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We’ve all been there and asked ourselves the age old question: “How to get on page one of google”?
Our new (review) site has been setup and we’re dying to unleash our posts to the whole world – Move over John Chow.
We’ve done our part to get on page one of Google and the waiting game starts.
You know which “waiting game” i am talking about here right?
Yep. The waiting game, where you’ve published your wordpress post, pinged it to death with every RSS submitter stick under god’s sun and finished every cup of coffee in your student dorm, as you wait to get listed on the first pages of Google.
You wait hours on end, just to catch a glimpse of that glimmer of hope called “First Page Rankings”.
If only Mama G (That’s Google btw) would be kind enough to cut you a break and list your posts on page one of Google …
You wait hours, days and even weeks on end and come to the same conclusion like the one millionth blogger before you.
Your blog posts have been beamed into indexing nirvana and your dream to get on page one of Google bites the dust.
Clicking past page 10000000 sucks and I won’t even touch that nerve ;-(
So is all this SERP BS and the whole SEO get on page one of Google complete and utter BS?
What’s going on here and why the hell aren’t you being listed on page one of Google anyhoo? WTF!?!
Well, if you are not the head nerd at Google Seo Headquarters (that’s the chimp deciding who gets listed on the first pages of Google or not btw *) then you only need ONE formula.
I call this formula the “Hidden Art Of Seo Blogging” (for those smarty pants out there the word hidden doesn’t imply that this method Is new nor that I have created it).
This art of seo blogging is akin to blogging shogun where you start to learn to choose your battles.
What do I mean by this?
You don’t start blogging on the keywords that the super bloggers are targeting.
Instead, you start targeting the low fruit i.e., keywords that bring in decent traffic but are not highly competitive.
Such keywords are called long tail keywords.
So if you are sadistic enough to make your next blog on dog training, then an example of a long tail keyword would be dog training in New York for seniors.
A long tail keyword like this is likely to have less competition than say a more generic one like dog training.
So what’s the advantage of targeting the lower fruit long tails say ye?
Great question.
These keywords are laser targeted and you will be eliminating the guesswork completely on not only knowing what demographic you’re writing for but also make it much easier for the cute little Google bots to crawl your websites – seek and destroy .. errmmm … I mean seek and index away little bots.
But the coolest effect which you will notice is that some or even most of your blog entries will be listed TWICE on the same page in Google.
Know what that means?
You’ve landed on the Google Indexing radar with a big SPLASH.
Irrelevant if your site is new or not you’ll soon notice that some of your posts will start getting listed lightning fast (12 hours and/or even less) on the 1st pages for those targeted low tail keywords.
So what’s the morale of the story?
The next time you decide on your domain name or your blog post for that matter, keep one thing in mind.
Forget the highly competitive generic keywords.
Instead, target the longest tail keywords with the least competition and walk away into the sunset with a cool smile knowing:
It’s just another day where you’ve gotten your content out there onto the first pages of Google.
Want some more tricks to get multiple listings on the first pages of Google?
Check out the 6 minute video, I created for a very cool community that I am proud to be a member of Youtube!
About Author :
Jamal Salim is the co-founder of www.StephenPierceAffiliate.Com. He is specializing in affiliate marketing and he shows you the art of making residual income online.
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What is the definition for long tail keyword? Is that the keyword which has more than three words?
.-= ah hong@taste.travel´s last blog ..China Pizza Snack In Taiwan =-.
Yes, usually a “long tailed keyword” is three or more words put together that creates a “keyword phrase”.
.-= Mathew Day´s last blog ..How to Easily Create a WordPress Blog with Hostgator =-.
I agree. I have give up on competitive keywords and focus on building unique content. Even if you really want to apply SEO with long tail keyword, you need to put more effort on outside content that support your main domain.
.-= Alvin Lim Fong Yee´s last blog ..Most Popular Search Keywords on limfy.com =-.
Usually I use tag and post description to get high rank as I will include the keyword that I’m targeting both in tag and post desciption as well as in post title
Awesome and very interesting style of writing. Totally understood the concept of long tail keywords!
.-= Vivek Krishnan´s last blog ..Game Review: Mass Effect 2 =-.
I’m not sure if long tail is the way to go for my current kw research, but I’ll give it a shot. :)
.-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..DEDC Updates – What the (Near) Future Holds for You and I! =-.
quite interesting…will check it out…
.-= mk akan´s last blog ..65 Lessons about Blogging learnt In the Last 3 Months =-.
Hey man!
Great video but I have a question about assessing the competition on a keyword. It wasn’t very clear from your video how you assess the competition on a keyword. It just showed you using an * but I didn’t follow what you were doing.
Do you have another video or can you briefly explain how you use this system to assess competition on a keyword. That’s the part I still don’t understand.
Thanks a lot!
- Don
.-= Don Power – Nanaimo Business Marketing Strategist´s last blog ..Vancouver Island Real Estate Board Promotes Social Media for Realtors =-.
Hi Don,
I was sick whilst shooting the video so i wanted to get it done as fast as possible before passing out ;).
Jokes aside, i wanted to reshoot that part, but never got round to it.
Enclosing the keyword between quotations gives you the exact phrase match and an idea of the competing sites.
So for example if you want to rank on a product: ipad in new york, then doing a search for “ipad in new york” will list the competing sites out there, to help you gauge if you want to attack that phrase or not.
You can select what phrase type you are looking for by either doing it by hand in the google search engine i.e., typing out “ipad in new york” or by selecting the exact phrase from the drop down box (after typing in ipad in new york) to the right of “average search volume per month”.
Your searches should then be enclosed within the double quotes.
Hope that confused errrr helped ;)
Jamal Salim
cofounder of StephenPierceAffiliate.Com
A useful URL if my last response confused ^^
http://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6100
.-= Jamal Salim´s last blog ..Protected: Making Money With Free Reports =-.
Hi Jamal!
Thanks for your reply. I still don’t understand how including quotes and an asterisk can show you competing sites in the keyword tool or do you mean including quotes in a Google search?
.-= Don Power – Nanaimo Business Marketing Strategist´s last blog ..Vancouver Island Real Estate Board Promotes Social Media for Realtors =-.
Hi Don,
The quotes actually do look like asterisks but you’ll see when the video zooms in that they are actually quotes ;)
Yeah, bottom line is use quotes to assess how many competing websites are already listed
Cheers
Jamal
.-= Jamal Salim´s last blog ..Protected: Making Money With Free Reports =-.
Thanks mate!
Here’s a suggestion for a future post that would be in high demand…
How do you tell how many/what searches for a topic are performed in your LOCAL CITY. I can’t seem to find a good answer for this anywhere!
Cheers!
- Don
.-= Don Power – Nanaimo Business Marketing Strategist´s last blog ..Vancouver Island Real Estate Board Promotes Social Media for Realtors =-.
This is one of the best SEO article I have read. Straight to the point, practical and useful.
.-= Agent Deepak´s last blog ..Interview with James Richmond – The InfoPreneur =-.
very useful video….was aware of the term Long Tail Keyword but did not use it till now :-) ..will focus on this from now onwards…
Video Embedding can force visitors to stay long on page ..I like this idea.
Yes, this video embedding really works bcoz I watched this video now staying on this page for 3 times continuosly, giving more stay on your website :-)
will focus on this too.
Thanks’
Atul
.-= TechOfWeb´s last blog ..My Plugins got approved in WordPress =-.
You should also copnsider how many are searching for that long talied keyword. What is getting on top of your keyword for if you aren’t getting any traffic from it?
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