Comments on: How to Compete with Yourself in the Search Engines and Win

By: New Balance

New Balance — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 05:47:28 +0000

Search engine is undoubteda owerful toll in nawdays.

By: Toan

Toan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:40:14 +0000

Brilliant! The moment you stop on SEO the next thing you see is a competitor on your back.

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:46:06 +0000

Thanks everyone. I have neglected my post here a bit. Sorry about that. To answer Kpilist, we have all of our sites using the same account for Google Analytics, but different ones for Google Base since each Google Base account has to have a different domain. So another tip with your niche sites, create a Google Base account for each one and use it. With 2 sites and a Google Base account for each, you have the potential of getting 7 links per query. We have some of those sets of 7 links on the first page, which really drives out competitors.

By: Dejan Petrovic

Dejan Petrovic — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:45:48 +0000

Now, I can see a lot of people getting excited and jumping a few steps here. Perhaps we should all sit and consider – where do I fit in the scheme ofthings before taking the next action.

By: Darryl Taylor

Darryl Taylor — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:20:48 +0000

Superb read, I’m going to refer back to this a few more times as I think it’s absolute gold. Can’t really implement this with my current projects but I love the idea of microsites and I may test the water with one or two soon. Will be looking out for more of your articles in future and going over your past ones too, cheers Stephan!

By: Mike Haydon

Mike Haydon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:14:26 +0000

This article is worth a couple of reads. Very powerful stuff here. I remember asking one of my mentors a ranking question and it was a turning point in my thinking when he simply said “compete against yourself”. It changed everything. I love how you’ve fleshed out the concept.

By: Cindy Hiday

Cindy Hiday — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:34:18 +0000

I heard about this at a Willamette Writers Conference a couple of years ago but it didn’t really sink in until now. The workshop speaker had published several books, each of which had its own website that linked to a hub site. Why not do the same thing with non-book products? Duh. Thanks for the tip!

By: Kpilist Manager

Kpilist Manager — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:41:30 +0000

Building out or siloing your offers is a great practice to follow. In your opinion, do you think you should vary your design from WP to Blooger to say Joomla or Drupal? And also, what is your opinion of keeping all of your Analytics on a single profile? Does that build credibility say with GA or should you try to keep all of your properties on separate Hosts and accounts to keep the network more or less hidden from the watchful eye…? Finally in the same vein linking all of your properties through either your main company or up to each one of them if all of your niche sites are unrelated, should this be avaided?

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:08:59 +0000

I like the aspect of niche sites not being overwhelming to the visitor’s ability to find what they’re looking for. And since a niche site has a fraction of the keyword phrases to focus on, each page is more closely related to every other page, so there’s huge SEO value in tapping that…

By: John Lincoln

John Lincoln — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:13:54 +0000

I think this is great advice, and a realistic approach to the way the industry is headed. Niche sites can be very effective and giving a new niche site link weight from an established site is great practice. Thanks for the good read.