How I hit #1 in Google in 7 days

Alright I promised I would come back to this in my original review of Article Post Robot. Article submission was something I had tried in the past but I had always done so by hand submitting to 2 or 3 of the larger portals. In my test during February I was pleasantly surprised how easily I nailed #1 positions across Google, Yahoo, and MSN for some well searched terms. And in 7 days no less. In this article I aim to explain exactly how I pull this off.

I noticed a few days ago I was #1 for movabletype seo and predicting pagerank across Google and MSN. Yahoo seems to not like me so much but I am always on the main page. Another massive benefit in Google that you will see down the road, due to link age considerations, is a massive amount of backlinks to your website or articles. Also I found my article republished, links intact, on several same themed blogs and sites. Yummy.

Movabletype seo on Google #1
Movabletype seo on MSN #1
Movabletype seo on Yahoo #7 (boooo!)

Keep in mind this article was only published on February 26th - so these rakings were achieved in about 7 days. In fact if you search for any of the article titles in my side bar you will find most of them in the top 10 across all search engines.

Now before any SEM people jump on me for helping to create an army of article site submission spammers, let me explain a bit. This will NOT work for you if you provide crappy, spammy, or just pain lame and useless content. I spend anywhere from 3-8 hours writing a quality article I intend to submit. If you have nothing new, fresh or insightful to write about, put your pen down until you do.

So here is exactly how I did it:

- I wrote a solid 500-800 word paper on an emerging or current technology.
- I mention my keywords 2-3 times in my article in a natural non spammy way.
- I used my keywords in my title.
- I followed basic SEO principles for page layout: meta, file name, H1 tags etc.
- I triple checked my spelling and never used foul laguage.
- I generously provide links to sites of interest woven within my article.
- I submitted my article to Digg (see: Movable Type Digg Link)
- I submitted to the top 50 article submission sites with Article Post Robot.

Your tools may vary but article submission remains powerful SEM kung fu when used ethically and properly.