Actually, getting in the #1 spot is best, but I will decree for the top 5 or even in any place on the first page for very competing keywords. Obtaining those top rankings for your targeted keywords in Google will obviously be very leading to achieving your online goals.
I don't have some magic formula, just online marketing stuff that works. Very easy stuff that everybody can do to get those top rankings. Here are some of the tactics/things I do:
- report marketing through the free report directories
- create videos on my niche products
- make blog posts in my niche areas
- do press releases for my targeted products
- create free ebook guides on my branch areas
- build detach lists for each major niche store with follow-up emails
- share in online forums with my sig links added
- make quarterly tweets about any new content
- find out my competitors' main backlinks and duplicate them
- create Google Alerts for my major keywords and add comments/links to the ones I like
- keep adding fresh article pages to my sites keyword to phrases used by buyers
Now on second thought, some of those are not so easy but they can be de facto done by most webmasters. Or you can get someone to do them for you, for example, I get my videos done for me since I plainly done have the time or expertise to do them myself. If you're poor at writing or have itsybitsy time, you can even get someone to write your articles for you as well. Same goes for your web article but you have to be meticulous and make sure it is of the top standard.
Still, these tactics are fairly basic online marketing stuff which whatever can do to get those higher rankings. Perhaps, what many webmasters fail to realize, getting and retention your keywords on the first page of Google does take a lot of work and time. For very competing keywords, I commonly put in a year's work to get to those top spots. It sometimes takes a lot less if your article (an report or video) becomes viral and lands on a lot of sites, that does happen but for me it is mostly construction steady one-way ability links back to the page or site I want ranked high.
However, it is this time factor which Defeats most people, they don't have the patience or the resources to wait it out. After a merge of months they throw up their hands and come away believing all this Internet marketing stuff is for the birds.
Don't get the wrong idea, there are probably programs and systems out there which will give you instant success on the web - I just haven't found them yet, nor am I de facto looking since I have figured out how to get those top rankings and earn money on the web. However, the catch is, it commonly takes colse to a year or two of hard work before the serious money starts flowing.
There are exceptions, if you're good at writing articles, you can get immediate traffic and a few sales. Same goes if you're into manufacture videos and they come to be favorite and featured in Google... You will make some sales.
However, for steady targeted traffic which flows commonly and keeps the sales advent each day - then you will need to keep those top rankings in the search engines for your keywords, especially in Google. Once you get those top rankings, I find you have to maintain them by lasting to build links by writing articles, manufacture posts, creating videos... And so on.
My goals are very modest, I am doing affiliate marketing or sales where I commonly get from 2% to 5% since I am promoting high-end electronics which offer low commissions. I also do some ClickBank type info products where the commission rates are much higher - 50% or more.
I also merge most of my time on products/services which give me a recurring revenue - make one sale and earn a ration for years to come. The trick here is to promote products where once clients sign up they tend to keep these products for years... Services like web hosting, autoresponder services, telephone services, internet services and so on.
If you have your own products your daily revenue will be much higher, same thing if you do drop-shipping... But that also brings in other complications and worries. I like affiliate marketing before it suits my lifestyle, I refer the sales or clients and the merchant does all the rest.
Now, I have also found if you target longer keyword phrases which has itsybitsy traffic but also much less competition, you can bring in sales in a matter of months, sometimes weeks. This "long tail marketing" as its called, those faster but you have to cover a lot of ground to be successful.
I prefer picking "mid-range" keywords that have competition but if you put in the work you will land on the first page of Google. I commonly stick to keywords which have colse to 1000 - 10,000 searches a month. Extremely favorite keywords which get hundreds of thousands or millions of searches I don't bother with because I know I just can't compete with multi-national associates getting most of this traffic.
So it is a matter of picking the keyword battles which you have a good chance of winning. You do need to do a lot of study to see who is ranking for these keywords, what kind of backlinks they have and what kind of resources they're pouring into obtaining/keeping those rankings?
I also check to see who owns the domains in the top five spots or on the first page, if one someone or company owns 4 or 5 of these sites, it means you're going to have your hands full trying to compete for the top spots.
One easy strategy for getting those top spots in Google is to create two or three keyword domains competing for the top spot. Link these together and one or in most cases all of them will land in the top three or four position. For lucrative keywords this can prove very profitable because your sites are receiving the majority of the web traffic for those keywords.
However, keep in mind, in many niche markets major associates are now hiring writers, Seo services and webmasters to get those top spots.
It sometimes can be unnerving - imagine you're a small webmaster operating in a niche for years and suddenly you have four or five top brand multi-billion dollar associates competing with you for the same keywords in the search engines. This happened to me and to Google's credit, small webmasters still have a chance to keep their spots on the first page.
How long before these small webmasters are totally wiped out is anyone's guess, but I believe for very lucrative keywords it is only a matter of time before these big associates throw so much advertising revenue and Seo resources at getting those top spots - a itsybitsy guy will have a very slim chance of retention their keywords.
Fortunately, there are countless small niche markets and products that an online marketer can target and rank well for in Google with just a itsybitsy hard work and patience. Using some of the tactics listed above will get you to those Top 5 spots in Google - just give them and yourself some time to reach your goals.
My Tactics For Getting Those Top 5 Spots in Google