I was just wondering who here is managing to rank well in Google. I mean, the same people come here day in and day out; so finding new clients that respect high quality in a reasonable ratio to price is a fairly hard task. I've only just launched my site, so can't really expect to rank for a few months. That being said, I'm getting a lot of interest from some articles i'm submitting
Some of my sites rank well in google. They're in the 1st and 2nd page, but some of them take months to be on that position. Just continue what you're doing now and promote your sites.
Google Loves Content, but it Kills for Unique Content. Thats the game. If you want to rank well on Google, you will need to have good SEO techniques applied as well as continue to define and refine your keywords, meta-tags, titles and so one. A good tool for this is SEO Scribe. Just Google it. It doesn't take months, and years to rank on the first page of Google if you know what Google is looking for an provide it. I've seen people create a Squidoo Page and have it ranked for their keywords of over 675,000 searches in less than a couple of days. Do you research, know your market and start to create blog posting on your site that match your keywords. You should be there in no time.
Yeah, I hear what you say regarding high profile sites like Squidoo. I've done a quick test and submitted 40 articles to see what kind of response I get from them in both SEO/Traffic.
Yes I agree, my Birthstones By Month lens hit the front page very quickly and has stuck. Squidoo is great for niche topics.
It's easy enough to rank well in Google for non-profitable topics or long-tail searches. It's when you start getting into the competitive niches like gambling that one site (sometimes even one page) can become a full time job. If you have competitors who don't really know what they're doing, or you're working in a niche where the CPC for Google Ads is under $8-10, then it's easy to rank well.
Keep writing more and more "original" articles....100% copyscape passed, as well. And build as many, many backlinks that are relevant to your niche. Use 2-4% keyword dense phrases on the site, as well.