I want a top 10 ranking on Yahoo or Google with one of my keywords, on at least one of the following pages: http://www.nobluff.com/ http://www.nobluff.com/sorted_casino_bonus_codes.php I am looking for advice to get there or a quote on getting me there. If I do the work, I will be sticking to the plan until the 6 months are up, at least this way I know if the plan works or not. If you quote me on doing the work, you will need to provide some type of proof you can do it. I am not interested in any "black hat" work or "black hat" ideas, I want to stay in the top 10 when I get there. I want to start the 6 mth plan early August (hopefully the 1st). This is what I have at the moment If I end up doing the work (through advice only in this thread) I have the following basic plan in place: 1. Change current pages to about 300 words of content, with a KW weight of about 5%. 2. Each page will have a maximum of 2 keywords. 3. I will not make major changes to the pages for the entire 6 months, I will however add new content to the site (maybe 5*300 words pages a month) 4. I will ONLY promote using articles, hopefully about 10 a month. If someone here wants to do the work, you need to specify the plan. I will be posting my progress on this thread, just a basic update of how the plan is progressing and if I have met any of my sub goals. My plan as it stands is only a skeleton so let the ideas flow or send me your quotes.
I have a bunch of links in another thread for tools you can use to select keywords to optimize your content with. I'll dig it up for you. As for help, I'd look at the first thread in my signature ("All You Need to Know About SEO"). Not all of it will apply to you, but there's still plenty of solid advice in there. Found it. Here's the link to the SEO keyword tools thread (or more specifically, my post in it with the resources): http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=3917492#post3917492
Thanks, got the keywords for my two pages, these are the keywords that I am sure will make me money. I am busy reading you other thread, thanks.
No problem. I'm not at home right now so I don't have access to my stuff (visiting the family), but when I get back, I can give you some more links to check out (by the way, I'm currently reading a book about viral word of mouth marketing - if you want, I can give you the title so you can check it out for yourself).
It's not a bad start, but promoting only by using articles is like talking to a brick wall. You need to get people to talk about your Web site (word of mouth marketing), and write killer Web copy that they'd kill their own mothers to link to.
What is this? I am worried that the marketing I am doing right now could be harming my site, so thats why I decided to stick to articles.
I have also found it quite annoying that my rankings for specific keywords jump up and down by up to 50 positions in two days, due to this I can't tell what I am doing right or wrong. The jumps have been happening for months so its not the se updates, I am just so frustrated atm. I figured thing would level out once my site hit a certain age (close to 3 years old)
I agree article marketing is not the only successful marketing tactic around. I offer a service that builds your websites value by getting natural traffic. Might be of interest to you the site is steroidmarketing.com I know with solid marketing tactics you could have the placement you desire.
Oh and in regards to killer web copy, he is talking about the sales copy. You need copy that can pull in sales, clicks or any other action from your visitors. So maybe focusing on the copy could be beneficial too.
Killer - as in text so good that people would kill their own mothers to have it (or in this case, link to it). The best resource for that I've ever found (and believe me, I've looked around a LOT) is a little book called "Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy Every Time" (or simply "Web Copy That Sells") by Maria Veloso. It should be available either at your local bookstore or public library (and if the latter doesn't have it, they should be able to get it via an interlibrary loan).
How do you identify if something you are doing is good or bad for your site? It takes a while (don't know how long) for your changes to make some type of impact on your serps.
Incoming traffic, emails, sales inquiries, sales, visitors, people joining forums/posting comments on blogs, checking the server logs, checking the keywords I target on the search engines just to see where I come up in the listings (for example, my "All You Need to Know About SEO" thread is listed between the #3 and #5 spots on Google for "All You Need to Know About SEO" and I didn't even try optimizing that thread, I just shared some knowledge - I'm not kidding)...