Comments on: SEO Ranking Factors

By: Digerati Marketing » Understanding Optimum Link Growth

Digerati Marketing » Understanding Optimum Link Growth — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:13:29 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:08:56 +0000

These factors are more looking at highly competitive areas where people are in direct competition. It is unlikely for thailand beachballs you’ll have much direct competition, or people investing tens of thousands of pounds in SEO.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:05:56 +0000

^ Yes it should be easy to beat someone for a phrase they are not competing for. But my point is that its hard to tell what you have to do to beat them, based on the SEO factors you mentioned.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:14:05 +0000

@ Mark

You shouldn’t have any trouble beating sites like Wikipedia, because they are not really “in your niche”, they just happen to have a little content on it.

Have a think about it, for instance, apart from “Wikipedia” I can’t find any search terms where Wikipedia has site links, which would demonstrate it is “the” authority for that key phrase search.

If you build targeted 1 way links (and yes, that domain will help), it shouldn’t be any problem beating them whatsoever.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:27:40 +0000

I would like to get your opinion on something, and I’m curious how it would tie into the ranking analysis you are describing

Lets say you are trying to target a narrow niche, such as “Beachballs in Thailand”. Maybe you are a specialty vendor of becahballs only in Thailand.

Probably your top competitors are large sites that are focused on Thailand or Beachballs but not both. You don’t have the experience, age, etc to outrank these huge monster sites like Wikipedia or the Thailand government etc

How do you figure out how to outrank them, since your content is a lot more specific than your competitors for the search phrase in question? With a domain name like ‘beachballsinthailand.com’ I think you could rank highly because your site matches the query very well but you would not necessarily beat your competitors in domain age, links, etc.

Does that make sense? I have been wondering about things like this. You want to enter a small niche and the other competitors ranking for your search phrase are not even trying to rank for this term, they are just the 1,000lb internet behemonths.