First of all, I do not call myself an SEO expert. However, I have achieved high-rankings for ultra-competitive search terms so I’m not exactly clueless either.
My strategy was very simple. It went like this. After wasting way too much time, money, and effort following advice the turned out to be worthless for the most part, I simply found someone who was ranked #1 for a term I was targeting and asked for help.
I know it’s a novel idea, but it worked. With a few tweaks I was ranked on the first page for several highly competitive search terms within about 60 days and continue to be ranked highly to this day.
I’ll be interviewing this expert who is usually ranked #1 for a very competitive search term and has been for as long as I can remember. It’s the same person who made a few simple suggestions I implemented to achieve quick results and first page rankings.
So that’s the background and the question to you is: What’s your most vexing SEO question? You have a day or two (at least until Thursday) to ask your question as a comment to this post.
I’m not sure what I’m going to do with this interview yet. It could be a new product, or a bonus for other products, or even a gift for subscribing to my list. I’m not sure yet…but regardless of what I decide to do, the person who asks the best question gets a free copy of the interview (and if I decide to give it away for free I’ll give you another one of my products).
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While improving my rankings on a steady basis invariably a keyword (usually an important one) will suddenly drop — what causes me to move backwards? What are the bad things to avoid that I may be missing? Can I be doing to many good things at once?
Have you found that some blogthemes tend to rank better than others… and if yes, are there any free off-the-shelf themes that you’ve found to work well?
Thanks!
I have a sales site I want to rank highly.
How can I get the site to rank highly and stay there in Google?
If you stopped actively building links to this blog via blog carnivals and the blog tweaks you’ve previously mentioned, would your 1st page ranking for your targeted keyword phrase remain on the first page of Google?
Is it compulsory to use H1, H2, H3 etc. tags? Or is Google smart enough to work out font sizes (and, therefore, assume importance) from the CSS?
What are the factors that we simply cannot do ANYTHING about when vying for top rankings vs. large, established web sites? In other words, for what factors is the playing field just not level?
If you were to start a brand new site tomorrow, how long do you think it would take you to build your ranking back to where it is today?
Hi Robert,
I’d be interested in your/his opinion on whether it’s only worth working on only one highly-competitive keyword phrase per site — or whether you/he would try and get a site ranked for more than one ultra-competitive keyword phrase?
Thanks,
Ed.
Hi Robert,
Just got a chance to catch up on your posts. My SEO question to you is what is your most successful strategy in getting top ten positions in google? What kind of system do you have in place to determin your most effective stategy?
Regards
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