Thread: How I ranked a niche site on the first page of Google in 11 days?

I published a blog post over my blog where I shared how I ranked a site on the first page of Google within 11 days. I am now sharing it with you guys.

Today I am going to share with you guys a case study of how I ranked a niche site that on the first page of Google in 11 short days. The domain was registered on 21st of July 2013 and yesterday on August 2,2013 it ranked on the first page of Google.

I will show you the step by step strategy on how I did it and what led me to success.

First off, I have to say that this case study was born of another case study where Tung from cloudlivingjourney shares how he made a niche site that made him close to $100 in its first month and now that site is making $1000 a month. Since that is already a public case study which invited a lot of competition I decided to test the waters myself and see if I could out rank all those competing sites.

I was very much successful with that attempt as you can see that the site is already ranking.

Ok show me the site

Ok the site is topadjustabledumbbells.org and the main keyword it ranks for is best adjustable dumbbells. You can see in the below image that it ranks on the first page( it is the last result for now though).

Tung made his niche site on the same keyword and his site ranks at the top. The keyword gets 2400 exact match global searches and 1600 exact match local( USA) searches.

You can see the keyword competition and the search volume on Long tail Pro in the below image.


When he started the site, the competition was only 35 which is a good number by Long tail Pro standards and now it has peaked at 41 because a lot of sites have copied the same model.

Despite all this competition I was able to rank my site. I also want to dispel a few myths about ranking a site.





What Google preaches does not work

What Google preaches is that in order to rank your site you need to have content so awesome that the gods open a window from the sky, take an internet cable, connect it to heaven made laptops, type in the keyword on which you have made the most awesome content and see the content(hopefully on the first page).

Well that’s a myth and a lie. Good content by itself does little to rank your site. Just consider this, in an election it is not goodwill that wins you the seats, it is the votes. Neither is guest posting the only way by which you can rank your sites.( Now I may be inviting some controversy here, but be my guest, I have proof.)

How I ranked the site?


You can see my ranking history here.


To make it more clear.

On July 21st I purchased the domain and set up the site.

It was indexed a few days later and after three days of pinging it was ranked 36th on Google.

After that in one week it moved to position 29. On 28th July it made it to the second page and since then it was juggling between 15th and 16th position, then the 13th position and finally made it to the first page on August 1,2013.



In order to rank the site I did something that I usually never do. I built all the links with GSA search Engine ranker like web 2.0s, article directories links, comment links, blog posts, social network links etc directly to the site and did not create any buffers in between.



I also used auto generated content from Kontent Machine which you can see here.


example content with Kontent machine 1024x285 How I ranked a niche site on the first page of Google in 11 days?





I however made sure that I varied the anchor text and the main keyword is present in only 6% of the links.




I am not sure whether the site will be washed away in an update because this is just a case study where I want to see if this then what?? I have seen many sites that are on the top of Google with the spammiest link profile that you can find on the world wide web. Some of these sites have links in the tune of 200k and they have been built in a month and they are at the top. You can see the proof here on Glen’s post.

Does the Penguin update target the anchor texts or does it target the link locations? I feel that I will have answers to my questions soon.

I am not saying that I support this type of link building.

What I actually advocate is this…the link building strategy that works
However if you wish to rank any site then you can apply the same formula with a little variation. Build a few web 2.0s( 10 posts on each platform like blogger,squidoo, wordpress etc.) with highly spun original content and then create links to those web 2.0s with something like GSA and you are thus eliminating the risk of getting penalized.

Create an animoto or ppt sort of video and embed it in your posts. Make a backlink to your money site/niche site from the video and also from the web 2.0s.

Over time the link juice gets passed on the same way as it is getting passed on to my site on “best adjustable dumbbells” right now. If I were doing this to really rank then this site would be my first tier and I would send a link to my money site.

If this method is working on a site that has links composing of duplicate content and is linking from sites that are not the best of the best imagine creating at least 10 such web 2.0s and powering them up.

There will be no keyword on which you cannot rank.

woo very good man keep it up

This is really wonderfull. I also try this. Thanks.

You put alot of work into your explanation and I appreciate that. I am going to give this a try! Thank you so much.

Originally Posted by usman12

woo very good man keep it up

Glad that you liked it if you want more such tutorials then you can visit my blog. I have dedicated tutorials designed to help you outrank panda and penguin. You can also see this thread http://www.imtalk.org/f11/11055-what...-help-you.html

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I have put more work in the videos http://www.imtalk.org/f11/11055-what...-help-you.html

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Let me know the results and do not forget to watch my videos here http://www.imtalk.org/f11/11055-what...-help-you.html

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thats the same way which i was testing on my test site near 2 month ago. and it worked too very good, got same fast on top Rank 1. Still i am with the site on Rank 1 and not washed away.... My time was as well under 14 Days...
it shows that near everthing is possible, if we are not over hating up...

Well you will need to wait 5-6 months to see if it really works. Sometimes New sites get a sudden spike in ranking and get into top 10 ranking. Specially if you start building back links like crazy (done that manually) Then the site vanish from SERP. Might be the Sandbox or might be just Google let you taste it a bit then throw back to end of the line.

yes. like you told me allready once Blue.... BUT it depends realy how niche the keyword is, if it is a realy niche keyword, than i didnt think google will punish us, becasue we got really fast to Rank 1, becasue there is "nobody " as competitors.But i agree, but overdoing it, it will punish the site, for long long time....