How crush your competitors by doing nothing
It happens quite often with my niches. I do nothing, and yet, my sites rank #1 for many keywords. It doesn’t happen overnight, but I’ve seen it happen many times.
So what am I talking about here?
In some niches, you can win over your competitors just by staying in the market long enough. Internet marketers tend to come into a niche market and pack their stuff in a few months. If they don’t see the profit right away, they usually end up leaving their website half-developed. Those domains don’t get renewed and acquired by domain parking services.
When you feel like you have no chance of getting a slice of pie in your chosen niche market, sometimes, you can claim the whole pie just by waiting long enough. So hang in there…
August 27th, 2007
Written by Bo Bang
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Yeah, I know what ya mean… I had a niche blog that I spent 6 months on with no results so I gave up posting on it. Now another 6 months later it is getting 50 to 100 unique hits a day. I think I should knock the dust off of it and start posting again.
Posted on August 27th, 2007Bo, I agree, half of success is just showing up.
Your post made me think - it might be worthwhile to buy those old domains that are no longer being updated…
Posted on August 30th, 2007Waiting is definitely a winner.. I have a couple of sites that I started development on and haven’t touched for almost a year now that are now starting to bring in traffic.
Given the option, I would almost always choose to take up development on an old project rather than start something new, just for the benefit of working with something that already has “age” in its favor.
Keep up the good work Bo! :)
-Jonathan
Posted on August 30th, 2007Makes very much sense and I do agree, I really must start working on clickbank adwords combo, drop a word at my blog ;)
stumbled!
Posted on September 13th, 2007yes if you can find something that has been established it could save you the long time Google sandboxes you.
Posted on September 26th, 2007I am off to a good start, but it’s disheartening to see my traffic numbers. I just have to keep telling myself that I’ve done everything right, and I have to just keep the content coming, and it will happen.
Posted on October 13th, 2007I started my blog last September and I was pretty much amazed that I am getting some visitors from Google. I didn’t do any seo to it at all. I just keep on posting things which interests me. I don’t care whether there will be people interested to what I have to share. I am just being myself. So…. yes… you are right….Sometimes it will take time to get some visitors from SEs. So don’t give up.
Posted on November 4th, 2007To: lovehina
It is funny how your site is exactly what I was talking about on my today’s post. I hope I didn’t reveal something that could hurt your site in anyway.
See you around.
Posted on November 5th, 2007Great post. I have a website about betting exchanges and haven’t updated the site for many months. Anyway I logged into my Commission Junction account the other day and found £950 in there from this neglected website, which was a pleasant surprise :-)
Posted on November 19th, 2007it really happened to me when my blog just stay up to 1 years and see the traffic coming. the concerns here if i’m using blogger is ok due to free, but if hosting account, there has a cost for me.
Posted on December 28th, 2007I started a website a month ago. I have to say I have hardly had any visitors on it since I created it. Hopefully, waiting can do something for my traffic.
Posted on January 16th, 2008It’s funny how sometimes patience wins out in the end.
@ love hina: That’s my big marketing plan - write a blog about something that interests me and wait for people to come across my niche content. I’m glad to hear this can work! :)
Anybody have any advice on Internet marketing though? I’ve heard Brian T. Edmondson has some good insights, but not sure about others. Thanks
Posted on January 17th, 2008From my experience, I find that it takes 6 months to get anywhere on the major search engines (e.g. Google), so you have to be patient.
Posted on April 16th, 2008I launched my website about 3 months ago and it has done well in Yahoo, but is nowhere in Google.
Posted on April 25th, 2008I think that Google have in their algorithm a weighting for how long a website has been around, meaning that new websites automatically cannot be considered as important as older website. I don’t think that this is liniar, I think it’s done on a logarithmic scale, so after about 6 months you start to catch up quickly with the older websites.
Posted on June 11th, 2008I think we should all know that the older a website,with updated relevant content,is then the better it ranks in the search engines.
Hang on in there,keep your site updated and success will surely follow.
Posted on July 7th, 2008I bought a domain name on quite a competative subject. I have hadded it for over a year now and it is doing well in search engine rankings. It ranks on page 1 for many keywords. Hang in there and build your site with quailty material.
Posted on July 14th, 2008