How I got number one in google

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Jean-Luc

I'm a french blogger since 2010. I'm a financial coach since 2003, and a life coach since 2008 I travel around the world, and I like being happy and free :-) By the way I love commentluv

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Investing in French Real Estate for Foreigners - December 27, 2012
How I got Number 1 in Google - September 12, 2012

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I’m going to tell you how I got number one in Google…

I’ve started my first blog (www.devenir-rentier.info) in november 2010…

At that time i didn’t know anything about seo.
I’ve started my first blog with blogger…
I’ve been writing 1 post every day, and google was helping me ranking naturally (I believe that google ranks blogger blogs better… not surprising)
After a year I’ve started to study seo, especially after reading Pat Flynn blog post about a backlinking strategy that works.
Then came Article Samurai with a great series of videos, and I’ve decided to give it a try, because I wanted to rank for a specific keyword (Scpi).

I will tell you the results later in this post…

In june 2011 I’ve created another blog (www.etreheureux.fr) about how to be happy in this crazy world

I wanted to rank fast, but I didn’t want to use any miracle tool.
So I’ve used Market Samurai to spy on other blogs backlinks, and I’ve started commenting high PR blogs…
I had installed commentluv plugin, and I had seen that there was no French Translation, I’ve decided to go for it, and I’m glad I did, my name is now probably on your dashboard , but not on the commentluv wordpress page though (it is now! -admin)
I did that for a few months, I’ve been even commenting the Redcross blog!
My position in the Serp was going up slowly but steadily..
But commenting is time consuming, and the results were slow, so after a while I just stopped…

Then I’ve decided to purchase Article Samurai on Dec 9th 2011, which allows you to spin article and syndicate it in the Unique Article Wizard blog networks.

I’ve used it mostly for my first blog (www.devenir-rentier.info), and I had quick and great results!
Wow, I was impressed, I got on first page of google for 3 money keywords (scpi, devenir riche and devenir rentier) after a few weeks

and a few spun articles…

My traffic was increasing… until … Penguin update!

On April 24th 2012, my rankings started to drop badly for my main keywords…
2 keywords just disappeared form the Serp
The 3rd one dropped, and is now doing the google dance
Long tail keywords though were not hit.
Only the pages where I had done intensive backlinking were hit

positions for “devenir rentier”

On the other side, for my 2nd blog (www.etreheureux.fr), well nothing happened…

Trafic decreased just a little because some of it is coming from my 1st blog, but for the Serp nothing changed.
I was number 2 or 3 for the “etre heureux” keyword and it was fine!
And on July 16th 2012, I was number 1!
As of today (Aug 18th 2012), I’m first on Google, Bing and Yahoo
It’s not a high traffic keyword, but still it’s nice to be number one:-)

positions for “etre heureux”

Conclusion

I’m not an Seo expert, and Etre Heureux is not a competitive keyword…
Besides I have an exact domain match, and I got lucky because the domain name was created in 2007, and I purchased it in 2011.
But for one blog I did some spinning and backlinking through Article Samurai and UAW, and I was badly hit by the Penguin
For the other blog I’ve been commenting consistently and it seems that Google doesn’t mind…
Now I’m applying the same strategy for all my blogs, we’ll see the results in a few months…

That was my little story, tell me what is yours about seo. Where you hit by penguin? Did commenting increase your Serp?