Ok, so what is the key to success to beating Google while still making money? Every internet marketer dreams of being ranked #1 for a competitive search term but few ever attain it. The #1 ranked site for a search term recives about 40% of the search traffic for that term, 6% goes to #2, and then #3-#10 get between 2-0.5% each. I get more traffic to most of my sites for #1 rankings for terms that are searched like 10 times a day then I do for 2nd page rankings on those terms searched 1000’s of times.
So the question becomes how do you get top SERP rankings, effectively “beating” google? Well there are 2 keys: 1) Content and 2) Backlinks. As a tool for building effective sites for this type of project I’m going to outlay a 18 step plan over the next month or so that should help you build a site in around 4 or 5 days if you work at it. This type of site can easily make $1/day, if not $10/day if done right. This might not seem like a ton of cash but they key is to build literally hundreds of these smaller sites. If you have 100 sites each making you $1 a day while doing nothing more that is a nice little chunk of change.
I’m going to encourage people to take up a new project. Build a new site along with this guide and track your results. If you follow this guide along with any other SEO knowledge you have there is no reason why by the end of the project you won’t have a successful site. Give it a shot, work hard and you WILL be successful.
Check back in throughout the week for updates and participate in the discussion. I’m far from being the utmost of authorities on the subject, all I can tell you is what worked for me.
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Oh, in case you can’t wait there are defiantly some tips right before your eyes if you just look at and around this blog.
And give me some direction – How much detail do you want? What are you hoping to learn?
Okay, I’ll give it a go. Waiting for step 1!
Can I build the site on a free host or does Google punish them?
Looking forward to the 18 step plan. Wishing you good time as you work on it
FlyBy – I’ll be sure to comment on that on step #6
Clement – Thanks a lot. I just hope it’s useful to help some others
Hi,
Very good information it is.
SEO is just all about consistency and doing the correct white hat things. Stay away from the dark side and work hard at your onsite optimization and link building, and you will see success. Of course proper keyword research is essential too.
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I like the general theme of your blog. Google is an enemy of anyone trying to improve their search rankings because we are at the mercy of whatever they decided to do and that can really effect your business.
I prefer to think of it not so much as “beating” Google, but rather co-operating with the way they and other search engines work, and using that to my own advantage. Like it or not, search engines rule, so you’ll be a lot more successful if you go with the flow. Anyhow, I can tell you already do this just by looking at your site.
Where did you come by those stats, by the way (40% to the #1 spot, etc)?
beating google? well, I know everything is possible but it would take a lot of effort to do this. But we’ll see if your 18 steps plan will work out. Will check on this from time to time.
HI! I find your posts very informative and worth reading. Some are entertaining as well. I like your topics. Thanks for sharing.
It’s not too hard to build a site that brings in a $1 a day through adsense but $10 a day can be a lot more work.
Working hard to get the first positions on google is “easy” if you have a plan, let’s say you do all this hard work, finally hits the first place for that term, and then get slapped.. that’s something to bear in mind..
Nice post. I believe building links should be an ongoing process as the rewards are for long term and it takes time to get results. The concept of making a few bucks per site and owning several dozens sites is definitely an attractive business model as diversification is important incase some websites don’t prosper.
I drop by on your blog and it gets my attention and can’t stop but reading on it, great post.
I think Google is unstoppable i guess? They have power well who knows one day someone will gonna beat them but its a lot of hard-work for sure.
you are right, content and backlinks are the main strategy to achieve number 1 position in google serp
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Well content and backlinks are the two methods for SEO. SEO is just all about consistency and doing the correct white hat things. Backlink method is very famous in SEO internet marketing.
I’ve been following your articles for some time now. They are really great, and interesting reads. By the way, absolutely love KeywordLuv!
Really very nice post regarding the SERP Game. Every online marketer dream that his site has to rank in first place place but, they can’t because its totally depends up on the keywords.
Sounds exciting. However, some of us are still skeptical about spending bucks on a domain/webserver to put the website on. I’m also wondering like what flybywire2 mentioned if free hosting sites like google pages can ruin everything?
It’s definitely better to rank #1 for a term than #10 for something with more traffic.
This is a good news SERP game is very interesting. this game is to play on internet, so thanks for this title.
You see I really do look at it as a constant battle with google. I struggle to ‘get along’ when the decisions it makes seems random.
I agree – great content (that is optimized well for keywords) and good backlinks are the crucial points in gaining traffic and search engine rankings. Of course, article marketing, social media and other things don’t hurt either
” Google is an enemy of anyone trying to improve their search rankings…” Sad but true…Google often being unfair to us because they have the authority on our rank.
Hello,
Thanks for the great information! I really got a lot out of this post. I will be sure to pass this on.
Waiting for step 1. Looking forward to the 18 step plan. Thanks for the informative post.
Regards
Ash
The tips that you shared here is not a surprise but coming up with high quality content and backlinks is not hard if you are good at outsourcing
Just wondering how you identify the keywords for the sites that you run?
This post is sort of old, but I hope that I will learn something from your steps. It makes sense if you can rank #1 for google, its almost like jackpot.
This looks very good on paper but I don’t think it works very well in the real world.
From my perspective, I think it is easier to build 3 to 5 strong sites rather than 100 sites.
It takes just too much time to manage them.
I will check your 8 steps project here, to me content is the most difficult part.
Hundred dollars a day from a hundred sites. Seems like a lot of work. Are you sure there isn’t an easier way to make money? I might start selling drugs.
I don’t know if I agree when you say you can ‘beat Google’. I think SEO is about working with Google and the other search engines. At the end of the day they want to present their customers (the searchers) with the best results possible.
The best results are sites with lots of fresh, unique content. People love up to date content, which is why Google loves it too. You need to work with what Google want from a site – sure tweak it so that they know exactly what kind of search query your site is relevant for. But at the end of the day SEO is about creating a user friend/search engine friendly site. Not about screwing over Google!
I really like the idea of owning 100 sites that all make $1 dollar a day. It makes things seem so much more achievable that way. This is my mentality and business model and I’m going to follow it to success.
intresting, I have never heard of the premise “beating google”. However, I like the idealogy behind it. It seems that Google can be very picky at times, and it seems there is no real logic as to what ranks and what doesn’t.
i have seen sites with a small amount of backlinks rank high then sites with hundreds of relevent ones. Google seems to become more and more of a mystery everytime they update it.
It is still better than Bing which is just garbage.
i am going to look at steps to follow and give them a try. Thanks for the info.
Content and Backlinks are juice for the google gods, I try to work hardest at both. Thanks for the info!
Any thoughts on how google caffeine might affect SERPs?
The truth is, moving from position number 3 to position number 1 brings a BIG change to the traffic you get. I’m telling this from personal experience.
I’ve been working on a similiar project, which included building a bunch of smaller sites that rank for certain keywords. It does seem to be the best way, since it does require less work on each site since you don’t have to rank for super competitive keywords.
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