Summary:

People pay $100,000 or more to get to the first page of Google results.  Here’s a pretty cool technique I discovered which can get you there in one hour, for free.  Pretty cool, huh?

Details:

Value of a high Google ranking:

When people search for your product or service, they go to Google.  Therefore, every business wants to show up on the first page.  However, it’s tough to get there, because every other business wants to be there also, and only 10 sites can show up on the first page.

Therefore, most companies have to pay for Google ads (on the top and right hand side of the results  page), and some pay $100,000 or more a year to do so – and it’s worth it.  Google makes almost all of their money on these ads, so they are effective, but it’s better to rank on the left hand side in the organic results, since 65% of people never click on a paid ad.

Others pay an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) consultant (like me) to show up in the organic rankings on the left hand side, where most people look anyways.  It’s tough to get your web page listed there, because everyone who is an “accountant” wants to show up there when a potential customer searches for “accountant”.

Consultants who do SEO know the fastest ways to get there, but I have 5 techniques that can get you there in a few days if there isn’t too much competition, and I’ve never seen anyone publish this one.

This particular technique might get you there in an hour – no kidding.

The trick is to create an entry on Craig’s List, and to have it contain the keywords that your potential customer might look for.  This 4 minute video will show an actual example and some more details…

There are huge upsides to this approach:

• Its free to do (and I gave it to you for free)
• It can legitimately get you to the top of Google results in an hour, as you can see in the video

There are some problems with this approach:

• If there is a lot of competition for your keywords, you may not rank highly
• Its transient.  It will probably only last a few days, and Craig’s List doesn’t like it if you re-post in less than 4 days or so
• You’d have to put your contact information in there, including your phone number, email, a pointer to your web site, et cetera
• Depending on your business, buyers may not be convinced by a Craig’s List ad.  However, at the very least, you’d knock some of your competition out of the top 10.

The actual Craig’s List entry in the example (from 9/30/10) is at http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/evg/1981470943.html and the search that was done in Google was

Amateur videographer Washington, DC

Of course, you probably won’t’ want to advertise yourself as an amateur videographer, but the fact is that if you choose keywords that your target market would use to search for your service, you can use this technique to get a great Google ranking for a while.  After a few days, you can do it again.

Good luck out there.

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