Getting #1 on Google was easy for a keyphrase less than 100 people were competing for, even when some of the competition was using SEO techniques.

Now for the hard part. If my website only has 50 web pages and not many reciprical links, what do I need to do to capture a keyterm that 80,000 people are competing for?

arondale

Hi,

Welcome to the forum!

Well for your new site I guess you need relevant backlinks with appropriate anchor text. Make sure you vary the anchor text, vary your links (mostly home page a few deep) and build them up slowly to avoid ending up in the sandbox!



Cheers,
Paz.

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Its always good to hit 20-30 subkeywords and work your way up! You're on the right track.

Numbers are not adding up, but traffic is increasing.
I captured a couple keyphrases and have either aquired #1,2,3 or 4 on all the major search engines for the term(s).

The keyphrases, when you combine them for Google for instance, add up to about 140 people searching the term in a 24hr. period, though I am not even seeing half that in increased traffic for unique users per day. When you add the success of the ranking on the other search engines, it just seems like traffic should be much greater than it is.

Is this common? Thoughts?

What happens is that you will rank well for keywords- but those keywords have a ton of variations, so you'll get traffic from those as well.

You have to remember that a lot of people click on ads on the SEs, which are on top of the actual results. Even though you're #1 for a KW, you're really #4 or #5 depending on how many ads there are.

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Question for Scotfish:

I'm unfamiliar with "sub"keywords. What are they, and how do you use them?

If you could just point me towards a tutorial, that would be great. TIA!

Bubba

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"subs" are related keywords to your main. Usually they are a lot less competitive than your main and therefore, easier to get rankings on. Say Las Vegas Condos is the main, a sub would be hue condos in Las Vegas or something to that effect. Hope this helps.

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Subs are much easier to rank for. The best strategy IMO is to target the lesser competitve terms when your site is new. Once you have been around for some time then the larger keywords can be targeted too.

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