I found an interesting thread in the Warrior Forum40-day-challenge-top-5-google-within-40-days.html and I think that it contains pretty useful information for anybody interested in SEO.
The author is Joseph Archibald and he tries a challenge to rank in the top 5 of Google searches for a particular keyword.
The first questions is how to choose a food keyword and the author suggests to consider following questions:
- would you wish to attain a high ranking for a keyword phrase that is going to bring you buyers regardless there are perhaps only around 2 thousand searches per month in Google stats? (Very possibly a long-tail keyword).
- or are you looking to rank a keyword phrase that has 50,000 + searches a month and not too concerned about it being a buyer-related keyword? After all, with a large search volume, no matter your chosen keyword you should get at the very least a few sales, right (or wrong)?
- or perhaps the definition for you relates much more about how much competition there is in the likes of Google. If I stipulate something along the lines of 20 million competition for the same keyword phrase you wish to rank for, does that mean its a good or great keyword if you can indeed rank highly for it?
He then proposes following answers:
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must have potential buyers (not necessarily long tail however)
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must have over 50 thousand searches a month as per Google stats in the Google External keyword tool – this is the EXACT MATCH and not BROAD
- well okay, the competition as per the Google stats is not what I would focus on at all. I don’t care if there are 5,000 comp or 50 million comp. There are other factors more important at play than this sort of competition. But for the sake of many, I shall indeed mention the competition of my chosen keyword
The author then encourages ìto check for your potential keyword who is top 10 to top 20 in Google, i.e. your true competition. For each of them he does as he describes below:
a) I look firstly for Google PR when assessing my potential competition. Say my competition in the top 10 all have PR5s or so, well then, I have a job on my hands! If the keyword is really worth going for (its going to offer really good pay-back in one form or another) then this will not necessarily put me off.
b) I check the site’s backlinks by using Yahoo because it shows up more backlinks to a site than do Google (by a long way!). A thorough investigation would involve questions such as “Where are the liinks coming from? What is the PR of the sites that they are coming from? Are they very much related sites to the one we are researching – the one we are just about to build?”
An important factor to consider when we want to challenge other good sites is a domain name with an exact match to our keywords/keyword phrase we wish to rank for. This will certainly give some advantage, some kudos in and by Google.
At this point the author chooses a keyword “twilight poster” which has 110,000 exact searches according to the keyword tool google and a domain name http://twilightposterz.com.
Google shows global and local results.Global is as it says – based on Google search figures from around the world over the period of the preceding year, broken down to a monthly average. Local stats are for the previous month alone (no average over the year) for the Google server that you have chosen to use. Ya, you can use this feature on the free Google Keyword tool, which is very neat! There’s a tab at the top where you can change to your desired country to get Google traffic stats for that country alone.
Joseph then decides to add some content to his site (a WordPress Blog) and writes some posts which target initially the keywords “Twilight posters” and “New Moon poster”. Further, he then sets up a page (static, in WordPress) for my main keyword – Twilight poster. The author suggests that it is well worth to do some initial effort of gaining some uniqueness for your web content where you wish to try and rank for a particular keyword. otherwise, its very probable that the amount of backlinks you need will be a lot more than if your content is relatively unique. He suggests also to add some internal links between the pages and especially links to the home page.
The author then gives some advise about increasing the site monetization such as adding Adsense and perhaps ads of products from Amazon or EBay.
He then continues his promotion activities as follows:
a) He posts different articles to various DO-Follow article directories, which will be used for what I call my “anchor articles”. The articles of course have links to some pages of the website.
b) He then generates a further set of articles which will be used to “smack-up” those anchor articles. Meaning, he backlinks to the main articles in the DO-Follow directories, just to give them some juice.
The author gives also a list of the main article directories which he uses for SEO purposes…such as:
Ezinearticles.com
GoArticles.com
ArticleBlast.com
Amazines.com
ArticleAlley.com
ArticleDashboard.com
All these are DO-Follows which is obviously highly beneficial for hyper-text links and SEO.
The author suggests also to ping the articles by using various online ping services such as this very handy tool… Ping-o-Matic! or to supply those articles on social media posts etc with some backlinks.
Another interesting point mentioned by the author is that, rather than submitting the same article to each directory, he submitsì spun articles instead, thus reducing any potential for a footprint. He changes also the title and the bio box and.he varies the hyper-text too in the bios.
Another interesting technique that he mentions is to extract from the articles some 100+ words snippets of texts with a single hyper-text link to a web page of choice.
He then uses a service called Blog Blueprint to upload the text snippets and then these are drip-fed at the rate of 20 per day to blogs and other websites. Thus he is able to attain rather a lot of very nice little text links without too much work.
The Warrior forum thread is very long and complex and I have included here only some important point. I invite you to actually follow the thread if you want a lot of additional details.
Resources
There a few useful resources mentioned in the thread and you will find the links below:
SEO Tips and Tricks Blog
How To Make Profitable Keywords Run To You.
The Best Spinner
Latent Sementic Indexing (LSI)
Scroogle Scraper
Related Content Blogs