For the first time, one of my sites is number 1 on google.co.uk for a generic search term - billing software. This is a moderately competitive term - 1 in 5.3M. It's been number 1 for a couple of days. I know I won't stay in this position for long as another site will cycle into the position over the next few days but I though I'd make a record here.
The only thing I can put this down to is that I've been using my directory submission software to submit the site to a few more directories. I've used billing software in the site title/ anchor text and I'm guessing this has helped.
Congratulations, I'm glad your my friend.
ReplyDeleteI think I've mentioned this before, but I believe, as my seo books says that you should get a few inbound links each week. Therefore I think your tool should sit in the systray and on a timer submit to non captcha sites in the background every so often.
What do you think?
I mean a few each week. Or maybe a popup reminding the user?
ReplyDeleteI must admit I'm not fan of popups. Submitting a few each week is a good idea though. you don't want to spend too many hours in 1 go - or you'll die of boredom.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the main advantages of semi-automatic submission - you control the rate of submissions.
To be future-proof though you need to mix in other forms of link-building too.
Yeah.
ReplyDeleteI think my main problem will be remembering to do it.
Perhaps having the screen popup at a set time, might be an alternative?
I guess though this could be achieved with the windows scheduler.
But you'd need at accept command line parameters so the own site name could be passed in.
What do you think?
What kinds of other link-building do you mean?
That's pretty good well done!
ReplyDeleteI've just been onto google and searched for billing software and also found you to be number 1.
Have your sales improved since getting to the number 1 spot?
Hi Aaron,
ReplyDeleteWelcome onboard.
Sales haven't visibly improved just because I got to number one. However, as a general trend, my sales increase hand in hand with increases in traffic from Google. Getting to number one simply means I've been heading in the right direction on one keyword at least. I won't be no. 1 for long. I'll fall back a bit and Google will give someone else a go. In any case billing software isn't my biggest source of traffic. There are 2 or 3 others which account for nearly 10% of my Google traffic - but I'm not repeating them in public!