What was your biggest SEO success and how have you done it?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Andyz, May 5, 2007.

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    What was your biggest successs with SEO?
    How fast did you improve your SERPs position? (Before and After Ranking)

    Which technique(s) did you use with that?
    How much work did you put into it?
    How much did it cost you (if anything)?
     
    Andyz, May 5, 2007 IP
  2. 8everything

    8everything Peon

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    Top page.. rank 5 for one of my keywords.

    Took 1 month (no joke) but it was a good keyword with less competition!

    Techniques:
    .com domain with the keyword in it
    title, alt, H tags
    backlinks work (not much at all actually)

    Luck?
     
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  3. truedesign4u

    truedesign4u Banned

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    I am ranking on page #3 for

    internet website design

    its a major term, and I am still moving up. I did it by hard work and lots of skills I picked up from forums like this!
     
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  4. ferret77

    ferret77 Heretic

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    I used to be #5 for "website design" , it was pretty cool but there are way better terms to rank for which around the same competitivness
     
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  5. depotgang

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    I can get any keyword phrase in the top 10 by using Press Release and properly structured sites. You spend some money, but you make a lot too.

    I wrote an ebook on this topic call Press Release Magic . You can find it at clickbank. I also have information on my person site mcreasite.com

    Thanks
     
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  6. andre75

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    Hm, I once wrote a little forum post in my forum about another site. I linked to that site and that was the only time I mentioned the link.
    When that site hit the news, it went down under the load and since I ranked #3 for their url I got a ton of visitors.
    Never let your site go down !!
     
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  7. Nystul

    Nystul Well-Known Member

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    #7
    My football video site used to have multiple google rank #1 for "footballer's name" football video ... almost 200-300 of them on #1

    heh, too bad the account is now gone ^^

    took me around 6 mths to achieve it. Basically is plain SEO, and lots of luck i suppose.

    Oh yah, didnt cost me anything too, since it is a blogspot acct.

    initially i spammed alot of forums to get traffic in, and lots of link exchange with football blogs, then linkbait with good videos and top 10s etc.
     
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  8. Andyz

    Andyz Guest

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    That is very interesting! :)

    truedesign4u, is it worth to be on page #3? How many visitors do come there?

    andre75, top Rank from one forum post?? Or did I understand wrong?
     
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  9. w3bmaster

    w3bmaster Notable Member

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  10. Zerosleep

    Zerosleep Established User

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    #10
    Rank 1 in Google for "Banned Stuff"
    How I did it... its a Secret :D
    but ya it did lose the rank recently because of my F**king Host...

    Rank 1 in MSN for "Weird Things"
    Backlinks..... Backlinks... Backlinks....
     
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  11. andre75

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    Yeah, was a surprise to me too.
     
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  12. The Stealthy One

    The Stealthy One Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    #12
    Ranking on pages 1, 2, and 3 for several very important Web hosting-related keywords! (In Google, to boot!)

    It took about two years of consistent on-page optimization, and link placing all across the Web. I imagine it could've been done a lot faster. :)
     
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  13. Comenius

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    Always like to read some success stories. Makes me think I might be able to do so as well some day! :)
     
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  14. jon2k6

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    I'm ranked #1 for 'ricky gervais fansite' ... suppose that's because there's really not that many though lol.

    Anyway I just did it by following the basic rules, don't focus too much on it, just focus on your content and your site will climb.

    Basic tips: Use <h1>, <h2> and <h3> tags properly and make <h1> bold, use browser titles effectively, major underated; it's amazing how just a good browser header can bang you up a hell of a lot.

    Also alot of keyword rich, QUALITY content, needs to be natural too, fit keywords in when you can but do it naturally not spammy.

    Apart from that just alot of work, which I haven't really done this far lol! going to really put the effort in now though.
     
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  15. Searchnology.com

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    My Swing Trading for Stocks site ranks in the top 5 of Google for 6 keywords. Took only 3 months. Stock trading being a very competitive market. I used a lot of the stuff that Brad Callen recommends.
     
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  16. Andyz

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    Ah, Brad Callen, cool thing. Is it that swing trading guide salesletter?
     
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    I took a domain totally unrelated to the term and a .biz; targetted a NEW SONG that everyone loved and made numerous pages that were identical but had what I thought common misspellings. I was ranked #1 for all the terms due to my keyword density and obviously title, header etc... Got alot of traffic on pages with lots of advertising. Easy to do.
     
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  18. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    my best seo success was getting a pr 6 on this update .

    * focus backlink
    * sef urls, image alt tags, title tags in urls
    * title and description of the page
     
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  19. Voasi

    Voasi Active Member

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    Personal SEO successes was getting a site ranked and then selling it for $6k. My best group SEO success was working with 2 other SEO's to sell a website for over $70 million.

    I've had a lot of big successes with clients who've told me that i've helped them build their business by 100%. That's always a thrill to hear. It's pretty much the reason I do SEO. I love to help businesses go into the arena of internet marketing and succeed. It's a great feeling knowing you've put their company and their lifestyle of living into a whole new category just because you got their site ranked.
     
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  20. Searchnology.com

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    Yeah that's the one..
     
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