Well I hope this doesn't look like shameless self promotion but I wrote an article on organic seo techniques I employ on ProfitPapers.com that got me great results. Basically I wanted to see how quickly I could nail #1 positions across all major search engines with some reasonably competitive keywords. Turned out to be pretty easy. If you like the article please digg me. Thanks for reading
No offense but how do you call that competitive? Its not even listed in adwords or overture as a searched for term (less then 10 searches) congrats on the term though. You should right a article on linkbaiting
lolz , right only when you rank high for keyword with high search volume , then it is good . But you site offers good seo content , worth reading.
If you can get No. 1 on Google for a term thats searched even 1000 times according to Overture within 7 days or even a month then it would be something to boast about. No one types in VideoLan tutorial and hence you manged to get NO. 1 postion.
Hrmm.. "videolan tutorial" has 112,000 results... "Wealth Today" has 109,000,000 results..I have no idea how long it took me to get to number 1... but I'd be MUCH happier with number 1 result for "get rich"... so can anyone tell me why this plain page gets the pole position... even over the get rich or die tryin movie?
The domain was registered in 2000 which is a good start. It has some "interesting" backlinks according to yahoo including this one?? hxxp://boston-belles.tripod.com/
My site ranks #1 for [real estate business] out of 761,000,000... I don't think that is a very competitive keyphrase though, because I never targeted it. I think it took me about 3 years to get there, but I didn't try really hard and the phrase was just discovered at the end of 2005 from my logs. Great site Miles. Good JoB!
LMAO. This is supposes to mean something? The term was searched on 57 times in the last like 60 days. I bet all 57 were you! This is not news, anyone can do the same. But that and a buck will get ya on the subway. :/ I'm laughing because I once had the perception that such accomplishments were important. Then I learned about looking up search terms and how often they are used and in what combination. I was disappointed, But I leanred from it and never looked back. I hope you are not going to use this to assert your SEO abilities to prospective customers? That would be dishonest.
Sorry I missed this I was working on securing a ticket to the SES in China. WTF $500 - no press passes? Anyways... Thanks for the comments but I think some of the posters are missing the point of the article. The first point I made in my list is to write about some cool emerging technology - something new. Go after uncompetitive terms with a vested interest in them becoming popular. This way you nail the term and have a chance to generate some buzz on digg, del.ico.us and others as well. Get it? I generate traffic very fast this way. Take a look at my recent stories to see what I mean. So on that note - if you think that videolan tutorial is not being searched at all you're wrong. It brings in about 20 users/day. No windfall but when you consider that I make a post nearly every other day, you can see how this trickle of FREE traffic becomes a stream. I don't waste a lot of time on Overtures search frequency tool or any other tools other than Google. The data is old and I try not to write about old subjects. I think you get the idea here...videolan tutorial was maybe a bad example because I didn't want to use an affiliate product I promote but there ya go. So I wasn't covering anything groundbreaking and I certainly do not want or need any clients. It's just that some of this stuff seems to be not too obvious to a lot of people, so I try to really dumb it down in my articles. I see people stumble for months getting 100 hits/day to their website, all the while producing no useful content and wasting time with ppc and other advertising... Appreciate the comments all
Ahh I thought you were bragging about getting a good ranking for a term only you were trying for... my bad
Ahhh you guys get it. Thats good. So yeah write about the buzz as it's happening. If you sell tea, write about 'Quit smoking with herbal tea'. if you are into pets write about 'The new alternative to catnip'. Etc etc. If it's been covered before and it is overly competitive, either find a new subject or target less competitive words. Some traffic at #1 is better than none at #31. Actually looking over my article again this point isn't that clear... here is another example of keywords that last month might not have been searched a lot but this month are pulling in a buttload of eyeballs for me: Predicting Pagerank. That article was submitted on Feb 16th and I saw it on Big Daddy servers in 48 hrs. It hit google's main cache in about 5 days total. Hope this information helps...
Good stuff. I think some people might have tuned you out after it sounded like you were bragging in your first post-- we all know "VideoLan Tutorial" is not a competitive commercial term. But you are right to say that jumping on new products quickly can bring you quality traffic. There is no such thing as a "sandbox new site penalty" when the term isn't marked as commercial and competitive. I love doing this in areas where the new products have non-sensical names-- it is usually possible to rank #1 for the one-word product name for a while until it is picked up by the algorithms.
Sir, I am in your debt Sorry for the misunderstanding. I have always been focused on obtaining a buzz towards my products/service and trying to capitalize on it. Great info and I love your site.....Bookmarked.