Sep 04 2008
How To Get Your Website on 3 of Top 10 Search Returns on Google
On August 5th, www.dsn3g.com was launched and submitted to Google. 48 Hours later the site was ranking at number 5 and 14 for it’s primary search terms of “cellular based digital signage” and “cellular digital signs”.
Now 30 days later this website has 3 of the top 10 search returns for the primary search of “cellular based digital signage”. How did we manage to get spots 5, 6 and 7 ? Actually it was very easy and there is no black hat or tricks involved nor is there any magic formula. It comes down to doing some basic planning and using the tools that are readily available on the web.
- On Site/Page SEO - When www.dsn3g.com was first designed we implemented some basic SEO techniques which included using primary keywords in text, H1 headers, keyword rich “alt” tags, graphics names are keyword based, a page title that is strait to the topic, a meta description that is human readible and actully details what this website is about and finally related keywords. Each of these elements have been discussed on hundreds if not thousands of blogs and websites about SEO. It is just a matter of constructing your website and following time tested techniques.
- Set Up A Subject Related Blog - I have always been an advocate of using a blog for a base to report highlights and news about the website business or industry related topics. In this particular case I opted to use Google’s blogger and set up a Cellular Digital SIgns oriented blog. I try to make at least 3 topic related blog entries a week. On this blog of both text links and a large banner ad leading back to the main website. Blog entries are topic related and of course keyword rich. Plus it doesn’t hurt that I am using Google’s blogging tool as I want to make sure Google sees it.
- Send Out A Press Release - 2 days after the launch of DSN3G.com, a press release was sent out via PR.com a free press release service. Once again keywords were the key. Almost immediately Google news picked it up and redistributed it as well as other websites including a press release site in Canada. Not long after, the press release was indexed in Google and is now part of the search returns.
As a result of these three steps, DSN3G.com is sitting in spots 5, 6 and 7 on Google this morning. Our primary website is at nubmer 5, our press release is at number 6 and our blog at number 7 . Click on the image below to see a full size screen shot of Googles returns for “cellular based digital signage.”
3 of Top 10 Google Search Returns For Same Site
And where do http://www.dsn3g.com for those rank now? Didn’t you ever hear about the honeymoon? Lets get serious here…
Hi John…….thanks for visiting. It has been one month since the website at DSN3G.com was launched.
I just did a check on Google with the following results:
Cellular Digital Signage number 8
Cellular Based Digital Signage number 5
Cellular Digital Signs number 8
Everything is still holding and our blog and press release are still showing up in top ten of Google.
I am serious……… Cheers……..eric
John… I tried to send you an email but it came back saying I needed a valid RCPT command preceding data??
I would like to email you……..thanks…….eric
If you got a 503 error to send me an email, the error you’re getting could be that the commands didn’t get to the mail server in the correct order. Maybe you should try a different e-mail client. Are you using Outlook? Perhaps Microsoft thought they would be able to send lots of commands to the SMTP server before the server was ready to try and speed things up, resulting in errors like this when the server wasn’t ready yet.
I provided in this message an alternative mail in case you want to contact me.
Eric, I think you did not understand my point. What I met with honeymoon was, that every SEO knows that new web sites rank temporally high. The domain of the site you mentioned above have been created 2008-08-04 and it is just too early to claim what you are claiming. Please remind me to have another look in a couple months from now. If they still rank so high, then I would take into account that you came up with an excellent methology.
Makes sense?
hey, i went over to pr.com and they are now charging for hyperlinks or anchor text in their free press release. Do you think this might hurt being that is might be considered as paid for links?