The best SEO company/strategy?

[cab322003]

Hey,

I've not had much luck with high ranking on google. I have a niche that is fairly popular and not much competition but I don't really know of any SEO strategies for getting on the front page of Google or Yahoo. Does anyone know of any strategies for this or maybe a company who will guarantee you front page exposure. Would love to know

[sneddo]

Hello cab322033,

There are many strategies for getting front page ranks.. You have to understand that it will take time.

Few tips for finding good keywords, in google search for your keyword in quotes for example a search for my keyword phrase would be entered into google like "my keyword phrase".

Just to clarify that is like this:

"my keyword phrase"

Look at the number of results if its less than 30k then you should be able to get on the front page within a month (site age dependant).

Also look at all in title compentition. If you find a keyword with say 80k quotes comp but only 900 all it title comp then that would be a good keyword to go for as you should be able to take it relativly quickly again.

All in title example:

allintitle:"keyword phrase"

If you are keyword sniping then these rules change.

Keyword sniping for thoes that do not know is when you have a domain name that matches your keyword phrase.

Example:

my keyword phrase
mykeywordphrase.com

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.

You need to do more extensive competition research to know for sure.

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

So check your keywords, do they meet the conditions above?

Right onto the SEO!

What you need to do is chose three or four keywords and start building backlinks to your site. I say three or four keywords as you suddenly getting loads of links back your site all with the exact same keyword phrase is a little bit of a red flag..

There are a few ways of getting these links.

1) Directories
2) Articles
3) Web 2.0 sites (squidoo and alike)
4) Press Releases (The big press release sites do not allow anchor text so look for ones that do )
5) Rss Feeds (Submit our feeds)
6) Social bookmarking
A little grey hat...
7) profile back links (I have a good site for this.. PM me)
8) 1 way link building services (Sites that you join and they put your links on other members sites)

There are many more ways but if your just getting into all this that should give you plenty to think about.

[Mike Taylor]

You are killing yourself doing the research like that.

Market Samurai THE tool for research. I bought it when it was first released and cannot imagine doing business without it. If you actually do your research like that, try it for a month (there is a free period) and you will never go back to doing that stuff manually, one phrase at a time. It it 100 times faster - if not more than that - than doing manual research.

Analyze batches of related phrases and see all the data grouped together in a way that actually makes sense. This lets you compare/slice/dice your data from any angle. When you are looking at searches for a list of words (by the whole list, not by single keyword), you can toggle between broad, phrase and exact match results and view it against traffic, competition and commercial value data, too.

The main keyword module (which stays active even after the trial period is up) also allows you to drill down into deeper and deeper long-tail keywords with a couple of mouse clicks. Pull up data on organic searches, current traffic and competition numbers, adwords traffic, cost per click, click-through rate for each keyphrase in your list...

Market Samurai allows you to examine your SEO competition against a wide matrix of criteria for any of those key phrases you want to examine, on-page and off, and even examine your competition's backlinks for page rank and keywords in the links anchor text. I am sure you could craft a SQL query to pull that info, but automatic is pretty easy...

Their training Dojo hosts lots of fine videos showing how to use the product.

Watch the free Samurai training videos (all top quality), use Market Samurai to examine your market place, and finally lay Tim and Anthony's techniques on top of your Samurai research for the killer combo.

[Tim Buchalka]

Check this post out for an excellent set of Market Samurai Videos.

Cheers


Tim

[sneddo]

I do use software for some of my keyword research.. but I strongly believe that when someone is just starting out they really need to learn manually so they fully understand how to conduct keyword research.

I would say go get blah blah software until I was happy that person knew how to do it manualy. it IS important that you can do it manually.

Thanks for the tip though.. Im sure others will get value from it.

Also are your marketing samurai links meant to be pointing at pointing at videos about gardening??

David

[Tim Buchalka]

I do agree that you should understand the basics of why you are doing keyword research, but once you have that under your belt I think it's largely a waste of time to do it manually.

With numerous keyword tools out there, I can't think of a reason to continue doing it manually.

This is from someone who did keyword research manually for a long time (yes me)

Once you've established that the keyword tool is working as it should be you are good to go.

Using a keyword tool is effectively freeing up time for you to spend on research additional keywords in the same time, or doing other activities in the time you have saved.

Also I would point out to do manually what some of these tools in minutes would take many hours.

I guess if you are researching only a few keywords there may be some value in it, but these days I don't bother.


Cheers


Tim

I do use software for some of my keyword research.. but I strongly believe that when someone is just starting out they really need to learn manually so they fully understand how to conduct keyword research.

I would say go get blah blah software until I was happy that person knew how to do it manualy. it IS important that you can do it manually.

Thanks for the tip though.. Im sure others will get value from it.

Also are your marketing samurai links meant to be pointing at pointing at videos about gardening??

David

[Mike Taylor]

I do use software for some of my keyword research.. but I strongly believe that when someone is just starting out they really need to learn manually so they fully understand how to conduct keyword research.

I would say go get blah blah software until I was happy that person knew how to do it manually. it IS important that you can do it manually.

Thanks for the tip though.. Im sure others will get value from it.

Also are your marketing samurai links meant to be pointing at pointing at videos about gardening??

David

No, those were supposed to be links to Market Samurai's download page, not the link I had previously posted somewhere else <blush>...

[cab322003]

Just so I understand 'Keyword research' is trying to find the best keywords for your niche? Or is it trying to find high ranking keywords in general so you can pick a niche? Does Market Saumurai actually help you to achieve a high ranking once you've sumbitted your site to search engines or it just a way to find good niches in the market? I noticed you mentioned Yahoo paid directory in your other post, Tim. Is that a good way of getting high ranking/traffic?

[Mike Taylor]

You can use the tool either way. You research a market for traffic, competition and commercial potential and find areas that you are interested in pursuing. Then you focus in on particular niches and micro-niches (which is where you get into the long-tailed key words). The MS tool lets you select competition and traffic and find the best traffic you can hope to rank for. You pick the phrases it researches and you select from the results. Sometime you find lots of traffic but no competition - best of both worlds. It will show, for example, where adding an 's' to a search term gets less traffic and 3 times the competition than a simpler search.

The SEO module lets you look at the top 10 of the competitors for any phrase. You can see exactly how many backs, and of what quality, and other off-page and on-page factors, you need to get to be competitive.

The rank-tracker module lets you throw all the keywords you investigate and use into a tracking module. It shows you the progress of each page that ranks for each keyword. It collects such off-page data as position in broad and/or phrase match for 3 search engines, plus PR and back links. Being able to see what pages are struggling gives you an idea of where you need to put your efforts, so, yes, it does help you get rank.

Samurai lets you pick off the low-hanging fruit, and it shows you how much effort it will be in more heated markets. It let's me have multiple #1 positions, and most pages are in the top 10 for one phrase or another, so I would have to say it works pretty well.

[cab322003]

Thanks, Mike. That helped clear it up