With this example there is much less competiting websites for that term, but still 650,000 sites are still too many to try and steal a top 10 listing in Google. Sony is a popular brand, so I'm going to look at a less popular brand such as Insignia and then look for portable as listed as a suggetion by overture above.
Wow, what a difference as only 742 websites have "Insignia portable dvd player" somewhere in their website. That's definitely a keyword term that I will want to write down for later use. I can almost guarantee that you can get a top 10 Google listing with this search term. So if you have an Insignia portable dvd player on your website, you will want to write an ad for this search term. If you don't, then I wouldn't bother testing this term as it would do you no good to write an ad about Insignia portable dvd players if you are selling Sony dvd players on your website. The user isn't looking for Sony dvd players, so they will most likely leave your website right away. There you have it, start testing all the keywords from the overture suggestion tool above such as: dual screen dvd player, minitek portable dvd player, etc.
My suggestion is that you can get a top 10 listing with any search term that has less than 5,000 competing sites. By competing sites, I'm talking about the last number that is circled in red from each example above. You may get lucky and get in a top listing for 10,000 or more competing sites, but I wouldn't recommend it. Start small and then keep working your way up in numbers. You're probably thinking that all the keywords that have low competition don't get searched much and won't bring any traffic to your site. This is true, however just think of how many targeted ads you can post if you are selling dvd players. You can post the ads for brand names such as Insignia, Minitek, etc. As you saw from the above example, there were 762 people that searched for an Insignia dvd player in one month and if you had a top 10 listing in Google, you could probably expect to get over 100 clicks or so in a month just from that ad. Multiply that by all the different brands that you are selling that that will add up to a lot of clicks per day for you!
Let's take another example for a website that isn't selling products, but rather promoting an ebook about ways to improve your volleyball skills. The first thing I'm going to do is go the overture keyword tool to get lots of suggestions that people are searching for the term "volleyball".
I found two good keywords that I could test out on Google that would be relevant to my ebook I'm selling about learning and improving your volleyball game. Let's test out the competition on Google. First we'll test out "how to play volleyball"
You can see that there are 9,600 competing websites for that search term "how to play volleyball" which is over my 5,000 competing sites rule, but it could be worth a try anyway as you could get listed in the 3rd or 4th page possibly. Let's look at the next term now, for volleyball skill drill.
Cool, only 202 competing websites, so I'm definitely going to write an ad promoting the improve your volleyball game ebook for this search term. I can probably expect a top 10 listing in Google for this keyword phrase. Those are just two examples of different types of websites that I found keywords for my site that I can write ads for on US Free Ads to get listed in the top 10 of Google. Let's put these keywords in action and create ads.
It's now time to put your keywords to work and start writing ads on US Free Ads to get your listings appear in the top of Google. The first thing you will want to do if you haven't already is sign up for an account at US Free Ads
The next thing you want to do is post a classified ad by clicking on the "Place Classified" link as shown below.
Then you will click the category your ad should appear in. Now this really isn't important for getting listed in Google, but as I mentioned earlier, US Free Ads has a large network of visitors so you can get good traffic just from these visitors. So it's important to put your ad in the correct category for US Free Ads visitors. I'm going to place an ad for the volleyball ebook website example I did in an earlier chapter. I'll want to select the Sports category as shown below.
Then I'll click on the sub category for Volleball.
The next screen is if you want to setup personal categories. For instance if you have multiple websites, you can setup separate categories so once you place a lot of ads, you will be able to view ads by your personal categories. It's just an option and has no effect on your Google listing placement.
The next option let's you select what type of ad you want to place. You're probably wondering by now what are you going to write about in your ad since your more concerned with just getting people to your website than focus on your ads. This is exactly the point. We don't want people spending lots of time on your ad because you want to ultimately drive them to your website. So the main thing is to keep your ads short (but more than a couple sentences) and sweet. Get people excited and they will click on a link to your website. You won't have to do any extra work typically in writing the ads, because you can usually just copy info from your website and paste that in your ad.
For instance, if I'm going to write the ad about promoting my volleyball ebook, I'm going to list several points on how my ebook will help them improve their volleyball game, give a brief description of some of the highlights, and put a picture of the ebook. That's it! Get them to click on your link somewhere in the ad to drive them to your website to find out more info about the ebook. Anyway, as shown below you can select the choice of ad you want place such as a regular ad, enhanced ad with tools to help you make it stand out, or copy and pasting HTML code. My suggestion is to use the enhanced classified tool as it works similar to Microsoft Word by having the tools at the top to make your ad look professional.
The next step is actually placing your classified ad. The most important thing you want to do when placing your ad is having your keyword in your ad title. Google places the most weight or emphasis on ranking for ads with keywords in the title. So for this example, I'm going to put "Volleyball Skill Drill" in the title as shown below. Then I can add anything I want after that.
For the actual ad, I'm just going to copy text I already have from my website, but I'm going to highlight the main points and get them interested in the product to drive them to my website. Below is sample of the website I'm promoting the ebook and will copy the text there into the US Free Ad.
Start by copying the text and images from your website and just paste that in your US Free Ad. Below is an example of my ad I placed. Remember make it short and sweet but also interesting so they want to learn more and click on the link to your website. Always make sure you put the search term in the top of your ad. Also highlight the term and click the drop down box where it says "Paragraph" and make it an "H1". This puts more emphasis on the keyword phrase so it increases its rankings for Google.
Put a picture of the product you are advertising.
Make sure you also put the keyword phrase as the last words in your ad as the footer. Most importantly put a link to your website in your ad so you get people to your site. You can put your link in as much as you want and I found once in the middle and at the end works great for me.
Once you are done with your ad, click on the "Continue" button at the bottom and you will see a preview of how your ad will look. If your ad preview appears wider than the arrows, then just click the "wide layout option" box at the bottom. This will determine the formatting US Free Ads will do to your ad to make sure the alignment looks okay.
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Finally, click on "Save Classified" and it will now be saved to the system, ready to be spidered by Google and ultimately get in the top 10 listings!
Now it's time for the exciting part as you've done all the hard work and you're ready to see your ad in the top of Google. My suggestion is to check every couple of days after you've placed the ad, to see if your ad is there yet. I've experienced my ad being listed at the top of Google in as little as 1 day and as long as 2-3 weeks, so it really just depends on many different factors. The average time you should expect to see your listing would be around 5 days.
It's very easy to check your results. Just go to google.com and type in the search phrase that you listed in your ad title. For example, I'm going to check on the volleyball ad example that I created in the last chapter. I'll first go to google and type in the search phrase: volleyball skill drill as shown below.
Notice that the first 4 listings are shown along with 4 paid listings or sponsored links to the right. The next screen shot below will show you the entire first page with all the listings.
As you can see, the example ad that I created made the top page in google out of 334,000 websites competing for that same keyword phrase! It took about 5 days to get in that spot. You can also see that there are 5 websites on the right hand side under the sponsored listings that are paying for that keyword phrase and every time someone clicks on their website link, they have to pay Google! You can get all the clicks you want for FREE!
Now I didn't get a number one spot in this example, but getting on the first page is still very valuable and will bring in lots of free traffic. Just look at the other websites above my ad though. Most of them don't even mention the keyword "volleyball skill drill" exactly except for my ad, so I'll more than likely get more clicks and visitors to my ad than the websites above me. That's not to say that my ad won't increase in ranking either. I've seen it where my ads have gotten a better position over time, so go ahead and monitor your own ads to check the ranking.
Next I'll click on the link in Google to make sure it takes me to my ad that eventually leads to my website to make sure everything looks okay and the links are working properly. (It's important to test and check your links to make sure they work because you could be sending a lot of traffic to dead links!)
As you can see the google listing lead me directly to my ad which is displaying properly. You can also notice that I've already had 31 views of my ad which is pretty good for only being listed in Google for a couple of days now. Keep an eye on your ad views to see how many people are clicking on your ad.
As I said earlier, click on the link in your ad to make sure it's working and directing people to your website or the site you are promoting. This is where you want to get the traffic of course. That's why it's very important to make your ad short (but not too short), sweet, and grab the visitors attention, so they ultimately click on the link in your ad. I've tested the link as shown below and it directs me to the website I want people to visit.
The above was just one example of one of the keyword phrases I wrote an ad for. You can repeat these steps by writing ads for a number of other keywords that relate to the website you are promoting. Furthermore, this was just one example of how this can be done for this particular website that is selling an ebook on how to get better at volleyball, but there are an unlimited possibilities of different types of websites you can post ads for and grab a top 10 listing in Google.
Just to show you one more example, I posted another ad for a different type of website the same day. This example is for a retail website selling a number of different products. Below is a sample of the website I am promoting as you can see there are hundreds of different products on this website, which is great, because that means there are hundreds of keywords or ads I can write and grab top listings in Google for many products I'm selling on the site!
After some testing as I did in the first example, I found a good product that I could write an ad for and try to grab a top 10 listing. It was for an oreck hand mixer. I found that 34 people were searching for that term last month, which may not seem like a lot, but if I've got hundreds of products on a website there's potentially hundreds of keywords and ads I can write on which can really ad up.
So I wrote another ad on US Free Ads, just copying the description and an image from the website I was promoting. Below is a screen shot of the first page of the Google listings for an "oreck hand mixer".
As you can see I got another top 10 listing in google, a number 6 spot to be exact! For this term, there's over 10 sponsored listings paying for a spot for that keyword! Again, I get all the clicks I want for FREE! Below is a screenshot of my ad when I clicked on the listing from Google.
I've already had 20 ad views with this only being listed in Google for a couple of days as well. One tip that I'll share on maximizing the chance that your visitors will click on your website link within your ad and stay on your website for more than one second, is to link the visitor directly to the description page of the oreck hand mixer. Many people will just write ads for a website like this and direct all their links to their home page. It might be okay for some visitors, but the majority of the time, many people don't want to waste their time searching for a product within your website if they are directly searching for an 'oreck hand mixer'. With my example, my link takes them directly to the description page for the oreck hand mixer which will increase my chance the visitor will stay on my site and buy the product. That's just a little tip for people that are selling a lot of products on their website.
Those are just two examples of two different types of websites I wrote ads for on US Free Ads to grab a top spot in Google that links to my website. As I said the possibilities are endless and you can do this with as many keywords that describes the website or items on your website that are within the competition guidelines I explained in an earlier chapter.
6. Getting More Listings in Google
This technique that I'm about to describe, is not required to do at this stage, but can be implemented after you are comfortable posting ads on US Free Ads. There are other sites that you can use these same techniques on to get your website in the top of Google to maximize your website exposure and traffic. Article and ezine sites are also heavily indexed by Google, so it's another way to get your website link listed in an article to be posted in the top of Google. By writing articles on a particular subject regarding your website, you are able to include a resource box, or information that you can advertise your website or business. Anyone that reads or uses your article has to include the resource box that will have a link to your website so you get more traffic writing articles. You may be thinking what kind of articles can you write? Well just think about any topic or subject about your website that you can inform someone on. It can be a lead into some more information to your website.
Some good article sites are:
This can take more time to write articles, but sometimes the article sites get indexed faster than US Free Ads. However, I would only encourage you to write articles after you have posted ads on US Free Ads since it's much easier to just copy and paste information than to write an entire article. Writing articles is for someone who wants to get maximum exposure and traffic to their website on several keyword phrases. So start with US Free Ads to begin learning the process, and then later down the road, maybe writing articles can get you more traffic.
I hope I've showed you how powerful this technique can be of grabbing a top listing in Google for free in just days! It's really amazing at how easy this is once you've posted your first couple of ads. You can keep repeating this technique for an unlimited amount of keyword phrases and websites. It works for any type of website. The best part is that it's also free to get your ad listed in Google unlike having to pay each time someone clicks on your ad for Google's sponsored listings.
If you haven't already, sign up for your US Free Ads account here. As I said earlier, if you're serious about getting a lot of traffic to your site, go ahead and sign up for the premium account. You can sign up for the free account, but that's really not going to do you any good as it only allows you to post two ads. Think about this for a minute. Is the $9.99 for the US Free Ads account worth unlimited FREE traffic to your website each month? How many clicks can you get to your website for $9.99 using pay per click advertising? Maybe 40 quality hits if you're lucky at 25 cents a click. That's just my suggestion, and I can tell you from personal experience its the best $9.99 per month that I invest in out of anything else for a huge return! Also with the premium account, you get to put in paypal buy now buttons, so you can actually sell products directly from your US Free Ads account and make money right from your ad without taking them to a website.
Just to summarize briefly on how to begin is to research your keyword phrases that you come up with for your website. Then test them out using the tools mentioned in the earlier chapter to decide if it's worth it to post an ad for. A very good keyword tool that I use to save me a lot of time is Ad Eqaulizer. It's worth checking out if you're going to post a lot of ads. Once you have your keyword phrases picked out, post your ads on US Free ads. Start monitoring your results by searching for the keyword phrase you posted an ad on in Google. You should do this every couple of days to see the progress. Remember don't get discouraged if your first couple of ads don't make it into Google. There can be several reasons for this including some that will never be determined. Just make sure you follow the steps in creating your ad as those are important for Google to index the keyword phrase you're posting an ad on.
A few final tips for getting a top ranking in Google:
So go ahead and get started and drive unlimited, free traffic to your website by grabbing a top listing in Google!
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