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CTABUK · 10-24-2006, 02:13 AM

Firstly apologies for not posting here as often as I should, it is still a great forum.

I guess I have been busy trying to create the best ways of attracting traffic.
I have totally done away with PPC -in fact I have enjoyed success without advertising for two whole years now and have turned CTAB into one of the UK's larger Brokerages.
We introduced a Google News Alerts feed into the site for our keywords, so that content is changing almost on a daily basis. We have created more and more pages each optimized for the keywords or search terms that our Statcounter has shown proven results for. Each page is based on a HTML keyword so that Google in particular picks up on. At the last count we have 300 odd search terms all on pages 1,2 or 3 on all of the SE's.
We have also managed to pursuade several .gov sites to link to us and that in itself is a bonus. The other joy about Google Alerts is that we get Newspapers releasing stories on our chosen subjects so we reply to them as press releases, these in turn act as a Blog system without actually being 'quotes' a blog, although I do contribute to Matt Cutts.

I have also discovered that certain SE's give good results on Forum postings, those of you that know me will know that I mod over at WPW and that in itself has helped my ratings. It is quite easy to locate the SE's that pick up on forum postings on your subjects. Simply search your keywords and keep scrolling down until you reach them. But only join if you feel that you can contribute on a regular basis, otherwise you are in effect 'drive by spamming' But as Aaron Wall once wrote 'all successful marketers have spammed'

Best wishes David

10-24-2006, 02:13 AM	#7 (permalink)
CTABUK Inactive Join Date: 11-22-04 Location: Lincolnshire in the UK Posts: 86 iTrader: 0 / 0% Latest Blog: None	Firstly apologies for not posting here as often as I should, it is still a great forum. I guess I have been busy trying to create the best ways of attracting traffic. I have totally done away with PPC -in fact I have enjoyed success without advertising for two whole years now and have turned CTAB into one of the UK's larger Brokerages. We introduced a Google News Alerts feed into the site for our keywords, so that content is changing almost on a daily basis. We have created more and more pages each optimized for the keywords or search terms that our Statcounter has shown proven results for. Each page is based on a HTML keyword so that Google in particular picks up on. At the last count we have 300 odd search terms all on pages 1,2 or 3 on all of the SE's. We have also managed to pursuade several .gov sites to link to us and that in itself is a bonus. The other joy about Google Alerts is that we get Newspapers releasing stories on our chosen subjects so we reply to them as press releases, these in turn act as a Blog system without actually being 'quotes' a blog, although I do contribute to Matt Cutts. I have also discovered that certain SE's give good results on Forum postings, those of you that know me will know that I mod over at WPW and that in itself has helped my ratings. It is quite easy to locate the SE's that pick up on forum postings on your subjects. Simply search your keywords and keep scrolling down until you reach them. But only join if you feel that you can contribute on a regular basis, otherwise you are in effect 'drive by spamming' But as Aaron Wall once wrote 'all successful marketers have spammed' Best wishes David