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I was going to publish an earth-shattering post that would revolutionize online marketing through unconventional techniques, but I thought I would put that on hold. Instead, I’ll share with everyone that this blog is now #1 on Google (GOOG) for the keyword term Unconventional Marketing and Unconventional marketing Blog. Here is the pic.
Over the past month or two I have been floating between #2 and #3 depending on the day and weather, apparently. Now my goals are honing in on some other marketing terms as well as my name and Josh Blog. I never knew before blogging that there was another Josh Whitford in this world, but there is. And not only that, but he is an author and professor, thus holding the #1 spot for our names. In time. As far as the other terms go, I am slowly beginning to pick off the less searched for marketing terms and using those as the blog’s foundation before conquering others larger terms.
I have been developing SEO skills over the last two months as I questioned how to rank #1 for selected terms. What I have found is that ranking for keywords is pretty easy and straight forward, but depending on the terms can take a lot of time and effort to achieve. I hope to build up the skills and continue to use that to benefit this blog and those around me. If you are wondering where I learned about SEO here are the blogs you should visit. There are many more out there but these are the most legit I have found.
- Make Money Online (Vic)
- Make Money Online (Grizzly)
- How to Make Money Online for Beginners
- Learn. Rank. Dominate
As a way of celebrating, I will offer 200 Entrecredits to the first 20 people to leave a comment on this post. If you don’t have Entrecard, I will offer up a free link on my blog roll instead. I will send the credits to the email you use in posting your comments.
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Congratulations! Props to a fellow Midwesterner. I’m fighting for the number 1 spot also, but it’s the #1 spot on page three.
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Hi dear, congrats for getting the #1 position in GOOGLE for “Unconventional Marketing”… Its a great pleasure for u. Enjoy.. I will be #1 for search in Life Insurance… am trying hard to achieve that…. wish me best luck…
By the way I have posted the comment, so I qualify in first 20???
Thanks,
Ojal,
http://lifinsu.blogspot.com
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Hey buddy,
Congrats for the #1 post… njoy the part… wish me all the best to achieve same…
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@Tokyotom Thanks where in the Midwest are you?
@Ojal I do wish you the best in your quest as well.
Congratulations on getting the #1 spot! You’ve earned it after all the work you put in. I still find SEO and Google rankings rather complicated or too much work (and scary at times, too). But I can see how important it is to those who really want to earn and make a mark online. Keep it going! =)
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@faeryrowan You are right it definitely wasn’t a walk in the park but I sure did have a lot of fun. It was really neat to watch as I moved up slowly here and there as I built up the foundation of the blog.
Congratulations on the accomplishment - I have got to believe that in this niche it has to be tough. Nice work.
Wow, congrats. I am heading the other direction for some of my keywords. However I have had zero time to promote and market. Just been really busy this summer.
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Great job. I know it took a lot of work. Glad to see your consistency paid off.
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Ah, that elusive #1 spot! Well done on getting there. Some days I think it is all just the luck of the draw and no amount of SEO makes a significant difference but you seem to prove the cause-effect concept of SEO. Thanks for the links!
SEO is tough, I found just slowly pegging away at it helps. Say 20 minutes a day dedicated to improving some aspect of our site to benefit both our customers and our ranking in search engines. Great job, Josh.
@Metroknow I think that my niche was a prefect stepping stone for practicing and perfecting seo skills.
@Big Pappa I sure hope that all of the flood reconstruction is going well.
@Erica Consistency was the key to achieving the goal.
@Candice It was that elusive #1 spot.
@Karen That is really what it takes is 20 minutes here and 20 minutes there spent on seo or any other goals, slow and steady, right?
Great stuff. I’m learning alot from here. I’m not sure how I got here to tell you the truth. I’m redoing my website so don’t check it out yet.. doh, that’s not a good way to get traffic, hunh?
Way to go. That is so awesome. I don’t think I will ever get there. It is a little tricky trying to figure out the little niches. That is crazy that someone else has your name. I found out that someone else has my name too. I think I can use that excuse it something should happen. I can just say it wasn’t me!
Well, thanks for listening and awesome job again. Keep up the great work.
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I’m from Minneapolis, but I’m not there anymore.
All done giving credits away, thanks again, still have some room for links.
Congratulations, number 1 is quite an accomplishment.
I’ve been blogging since February, use low competition keywords, but still don’t get much traffic from Google. Yahoo and MSN send me some organic traffic, but not much.
I think it’s the lack of off site SEO that’s hurting me. You must be doing on and off site SEO well to get a number 1 position.
@Linda Thanks, and no sooner do you comment I get bumped back down to #2, eh…oh well…such as Google…such as life.
Can I still get the credits?:-)
Congratz anyway for your success climbing up to the top for your primary keyword. I think SEO is easy as common sense.
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Sorry no more credits, but I will throw your link up instead on my blog roll, how about that?
Excellent I am glad to see this accomplishment.
Josh - Congrats on the ranking! I have the same feeling you described as I watch my resturant’s ranking continually improve. I had the biggest shock 2 weeks ago when I saw we moved into 2nd place when searching “argentinean steakhouse” out of 900k results. It’s a great feeling and glad to hear that the blog is doing so well!
Keep it up!
-Justin
@Ben Thanks!
@Justin It sure is a fun and neat feeling to watch your site move up the rankings.
sitting on Google front page is really an accomplishment.
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I know im late but great work!
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Whew.. Good job, Josh~!
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Once I went into first page but not the first position. Argh..
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looks like we missed out your offer josh.
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