Keywords, Ranking & Search Engine Optimization Fun
by Andy Beard
Published on this site: August 2nd, 2005 - See
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I am a Search Engine Optimization newbie. I have read a little
on various forums, browsed a few articles, and read through
The Affiliate Masters Course (Ken Evoy) a couple of times.
Eleven days ago I invested a little of my affiliate earnings
in a new product that was being launched.
The Dowser Professional is a keyword research tool on steroids,
and has allowed me to improve the returns from the few existing
niche websites I already have, and find a number of new niches
very quickly.
I was so impressed with The Dowser Professional that I decided
it was a key product I wanted to promote as an affiliate,
even to the extent of developing a product specific niche
website.
I am very much a believer in Ken Evoy's technique of "pre-selling".
If you provide a customer with proof that a product works,
and what they could do with the product, you can maximise
your sales potential.
So I set out to prove that The Dowser Professional was an
insanely powerful too, and that anyone could easily use it
to improve their website(s) and find rich new niches.
I set myself what I believe is the ultimate challenge, to
target SEO experts on their own turf.
I picked an initial keyword to research, "keyword".
Within a few minutes I had a good list of related keywords,
and within 20 minutes had completed my keyword research. Yes
the whole process was that fast.
I then setup a Blogger.com blog based around the keywords
I selected.
http://keyword-report.blogspot.com/
The primary keywords for the site are "keyword position
report" (KEI approx 6K) and "keyword ranking report"
(KEI approx 3K).
It is amazing that such large holes can be found in a very
competitive niche with only a few minutes work, but that is
the power of The Dowser.
I set myself a very strict rule. No seeking links until the
site was indexed and had achieved ranking based purely on
keywords.
Today (July 28th 2005) the site was picked up by Yahoo. It
ranks 1st and 5th for it's primary keywords, and has already
received traffic from both Yahoo and Technorati.
The site is not yet listed in MSN and Google. I expect it
to rank well on MSN and poorly on Google until it has some
incoming links.
The site contains maybe 30% original content, and any articles
used were carefully "wrapped" with specific keyword
heavy text both before and after.
Additional related information including screenshots of example
Yahoo ranking are available on my Niche Website Blog.
Andy Beard has worked in Sales, Marketing and Localization
for the last 15 years, primarily in the computer games industry
with an enviable 100% profit track record. His blog Exploring
Niche Websites gives insights into creating profitable websites
on the internet http://niche-
website.blogspot.com/2005/07/keywords-ranking-and-little-seo-fun.html
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