DIY: Get The Top Spot On Google
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OK, not really the top spot but first page at least. While the entire internet is waiting for a PR update to increase their advertising rates, and get some gratification from a green line on a toolbar, there are other ways to please your ego with Google. By getting to the top of Organic Search Results.
Getting to the top of Organic Search Results
I’m not going to beat the dead horse of “content is king” again, it’s been done like a million times already. Instead, I’ll tell how to get your original content hopefully to the first page of Google. It helps if your blog is a bit older than yesterday, and has some sort of link authority.
Currently, I rank on the first page for quite a few search terms, that have results in the millions/billions on Google. Some of my single post pages get close to 100 – 300 visits a day, netting me some good money as well. Here are a few posts that I rank on the first page for -
- increase blog rankings
- remote pc via internet
- lacoste sale {who would’ve thought?!}
and many many more. There are few other top notch ones as well, visit my blog to have a browse around.
All I did was link to those pages from my homepage, which subsequently gets linked across all my single post pages. It’s also good to periodically link to them via separate posts as well. Give Google a couple of weeks to get things together and you should start seeing traffic for those posts. This won’t work if you have a new blog, don’t have at least a few links pointing to you, and don’t have other relevant content.
Most of you are probably saying this is not gold information, everyone uses popular posts across their blog? What are you trying to pull? True – they do use a popular post plugin or etc…BUT they link to it with the entire headline of the post. Nobody really searches for "29 reasons why my blog is better than yours" at least not in the hundreds everyday.
What I did was link to my posts with a keyword rich link and then provide a small description.
It’s not all Black and White
It seems all too easy, when in fact it is not. To get to that point where I can hopefully try and rank higher for any specific keyword, purely by using only my site, took almost a year of pumping out daily content, getting linked from other top sites and bloggers as well as some social bookmarking success.
It just takes a little bit of time.
Negative Impact
This can also have a negative impact though as your posts get popular and highly indexed, it attracts scrappers. Some of my content has been scrapped innumerable times and re-posted everywhere. Sending emails to take down can only get so many results. So if you do plan on getting to the number 1 page for a search term, plan on dealing with the consequences of spam as well.
So far this method has worked for me, although it does take a couple of weeks before you see any results. And for God sake don’t everybody link to themselves with – Make Money Online.
Written by Hyder, who blogs at Everybody Go To.
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thanks for the info..will learn from it. But being a good parody site surely had help johncow right?
Great post Hyder,
I have been using this myself on a few occasions before. I must admit that i tend to forget sometimes as well so thanks for the reminder.
Moo-Moo-Monika
It’s funny what random things you can start ranking for.
yeah..hey what happen to the google ads? they are not showing..
Hi Hyder
Great post
I have been doing this for a while now, and got lucky with a particular keyword over the last couple of months ‘iPhone UK’.
As I knew it was going to be announced, I spent about 3 weeks including a link to one of my posts in anything I wrote about the iPhone, with the anchor text iPhone UK.
It brought me 12,181 visitors lastmonth, and now the information has been launched and it is not as hot a search word anymore I am still getting about 300 visitors a day for that keyword.
oops I forgot to say that I got this keyword to no2 on the 1st page of google.
Cow, thanks for the write up and ideas. Going to put this into practice and see how it goes!
long tail keywords, find some that have relatively many searches, do some nice titles with them, and you should have your blog up on the first page
Have you tried working with google to deal with scraper sites?
I don’t know why people are after PR update… haven’t you read about Orion algorithm?
pretty interesting point. I must try this.
Great Article. I’ve learned many things on promoting my site. One thing that is troubling me is this – I don’t understand the linking part. Do you just re-submit your site to google, yahoo, msn, etc with specific pages? Say you have a article that you want to promote on SEO, and the title is SEOs Googlefyed (made up of course, lol) and then you type in the article’s name, and other stuff? or am I completely off here?
But does google give much importance to internal links?
@Joyce
Well so far its been working for me. I’ve only used my blog to rank higher for keywords and I’m up there, that’s why I provided proof it works.
Of course as I stated, it helps if your blog is already well linked from other sites. Has natural rankings as well and is at least a couple of months old with some sort of PR. The higher the better.
enough maybe
Are we not sick and tired of PR updates? If i get 2,000 visitors on my site everyday, wouldnt i prefer that to waiting my time on when google will favour me with a good PR??
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Great Post! I will definately be doing this in my blog from now on. I have picked up rankings in a few unimportant keywords, but they are not bringing any traffic.
i am so sick and tired of dealing with Pagerank that i just stop doing all those stuff and concenrate on my blog.
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I learned a lot from you. Thx!
Very interesting. But any reason why I don’t see it(linking to the featured posts) on this blog now.
Peter Lee
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Great post Hyder,
I have been using this myself on a few occasions before. I must admit that i tend to forget sometimes as well so thanks for the reminder.
Moo-Moo-Monika