Showing posts with label Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tips. Show all posts

Sunday, January 16, 2011

I’m On Google Page 1!

I’m sick of people roaming here and there looking for ways to climb up the SERPs but they cannot even break the 100 mark. Well, in case you didn’t read the title then NEWS ALERT: I’m on Google Page 1, which means I’m making money on internet. I practice what I preach and I did not apply any rocket science to get there, it is as easy as eating noodles with chopsticks; or a little more easier. Before I talk I’ll show proof, so please stay calm and don’t break your keyboard with excitement because I will clearly share how to get Google page 1 with an easy technique. Please click on the pictures to zoom in. So here goes:
Google Page 1
And again:
Google Page 1
That’s only 2, I have more than 7 keywords on Google page 1 and about 15 keywords on google page 2. All this significant change happened in the span of 1 month! Also note that I only work for high trafficked keywords, before which you’ll need to find niche to work on and make money.

How I Got Google Page 1

What do you think, are you in a fantasy world? Am I going to give you the exact formula to success in a few lines in one post for free? Ok, don’t get disheartened because I might. In fact, I’ll tell you the exact thing. This is the ultimate formula for my Google page 1 for those keywords!
Anyone of you remember my review on how to get backlinks with that free membership membership website? I told you to join it right, but now you’ve missed the boat and me and other users are going to make a fortune off it. Jokes apart, you still have time to gain access to that service.
I will not just into the details this time, this is just a ‘woohoo’ or ‘in your face’ post for those who doubted my recommendation or wanted to see if it works. So folks here it is, you can still click here to join their system and get loads of backlinks to get google page 1, or you could die trying. This is the real deal!
I’ll soon be having a more detailed post about their service and start posting articles to get loads of backlinks, till then join their system or read a little more about them on my post about how to get backlinks.
P.S. This is the outcome of just 1 month, you can imagine how many keywords I’ll have on the page 1 and the positions I’ll have for them in 3 months!

The Right Way To Check Keyword Competition

The fact is, I don’t trust or believe half of the SEO fluff I read online. Sometimes, I go through ridiculously absurd articles with information which is wrong. Though they might be some attempt of a link bait. The fact is it just makes them look a lot more stupid, not to mention some highly honored SEO websites who are making a lot of money on the internet. Talking about old techniques to find the keyword competition, this reminds me of the days when I was 15 years old.
Please note that the technique I’ll be mentioning on this post is not an advice from a professional, neither am I guaranteeing you any results. It is just a way which proved me good results, and as you read you’ll find that it is in fact more sensible and logical than the ordinary way of doing so and will surely help you while making money with niche picking.
So when you received your ‘SEO lessons’, you were told to just google the keyword and see the results google displays for it and there you have it. But as far as I believe this will not find you your actual competition.

The Actual Keyword Competition

In most cases you can outrank 95% of the websites just by putting the keyword in your title. Reason being, those websites are mostly not even about that keyword. If your website is in google’s index and you use a word such as ‘make money on the internet’ anywhere on your page. There you have it, you’re in Google SERPs. You might be at page number 893, but still you’re in the results right?
Hence, you need to be sure of your real competition. We’ll assume that make money is the keyword in this example. This isn’t going to be long, so just bear with me for a few lines:
  • Open Google.com/webhp.
  • Type inanchor:”make money” and record the number of results shown.
  • Type intitle:”make money” and record the number of results shown.
  • Add the 2 figures (Figure 1 + Figure 2).
  • The result is your actual competition.
Talking about accuracy, your actual competition will be even lower. Don’t give me that puzzled look. You might think I’ve gone too far against your present knowledge but the reason why this is exaggerated is simple. Most of the times you check competition for your keyword, the results in both would have about 40-50% common results.
For example: X is a website about tennis shoes. When it is optimized for the keyword, it will have the term ‘tennis shoes’ in it’s title as well as it’s anchor texts and url. So when you do both of the searches, the same website will show up.
I wouldn’t really like to get into long discussions because everyone has their own ways. In SEO, there is no such technique which is engraved on a rock. This technique of finding keyword competition is fully tested by me and it works great. Since this is my way, you’re most welcome to follow my way and I will lead you to online success and help you to make money.

Beginner Blogging Mistakes - Promoting For No Reason

Back in 2007 when I started off as a blogger, I was totally off-track. As you might already know that I started off making money on the internet with paid to click websites. Yes, what a waste of time. But since I was quite enthusiastic about making money back then, I wanted to create a blog to promote my referral links.
In paid to click websites, you look for referrals who can come, click ads and make money for you forever. Since posting a whole bunch of links at places to let people know about it was kind of a tedious job, instead I created a blog, filled it with reviews and my referral links and then promoted the blog instead.
My initial aim was to get visitors to it and then have them to sign up for the paid to click website. It wasn’t long until blogger disabled my account with all of the blogs including the one I was using to promote the referral links. However, I was doing that for a reason, I was actually making money by the efforts that I put into getting visitors to the blog.
These days, I see a bunch of fully seo loaded blogs with no ads. The thing is, there is no point in doing SEO on a blog if you don’t have intentions of making money from it. Straight up. Unless you have other aims for the blog.
This thing gets even more emphasis when your main source of traffic is referral traffic. You can always play around with organic traffic because you know that more will be coming later on and you aren’t really losing a lot of money in the long run.
But usually the referral traffic comes and goes. You don’t have a chance of them returning or more of them coming in to your website after you’ve done the promotion. In that case, it is complete nonsense to have no monetisation on your blog which completely makes it promoting for no reason.
The most widely know fact is: Traffic is money. However, you need to learn how to convert that traffic into money else you’ll end up in the blues with no money and probably a loss in form of hosting fees.
My advice to all new bloggers is that: Monetize your blog from day one! There is no harm, I repeat, no harm whatsoever from monetizing a blog. If you think it will discourage visitors, no it wouldn’t. If that was the case, Google wouldn’t have been the number one search engine. There are thousands of other search engines without advertisements.
It will have no impact on your SEO. Why it will have no effect on your SEO is because Google will always be in benefit if you have adsense on your blog. Since, when Google sends traffic to your website, it clicks the adsense ad. Not only do you get paid but Google gets paid as well. I know this theory sounds totally absurd but it was just to diversify your minds from not monetizing a new website. So yeah, you can laugh!

I’m Clueless About The Caffeine Update

Hello wonderful people,
I’m certain you read my post about the Google caffeine update or would have already read about it elsewhere. While it wasn’t in the Google search operating before the holidays but now it is.
I’m sure I would be among the last ones writing about the effects of this update but I think I should be letting everybody know a little about the effects of this update on my websites. So you know that it’s not fluff. :P
I track my website’s rankings on the tool rank checker by seobook, which is one of the must-have SEO tools that I mentioned a few months back. Since I’m updating to have a look at my rankings everyday and rank checker is kind enough to record updates every time I check the new ranking so that I can compare my rankings over time.
Please bare with me as I do not really know how to get graphical representation from excel data, so instead I’ll just point out some sudden changes that I noticed on my rankings.
I did not get time to read other people’s experiences but for my website, I saw a sudden bump on the 3rd of January 2010. More than half of my rankings had changed and this is not some sort of a Google dance.
I know this because I did not have any such thing done to my website since the last few months. Luckily, for me the bump was positive. :)

The Caffeinated Results

So basically, I have around 10 keywords on my rank checker list. Out of them I see an improvement in 5 of the keywords. With most of them moving from the second page to the top five of the first page.
Keywords with other websites improves as well so it is very hard for me to decide what has changed, although I have used different marketing strategies for almost all of my websites.
A little thing that I think has affected my website might be a little LSI. I don’t know what you call it but I find my website getting traffic from keywords that were not even mentioned on the page even once.
Those keywords were never even used in my linking and still my website was ranking fairly well for them. By this, I mean ranking above other websites which had this keyword optimized on their pages and also in their links. I find this pretty odd.
Maybe Google has started categorizing keywords and has made has made hubs of synonyms and knows that some content is related if it is trusted for the main keywords it has.
I’ll be looking further into this because I’m sure there is something bigger cooking up. Lastly, I’m stunned by the Google developers. Matt cutts was right. The whole Google algorithm change was so ‘under the hood’ that hardly any SEO out there can pin-point factors that have changed in their ranking methods.
So what changes have you experienced on your websites? Have you also seen an increase in the amount of visitors you get from Google? Or the vice-versa? What are your guesses might have changed in their algorithm. I would love to know. :)

Friday, January 14, 2011

How to: Overcome your Biggest Time(Money) Waster

I  know it’s been a long time since I last wrote an article, but I’ve been pretty busy with examinations going on in my school. It’s not that I was too busy to come online but just didn’t catch enough time to write an article. Well during these 7 days I learnt how to control myself from one of my biggest time wasters online.
In my case, I can easily complete my daily online work on the computer(including writing articles) in about 2 hours. However, usually I end up sitting in front of the computer for more than 5 hours and end up without even writing an article for my blog. Which shows how my time is creeping away without me even knowing, I’m killing my own money.
So I usually use the computer with the intention of doing the routine work, but I’m often mislead to wasting time reading dozens of articles in my feeds and checking my blog’s statistics. I was literally wasting so much time, that once I realized that I was logging into my Google Account to check Google Analytics only to find a few more visits for more than 5 times in one hour.
It is crazy to waste so much time on those things and hence, there are 2 tasks I had to come over:  Surfing the internet like I’m totally free and stop checking blog statistics every ten minutes. As for the first one, I took a deep breath and deleted all subscriptions in blog’s feeds, eventually I will subscribe to only 20-30 blogs to make sure that I am able to read all posts in one day and not waste too much time on them.
Being addicted to site statistics is like a honey bee addicted to flowers, you can’t stay without it. Hence, it was very hard for me to stop myself from checking the stats again and again. By stats, I am referring to almost everything, blog visits, incoming links, SERPs positions, Organic traffic, etc.
So how to overcome this is pretty obvious and simple, just stop checking! I loved how once Eli over at BlueHatSEO said that ‘let the money checks in your mail be the only statistics that you check on your blog’. Although, it may seem the other extreme of it, but checking statistics once a day is fine. Moreover, it is best to stay focused to what you have to do when you come online because when you do not know what to do next even though you’ve got some work, it’s very easy for you to get distracted.
We shouldn’t allow our time to be wasted because time is money! After all, the internet consists of more than 3 trillion pages, and it’s not hard to get distracted at all, because even the best content is just a few clicks away (3arn.Net, lol). Hence, when you want to make money online, you should be determined enough in your aims that you do not get distracted and avoid all time wasters that stop you from making the most out of your time