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• 1 google » SEO Analysis of Blogtrepreneur // Oct 8, 2007 at 6:43 pm

  [...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerptI ve always wanted to rank highly for the phrase entrepreneur blog , but have never seemed to be able to climb into the Top 5 in Google . After reading an analysis of Carl Ocab s Search Engine Optimization by David Elefant, I messaged him asking if he would be able to do the same on his Make Money Online blog for Blogtrepreneur.com. He kindly obliged, and you can find the analysis here . I just wanted to blockquote some of the things he mentioned for emphasis, and to help you guys know how [...]

• 2 Chance // Oct 8, 2007 at 7:09 pm

  I might be dumb at reading google, but it looks like you are #5 to me bud.

• 3 Steven Snell // Oct 8, 2007 at 9:30 pm

  Adnan,
  Congratulations on getting to #6. Do you have any ideas for getting more inbound links?

• 4 Rob Schultz // Oct 8, 2007 at 9:39 pm

  Congratulations on getting to #6 on Google. I found the review of your site to be very insightful.

  Before I started blogging I picked out a keyword phrase that I wanted to rank for on Google. Since then I’ve been working towards that slowly, but surely. What’s your opinion on running a contest requiring users to link back to you with keyword phrases? Would you consider this to be a shady practice?

  I’m completely about maintaining the integrity of myself and my site.

• 5 Steven Snell // Oct 8, 2007 at 9:49 pm

  Rob,
  I would discourage that. I think David Airey said that was part of the reason Google penalized him (running a contest with specific anchor text). It seems like Google’s been on a kick recently to penalize people for things like this.

• 6 Discount Web Design // Oct 9, 2007 at 7:20 am

  I can’t access your analysis. It says 404

• 7 Super Affiliate Blog // Oct 9, 2007 at 10:07 am

  Congrats! I think you did a great job, keep it up. Thanks for sharing.

• 8 Matt Jones // Oct 9, 2007 at 10:25 am

  Nice work Adnan! Does it send much traffic?

• 9 Bush Mackel // Oct 9, 2007 at 9:54 pm

  Does sharing an IP with other domains REALLY hurt you that bad?

• 10 sarahG // Oct 10, 2007 at 10:37 am

  I don’t think being on a shared server can really affect you. Sure, interlinking from other domains on the same IP won’t necessarily be as good as if they were on separate IPs, but having your own IP (either from a dedicated server or purchased just for your site) is not going to make much difference in my book.

• 11 adnan // Oct 10, 2007 at 5:44 pm

  @ Jason - hehe yep I was number 5 for a tiny little period, but moved back down to number 6 again. I’ve realised that the 5th spot isn’t out of my reach - at the same time though (answering Matt’s question), the term “entrepreneur blog” sends hardly any traffic anyway, so I’m not missing out on much (around 1-2 uniques per day at the mo).

  @ Steven - thanks mate. I think I’m going to take it slow - if new people want to link to me, I’ll ask them to change the Anchor text to “Entrepreneur Blog”. If any of you guys do have links to me, changing them to that would be much appreciated

  @ Rob - I also did the same as you in the blogLOUDER competition. I don’t think I’ll be trying it again, and as Steven said, that competition was probably another factors resulting in his ownage. I think it would be defined as blackhat and not organic - it’s up to you whether you want to risk it or not!

  Discount Web Design - very strange. The analysis seems to have been removed from the site. I’ll enquire about that - thanks for notifying me.

  Thanks Super Aff Blog and @ Bush, I’m not really an SEO expert. Hopefully Sarah’s comment answered your question, but you’d have to do a search on Google for that.

  Cheers Sarah

• 12 Dave Starr --- ROI Guy // Oct 11, 2007 at 8:27 am

  Some really good points in that analysis … especially the thoughts about the alt tags … people hav ebeen saying that and saying that for years, yet there isn’t one blog in a hundred that takes the time to use optimized alt tags … me included. There is no doubt that search engines pay attention to the Alt Tag … how much is debatable, yet, since the tags themselves cost nothing, what can one lose?

  With regards to the dedicated IP? I have no idea if it makes a _lot_ of difference but I have been thinking hard about getting one for a long time now … I hate seeing my WhoIs show up that I’m hosted with goodness knows how many other “little guys” … and I know when I check a site I am thinking about ‘trusting” … as in spending money … I consider a shared IP a negative factor … maybe not a show-stopper, but not a confidence builder either. With a decent host they don’t cost much … might be worth a shot.

• 13 Dave Starr --- ROI Guy // Oct 11, 2007 at 8:36 am

  Forgot to add the other lesson so often forgotten … it’s trivially easy to rank for terms no one serches for … and the average ‘Net “cruiser” can’t spell or refuses to spell (Hi Mr. Schoemaker), so I would really think hard before trying to rank anything like the “E” word. Can you imagine how many average Americans (many college students and college grads) Jay Leno would have to interview before he found _one_ who could spell entrepreneur, much less use it in a sentence?

• 14 sarahG // Oct 11, 2007 at 1:51 pm

  I’m suprised it wasn’t mentioned during your analysis but personally I’d change your sidebar headings to h3’s. At present they’re h2s, on your front page, all of your post headings are also h2s, what are more important because right now you’re telling the search bots that they’re all of the same importance

• 15 pearl // Oct 12, 2007 at 9:32 pm

  hey Congrats Adnan…. thats some feat! I’d remember entrepreneur blog next time!

• 16 Mike C // Oct 13, 2007 at 3:58 am

  It looks like you are number 5 right now for your keywords. Sounds like you have some good advice. I have two questions the first being how many outbounds links is right amount to have and second how does not sharing an ip address help you and how do you know if you are sharing an ip address?

• 17 Ron // Oct 13, 2007 at 6:15 am

  I see you as spot #5. Either way, congrats. Interesting read on the analysis.

• 18 Tay // Oct 13, 2007 at 10:13 am

  Congratulations, you’re in the top five, or at least when I search you up.

  I’d also recommend following SarahG’s advice about the h2 and h3 headings.

  Anyway, thanks for posting this, it reminds me that I must work more on keyword density and using my keyword in image tags as well.

  Keep up the great work.

• 19 Charles Lau // Oct 13, 2007 at 5:08 pm

  404 error… can’t see it

• 20 EZ Marketing Tool // Oct 14, 2007 at 6:28 am

  VERY informative post…. and a great example of the community (aka comments) offering equally great information! Thanks Sara G!

• 21 BPO.Asia // Oct 15, 2007 at 2:30 am

  You’re on number 5 now.

• 22 Carlo Selorio // Oct 15, 2007 at 5:15 am

  Great insight in your blog.

  You’ve done really well with putting together your blog.

  Cheers,
  Carlo Selorio

• 23 Rob Schultz // Oct 16, 2007 at 5:04 pm

  404 error for me

• 24 ani // Oct 16, 2007 at 5:18 pm

  You are #6 for me

• 25 Mike C // Oct 17, 2007 at 7:00 am

  Have you moved up past position 5 yet? I am very interested to find out how you are doing with it?

• 26 Rob Schultz // Oct 17, 2007 at 7:45 pm

  Well that’s quite interesting that commenter #23 either has the same name as me or decided to pick my name at random to post his comment.

  I see you at position #5 in Google…so congrats!

• 27 Michael // Oct 18, 2007 at 1:44 pm

  Congrats on the high ranking. I appreciate the useful information you provided.

• 28 adnan // Oct 20, 2007 at 12:00 pm

  @ Dave - yeah the ALT tag is very important, and LOL - it’s true - the word “entrepreneur” is quite hard to spell, which is why I had some reservations about my domain name!

  @ Sarah - thank for that, I hadn’t really realised - I’ll go and change that up now!

  Thanks Pearl, Ron and Tay.

  To the guys seeing the 404 error, I’m also getting that too, so not really sure what happened there, I think the analysis got deleted which was a shame!

  @ the real Rob Schultz - wow that is weird and I hadn’t noticed. Maybe it’s a weird coincidence in that he’s got the same name as you. Other than that, I can’t really explain it!

  And in terms of ranking position, turns out I’m no. 7 now, which just shows how vulnerable you can be to Google fluctuations!!

  Thanks for all your comments guys and sorry for the late reply.

• 29 Caroline Middlebrook // Oct 24, 2007 at 10:49 am

  I have to ask - why optimise for “entrepreneur blog”? It doesn’t seem to receive very much traffic.

• 30 Richard // Oct 24, 2007 at 5:42 pm

  Congratulation on achieving top rankings for such a difficult keyword.

• 31 Publishers Weblog // Oct 27, 2007 at 1:00 pm

  LOL, congratulations indeed. But I have to agree with Caroline that the words are pretty low key stuff. Why not go for something bigger like ‘Make Money Online’. Thanks.

• 32 redspace // Nov 8, 2007 at 3:23 am

  congratulations Adnan, great job. i guess you already know how to get up there. hope that i could achieve that one day with my future blog. in the meantime i need to take a look around here and there and grab the knowledge needed so when i start my blog later on it will be smooth sailing.

• 33 Lilly Holmers // Feb 3, 2008 at 6:41 pm

  Here’s something I’ve been pondering about for a while. How do you make your blog popular and generate traffic if you have great, original content but are competing in a very established niche where most of the niche’s websmasters know and use the techniques that work? In my recent attempt at internet business blog called hochstadt.com, I found some really tough competition. There are just so many websites out there selling themselves selling themselves as expert sources on the subject. Does anyone have any ideas on this? Lilly

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