If you recall, in a recent post, I mentioned that I had just gone live with an Article directory site, TotallyAwesomeArticles.com, on or about the 24th September 07. At the time I had resigned myself to the fact that, based on my previous experience, and in direct contrast to the legends of Internet Marketing who would have you believe it will happen overnight, it would take quite some time to get ranked and make some headway.
You can imagine my surprise when, just one month later, it has a page rank of 1. Not that it really makes much difference in terms of traffic, revenue, or anything but it’s rewarding to see that it can happen faster than expected.
In contrast, my freebies site, TotallyAwesomeFreebies.com, has just gone to page rank 1 too, but this is after more than a year, so what was the difference, or better still, what did I do?
Assuming that it’s not some kind of Google Sandbox anomoly and that the site is not going to disappear again, I employed two elementry site optimization techniquies, one on site, and one off site.
The on site approach was to ensure there were no off site links on the home page (ok, there’s one, but that’s an obligation of the script I used to create the site.)
The off site strategy has to be a testament to the power of Article Marketing. I wrote one quality article and had it distributed by iSnare. That’s it, nothing more, nothing less.
Looking at the other posts in this blog so far it’s interesting to note that my post on the keyword Guitar Pequannock shows up on the first page in Google for that term, and my post titled “Revisitors.com does it work?” is number one for that phrase. While this is not really anything significant at all it demonstrates that it is posible to get indexed, ranked and well positioned, very quickly and it’s not very difficult. It is certainly something that you can do yourself and you definitely should not pay someone to do it for you.
Obviously the challenge is exponentially harder when you are dealing with a lucrative, highly competitive niche but, the strategy employed is exactly the same.
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