How the F*ck? I thought Content was "KING"

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Keyword - 18k local search exact
Doesn't seem like it's a competitive keyword
Partial EMD domain
0 links showing in ahref
Created on May 10 (before the Penguin 2.0)
0 content

Ranking #4.
WTF?

search - watch archer online

url - watcharcheronlinenow.com
#search engine optimization #content #fck #king #thought
  • Banned
    Content is king, for traffic.

    Not much point ranking a blank page.
  • LOL, a 'Becker Case Study.'

    Let's come back in a week and see if it's still there.
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    • His previous one was up for a Good 4-5 months
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  • Content is King if you are trying to kiss Google's ass. A positive experience when a visitor lands is what makes money!

    The Google gravy train is coming off the rails, jump off before it hurts your business.
  • Banned
    Looks like a bunch of morons in that niche pushing their luck with the Fox legal dept.



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    • Correct. That's the reason 'Becker' uses these as examples and puts no contact information (or even text) on the page. He's afraid of getting sued.

      That's also why there's no real competition...
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  • Banned
    What's he doing, some redirect or something?
  • Yeah it definitely looks like Becker, but he usually also adds a picture. Backlinks might not have been indexed yet. He usually does it by putting 3-4 links on PR4-5 websites in his network.
  • I think you all missed the point. Unless the competition is 0, this kind of site shouldn't be ranking on the 1st page ...
  • What the hell is Becker doing? What is the point of eanking these pages, just to shoe us how good he is? I never understood the point of putting a page up with a picture and a couple of words. No ads, no sales pitches, so what the f**k is his point?
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    • He's just trying proving that a page can rank for a term with higher search volume as long as you have done your keyword research well. An empty page is saying that content has nothing to do with rankings, or at least that's what his point is.
  • Content is at best "Queen", and even that's being generous.
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  • Banned
    The general rule seems to be that you can better have no content then crappy content that is full of grammar and spelling issue's.
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    • Banned
      True considering Google obviously has a spell check (Did you mean [correct word/spelling]?.
  • This may help you understand, it is showing 40 .gov/.edu links
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    • Just checked it with ahrefs and majestic, doesn't show ANYTHING as far as backlinks.

      Why all of the sudden ppl start with the BS, "oh it's just to promote the services".
      Can ANYONE of you "badass SEOs" do something similar?
      Well I'm sure he gets all bunch of ppl throwing money asking to rank them in 4 days. IT'S NOT THE POINT.
      The point is simple:
      1 - The site is sh*t and shouldn't rank for ANY of the keywords, no matter how much competition the keyword has.
      2 - I know that Google don't care about your content, or that it can't understand good content vs garbage content, the WHOLE point was to show that the only reason you want GOOD content is to have good conversions.
      You see all bunch of threads on WF saying - "I have 30 unique high quality articles, WTF I'm not ranking?" ... OR "Create quality content and forget about SEO".


      And as far as monetizing, the keyword gets 18k exact local searches. He can just throw simple adsense or CPA offer (For example get free DVD player or TV or some BS) or Lock the content and get $5-10 / day.
      And no he won't get sued because there is 0 content and "archer" is not a trademark.
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  • Beckers point is that you don't need content to rank Most people tell you that you need content and 500-1000 word articles are a must if you want to rank etc, when really the secret is good keyword research and powerful links. That was only one of Beckers "to prove a point" sites, he has quite a few and some of them I've seen in competitive money making niches.
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    • If these are public examples he has shown then please feel free to share them because I have never seen even one competitive money making niches he has done this with unless we have DRASTICALLY different ideas of competitive.

      I mostly see him showing weak stuff just to wow the gullible masses but I admit I have not followed him recently.
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    • If most people are saying that, then no wonder there are a ton of fail thread here.

      Paul
  • Competition is also very weak (backlinks and onsite SEO).
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  • Becker does a fantastic job showing your keywords that no one would really want to rank for, but that have high search volume.

    I would never spend anytime trying to rank for any TV-related keywords, but as I said, it's great for his viewers to see that he can do this.

    I use to shoot videos showing people LIVE how I could rank a video in literally 2minutes. Keywords were long tail and easy to rank, but everyone loved them.
  • nik0,

    Yeah, but what if you put the URL in quotes? Wouldn't that cut back on the related sites showing up? Sounds like an easy fix. But good point about the tools. Definitely right about it not being THAT easy or they'd be DOA.
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    • Banned
      Test it for yourself, same issue.
  • Either this is a glitch or Googles Penguin Update has not hit it yet. The update included going after exact match domains and this is a prime example of one.

    Keyword:

    URL: www.now.com
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    • Good point. Penguin hasn't run again since this site landed there. It should be interesting to see if a site like this can last even one month.
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    • Banned
      That's not an EMD, that's a partial EMD.

      Maybe you should look up what "exact" means
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    • Hardly a glitch. There's no competition and the site has a few high PR backlinks. Easy to do.

      And Penguin did not go after EMD's. That was a separate update months ago.
  • Never really enjoyed becker nor his service. What is he doing? Proving a point that he's the s***? Which makes me think why there are a lot of people on the Forum that complain that x, y, z isn't working because x, y, z told them this works and what not.
  • True, it might not be a perfect EMD but it's sure as hell pretty dam close.
  • Yeah "watch archer online", To me that's not even a keyword.
    It ranks? for what? Some mad obscure term that no one cares about. Commercial intent, I see none.

    I do see a good old boy


    Selling that good ole cure all to the masses.

    It's like the old trick with a potential client on the line and using slideshare to rank something related to their business while your talking.

    Fools Gold
    Bought by fools
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  • It's not snake oil. For every popular TV series / latest movie, the term "watch whatever online" or even more so, "watch whatever online free" is valid and voluminous. These terms do get massive searches. You only need to go to some of the sites touting these (sometimes) illegal warez to see how they fill the pages with tricky-to-dodge ads and cpa offers.

    While I agree that the sites are worthless long term and bordering on (if not totally) illegal, there is money to be made there.

    To be honest, considering the nefarious nature of this niche, I can't believe a supposed player in the SEO niche is championing these kinds of targets.
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  • I don't think anyone knows what the fu** ranks a page. Other than those nerds that work for Google. I hear bull crap from all sides, and never see proof. I don't think there is anything that will work universal. I think luck has a lot to do with it.
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    • I do think that there is a step by step perfect ranking method. Problem is nobody knows what it is exactly.
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      Really ranking a page isn't complicated, it's mostly links + text. The thing is, it's not just any links or any text, still it's not complicated.

      Here's a tip to help rank a lot of same niche keywords.

      Say my niche has a main keyword (ex: auto insurance), now I'm not going to piss around & bother trying to rank for that main keyword because competition is mostly legit Fortune 500 business with unlimited money & authority.

      Here's the tip...

      I still target the main keyword regardless If I ever rank for that specific keyword or not. What this does is boost authority for longtail keywords.

      So... I build up a lot of niche authority for my main keyword (auto insurance) & branch off that authority with my longtail keywords, example:
      • auto insurance (category page)
        • auto insurance (supporting page)
        • auto insurance (supporting page)
        • auto insurance (supporting page)
        • etc...

      Even though those longtails will still have competition, I've built authority for the main keyword (auto insurance) which gives me an advantage over the other longtail guys that figure the main keyword (auto insurance) is way too much competition to even consider targeting. Again, it doesn't matter If I ever rank for the main keyword, I could care less If it ever ranks. What I care about is the authority I create to boost my other same niche keywords, the real keywords I'm targeting.

      Once you've hammered that main keyword (ex: auto insurance) then all your basically trying to do on the new longtail keywords is target the new keywords (ex: rates, best, cheap, texas, etc...) combined with the existing authority pages (relevant internal links) you've already created for the main keyword. By the time you start working on targeting same niche longtail keywords you'll already have a solid base to piggyback off of from the main keyword pages.

      Create a solid base (ex: auto insurance) & the rest of the relevant keywords get easier to rank.
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    • For realz?

      You think that Google -- one of the biggest companies on Earth -- randomly ranks pages? They award the top spot to the luckiest page that day?

      Maybe you were joking (at least I hope so...)
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  • I think people who are interested in 'Becker' and 'Source-Wave' should peruse this review thread for some interesting comments.
  • So how many of you whiners here took advantage of these wide open keywords and are making bank from them like I'm doing? Or are you still hoping to get paid for b*tching? It's been 2 months since the thread was started, which is more than enough time to start making some cash.

    And no, you don't have to share illegal content, or even use trademarked domains. You can kill it with these keywords totally on the up and up. There's plenty of content on Youtube, and Adsense money is like taking candy from a baby on these sites. And there's plenty of other things you could promote. It's not the best converting traffic, but with a 1,000 or more visitors a day, it's fairly easy to make a sale or two a day.
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    • Banned
      Big money in them there keywords huh?
  • I have seen Alex Becker from sourcewave.com ranking websites without any content just from few high PR backlinks thats it.. period...

    He says rank first and then put good content for facing pandaz...
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