MySpace layouts lessons learned

Those of you who have been following this fiasco soap opera have realized several things.

For you others here are a few things to think on.

1. This site does not have a slew of backlinks.
2. The two articles in discussion are about a topic I’ve never written about before.
3. The traffic that is coming is real. Real searchers looking for info or products with the search terms that lead them to that post. (damn shame I don’t have anything for them)
4. I have lost count of the number of first page listings there are for that blog story. It’s a bunch.

If the post here were on a black hat page, it would be classed as highly keyword stuffed. Maybe a better term would be keyword blasted. Something like 2400 items with two common phrases. Myspace and layouts.

Google, in it’s infinite wisdom, saw all those juicy keywords. There they were, all in a row. Surrounded by other words and phrases that are very similar. “YeeHaw. Passed the LSI filter. Let’s index that page right up there at the top.”

Your takeaway? If this had been your blackhat affiliate site, you could have cloaked and redirected that traffic to a pay site.

Even if you don’t have a ton of backlinks, even if you can’t write good sales copy, you can get top listings in Google. All it takes is for googlebot to come by and scoop up massive amounts of keywords within the same genre.

Remember back in SEO SEM for new blackhats I wrote this:

What you may not know is that some of the advice out there is dead wrong. You may see this advice often: “Never try to optimize your page for more than two or three keywords. It just won’t work and the engines will not be able to place the page correctly”.

(Your gonna love this………) I told you so.

~dink