This is the checklist / SOP I use when writing a blog post. It makes creation much more streamlined, and helps me to make sure I have all the tools I need right at my fingertips. It also keeps me on track. Extremely easy to get distracted these days! (Note: it’s also important to first…
Before you can create a profitable website, it’s important to figure out what terms you can rank for in Google. This will prevent you from spending months creating a website based around a term, just to find out you targeted a highly competitive keyword (Such as “best diet”) that will take you a huge amount…
SEO tips and tricks I will be adding to as I stumble upon them on the internet. At the moment, I’m advising my customers that the best ‘back door route’ into PPC advertising is to use Google Analytics to find any long tail search terms that reveal users who visit a disproportionately high number of…
Step 7: Rinse and Repeat. Create a blog for your website and update it. Your website is a living entity and consistently adding content to your site will keep website crawlers checking back more often for unique content. Also a resource which is consistently being updated will draw more repeat-visitors and have people bookmarking your…
Step 6. Start building quality backlinks Getting a high-PR website to link to your site, or specifically the keyword URL you are trying to get ranked for, is called a backlink, using the the same keyword as the anchor text. For example… Apple Cider Nutritional Content could be a backlink from SavWire.com to the hypothetical…
Step 5. Design your site to make it surfable (Website Feng-Shui) If you are creating a website to make money off CPC Advertising then you don’t have to really worry about this step as your goal is to get people to click away from your site (click advertisements) so you get paid. On the other…
Step 4. Create the content. Research can be the fun and interesting part, the harder part is getting down to business and writing the actual content. In general it is a good idea to write clean 250-300 word articles that focus specifically on your keyword subject. Such as “apple cider nutritional content”. Content is the…
Step 3. Use Niche Refinery to get more ideas on what people are searching for: NicheRefinery.com is a free, very powerful tool I use not only to see how much traffic and competition a certain keyword is getting, but to conduct actual market research. It also gives me very good hints on subjects related to…
Use Google Adwords Keyword Tool for this. It is a very powerful tool. EDIT: As of October 2010, it has come to my attention that Google has lowered the capabilities of its Keyword Tool so that you only find terms it wants people to promote using Google Adwords. I am not sure how accurate these…