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August 20, 2004
'Stomp The Search Engines' Pays Off Big Time!
Have you ever tried to get your pages to the top of the search engines (meaning, page one or two)? If you haven't, I can tell you that it's a very daunting task.
But recently, I've been learning from a search engine guru with provable results. One of the problems on the net is, “Exactly who can we believe?” Lots of people talk a good game, but don't really know much of anything. Well, this guy made $156,037.54 in the month of July in his Yahoo store! Yep, that's one month – not one year.
So, I started following his directions and have had startling results (she said joyfully! :-)
Probably the hardest page to optimize for search engines is a home page. For example, my Auction Genius Course homepage is written for people, not search engines. I have chosen, based on very careful keyword research, to focus this page on the keywords, “how to sell on eBay”. But it's a really tough job because that keyword phrase isn't plastered all over the page.
http://auction-genius-course.com
Contrast that page with one that IS written for the search engines:
http://auction-genius-course.com/ebay-fostoria-heirloom.shtml
See the difference? The keyword phrase, “ebay fostoria heirloom” is all over the place. This is written exclusively for search engines and it obviously succeeds very well because it has high placement in AOL, MSN, Overture (for free), Teoma, Yahoo and Google.
Until Stomp The Search Engines, my home page was in Nowheresville. In fact, I couldn't even find that page, even though I knew it was listed in the Big Three: Google, Yahoo and MSN (as well as other, smaller engines).
But here are some interesting results:
Sunday, 8/14
Yahoo:
http://auction-genius-course.com/sitemap.shtml, page 2, #26
MSN:
http://auction-genius-course.com/sitemap.shtml, page 2
Wednesday, 8/18
Yahoo:
http://auction-genius-course.com , page 2, #23
http://auction-genius-course.com/sitemap.shtml, page 2 #26
MSN:
http://auction-genius-course.com , page 2
http://auction-genius-course.com/sitemap.shtml, page 2
Friday, 8/20
Yahoo: (7,900,000 competing pages)
http://auction-genius-course.com , page 1, #14
http://auction-genius-course.com/sitemap.shtml, page 2, #26
MSN:(1,574,409 competing pages)
http://auction-genius-course.com , page 1
http://auction-genius-course.com/sitemap.shtml, page 2
Am I going to stop now? No, but it's still pretty impressive. (Wow, 14 out of almost 8 million!)
Am I intimidated anymore? No way.
You can read my review on Stomp The Search Engines here:
http://auction-genius-course.com/auction/stomp-the-search-engines.shtml
Posted by SydneyJohnston at August 20, 2004 1:45 PM
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