Show keyword ranking on a web page automagically

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Whilst doing some preparation for my local SEO Rank renting project, I decided if I’m going to try to rent out the pages, it would be nice if potential “tenants” could see just by looking at the page, where it ranked for the keyword it was targeting (without me having to manually update the stats all the time).

Then it occurred to me that this sort of tool might have all sorts of other applications, as part of bigger projects.

So anyhoo, I knocked up this little script, all you need to do is edit the $keyword variable at the top of the script, then paste it in your web page where you’d like the ranking info to show.

You can see this script in action here, on the right hand side of the screen.

When I get the chance, I’ll update the script to allow you to check the ranking for multiple keywords on a single page.

So here it is: have fun!

<?

//Enter Your Keyword Here!

$keyword = “Whatever Keyword You Are Targeting For The Page“;

$search = strtolower($keyword);

$search = str_replace(” “, “+”, $search);

//Get the current URL so we can compare it to the search results

$url = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
//Do the google search thing, get the top 100 results for our keyphrase

$data = file_get_contents(’http://www.google.com/search?q=’ .$search. ‘&num=100′ );

$description= (’/<div class=g><h2 class=r><a href=\”(.+?)\” class=l/’);

preg_match_all($description,$data,$match);
echo ‘Google keyword rankings for this page<br>’;

//start counting, and work out what our ranking is

$count = 0;

foreach($match[1] as $value){

$count = $count+1;

//get the ranking and print to screen

if (stristr($value, $url)) {

echo $keyword. ‘: <a href=”http://www.google.com/search?q=’ .$keyword. ‘&num=100″>’ .$count. ‘</a>’;

}

}

?>

That is all!

SEO Rank Flipping for fun and profit

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So my sister works at this fish shop. Not a place you buy fish to eat, but tropical fish and tanks and all that sort of guff (well, I suppose you could eat the fish, but it would make for an expensive and potentially deadly meal).

She brought up the subject of their website with me the other night, and how it sucked and they never get any traffic to it. She’s been telling her boss for ages that her brother “does stuff with internet pages and stuff”, but he’s been reluctant to bite, which is fine by me, as I already have heaps of work on at the moment anyway.

I left her place after our chat, and started thinking. Thinking about how businesses like the one she is employed by often don’t understand how having a crap website can cost them potential sales. I’m not talking here about people who come to their site, see that it’s a steaming pile of dog poo and leave, I’m talking about having a website that no-one can find anyway.

For example, the site I’m talking about here has these problems:

• Javascript menu navigation
• Doesn’t mention the city that they are situated in, except in their contact page
• Has the businesses name as the page title with no keywords in it
• Has image text instead of H1, H2 etc for subheadings
• No alt tags for images
• etc. etc.

So after looking at their site, I fired up the Pimp’s Keyword Competition Analzer, and had a look at the competition for the term “location tropical fish” (location being the city we live in)

Well what do you know? It’s a term I reckon I could grab the number one ranking for with about ten minutes work.

None of the ranking sites had the keyword in the page title, they all had very few backlinks, the copy was poorly optimized, and the general on page SEO was poor.

So off I went, bought a keyword rich domain name, picked out a nice free template, swapped out a couple of images, spent about five minutes writing some keyword rich copy, and FTP’d the whole thing to my server.

The whole thing took me around ten minutes.

All there is left for me now is to develop some backlinks. All up, I reckon I’ll get away with less than an hours work.

So what’s my dastardly plan?

Simple, grab the number one ranking, then sell the domain.

Maybe even offer to build out the site to suit the new owners (at the going rate, of course).

This whole thing has got me thinking about the possibilities of location based SEO targeting. I wonder if I grabbed the yellow pages, sat down with my keyword competition analyzer, and spent an afternoon assessing the competition for different businesses. At the worst it will cost me $10 for a domain name if I can’t sell it, and even then, there’s always the opportunity to set them up as affiliate sites.

What do you think? How well do you think something like this might work?

Gimme some room to write comments

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I’ve been having an interesting conversation over the last couple of days with Will the Internet Marketing Fool about the merits of PLR (Private Label Rights) articles.

The conversation is an interesting one, which has led to some quite lengthy replies. The problem I’m having trying to post my Tolkein-esque diatribes, is that the comment box on his blog (and virtually every other blog I read) is just too damned small to write a comment of any depth without having to scroll up and down continuously.

So here’s a thought, go delve into the innards of your Wordpress (or whatever platform you use) code, and make a bigger comment box.

I know I have!

Splogger Experiment update

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I think it’s time for an update on the splogger experiment.

For those of you who are unaware, I’m trying an experiment to see if by posting a shitload of popular keywords in a blog post, I can have the sploggers pick up my post, and trackback the post, thus giving me a free link.

In my last post, I posted a list of 5,000 popular keywords, figuring I might as well ramp up the testing.

So far, the post has gathered 28 trackbacks, according to Wordpress. According to the emails I’ve received, the number is closer to 64, and 17 of them are showing up in technorati.

One interesting thing I’ve noticed is that my technorati rank has dropped from somewhere around 130,000 to around 72,000 today. My technorati authority has also increased from around 70 to 93.

Interesting….

Never, ever, try to stop me listening to my Springsteen

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Here’s why:

A WOMAN stabbed her de facto husband to death after he stopped her playing her favourite Bruce Springsteen CD.

Karen Lee Cooper told arresting police: “I couldn’t even play Bruce Springsteen on my stereo - can you believe that? Can you believe that?”

She later again told police: “I mean, who doesn’t like Bruce Springsteen?”

“I’m 49 years old and I want to play my own music.”

In the Supreme Courty in Brisbane today, Cooper, now 50, was jailed for eight years.

She pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Kevin Lee Watson on July 8, 2006.

She was originally charged with murder but the Crown accepted a manslaughter plea on the basis she had no intention to kill.

The court heard Cooper stabbed Watson through the aorta after they had been drinking at their Cedar Grove home, south of Brisbane.