How I got to # 1 in Google…
SEO Contest Winner
Well the competition is finally finished and my hard work paid off.
I held # 1 position on Google for most of the contest due mainly to my mule like attitude and link building.
So I want to go through the techniques I used mainly to see what I did myself because I thought my ass was going to be whipped and I really surprised myself. So I suppose it’s selfish really, but I want to examine each step I took so I can examine exactly what I did in order to repeat the process again.
Basically, one of the things I did was pinged everything….even if I farted I pinged it … lol
The trigger happy pinger!
Admittedly, I had some strong links from PR sites coming in but I am subscribed to lots of different SEO newsletters and noticed in November that Google started to mention that they would be taking a lot more notice of sites containing multimedia and interactivity. They also said that this would become much more important by Summer 2009. (flash video was also mentioned favorably) Whether this helped or not…who knows… like I say … I was surprised by the win so I am just trying to analyze the steps I took.
So over the next few weeks I will go through the steps I took using text and video to describe my progress from November to January. As I say this is not to boast but to try and learn from this contest and take that knowledge on to my future projects.
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February 9th, 2009 at 6:05 am
Nigel,
Congratulations on a job well done! I was hovering around #5 most of the time then the last two weeks before end of game, my site dropped down to 40th. Now it’s #2 from my data center (and I’m sure I’ll eventually get #1 once all the article runs kick in.)
February 9th, 2009 at 6:14 am
Thanks Howard,
Everybody really worked hard at winning the contest.
I could feel the constant pressure at my back and just kept going forward like a steam train.
I learned a lot from the contest but it also took a lot of my energy.
If the competition had revolved around Yahoo I would have been screwed….I just couldn’t top it. Maybe there are techniques for Yahoo that I have to learn.
Nigel.
February 17th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Congrats Nigel. I was #2 for most of the contest but could never catch you. I did a lot of link building in the beginning and couldn’t do a lot in the last half but I don’t think it would have mattered as you had a lot of good solid links. The high PR ones I tried to get will probably show up next month LOL
Lee
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Well done, must have taken alot of time up.
September 12th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Congrats, you must have done hard work to win this Dirty Blue Widgets concert.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Just by pinging you achieved rank 1 on Google. Pretty interesting.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I should have been more specific….
Pinging definitely helped get me some low energy one way links but my regime included many link building strategies including:
Podcasting
Article Distribution
One Way Links From Related Sites
Squidoo/Hub Pages
Photo Submissions
Video Marketing
Highly Targeted On Page Keyword Navigation
Directory Submissions
etc . etc. etc.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Well, I congratulate you. I have much to learn from you, Sensei, and hope to one day grab the SEO pebble from your palm.
January 7th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Nigel,
The related sites on which you placed links, were they mostly .com sites?
Greg
February 9th, 2010 at 7:50 am
The only way to survive in seo marketing. You have to follow the ethics of seo and then implement it on your website and you will be succeeed. Thanks
March 31st, 2010 at 7:33 am
Well Done….
Keep up the good work and update regularly on the things you have learned
December 10th, 2010 at 5:53 am
In order to achieve the top ranks in google, we have to collect the quality backlinks from authority sites
December 13th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Well deserved
January 11th, 2011 at 10:02 am
well exited in the contest. you need to improve and implement a lot for the best success. you will have a nice feature in the seo marketing.
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April 4th, 2011 at 10:28 am
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June 9th, 2011 at 10:27 am
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July 12th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
Well deserved. Congrats!
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August 18th, 2011 at 5:05 am
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October 18th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
in these days, google prefer to social media sites and web 2.0 sites. I experience this lots of tine and find it very huge impacts.
November 10th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Congratulations for winning .
November 15th, 2011 at 11:29 am
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