My Experiment - How to rank in Google - Amazing Results

Approximately 5 months ago I decided to get into a new niche market. I had zero SERP. I wanted to try an experiment in WHITE HAT SEO to see what kind of results I could have.

The niche market I targeted has over 1,000,000 results for the main term and all the secondary terms are close to 1,000,000.

Here is the results as of today from the top 20 listings in Google.

Main Keyword #4,16 & 20
Keyphrase 1 #1,2,5,6,9,11,12,14 & 15
Keyphrase 2 #2,5,7,11,12,14 & 16
Keyphrase 3 #7,9,14 & 16
Keyphrase 4 #7
Keyphrase 5 #10
Keyphrase 6 #3,6,7,10,11 & 19
Keyphrase 7 #5
Keyphrase 8 #10,15,16 & 20

You read it right, for the number 2 search term i have 9 of the top 20 listings.

HOW DID I GET THOSE KINDS OF RESULTS?

Synergy is the answer!

1. I put up tons of original content on 6 different web presences.
2. I linked all these sites with content pointing back to the main one.
3. I linked from the main site to all the sub sites.
4. I submitted all of them to 1000 directories.
5. I posted all of them constantly to 100 social book mark sites.
6. I purchased anchor text link banner advertising on @ 100 sites.
7. I submitted articles on all the sites - 2 per month per site.
8. I optimized every page possible to achieve keyword spread - rankings in all permutations of the main keyword.
9. I submitted articles to blogs for posting.
10. I provided web masters with original content for publishing on their sites - all with the proper anchor text links included of course.
11. I bought signature links
12. I posted original content to user groups.
13. I posted content to other forums in the same niche.
14. I built hypervre type sites around my niche (100 of them so far) all with the proper anchor text links.
15. I built our reciprocal links (and still building) targeting on highly relevant links.

I hope this helps aspiring web masters. This is my ongoing experiment in competing in Google for a very high competition search term. Competing for that keyword are some major internet marketers who do employ somewhat Black Hat techniques. We wanted to make sure that we were staying within Google's Guidelines.

The final analysis of this is just like Real Estate - CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT. We put up so much original content all focused on our niche that Google could not ignore us.

This just proves what Matt Cutts has said. Provide relevant content and people will come to your site. Converting them is a completely different topic and I will try and hit the highlights of what we did to convert that traffic in another post.

 

Congratulations! It is always ncie to hear great success stories.

 

As an addendum to this posting:

Our main site now is receiving about 1900 unique visitors per day from this SEO experiment.

 

thanks maldives. It did not come without a lot of effort. Nice to be rewarded for hard work.

 

Ahh the irony.

Although you call your actions "white hat" some would argue that you violated Google's webmaster guideline and are deploying deceptive practices in order to maniupulate the results.

Multiple sites all linking to the "main" one? Sounds like a linking scheme designed to improve pagerank Bought links? Ouch

Just goes to show that what Google preaches is not what's working in the real world.

Congrats.

 

Awesome results. You did a lot of work man.

 

I disagree somewhat except for the hypervre type sites even though they provide links to quite a range of categories.

It is not a linking scheme. All of these sites have very relevant original content that we wrote. All site a "more information" source. All sites stand on their own merit and have achieved a PR4 from Google. Each site has at least 50 pages of original content. Many of the rankings I achieved were with the "sub-sites" and not my main one. We provided good relevant content on these sites with a good experience for the web site viewers.

 

Nice daisy chaining Thats a lot of work you put into your sites, nice to see it pays off. How much did u invest? and what are you earning?

 

I wasn't disagreeing with you at all - all perfectly acceptable tactics in my book. Just demonstrating that Google's guidlines can be interpreted in many ways and just because they say not to do something doesn't mean that's in your best interest.

 

What is the website Megadeals ?

do you have one website of poker ?

 

congrats....are you getting a great ROI?

 

@GuyFromChicago - you are absolutely correct. Google does have weird interpretations at times.

@forumbabz - we have several sites but one main one for poker. That was the whole theme.

@seo ranter - we are in the best niche market out there, so yes, great ROI.

@Vigor - we invest mid 4 figures per month on seo and content. I will leave it at that.

 

Thanks for sharing the writeup. It would be nice to have a program so that you could administrate all of those SEO duties from a single user interface. There are programs that do some but not all. As a result you constantly have to bounce back and forth between GUIs, files and sites. I don't believe most people are that organized or skilled at multi-tasking.

BTW, try submitting a press release via PRWEB.com. It won't boost traffic but you get a lot of backlinks from sites that pickup the press release feeds.

 

Something NEw ?

Try to get rankings for a 30 milion result keyphrase

 

@w3bmaster - we are targeting a term now with 107 million results with pretty good success so far. Will that suffice?

@Searchnology.com - boy do I agree with you. I would give anything for a single interface to track it all. sometimes it feels like i have 21 red balls i am having to juggle. oh well, results do not come easy. We definately use prweb. in fact i usually use the $200 contribution level.

 

I´ve read a lot of BS throughout my forum lurker career and let me say that I think the steps outlined here look definitely legit, no red herring here.

It is nice that sometimes a good soul will come out and share this valuable info.

Thanks a bunch Megadeals, reviewing some of my own strategies right now!

 

Congratulations. I will give these tips a try.

 

Any chance you can PM me when you do your post about converting?

Thanks for posting and good luck with your poker sites!

 

A common misconception. Webmasters don't owe Google a thing. Google sees the quality of their index as an ongoing problem to invest a lot of effort into. You don't owe them any help with that. On the other hand, they don't owe any webmasters a listing in their index, or a particular rank. Which people tend to forget about when those paid links get devauled...

Getting traffic is my problem, not Google's. Their webmaster guidelines aren't the Ten Commandments handed down from God, they don't spell out what is and isn't ethical. But seeing as how I want traffic, and Google is one source of it, their guidelines are a set of clues on how to keep a sustainable stream coming in.

 

real hard work buddy
.. i got the same.. hmm u can say better rankings in google without all the so called white hat seo u hav mentioned..
All i hav done is Directory Submissions, Blogs and Articles. Some site for which i dint do directory submissions are also ranking on the 1st page of google. Just wrote some articles.. dats all