Hi I am about to start launching MNS and have found some keywords but am confused about one thing. When I analyze the competition on the first page the main competition is coming as Amazon,Target,Sears and other retail store websites. I just want to know is it easy to rank past these sites with a EMD avaliabe site?

I have not been able to find a recent answer to this I read X factors book on MNS and in it he said they were easy to rank past but I just want to make sure if its still true.

yes i have found it pretty easy to do, pm if you need anything

It is pretty easy, just make a couple of posts using a private blog network then create one hubpage and a squidoo lens. Maybe shoot a couple of regular blog posts also. spread it out over a couple of days and you should be fine.

I've just started my first MNS perhaps I was a bit foolish picking a niche with not very many exact searches. I'm very happy with the on page SEO I've done, my competitors are some bigish sites, but with extremely poor on page SEO a few amazon pages etc. If all else fails I may just use this site to test out how well certain SEO techniques work.

unfortunately I was banned from adsense a while ago. (£300 in my account 2 days before payout) so I'm using amazon affiliate on my MNS.

Any advice would be great.

600 local searches, 720 global, exact match domain