I have been posting my progress and the actual process of getting my website to the top of google for a given search term.  The examples that I was using was “real estate country” and “agents online.” 

Well, to bring you up to speed, I registered the URL’s, optimized the sites for the given keyword, got about 50 backlinks to the site from commenting on blogs and posting squidoo and tumblr pages.  I gave up on real estate country a few weeks ago because it was not moving.  However, I forgot the one variable that you can’t skirt with the search engines; the age of the site. 

It is important for google and even more important for bing.  Anyway, I think the lesson is complete.  When you search “real estate country” on google (no quotes)  the realestatecountry.net listing lead for REALTORs site is the second entry returned.  If you search for “agents online” in quotes, the agentonline.org fsbo lead for REALTORS site is the third entry; it is number eleven if you don’t use quotes.

So what is the moral to this process?  To get your site to the top of the search engines for a given, non-competitive keyword,

                Register the url with that keyword

                Optimize your site for that given term, or create a microsite that is optimized

                Use squidoo, blogger, blog comments, and tumblr to get a fair number of backlinks

And that’s it.  As long as the sites on the first page of google for your target term don’t have an overwhelming number of backlinks, your site will gradually percolate up to the top.  For some of my sites it took five days, for others it has taken two months.  Regardless, the traffic that you get from the premium position is worth the investment in time.