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How to Get Ranked by Google in about 10 Minutes

Filed Under (blog seo) by shaners on 24-11-2008

How to Get Ranked by Google in about 10 Minutes

This is a guest post by Aaron Abber of http://www.ListedInstantly.com. Aaron is a niche marketing pioneer, having earned over $323,165.05 in niche marketing alone. Visit http://www.ListedInstantly.com for more tips and tricks to make your niche sites profitable.

(You might find this next sentence a little offensive so don’t say I didn’t warn you.)

There is a lot of crap being taught online about getting indexed and ranked by Google.

I get so fed up with so-called “experts” telling people things that just are not true about how Google works and how to get a site to rank well on Google. One of the biggest myths I hear again and again is that it take weeks or even months to get content indexed by Google.

Horse pucky.

Here is a startling but true statement: Give me any site and I can get new content on that site indexed in as little as 10 minutes (if it is an established site) and certainly less than 24 hours (even if the domain is brand new.)

To prove my point I registered a completely new domain name at 12:45pm. By 7am the next morning Google had not only indexed the content, it had ranked the site #1 against 4.6 million competing sites. It was not hard to do. In fact, there was no magic or special technique involved.

But since I knew many people wouldn’t believe me when I told them how I did it, I used Juvio to record everything I did in real time to prove it.

Not only that, but I recorded a complete series of “how to” videos to show you how to do exactly the same thing. You can view them here:

http://www.ListedInstantly.com

They’re free for now, but I won’t guarantee to make them free forever. You want to go view them now.

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Are you selling the click ?

Filed Under (blog seo) by shaners on 05-10-2008

So I was just doing some stats analysis, (google analytics) as I usually do. I’m a little obsessive about stats to be honest.

What I usually do is I log into google analytics.

Select one of the many sites/blogs and view stats.

I typically view the overall which is a month worth of data, then select the day and have a look at what keywords brought me what traffic and then I look at the referrers and what they brought, then I select view content and see whare the traffic is going, what they landed on etc.

Then I select top landing pages, both for the day and the month as an overall.

So Usually about once a week I take a good long look and select the year to date, I just change the 2008 to 2007 and see what is going on for the last year.

I’ll tell you what I get out of this and then ask a question of you.

When I look at the top 10 keywords then I go to google and drop the keywords into the search I look for how many first page rankings I get off of the keyword in question.

Now here Is my question for you.

I have a keyword phrase , it’s a 5 word phrase (long tail phrase-more then 3 words) which has a first page and first listing.

The phrase has 177,000 competing pages and my clicks for that term for the year were 204.

Ive always been curious and am aware of what alot of the common knowledge is about first page first listing means, But I have always been curious about the actual click through numbers on page one for each listing.

You know

first list (how many or what percentage of the search volume for the phrase results in clicks)

2nd list

etc etc etc

Then I looked at the description line. It is exactly as It appears on the page description and then asked myself would I click through to it.

Then it dawned on me Am I really selling the click?

Have found this to be the case on your pages and posts, are you selling the click? and what are your thoughts on what should be a good click through rate for the page one ranking and first listing.

Depending on the search volume numbers, is there a good click through rate number?

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How to Find High Demand Low Competition Keywords for Your Blog

Filed Under (Blog keyword research, blog seo) by shaners on 25-06-2008

This isnt a post about finding a niche for your blog, I am going to assume you already have a blog up and running and are looking for some high demand low competition keywords and keyword phrases.

Note: Before you begin, if you’re NOT 100% serious about getting your website to the top of Google, Yahoo, and MSN, don’t read another word. Only read on if you plan to put everything I will be teaching you into action.

If you’re anything like I was when I first began blogging, you’ve probably created a brand new Blog.  And then You did what everyonelse did: submitted it to a few search engines and hoped that people would auto-magically show up at your site and buy whatever it is you were selling. WRONG huh !!!

So typically what happens is this:
A little time passes maybe a few weeks and only a few stray searchers pop into your Blog, you decide to try and “optimize” your website around your main keyword in hopes that you just might rank well in 1 of the millions of search engines. Another couple of weeks go by and still no luck.

At this point you probably give up and decide to either build another website around a different target market or just lose all hope and quit. Well, news flash, as you’ve probably figured out by now, this is not the way to go about doing things.

Let me give you a specific example of what your very first steps MUST be when creating any website… no matter what the subject matter is. And this is something I wish I had of known or had someone show me. One of my first ideas was to do a weight loss blog, my girlfriend was struggling at the time with her weight, (it’s a chick thing I know). So I figured I had a very real insight and could get content via her torment with losing wieght, get her insights and all the rest.

Know what , why don’t we just do that our example, let’s create a weight loss related blog live right here on this blog anyone who wants to participate can. ( I get all the money though, hey its my idea :-P so I get all the moolah)

Before we start creating and collecting content for the website, we need to do a little keyword research. This is VERY important and should not be skipped. To do our keyword research we need to visit a few websites.

The first of which should be:
http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/index.php?keyword=weight%20loss#results

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

They have a very good keyword tool, and best of all it’s free! Once we are there, we can enter the most generic keyword for our website into the keyword selector tool. In our example, our keyword would be “weight loss”. We get  85,100,000 for weight loss searches for the month of June 2006.

Now that’s a lot of demand for weight loss just on the past month of June 2008! But that’s not all. What about the supply for that hungry demand of people looking for weight loss information, pills, programs, etc?

Well, the way to do that, and by the way this is called finding your competition. Go to Google and type the following (without the quote marks “”) “allinanchor:weight loss”.

Now notice on google where is says Results 78,200,000 for allinanchor:weight loss. Now this is what I call, some SERIOUS competition for the weight loss. If you are just starting and want to use this keyword to optimize your website, forget it! Yes, demand is high, but your supply, or competition, is so high that you can’t even consider optimizing your website for that particular keyword.

This is one of those keywords and niches that is very lucrative but might take for ever to rank for. Using the primary keyword phrase weight loss

So whats the answer then? How do I search for high demand but at the same time less competitive keywords? Very simple. I can give you some off hand data but I have to tell you that now a day SEO
(Search Engine Optimization) got even easier with a new tool.

You can take a keyword with a demand of about 500 to 30,000 searches a month using the seo book keyword tool mentioned above.

Yes you could take one which has over 30,000 searches if you have an unusual supply or competition which is lower than the requirement.

Using allinanchor:keyword on Google you expect to have a search result of 15,000 or less in order to say that you are on safe ground to optimize your website and rank higher, faster and easier.

Let’s review this next example, look on wordtracker down to weight loss foods with 99 searches last month, nice demand!, now lets see our supply or competition for this particular keyword using allinanchor:dotties weight loss zone on Google. Now you can see what we get: 58,700 for allinanchor:weight loss foods So what does this mean? You got it! GO FOR IT! 58 thousand is a bit on the competitive side but certainly we could rank high and fast doing proper use of that keyword on your website.

Looking at another term I find interesting is Weight loss spa:

Heres some information for you to consider adding in to your weight loss blog.

Keyword                                  searches

weight loss spa                      162
spa weight loss                        37
istanbul spa weight loss          18
mexico weight loss spa             8
spa and weight loss vacations   8
weight loss spa arizona             8
weight loss fitness spa              7
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weight loss body wrap spa        5
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So there you have it. Always do Step 1 and if it is a pass, move to step 2 and if that is a pass, use it, if it doesn’t pass, go back to step 1 and find another keyword with proper demand and move on to step 2 again. Meet those two very important requirements and you will be able to start the right way.

In the next few days I’ll be back with other means and ways of finding High Demand Low Competition Keywords for Your Blog

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