Point well taken and for someome who has done very well with face to face selling, online has been a whole new beast for me. I feel I am dlling well for ranking low/medium comp kw's but my ability to land commissions through sales or generate cpa $'s is not working for me. Something just hasn't "clicked" yet. On the other hand I don't find doing seo work to be that time consuming with all the resources available and I also don't think flipping a bussiness site for $xxxx to be a bad investment for 2 weeks to a months time. I do get your point though, getting $xxxx every month on autopilot for each of 5 or 6 sites every month is a better situation most of the time.Just learn to sell and you'll never think of running an SEO company or selling your site to anyone again. Running an SEO company or selling a site is small money compared to what you can make if you can convert people on your pages yourself. You'll also do far less work. Once you've setup the page you can hit the beach and sip mojitos
#1 spot is virtually impossible. A regulatory body with 17k gov/edu backlinks and almost 4 mil regular backlinks which are going to be strong ones. It also has a dmoz and a yahoo listing. lol is all I can say there. It just doesn't get any stronger than that.
#2 has a dmoz, so it's going to be quality, and a quality site with that many backlinks means a lot of them are going to be good, strong, trustworthy backlinks. (Also, on your MS snapshot #2 has the keyword in the url, although I guess it's not an emd, just the competitor with the keyword in the title)
On your MS snapshot the emd is #4 btw, so I'll assume #3 is a competitor.
Possible to get #3 or #4, as the RDD is lower there and there's no dmoz/yahoo listing. They're still probably fairly strong, but I'd imagine there's a lot more spammy backlinks, but with a 4 and 12 year old domain they can get away with that.
#5 there is obviously very strong, but it's not any higher than #5 because it won't be considered as relevant or authoritative if it's a news story. News stories aren't considered an authority for a specific keyword since they are just news stories, which are more about telling the reader what's going on at a superficial level, rather than providing them with strong factual information.
#6 on your MS snapshot definitely isn't the emd, so I'm guessing it's a newspaper. The RDD seems fairly low for a newspaper. It also doesn't have the keyword anywhere in the title/desc. Seems like a wildcard.
#7 On your MS snapshot this has a keyword in the title, so I'm guessing this is the emd you've listed as being at 6 above. An interesting one because it has high RDD, a lot of backlinks, it's 13 years old and it has both a dmoz and yahoo listing. Very bizarre.. On paper that seems extremely strong.
It seems like you could take #3 or #4 with a fair bit of effort, but I don't understand why such a strong, and seemingly relevant domain sits at #7. The only way I see you taking #3-#4 is if you created more content and aimed to bring your site closer to an authority on the subject.
At a push you might take #9-#10 as #9 is quite weak and wikipedia at #10 will be too general compared with a targeted article, especially an lsi one.
I'm looking forward to seeing how your page progresses up the rankings.
#1 spot is virtually impossible. A regulatory body with 17k gov/edu backlinks and almost 4 mil regular backlinks which are going to be strong ones. It also has a dmoz and a yahoo listing. lol is all I can say there. It just doesn't get any stronger than that.
#2 has a dmoz, so it's going to be quality, and a quality site with that many backlinks means a lot of them are going to be good, strong, trustworthy backlinks. (Also, on your MS snapshot #2 has the keyword in the url, although I guess it's not an emd, just the competitor with the keyword in the title)
On your MS snapshot the emd is #4 btw, so I'll assume #3 is a competitor.
Possible to get #3 or #4, as the RDD is lower there and there's no dmoz/yahoo listing. They're still probably fairly strong, but I'd imagine there's a lot more spammy backlinks, but with a 4 and 12 year old domain they can get away with that.
#5 there is obviously very strong, but it's not any higher than #5 because it won't be considered as relevant or authoritative if it's a news story. News stories aren't considered an authority for a specific keyword since they are just news stories, which are more about telling the reader what's going on at a superficial level, rather than providing them with strong factual information.
#6 on your MS snapshot definitely isn't the emd, so I'm guessing it's a newspaper. The RDD seems fairly low for a newspaper. It also doesn't have the keyword anywhere in the title/desc. Seems like a wildcard.
#7 On your MS snapshot this has a keyword in the title, so I'm guessing this is the emd you've listed as being at 6 above. An interesting one because it has high RDD, a lot of backlinks, it's 13 years old and it has both a dmoz and yahoo listing. Very bizarre.. On paper that seems extremely strong.
It seems like you could take #3 or #4 with a fair bit of effort, but I don't understand why such a strong, and seemingly relevant domain sits at #7. The only way I see you taking #3-#4 is if you created more content and aimed to bring your site closer to an authority on the subject.
At a push you might take #9-#10 as #9 is quite weak and wikipedia at #10 will be too general compared with a targeted article, especially an lsi one.
I'm looking forward to seeing how your page progresses up the rankings.
but for the overall niche, not targeted.
