Day 1 Report
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Ok I am going run down what I have done to this point step by step with some of my reasoning as to why I do things a certain way. I am no expert so I would like options, criticism and suggestions. Affiliate links will be at the bottom of the article if you feel inclined to help a brother out.
Knowing there was a dead line to have a site indexed with traffic before April 1st I put together a quick game plan. I decided to target the aftermath of the virus as my primary focus with prevention being second. I wanted my content to be thorough plus over the head of most internet users. The virus took care of the urgency and concern so I wanted to show that the problem could be fixed but would be a difficult task for a novice. Next, provide a solution that was cost effective and would not dig deep into anybodies pocket.
I installed Wordpress and installed a few of my favorite plugins. All in one SEO, Autoblogged, Google Sitemap, OIOPublisher, Sem-Follow, Worpdress auto update, ReCaptcha, Yet another related plugin, Unique Articles.
Autoblogged will be used later to pull content from Google blogs and other authoritive sources that I find. I do not start off using this plugin.
Unique Articles is a decent content source. The articles are free so you get what you pay for. Interestingly enough Google loves this shit and will index it. The problem is the folks using this tool to publish articles make their titles too long so they really don't rank well. Every now and then you will get one to rank and its free so I don't bitch. The tool is to simply keep the bots coming by while I build links. I only set it deliver 2 articles a day. Anymore and you risk getting a heap load shit and G may penalize you for unrealistic content additions.
Writing pages:
When I write my page I try to think of a title that would be a search term that someone would actually use. I do not currently do a lot of keyword testing so I am not targeting highly searched keywords. I created my page with the title "what is conficker" because at the time I did not what the hell was either. I place my title as my tag and in the all in one seo I use the page title as the title, description and keyword. I make sure that in the content of the page that the title string is used at least once.
Lets see how this has worked
what is conficker - Google Search
Ranked #6 out of 847,000 pages. Not anything to write home about but I will take it on a site that is less than 24 hours old.
Note: My url has conficker c but the title only has conficker. I added the letter c in the url in hopes to get a 2fer.
what is conficker c - Google Search
Ranked #32 out of 2 million.
My main content sources where wiki, microsoft and few others that either had a decent article or paragraph that I liked.
The theme was a new theme that was released by woothemes called The Station. This is a badass theme and Woo is becoming in my opinion the best wordpress theme provided on the interwebz. Only my opinion.
By now it was about 2am so I went to bed. I know, I'm a lazy ass. I did get started at 7am though. Dropped the kids off at school and went to the coffee house for double shot of expresso.
Today was promotion day. I used a nice little search string to find blogs with good alexa traffic and posted comments. Boring as hell but I was wired by now on expresson so I knocked out about 10 comments pretty fast. I could do more but I spend time searching for decent sites.
Made a blog post on one of my good blogs that gets great organic traffic and sees about 600 uniques daily.
Made a nice little forum thread starter that I could put in the general subject area and did a little forum spamming you could say.
I wrote both the blog and forum content as if I were simply passing a message. Created a nice little title that askes for involment and I linked to authorive sources like Yahoo, Microsoft and slid my link in as another authorive source.
Followed the suggestions here on this thread and created a wiki link, and created php redirects of my affilaites plus made a button.
Thats wraps up the first day.
Going forward will consist of adding additional content, link building.
I plan to launch a ppc campaign on the last day of March. My feeling is that by then the buzz will be at the highest.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Affiliates
Autoblogged
WooThemes
OIOPublisher
