From Apparent Failure to SUCCESS!

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Today, I thought I would write a post which is particularly relevant to all those folks who regularly read my blog but rarely if ever comment. That’s fine – I know we are not all the commenting “type”. Apparently, the average amount of comments received by a blog is only 1% of total traffic. Fortunately, this blog is quite a bit above that.

Anyhow, I received a brief email today from a gentleman who sometimes writes me to check that he’s on the right tracks. As you know, I do try to answer almost every single email I get – other than those great long book-like emails which I’m sorry to say I simply don’t manage to get around to making a reply to.

Here is the email I received this morning. The gents name I will leave out for reasons of privacy…

Email title: Awesome “THANK YOU”. (I actually thought it was spam, LOL!).

Hi there, Joseph.

Just wanted to thank you for your great work. You’ve inspired me and your blog posts and you answering my e-mails kept me going and I just realized that during last week I’ve made three sales of a product I’ve been affiliating. That’s an awesome feeling, to see that after a few months of work (4, actually) I actually have achieved something.

So thank you so much and please do keep up this great work you’re doing.

Cheers!

Now, in no way am I banging on my own drum and saying just how wonderful I am. Well, okay, I know I’m a top notch bloke/dude – I have to accept the truth after all

The point being that when I receive emails such as these, it makes my blog post writing all the more worthwhile. So please – everyone – do feel at liberty to flood my inbox with emails of praise because now and again an ego boost is just what the doctor ordered!

I want to say in return – thanks to everyone who reads my blog, regardless you choose not to comment! Comments are great and I love the interaction, but if you choose not to comment, then that’s cool too.

Blogging can be hard work, which is why I choose to only write a post when I’ve got something worthy to say – I shy away from hard work these days and much of what I do comes merely from inspiration, which makes life more of a joy!

 

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On another note…

and in case you were not aware – and most of you probably are not… You may remember the Google project I started back in mid October whereby I set out to rank a very high level search term in Google’s top ten within a matter of a few months.

Just as a quick reminder – the main keyword phrase I chose receives 450,000 searches in Google each month on a Global basis (that’s exact searches, not broad or phrase searches).

You may also remember that after about 7 weeks, Google dumped some of my webpages from the rankings and I thought that was game over.

However, within a further 3 weeks, those webpages came back up in the rankings, so I decided to pick up the pieces behind the scenes and try to persevere with it.

Yesterday, I finally managed to crack top ten with the high end search term, although it is currently dancing around a little and sits back in 12th spot right now – as far as I can see, anyhow. This is in Google US according to the Goog Adwords Keyword Tool. Its actually ranking top ten in Canada and the UK I think, and probably a few other countries besides.

In all, its taken just less than 3 and a half months to gain this top ten ranking in Goog, for what is obviously a very competitive term indeed. (I did originally research the keyword phrase and I saw some weakness in the top ten, hence my reason for choosing it in the first place – keyword research is, erm… key!)

Thus, as you can see from my own work, its actually very possible to rank a very high end kwd phrase in Google by dumping a whole ton of backlinks on your webpage from the very beginning, even if some of your webpages do get penalized by the almighty Google.

Besides the high end term, I’ve also gained a whole gamut of top ten long tail rankings for the site, even though there are no more than about 18 pages of content on the domain.

Plus, one of my secondary terms with over 18k search is now sitting pretty in the top ten also, with another new term which receives 110,000 searches a month in Google placed in the high 20′s. I only began to focus on that particular term about 2 weeks ago. Previously, it was resting just outside the top 100.

I think one of the main messages here is this – don’t always presume that what you read about ranking in Google is actually true. Don’t be afraid to do your own experiments.

As you know, I’m the guy who does just this. I don’t take Google at “face value”, I do make a big effort to do my own trials, many of which I share with you on this blog. I don’t like sticking with run of the mill.

If some guru comes to me and tells me “Joseph, that does not work…” – I’m the guy who may well try to find a way to make it work. I don’t particularly like the word “CAN’T“.

 

Truth be told, very many of my projects fail. But some are very successful, such as this one. I don’t shy from failure.

You hear fairly regularly about scientists who failed time and time again at their projects, but finally – and regardless that everyone else is saying that they can’t – they do make a big break through and that break through brings them fame and fortune.

Well, although gaining Google rankings may not bring us fame, they can indeed bring us fortune and a great lifestyle to boot.

Thus I say to you – do not be afraid to do your own trials. Don’t shy from failure. Build up your knowledge base as to how others gain rankings and/or make money online, and then build on that knowledge by doing your own trials.

And don’t be afraid of failure. Failure is GOOD! Failure brings us a step closer to success, and success may be just around the next corner for you.

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