How to Steal to the Top of Google, part 1 - Find out how the competition got there
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But it's even better. You see, if you do a quick search on Google (as of this writing) the number 1 listed site is: http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/dog/dog.htm
This is incredibly good news. You see, that isn't a top level index page. Not only that, but the Page Rank of the site is only a 5. While a 5 is pretty good, it's a pretty far cry from a 7 or 8, which I will also show you how to get in later parts of this series.
So, it's time to put on the black clothes. We're going to steal our way into the top 10, maybe (probably) even get that coveted #1 spot by the time this series is over.
What we want to do now is to take a little advice from an article here on SEO Chat by Jacqueline Dooley. That article is SEO Tools and Tricks that Help You Think like a Search Spider.
One of the first tools that article talks about is the Crawler Simulator. That tool lets you see what a search spider will see. What you want to do is take our example website, http://www.uwsp.edu/psych/dog/dog.htm, and plug that URL into the simulator.
Take a look at that page from a search engine spider's point of view. Open up another browser window and go to SEO Chat's Keyword Density Tool. In the "Valid URL" box, enter in the URL for that top Web page.
At this point, let me explain what you're doing, and why. The idea is to take a look at what is winning with Google right now and "steal" that for your own page.
No, I'm not saying you want to take content, Web design, or anything like that. I'm saying you want to model your own site after what is obviously working ... and working well.
What is the keyword density of the winning page? What sorts of things is that winning page doing to rank so high with your chosen keyword?
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