So at first I was going have a list of competitive national search terms that we’ve got #1 for, or at least top 3 for over the years but then I thought perhaps this wasn’t such a great idea for various reasons. One reason it’s not a great idea is because lots of the awesome ranks we’ve held, I no longer hold. For example, we did SEO for JWP Inc. and at one time JWP had first page for EVERY keyword in the niche, I’m talking “cabinets” “custom cabinets” “kitchen cabinets” “painted cabinets” “wall units” so on and so on. It actually still holds some of the less competitive ranks, even after almost two years of not working on it at all. You can see a few here: #9 for “custom cabinets”, #5 for “custom wall units”. All the really competitive terms like “cabinets” they have lost rank for because of the lack of recent activity, you can see “cabinets” is #15 which really isn’t bad considering the term and the competition and the fact it’s been almost two years since we’ve worked on it.

I also enjoy doing something I call “flooding the SERPs” where I flood the search results of mid and lower level search terms with my own stuff. I can’t post examples here because I’m not exactly sure how Google would feel about it. Basically you take a search term that’s not too terribly competitive, you know something with less than 5 or 10 million results, and you completely flood it with your own stuff from youtube, social media sites, video sites, blogs, or anything else that you can rank. I don’t know if this should be considered grey hat or not, technically I’m doing nothing wrong, I’m simply SEOing my content pages on sites that I don’t own.

Basically, if you’re willing to spend the money we can almost certainly take #1, or at least top 3 for sure.