Hey everyone,
Ive been aware of the basics of internet marketing and SEO for some time but was always too lazy to actually get down and do it. Well, I have finally got down and done it and have some big goals.
My initial plan is to go the SEO route with niche sites, mainly reviews with affiliate links. My first two sites are based on Amazon products, their commissions really seem to suck but its a start and I am using it as a learning experience to build on.
Site 1: Found a product on Amazon that seems popular (has lots of positive reviews). I researched and found 4 or 5 keywords related to the product each getting around 3k-6k searches a month and very little SEO competition in the top 10 in google. I have been using Market Samurai to dig into the keywords and scope out the level of competition.
Registered k1-k2.com Someone has bought k1k2.com but just has a spam blog with some ad links and no content. With only 15 PR0-1 backlinks they are bouncing around the top spots on the first page of google. Should be easy enough to compete with. I later found an ever better keyword phrase that I didnt think of the first time that gets 8k searches and still has low competition and got an exact match .net so i will have to get something up on that, but will wait and see if the money is worth it on the first site.
For content I have just put up a wordpress page, several articles I wrote myself related to the product and today my product review with affiliate links.
As far as link building goes I submitted it to 10 social bookmarking sites manually (man that is boring, will be outsourcing from now on) and commented on 15-20 blogs although only a third of those have been approved yet. I have written a few articles and posted them to 2 article directories and thats it. 2 days after launching the site it is on page 4 of google for my main keyword so its looking good so far. I also created 5-6 forum profiles from a large list of high PR forums that I found somewhere.
As far as blog commenting goes, the one thing I have noticed that has been most succesful with getting comments approved is telling them that their post was so good would they mind if I use it on my site/link to it on my site. People seem to be flattered that I would want to use their content and a few have even been to my site and left comments thanking me.
Ok this is getting quite long, Ill post details of my second site and further progress later if people are interested. Hopefully this can be a constructive journal to help out other newbs and I would really welcome any advice or criticism along the way.
Ive been aware of the basics of internet marketing and SEO for some time but was always too lazy to actually get down and do it. Well, I have finally got down and done it and have some big goals.
My initial plan is to go the SEO route with niche sites, mainly reviews with affiliate links. My first two sites are based on Amazon products, their commissions really seem to suck but its a start and I am using it as a learning experience to build on.
Site 1: Found a product on Amazon that seems popular (has lots of positive reviews). I researched and found 4 or 5 keywords related to the product each getting around 3k-6k searches a month and very little SEO competition in the top 10 in google. I have been using Market Samurai to dig into the keywords and scope out the level of competition.
Registered k1-k2.com Someone has bought k1k2.com but just has a spam blog with some ad links and no content. With only 15 PR0-1 backlinks they are bouncing around the top spots on the first page of google. Should be easy enough to compete with. I later found an ever better keyword phrase that I didnt think of the first time that gets 8k searches and still has low competition and got an exact match .net so i will have to get something up on that, but will wait and see if the money is worth it on the first site.
For content I have just put up a wordpress page, several articles I wrote myself related to the product and today my product review with affiliate links.
As far as link building goes I submitted it to 10 social bookmarking sites manually (man that is boring, will be outsourcing from now on) and commented on 15-20 blogs although only a third of those have been approved yet. I have written a few articles and posted them to 2 article directories and thats it. 2 days after launching the site it is on page 4 of google for my main keyword so its looking good so far. I also created 5-6 forum profiles from a large list of high PR forums that I found somewhere.
As far as blog commenting goes, the one thing I have noticed that has been most succesful with getting comments approved is telling them that their post was so good would they mind if I use it on my site/link to it on my site. People seem to be flattered that I would want to use their content and a few have even been to my site and left comments thanking me.
Ok this is getting quite long, Ill post details of my second site and further progress later if people are interested. Hopefully this can be a constructive journal to help out other newbs and I would really welcome any advice or criticism along the way.
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