My site is on the first page of google

[hasmat]

My site Popular Travel destinations of Australia gained position on 1st page in keyword phrase 'popular travel destinations in australia.' it is in # 7 now. I have to spend 4 months and lots of hardwork to gain the position.

[Tubby]

Congratulations.

I can tell you are very happy by the tone of your voice. It can be a little bit exiting the first time you find yourself listed in the search results.

Now the next step - What keyword string are you targeting next? - Australian travel destinations. that is on word less - little bit harder . .

But it will give you a big smile when you find it listed. (the first one is always the hardest)

[kellyburby1]

Firstly Congratulations.Can u plz share what all work did to Achive that.

[hasmat]

Thanks tubby for your wish. Ya, of course i am very excited.
And thanks for your suggestion. I will work for this keyword.
@kelly 1st see my blog and ask me what u wanna know.

[bobchrist]

Is that results you notice in google.com.au search? Do you think that is a popular search term?

[Tubby]

Bobchrist said
Is that results you notice in google.com.au search? Do you think that is a popular search term?

It does not matter Bob, It is the result of, quote;
"4 months and lots of hard work to gain the position "

Success arrives in small steps . . . It's arrival Is just as important as the size of the step.

[innominds]

After achieving the set target, did you analyze the results.
I mean did you get the revenue for the targeted keyword phrase "popular travel destinations in australia"?

[BoothWizard]

hi hasmat,
Congratulations. Is your blog only 4 months old? That's pretty cool to get to the first page. I just checked google here in the US and you show up #7 as well...
One bit of advice... since you're putting all this work into it, have you thought about buying the domain name and setting up your own site instead of doing all this for a blogger blog?

[notsoold]

Congratulations! This is the first step and I wish your site can at least keep the current position and even better. SEO needs continuous hard work. So keep your good work. Cheers!

[bobchrist]

I don't think this is a big achievement because he has taken lot of efforts for 4 months to get # 7 position of a long tail keywords which is not that popular search terms.

[forumer12]

It is an achievement in that he was able to successfully rank for a term he was targeting, but it is a pretty small achievement considering this search phrase gets no traffic. It would have been much better to spend those 4 months working on a keyword that people actually search for.

[Keyword Geek]

Congratulations:

You are 1 step closer to what you really want to do.

Consider as 1 experiment and do it again but for one that will get an roi.

No visitors mean no clicks and with out that first action your site can't begin
to make you any money.

[Ace]

Congratulations! yes Keyword Geek is correct here plan a new keyword and get that also.

[BoothWizard]

I respectfully disagree with some of the "so what" comments above.
Most people don't know what they are doing or listen to bad advice and have nothing to show for it after four months. Most of the remaining people end up in the sandbox. So after four months, to NOT be in the sandbox, but instead to be on the first page of google, even for a a supposedly not-so-popular four word phrase, is both impressive, and an indication this person knows what he is doing, and that he is going places! Keep it up! Next stop #1!

[innominds]

That's definitely a good sign to achieve targeted results.
The next step is to find a higher competitive keyword that has good conversion.

[ogletreeseo]

This person has a blog about seo and is promoting it as a "seo guide" according to his anchor text choice in his footer. He is presenting himself as a guide to others about SEO. I think that gives us the right to say "big deal". I don't think that achievement is worth you being a guide to others about SEO. He got to number 7 for a very long tail keyword. Other people get that by accident without even working toward it. I got to number 3 for a 2 word phrase by just doing 500 directory submissions. It is seriously a non event that he ranked for that.

If he did not have that "seo guide" link I would not have said this and would have said keep up the good work for your first try.

[Villa Sorrento]

Hy guys.

I've recently make my site.
In my very modest opinion is very nice and detailed, there are all informations about the touristic structure that i want to pubblicize.

I've noticed that you are experts about how "show" a site on internt...
I hope you give me some advices.

Thank you very much.

[Doc]

Originally Posted by Villa Sorrento

Hy guys.

I've recently make my site.
In my very modest opinion is very nice and detailed, there are all informations about the touristic structure that i want to pubblicize.

I've noticed that you are experts about how "show" a site on internt...
I hope you give me some advices.

Thank you very much.

Villa Sorrento-

I would suggest that you start a new thread in the site review forum, which can be found here: Submit Your Site For Review - WebProWorld.

And it would probably be wise to tell people where they can find your site, as well.

[rohit_tripathi60]

congratulation. my website is also in the first page of Google for Outsourced Software Development Company but when I change the google search bar url in to GL US then it comes on 19 position I working hard to take it in first page for Google USA Also. any tips?

[Clint1]

Originally Posted by hasmat

My site Popular Travel destinations of Australia gained position on 1st page in keyword phrase 'popular travel destinations in australia.' it is in # 7 now. I have to spend 4 months and lots of hardwork to gain the position.

Originally Posted by kellyburby1

Firstly Congratulations.Can u plz share what all work did to Achive that.

Hasmat, that's great, but don't expect it to remain that way. Especially not if your new page just recently showed up on the first page, but even if it's been somewhere in the index for those 4 months, it can also disappear at any moment, that's how G works, or doesn't work I should say.

Almost every single one of my pages were on the 1st page, many at #1, from the day G went online till about 2003 (a la "Bourbon Update"). My entire main site was deleted for no reason, other than among the first of many algo aneurysms. That's when G's "search quality team" started smoking hash. G's "most infamous employee" took a look at my site, showed it to "other engineers", and they could not come up with any reason why it got victimized and trashed. Ever since then, it's been one algo screw up after another deleting white-hat legit websites at ever-increasing alarming rates. Since then, that kind of BS has happened to the same site FOUR times, and to 3 of my other sites at least once each. Each time when they eventually get back in the index, they are a mere shadow of their former SERP's. I had once site the morons kept deleted for over 2 years.

They could be like other SE's and stop supplying tainted search results, but they insist on censoring their results from flawed algo filters.

Contrary to what some so called "experts" will have you believe, content is not "king", content does not matter (a check of the SERP's for countless terms will prove that; blackhat pages, irrelevant useless pages, etc. You can have the most perfect, flawless content and countless important IBL's, and they will not immunize nor indemnify you from the executioner's sword of G (read: algo f'up). What is king, is their algos.

I recently created a new webpage at my main site. It's a kind of a growing PDF archive page for various docs many people need, offered for free. 3 days after I created the page, it was at the #1 top first spot in G for its targeted phrase out of 7,150,000 pages. (Also #1 in Y and MSN). I usually get similar results with most of my pages. Yeah, that's great to see that, but I know from ~12 years of being-online-experience it will NOT stay that way in G, of course it will more than likely remain that way in the other SE's! The page been there for several days, but I'm sure it will drop off the face of the G planet soon, just because: 1). There may not be enough other site owners that have the need to link to it. This is why their link-based philosophy is seriously flawed beyond belief. (So far no one links to it, nor will many be likely to like ~95% of all webpages out there, which DOES NOT diminish their: quality, importance, relevance, or usefulness!). Or: 2). It will be targeted by yet another cyber-terrorist a-hole black-hat competitor, to which G gives free reign. 2a). The page will either be copied, and the copier will then be rewarded by the #1 spot and my page will get trashed, or: 2b). The page will either get scraped, G-bombed, or linked to by using "some strange URL appendage suffix" onto it, also resulting in the demise of the current SERP.

This is what you and others must be prepared for in G. This is reality in the "google world". And until billions of people stop glorifying them and using their name as a freakin' verb on every news show, TV show, etc.,......and stop allowing them to be judge jury and executioner, and vilifying and victimizing countless millions of white-hat webpages at the microcephalic justification of getting ONE black-hatter, (i.e. throw the baby out with the bathwater syndrome), it will continue.

Kelly, as to how you do it, here's a few main basic things. The SE's place the most precedence on the title tag. Of course G places the utmost precedence on the freakin' incoming link anchor text, which is exactly how OTHERS can ruin YOU!. And also why there are so many off-topic totally irrelevant results in their index--what good is a result when you can't even find your freakin' search words on the resultant page!!

The tag should have your most important targeted words at the beginning, each placement after the first word gets less importance. The fewer the words you can get away with and still get a good rank, the better. But sometimes a long title is a must depending on the niche/genre and how people search for those specific topic(s). So it's a balancing act.

The Description tag is not used in any actual rankings, but they can use it against you if it is: irrelevant, reads unnaturally, spammy repeated words, etc. It should contain all or the vast majority of the words in your title tag, but of course as the name implies give a full description of the page. All the while it must be appealing and compelling to entice potential visitors to click on your link in the search results.

The Keywords tag, last I heard, isn't even used anymore. But like the description tag, they can also use it against you if it is spammy with the words repeated. So don't put the same word after another. Also, the keywords should be in the title and description tags. I still use the tag. Let's use word1, word2, word3, word4, etc., as the main words in order of importance. You should not have "word1, word1 another word", whatever word1", but something like "word1, word2, word1 another word, word2 whatever, word1 different from whatever", etc. Don't put the same words next to each other.

Then you have the h1 tag to which SE's are supposed to give weighted preference. It should contain basically what's in your title tag for the most relevancy.

Words in the title, description, and keywords tags should also be found in the page body. But too much repetition can hurt you and G more so than the others will penalize you for being "spammy" even if it is necessary and relevant to your products or services.

I've found that pages in a domain's root directory seem to be more easily indexed, and more easily ranked higher. I was trying to keep a clean root and directory hierarchy, but I found that when you put one or more directories before the end URL, that can sometimes hurt a bit. YourDomain.com/folder/*/PageName.html is not as desirable as YourDomain.com/PageName.html. I'm not sure exactly why. But pages at the root level seem to be, or are apparently, more easily found, spidered, but not sure why. At least with me I've always had better results with root-level pages.

Put your new important links in the signature file of your emails, at forums, anywhere online where you can put links. The more those links are out there, the more they can be spidered and picked up. It's nice to have your links at places like email list archive pages. Of course (here we go again), with G if you do this "too fast" in their eyes, they'll screw you for it. If you have several thousand posts at a forum, then you decide to add a URL or two to your forum signature file, that's several thousand IBL's instantly which "freaks them out". So you may have to be careful how you go about that. Of course the other SE's don't care, and don't tie your hands with regards to your IBL's.

As for your code, no, the HTML code does not have to be error-free. All SERP's are loaded with 1st place pages loaded with errors. But there are some errors that can hurt you. Such as not closing an href tag screws up the link and link text, or certain errors in your <head> tag can prevent the parsing of the entire page, that sort of thing. An errant <b>, <font>, <p> tag and the the like generally are not a big deal. A common error I see, can be the fault and negligence of the SE's......those verification tags they give you are usually in XHTML format. They make no mention of this, and unsuspecting site owners put these XHTML tags in the head of their HTML pages breaking a bot's ability to accurately parse the page. So if your page is HTML, be sure you only put HTML code on it. (Vice-versa is probably also true). Generally bots are pretty robust and hearty, and can get through most things just fine.

Following those basic things should help, but again always remember you're always at the mercy of the next G algo hemorrhage.

[hawash]

you must build links from Australian websites

[Clint1]

"Hawash", the links in your signature file aren't working.

[seork]

Congratulation I like to know how you have achived that position. How much time did it take ? And what was your strategies. The main thing now is to stay at that position as once you achived higher rank you need to do some more consistance work to remain there.

I will be glad to know some of your strategies kindly share with us,

[Clint1]

Originally Posted by seork

Congratulation I like to know how you have achived that position. How much time did it take ? And what was your strategies. The main thing now is to stay at that position as once you achived higher rank you need to do some more consistance work to remain there.

I will be glad to know some of your strategies kindly share with us,

Just FYI, see my post #20 above.

[hasmat]

Thanks for your nice comments.
My site is now on first page of google for 4 different keywords 'daintry rainforest', 'most complex ecosystem', 'most popular destinations in australia'.
For the keyword 'daintry rainforest' in #2.
The greatest news is for 'popular travel destinations in australia' my site in #5 now.

[Manpasand]

Clint1 very well said in your detailed post.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

[Clint1]

Originally Posted by Manpasand

Clint1 very well said in your detailed post.

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Thanks, and you're welcome. (Please rate the post if you are so inclined. )

[hasmat]

Good news.
My site gained the 8th position for a more popular keyword- "popular travel destinations".
And for the keyword "popular travel destinations in australia" is now on #7.

[Clint1]

Originally Posted by hasmat

Good news.
My site gained the 8th position for a more popular keyword- "popular travel destinations".
And for the keyword "popular travel destinations in australia" is now on #7.

Are you searching using quotes (exact phrase) or are you just using quotes here? Which G are using, .com, .au, .co.uk, or.....?

[rock]

Congrats! I remember the first time I got on the first page. It was very exciting. Keep at it.

[myfreelance]

I know what you feel because I also experience the same thing. I am number one for the keyword "Mitchell Reed Fox". Up until now I hold the number one position for that keyword.

It really feels great to be able to see your blog on top of the SE results. My next target would be to gain top position for the keyword "Megan Fox"

It's going a lot of work though

Good luck to me!

[GameFriends]

Congratz, and the great thing to remember is that even if the large phrase doesn't bring traffic, you will still be able to rank more easily for the words within that anchor such as Travel Destinations in Australia, Australia Travel Destinations, Popular Australia Destinations. Just keep pounding away at your main phrase and the others will rank better "naturally". Then when you're rdy shift your focus on the ones struggling.

[marystiffen]

I think its very good news for you. You have done lots of work on that and it seems clearly. Without consistant work one can not gain such position as i also did.