SEO, Rocket Science?
Any serious webmaster or blogger knows SEO is paramount to the success of their websites or blogs. With blogs, SEO is kinda made easy since most of the apps and plugins are SEO friendly. For websites, it is the general believe that you have to do this, do that to get ranked on the major search engines. In my opinion, I think some SEO experts, webmasters and bloggers overhype SEO implementation. My SEO experience seems to be very different from the hypes surrounding it.
I have been building websites for a while now, but over the last year and half, I have seen numerous opinions about SEO and some tricks that need to be done to rank high on SERPs. I do take note of most of these tricks and I implement them in the best way possible.
Over the last week, I set out to enter a niche that is very very saturated. When I mean saturated, I do really mean a saturated niche. I got my target keywords together, and I was ready to go. In less than 5 days, I got my desired result on SERPS; not just Google, but Yahoo! too.
So what trick or magic did I perform to get ranked on the first page(between #1 and #10) of SERPs in just 5 days?
Sincerely, I really didn’t do wonders to get ranked in just 5 days. I actually launched 2 websites and 1 is doing extremely well on SERPs and the other is catching up. So, here is what I did:
- Having known the niche I was going into, I sat down and thought about an appropriate name for the domain name. The domain name I chose was related to my main keywords. In other words, one thing I did was to make sure I have some of my keywords in my domain name. I believe this really helps when you need to get ranked on SERPs.
- When I got my domain name figured out, I decided on my page layout. I opted for a one page website and I had my keywords smiling in it. I also had my target keywords in my page title.
- What sealed the deal was my immediate sitemap submit through the Google Webmaster Tools. This way, I didn’t wait for Google to crawl the web before finding me. Instead, I took my sitemap to them and it was crawled in less than 24 hours after submission. Submitting your sitemap through the Google Webmaster Tools gives the Googlebot unfettered opportunity to access and crawl your pages ASAP. I have consistently done this each time I launch a website. I have read about the Google Sandbox and many other stufss regarding SEO, but none of them seems to have happened to me. Since I have been launching websites, it usually took less than 7 days for my pages to appear on Google.
These are basically what I did. I may have done other things that contributed to my rankings which I am unaware of, but I am sure if you just take these simple steps when launching a website, you will do good in a matter of days. I’d like to point out though, you may not be the first page, but gradually, you will pick up. Another secret is more keyword infusion and update to your websites.
I didn’t even have one backlink, and this made me go WOW! It’s good to have backlinks and all that for PR, but for SERPs, I really don’t think it’s that important.
I give the SEO experts their credit and I am not dislodging the “experts” of their ideas and hardword, I’m just saying SEO is not a rocket science. So what have you done that made a difference in your rankings on SERPs? Fell free to comment below.
JD
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