I have been running Web sites for years and have been trying to gain popularity as well as search engine ranking for many of them. Although I spend countless hours on link building and SEO optimization I never manage to reach higher than a PageRank 3 or rate what I consider acceptable for my chosen keywords.
I find that startups stand a slim chance in bucking the established businesses. While most successful internet companies have what seems to be an unlimited amount of money to spend on advertising (whether adwords or banner ads), and the backlinks to choke a horse, is it really practical to spend thousands of dollars trying to get ahead of them?
I agree with Sachinairan. You really don't need to spend thousands of dollars
on SEO, build and establish a website that people love and people actually
want to use. I've seen some small lesser known websites giving some of the
bigger guys a run for their money. Work on creating an in depth plan and well
thought out strategy and stick to your guns.
Yes, it can be done. After I lost my job, I found many people who encouraged me to do an online business from home.
I feel you on this issue man. I am also an internet marketer, and I'm struggling. It can be very hard at times, especially when you only have a few dollars in the bank, and can't pay for PPC or anything like that. Just pick less broad terms, and hope for the best.
I feel you on this issue man. I am also an internet marketer, and I'm struggling. It can be very hard at times, especially when you only have a few dollars in the bank, and can't pay for PPC or anything like that. Just pick less broad terms, and hope for the best.
Shoot me an email I'm happy to help. You can find my email if you follow the link below.
A couple of points though-page rank means virtually nothing any more, it is more important where you show up in searches. Only us internet marketing geeks care about our PR.
Learn how to do good keyword research. Broad, competitive keywords are difficult to rank for, for example wine clubs as you see below I've worked on for close to 6 months and am on the 2nd page of Google. However, for a less competitive term we were #3 after about a week. You truly have to work smarter, not harder at the beginning and work your way up towards more competitive terms.
Best of luck!
Hi John,
It can certainly be done although like anything, it is a lot of work.
There's a lot of onsite SEO that can be done that massively increases your rankings. This isnt link building, its making sure the structure of your site is optimised and so is the internal links you use to link between pages.
I've spent the last 6 months optimising our WorkoutBOX site and am even through we only have 1300 or so backlinks, we are outranking sites with 10 times that for very competive keywords.
We've used a SEO technique called Silo'ing, which im pretty sure is the main reason why were ranking so well. This video gives you a decent overview - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue5e7fpuflU
Hope all that helps
Message Edited by SimonTurner on 11-23-2009 08:25 AM
Message Edited by ChristineL on 11-23-2009 09:31 AM
I agree with james. It just takes a lot of work, and a little bit of wits to beat the big players. They have something small businesses don't have, and that's person to person contact. People like buying from people, not businesses.
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Message Edited by ChristineL on 01-11-2010 01:59 PM
David can deffinately beat Goliath. I work in seo and social marketing and there are always smaller companies competing with the giants. They can do this because they optimize there site structure very well and obtain high quality links. Of course it easier for larger companies to rank faster because they have million dollar budgets but there is always an underdog somewhere on the page. One of the major things that helped me to beat the giants was to start outsourcing the work, If you try to take it all on yourself you will feel the weight of these giants against you.
Hey John,
There is no use spending thousands of dollors in useless things. I have seen several big websites spending countless dollors in doing useless things withough proper seo strategy.
The bottom line is you have to spend money on SEO in order to get successful but you have to make sure that the money is well spent on quality things rather then the quantity.
Thanks
Sachin
NathanH | Window Shopper | 1/20/2013 - 9:36 pm
on SEO, build and establish a website that people love and people actually
want to use. I've seen some small lesser known websites giving some of the
bigger guys a run for their money. Work on creating an in depth plan and well
thought out strategy and stick to your guns.
lynnroch9 | Window Shopper | 11/19/2009 - 12:50 am
markcess | Window Shopper | 11/19/2009 - 5:30 pm
MarkAse | Contributor | 11/19/2009 - 7:09 pm
SimonTurner | Creator | 11/23/2009 - 8:23 am
US_John | Window Shopper | 11/23/2009 - 11:42 am
markcess | Window Shopper | 1/9/2010 - 3:29 pm
jsqwaja1 | Window Shopper | 3/30/2010 - 2:21 am
sachinairan | Performer | 10/25/2010 - 7:37 am
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