What it really takes to get to #1 in Google
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A little background first. I've been in web design and development for the past 10 years but have only recently learned about SEO. I've always knew the basics but never dove deep into it. So about 4 months ago, April 7, 2012 to be exact I started studying. I spent time on this website among many others and I can tell you there is a lot of garbage out there. I had a niche picked out and I wanted to be number one. Don't we all?
There are most likely a lot of techniques that would work to get you to the number one spot but I will share mine. I'm not selling anything other than a little inspiration for those who are starting their journey.
Before I get started here are some screenshots from my analytic account so you can see I launched on April 18th. This goes until the night of this post on Sept 11th 2012. 5 months from 0 unique visitors to 800+ unique visitors daily.
I would show you the image but the WF is making remove it because I don't have 15 posts. Bad design guys.
How did I do it? Here's a list in it's simplest form.
PS: THe fact you can't post images until you have 15 post is a really bad.
There are most likely a lot of techniques that would work to get you to the number one spot but I will share mine. I'm not selling anything other than a little inspiration for those who are starting their journey.
Before I get started here are some screenshots from my analytic account so you can see I launched on April 18th. This goes until the night of this post on Sept 11th 2012. 5 months from 0 unique visitors to 800+ unique visitors daily.
I would show you the image but the WF is making remove it because I don't have 15 posts. Bad design guys.
How did I do it? Here's a list in it's simplest form.
- Study and Learn SEO. I studied my butt off. Anything related to SEO. I watched videos, read posts, ebooks and blogs. I wanted to give myself at least two weeks of just studying and coming up with a game plan. I spent most of these two weeks studying as well. I finally ended up on Pat Flynn's website who used Joseph Archibald's strategy. If you don't know it check it out. Great concept and strategy. I had to read it 10 times before I really understood it as they don't explain everything in detail. I found myself having so many questions that I actually asked Joseph himself on his blog. Great guy by the way.
- Create content. I created content for my website and a lot of it. This is the single biggest downfall to Affiliates that I see. I closely follow my competition and I know their approach and I see their approaches fail because they go small on the content. If you think you can create a small amount of content and never update it... Good luck. You are just like a million other affiliates out there who just don't get it. Pick a niche you can write about. You need a lot of good content and you need to keep adding to it. One thing Google loves is fresh content. The past 5 months I've added content daily to my site. So plan for it and keep fresh content building in your daily schedule.
- Good Designed Website. Not as important as content but don't skimp on the design of your website. If you are an affiliate trying to recommend a product your site should have a professional appeal to it. If you can't design it then try to outsource the design or get some feedback from friends. I bring this up because it can hurt your conversion rates.
- Spend Some Money. Be prepared to spend some money. I spent roughly $1000 dollars in the first few months to get started. I probably could of got off with spending $500 but you need to budget some money for backlinking tools.
- Get the Right Tools: The tools I used and still use today are MarketSamurai, UAW, spinrewriter, backlinksgenie, backlinksindexer, senuke.com and prweb. The prweb I don't recommend to start off. This is something where if you can afford it I would recommend it but you don't need this when your starting out.
- Start Out Small: Use Pat Flynn's strategy by building web 2.0 websites with relevant and unique content and point it back to your domain. Then slam the web 2.0 websites with backlinks. Hammer them with backlinks. Then after a week or two create another round of web 2.0 websites and hammer the new sites with backlinks. While you are doing this create a youtube video, answer a question on amazon or yahoo answers. Get a few BIG PR backlinks to your website. Create a unique article on the big article sites like ezinearticles, articleblast and so on.
- Continue Backlinking: Once you start backlinking don't ever stop. You'll be doing it forever or at least that is my strategy. As soon as you let up someone will be right behind you ready to take your #1 spot. I started off small for the first month doing UAW articles at 5 per day. After the first month I up'd it to 20 per day. About 2 months into it I was doing 100 articles per day on BackLinksGenie. Keep in mind if you do a 100 articles per day only 70 will be good and after a few weeks about 40 of them will be indexed by google. That's where BacklinksIndexer comes in. I run all of my backlinks through that program several times to get them indexed.
- Keep Building Content. As you are building backlinks everyday you should be adding to the content on your website. Don't wait a week then add a lot of content in one shot. Add it everyday. Get the Googlebot to come back to you on a daily basis. Google visits my site every day and more than just my main page.
PS: THe fact you can't post images until you have 15 post is a really bad.
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