After The Keyword Research
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Dear Friend,
Let’s move along.
I assumed you’ve done your keyword research. And I assumed you’ve found a ‘nice’ search-result page ratio for your targeted niche. If you haven’t, why haven’t you? What’s holding you back?
No time?
Too much work?
If that’s the case, maybe you want to consider doing something else. I repeat what I’ve emphsized in the previous post - even though this is a part time thingy, just like a hobby, we need some action. We need to get up and flex some bones (at least the finger bones).
SO NOW…
Next thing on the list is finding contents.
There’s been a huge debate on duplicate content and its devastating effect especially if you want to rank high on the Search Engine like Google.
But let me assure you, based on the wonderful work of one dedicated soul whom I subscribed to his e-mail list to receive the current works and ideas that he’s working on, Search Engine STILL crawl your duplicate content source e.g. articles, and send traffic to it.
In fact, he even build a website and SOLELY fill it with duplicate contents. How’s that for a test?
Oh! I’m referring to the works of Johnathan Leger - originator of the 7 Dollar script. Ring a bell ;-)?
Why I’m mentioning this?
You need content on your site.
But you don’t need to create your own content if you don’t want to. You can choose to publish content of others or you simply get a free PLR source (which I intend to help you with later).
Once you get your content then you can monetize it with program such as Adsense.
NOTE: If you want to publish articles of others on your site or blog, make sure you include the authors ‘resource info’, usually located at the bottom of the article. I’ve written quite a few articles myself and submitted them to directories like Ezinearticles.com and GoArticles.com. Just go there, search my name using ’search’ function, choose ‘find author’, and walla! Feel free to post them on your blog (if it suits). just make sure the resource box is included.
So now, there’s little to worry about duplicate content.
What about PLR resources?
I’ll supply you with a bundle of them towards the end of this series. I’ll list down what will be included with it and you can download them all or subject of your choice. I’m still working on categorizing them to help you make a choice.
After all have been said and done…
DON’T COMMIT TO THIS FATAL MISTAKE
What is it?
“I’ve built it so they will come!”
There’s no such thing my friend. Yes you’ve built it but they won’t simply come. You need to ‘call them in’. And this is called ‘Traffic Generation’.
How you generate traffic to your site?
Good question. Tough to answer because there’s no simple, ‘work all the time’ ways. But there’s some doable, practical and maybe you’ll find it enjoyable strategies. They are:
- Send ‘ping’ using ping services. Try PingOmatic, Feedshark or PingGoat (I personally used all 3).
- Leave comment on other people blogs. Use your common sense. Leave ‘comment’ not Ads!
- Join online community i.e. Forum. Just make sure you join a relevant one, not just for the sake of advertising.
I want to include Web 2.0 strategies like Social Bookmarking, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, etc. but to be honest, I’m still testing and learning the rope myself so I dare not suggest anything fo now. I do Squidoo though but that’s just for testing.
I’ve not made any conclusion yet.
If you already know how to use all these, by all means knock yourself out with them. So far, what works pretty well for me are Squidoo, forum and Digg.
That’s why I strongly suggest you start with Blogger.
Here’s some added advantage you instantly enjoy with Blogger:
- It owns by Google so it gets indexed pretty fast
- Plus it gets even faster when you put Adsense ads because Google needs to spider your site before displaying relevant ads
NOW CAN YOU RELAX?
Almost.
To make sure your site gets better Search Engine ranking and gets lots of traffic through organic search (don’t trouble yourself with all these jargons), make sure you site gets frequent update.
Post frequently - daily for the first 7 days, 3 days once after that, and every week after a month or so.
If you’re superlazy, post when you got something to say (like what I’m doing right now 
Give it some times, and positively with your groundwork, you’ll soon see the result.
For now, don’t try to beat the system, find shortcut or use fast-lane strategies because you either get confused or you’ll burn out.
Worst, if you have to start everything all over again (I knew how it feels. Been there, done that 
For now, keep your chin up and be on the look out for my PLR resource.
I plan to make it utterly attractive for all of you :)
