I posted an article recently on how a spoof website I set up temporarily grabbed 3217 email addresses in a matter of weeks.

I was testing out a new system that claims it can seduce the spiders to visit any website, and in the process of my experiment, the following also happened.

1. The site had an Alexa ranking of 198.

2. It had captured the No.1 Spot for the core keyword phrase on Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Lycos and Ask Jeeves.

3. My hosting service traffic stats reported 18,945 visitors.

So far so good on a spoof but was it a fluke?

There was only one way to find out and that was to assess the effectiveness of the technique in a real measurable marketing scenario.

Enthused by the results of the spoof I then applied the system to two of my real websites and you can check out for yourself what happened this time

o Go to bt.yahoo.com and enter ‘how to products’ in the search box and you should find that http://howtoproducts-xl.com

o Go to Google.com and enter ‘writing for profit’ in the search box and you should find that http://www.writing-for-profit.com ranks at No.1 out of 44,900,000 competitive pages – as it did on October 20th 2005.

There was no fluke this time…

Both of the websites I tested out are well established and have always enjoyed high rankings in the major search engines but to achieve No.1 on Yahoo! out of 1 billion, 850 million pages is off-the-wall positioning.

I’ve decided now on the basis of this quantifiable evidence of its efficiency to inject the system into all 21 of my websites – and I’ll let you know how I go...

Jim Green is an entrepreneur and bestselling author with an ever-growing string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit. You can view the system he was testing out at this website http://websiteoptimization.howtoproducts-xl.com

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