coolest guy on the planet

Ok, that was a little shocking for a headline but it got you here after all. I best explain.

"Google Top Ten Rankings" is a recent article by legendary copywriter Marlon Sanders of Design Dashboard fame among other things. I thought it would be fun to hijack a little SEO space for this headline "Sales Letters Cold Calls" since people will be searching for it after the article was published. He makes out the information is shocking and has never been heard before. Hmmm.

Marlon must have been reading the coolest guy on the planet as he has theorized some of the same techniques I have been using right here. He is honest about not being an SEO guy and makes the point that it is not really that hard. So far so good.

Marlon then outlines his SEO blueprint and it is quite a good one.

1. Keyword research
2. Search your topic
3. Search your keyword in quotes
4. Find a phrase with few search results
   
5. Build several web 2.0 sites with same title (I have mentioned all of these and more in prior posts on the coolest guy on the planet blog right here).
6. Digg your post
7. Submit to Propeller and Blog (ping at Pingoat)
8. Twitter your URL - (he theorizes this one)
9. Confirm your top listing after one hour!
10. Add fresh content
    
11. Use onlywire to bookmark the future posts
12. Add video (using URL in video at youtube).

Marlon then discusses avoiding your own websites and then asks SEO people why some of his sites are not in the serps.

My take on the advice is this: Vary the Title Tag a little - if you have too many of the same tags it looks contrived and unnatural. Perhaps that is why some of Marlons properties have been rejected by G**gle. I also do not entirely agree with point ten - it is possible to have a static page stay high in the results - I have proven this in many niches.

The rest of it is all great stuff. There are of course a few other things to do such as link from a forum and articles etc..

If you wish to learn SEO (search engine marketing) I will be starting a course on that soon at SuperFastSEO

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Labels: "sales letters cold calls", marlon sanders, sem, seo