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Free Google SEO Guide

June 23rd, 2009 Tom 2 comments

Sachibhat from http://2ask.ws/seo/free-seo-guide-from-google/

Has just alerted me to this very basic SEO guide compiled by Google.

I highly recommend anyone who reads this downloads this basic guide and gives it a read through.  Even if your experienced in SEO is good practise to sit down and refresh yourself with the very basics every now and then.

There’s nothing worse than missing out on traffic due to silly basic mistakes!

Thanks again Sachibat for giving me the heads up.

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Improve Your SEO For $1000!

March 15th, 2009 Tom No comments

Netbuilders.org will be announcing the keywords for their new SEO competition today.  If your looking to improve your overall knowledge on and about SEO then I highly recommend you take part.  If your not wanting to take part then there’s nothing stopping you from simply watching how others fair in the competition.

Myself I will probably enter but I will also actively follow the progress of the many veteran SEO players Netbuilders has.

This is definitely going to be a competition you do not want to miss!

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The Story So Far

February 17th, 2009 Tom No comments

makemoney2Its been 10 days since my last post, that’s to long and its going to change!

So what the hell have I been doing online since this blog started?

My first goal was to reach the fabled $10 amount on Google Adsense, that was the first major mile stone in my greater online money making plans.  I managed that fairly fast with an average income around $0.10 per day at that time.  That’s nothing great but it was the start I needed.  It showed me how easy it was (in theory) to make good amount of money online from advertising revenue only.  My first angle of attack was to start setting up content driven websites, based on WordPress.  I have a solid understanding of WordPress from some past experiences so it made sense to stick with what I know.  I looked at things in my life which I currently enjoy or have a good interest in, then I began to produce sites based around those subjects.

One of the first criteria in making successful sites is to base the site on subjects you know and understand.  Making content driven sites to produce income is all well and good, but its a hell of a lot more difficult when you have no interest in the given subject.  My advice is to stick to what you know, all day, everyday, then you can’t go wrong!

Eventually I had produced 4 content driven blogs/sites.  Then it was time to learn SEO methods.  I have a good knowledge on the more common easier methods, but I need to expand this knowledge.  That’s what my current focus is aimed at.

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Keywords – Think Outside the Box

January 20th, 2009 Tom No comments

The winners for the Net Builders Best Post Contest have just been announced, I’m pleased to report my article entitled Kritical Keywords – Think Outside the Box came in at first place!  Below you can read the article in full.

Kritical Keywords – Think Outside the Box

See what I did there with the title?! K for Keywords, C/K = Krit…yeah you get it!

Keywords, Keywords and Keywords!

I spend a lot of time coming up with keyword ideas to transform into high traffic money making gold mines. Its easy coming up with the usual suspects:

  • Credit Cards
  • Making Money
  • Finance
  • Mortgages
  • Fitness
  • Health

Blah, blah, blah you can sit around doing this all day (myself I have pages and pages of keyword ideas from brainstorming sessions). If I can do that then so can anyone else with half a brain.

So how can we come up with new cutting edge keywords? Keywords which have very little competition which we can transform into first page Google search results with little effort?

At this point I’d like to refer anyone new to the whole concept of keyword development to this thread:

Tips for Keyword Research

Trying to compete in bloated major keyword sectors is effectively web master suicide. While you can have some success in these sectors its going to cost a lot of money along with time to claw back worth while results. It’s generally recommended that people new to the web master game stay away from these keywords (advice I need to follow myself).

Lets Get Started!

First lets look at an example, take WarAnvil

The topic is World of Warcraft. I set this site up to reach out to the community behind the game. What does this have to do with keywords you say?

Well…

The very nature with MMORPG’S (massively multiplayer online role playing games) is they evolve, constantly. People searching for certain pages on in game topics will change what they are looking for frequently, as the game universe updates. An example of this is the keyword phrase below:

protection warrior glyphs

WarAnvil is rank one in Google for that search term. This phrase only recently came into being after the game introduced ‘glyphs’. I could go on and post more specific examples – but that’s pointless. WarAnvil has had minimal SEO (search engine optimization). The ranking and fairly high traffic comes organically (naturally) from search engines. So the main tactic being used currently to increase WarAnvils traffic is to ensure we keep up with the community reporting on new game related topics. This ensures we have a high chance of ranking high in Google for newer keywords and phrases.

This method of quickly identifying new keywords and phrases can be applied to almost anything. Take for example the names of current reality TV stars (heh, if you can call them that). You could easily start fan sites based on each star, and ultimately rank high for their unknown names which have all of a sudden been pushed into the public eye (so people will begin searching Google for them). As this keyword niche would be underpopulated it should be easier to increase traffic, as organic search traffic will find its way to the site. Over time other sites will begin linking back to you (given your high results page rank) which will further cement your high Google search page rank.

Lets summarize the process with a brainstorming diagram:

From the diagram you can see the two main sub categories, constantly evolving subjects and new trends. Leading on from each sub category you can create your own subjects. I challenge you to spend time with this template and see what you can come up with, you may be surprised at the results!

This is by no means definitive at all! However, it does give an insight into coming up with new keywords – thinking outside of the box. The ideas in this article can support your current keyword/niche selection methods. Alternatively this free thinking guide can act as a good introduction to the field. Using this method of creating keywords which you can then translate into active sites gives you a good chance of dominating your niche early on in its life. Which gives you a very good foundation to work from. However, you will need to keep up with the SEO to ensure you maintain the sites position.

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Producing Content and Directory Submission

January 16th, 2009 Tom No comments

I’ve spent the last few days producing content for a number of my newer sites.  Its been pretty fun to my surprise.  The sites involve topics that I have interest  in.  This has helped to no end with content production.  One of my newer sites revolves around the Apple iPhone.  Owning one myself for the last 4 months I’m finding it very easy and enjoyable to produce the original content required.  This only further cements the fact that starting sites in niches you have interest in make the whole process faster, more productive and easier overall.

Then I moved on to the mind numbing task of adding a few sites into and endless list of web directories.  I know the value of these links is fairly low in 90% of cases (I’m talking free directories here) but its still worth spending time I would other wise be wasting, adding to them.  After a while it does become quite relaxing!

Anyway, back to the submission…

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Joining Webmaster Forums, Advancing Internet Understanding

January 13th, 2009 Tom No comments

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Joining webmaster forums has been the most significant thing I’ve done to date.  The sheer amount of information that is all of a sudden available to me is astonishing.  My understanding of how to run websites has exponentially increased over the last few days.

Before joining these webmaster community forums my knowledge of SEO (search engine optimization) was limited at best.  I understood that quality back links were key and that having a few quality links had a much greater impact on SERPS (search engine results pages) than having many low quality links.  Quality > Quantity.

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