[Google] - From Unranked To Number 1 In 7 Days

Now you may think “Not possible, he is talking crap!”…
well, I am not. You will see, it works!

- How it all began –

I know that german moving companies are sometimes renting personal from other moving companies.
The costs are about 30 EURO per hour (per person, ofcourse).

We have a way to reduce their costs - 10 EURO per hour (per person) plus a small agency fee(for us).

Anyway, our target audience are those moving companies.

I also know that sometimes (depends on the location where they need extra personal) those companies
are using Google to search for other moving companies in the desired location. And I know the words
they are using for their search.

Ok, now... those words are german words

The keywords are:

1. Entladehelfer
2. Beladehelfer
3. Ladehelfer

13th November 2010

I was thinking about how to build a kind of "net" around a site that I have done for moving companies where
they can book assistants online via our form (http://umzugsfirmen.studenten-vermittlung.biz).

So I thought lets Google for the keywords they are using. E.g. Entladehelfer.
What I saw is... noone had registered a .de domain with the keyword Entladehelfer.

I clicked on "WonderWheel" and I saw: about 86.900 results.

Bingo, 86.900 is not really much. Next keyword - Ladehelfer: only 37500 results... Yes!
Next keyword, Beladehelfer, was about 121000 results... that will get easy.

I told my partner and he registered the following domains 2 days later:

entladehelfer.de
beladehelfer.de
ladehelfer.de

Now we (my trainee and me) took the site from http://umzugsfirmen.studenten-vermittlung.biz
and changed the layout a little bit, some text and scripts and made 3 new "landing pages".

Those 3 new "sites" do have:

1. valid XHTML
2. keyword in h1 tag
3. keyword in title
4. very optimized code - Google Page Speed score 99 of 100 and YSlow score 98 of 100

After I have uploaded the new pages to our webserver (9th December 2010) I started with the "usual stuff":

a. adding Google Analytics
b. generating sitemap.xml
c. generating urllist.txt
d. generating robots.txt
e. adding the site to Google Webmaster Tools (I am using the HTML file)
f. adding sitemap.xml in Google Webmaster Tools
g. adding robots.txt in Google Webmaster Tools
h. adding the site to Yahoo Site Explorer (I am using the HTML file)
j. adding the urllist.txt to Yahoo Site Explorer
k. adding the site to Bing Webmaster (I am using the XML file)
l. adding sitemap.xml to Bing Webmaster
m. adding the site to different search engines (automatically with a program)

The site got indexed in Google after 4 days. 3 days later I was searching for Entladehelfer in Google.

I could not believe it. Our site is number 1!

I checked the other keywords, yes! All sites #1.

As you can see you only need the right keyword to become #1 with nearly no work on SEO.
Okay, you should follow some rules (see 1. - 4.), but generally we had only some hours of work to get #1 with 3 sites in Google in one week.

Note: those 3 new sites are not made to get tons of traffic. They are to inform german moving companies about our service.
They are "landing pages".

Good luck and happy searching for the right keyword

 

Nice post!

Maybe this is what we all should do everyday.

 

that's because the keyword is exactly same as the domain name
and only few ( very few ) competitor

 

I was lucky with those keywords. But you can see it is possible to get #1 very fast and easily.

 

That's just the fresh factour. You will see that you won't maintain the number one spot, probably not even the first page.

 

yeah that positition will drop very fast

 

Time will tell.

 

No, I will tell.

 

Yes, Mr. Superhero.

 

I'm not a dude, but okay.

It really won't stick. I can get page one within an an hour or two and get first position within a day if I wanted to. It's the fresh factour. Don't get used to it.

 

Oh sorry, Mrs.

Anyway, I don't ... no worries. My business is Front-End Performance Optimizing, web development, not SEO.

With this post I only want to show that the keyword and domain name are important to get ranked well. And this works (I am still on page one with the keywords "cookieless domain", the domain is cookielessdomain.com).

One question though:

Why is a "fresh site" getting ranked #1 when other sites do have the keyword in their URL, have more traffic, better "PR", ... ?

It does not make sense to me.

 

I would not say impossible for a very low to none competitive keywords like this. If you said you could get a website ranked #1 for a term "web hosting" in 7 days then I would saying that impossible.

 

uhm ... i'm sorry to say this to you but i just search for your "Entladehelfer" keyword and they only get <10 search per month ... so it won't bring you any traffic then. So it's very easy to get to number one spot.

 

How much difference does clean code make? And, who has the best coded wordpress themes?

 

Coz that's almost, if not, exactly the same as searching for your domain name in Google.

It's because the competition of selected keywords are way, way, way too low to be even considered as a competitive key term. And, not just because the other websites have the keyword on their URL, more traffic and have better PR means that they are the only ranking factors in Google. They are just few of the possible 200+ ranking factors.

 

your 3 sites are so identical, it will have problem later