How to get on the 1st page of Google (Part 1)
In this video (and the pdf below the video), I describe in detail how to get 100 unique articles out of 1, and how and where to post those articles for maximum Google love…
Enjoy…
***Resources (be sure to download this):
Secrets Of The 1st Page pdf
The One Piece You May Be Missing…
Man, I apologize for not posting in a while. I have been super busy on a project recently which I will let you know about in a future post. I created 15 videos for this new site, each one being 20-30 minutes long. So, it took a while to get up and running.
But the idea for the site hit me one day, and it combines my offline business with my online skills, so I think it could be a big hit. And its a little different because my total focus on this site is list building on the front end with sales on the back end. So, I’ll unveil that, maybe in my next post.
What I want to talk about in this post, though, is something almost everyone overlooks. And doing this can boost your SE rankings tremendously - internal linking.
What is internal linking? In its simplest form, it is linking one page to another in your site.
And I am no SEO expert by any means, so I don’t know all the technicalities behind it, but I do know that it helps your rankings. And the way I think about it is that if I have 10 pages on my site, and each one links out to an affiliate product or some other site, then when the spiders come crawling, they will hit a page, follow the links and be off my site in no time.
But my goal is to have them on my site as long as possible, so they can crawl and discover and index ALL of my content, so it is critical to have some links on your page linking to other pages on your site (like this one!).
So, what is the best way to do this?
Again, I’m no SEO expert, but my general approach is to have at least one link on each page going to another page. Or, if it is a blog, with every post, I make a link to the previous post, like this post I did about the product reviews and the Affiliate Genie review.
Now, I’m sure there are guru’s out there that tell you to do it a specific way to get the best results, but just link to other posts and other pages on your site, and use varying anchor text, and it should work fine. Keep it simple and uncomplicated.
That’s it. Doing this one simple thing can increase your ranking tremendously and get more of your content noticed by Google.
Pretty cool, huh?
It happened sooner than I thought…
I got my first sale yesterday with the guitar niche. Quite frankly this happened sooner than I thought it would. I have only gotten about 40 clicks to the sales pages, so that is pretty quick to me.
Also, the sale was not even the main product I am promoting! Hmmm.
So, from here I will keep promoting just like I have been except add in some new keywords to target, just as I was planning on doing anyway.
One sale means nothing really, but I still get a thrill when I get them, especially in a niche I have never gone into. And I am not concerned that I didn’t get a sale of the main product I was promoting – if this happens some more I may change the main product to the one that is selling.
Not that I want to invite competition, but the website I made is http://www.learnelectricguitaronline.net.
It’s a simple “review” style site made with Affiliate Genie (which makes the whole process extremely easy by the way). I started off targeting a few keywords, like “learn electric guitar online,” “learn to play the electric guitar,” and “learn to play electric guitar.”
But I stopped targeting these and targeted product names ONLY, like Jamplay, Guitartricks, Elmore and Jamorama. I also added extensions to these keywords like “review,” “reviews,” “lessons,” “scam.” You get the idea.
Then I did exactly what I have been explaining on this blog in THIS POST by getting my content out there and building links. I use SENUKE to save time and automate the process, but all of this can be done by hand.
Otherwise, that’s it. It’s not rocket science. To me it’s a numbers game – you find a hungry crowd, find an affiliate product, build a blog or a site, drive traffic, and you will make sales.
Does it happen overnight? Sometimes yes, but it’s rare. It takes time, patience and work, but you can make it happen.
I will keep you updated on how this site grows and progresses, but I plan on continuing to spread content and links so that it becomes a nice little passive income generator for me.
And I am also working on some cool stuff I will be posting here in the coming weeks on new ways of building links as well as how you can make a ton of money in little goldmine niches that literally no one goes after.
How To Spin Your Web Of Content And Links Like Spiderman!
Check out this video I made which is the same process I use to distribute a ton of content, build massive backlinks, and shoot my sites to the top of the search engines. You should be doing this with all of your content. I apologize in advance, it’s longer than I anticipated it would be, but there are ton of juicy bits of info in there.
Also, below the video, there are links to all of the sites mentioned plus about 50 other sites I use…Enjoy! And hey, if you like it, please feel free to tweet or Digg it!
Paid Sites
www.SENuke.com (this is what I use to automate everything, well worth it. Get the 7 day free trial to at least get more exposure to your existing content)
www.easybacklinkbuilder.com ($5 per month, for 30 high PR backlink opportunities)
www.usfreeads.com (need a premium account for $10/month for effectiveness, but ranks very well)
Free Sites
Social Sites
Article Directories
Document Sharing Sites
www.docstoc.com (creates dead links – use with caution)
Social Bookmarking Sites
RSS Aggregators
Ping Sites
Other Sites
Cool Trick To Find The Golden Nugget High-Volume Keywords
I am working on another video about getting your content ranked on the 1st page of Google and it will be some pretty cool, but often overlooked, stuff.
But I was thinking about this today – have you ever chosen your keywords, cranked out some content, and then gotten little, or no, traffic whatsoever – even if you are ranked on the 1st page? And the best part is that Google told you that this low competition keyword had like 5,000 searches a month or something?
It’s happened to me more than a few times! It’s frustrating at best, and all your hard work seems totally wasted. Bottom line is that the Google search counts numbers (as well as any other keyword research software results) are often totally wrong!
Well, here’s a cool trick I learned from someone (not all my idea, but I can’t remember where I heard it) a while back that can help you weed out the losers on the front end.
1. Sign up for a new Google Adwords account (if you already use PPC, get a different account for this because it will kill your CTR)
2. Create a campaign using the keywords you want to test
3. Set up an Adgroup for each keyword
4. Target your keywords only in [brackets] to get the exact matches, don’t worry about broad and phrase
5. Set your bid price high so you ensure you get on the 1st page
6. Write your ads completely different than what your target keyword is. You do this so no one clicks on your ads. For example, if your keyword is “learn bass guitar” your ad might be about “pink boa constrictor stretchpants” or something completely off the wall.
7. Point it to your website so the relevancy is high.
8. Check it in 24 hours to see how many impressions you got.
Doing this will give you a MUCH better idea of the actual search volume.
Now, a word of caution – be sure to check your account frequently to make sure people are not clicking your ads or you could get in trouble. Odds are that no one will since you made the ads unrelated to your keywords, but it will make you sleep better if you check.
And another thing – BE SURE TO TURN OFF THE CONTENT NETWORK, only focus on Google search.
Try it and see what results you get, you could save yourself a ton of frustration and time targeting the wrong keywords.
2 Secrets To Ensure Your Spot On The 1st Page of Google
There are 2 things I do every time to ensure my spot on the 1st page of Google. I don’t see many marketers doing this, which makes me understand why so many fail.
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If you are just coming here to this post, I am showing you a sample campaign, blow by blow. To start at the beginning, go HERE.
I’m excited about this post because I have been getting some FANTASTIC results with this process recently. The goal here is to absolutely splatter our content all over the place, creating tons and tons of backlinks to our site AND our content.
When it comes down to it, there are really only 2 things that matter in getting free traffic from organic listings – content and backlinks. Think about it like a huge spiderweb on content and links all coming back to the center of the web, which is our site.
And my approach is to pick my 1st keyword and do everything to dominate the 1st page of Google with that keyword. Then after I conquer that one, move on to the 2nd keyword, and so on. You can do it however you want, but I have found that if I focus my content on more than one keyword at a time, I end up not ranking for anything. Call me stupid, but I get too confused as to which
keyword I am creating content on or building links to if I try to focus on more than one at a time.
SO, choose whatever works for you, but I start off by picking one keyword and focusing on that one until I dominate, then move on to the next.
Here, in order, is what I do to dominate:
1. Now, to get things started I blast my site to about 400-600 Web directories. This puts a link in these directories back to my site. And they all don’t happen at once, they come in over time due to the nature of the approval process for most of these directories.
I use a new service to do this called Deep Linker Pro, by Josh Spaulding. If you don’t know Josh, he is an honest, stand-up IMer who stands behind everything he does 100%. Deep Linker Pro is a one time fee software program with free lifetime updates to the directory list and to the software. I HIGHLY recommend it if you can spare a few dollars.
Is it 100% necessary to buy this software? No, it’s not. Will it save you time getting backlinks? Yes, it will save you a ton of time.
***IMPORTANT – the only time, in my opinion, that you should pay for ANYTHING in internet marketing, is if 1) it fits into your goals and 2) it saves you time. By sticking to these 2 criteria, you will save yourself a ton of time and money by not buying every new guru “magic formula” that comes on the market. I will ONLY recommed products and services that fit these 2 criteria. If I don’t think it will help you in some fashion, or I don’t use it in my own business, I WILL NOT tell you to buy it just so I can make a few bucks.
2. I submit my article to www.Ezinearticles.com. We spoke about this in THIS POST so I won’t go over it again, but plain and simple, I submit it to Ezinearticles.
3. I take that article and submit it to Unique Article Wizard. Again, Unique Article Wizard is one of those services that saves me a TON of time distributing content and creating backlinks. Basically what it does is takes one of your articles, changes is it around into 100’s, if not 1,000’s of combinations and distributes it to 1,000’s of article directories, all on autopilot. It takes me about an hour of work and everything else is automated. It’s not cheap, but it is a fantastic service that has helped me rank on quite a few keywords.
4. I then come up with 3 alternate titles for my article so I have 3 of the same exact articles, but with 3 different titles.
5. I take these 3 articles with different titles and I submit one each to 3 different document sharing websites. The major document sharing websites I submit to are:
www.docstoc.com
www.scribd.com
www.calameo.com
If you are not familiar with these sites, you need to be. The things I like about them are 1) you can include anchor links anywhere in the document, 2) there is no approval process, 3) they get indexed VERY quickly, 4) they usually out rank EZA articles, Goarticles, articlesbase, Squidoo and Youtube and 5) you can add pictures to your article.
Here is an example of one I have up for this guitar campaign:
Looks way better than an Ezinearticle, huh?
There are other document sharing sites, like www.slideshare.com, www.authorstream.com, and www.yudu.com, and I am trying some of these out, but for now I simply use the 3 above. By the way, you’ll notice again that my name on the article above is not my name – I do this for anonymity.
6. Once these documents are published, I then take the URL’s of the documents and ping them at www.pingomatic.com. This let’s the search engines know that this information is out there.
7. I will then social bookmark these same URL’s. You can use a social bookmarking service like www.socialmarker.com, or you can even buy a service that will automatically submit to a bunch of social bookmark sites, but I have found that Digg works the best. I will typically submit my documents to the following:
www.digg.com
www.propeller.com
www.reddit.com
8. Next, I head over to www.html2rss.com and create an RSS feed out of my document URL’s. This is a pretty cool free service because it allows you to take a number of URL’s and create on RSS feed out of all of them. Then I take that RSS feed and submit it to the following RSS aggregators:
www.badrss.com
www.friendfeed.com
www.feedage.com
www.postrank.com
www.blogdigger.com
www.blogpulse.com
www.plazoo.com
http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php
There are tons of others, but I have gotten good results with these.
9. I then create high authority backlinks to 1) my site and 2) the document URL’s (at scribd, docstoc, etc.). I do this manually through a service that costs me $5 per month. With this service I get 30 very high PR sites that I can put my links on. It’s a very cheap price for the kind of link juice you get out of these. It’s called Easy Backlink Builder.
I will typically create 5 links to each of my documents and 5 to my niche site for my 1st keyword I am targeting.
10. As I build these links, I keep track of the URL’s for the profile pages where the links are by pasting them in a text document.
11. Next, I ping these URL’s one at a time at Pingomatic.com
12. Then I create another RSS feed at www.html2rss.com of these profile page URL’s and submit this RSS feed to the RSS aggregator sites listed above.
13. At this point my Ezinearticle submission should have been approved. Once it is, I social bookmark it at Digg.com, reddit.com and propeller.com. Then I create an RSS feed out of its URL and submit the feed to the RSS aggregators.
14. Finally, I let it simmer a few days. Google will naturally shuffle around. You may be on the 1st page one day, then nowhere to be found the next. I let this whole pot of stew simmer and then I check over the next few days to see where I am ranking for my keyword.
If I am nowhere close to ranking, then I will either 1) build more high PR links from Easy Backlink Builder to my site and my documents and/or 2) start the cycle over with a new article but the same keyword.
I will continue to pound Google with my content and links until most of my content shows up on Page 1 for my keyword. Eventually, if your competition is not too tough, you will dominate the 1st page.
***IMPORTANT – this is how I currently do it. I usually try out different things in addition to these steps, but these are the core things. For example, I may create a blogger blog pointed at my site, ot I may create a Squidoo lens (although I hate these!) pointing to my documents and my site. You have to flexible and try out new things because you generally can’t go wrong.
So, get to work on that first keyword and get ranked. We want to start getting some natural traffic in there and start getting some sales!
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I have a confession to make…
If you are just arriving at this post, this is a blow by blow analysis of a niche site campaign I am setting up. You can start at the beginning HERE.
The other day after I posted about writing articles, I got a little antsy with my sample guitar site (which by the way I’ll reveal to you after this campaign is ranking and making some sales). You see, I am waiting on some articles to be written, so I thought I would give my site a little link juice while I was waiting. Well, I got a little carried away…
In the interest of full disclosure, here’s what I did….
I first tried out an idea I got from a free ebook called “Top Spot Sniper” by someone named Brenden Clerget. The gist of the idea is to submit your site to Digg, and then bookmark your Digg submission. Apparently this gives a little extra link juice.
Since he has a free ebook on the method, hopefully he won’t mind me posting about it here!
So, what I did was take my guitar website url and submit it to Digg. In the topic and description in Digg, I ONLY put my keyword/keyphrase I was trying to rank for, then submitted it.
I then copied the URL of the Digg submission and pasted it to a Wordpad document so I could easily grab it later.
In his ebook, he then describes how to bookmark your bookmark. His first method is to do it all manually, which is the hardest. This is where you would go to every bookmark site, create an account, and submit your link.
His second option is to use a free service called http://www.socialmarker.com, which I have used plenty of times in the past.
For some reason though, when I went to their site yesterday, I kept getting a warning that something on their site was trying to get on my computer? I tried a few times and kept getting this message, so I figured it wasn’t good and left.
I was kind of bummed because the third and easiest option to bookmark my Digg submission was to use SENuke.
SENuke is a paid option, and I didn’t want to pay for anything.
So, here’s what I did…
When you go into SENuke, you have the option of getting a FREE 7 day trial. There are basically 2 options – a somewhat stripped down version for $67 per month and the “deluxe” model for $127 per month.
At first glance, I thought, “HOLY CRAP” that’s kind of pricey.
Well, anyway, I signed up for the 7 day trial through Paypal for the $127 one because it had the features I wanted.
Of course, I didn’t take the advice given and watch the intro tutorials, I just jumped in with the goal of bookmarking my Digg submission. Maybe I should have watched them, but I was in a hurry and the software is pretty self-explanatory.
I can honestly say, SENuke has WWAAYYY more cool features than I had anticipated. It easily saved me 7-10 hours of work. This is because it carries out a number of very mundane tasks like signing up for various sites, and confirming emails, automatically.
So, I input a few details and SENuke went in and created random names and login details for me for 1) a ton of social bookmarking sites, 2) a ton of RSS feed sites and 3) a ton of high PR backlink sites. It creates these accounts for you at all the sites AUTOMATICALLY. Oh, and these 3 things are only 3 of the 6 features this software has.
Then, it verified the emails for me that these sites send to verify that I was setting up the accounts – ALL AUTOMATICALLY.
Then, it went in and submitted my bookmark to all of the social sites AUTOMATICALLY, to the RSS feeds AUTOMATICALLY, then it posted backlinks to all the high PR sites AUTOMATICALLY.
All in all, I estimate that I got close to 200-300 backlinks to my site within 2 hours.
This EASILY would have taken me 7-10 hours to do manually. And while it was doing all this in the background of my computer I was doing other things.
I checked last night and my actual site was on page 2 of Google, 12th position for one of my keywords, and for another keyword, 2 of the social bookmarks were on the 2nd page! Not too bad in my opinion.
Now, will I continue the trial and actually pay for SENuke? At first I flat out did not want to, but now I’m sort of middle of the road. So, I’m still undecided.
I can see the power of this software and I think the time saved alone is worth the price, but I want to see some sales in some niches from it before I commit to it. I’ll keep you posted.
Do I think you should try the trial just to at least build some links and get exposure to your sites – by all means, an emphatic YES. Download it, use it for all your sites (the trial is a full copy), and then cancel your subscription.
You’ll probably get a nice boost in your rankings, and maybe even some sales!
Anyway, I got my articles this morning and will begin my promotion schedule today. My next post is going to detail out my daily schedule for promoting my niche site. If you can detail out your schedule and take action EACH AND EVERY DAY, you will be successful, I can guarantee it.
And there is some really cool stuff I am going to show you that I KNOW you have never seen. Stay tuned…
Is Google screwing with you?
Gotta love Google, right?
When I started internet marketing a couple years ago, one of the first things I learned was to go after “low competition” keywords.
This meant to do a Google search of your keywords with the term in quotes. If I got under 5,000 results, use it. If not, move on to another search term.
Only problem was, I couldn’t find many. And any keyword I managed to find with under 5,000 results, didn’t make sense. There was no way people were searching for such odd ball terms.
Then I stumbled upon Google’s big lie…and my results started to change after I discovered it…
Want to know what it is?
Lean closer, so I can whisper it to you. I don’t want many people knowing about it…
The results they display are not actually the real search results.
What?!?
In my experience, they are drastically overstated.
How?
Try this little exercise and you will see what I mean:
Go to google right now and do a search for “get rid of tonsil stones” in quotes. When I do it, I get 1,350,000 results. So, if this is the case, I would automatically discard this term as too competitive.
Now, try this. Scroll to the bottom of those search results. Click on the “10″ for the 10th page of results. Keep clicking on the last number until it stops displaying results.
When you get to the end, how many does it show?
For me it’s 416 results!
Does this mean “get rid of tonsil stones” is a slam dunk keyword you will make money off of?
No, it doesn’t, because there are a few other important factors involved, BUT…
It does mean that instead of discarding this as a competitive keyword, you actually probably have a chance at ranking for it with some work. And this can open up a whole new world of opportunity for you.
Try it with your keywords and see what actual results you get, they may surprise you.
How To Get Your Article Ranked on the First Page of Google
No doubt you know that getting a first page ranking in Google can bring you a lot of traffic. And while I think it is generally more important to use article directories for backlinks to your main blog or site, they can provide a tremendous amount of traffic to your site if done correctly.
While there is no sure-fire, guaranteed way to get it ranked on the first page, here are 9 things you can do that will give it the juice to get there.
1. Focus on one keyword for the article – only use one keyword per article. Too many times people try to stuff in a bunch of keywords in their articles. 2 things happen when they do this. First, the article doesn’t flow right. It ends up sounding like a bunch of jibberish. Second, if you try to rank for a bunch of keywords, you end up ranking for none of them. In a directory like Ezinearticles, you are allowed a 2% keyword density. You want to make sure you use that entire 2% for that one keyword.
2. Only focus on keywords or keyphrases with less than 20 intitle and inanchor quote results in Google. What does this mean? I generally don’t use “quote” searches much anymore except for a quick glance at competition. I do an intitle and inanchor quote search to see what my real competition is. Here is an example – if my keyword/keyphrase is “get rid of tonsil stones” my search in Google would look like this:
intitle:”get rid of tonsil stones” inanchor:”get rid of tonsil stones”
This will tell me what sites have “get rid of tonsil stones” in the title and the anchor text. In other words, how many other sites are competing for this term. Shoot for less than 20 results. In my opinion this is a much better indicator of whether or not I have a fighting chance ranking for my keyword or keyphrase.
3. Only go after certain keywords – when deciding on what keywords or keyphrases to go after, just do a basic search in Google for that term WITHOUT quotes. If there are high PR sites dominating the top 10 results, ditch that keyword because you probably won’t have a chance at ranking. But if you see Ezinearticles, Goarticles, Articlesbase, Weebly, Digg, etc. in the results on the first page, you can submit to those sites too – you will have a much better chance at ranking if other people have ranked for them.
4. Look at the “keyword suggestion” listing in Ezinearticles. This is the box where you put your keyword tags for your article below the actual article itself. When you are done typing, it will suggest keywords based on your article. If Ezine does not suggest the keyword you are trying to target, then how is Google supposed to know that is the keyword you are trying to rank for?
5. Use LSI in your article. LSI stands for latent semantic indexing and is an indexing and retrieval method that uses a mathematical technique called Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to identify patterns in the relationships between the terms and concepts contained in an unstructured collection of text. What?!? Basically this means to use similar terms related to your keyword in the article.
It has been rumored that Google uses LSI in its algorithm to understand and rank websites. For example, if your keyword is dog bowl, LSI terms might be puppy, dog, pet, ceramic bowls, etc. A cool, free website to play around
with to give you some LSI terms for your keywords is
http://www.gorank.com/seotools/ontology/
6. Submit your article to the major RSS feeds. One problem with this is that Ezinearticles will not allow you to do an RSS feed on an individual article, only the category (at least from what I have found). The solution to this – http://www.Dapper.net.
This cool little site allows you to create an RSS feed out of any web page. When you go to the site, go down to the bottom right hand corner and click on “Dapp Factory.”
Then, once created, submit your RSS feed to 10 RSS feeds as follows:
http://www.blogdigger.com/add.jsp
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html
http://www.feedage.com
http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/submit.php
http://www.plazoo.com/en/addrss.asp
http://www.feedbite.com
http://feedraider.com/
http://www.feedsubmitter.com/
http://www.feedest.com/feedAdd.cfm
http://www.feedbase.net/Add.php
7. Submit your article to http://www.socialmarker.com. This is basically where you submit to a bunch of social networking sites “automatically.” I put automatically in quotes because it can be somewhat time consuming as you still have to put in some information for just about every site, but this is a nice site where a ton of the social sites are in one place.
This 1) gets eyeballs on your article from those sites and 2) builds backlinks to your article.
8. Post a blog comment – did you know there are other peoples blogs you can post to that will give you backlinks to your site or article? The 2 I generally use are http://www.3stepads.com and http://www.free-adz.com.
You can get a free account, post on their blog, and include your keywords as anchor text pointing back to your article. I have literally had my 3stepads ranked in 20 seconds for a couple of keywords. If Google is in there that fast, you can bet your article will get picked up quickly too.
Oh, and a side benefit is that I have had my 3 stepads rank on the first page of search results ABOVE my own article!
9. Build backlinks to your article. If you want to really get ambitious, build additional backlinks to your article. When I first started, I never knew what this meant. Basically it means you post a link with your keyword as anchor text on a high PR site. How do you find the high PR sites? Personally I use a service where I get 30-50 high PR sites delivered to me monthly that allow you to post links and I post the links myself how I please. It is a steal at $5 per month and can be found HERE.
But you don’t NEED a service like this. You can continue to post to the blogs mentioned above or find high PR sites that will allow you to post a link (it’s time consuming, that’s why $5/month is totally worth it).
Once you get these steps down, they really don’t take too long and they can give you the juice your article needs to get ranked on the first page of Google – which could mean a ton of money in your pocket!
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Tools I Personally Use & Recommend
