you did a very good job and, as a past post said, it is great how some of these people claiming to get you on page 1 of Google are nowhere to be found when you do a search for their site.

Often their sites will have no page Google rank either, so if they can’t deliver the goods for thir own sites, how do they expect us to believe that they can do it for the rest of us?

With the engines getting smarter all the time (latent semantic indexing etc), then it will be good content that should win out over trickery in the end.

Its a a good work.

I’ve been sending “video emails”, talking “face to face”, putting video on my websites, and doing “live video broadcasting” for 2-3 years now. However, it’s not that easy to get your video website listed high on the search engines.

Placing your video’s on all the “free video site’s” is new way to get traffic. But, it’s not going to guarantee anyone a top ten listing.

And, the new software that you are talking about (Traffic Geyser) is way over priced. I do believe that the future on the internet is… Video! However, I think I’ll wait until someone else copies that program and sells it at a more reasonable price… without the monthly fee!

As opposed putting video’s on free websites for increased traffic, I’ve had more success by sending “Video Emails” to my current subscriber list, (then boring text emails), so I know “Video” is coming.

“Video Emails” allow my subscribers to really get to know me. I’m suprised more “internet guru’s” aren’t using video emails to their lists.

And, why is everyone still doing “tele-seminar’s” when you can do a “Live Video Broadcast” with up to 500 people at a time watching you? (No long distance fees.)

I guess they just don’t know it’s available.

Dan Black
www.SuperSecretVideo.com

I totally agree with all your comments.

I also agree that the “long tail” is what beginners should focus on. Getting traffic from low competition phrases will be much easier than trying to beat lots of competition. By targetting many “long tail” phrases, a stream of traffic can be built up.

Which brings me back to PLR articles… they’re full of “long tail” phrases that people are searching for. You may get visitors to your sites who typed a phrase into Google that you hadn’t expected… but it’s “hidden” in one of your articles. That’s one of the best features of using PLR content.

See my new post for the PLR sources I recommend.
http://www.neilshearing.com/2006/12/05/another-source-of-quality-plr-articles/

Neil.

I read your article with interest. You are correct that the total number of results appearing when you search without quotes is not a true indicator of the quality of the competition. However it is an important factor for sure, because you [strong]are[/strong] competing with them.

A weak site that heavily focusses on “home business arlington” may easily be beaten by a strong site (strong as in having more links and overall reputation) that casually mentions “home business arlington”.

I run a professional SEO service that offers guaranteed top 10 ranking. We regularly come across people who don’t bother about our suggestion that a particular phrase may not draw much traffic because their ego tells them that they must rank for the term that they think is ‘important’ for them. Others discuss this ‘potential traffic’ thing more openly. So there are all sorts of people.

However it is quite commonplace to see people talk about getting ranked #1 on terms that have either very poor competition or virtually no demand.

My best recommendation for the newbie is to try and get ranked for long tail terms. These are 3-4 word combinations that may draw lower volume of traffic per term but are easier to rank for. The traffic for several such terms can combine to give you pretty large overall traffic.

It will be a pleasure to give an opinion.

I am just an individual trying to better my life, and help will be much respected. I feel im missing out the SEO altogether.

I do get the point in terms of keywords, not worth going after are the single keywords. Even if the big boys are paying high prices for them.

I will not believe the hype!

I think, good SERPS are possible - even for competitive phrases, but it will never be a “sprint”, SEO is a marathon!

I guess one of the most important things to get good ranking is to provide highly valuable content in a narrow niche. Sure, you’ll still have to do a minimum of marketing, otherwise people won’t know that you exist.

If you provide something of great value, others (authorative sites) will link to you, people will stay longer on your site and come back more frequently… and finally you’ll move up in the major SE’s.

But don’t be fooled, all this takes time and work. Something else, I don’t think you need any expensive SEO tools - they can’t help you to get great rankings if you don’t provide the essentials.

If you want to use some good tools, I highly recommend you check out a site called seobook.com - there is section (I think it’s called SEO Tools) where you find tons of fantastic tools - all you need and absolutely free.

Take care.

Robert

Remember when Blogsubmitter PRO came out and you wrote back to me that out of the billions of JV offers you got that was the one most interesting to you. Then we lost touch. Well, our same friendly little programmer is coming out with an SEO suite that I can’t say anything about publicly but I’m letting you know about it here because I’m sure your mailbox is loaded with Spam.

We’re only taking on about 20 JV partners and making sure they’re well rewarded. We already proved that BSP did what it claimed to do at the time. You think we’ll let anyone down this time? Cheers mate… Sam

it’s sad the number of people who get ripped off with bogus promises of top rankings, esecially when the “proof” offered is often not really proof.

SEO is not some dark art, it’s actually quite simple..

It all comes down to backlinks and using the right keywords for those backlinks.

my favorite example of this is still Adobe being #1 for “click here” out of ~1.2 billion results..

keep up the good work.

Mattg