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Keywords, Ranking & Search Engine Optimization Fun
by: Andy Beard

I am a Search Engine Optimization newbie. I have read a little on various
forums, browsed a few articles, and read
through The Affiliate Masters Course (Ken Evoy) a couple of times.

Eleven days ago I invested a little of my affiliate earnings in a new
product that was being launched.

The Dowser Professional is a keyword research tool on steroids, and has
allowed me to improve the returns from the few existing niche websites I
already have, and find a number of new niches very quickly.

I was so impressed with The Dowser Professional that I decided it was a key
product I wanted to promote as an
affiliate, even to the extent of developing a product specific niche
website.

I am very much a believer in Ken Evoy's technique of "pre-selling". If you
provide a customer with proof that a product works, and what they could do
with the product, you can maximise your sales potential.

So I set out to prove that The Dowser Professional was an insanely powerful
too, and that anyone could easily use it
to improve their website(s) and find rich new niches.

I set myself what I believe is the ultimate challenge, to target SEO experts
on their own turf.

I picked an initial keyword to research, "keyword".

Within a few minutes I had a good list of related keywords, and within 20
minutes had completed my keyword research. Yes the whole process was that
fast.

I then setup a Blogger.com blog based around the keywords I selected.

http://keyword-report.blogspot.com/

The primary keywords for the site are "keyword position report" (KEI approx
6K) and "keyword ranking report" (KEI approx 3K).

It is amazing that such large holes can be found in a very competitive niche
with only a few minutes work, but that is
the power of The Dowser.

I set myself a very strict rule. No seeking links until the site was indexed
and had achieved ranking based purely on
keywords.

Today (July 28th 2005) the site was picked up by Yahoo. It ranks 1st and 5th
for it's primary keywords, and has already
received traffic from both Yahoo and Technorati.

The site is not yet listed in MSN and Google. I expect it to rank well on
MSN and poorly on Google until it has some
incoming links.

The site contains maybe 30% original content, and any articles used were
carefully "wrapped" with specific
keyword heavy text both before and after.

Additional related information including screenshots of example Yahoo
ranking are available on my Niche Website
Blog.

This article is free for republishing

Andy Beard has worked in Sales, Marketing and Localization for the last 15
years, primarily in the computer games industry with an enviable 100% profit
track record.

His blog Exploring Niche Websites gives insights into creating profitable
websites on the internet
http://niche-website.blogspot.com/2005/07/keywords-ranking-and-little-seo-fu
n.html

Contact him at http://niche-website.blogspot.com

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Keywords, Ranking & Search Engine Optimization Fun by: Andy Beard

Keywords, Ranking & Search Engine Optimization Fun
by: Andy Beard