theironlemming
Junior Member
- May 6, 2010
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Hey all,
Just thought i'd like to let you guys know of something I discovered today.
NEVER UNDER ESTIMATE THE POWER OF ONSITE SEO.
Sorry for the caps, that was more or less a reminder to myself.
The story: back about a few months ago I came across kind of a cool niche (17k per month search volume) and relatively low competition. I made a half-assed static site with about 3 pages. Wrote some sales copy, did a article blast and some SB runs. Blasted about 10k worth of shitty links really quickly. I was a bit strapped for time which is why I didn't spend more time on it.
Site sat down at page 30+ on the SERPS for about 4+ weeks.
I then decided to give this site a little love and see what I can do last week.
I moved it over to wordpress, installed the following wordpress plugins: SEO search terms, All-in-one SEO pack, Privacy Policy, XML sitemap, Sexybookmarks, WP-o-Matic and threw up a terms and conditions page with a generator (found here http://www.bennadel.com/coldfusion/privacy-policy-generator.htm)
Set wp-o-matic to scrape an rss feed related to my niche once a day and post about 3 articles (wp-o-matic is an autoblogging plugin) and basically forgot about it until I checked my rankings today.
My site moved all the way from #300+ all the way to #26 with no offsite SEO!
I just about shit my pants.
Anyway, just would like to remind everyone that onsite SEO is pretty darn important. For awhile there I came from the school of thought that onsite SEO helps, but really it's the backlinks that are king -- and although that might be true, onsite SEO will definitely help you achieve those higher rankings with much more ease.
Lemming out.
Just thought i'd like to let you guys know of something I discovered today.
NEVER UNDER ESTIMATE THE POWER OF ONSITE SEO.
Sorry for the caps, that was more or less a reminder to myself.
The story: back about a few months ago I came across kind of a cool niche (17k per month search volume) and relatively low competition. I made a half-assed static site with about 3 pages. Wrote some sales copy, did a article blast and some SB runs. Blasted about 10k worth of shitty links really quickly. I was a bit strapped for time which is why I didn't spend more time on it.
Site sat down at page 30+ on the SERPS for about 4+ weeks.
I then decided to give this site a little love and see what I can do last week.
I moved it over to wordpress, installed the following wordpress plugins: SEO search terms, All-in-one SEO pack, Privacy Policy, XML sitemap, Sexybookmarks, WP-o-Matic and threw up a terms and conditions page with a generator (found here http://www.bennadel.com/coldfusion/privacy-policy-generator.htm)
Set wp-o-matic to scrape an rss feed related to my niche once a day and post about 3 articles (wp-o-matic is an autoblogging plugin) and basically forgot about it until I checked my rankings today.
My site moved all the way from #300+ all the way to #26 with no offsite SEO!
I just about shit my pants.
Anyway, just would like to remind everyone that onsite SEO is pretty darn important. For awhile there I came from the school of thought that onsite SEO helps, but really it's the backlinks that are king -- and although that might be true, onsite SEO will definitely help you achieve those higher rankings with much more ease.
Lemming out.
