How I got a number one Google link with a single landing page
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OK! I did it! Number one result on Google for my target key phrase in four days. Cool.
Here’s how it happened:
First up, register a new domain name containing the keyphrase, no punctuation, just the phrase all stuck together in one word. Total cost £6.09
Second, create the landing page. I used a CC licensed image from Flickr as a header but everything else on the page is pure text. The HTML is as simple as it could possibly be with a bit of CSS to make it look nice.
Make sure the page validates according to whatever Doctype you’ve specified. Valid pages are a whole lot easier for the search engines to parse.
Use Title and H1 tags. Put your key phrase in as the first words in both.
Write several paragraphs. Work your keyphrase in but make sure the text still reads sensibly to a human being. Don’t bother measuring keyword density just make it read like a halfway sensible short article and you should be fine.
When you’re happy with your landing page submit it through BlueHat SEO’s Quick Submit Tool. I have no idea how this works but I do know that Google indexed my site within a couple of hours of me using it.
Next, wait. It takes a while between being indexed and appearing in the rankings. Four days to a week seems about usual in my experience so far.
As they say on Slashdot, …. profit!
Now I appreciate that some people will read all this and say “well of course you can get the number one spot if your keyphrase is unusual enough” and that’s probably true but my point is that I did it quickly (thanks in no small part to BlueHat) and with a crappy single page website. If you’ve picked your keyphrase properly and are targetting a nichey enough market this should save you ever spending money on PPC ads.
August 16th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Alright, that was entertaining.
First of all, what was the phrase? Can you give us at least the number of words used it in and how much traffic it sends to you so we could judge how competitive it is?
Secondly, Google will give you a couple of days at the top to see how visitors view your website and how well you do there. Afterwards, you get sandboxed due to the domain newness factor and a clear absense of links.
Btw, Google sandbox doesn’t exist, it’s just a number of effects combined together.
Cheers.
August 16th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
I’ll do a further post with an update in a few days. Looks like you might have been right on your second point. I may have jumped the gun here.