How to Write a Love Note - A Case Study in Ranking
How to Write a Love Note
Suppose you are trying to rank highly on google for a broad search term like “love letter”. You would have to have some pretty major page rank or serious incoming links to get to page one. Wanna know why?
Click on the image above. “Love Letter” has nearly 7 million competing pages in Google.
How to Write a Love Note - Step 2
OK, so “love letter” is out if you want to get on page one. Let’s try a longer keyword, suggested by Fender85, “How to Write a Love Letter”. Sounds like a much better term to try and rank with.
I’ll let you do the search on google this time, “How to Write a Love Letter“. If you click on that link, you’ll see only 26,000 competing pages. Much, much better.
But I bet we can do better still. Let’s get even more specific…
How to Write a Love Note - Step 3
At the bottom of the search page for “How to Write a Love Letter“, we see that google gives us some more ideas, namely, How to Write a Love Note.
What do you see when you click on that link? That’s right, only 43 competing pages! (well, hopefully it will be 44 by the time you read this post).
How to Write a Love Note - Step 4
So now we know how we get a first page spot on google…not for our original idea, “love letter”, but for our more defined phrase, How to Write a Love Note.
We do so by writing a short article, 300-500 words, with a keyword density of 3-5% using our chosen phrase, How to Write a Love Note.
Once our little How to Write a Love Note article is written, we post it to our blog, ping the article using Pingoat.com, Digg it, Stumble it, Delicious It, Reddit it, etc, etc.
Some services you can use for this include onlywire.com and socialposter.com
After all of that work above is done, we sit tight and keep on checking How to Write a Love Note. on Google…looking for our number 1 spot!
How’d we do?
P.S. Since posting this about 20 minutes ago, I now rank #2 for our search phrase…that was fast!
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P.P.P.S. If you’d prefer to just go straight to the source of where I learn these tricks, head over to Wealthy Affiliate…I’ve been a member there now for 2 months and it’s the greatest IM investment I’ve made so far!
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You rock sue! up to #2 in no time flat.
Hope you had a good day at work.
See you at the next meeting.
Colin Skull and Bones
Hi adventurebear,
Thank you for sharing your experiences and offering valuable information in a newsletter. My mother always told me, it’s not what you say but how you say it that makes the difference. And so it is on google.
I would like for you to add my email address to your list.
Best wishes to you,
Victoria Harris
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This is pretty interesting. I also went over to wealthy affiliate to see what it had to offer.