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Ezine’s Tough Article Policies (Some call it censorship?)
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Article Marketing, Marketing on April 28, 2011
Last week I wrote about Ezine’s policy changes in response to Google’s Panda Update. Ezine made some strict changes regarding the submission of articles to their directory, and these changes are specifically to combat the poor and duplicate content issues that have caused Ezine to drop in the SERPs. You can read the full article and policy changes here at Ezine Responds to Google’s Panda. Now that Ezine has made some moves to improve the quality of content on their site I can address a personal issue I have with some of the submission policies at Ezine, not regarding rules such as minimum word count, or number of links, but rather a controlling element in relation to the nature of content submitted.
Ezine controlling for quality or another agenda?
I’ve personally experienced some frustration when it comes to submitting articles to Ezine. Perhaps my primary pet peeve with Ezine has been the way they appear to censor or control the content on their site. Controlling a site for quality is one thing, controlling the content to fit your agenda is another.
Wikipedia defines Censorship as “the suppression of speech or other public communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.“
No Negative Reviews? You can’t be honest about a poor product at Ezine.
A few months back I submitted an article I wrote about the social advertising network MyLikes. The article was never published at Ezine so it ended up being published here at infocarnivore (If your curious, you can read it here, What happened to MyLikes? A frustrated Review). Why wasn’t it published? The article was not what I would call negative, it was honest observation about what has been happening with an advertising network that has very little quality control. Instead of publishing it here’s what Ezine had to say (in a personal message sent to me):
“We are not able to accept articles that contain negative language in reference to any particular product, company, individual or group. Additionally, we do not accept negative review articles, or articles that have an overall negative tone. I suggest formatting your article to focus on general issues or problems, rather than citing specific people or groups in correlation with those issues.”
An interesting response, obviously a form letter, almost an automated response when my article got flagged for being an honest opinion piece with what they would call a negative tone. I found that response frustrating since I have always striven to be positive and honest. Even my bio declares that “I aim to contribute a positive and encouraging message to the web”. Does that mean I should overlook obvious flaws, or fail to warn people about scams and poor products? Not at all. If Ezine is not a platform that allows content like this then it is clear as an article directory they are participating in some levels of censorship (whatever they consider objectionable) to the
Relevant Information, Ethics aside, still not accepted
Admittedly, I do understand this next point a little more, yet at the same time I still issue with it because they are not allowing people to make their own decisions on issues such as these. Ezine is not (in my opinion) a website that should be telling people what is right and wrong, there role on the web should be to provide information. I submitted an article about torrents and steps one can take to insure that they do not download dangerous torrents (viruses, keyloggers and other risks abound in the torrent community), the article was intentionally written with an ethics aside approach, designed only to provide information. I even included a disclaimer within it, realizing that people will make their own decision whether to utilize torrents for legal or illegal purposes.
Ezine notified me with an email saying,
“I see your article has been placed in problem status because it contains content on Torrents. We do not accept info on torrents because they are used for illegal file sharing, and we cannot accept content on any illegal activities.“
Like I said this makes a little more sense, but is still frustrating. You can read the torrent article here if you like, how to stay safe on a torrent site. If I’ve had this much trouble submitting quality articles to Ezine I’m curious as to who else has run into issues with their article policies. Have you experienced any frustrations submitting to Ezine? Do you think this is censorship, or do you feel they are making the right call in rejecting articles like the ones I mention? I’d be curious to get your opinions. The conversation is on, below.
Ezine Articles Strikes Back at Google’s Panda
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Article Marketing, Marketing on April 20, 2011
Ezine articles has been my favorite article directory on the web. Of course many have read about Google’s panda update and how that has affected rankings for sites such as Ezine. Ezine however is striking back in an effort to increase the quality of the content on their site. Ezine’s popularity as an article directory has over the years steadily increased, attached to that popularity is the negative fact that people (or should I say spammers) exploit that popularity for the purpose of gaining valuable backlinks. To this end Ezine became the hot spot article directory for spun content and authors who really don’t care about anything more than a backlink. As the duplicate, spun and shoddy content increased the eventual devaluation of a site such Ezine became inevitable.
Ezine Makes Changes Responding to Google’s Panda Update
Now Ezine is responding to insure that the quality of content they publish is top notch and offers value to people who are searching for it on the web. I have used Ezine articles successfully both prior to and after the Google Panda update. I will continue to use it as well, since writing comes naturally to me, I have found that Ezine has been (and will continue to be) a valuable directory for article marketing.
The lesson Ezine has learned is perhaps one many bloggers and website owners must learn. The pursuit of traffic to your site is a top priority, after all what is the point of publishing anything to the internet if no one is reading it? But at what expense do we pursue that traffic? Poorly written content gives readers the quick impression that you are either not in it to help them, or can’t help them, and they’re gone from your site, likely never to return. If the first five times you visited Ezine articles looking for some information and discovered articles that left you wanting, gave you nothing new, and were very poorly written, would you trust Ezine for information in the future? It’s doubtful. Google knows what has been happening with Ezine and their recent Panda update was designed in such a way that irrelevant, duplicate, and poor quality content would not rank high in the SERPs. It affected Ezine. Now Ezine is responding.
Quality Matters
Ezine first response has been to proudly declare that quality matters, to respond they’ve put five new protocols into action effective immediately.
- Doubling the editorial review time. Editors are focusing on format, grammar, spelling and consistency.
- Disabled the WordPress plugin and API
- Deadlinks are unlinked much quicker than before.
- Requiring harder work in a shorter time to achieve Platinum membership level.
- A new minimum 400 word count on articles.
There are additional details that go along with the above changes and you can read those over at Ezine’s blog here: quality matters.
Will Policy Changes help Ezine?
The ultimate question for Ezine is will these policy changes help them in the eyes of google? Will Ezine be able to recover from their loss of readership and the general perception that the quality of content on their site is lacking? Do you think these policy changes will help Ezine? Are they a good move in general? Your feedback sparks discussion and I always reply to comments here at info carnivore!
Google Duplicate Content Penalty, is it real?
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Blogging, SEO on April 18, 2011
Duplicate content raises a lot of concern in the world of webmasters and bloggers, the fear of the infamous ‘duplicate content penalty’ abounds. We are constantly being warned against producing and utilizing duplicate content, and I agree, the use of duplicate content on your blog is not something I would ever encourage. After all your blog, is supposed to be YOURS, a unique piece of the internet where you can share your personality and be yourself. I regularly run into blogs that aren’t doing much but scraping content from other websites and when I find these blogs I leave them just as quickly as I came. I’ve even written about how these so called ‘bloggers’ aren’t really blogging at all (you can read my rant here, when a blog is not really a blog.)
In this brief article I want to discuss the issue of duplicate content and it’s use on the web. Firstly lets take a look at what duplicate content is. In fact there are two types of duplicate content.
- The first is duplicate content that takes place within your own website. In other words it’s the same information appearing on more than one URL on your domain. This content is not necessarily 100% identical, in many cases it is only ‘considerably similar’.
- The second form of duplicate content can be called ‘Cross-domain-duplicate-content’, this is identical content to that which is on your website appearing elsewhere on the internet on other websites. This can be unintentional, or perhaps caused by scrapers (or maybe you are the one doing the scraping?)
No such thing as a “duplicate content penalty”?!?!
To bring a sense of calm to this discussion, right off the bat I’m going to share an excerpt from Google’s webmaster central blog where they discuss the issue of duplicate content. Many webmasters ask the question “am I being penalized for duplicate content?”. The official google answer (though somewhat vague) is “In most cases, having duplicate content on your site does not mean your site is penalized.” In fact google goes on record to say and I quote, “Let’s put this to bed once and for all, folks: There’s no such thing as a “duplicate content penalty.” At least, not in the way most people mean when they say that.“
Sources: Google Webmaster Blog, deftly dealing with duplicate content. Google Webmaster Blog, duplicate content due to scrapers.
Google also mentions that we should not worry about excerpts or snippets (when you’re quoting someone or another source) as duplicate content. The Google algorithms are much more complex and smarter than we’d all like to believe. As people interested in SEO our ego’s lead us to believe that we can outsmart google, or that sometimes google is penalizing us for things we didn’t even do. This way of looking at SEO is inherently wrong since it fails to take responsibility for the things we CAN control, and that is all of the content on our own website. There was recent debate about the google honeymoon period where webmasters who are seeing their keyword rankings suddenly drop blame it on a google algorithm called the google honeymoon. Blaming a drop in YOUR rankings on google is ignorant, and a cop out. But too stay on course and not go off on this tangent, you can read more here about my theories on the… google honeymoon period.
In essence Google does not penalize a website for duplicate content. They essentially are saying we aren’t going to drop you in the SERPs what we are going to do is filter out the duplicate content so it doesn’t appear in the SERPs at all.
There are websites that have stolen my content, am I affected by a duplicate content penalty?
The biggest fear I think most bloggers have is that their original articles are being stolen and posted on other blogs and that this is affecting their blogs ranking. Not only that, but their content is being stolen which leaves them with a sense of being violated and somewhat powerless to do anything about it. Have no fear, google is here! Google is smart, and they boldly claim that they are able to identify the original article. Google promises “you shouldn’t be very concerned about seeing negative effects on your site’s presence on Google if you notice someone scraping your content.“
Summarizing the duplicate content penalty
Based on the articles I’ve read from the Google Webmaster Blog, and various other webmasters SEO experiences with duplicate content I would still want to encourage everyone to produce only original content. If you are a website owner building niche or affiliate sites and looking for content, at the very least you should be manually re-writing those articles. Put things into your own words, add your own style, add your own experience… wait suddenly you realize you’ve done research and written a whole new article! Good job. There is a lot more that can be discussed surrounding duplicate content, including the issue of duplicate content within your own website. Google reports to you duplicate content they’ve found on your site within webmaster tools, so if you are concerned you should take a look there and read up on what you can do to resolve those issues. The sources cited above contain some great resources for resolving duplicate content issues.
What’s your experience or take on the google duplicate content penalty?
When the Google honeymoon is over, the keyword fight begins!
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Keyword Research, SEO on April 11, 2011
Ah, Google. The Search giant that SEO “experts” around the world love to pretend they understand. As the years go by Google evolves, their search algorithms change, and it becomes apparent that very few really know anything about their complex search algorithms. Google is in fact very cautious about what they say and confirm about the way their search engine works, and some of the more complex theories can only be speculated about. Starting in 2004 the debate about the google sandbox has raged around the web, though it is now generally believed that the sandbox is a myth, and google has more or less denied its existence. It is still not unusual to run into webmasters who believe their site has become ‘lost in the sandbox’. This confusion around the way google operates has led to hundreds of speculative articles and so called SEO Experts who pretend they know what they’re talking about and offer advice based on their speculative opinions.
The Google Sandbox is a myth. What about the google honeymoon?
A recent google phenomenon that I’ve been hearing about is the “Google Honeymoon”. The essence of the google honeymoon is this. New sites are receiving unusually high ranking in the SERPs for their targeted keywords. This temporary honeymoon period can last for an unpredictable period of time (anywhere from 2-8 weeks, so I’ve heard), and after the honeymoon is over the site drops in the SERPs to a more realistic or natural position.
I have read differing opinions on the google honeymoon as individuals speculate on its existence, how it works and what its purpose may be. I have my own opinions as well, but remember it’s ridiculous for anyone to assume they know what google is up to.
Three theories as to why the google honeymoon exists:
1. Google may use the honeymoon as a way to get trending topics or news in to the top of the results pages. Google is assuming that new content is more relevant than older content, so it artificially inflates the position of new content in the SERPs. I think this theory is bogus. Google has clearly communicated over the years that they want to promote quality content. Pushing anything intentionally to the top of the SERPs, especially content that has not yet proven itself or demonstrated that it is authoritative is completely contradictory to google’s traditional modas operandi.
2. The google honeymoon is designed as a method to gather information and statistics such as CTR (click-thru-rate). It’s a quick shot at fame for a new site in order for google to assess whether the content of the site is valuable and whether or not it is matching the keywords and drawing clicks. I think this theory is even more bogus than the first one. Again reiterating my point above, I can simply not see google ever associating themselves with behavioral statistics in this manner. Pushing unproven content to the top of the SERPs is totally against anything google has ever declared publicly.
3. The site is actually ranking naturally, but as google assesses it, the site drops in the SERPs based on a varying number of factors. I agree with this theory the most. By agreeing with this theory I am actually offering up a whole new opinion, and here it is…
The google honeymoon is not a specific part of the google algorithm but rather a natural side effect.
Google is always at work on their top secret search engine algorithms, the most recent “Panda Update” caused many sites to drop severely in the SERPS (sites who according to google are lacking in quality content). There are a ton of speculations about what kind of content google is interested in promoting, but rather than speculating let’s hear from google directly. Google’s goal with search is this “Our goal is to return highly relevant results for every query.”
Why would a site suddenly drop in the SERPs?
- One part of the Panda Update is that Google has knocked sites with too many banners or affiliate ads (links) and seriously dropped their rankings.
- Too much backlinking too soon. These links could appear as unnatural to google and will affect a sites position in the SERPs.
- Not enough variation in anchor text, again google sees this as unnatural.
- Duplicate content. Even spun articles can have tracers in them that google could potentially spot.
The Panda update was all about rewarding sites with original and unique content. Content that google would consider as authoritative and content which is easily classified as highly relevant.
My Experience with the Google Honeymoon Effect
I launched a niche site at the end of February which ranked quite well in its first six weeks. I was targeting 3 primary keywords and 7 longtail keywords, and they were all ranking well, many of them were in the top 10 and a few of them were in the top 3 results. By the way if you think your keywords are doing well, they may not be doing as well as you think, read this article to find out the number one mistake website owners make when assessing their keyword ranking.
The niche domain was brand new and all SEO efforts were undertaken by myself. From the on page SEO to various link building tactics (including web 2.0 properties, social bookmarking, site commenting, obtaining some .edu and .gov backlinks, link wheels etc.). Suddenly at the end of the sites 7th week and in only a 24 hour period of time all my targeted keywords went from their well placed position on the first page to completely out of the top 100. To believe that this is the cause of an algorithm on a timer that suddenly went *ding* and said “your time is up, the honeymoon is over, your site is now going to rank more naturally, hope you enjoyed your five minutes of fame.” is absurd and ridiculous. The drop in the SERPs must be explained more logically, for whatever reason google has determined that the site is not worthy of ranking that well. Perhaps the backlinking methods were far too unnatural for google, and the site has been temporarily ‘penalized’. Perhaps google has determined the content of the site is designed for only one reason, to push a reader onto another website (to generate affiliate sales). Whatever the reason, as a webmaster I can not give up. I don’t expect google will be letting me know what happened any time soon. For now I suppose I’m a recipient victim of what I now call the google honeymoon effect. Though it is a setback, it is not the end of the site. Developing some original content, slowing up on my link building tactics, and ensuring that the built out links are more natural will cause the site to rise back up naturally over time. Remember time is a significant factor in the value and ranking of a site, the older the domain the more established and authoritative a site is considered by google. New domains should anticipate a lot of movement in the SERPs.
Is the google honeymoon an aspect of google’s search algorithms or something far less sinister, and more along the lines of what I propose simply a natural side effect. Sound off: What’s your opinion on the google honeymoon?
Founders of triberr sound off on the services early success
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Blogging, Twitter on April 6, 2011
Triberr is a relatively new web app that is the brain child of Dino Dogan and Daniel Cristo. I myself am a recent convert to the benefits of Triberr and also had a chat with Dino about the service.
What is Triberr?
Triberr is a web app that helps you Extend your Reach on twitter. Every time you publish a new post, everyone in your tribe will tweet it to their followers. And you do the same for everyone in your tribe. In chatting with founder Dino Dogan about why Triberr was developed he had this to say, “I’ve noticed that there are a lot of small and medium sized bloggers producing AMAZING content with little or no recognition. In fact, I think its fair to say that top 1% of superstar bloggers get 99% of attention whilst producing mediocre content at best. And attention in social media world = book deals, money, speaking engagements and countless other opportunities. Triberr is my attempt at evening the playing field and allowing great content to surface on its own merits. Triberr makes true engagement and quality content by one blogger to be shared with the audience of other bloggers that are at the same level of engagement and quality for mutual benefit all around. Both bloggers and their audience.”
Triberr offers a lot
Guaranteed Retweets, the opportunity to give back and a quick and easy way to offer quality content to your followers. If you belong to a tribe at triberr everytime you publish new content to an RSS feed everyone else in your tribe shares it on twitter. In the same way when people in your tribe publish new content you with automatically be tweeting it as well. Once triberr is setup it takes care of itself. Your RSS feed is importated automatically and new content is sent to your tribes members. It doesn’t require any maintenance at all. The fun part comes in building new tribes. Invite your friends with similar interests and build a community around yourself. Since triberr is hands off once setup you will most certainly have more time for the true engagements twitter was built for. It’s simply! You can follow the happenings with triberr at their blog, here.
Benefits of Triberr
- It’s free (though there are some options in development which can be put to use with the purchase of credits).
- Get your blog off the ground and increase traffic.
- No need to wait 6-12 months for your SEO efforts to take full effect.
- No need for you to pester your followers with constant retweets of your own blog posts.
Your Tribe does it for you and it creates a real win-win-win situation.
- You Win – Your blog posts get distributed by your Tribe far and wide.
- Tribes Win- People in your Tribe get to feed quality content to their followers and inject variety into their own tweeting efforts
- Followers Win- Followers get exposed to quality content created by your Tribesmen.
How do I join triberr?
Joining triberr happens by invitation. I’d be happy to extend an invitation to you if you’d like to join one of my tribes. The main tribe I’m looking to build right now is called INSPIRED INFLUENCERS and will be compromised of bloggers, writers and website owners who have influence and are looking to inspire and educate others, if that is you and you’re interested, all that I need is your email address. Submit your email address to me confidentially and request to join the INSPIRED INFLUENCERS tribe. Use this contact form to submit your email. Want to find out more first? Go directly to triberr.com and watch a video about the service.
How is triberr monetized?
Dino let me know that “Triberr is currently entirely self financed by myself (Dino) and Dan Cristo who is the lead developer on the project and the coding genius behind the platform. Our monetization plan is simple. Give incredible amount of value for free and charge small fees for optional extra services like replays, post manually, etc. Also, Triberr is building altruism into its business model. Altruism not as an afterthought and a “nice to do” but part of the core biz model from the ground up. More on that very soon.”
Triberr launched about a month ago in beta and is expecting to reach 1000 members by the end of April.
What others are saying about Triberr
Triberr 1.0: invite-only crack for the in-crowd by Stan Faryna
Minority Blogging and Great Taste by John Falchetto
A Leap of Faith that Brought a Metric-Ton of Traffic by Robert Dempsey
Put the iPhone 5 on your fridge today!
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Other, Technology on April 1, 2011
Okay so maybe the iPhone 5 is still a little ways away, that’s okay. There’s a better alternative and it’s NOT prone to freezing. Tonight I discovered these awesome iphone fridge magnets via a friend of mine on facebook. I better not post a link to his facebook profile here, he probably wouldn’t be happy with me. But he and (soon to be myself) is thrilled with his new fridge magnets! Yeah you heard me right iPhone fridge magnets.
Only 2 bars and NO flash!
Now admittedly we have discovered that you just can’t get more than 2 bars pf reception, even if you unplug the fridge wait thirty seconds and then plug it back in. Also the fridge does not come with flash (and never will!), which could be a frustration and deterrent to some. It is possible that if you hold the fridge handle in the right spot you may get more than two bars, but we haven’t found anyone that can confirm this (yet).
Still despite all their shortcomings these pretty little magnets look like a whole lot of fun. I’m willing to bet you can rearrange them pretty fast as well! It’s pretty out of character for me to post a product like this on my blog here at infocarnivore.com, but I couldn’t say NO to these little guys. You’ve got to admit they look like a whole lot of fun, and for me these are one of those “I gotta get that” products. Stupid, I know! Thanks for staying tuned. More inspiring articles to come… but first, check out the iphone fridge magnets.
You think your keywords are ranking well, but are they really?
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Keyword Research, Marketing, SEO on April 1, 2011
Image: photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
The topic of keyword ranking for the first page in google’s search results is super popular, and lately I’m always reading articles about how I ranked page one of google in only 5 days or other similarly titled stories. The biggest mistake people make when determining how well they are ranking for their keywords is in not using any tools to properly identify their placement in the SERPs. I made the same mistakes for a long time, until I became aware of some trade secrets and important tools that will help any blog or website owner determine their actual ranking in the search engine results pages.
Think you’re ranking on page number 1? Think again.
Just searching google for your keyword phrase is NOT the best way to find out how you’re ranking. In fact the results can be completely misleading. Whether you are aware of it or not, you probably have a google account and you’re probably logged in right now. Any searches you do in google will display skewed search results customized for you and based on your search and web history. Didn’t you find it a little curious that your own website was always coming up so high in the SERPs? Perhaps you thought your on-page SEO was that good! The reality is that unfortunately google knows a lot more about you than you think, and the results you’re getting are NOT the results the rest of the world gets when they search that keyword or keyword phrase. At the very least, log out of your google account and try the same search again. You may be surprised at how different the results are. In order to rank at all you may first want to learn some in-post SEO techniques, take a look at this article about Moving up in the SERPs.
So how do I find out where my keywords are really ranking?
Three Useful Tools to gauge your keyword ranking in the SERPs
- There are a number of tools available that will measure and even track your keywords and where they are ranking. One of the best, and the one I am using is SEScout. SEScout is free and all you have to do is set up an account, enter your domain name and up to 10 keywords that you are tracking, and SEScout will collect data from google and bing, let you know where those keyword(s) are ranking and also let you know any up or down movement. (You can track more than one domain and a whole lot more keywords if you register as a paid user)
- The well known marketing tool Market Samurai also features a rank checking tool (in the paid version only), that will also let you know how your keywords are performing in various search engines.
- SEOBook is another very useful site, and they also offer a browser toolbar which has a ton of fantastic SEO related tools built right into it, including an SEOXray (which analyzes the on-page SEO of any page you’re looking at), keyword highlighting, nofollow link highlighting, site comparison, and of course a keyword rank checker.
The Real Truth about first page Click Through Rates and Keyword Ranking
Research shows that only a little more than half of searches result in any clicks at all (read more on this). Let’s create an example, say you are trying to rank for a keyword phrase that receives 50,000 searches in a month (that’s a lot!). It would be fair to say that about 30,000 of those searches will be clicked through on the first page of google’s search results. If you are ranking number one you’ll likely get about 16908 of those clicks. Ranking number two will land you 4035 clicks, and ranking number three will earn you 3054 clicks. These are respectable numbers for sure, if you are able to get to any one of those top three spots you’ll be driving a fair amount of traffic to your site. But after the third position the numbers drop off significantly. Position four would only get about 1200 clicks, and the ninth slot would earn about 435 clicks. Interesting to note that the 10th position get’s more clicks than the ninth. Take a look at the chart below to get a graphic representation of the click through rate on the top 10 SERP spots.
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Now the above example assumed you were attempting to rank for a keyword that got 50,000 monthly searches! That’s a going to be a highly competitive keyword, and the competition is going to be fierce. It is unlikely (if not impossible) that any new domain or any person attempting to rank well for a keyword with that many monthly searches could do it successfully in any short period of time. What is much more realistic is targeting keywords that get about 2-10,000 searches a month.
1 Click every 3 days, what!?!? The reality of the numbers.
Here’s the (sad) numbers for a keyword I’m attempting to rank for on one of my niche sites. The keyword receives about 720 monthly searches. We can immediately assume then that the first page of results will get about 390 clicks in a 30 day period. I’m currently ranking 8th on google for this particular keyword. The eighth slot gets about 2.91% of clicks, so that means about 11.3 clicks per month for me. Which if I break it down even more is about 1 click every 3 days. Ouch! Now if I did well and managed to get that keyword phrase up to slot number one I would get 219 clicks per month or 7.3 clicks per day. Yep, that’s it. Is it worth it? Is that a keyword to target. You have to measure that for yourself.
Successfully Ranking First Page in the SERPS: not all that exciting sometimes
There is a lot of hype around ranking first page in google results, and often times the numbers look big. Too often people are caught up in looking at the number of monthly searches. Just like the example above when you are looking at data you’ll see numbers like that (720 monthly searches), that sounds respectable, but too often website owners fail to compute the data, and analyze just how many clicks that may mean for them. Honestly it is NOT HARD AT ALL to get on the first page of search results in google. The secret everyone is after is getting in the top 3 results for a highly competitive keyword that will actually drive a lot of traffic. Boasting about ranking on the first page doesn’t mean a whole lot without significant traffic numbers to back it up. I could have written an article about how I got my keyword phrase to rank on the first page of google in only 5 days, but if you found out that the click through rate was about one click every three days you wouldn’t have been very impressed would you?
I hope you found this article informative and helpful in your keyword analysis and SEO endeavors. Share your thoughts on keyword ranking.
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