SEO Traffic – Step #3
Next step in my experiment is to start writing articles for submission.
So far this is what I have created:
- 3 Hubpages
- 3 Squidoo lenses
- 3 Blog posts
1 for each keyword of course. Next I am going to write articles to submit to ezinearticles.com.
My plan is to write 2 articles for each keyword. Each article will have a link in the body and a link in resource box. 1 will go to a hubpage or lens, the other will point to my blog post using the keyword as anchor text in both cases. Each article will basically be a summarized or shorter version of the hubpage or lens they are pointing to.
Articles posted to ezinearticles.com tend to get indexed quite quickly, so these article should help my hubs and lenses get indexed if they haven’t been already.
Cheers!
Step #2 of my SEO Strategy
It’s been busy around here at the Faulkner home! Been doing a lot of roofing work and hanging out with my family so I haven’t had much time to work on this stuff. Now I’ve got some time off to work on my traffic strategy.
I’ve decided to cut back the keywords I’m working on at first to 3. So 3 keywords that all meet the criteria of the last post.
My first goal is to create 1 hubpage and 1 squidoo lens for each keyword. All unique content – no copy/pasting. So far I’ve gotten this part done, and my first hubpage got indexed today! It seems to be taking up to 2 weeks for each of these pages to get indexed by Google. With each page that I create, I am using onlywire.com to bookmark them fast and easy.
Next I will do a blog post on my main domain for each keyword as well. As with all pages, I include the keyword phrase once in the title of the article/blog post, then a few times throughout the content. I’m separating each post a few days a part, not sure if this is needed or not but it builds the site more naturally. If I have time I will write a post per day (small post not keyword focused) to add more pages to the domain and make the site bigger.
At this time I have not put any links on any of the pages I’ve created. I plan to move people from my blog to my list with a banner to the squeeze page. And I’m waiting for the hubpages/squidoo lens pages to get indexed before I add links to them.
So let’s restate the plan so far:
- Pick 3 keywords with certain criteria
- Write 1 Hubpage for each and bookmark
- Write 1 Squidoo lens for each keyword and bookmark
- Write 1 blog post for each and bookmark
So far that’s a total of 9 content pages. The blog posts seem to end up quite a bit smaller than the hubpages or lenses as I’ve been loading those with content to get them rated better. We’ll see if it pays off!
The SEO Strategy: Step #1
Since I’m starting fresh in a new niche, without an existing website or any kind of leverage, the strategy I am using will be a bit different than someone who is just starting another website in a similar niche.
First, I am going to do keyword research to find 4 keywords that meet a couple criteria.
- They are searched for more than 1000 times per month (according to Google)
- The quoted competition is less than 100,000
- In Google SERPs there is no big time competition that is targeting the exact keyword phrase
Sticking to these 3 qualifiers, I’ll get my 4 keywords and start developing content.
I’m so sick of article spam and junk content that is meant to provide no value and get the visitors to click through to a different link. I want to add value to the web, so I will be creating quality articles and pages to put all over the internet.
I know there is a lot of bad information out there. After getting my keywords, I will simply create content that I know would better serve the searcher than anything else that may find it’s way to the SERPs. My plan is to help people first, and make money second.
We’ll see how it goes!
New SEO Traffic Experiment With A Young Domain
I have always been into the fitness and health niche, and have learned a lot over the years. I have decided to start a blog and start marketing some products that I know have been giving people some great results with fat loss and muscle toning/building.
My blog is dedicated to revealing the secrets that I have learned to slimming down and getting back down to your natural weight. The ebook I am mostly promoting is a guide to getting six pack abs, so my blog is mostly filled with tips and techniques that show how to get great abs.
To build traffic I am focusing on SEO. I’ve been learning quite a bit lately about SEO so I want to give it a shot to see if I can build a nice steady form of traffic with it. I will be posting the plan and the results to this blog to show how successful the strategy I’ll be using is. I’ll try to post the plan tomorrow, and update when I get new pages done, indexed, backlinks built, and other miscellaneous goals completed.