There’s competition for every phrase. These tips work well for on-page SEO purposes.

Search ranking algorithms also factor in things like site rank, trust rank, incoming link text, overall site topic, keywords in URL, keywords in site name, and a hundred other factors.

The more competitive the term, the more of the ranking factors you have to have working for you.

You’d have a real hard time getting a page (or a blog post) on a site about real estate to rank well for a keyword phrase like “buy new car” or “maria sharapova”.

However, what you can do with these on-page SEO techniques is some buzz marketing. They will work extremely well for hot topics in your niche and fairly well for things that are in the news.

I can show you sites that I own that rank above the fold for multiple highly competitive keywords, including the super difficult “single word” versions. In those instances, it’s all about how many authority links you have from on-topic sites using that exact anchor text.

Nothing else will get the job done better than thousands and thousands of these links. That’s how you rank for highly competitive phrases.

Anybody can rank well for stupid phrases where there’s little or no competition.

Show me one post where you rank well for something competitive!

This post ranks #3 and #6 on Google for buzz marketing video… (without quotes around the phrase)

The Digg reference post is #3 and the actual video itself on AOL is #6.

If you use quotes around “buzz marketing video”, the Digg refernce is #1 and the blog itself is #5, so yeah these SEO strategies really do work…

Of course, comments add more text, so the search rankings may change soon, but then again they always do…

I’m not saying I can get top 10 in Google with blog posts anytime I want. It depends on other factors beyond on-page SEO, primarily link juice (PR) and how competitive the keywords are.

However, this does work very well. 3 out of 4 test posts I’ve done on these buzz topics landed in Google top 10 within an hour and one of them debuted at #1 in Google.

When you’re doing blog posts, they tend to slide in the rankings over time if you don’t have high PageRank on your site, but they’re still in the top 10.

I just started promoting this site by starting blogging about a month ago, hence we’re on post #36. It doesn’t have much in the way of PR at all (it’s a PR2 or so), but it’s getting lots of traffic and newsletter signups.

I’m creating a series of videos showing different techniques to get traffic, even if your website or blog doesn’t have much going on to begin with.

Some will cover on page SEO, some will cover linking strategies, others will cover social bookmarking, etc.

The fun part is they’ll be about real sites and you’ll be able to see what works in the real world.

Hope this helps!

I had no idea you could make a blog post and have it show up in the first page of Google’s results within an hour after posting.

As a matter of fact, I can’t recall ever seeing anyone else actually demonstrating instant SEO results like that.

Are you saying you can get top 10 rankings in Google like that anytime you want?