs
        - sites belong to different people
        - backlinks are built gradually (not to create a sudden suspicious backlink number jump)
        - you can diversify anchor texts the way you want

        I do not imagine anything to be more natural and SEO safe. For Google it looks that blogs are publishing information on their pages and quote your site(s) in their posts.

        For you this is link building, but basically this is new level of article marketing + blog posting. You create 1 article and it gets republished on other blogs and these blogs DO NOT touch your backlinks. Thus 1 article gets converted into up to 60 backlinks (or up to 120 backlinks on special offers).

        And if Google starts punishing for article creation and blog posting, then hundreds of millions of sites should be wasted down the drain and de-indexed.

        I do not think Google is interested in doing that. Unlike link building scams here you create real CONTENT, and then get backlinks from this content being republished. And Google will always help those who create content, because the more content Google indexed, the more info it can show to its surfers.
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    Diectories are poor on this one.... comment on blogs as many as you can...
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliated survivor
    It´s not only how many competitors there are for a certain keyword. Visitors usually do not use quotes ("") when inserting search terms into Google. Without quotes the search results are "broad match" results. If many strong websites have your keyword, in broad match, in their page titles or in their content, it will be difficult. Than you need a lot of backlinks.
    Sometimes however a keyword has, even in quotes, a lot of competitors. However they do not use this keyword often, may be only one time on a page. With very relevant content (500 or more words with 2% keyword density) these searchpages can be conquered quite easily.
    These are often keywords that, when using the Google keyword tool, have a certain amount of visitors in broad match, but have none or significantly less in phrase match. Webmasters do not optimize their pages for keywords like this. Most of them only have a few hundred visitors at most per month. But once in a while you can find a really good one.
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    • Profile picture of the author freetraff
      Originally Posted by affiliated survivor View Post

      when using the Google keyword tool, have a certain amount of visitors in broad match, but have none or significantly less in phrase match. Webmasters do not optimize their pages for keywords like this. Most of them only have a few hundred visitors at most per month. But once in a while you can find a really good one.
      Great tip. But I prefer to go deeper and use Exact Match in Google keyword tool, because (according to Google) this is the best hard rock solid info about search demand for this phrase.
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  • Profile picture of the author affiliated survivor
    Yes, exact match is even more precise. For example: Assume we have a phrase made up of two words. Sometimes the last word of a sentence is the first word of the phrase, and the first word of the next sentence is the 2nd word. But between word 1 and word 2 there is a dot. Because of this dot it´s not the exact phrase. But Google lists this page under phrase match anyway.
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