A few weeks back, I wrote that I was testing Howie Schwartz’s google ranking techniques as taught in his Conversation Domination program.  I was cynical about the whole thing, mostly because after I had signed up to his program, on the $1 free trial, I wasn’t too impressed with the quality and depth of information I found in there.

I still don’t have enough money to sign up to any of Howie’s programs, but I continue to listen to all his free videos and seminars.  So after hearing about Howies’s techniques on Micheal Campbells Internet Marketing Secrets Podast, I did decide to give it a shot and write an honest review.  So here goes.

The first thing I needed to try out Howies Conversation Domination tactics was something to market.  I logged into my nichebot account (another $1 free trial tool) and did a little big of digging. Eventually I found what looked like a promising niche, averaging 600 searches per day for a  long tail keyphrase with only 150 competitors using the same phrase in their page title.

I quickly put together an information product based on this niche and popped the product onto its own domain.  This was the site I wanted to rank number 1 in Google, if at all possible.  That process took me about two days.

Then I went to work promoting the site using Howies ranking techniques. I find this part tedious and boring and as soon as I can, this is definitely first to be outsourced!  I used Onlywire.com to add the site to a whole array of social bookmarking sites. I then logged in my ping.fm account and got busy there, posting my link to other sites such as blogger, wordpress etc. I was a little bit lazy and didn’t go through the whole ‘create a Squidoo, hubpage etc thing’, though in the end I didn’t really need to for this niche. I then Pinged everything I had done using Pingomatic.

To my amazement within a few hours my primary domain was number 1 in Google and I had 6 spots on the first page of Google for the long tail keyphrase I had targeted. I was elated and slapped myself on the head for being such a cynic about Howie! But alas, the story doesn’t have such a perfect ending ….

About eight hours after my web 2 link buidling work I checked back again and my primary domain was no longer number one in Google. In fact it had dropped right off the first page and the second and the third ….  Still, I was holding steady with most of the other social bookmarking links, though there was a little shuffling.

A couple of days later and another check on my rankings.  I find all my social booking marking links still on page one of Google, giving me five of the 10 spots and my primary domain first on page two for my specified keyword phrase.  I’m happy with this result and I’m guessing that with time, my primary domain will find its way on the the first page of Google.

So does Howie’s Conversation Domination technique work?  I think so and regardless of anything else I owe my first $47 payment for my very first Informatino product to Howie Schwartz, since my Info product made a sale within the first couple of days. That’s a milestone that I won’t forget in a hurry.