Comments on: How Difficult Are Your Keywords?

By: Laser Hair Treatment

Laser Hair Treatment — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:15:09 +0000

Keyword research is the most time consuming thing for me at the moment, it can tie you up in knots if you let yourself get ‘number bound’. I like what you’re saying here about the long tails - definitely the way forward for me.

By: brandn

brandn — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:41:31 +0000

good post, court

By: blinds my wooden head

blinds my wooden head — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:46:22 +0000

Thanks for that, very useful post. Just used the keyword difficulty tool and found some long-tail keywords that may be better to target in the short term.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:05:50 +0000

So how do you know how hard is to target some keywords, without the difficulty analyzer, I thought just by doing “link:+domainOfAdversary” would give you a good idea, on how many liks you need?
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By: Paid Surveys

Paid Surveys — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:36:25 +0000

Great post as usual, unfortunately you mentioned my keywords and there is a lot of competition in that area.

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By: Court

Court — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:05:58 +0000

Very true Martin, people should look into buying expired domains and established sites more often. It a lot easier to get ranked well, that’s for sure!

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:27:12 +0000

Very true Court, I domain was expired. After registration it appears that Google still sees the age of the domain as an authoraty, even tho the site is different and only been going 3 months. Most def worth checking out expired domains.

Jim Boykin spends a lot of time finding established sites, contacts them offering to buy them and then makes money off them, I think he’s doing very well out of it. A good money making idea.

By: Court

Court — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:20:23 +0000

I’ll meet you at the top Casey.

By: Court

Court — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:19:16 +0000

Hi Martin! First of all congratulations on your ranking, that’s an awesome achievement. I still don’t think it would be fair to say that anyone could do that because it isn’t easy.

To be fair, people should also know that your domain is 28 months old, even though your blog has only been there for 3 months.

Having a domain that is over a year old gives you a huge advantage over people that are starting from scratch, so I stick with my observation that people should plan on waiting for at least a year to get to the first page of Google. Neither one of us is there yet, even though we have domains that are over a year old.