There are several components to a successful campaign. Keyword research alone, though important, will not get you to rank high in the search engines. To climb to the top of the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) you need to feed your blog a healthy diet of quality backlinks from a variety of sources. We will look at some here. Let’s go!
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Alright, In my last update I pulled the trigger and purchased my domain through GoDaddy and now need to setup my site. That’s what I am going to do here. I’ll be revealing my niche site’s name and talking about themes, plugins, tracking, analytics and how to get your site indexed lightning fast. There’s a lot of ground to cover so lets get started!
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So I’ve done all my research and I’m ready to pull the trigger on my domain name. However, a funny thing happened to me on the way to my domain name purchase which has forced me to reconsider my original keyword phrase. I will go over what happened, what I had to do to and why I chose the new keyword phrase best juicer. Let’s get started!
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Got your attention? No, an IP Scrub is not some fragranted body wash product you can pick up at the Body Shop. It stands for Intellectual Property and focuses on the area of law that deals with patent and trademark issues. It’s a rather bland topic but a necessary one to discuss. Thought I would lighten the mood and make it more fun with a provocative title. Plus, if I entitled this section “Niche Site Duel Part 3 – How to do a Trademark Search” you probably would have skipped it entirely. Now that you are here though, stick around and find out some basic ways to protect yourself from an ugly lawsuit.
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When we last left our heroes we talked about how to find products to promote, how to select a niche and ways to verify if a product is in demand. We dabbled with keyword research and determined that we should stay away from trademarked terms regardless of how good the traffic may be.
In this section I am going to dig deeper into the keyword research side of things so lets get started!
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There are many ways to select a niche. You could look for items that are hot and create your niche site around that. Or you could have a topic that you are passionate about first and find relevant products to promote second. Which comes first, the chicken or the egg is irrelevant. What is important is that whichever way you decide to go you have a good strategy and clearly layed-out plan. Here’s mine.
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Suffice it to say that SEO is important to anyone and everyone who is doing anything online; from generating free traffic to a webpage or blog, to lowering the costs of a Pay Per Click campaign. If you have been putting off optimizing your site because it sounds complicated or confusing then you won’t want to miss the Niche Site Duel posts as I participate in Pat’s Duel and openly share my strategies and techniques while attempting to build a successful niche site using a variety of Search Engine Optimization strategies. I’ll put theories to the test, see what works and what doesn’t, and summarize my findings at the end of this brilliant exercise.
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How To Predict the Future of Your Page Rank
One of the biggest challenges when building backlinks to your site is understanding the effectiveness of your efforts. Without some measurable means to determine if your strategy is working you could be spending way too much time doing things that don’t work, or worse yet, take your rank in the opposite direction you intended. Tracking your page rank is one way to evaluate your progress, but what if I told you it was possible to predict the future? Would you do things differently?
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