Warrior Forum 40 Day Challenge

115 Pages·2011·2.89 MB·English

Warrior Forum
40 Day Challenge

Top 5 in Google within Forty Days!

By Joseph Archibald
40 Day Challenge

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Preface

First things first, if you are not yet familiar with the Warrior Forum 40 Day Challenge which was initiated
by Joseph Archibald, and is indeed the reason for writing this eBook in the first place, then you may wish
to visit the thread before (or after) reading through what is in front of you now.
I must note however, that since the end of that particular Warrior Forum thread, there has been quite a
lot of new material added and updates provided which can only be found within the second edition of
the eBook - the one you are reading now.

I shall provide the link to the thread on the Warrior Forum so you can read it at your leisure - or not, as
the case may be. This Challenge began at the beginning of May 2010.
http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/207574-
40daychallenge-top-5-google-within-40-days.html

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Foreword

It’s very important to note that the material you are about to read is not written in stone. These are
techniques and philosophies that I – Joseph Archibald – have used fairly often to help me to rank for a
variety of keyword phrases in Google. And in fact, I use these techniques now perhaps more than ever
before, simply because they are strong and they work well. And I will continue to use them throughout
the current year of 2011 and most probably beyond.
However, keep in mind that the internet is a fairly fast paced phenomena, and thus techniques that
worked well for SEO and internet marketing one year may not work quite as well the next. This is why I
shall continue to update the eBook as and when it is required. It should be said though – the techniques
mentioned in here worked in the years gone by, and they continue to work today.
Further, everyone will have their own interpretation as to what is “true” and what is merely here-say
when it comes to SEO techniques and how Google (I mention Google since it maintains its status as by
far the most used search engine) interpret “the rules”. I merely write as I see it, and not because all the
SEO theoreticians say so.
I am the sort of person who will work with something until I am sure it does not work or it does work,
and that’s really all I need to know. I forget a lot of the “yak yak” and get down and experiment for
myself. If something works for me, regardless the actual reasons, I’ll use it time and time again.
That said, feel free to dispute some of the “facts” I mention throughout the eBook. That’s fine to do so. I
am not the guy to sit for hours every day and read up on cutting edge new SEO ideology. I’d much prefer
to take action, rather than suffer from information over-load on a daily basis, whilst getting nothing
done with actual work progress.

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Table of Contents – Click On Title To Go To Link
LIMIT IS OF LIABILITY/DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY .............................................................. 1
PREFACE ................................................................................................................................................... 2
FOREWORD ............................................................................................................................................. 3
INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................................................... 8
GOING AFTER HIGH TRAFFIC KEYWORDS – MY KEYWORD CRITERIA FOR THE 40 DAY
CHALLENGE AND SOME INVALUABLE GUIDELINES FOR CHOOSING YOUR OWN
KEYWORDS ............................................................................................................................................ 10
DISCOVERING IF A KEYWORD IS WORTH GOING AFTER OR NOT ...................................... 16
FORGET ABOUT USING THE PARENTHESES METHOD – AND DON’T GET
DISCOURAGED BY HIGH NUMBERS OF INDEXED PAGES A DOMAIN HAS – THIS IS NOT
YOUR TRUE COMPETITION .............................................................................................................. 18
HOW TO ANALYZE YOUR REAL COMPETITION ......................................................................... 19
CHOOSING A KEYWORD RICH DOMAIN NAME AND ONWARDS WITH THE 40 DAY
CHALLENGE ........................................................................................................................................... 24
A WORD ON MONETIZATION FOR YOUR SITES & PAGES – TRY DIFFERENT METHODS!
(ALSO A WORD ON USING THE FREE SPYFU TO ANALYZE KEYWORD PROFITABILITY)
................................................................................................................................................................... 26
BACK TO THE 40 DAY CHALLENGE KEYWORD – ALONG WITH A MORE IN-DEPTH
LOOK AT ANALYZING THE COMPETITION, IN THIS SPECIFIC CASE ................................... 30
CREATING OUR SITE’S CONTENT AND BEGINNING OUR BACKLINKING STRATEGY –
ARTICLE LINKS & SPINNING ARTICLES FOR MORE QUALITY BACKLINKS ...................... 33
UPDATE ON PROCEEDINGS – SPINNING MY FIRST SET OF ARTICLES ............................... 35

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ALWAYS PING YOUR LINKS TO HELP GOOGLE INDEX THEM ............................................... 40
SPINNING ARTICLES "CORRECTLY" & USING YOUR ARTICLES OR CONTENT FOR EVEN
MORE BACKLINKS ............................................................................................................................... 41
SO CALLED ON-PAGE SEO – AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN RANKING IN THE TOP 10 ..... 45
“BUILDING OUT A SITE AND GAINING A COMPOUNDING EFFECT IN THE RANKINGS BY
DOING SO!!” ........................................................................................................................................... 46
SOCIAL BOOKMARK YOUR ARTICLES, WEBSITES, & WEB 2.0 PROPERTIES FOR
INCREASED LINK JUICE, INDEXING, & RANKINGS ON GOOGLE ............................................ 50
AS YOU’RE BUILDING YOUR SITES AND WEBPAGES ALWAYS BE ON THE LOOKOUT
FOR NEW NICHES ................................................................................................................................. 52
MORE PROGRESS WITH THE 40 DAY CHALLENGE – THE WISDOM HERE IS ALWAYS BE
BUILDING LINKS OVER TIME & SPREAD OUT YOUR SUBMISSIONS TO ARTICLE
DIRECTORIES, BLOG NETWORKS, ETC. ........................................................................................ 54
HITTING YOUR SITES WITH UNIQUE ARTICLE WIZARD (OR OTHER PROPRIETARY
TOOL) TO INCREASE YOUR GOOGLE RANKINGS ....................................................................... 56
ANOTHER WORD ON AVOIDING THE GOOGLE “SANDBOX” .................................................. 60
USING OUR INITIAL ARTICLE SUBMISSIONS AS BUFFERS & FUNNELING HORDES OF
PR OR GOOGLE JUICE THROUGH THESE ARTICLES ................................................................. 61
RANKINGS ONLY 4 DAYS AFTER DOMAIN PURCHASE! ........................................................... 68
THOUGHTS ABOUT HUBPAGES ...................................................................................................... 70
QUICK LITTLE ADSENSE FORMULA TO ESTIMATE ADSENSE EARNINGS ......................... 75
A BIT MORE ON “BUYING KEYWORDS” – IMPORTANT INSIGHTS ....................................... 76

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AN ADDED TIP WHICH COULD MEAN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUCCESS
AND UTTER FAILURE (FRUSTRATION AND DEMORALIZATION!) .............................. 79
TESTING A MARKET FOR PROFITABILITY WITHOUT USING PAY PER CLICK – 1ST
METHOD ................................................................................................................................................. 80
TESTING A MARKET FOR PROFITABILITY WITHOUT USING PAY PER CLICK – 2ND
METHOD ................................................................................................................................................. 82
BUILDING OUT A SITE AND GAINING A COMPOUNDING EFFECT IN THE RANKINGS BY
DOING SO! .............................................................................................................................................. 85
ONCE YOU UNDERSTAND SEO – BE ON THE LOOKOUT TO HELP LOCAL BUSINESSES –
ANOTHER GOLDMINE ........................................................................................................................ 88
SOCIAL BOOKMARKING – A REVIEW OF SOME SOFTWARE PROGRAMS AND MY
PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................................... 95
40 DAY CHALLENGE UPDATE – THE GOOGLE DANCE & NOT RANKING YOUR ARTICLES
& WEB 2.0’S ABOVE YOUR MONEY SITE ...................................................................................... 98
TIP FOR USING UAW (OR SIMILAR TOOL) – CLEAN UP YOUR UAW BIOS ...................... 101
ALWAYS CHANGE UP YOUR ANCHOR TEXT OR IT DOESN’T LOOK NATURAL ............. 102
JUST A REMINDER – BEWARE THE SO-CALLED GURUS AND THEIR MONEY SUCKING
OFFERS – DON’T JUMP FROM BANDWAGON TO BANDWAGON ........................................ 103
ANOTHER WAY TO GET TRAFFIC & QUALITY BACKLINKS – GUEST POSTING FOR AN
AUTHORITY BLOG ............................................................................................................................ 105
40 DAY CHALLENGE UPDATE – AND NOW AT DAY 30 ......................................................... 107
ON A FINAL NOTE… .......................................................................................................................... 109
RESOURCES AND LINKS .................................................................................................................. 112

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Introduction

Hello, and welcome to the 40 Day Challenge eBook! Within this e-book you’ll find a real case study
worked by somebody just like you, although perhaps a little further down the road in their SEO career.
No, I’m not some self-proclaimed SEO guru, however I have learned a solid, repeatable method for
ranking many, if not most of my money site pages and web 2.0 properties on page one of Google.
Sometimes some web pages take quite a lot longer than others to rank in Google, but that's merely a
part of this search engine optimization "game."
It’s an SEO roadmap, and one that works. It wasn’t created by people that haven’t been in the trenches
of SEO working day in and day out; it was created by little old me through years of trial and error and
slogging too.
Further to this - since putting together the Warrior thread and creating the eBook based on the thread
which was back in May and June of 2010, I've received a lot of feedback from various folks who went
forth and utilized the exact methods used here-in, and to great effect too! One such case was my friend
Pat Flynn from the www.smartpassiveincome.com blog - a fellow internet marketer who has a very
large and widespread reputation on the internet for his ability to generate great content and share it
with the followers of his blog. He utilized the methods given in this eBook to gain top spot in Google for
his primary keyword for a Challenge he had at the time with fellow internet marketers, Tyrone Shum
being among them.
Another success story is from my old mate Chris Seiter. Chris used my methods while studying full time
at college to then go ahead and flip a simple website that he created on a Flippa auction for a total of
$1000 US dollars. You can see the auction here...
https://flippa.com/auctions/112880/TOP-OF-GOOGLE-200MO-AND-GROWING-
HOT-INVESTMENT-NICHE

I can tell you for sure that you’ll be hearing much more about Chris in the months and years to come!

The format of this report is as follows: I will be picking out posts from my thread on the Warrior Forum,
just the meatiest and most important posts, points, ideas, and methods, and then distilling everything
down into a workable reference guide to help you in the ranking of your own sites and web pages.
(Again, this has been added to in the second eBook edition).

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You may argue that it is still not quite step-by-step and I have to admit that no, it is not. But, this whole
process is not exactly step-by-step by it is nature, and thus I have also included important aspects that
surround the steps necessary in creating one method of obtaining a highly successful SEO campaign.
After all, its not just about knowing the techniques and then applying them, its much about having a
successful mind-set. So if you think that I’ve added in filler to this eBook merely to pad it out, you’d be
very, very much mistaken!
This particular guide is not the only pathway to the top, but it’s a path that you can copy, and there are
plenty of tested and weather-beaten foundational principles and guidelines that people newer to SEO
will be able to get their heads around.
Instead of slogging this out on your own you’ve done a very intelligent thing, by learning from my
methods and from my very, very many mistakes you’ll go much farther much faster! So, without further
ado, let’s begin.

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