These tips are for longterm passive income:
Don't focus on specific SEO stuff (placement of text and images, titles, keywords, etc) in beginning.
Depending on your business, you might not need to focus much on marketing.
Don't stress ANYTHING except good content in the beginning. This means, until you have at least 20 EXCELLENT quality articles, don't panic about layout, color scheme and everything else.
Content sells itself. People see your site, they subscribe to it, they comment, they pass it on to friends, etc. There's nothing better than seeing your sites being submitted to social media like digg/reddit by a stranger.
The little stuff barely matters if your content is good. Doesn't matter if your domain name is good but too long, doesn't matter if your RSS subscription button is too small or obscure, doesn't matter if you haven't packed enough keywords in your titles.
The small stuff is damaging to productivity. Time spent deciding between two URLs can be spent writing content.
Dedicate time to projects. Say "I am going to work on This for the entire month" and stick to it.
It's important to stick to stuff you're interested in. 99% of us are not going to do things we don't have to. Work blows. Work can be anything from a 9 to 5, to designing a PPC campaign, to writing blog posts, or coding a game. UNLESS it's something you're passionate about. This is important.
It's amazing how many people think they can just copy content off some site or hire some dude who learned English last week to write $1 articles for them and except to make lots of money. The fascinating thing is that these people would NEVER read any such site themselves.
Thing about it:
A catchy domain name, pretty logo, and a thousand articles - all of which are regurgitated from other popular articles online.
vs
Modest layout (steve pavlina's layout for instance), hard to remember URL, only a dozen articles or so updated 2-3 times a week - but good, unique, NEW content. Stuff you want to read (or use or see or whatever).
The latter is the stuff you and everyone else will bookmark and pass on to friends.
Put in the effort. It shows. This applies to almost anything in life.
Don't focus on specific SEO stuff (placement of text and images, titles, keywords, etc) in beginning.
Depending on your business, you might not need to focus much on marketing.
Don't stress ANYTHING except good content in the beginning. This means, until you have at least 20 EXCELLENT quality articles, don't panic about layout, color scheme and everything else.
Content sells itself. People see your site, they subscribe to it, they comment, they pass it on to friends, etc. There's nothing better than seeing your sites being submitted to social media like digg/reddit by a stranger.
The little stuff barely matters if your content is good. Doesn't matter if your domain name is good but too long, doesn't matter if your RSS subscription button is too small or obscure, doesn't matter if you haven't packed enough keywords in your titles.
The small stuff is damaging to productivity. Time spent deciding between two URLs can be spent writing content.
Dedicate time to projects. Say "I am going to work on This for the entire month" and stick to it.
It's important to stick to stuff you're interested in. 99% of us are not going to do things we don't have to. Work blows. Work can be anything from a 9 to 5, to designing a PPC campaign, to writing blog posts, or coding a game. UNLESS it's something you're passionate about. This is important.
It's amazing how many people think they can just copy content off some site or hire some dude who learned English last week to write $1 articles for them and except to make lots of money. The fascinating thing is that these people would NEVER read any such site themselves.
Thing about it:
A catchy domain name, pretty logo, and a thousand articles - all of which are regurgitated from other popular articles online.
vs
Modest layout (steve pavlina's layout for instance), hard to remember URL, only a dozen articles or so updated 2-3 times a week - but good, unique, NEW content. Stuff you want to read (or use or see or whatever).
The latter is the stuff you and everyone else will bookmark and pass on to friends.
Put in the effort. It shows. This applies to almost anything in life.
