William Charlwood

41 minutes ago I wrote a post about GadgetSpots.

I checked Google 6 minutes later and saw I was on first page – so, in an infinite loopy kind of way – I wrote another post about ranking on the first page in 7 minutes (because it took me a minute to prepare a screen dump).

I posted that – and looked again a bit later on. Now I’m ranking 4th with my first post and 5th with my second post. This is my last post of today but I can’t help wondering what my rank will be tomorrow for GadgetSpots.

btw, in case you’re wondering why this is useful, just imagine a new product launch that everyone is going mad about. If you can rank on the first page of Google superfast, all you need to do is get yourself an affiliate link and write a post and away you go.

One of the factors in my favour is the fact the GadgetSpots are new and so there are not many web pages written about them – yet. But that is the usual situation for most new product launches.

As part of my testing of SEO I wrote a post a few minutes back about GadgetSpots. I uploaded it and forgot about it for 6 minutes and then did a search at which point I was surprised to see my blog on the first page of Google – just 6 minutes later.

Ok, so why call this post “First page of Google in 7 minutes”?

Because it took me a minute to do another one to check and then get a screen dump which is shown below.

Was it on the first page in 5 minutes? Who cares! 6 or 7 minutes is good enough for me.

btw, to see this image in detail place your cursor over it and right click then select View Image. Finally, hover over the image and click it to magnify to full size.

GadgetSpots are a new type of traffic exchanging advertising. You sign up (free-ish) and you can get your ads on loads of sites. In return you agree to display a GadgetSpots ad on your own site.

At the time of writing I’ve put one on this blog.

A few thoughts: there are 2 levels of GadgetSpots membership. The free one shares out 25% of impressions. If you pay a monthly subscription you get 75% of impressions. But that’s where it all gets a bit confusing. On the GadgetSpots website the numbers don’t add up. I do think the system will deliver traffic and if it grows then paying for a small monthly subscription will make sense especially since you control the wording of your ad in the GadgetSpots widget that goes on other people’s sites.

Like all these things, you do need to write the copy of your ad carefully in order to get as many clicks as possible. Do that though, and you’ll benefit from free targeted traffic easily. If that works out for you, buy the upgrade to triple your traffic.

Ok, so that’s GadgetSpots. Here’s the issue I’m thinking about though.

It seems highly likely to me that this blog will very shortly rank very high for the word GadgetSpots on the basis of recent results. So in order to capitalise on this should I write a post now when GadgetSpots are fairly new?

Or should I postpone writing for a few weeks when knowledge of the system will be much wider spread – and so will search volumes?

It’s a difficult one: it’s good to rank first but only if people are actually searching for the keyword you rank first for. To maximise the value of a top position on Google etc. you need big volume searches AND the ability to convert those searches either directly or indirectly into dosh.