SEO Techniques

I started this blog a little over 8 months ago. My objectives were twofold; Having mastered the art of page 1 rankings for hundreds of small niche sites I wanted to see if my SEO techniques could dominate a large niche... ie "Make Money Online". Secondly I thought it would be nice to be the first person online to actually help beginners out without charging them any money. If I made any money in the process great but my other sites provide enough income that I don't need to profit from this one. Most of you will think this is a croc or a come on and I don't blame you. Those of you who have dealt with me know that I never charge a dime and tend to give away a lot of stuff. I hope all of you will come to realize this.

My quest for ranking high in a very competetive niche began as a boys pissing contest when several of my online friends who also do well in the small niche markets, started bragging about who had the best "system" for search engine success or SEO techniques. I admit I did a little boasting as well. The long and the short of it was that we ended up making a bet between us - the winner would be the first person to make page 1 on any of the top search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN ) for the term "make money online".

This morning I won the bet. A whole dollar. ( We were not in it for the money - bragging rights are so much better.) Being a gracious winner I won't rub their noses in it... much.






Yeah! ... I won, I won...

Checking my site stats I noticed a query had arrived at my blog from msn.live using the keyword "make money online". I didn't get excited as I get these from time to time and when I check out the link I usually find that some kind soul has browsed all the way to page 10 on the search engine and clicked on my site. This morning I was shocked when Page 1 showed up with my site listed in the 7 spot.

check it out here make money online(Postscript: Alas it only lasted a week or so and then I was punted back into the dark abyss of the SERP's... damn!)

Of course by tomorrow (see postscript)it could be gone back to obscurity but it's there right now and it tells me that the same techniques I use for small niches works just as well for the highly competitive ones. This is huge because most of us have always thought that you didn't have a chance of ranking well for keywords with tens of millions of competitors and dominated by sites that have been around for ages and have thousands of backlinks. Granted this is only MSN and not Google but it tells me that Google is attainable as well. DoshDosh.com ranks number 8 on page 1 on Google - and number 10 on page 1 on MSN - 3 lower than me. John Chow dot com is also below me and for those familiar with his site he was number 2 on Google for ages until he suffered a Google bomb - he got too many links too fast all targeting the same keyword "make money online" and got punted back into the netherworld of the SERP's. (Search Engine Results Pages).

For those of you just starting out and wondering how long it will take to dominate your niche keep this in mind. This blog is now rubbing shoulders with the big boys of a huge niche and it only took 8 months. I usually get to the top of small niches in 1-2 months and sometimes a heck of a lot faster.

Do you want to know how... ah here is the rub you say... nope.

Just read my blog and send me questions... it's all in here scattered about amongst my posts. Follow my lessons on finding niches and setting up your blogs and then spend your time writing some quality content and get backlinks like I have outlined. Just have a little patience and soon you will see traffic and traffic equals money. Once you get started build more niche blogs and rinse and repeat... no real secret.

Cheers,

Grizzly