Steve Fortuna

Well that didn’t take long.  It was four days since I launched this site, and google pushed me up to #1 for the keyword: Steve Fortuna. It really wasn’t very hard at all.  I purchased this domain September of 2008, and had a simple ‘coming soon…’ page up.  I just had to convince Google to crawl the page again, and that the content was relevant.

Being that I had the domain that fully matched the search term I was targeting, it was pretty easy.  That’s always a major consideration when deciding what domain to purchase.  Trying to throw at least one keyword you’re trying to target in the domain is always helpful.  It’s not required, of course, but helps quite a bit.  stevefortuna.com ranked #1 for the keyword ‘Steve fortuna’ very easily.   A couple links in with the anchor text ‘steve fortuna’ was all that was needed.

Deciding whether you want to go with a keyword domain or a brandable domain is just simply a matter of your goals.  If you’re looking for quick ranking for low competition keywords, a keyword domain would be key.  But if you’re going take the time to build a brand, go with a domain you like – something brandable.  Two examples of these are of course, stevefortuna.com, with intended target for: steve fortuna, and then hubits.com, with intended target: free arcade games.

Sulumits Retsambew is the target keyword for a new search engine optimization contest hosted by NetBuilders.org.  For those that aren’t familiar with SEO contests, it’s essential a competition to outrank others in Google, or any other search engine depending on the specific contest.

The term sulumits retsambew written backwards is webmaster stimulus.  This is NetBuilders way of running a “stimulus package” for webmasters.  The contest started March 15th, and runs through August 15th.  Which is quite a while for a SEO contest.  But also a good way to judge the effects of SEO over time.  Will blackhat methods win, or will pure whitehat SEO come out on top?  Only time will tell.

The prizes for the contest are as follows: $1000 for first, $500 for second, and $250 for third.  $1000 is a nice payout and would be nice to grab for anyone.

Currently my entry in the sulumits retsambew contest is WebmasterStimulus.org.  All the exact keyword domains were taken by the time I got started.  I’m hoping all the mention of the term webmaster stimulus on all the sulumits retsambew sites will convince google that they are related, and in turn give the WebmasterStimulus.org domain a lot of weight based on the keywords in the domain.  This may already be the case as I’m currently in second position.

I am relatively new in the SEO world.  I midly got interested in it about six months ago, but really didn’t make any progress or really understand what I was doing until a few months ago.  It will be interested to see how my skills will stand up against the experts.

I found what I consider a real nice template for the site WebmasterStimulus.org, and decided to use it on this blog as well.  I’m sure you have by now noticed the similarities.