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I firmly believe ranking for 1-2 word industry showcase kw's is not worth the effort unless for ego sake ... Money and hence ROI is in hundreds of more obscure terms used by real people who wants your product/service ....
3&4# from 2.8 million
loads of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 from a million or so
1# from 65 000
The results from this one brings in 10-fold plus profits than others.
Of course when asked for "evidence of ability" from potential clients I give the "top results"
I have given up trying to explain "target key-terms"
Many see 2 million results and think page one must mean loads of dosh
Not true!
Talk about banging your head against a brick wall!
The one I'm proudest of is "countryname widgets", for which I rank #2. Only 217,000, but it's definitely where the money is. I'm also #1 for "countryname doodads", only 114,000 but lots of $$ there too.
My other site has better positioning for less-valuable, higher traffic terms. #1 of 532,000, and #2 of 175,000 are my highest traffic terms.
Doesn't qualify me as the champ, I know, but you asked.
the multilingual site is 5 out of 1,300,000 for the target two word phrase in English and for single keywords
Arabic: 1 of 167
Danish: 5 out of 35,800
German: 9 out of 173,000
Spanish: 1 out of 32,000
Finnish: 1 out of 3,790
French: 4 out of 486,000
Hungarian: 1 out of 4,840
Italian (new): 12 out of 60,500
Dutch: 2 out of 31,800
Portuguese: 6 out of 43,600
Russian: 2 out of 18,800
I don't have the originals handy with which to work out what are the keywords in Japanese and Chinese
how'd I do?
All on Page 1, positions # 2, 4 and 9. Same company.
Results 1 - 10 of about 45,400,000. Search took 0.05 seconds.
afganastani: a type of wool much used by cheap jersey manufacturers...notable for it's ability to lose its shape even without laundering
gehador: a Spanish bus conductor...the one who armed with a small knife stabs the passengers to drive them further into the bus to make way for the passengers being forced through the doors by the gitador
gehode: the electronic component in most household electronic devices that is set to destroy the effectiveness of the device three days after the guarantee runs out
rotflal: an Estonian pork and rice dish...traditionally cooked by placing under the hood of somebody else's car
proghs: traditional Irish itinerant tradesmen who used to travel from town to town buying and selling half bricks
prowhf: a traditional Arab garment made of chequered cotton and purely intended for selling to tourists
jtief: an onomatopeic word...briefly used in the 19th century for a sneeze made out of the window of a moving train
HTH
Of course, I can only speak for my own sites, whereas my clients receive my best work. I haven't submitted my primary business site in over a year, but Google still ranks me #1 for wholesale Internet service, reseller dial-up (no biggie there), and quite a lot of other pretty nice terms.
I try to list a few at vsix.org, but I don't give out my *secrets* there. ;-)
Heck, I never really look at what others are doing ... I just keep doing what I am doing. Maybe somebody can tell me how I am doing from an objective standpoint. For all I know, I may be the *Champ*.
Mark