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I’ve just finished experimenting with some minimal on site SEO for my joint blog I run with Monika and the task was to put the post onto page one of Google for the search term "on site SEO".

It took 3 days to get there but today it hit number 7.

All I did was SEO the post (using Court’s all-in-one SEO pack) with lots of instances of the keyword throughout the post and the same in the title. The only off-site SEO the post got was one keyword anchored backlink from one of my related PR3 blogs.

Ok, the keyword is not much searched on and competition was a mere 15,000 pages but it shows what can be done when you work little by little.

The plan will now be to write more posts on SEO using other long tails and eventually get the site to rank for the main keyword of "SEO". We’ll see.

The same trick can be used for andy niche blogs, especially our local ones as they will have lots of tightly focused long tails to work with.

Terry, thats great!

This is what I need to work on more is to work more with my keywords and getting more tightly focused with long tail keywords.

 In regards to the SEO pack. Do you put keywords into the All-in-one-seo-pack section below the write post section? I just noticed this section the other day.

Denise

Denise, yes, put your keywords in both areas, just below your post content and then fill out the entire SEO section.  THis will really help with the SEO on your site.

I am definitely on this one. I will go back to my old posts and fill in the blanks also. Thanks AGAIN!

Denise

I am forever going to be in everyones debt.

Let me share what I do for my funny video site, http://www.masked-dispatcher.com

 I think of a funny video or use something that’s popular right now, so that means people are searching for it.  I throw in my keywords like I’m writing a bloggingzoom submission, because people are there to watch the video, not read the words.  I put my keywords in with the SEO plugin, in the title, and in the url.  I then submit to bloggingzoom as soon as the post goes live.  Finally, I throw it out with bookmarking demon.

I don’t know if my site strategy is sound or not, but I treat each post as it’s own site.  The only common theme running through my site is the keywords funny video.  I throw up videos from all over the place, focusing on different keywords, but funny video is still in each article linked to the main index.

Its doing well, but I’d like to break over the 100 visitor per day barrier.

I think it all depends on how many people are seraching on the terms you’re targeting. Then on your poition in Google.

It’s a funny thing, but I had my alternative cures site up in number one place for a few months and was still only seeing 100-120 uniques a day – the term wasn’t being searched on enough – what’s funny is that now I’ve dropped to near the bottom of the page but I’m still getting over 100 uniques a day!

Then I looked at Yahoo and I’m up the top there too, so a lot of those uniques must be coming from there plus any of the other SE’s where the site is high.

Wouldn’t it be nice to do that with a site that targets a keyword that gets 20k searches a day?

I just found a niche that does just that and competition is very low, but I’m too new to break into it just yet – I set up a string of free blogger blogs each targeting different parts of the niche with a view to using them all as a link farm to my main site that’s targeting the niche. Problem is none of them will index so Google has probably thrown them straight in the sandbox.

As for the main site, it was an expired domain that Google refuses to index at the moment too!

It’s like being a kid in a candy store with both arms tied behind my back!!!!

I started masked dispatcher actually as a trucking industry niche, since that’s what I do in my day job.  Problem with that is I get enough of trucking during the day, I don’t want to do it at night either :P  I switched it to a iTunes niche that never got anywhere.  If it was in the sandbox, it was there for a very short time (I registered in August).

 In a few weeks I’m starting a BANS that looks really promising, but I don’t know how to promote a BANS beyond directory submissions or BMD.  I’m still thinking about buying a plug-in that let’s me do BANS but through a blog so I can use PING :)

I’m still not using BANS, but I know how it works so I set up some scripts on one of my niche sites to see what it does. Its all about targeting a tight niche and I’m certainly doing that, but there isn’t much scops for affiliate sales there and Bidvertiser sucks for PPC, so a BANS style set of links might just bring in some CJ commissions.

You never know ’til you experiment with some of this stuff!

Hey guys,

Great discussion on BANS.  I am looking into it also, but need some more domain names.  :)

I am experimenting with using it on a subdomain of one of my niche sites right now.  Not sure how it will work out, but will keep playing with it.

Would anyone know how to get a "sample" of the output from a subdomain onto the main url, like in the sidebar? 

I bought BANS about a month ago, and installed it on a couple of sites.  I’m actually holding off on doing much more with it for the time being though, as Version 3, which is supposed to be a pretty major upgrade will be coming out sometime in the next week or so.

Also, I’ve already gotten two referrals, with payments pending in clickbank.  So barring chargebacks, basically, playing with BANS is already almost a "free" experiment for me. 

All in all, I like BANS … but I’m hoping version 3 will make it easier to integrate with wordpress … which I’m much more famiiar with.

Todd

Terry Didcott said:

I’m still not using BANS, but I know how it works so I set up some scripts on one of my niche sites to see what it does. Its all about targeting a tight niche and I’m certainly doing that, but there isn’t much scops for affiliate sales there and Bidvertiser sucks for PPC, so a BANS style set of links might just bring in some CJ commissions.

You never know ’til you experiment with some of this stuff!

I believeVic wanted us to use BANS to get keyword recognition for our sites. To get outside link to your site using keywords. I could be wrong. I was back in …….

Elliott said:

Hey guys,

Great discussion on BANS.  I am looking into it also, but need some more domain names.  :)

I am experimenting with using it on a subdomain of one of my niche sites right now.  Not sure how it will work out, but will keep playing with it.

Would anyone know how to get a "sample" of the output from a subdomain onto the main url, like in the sidebar? 

Hi Elliot,

 Can’t understand what you want to do. I do know you could take HTML of any page and paste it in a text widget!!!!!!!

Hey localref,

I have a BANS site on a subdomain on a site that is using WP for the main domain name. 

What I would like to do is be able to pull some of the data from the BANS subdomain and put them on the front page of the site to help promote it.

I’m not sure how to do it as I think it would be tough to separate the two to that extent.

But, if anyone has any ideas on how to best promote it to get my "regulars" to visit it, that would be great!

Elliott said:

Hey localref,

I have a BANS site on a subdomain on a site that is using WP for the main domain name. 

What I would like to do is be able to pull some of the data from the BANS subdomain and put them on the front page of the site to help promote it.

I’m not sure how to do it as I think it would be tough to separate the two to that extent.

But, if anyone has any ideas on how to best promote it to get my "regulars" to visit it, that would be great!

Lets see you have generated content at something.wp.com and you want to take the same generated content and put it on new.com

 Just off the top of my head why not generate with the same company and just print out what you want. or, are you thinking you want to link to the generated page from new.com

You could easily do it manually. copy the html of the generated web page. discard all you don’t want. Change links to point to your page.