I Got a First Page Google Listing in Only 9 Seconds

Despite continuing problems with getting my blog posts to show up or stay listed in Technorati and Google Blogs, it appears that at least one of Google’s spiders still loves me.

Immediately after I posted “A 9K Walk Along Icey Roads in Rohdes” to our Roamsters travel blog, I searched Google for the keyword phrase that I was targeting - Rohde boots - and was delighted to see that the post showed up in the 8th spot on the first page of returns (see the screen capture below).

Although I’ve seen posts get listed that quickly before, many also seem to disappear from Google’s results almost as fast, so I searched for the keyphrase again this morning, and much to my amazement, it is still there.

Granted, Rohde boots isn’t a particularly popular search term. According to Wordtracker, the phrase has a predicted count of only 12 for today. Furthermore, I haven’t found an affiliate program that sells Rohdes.

So, why would I bother to target the phrase ‘Rohde boots’ if so few people are looking for them and I don’t make any money promoting them to people who find the post?

Well, my primary motivation for writing such a post is to share information about a truly great product that will benefit walkers like myself. In return, I hope to earn new feed subscribers with the invitation “If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!” that appears at the end of every post.

Furthermore, the site is monetized in many ways. Those who appreciate the information may browse around and find other products of interest to them that are sold through an affiliate program. Or, they may leave the site through a Google Adsense ad for which I get paid.

Assuming I get only 1 click per day from that listing over the period of a year, that would be 365 visitors to my site — for free — from a post that took me only 10 minutes to write. If only 10% of those visitors sign up for my feed / newsletter, that would be 36 new subscribers to whom I can promote products on a continuing basis. Now, if you write a post like that once a week, you can multiply those results by 52, and estimate nearly 19,000 visitors and 1900 new feed subscribers — for free.

But, those traffic estimates are probably low, especially considering the personal nature of the blog post title and content description that appears on Google, which is in striking contrast to the ’salesy’ nature of the other listings that appear on the first page of Google results.

For example, inthe last 23 hours, my most recent first page listing has generated 4 site visits, or 33% of the estimated traffic for the term ‘Rhode boots’.

So, imagine how much free traffic and revenue you can generate by targeting those ‘less popular’ phrases if you post to your blog 3 or 4 days a week, or better yet, every day!

Popularity: 100% [?]

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#8 on Google for My Name

Back on Monday April 2nd, I wrote a post titled “Are you missing out on this Traffic? I was…” about registering your own name as a domain name to get more traffic from the search engines — or at least to dominate the first page of results for searches on your name.

Well, I totally forgot to check to see whether RosalindGardner.com made it to the first page of results for a “Rosalind Gardner” search until just now… and I see that it’s taken the 8th spot.

Not bad. Now I guess I’d better do that with the rest of my sites, eh?

Have you registered yours, yet?

Popularity: 30% [?]

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Are you missing out on this Traffic? I was…

You could be missing out on the easiest, inexpensive and the most obvious way to get traffic to your site.

I was… and I should have known better, as one of the biggest secrets to my success, is no real ’secret’ at at all. It lies in the fact that my name, Rosalind Gardner, has become quite popular in the affiliate marketing industry.

Although your name may not yet be that popular, it’s still very important to do what you can NOW to promote your own name and use it to drive traffic to your existing site(s).

And the most obvious, easiest and cheapest way for you to do that is to register a domain name in your own name and then Work It!

Here’s an example of what happens when you don’t take advantage of having a domain name in your own name. I registered RosalindGardner.com back in June of 2002 (BEFORE I wrote my book and before my name was popular) and did nothing with it except …

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Popularity: 16% [?]

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Search Engine Marketing Tips Report

More on the topic of how to avoid getting Google slapped, here’s a link to Jason Potash’s report that dissects what is happening in the world of search engine marketing (SEM) - including Google’s plans to use LSI,
phrase matching and co-occurrence to automatically seek-and-destroy websites that rely on natural search.

The report is a relatively quick read, doesn’t require an email addy from you and it’ll get you thinking about how to use the strategies that are still approved by Google to get traffic from the search engines now.

Download it here now.

Popularity: 12% [?]

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Update on Colin McDougall

Many of you have asked for an update on Colin McDougall’s progress since reading about his affiliate marketing near disaster and amazing recovery in “The “Come=Back” Affiliate‘ in late January.

So I asked Colin if I could share some of our email exchanges with you and he agreed.

Here are portions from 3 of our email ‘chats’.

Hey Ros,

Here is how things have gone with campaign:

1. 2 weeks planning
2. Campaign is 1 month in
3. Profit on Campaign over 30 days is $US12788
4. List is at 987 Subscribers which for last 7 days has produced $30/day

The bulk of the earnings has come in the last 2 weeks as I made some refinements to the campaign.

For the first 2 weeks the campaign produced about $100/day and 30 new subscribers.

I tweaked and the record day was $2k with 200+ new subscribers

Colin

In another email Colin reported:

Many of my customers ask me what my target earnings are on a site before I build another site.

My response: I want 10k subscribers per site that I have before I launch any more.

Colin

… a GREAT tip…

In every biz my core focus is now “The List” – A list is an amazing thing – It is an incredible foundation.

I regret not doing this 5 years ago – I would have been doing close to $1Million per month if I had adopted list building from the start.

… and MORE good tips…

Now have almost 2000 subscribers over the course of about 2 months (The first 2 weeks were slow though in building the campaign) so really 2k subscribers in 6 weeks - Not bad….still tweaking and refining. Getting to “know” my list.

I am researching more topics to start the next list but the key to success for me has really come down to focusing on a handful of categories and dominating those.

Category #1 is going incredibly well.

Feel free to use the last correspondence. You certainly were my inspiration to get off my butt and start building a list.

Anyway… off to work on latest campaign – Been crunching numbers and looks very very good – If all works out I will have an additional $40k/month residual coming in thanks to your inspiration!!!

You Rock!!!

Colin

And Colin and his efforts defnitely ROCK.

To learn more about Colin’s affiliate marketing strategies, check out his VEO Report.

To find out how Colin got ‘off his butt’, read the Super Affiliate Handbook.

Cheers,
Ros

Popularity: 7% [?]

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