Share Your Success Stories!
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Sometimes, its nice to get a pat on the back, and it's always helpful to share tactics that work!
The question is this: what's your biggest success story? Care to share any pictures or stories on how you got to the top? What do you attribute your success to?
Here's one of our success stories - one of our clients wanted to be on the first page for the keyword "Morse Code." We never thought we'd be able to get them on the top of such a competitive keyword, but alas! We never gave up.
Since this is a hobby website and not a website generating a huge amount of cash, it was easier to get incoming links from other people who were interested in the topic.
I'd say we'd attribute our success to having great content and getting others to write blog posts and join in on the fun.
What's your success story and how did you do it?
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I would say my success story is hitting page 1 google.co.uk for a big keyword in my industry in less than 4 weeks for a 60% difficulty keyword with a website less than 2 months old
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