SUBMIT 2.0

It can usually take months before your site starts receiving decent amounts of traffic from search engines, even after well applied SEO. Everyone wants that #1 spot, but very few webmasters can brag with such achievements.

What I have for you here, is a 3 step blueprint that has proven very effective in my experience with SEO. It usually takes between a couple of weeks and a month to achieve top rankings with this method, and I’m talking about Google here, not some second rate search engine.

Step 1 - Keyword research

This is the crucial step of the process. Do this wrong and expect to fail in your attempt for high rankings. You need to find quality keywords that receive decent amounts of traffic but have fairly little competition - and by competition I mean something around 10.000 at most - results for the keyword in quotes on Google, but obviously the less the better.

What you are looking for is ONE great keyword in the niche of your choice and TWO secondary keywords.

Step 2 - Site Creation

The first thing you need to do here is buy a domain name that is actually the exact main keyword you found. So if your main keyword is “Cheap trips to the moon”, your domain should be “cheaptripstothemoon.com” or “cheap-trips-to-the-moon.com”.

After purchasing the domain, I recommend using WordPress for the site’s content management. Google simply loves well optimized WordPress blogs. Make sure you change the Permalinks so that the exact name of the post appears in the post’s link. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, do a Google search for Wordpress Permalinks.

For the plugins section, I absolutely recommend the “All in one SEO pack” which can help your cause a lot so make sure you get it and activate it. Also, make sure you update the ping list, it will help indexing every new post you make quickly.

After everything is ready, start making posts on your topic. Make sure that the main keyword and secondary keywords are used in the posts. It is recommended you make one every day. It doesn’t always have to be an original post although that would be recommended. What I found works almost as good, is posting fresh articles from article directories like EzineArticles.com. Google still sees it as fresh quality content added on a regular basis, the only downside is the fact that you must include the resource box which can drive visitors away from your site.

Step 3 - Site Promotion

The third step is as important as the others. Immediately after creating the site and adding a few posts, you must send news stories to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Technorati, Stumbleupon and Newsvine. There are many more, but these are the ones I use. The most important is probably Digg, so if you just want to send one story, make sure you send it to Digg.

The story must have for the title your main keyword - very important - and a description regarding your site that can include the secondary keywords as well. This step gets your site indexed in 24 hours.

Next, you should continue promotion by finding quality do follow blogs and making useful comments, using your main keyword as “Name” for the comment and your site’s link in the site box.

You should do this on a daily basis. Adding content, social bookmarking the posts, and generating inbound links by making quality comments.

If you follow these steps exactly as they are outlined, there is a very good chance you will rank in the top 3 spots for the main keyword in about a month. Then you can concentrate on getting good spots for the secondary keywords also, your job will be easier at that point.

Article Source: EzineArticles

Filed under: Web-Site-SEO