The best SEO company/strategy?

[c14h20o4]

Hiya Cab,

Since you asked about SEO strategies and about companies that could say for certain whether they can get you on page one, I'll talk about those. I'm unaware of any seo company that will guarantee first page rankings because there are a lot of variables that go into rankings and Google controls those variables. If you do it wrong, even big companies like BMW can get deindexed, BMW given Google 'death penalty'

While the prevailing wisdom is to always go after non-competitive keywords there's nothing wrong with going after more competitive keywords as long as you have the right mind-set before you start out and the mind-set that you need to have is that your time line is going to be a lot longer. Much of the "IM" world is set to getting rankings with 24 hours or so is the claim. However if you check out some of the people making these claims, you'll find the examples they use to "prove" their rankings are keywords that have no traffic and no competition but they'd still like to sell you some software (Tim and Anthony are exceptions to this BTW as they check out and are still ranking for the phrases they use in their videos). The point I'm getting at is that your time line is usually longer than you think.

As for a strategy for more competitive keywords. Accept this fact, for any competitive keyword they are going to be related keywords with a lot weaker competition. These related keywords will contain the competitive keyword together with other words. I'll use "dog collars" as an example since it seems to be popular. Related keywords are things like blue dog collars, dog collars with rhinestones etc. Where can you find these related keywords? One of the best places to look is in your traffic stats in your cpanel. It's good because people are already getting to your page with those search strings.

Time for an example...

Let's say you look in your stats and see the search string, "Making your dog look great with rhinestone dog collars" You might not actually have that phrase on your page but a search in Google for that phrase shows you as #6 in the search results. If you were to go and edit that page and work in that exact phrase "Making your dog look great with rhinestone dog collars," into the body text, you'd find that in about a week, you'll be #1 for that phrase.

So you're probably saying, "So what, there's no traffic for that phrase." But you'd be surprised how much traffic you can get for a long tail keyword like that and to top it off, you didn't have to build any links. Of course how much traffic would you be building if you did this for every long tail keyword that people are already finding you with?

But then again that doesn't help you with that competitive keyword, dog collars does it... You see by being number one for that keyphrase, "Making your dog..." you've gained a little authority with google. Do that for a lot of long tails and it's going to add up. Of course you'll also have to build links and that's a great place to use long tails as anchor text. Use that competitive keyword as an anchor about 60% of the time and mix up your long tails for anchors the other 40%. Keep doing this and over time, you'll find that you'll start to get really good rankings for those competitive keywords.

Oh and one last thing, when you create pages, you should already have a list of related keywords to work into the body text. You'll want at least 5 or 6.

Hope that helps

[Kerry]

Quote from Sneddo:
"NOTE: I have found that when keyword sniping domains like the above work better than donains with "-" seperating the words. I dont know why this is just what I have found when testing.

If you are keyword sniping then you can go after keywords 2 or three times more competative.

If you want to know more about that then I can tell you."

Hi Sneddo,
I'd like to take you up on this!
I've been looking at putting up a few mini sites with exact match domains that link back to our main site. 1 - as a way of adding backlinks to our main site and 2 - to try and get the mini site to rank in its own right for a keyphrase that is fairly competitive. I gather from your post that this is called sniping.
So my questions are:
1. are you monetizing the sniper sites you put up or just using them for backlinks and if so do you have any tips as to what works?
2. as they are pretty specific I'm going to struggle to come up with much more than 2-3 posts. Does this matter? Can I have a site that just has 2 posts and then all the usual about, terms, privacy etc.
3. have you found this works if the on page factors are low competition and off page are high competition. If you do use Market Samurai that means the on page factors are all green - so other sites in the top 10 don't have the keyword in their url, title or headers but the other sites' off page factors are red - ie they have lots of pages, good domain age, good page rank, huge number of backlinks to their site but perhaps just a reasonable amount of backlinks to the particular page you're trying to rank for.
4. any other tips in this area would be appreciated!!
thanks,
Kerry

[Geraldc]

If you are looking for a good company that help you solve problem on your website then you should one that lots of experience and has affordable SEO services.

[SEOArbiter]

You might want to try this: When starting out, focus on only a few keywords and you’ll get more links per each keyword. This concept of “link equity” should lead to better rankings.

[ngovgroup]

In my experience, I would have to say the best strategy for SEO is not rushing things and let everything take its course. Keyword rankings don't happen overnight and quality content is top priority.

[ngovgroup]

Writing good content maybe the most important strategy of all. If your pages contain good, relevant, useful content, search engines will be more likely to rank your page higher for relevant searches. As an added benefit, good content will encourage more sites to link to your pages, thereby further increasing your search engine ranking.

[allenM]

Hi,

As an SEO executive i am using various optimization techniques like, article submission, forum posting, Blog submission as well as commenting, social bookmarking, directory submission, press release. But as my experience profile linking on social media sites is the best way to get rank in less time.



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[PETER RIDELL]

Hi,

I agree with your post Mike, Thank you for sharing this with us. Keep sharing

Cheers