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Thursday, December 28, 2006

10 Tips To Get Your Content Ranked In Google In 2007

Man in a tin foil hat Ok, I enjoy the raft of end of year light-hearted lists that the time of year brings, and would like to add one of my own for your entertainment. Today, let's take a look at what I believe your average webmaster will need to do to see their content ranked highly in Google over the coming year. These are based on things I've seen on my sites and things I've seen happening in the search world recently.

#10 - Have A Proxy Site Link To It

Some kind person linked to the proxy site framed page of my site, and before I knew it the proxy site was indexed and at the top of the SERPs where once my site was.

#09 - Post It On A Web Forum

Don't waste time setting up a site to hold your precious content, cut out the effort involved in making and optimizing a site by posting it directly on a forum like Digital Point Or Web Master World Forums. What ever happens, it will always rank higher than you and show up for all sorts of long tail terms.

#08 - Get it Dugg

Ok, we've done link baiting and digg baiting around these parts so I won't go into to much detail. Let's just say, if you manage to get dugg, don't worry about the links you'll pick up as the digg page and the pages of all the more relevant bloggers who covered your content will outrank your site before you know it. If you set up the digg yourself, at least you know your content on the digg page will be at the top of the pile.

#07 - Brush Off That Domain You Forgot You Had

You remember it, you made your first site about pet goldfish in 2000 and left it up just because you can. There's been content and a steady stream of single digit surfers ever since so you just let it live. Now's the time to go back and start adding pages about any content you want ranked for. Forget the pet goldfish, make pages on laptops, payday loans and mesothelioma - given the age of the domain and those forgotten edu links you have to it, you'll be ranking hard before you know it.

#06 - Ask Someone Close To Add It To Their College Site

If you haven't got that old domain, speak nicely to a younger brother or sister or friend who may have access to some nice educational webspace. Add it there and forget about your own site showing up above it. In fact, don't even waste your time adding it to your own site.

#05 - Put It On Wikipedia Or Squidoo

Forget about link building and optimizing your own site, just make a lens at Squidoo or feature an article at Wikipedia. Either way, that content is going to be at the top of the SERPs above your own stuff. Don't forget to leave a link to your site so you can at least pick up the scrapings.

#04 - Have Someone Else Scrape It

Hey! What's that doing there in the SERPs? Oh, someone scraped it off me. Nice to see them doing so well with it.

#03 - Find A Creative Way Of Getting Your Site Banned

Then get Matt Cutts to blog about why you got wiped out. You'll be gone, but there will be plenty of good screen grabs of your wonderful content on Matt's and a hundred other SEO sites, all of them ranking.

#02 - Post Your Content On An Authority Blog's Comments

Doesn't matter what the blogs about, but if it's old, authoritative, forgotten and not comment moderated, then leaving your content on their comments will see your content at the top of the rankings super fast. Once again, don't waste your time making your own site and following the white hat way, get your content seen, albeit far down the page of another's blog.

#01 - Buy AdWords

If all else fails, there's always AdWords. Some suspicious people may tell you that your site's not doing well just so you might be forced to get AdWords. Pay no heed though - AdWords rocks for the ~~banned~~ failed webmaster and is the sure fire way to get your content seen.

2 Comments:

scott said...: Nice list... And I really appreciated your .edu SPAM post as am having similar problems with the same spammers.; 11:38 AM
Dio Bach said...: Glad you enjoyed it. The .edu thing seems to have affected a lot of people - there's stuff going on at webmaster world and digital point that are related to similar issues I think.; 1:44 PM

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