This is a quick case study on indexing for the Google search engine and reaching the all important first page. It also just took an few hours of my time yesterday.
The search phrase I was looking at is a fairly competitive one for ‘web prosperity’ which has a lot of buzz around it right now. Web Prosperity is an MLM program with a very handy main product suite aimed at Internet Marketers, which at the time of writing (during its pre-launch phase) is receiving sign ups every few seconds with 5,100,000 results for this search term and a lot of attention and buzz.
When choosing a domain name, unless it is your own branding, consider the keyword phrase as part of it – in this case I chose webprosperityreview.org.uk (although most were gone by the time I got around to it)
I wanted to use a .org as they can rank pretty well but I’m not sure it makes too much difference. As the .org for this domain was gone I went for .org.uk
Naturally I went for the wordpress blog option for content on the domain and spent an hour or say putting together a couple of blog posts about the program as well as adding categories named with the key phrase in such as web prosperity review etc.
Next I added my essential plug ins including ‘All in 1 SEO’, Google XML Sitemaps, ‘Related Posts’, ‘Sociable’ and ‘Statpress’. There are others that should be installed but I didn’t in this case.
I created one remote wordpress blog at wordpress.com and a Squidoo lens. Next I drafted a press release just covering the basic details of the program and submitted it to pr-inside.com.
Next it was a quick visit to animoto to create a video using images and graphics and uploaded this straight to youtube.com. Following that I used heyspread.com to distribute the video to 19 other video directories.
Next task was to socially bookmark it myself using socialmark.com as well as another 30 bookmarks through my outsourcer 9as well as blog carnival submissions. Interestingly these last two tasks have not been completed at the time of writing.
That’s it! Today the site is no.1 – whether this will hold up without further work is doubtful, but the point is it can be achieved without working too hard. Other keyword phrases would probably need a lot more work than what I’ve put in here.
The stats (using statpress) also show a lot of traffic – as seen below on this two day old blog!
Other case studies we’ve done recently have had similar results and all these strategies are covered in great detail in my upcoming ebook ‘New New Media World’ in an easy to follow step by step process and guide. If you are interested in reviewing the first draft copy and giving me a testimonial (If you think it is worthy) please contact me.
