Allow Google Tell You What Search Results To Dominate
In this post I want to share a very simple tip that will help you not only determine what to write about but also show you how to allow Google to tell you what search result pages they WANT YOU to dominate!
It is not a lesson in SEO, although it partially covers the point, but a strategy to help you get more targeted traffic to your blog. And if you are like me – you wouldn’t mind to get a few more visitors to your blog, would you? 
First of all this post assumes you are using Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics effectively. If not – I suggest you find more info on using them or become Expert WordPress Platinum member, as I have covered both topics in training.
And the reason I point to those tools because Google is the biggest, even though not isolated search engine and responcible for most of the natural search results traffic to my blog. To see what traffic they send me – I use the above mentioned tools. And it is important for the point of our exercise as I’m about to show you how to get even more of it!
Step 1: Analysis
What I’m about to show you is probably not healthy for my own Search results position and generally advised not to be shared but I want to help you understand how it works and provide details. More than likely sharing this info will change the results at later point, since many love free traffic.
As I was checking my Google Analytics one day I have noticed several keywords that were closely related to each other started sending me traffic. See image of truncated keywords below:
Yes, those are real keywords! And they were sending me traffic because of one post I have written a while back- Great Banner Management Plugin for WordPress Just Released. And while that post did follow some of the SEO rules I share with my customers – it was mainly info sharing post.
Checking Search Engine Results Page ( SERP ) position I have found that my post was right at the bottom of the First Page. Not too bad for “unoptimized post”! But obviously that higher you are to the top of SERP – more traffic you get, so the next step was to determine…
- What Should I Expect If I reach The Top?
Step 2: Check Demand
Seeing that one “unoptimized” post sends me free traffic that is beginning to be noticed in Analytics – my next step is to check the demand for those keywords. I use Google Keywords Tool since now it provides estimated search results. I use exact keywords to get as close estimate as possible. See image below:
Not too much but combined search volume shows that there some traffic I Didn’t get! And someone who was scoring higher then me – go em. Now, that is not how I like to operate! My next question:
- How Can I beat them?
Step 3: Double Up!
Ever seen that Spear Mint gum commercial with their catchy phrase – “Double The Fun”?
Well guess what? It works with Google just as nicely! Google already told me that my “unoptimized” post is considered by Google relevant enough to make it to the bottom of first page for the keywords in question! And as everyone knows – if you have “double” on relevant information from your site – Google will show BOTH results and even nicely stagger them for you!
Makes your post Stand Out, even if you don’t reach the top!
So without wasting much time I went in and wrote a follow up post: WordPress Banner Management Plugin Options. As you can see – I wasn’t attempting to be subtle, I went for the kill and added all the keywords proven to be beneficial while providing relevant information!
Nice, huh? And now I can just seat around and wait for more traffic from Google, right? WRONG! Because next question I had to ask myself
- How Can I Tell Google That My Blog Post Is More Relevant Than Other Guy’s?
Step 4: Link Love Baby!
Make no mistake – all the on-page SEO in the world will be useless if you don’t have any links pointing to your blog post with your target keywords as “anchor text”. And my next step was to get a few of those links pointing to my next post from other blogs.
But I had to do it without SPAMMING!
I hate comment spam and keyword spamming is one of the most common types I get. But we have a better way! I’m a HUGE fan of CommentLuv plugin created by Andy Bailey! Now that my new post, filled with keywords in title is up and published – I simply had to go and find a few blogs that have:
- CommentLuv plugin installed
- Have DoFollow enabled.
I explain how to use this strategy in my video tutorial in Get Traffic Video Tutorial post. About 45 minutes later and a few incoming links to my post I was almost done! Why almost? Because I have also used my own tutorial and submitted the post to a few Blogcarnivals. Simple and yet highly effective.
Now I had a question…
- Did my work Pay Off?
Step 5: Enjoy The Traffic
Yes, now its time to enjoy the results. A few days later I manged to get to the top of the SERP’s and get the position I wanted to have. See image below
Obviously by sharing this info I fully expect someone to go after me and remove me from that position but even if they do – I have just shown you a VERY EFFECTIVE way to learn:
- What Keywords Google Already Scores You Well On
- How To Take Advantage Of It
- How To Create Content Guaranteed to Send You Traffic
Beauty of this method is that you have to do minimal research since you have already researched it before and can reuse the results by simoply rewriting it and additing more relevancy and OPTIMIZING CONTENT for exact keywords people find you on.
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Alex Sysoef is an IT Consultant, Internet Marketer and ProBlogger who shares his passion and knowledge of WordPress, SEO, Social Media and traffic strategies on his blog WordPress Howto Spotter. Connect on Twitter or Facebook
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Very useful!
Thank you for sharing this.
I know what to do next.
Check my stats and go for it.
My blog (see url above) is on
a very specific niche in germany.
I am on Page 1 on Google.
And with your useful tips
i am sure i will outrank the
original authority site, which
is not optimized nor does it
provide daily fresh content.
Thanks. Your eZine is a
great pleasure to read.
So is your blog. Maido.
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I don’t know why, but your response looked like a poem to me
Must be because of the format of comment.
Btw,
the commentluv is absolutely great, combined with linky love, akismet, keyword luv makes a great wordpress blog.
Great strategy and simple for anybody to use (if you track your keyword stats). And you were right Alex, somebody went after you – but you still enjoying position 3 and 4 on Google first page!
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Excellent post, Alex!
Not only have you pushed your ‘WordPress Banner Management Plugin Options’ post to the top, but you’ve shared the exact methodology you used – very powerful information every professional blogger should pay attention to!
Easy to see why you’re my ‘Go-To Guy’ for WordPress stuff – it’s great having a real expert in our corner!
Thanks for all you do…
Doug Champigny.
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Thanks Doug!
Greatly appreciated, I’m always happy to share something that works for me
and glad you liked it
Thanks for the great tip ,Alex . Sometimes I think you tell us too much…speaking of telling us something , what is that ” who am i ” by sez who ? first time i’ve seen that.
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Thanks Ron,
I enjoy sharing what I know – this is what makes my blog successful and gets me paid in process. If something works – I want my readers to know about.
SezWho is a service that you can add to your blog via plugin. I have written about it couple times and I’m one of its biggest fans
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Alex, may I ask you, where did you put the script code coming from Google analytics. Last night, I was trying to do that, but I haven’t find the right place where should I put it. I’ve been looking for the ” tag, but cannot find it because of the so many .php codes.
Where can I find this tag, so that I will be able to place my codes?
Thanks again…
You are a great help.
Vince
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Vince,
You need to edit the footer.php file within your theme directory and place the code right before the BODY closing tag
Hello………thanks for the info…….you mention it very well. more idea to over top to my niche.I will working on it soon. and i will keep up date in progress.Hopefully other here will help to give the review of what i will doing .thanks a lot.
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Wow so simple yet hugely overlooked I’m sure. I’ve never used anything but Statcounter, but will give this method a shot for sure! Thanks Alex.
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slick post. i’ve read about some aspects of this in the past, but your post laid out the procedure very cleanly and simply. i’ll try this once google stops being mad at me.
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Oh, this is another great post and I’m SO GLAD to have found it. It’s information I need and can (and definitely WILL) use.
thanks again!
~cj
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Hi Alex!
Another really great post. This is class info in this post, and you have summarized the method very clearly. It makes the process much easier to understand, so a big ‘thank you’ to you.
I too am a strong CommentLuv fan, and wish the rest of the world would catch on to it!
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Hi, Alex:
I get alot of organic traffic on several of my older blogs, so this post is right up my alley. I have a solid game plan NOW on how to optimize my previous content and harvest more targeted traffic from it.
Thanxs for spilling the beans. Good stuff. Thank You.
Missy.
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Very incisive and informative. Wow, I really have a lot to cover with SEO, thanks to posts like this I am making some improvement.
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Very good post Alex.
The keyword stats for one’s blog are often quite eye-opening. I would wager that not enough bloggers look at those stats and even if they do they don’t act on them. The difference in traffic as one moves up the first page is absolutely astounding. The double up effort is well worth it.
I’ve got to check out CommentLuv.
Thanks again.
Onward & Upward!
Sam
Sam’s Marketing Blog
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Useful post – I’ve actually done this on one of my posts (more than luck than judgment) and got the double up results that you did. Now I just need to think about doing it proactively!
Thanks for the reminder.
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