I'm not kidding.

A few short weeks ago (about 7 or 8 – so that's just about 2 months), I decided to go for the highly competitive search term "internet business" for this blog.

This isn't an easy term to crack, in fact I just checked and there are 19,400,000 competing pages indexed on Google.com.  So I knew it was going to be an uphill struggle just to even get recognised for the term at all.

I knew that I couldn't just put up a Squidoo lens or Hub Page and get ranked for the term "internet business" quickly.  People have tried, and it's just too difficult.

When I started, I'd hardly been posting on my blog at all, maybe a couple of times a month, so it was hardly in any kind of state to even start competing for that term.  I checked both Google.com and Google.co.uk to see where my position was for "internet business".

I was nowhere.

Well actually, I got to page 30 on both of them and gave up.  Most people won't go past page 2 anyway when doing a casual search, so being lower than page 30 meant no-one was going to find me.

But I thought "what the heck, give it 3 months and see what happens".

So I started blogging every day if I possibly could and also I used the search term whenever I could, but it turned out to be about 20 times a month, in fact this month so far, I've only posted 4 times, with the latest one being this Saturday just gone.

I've been checking every couple of weeks to see if there was any sign of my blog appearing within the first 30 pages, and last night just before I went to bed I did another check.

Bingo!

Out of nowhere from two weeks ago, I found I was on page 12 of Google.com and page 20 on Google.co.uk.

Update: I just checked them both again, and I've moved up a whole page overnight on Google.co.uk to page 19.

You might appreciate this is a pretty exciting result for me, and well worth even the few hours I've spent on it so far.

But enough about me, you should be very excited about this too, because you can repeat what I've done with your own search term.

I've been treating this whole thing like a hobby, and I wasn't expecting to get this kind of result so quickly.  And now that I can see how quickly things can change it's given me a real incentive to now treat this very seriously, and come out of hobby mode and into full business mode.

Okay, here comes the real interesting thing for you, as I know that this is what you're after.

I know that using the methods I've opted for, that this isn't just a flash in the pan.  And also that I won't get penalised at a later date for using some dubious but temporary method of getting there.

So how have I done it?  How could I go from nothing to being not so very far from page 1 in just 2 short months?

Wait for it…

If you want the answer to that, I'll tell you on Friday in a password protected post.

That's right, only if you're a subscriber to this blog will you get this free (and very valuable) information, and only if you're already subscribed before Friday.  I won't be issuing the password after I've made the post.

If this doesn't interest you, then do nothing.

That's what 98% of people reading this will do.

Instead, the 98% will go chase the next big thing to land in their mailbox, hoping that the $67 equivalent of a lottery ticket will make a difference this time.  But of course it won't, it will just reduce their bank account by $67.

Or they'll spend hours on YouTube or a forum somewhere getting bad advice and frittering away the time they could be spending on building their future.

If you're not one of the 98%, then look up at the top right of the home page of this blog.  There you'll find a subscription box where you can enter your name and email address.

Fill it in and click the "Send announcements!" button.

And on Friday, I'll keep my part of the bargain and tell you how you can achieve the same results as I have.

-Frank Haywood