How To Get Page 1 Google Ranking Below are the stats that show the process of driving traffic to your site so that google "catches wind" of it and deems you worth of GOOGLE page one rank: I have friends with businesses asking me to help them get to page one of google all the time. If i may brag a bit, the reality of the situation is that i do better to start my own websites and put them on p1 of google than getting paid a lump sum for promoting my friend's sites. BUT this only holds true IF you have a SEARCH based website. Before going into the strategy, and discussing the above graphs, let me explain who this post does NOT apply to, so you dont go wasting your time doing all these things then cursing me for getting no results. 1. About 300% more men use GOOGLE than women. So, you'd be better off starting a "jock strap" website than a "brazier" website. 2. The sweetspot for age is 25-35 years old. So you'd be better off starting a "surfing" website than a "golfing" website. That said, if you want to start a site that gets top 10 rankings page one in GOOGLE... this is how you do it. 1. Read: http://znitchit.blogspot.com/2006/11/viral-marketing-how-to.html 2. Join a community or forum that IS your target market. I started a website SPECIFICALLY with a User Group Community in mind... DIGG users. You know that expression, "if you build it they will come?" It should say ,"If you build it (specifically for them) they will come." In other words, most folks build a site THEN try to find a community to push into. It's easier the other way around. 3. Make friends and scratch backs to get links and buzz going about your site. I did this with DIGG and as you can see in the first graph, on the 12th of october, i had most of my referring traffic from fark and digg. The next day, these same people submitted my website FOR ME to reddit.com I didn't submitt it to REDDIT. My community did it FOR ME and i Got Double the traffic vs the day before. 4. Then Google Automatically Finds Me out of DIGG and Stumbleupon and Reddit I never submit to google directly. That GOOGLE add url page is useless. Let the other sites do the hard work FOR YOU. 5. Then Industry pundits critics and bloggers will find you AUTOMATICALLY Industry writers make it their job to GOOGLE for news in their biz. just make sure you come up in the targetted keywords and you'll get a story written up about you. See: http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/znitchcom_-_texts_you_when_a_webpage_talks_about_you.html 6. Your Turn Again: Google Your Web URL and post comments following up on what blogger say about you... see above url again. 7. Keep creating news about your site with a blog. Notice that on the 24th of oct in the 3rd chart, you see that bloggers are sending more traffic to my site than google? 8. USE anchor words INSTEAD of your url with hyperlinking in other words, if you are selling fish, make sure that you use <a href="http://bradstackle.com">fish</a> Code (markup): instead of <a href="http://bradstackle.com">bradstackle.com</a> Code (markup): People will google for "fish" a lot more than "bradstackle.com" LAST CHART 9. If you've selected smart keywords, Google will send you more business and traffic than you could possibly do on your own. Notice the 2 sections of the last chart, the seach referrers are only a couple a day whereas DIGG.com is sending me several a minute. The temporary spurts of traffic will die down but the subsequent google ranking will carry you on a daily basis.. try googling: craigslist alerts digg alerts myspace alerts myspace watcher etc... now, our website ZNITCH.com gets a steady stream of TARGETED users. and they register too.
oops.. forgot #10. In general, if you have a NON Sandboxed google domain. definition: 1. older than a year or 2. links from a <100,000 alexa rank site then do a keyword search for the page you wanna show up at. IF there is less than 500,000 returned results, go for the above techniques. IF there are over 1,000,000 competing returned results, you've got an up hill battle. see the upper right hand corner of the google results window.. it'll tell ya how many sites are fighting for that page one position. 500,000 is easy to top. 1,000,000 takes 5x the work BUT can be done too...
Good beginners guide, bad title. This is more of a guide on how to drive non SE traffic, which everyone here should start out doing on a website. Unfortunately most new webmasters put the horse before the cart and want SE rankings before they have a popular worthy website. Some of the most popular SEO sites on the net get only a small percentage of their visitors from search. Go figure.
WOW! COOL! RE: http://www.nichewatch.com I can see how this takes a lot of work off my hands in competitive research for the top ten spot, what i dont get is that since google is 90% based on backlinks, isnt simply GOOGLEING link:http://url.com sufficient to analyze a website? What else does http://www.nichewatch.com/ do? If my question seems ignorant, i personally havent registerd to http://www.nichewatch.com/ yet... im starvin and gotta run b4 i pass out. Jeremy, yes,, i suppose i did dwell on NON GOOGle Stuff for a while but the point is that to get to a top google spot you GOTTA do the peripheral community and link building FIRST. you cant get into google anymore without it. unless you have a verrrry niche site.