Comments on: How I Ranked for 66,000 Visitors Worth of Keywords

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:16:54 +0000

Hi Glen, I’m working my way through your posts. You’re really given me some great ideas. In particular, I’m enjoying the well written quality of your articles. I had been copying the format of many of the other blogs I’ve seen with short 3-4 paragraph posts, but I enjoy your articles much more.

It’s also clear that you get good responses from your articles from the number of comments that you get.

By: mk akan

mk akan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:23:34 +0000

Glen, i have spent over 2 days reading all the post on your blog….you are doing a great job…;
lessons learnt …plan out what you want to rank for and work at it by building back links to your blog and doing on site seo stuff..
use the word to be ranked for as anchor text
thanks

By: Anthony V. Gibby

Anthony V. Gibby — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:17:45 +0000

Glen, once again thank you for your read, and thank you to the commenters also. There is a great benefit to reading a post a few months the down the road, comments can give some great advice also.
Time for me to share my little tip: Similar to what @BajaCa said about the Firefox plugins to check a website’s data, if you’re using Google Chrome, like myself, install the “SEO Chrome” extension. It will provide you with some helpful data when you’re trying to decipher what makes a site rank.

By: Anthony V. Gibby

Anthony V. Gibby — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:01:26 +0000

Hey, I followed you URL and went straight to a parked domain. Wondering if you’re still continuing your journey? I was interested after reading this comment.

By: Anthony V. Gibby

Anthony V. Gibby — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 05:47:15 +0000

Hello Valentina,
I’m a newcomer to blogging, so my knowledge is still quite limited. I read the reply Glen left for you first comment. I’m not sure if you have changed the layout of your site since November 2, 2009 (the date of comment I’m replying to), but I can see what Glen is talking about. Like I said I am not a SEO expert, but I do know what would keep me exploring the site – the design. Although, you may have some quality post (I have yet to read one), the layout is does not make it an easy read. My suggestion as reader (not a blogger)/regular ol’ visitor:

1. Change the font on your site. Make it more readable.
2. Be consistent with the font you use. I see various fonts on the your site that are used, which gives the appearance of a not well maintained site.
3. Maybe, add some line spacing for your paragraphs.
4. Try deceasing the width of content so the reader does not have to scan almost the entire width of the computer screen to read you post.
5. And, I would really consider adding a “Read More” link to each of your post on the home page. It would give your site a cleaner look. More of your content would be near the top of the page, which would make it easier for me, as a visitor, to see your other content.

After summing up all all of this for, I just have realized what it’s all about…”Readers are Lazy”… make easy for people to get to more content with less amount of work (i.e. mouse scrolls, keyboard strokes). I really hope these tips will be beneficial to you in the near future.

P.S. I’m going to send a copy of this comment to you on your website in case your not tracking this article anymore.

By: Karo

Karo — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:28:25 +0000

Once again thanks for all your efforts. I took the time to read in between the lines because i am really struggling with SEO, different people have different versions of what works and i’m just trying to pick out what is relevant. I do hope you reply this comment because i’ll like answers to some questions just for clarification:
I realized the search figure you quoted was that of Local search, my first question is which of the figures should we work with, that of the Local Search or the ‘Global Search’?

I don’t understand what you meant by “Run this 5 step process for all of your keyphrases and you should have a good idea of how many backlinks it will take to rank for them”.

I have read it in some places that we should pick our top keywords in the list (seven) not just one and list it outright as categories, now you said, ‘focus on a keyword phrase’, does that mean a site will do better if it focuses on a keyword phrase instead of phrases? or you mean we should focus on a primary keyword we wish to rank for and use it for our backlinks anchor text?

Is it neccessary to check for the number of pages currently available for that keyword phrase by imputting quotes in between keyword phrases in google?

Please i look forward to your guidelines

By: Spammy Username

Spammy Username — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:33:09 +0000

Hi! I really enjoy read your articles. I am reading your blog whenever I have free time

By: james

james — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:38:55 +0000

yeah viper chill–good info. Almost bought Cloud Living–almost, tempted, but I spend a lot on books. Maybe some bundled “free e-reports” would have pushed me over the edge. I find that after the initial pitch, it helps to “overwhelm” the prospect with bonus material–so much so that they can justify the purchase.

Not that I don’t think the product is worth the price (I usually don’t even read the free stuff given with info products–it just makes me feel better about spending money, I like to see it there, still unread months later–the value still working)–its just a thought, by one who got away.

consumer insight or something.

thanks, I will be back.

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:03:25 +0000

Hi Matt,

Yes, I did. Links are 95% of what matters when it comes to rankings.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:23:30 +0000

Glen, Another great post. How did the links help your site? Did you notice a significant difference in your search engine rankings?