In my earlier post, I mentioned this blog was ranked in the second page of Google search results for the search terms seo experts. Since then it has risen the rank and it is now ranked number 11.

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Surprise! I just discovered that I’ve got PageRank 5 web page and it is a blog post at the free blogspot.com by Blogger.com.

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Are you currently in the midst of a link building campaign? Getting quality backlinks from related websites will boost your targeted traffic and your overall website’s pagerank score.

However, do you know how many backlinks you’ll need to score a PR1 for a brand new webpage?
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Here’s how I helped my friend Andy to get top 10 ranking in Google in about 10 days. He wanted this new website, AmeliaHun.com, to be ranked for the keywords “Coolest Baby on the Planet” - a website dedicated to his newborn baby daughter.

It is more for fun than anything else that he selected such a cool long tail keyword - not a competitive keyword indeed.

But what the heck, it’s still an SEO experiment and you have to get your optimization tactics right to be visible in the top 30.

If you can get a not-so-competitive keyword ranked in the top 10 on Google and Yahoo then you are on the right track. All you need to do for more competitive keywords is to repeat what you’ve done right and create more keyword optimized pages for the next 3 to 6 months.

This was what Andy has done. The domain name AmeliaHun.com was registered on Aug 22, 2006. He did not do anything until Nov 9, 2006 when he was in Kuala Lumpur to demonstrate how easily and quickly one can create a simple web page. Yes, he created that homepage in front of a live audience. So please do not expect a fanciful web page - there are only some text and a couple of pictures. However, he is pretty good at SEO and the resulting homepage is well optimized for the keywords: coolest baby on the planet.

When he asked me on Nov 12, 2006 to point a text link to his new website, I actually gave him 2 and not 1 text link. The first one is a link in the form a list item in a blog post about backlinks and the other one is embedded in the first paragraph of a blog post talking about the coolest baby at http://shihengcheong.com/blogs/2006/11/coolest-baby-on-planet.html.

Yesterday, Nov 21, 2006, I was told that AmeliaHun.com was ranked the 6th Coolest Baby on the Planet by Google.

That’s top 10 ranking in Google achieved in less than 10 days. Congratulation!

And, guess what happen today? My blog post about the coolest baby is ranked Number 1 for the search term Singapore’s coolest baby on Google.!

Latest Search Ranking Updates
Nov 24, 2006

• AmeliaHun.com is ranked NUMBER 1 and 2 in Google.
• AmeliaHun.com is ranked Number 3 in Live Search(MSN).
• This post put www.TIMMGuru.com into the 17th position in Yahoo.

Nov 29, 2006

• AmeliaHun.com maintains NUMBER 1 and 2 position in Google.
• AmeliaHun.com is ranked Number 1 in Live Search(MSN).
• AmeliaHun.com is ranked Number 6 in Yahoo.
• ShiHengCheong.com is ranked Number 1 for the keywords singapore coolest baby in Google.

Dec 7, 2006

• AmeliaHun.com maintains NUMBER 1 and 2 position in Google, Number 1 in Live Search(MSN) and Number 7 in Yahoo.
• As for the keywords singapore coolest baby, TIMMGuru.com is ranked Number 1 and http://shihengcheong.com/blogs is ranked Number 4 in Yahoo, and in Google and MSN http://shihengcheong.com/blogs/2006/11/coolest-baby-on-planet.html is ranked Number 1.

This happened during the Las Vegas Pubcon a few days ago. Some SEO heavyweight gathered and gave comments on various web sites during the Interactive Site Review session. The panel of SEO experts consisted of Matt Cutts(Google), Tim Mayer(Yahoo), Greg Boser(WebGuerilla) and Danny Sullivan(SearchEngineWatch).

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You’ve heard of blog-and-ping and then tag-and-ping. I guessed they are both dead! Google has plugged those holes and you will definitely be caught for spamming Blogger and Blogspot.com. Even if you host your own Wordpress script, you will not be spared. So don’t waste time and money buying those software peddled by Internet marketers telling you tell that will get thousands of your web pages indexed in hours.

Getting Backlinks TO Boost Your Page PR Value

Now if you want to get a couple more backlinks. You can use one of those free online TO DO list and add a couple of URL pointing to your web sites. These are not text links, just URL. And the one that I’ve tried is http://www.tadalist.com which is PR7. Once you’ve registered a free account, you will be given a subdomain based on your username e.g. shi.tadalist.com. Remember to share the TO Do list you created and get it indexed by sticking them in one of your active blog. Since this is a subdomain from a PR7 web site, you new subdomain should be recognised and indexed quite quickly.

Here’s my new subdomain and host my To Do list:

==> Things To Do Today

and there is also RSS Feed:

http://shi.tadalist.com/lists/feed_public/400863

P.S. If you actually follow my advice and sign up at www.tadalist.com, please create a list “Future Things To Do” and add these entries so that I can get a couple of links:

• http://shi.tadalist.com/lists/public/400863
• http://www.timmguru.com/2006/09/backlinks-from-your-to-do-list.html

Then post me a comment and I will make sure your new subdomain will be indexed.

I just realized that the website, ProSubmit.biz, which I bid recently on eBay did not come with submission software. What I paid for was merely a pretty website with basic backend administrative function. I did not ask for money back - it’s a pretty website with a cool domain name, so I decided to keep it.

I spent a couple of hours searching the web to look for suitable low cost search engine submission software. There are several software which cost about $70, three of which I selected for evaluation are Addweb, Trafficseeker and Dynamic Submission. The higher priced ones are Webposition Gold 2 and IBP which cost $150 each. I will download the demo versions and test each of them.

Richard Quek replied me that he has not heard of Linkproctor. Richard has recommended me to use Zeus and Traffic Equalizer. It was quite fun using TE on my TradersVic website. My first attempt generated 400 pages of keywords directory.

What if I could find a software that does both search engine submission and manage all the backlinks to begin my Search Engine Marketing campaign.