A lot of bloggers would tell you that you should compete in the search engine with keywords that do not get searched much. They tell you to avoid key phrases such as Make Money Online because they say that you will never make it to the first page of the search engine. Think of it this way – if you compete for keywords that have little to no search volume, you get little results. If you take the time and effort to compete for big key phrases like Make Money Online, you get big results when you rank high in the search engine. If you spend all your time trying to compete for little phrases that nobody really search for, you are working harder, not smarter.
Even if you are not a popular blogger, you can still make money online by ranking well in the search engine. Before you get into the competition, you need to keep this in mind: You need to have a long-term strategy that will most likely take you over a year or two to succeed. Notice I said a year or two because most people give up before that. Most people will say, “This doesn’t work,” so they give up.
It is impossible to rank well with competitive key phrases if you don’t have a link building strategy. Many people think that you simply comment on “dofollow” blogs, and you will magically rank high in the search engine. Most “dofollow” blogs are useless to get a good backlink to your blog. They need to be relevant.
Let me clear up what it means to be relevant. For example, I want to write a comment on a Make Money Online “dofollow” blog, but that blog has a title tag “How To Earn Cash On The Internet”, and the entire article does not mention the word “make”, “money”, and “online”, then that blog has zero relevance to my blog because the anchor text link that I want is Make Money Online. The search engine does not know that they have similar meanings. The title tag to this post that you are reading has the words “make money online” in it, and the phrase is written throughout the entire article. The anchor text link pointing to my blog also has the same phrase, which also matches the title of my blog. The relevance is 100% and it carries a lot of weight. The search engine determines how important the link is based on relevancy.
No matter how perfect your link building strategy is, this will take a lot of time and patience. Do not give up because most of your competitors have already surrendered!
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Author Bio: Kai Lo is a SEO enthusiast, and is passionate to help others succeed. He likes to talk about the simple truth to Make Money Online so be sure to check out http://makemoneyonline18.blogspot.com.
Interesting article.
Good to see different approach of what many believe to be a correct method or technique.
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Thanks for appreciating the article Salwa! I wish I can comment on your blog, but I am having technical difficulties
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Great tip Kai, sounds good!
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There are definitely no short cuts when it comes to link building. I’m finding that it’s very easy to get off track if you don’t have some type of plan or strategy to follow. It’s easy to give up quickly when you’re looking for short-term results.
@Hisham – Thanks Hisham! Hope you are doing well
@Lee – That is correct. Too many people are looking for quick cash and overnight success! Long-term link building strategy is the way to go.
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Hi,
You left a comment a while back and I thought that I would stop by and return the favor. Personally, I go where the competition isn’t or it has missed an opportunity.
I provide SEO and I am buried at 461. However,
I rank very well for Local SEO Solutions and small business SEO Solutions along with many other searches… And that works for me!
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that is so good. so comprehensive.i will keep use of it. pretty useful.thanks. bring it on.
You’re correct, I read the same thing somewhere else too and on few blogs I was told to target less competitive keywords. For this reason, I am targeting my blog with the most competitive keywords in the market at the moment. I’ve got a long-term strategy because I cannot devote much time to it everyday, but getting SERPs for a new person isn’t easy so atleast wait for few months or even a year.
Great pointers! Nicely summed up post. I like the idea of not giving up, and it’s true that lots of bloggers tend to forget that SEO takes time, and you gotta have patience. However, you need to implement some effective strategy if you are competing on highly targeted keyword phrase.
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I think marketers should focus on the content or product keywords, you want to be ranking for those words that convert no matter what the competition is.
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Agreed, I think beginners should start off in product niches instead of IM, its a whole lot easier to and rank in the search engines for well known products.
Writing articles and building backlinks will surely help with search rankings.
Excellent article Kai an interesting alternative aproach to most and I think the more seperate and distincly different approches one uses are key to making back links look as natural as possible
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Very good article though I disagree somewhat. I think that google and other major search engines can put similar words together. I have found without every building for the keywords earn money online free I did not have to work at all to reach the first page after I reached the first page for the keywords make money free and make money online free. Perhaps I am wrong and you are right.