Keyword research and Article writing….

I forgot the last time, that you have to have hosting for your domain. I have been using several hosting and different autoresponders before but they have been ok not that good. What I got recomended by a friend of mine was a great web hosting and I joined. I am glad that I did because it is a great hosting service. Actually it’s not only a web hosting, but a complete Internet Marketing Solution with autoresponders, add trackers, product management, affiliate management, membership management tool…Well they have it all. Everything is so easy because they provide a good structure.

And the price is great for all of this.

Go here and see for your self: Ultimate Marketing Center.

After I get my hosting it is time to go to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com and choose a keyword for my topic or choose my main keyword. Then I will write a simple article with 250/350 words. So I choosed my main keyword. Wrote an article aroung 30 words with my keyword as anchor and uploaded it to my website.

The reason I do this is to get indexed by google and other search engines faster.

After this I wrote an article around my subject with a good keyword, and had my resource box at the bottom of the article. I submitted the article to http://www.ezinearticles.com.

I forgot and important tip…Be sure to add link to your site at the resource box. Have your main keyword as anchor text and hyperlink it to your site.

It is weekend and all so I will continue on monday and I will talk about blogging.

Have a nice weekend….

Setting up my affiliate marketing blog on my domain

So after I have been uploading my index page to my site and submittting my article to ezinearticles.com, it is time to build a blog on my domain.

The blog system I am going to use is wordpress. Because it is the best blogging platform out there and wordpress is easy to install. I log in to my cPanel and click on the fantastico icon. There I will be able to install it in less then 4 clicks.

You will need a blog to communicate with your readers/customers, to get backlinks. It is easy to update fresh content and you almost don’t need to do any keyword research.

Lets move on…..

I installed my wordpress blog as a subdirectory, e.g. www.mydomain.com/blog.

Then I typed free wordpress theme at google and looked at sites shown up there and found a great theme for my blog. I uploaded the theme to my wordpress directory.

This is what I did step by step to tweak my blog and have it ready:

• After I had uploaded the theme, I went to the admin area and deleted the blogroll
• I wrote the about me page. Important so that the readers know who you are
• Then it was time to install some plugins. These plugins will help my blog to get higher rankings in google and will make my blogging easier.
• The plugins I installed were;

1. SEO Title Tag: Get better rankings because the keyword is placed before the blog title

2. Ultimate Tag Warrior: Assign tags (keywords) to your post. A MUST HAVE.
3. Google Sitemap Generator: XML Sitemap for Google, Yahoo and MSN.
4. Chicklet Creator: Adds RSS button to your blog so that people can subscribe to it
5. Sociable: This plugin adds automatically social bookmarking services icons to the bottom of each post.
6. Tagalize it:Quickly and easly tag technorati.
7. Tan Tan Noodles:Allows you to view your google analytics and feedburner stats from your wordpress admin section.

Thats it. Now I have installed my blog and made it ready. I am going to add content to it every day at the beggining to get it live.

Keyword research for my niche…

It is time to research for keywords to my site’s categories and secondry pages. This is what I am going to do.

I am going to research and find 40 profitable keywords. They are going to be keywords with;

• High number of searches
•  Low competition

It is also important to see numbers of adwords ad for each keyword to see the profitability of the keyword….

When doing a keyword research one must think out of the box and brainstorm lateral and variety of keywords related to your niche.

A hint: Choose also the names of the products in your niche as keywords. They are low competetive but can be profitable.

So I am going to choose 40 keywords for my niche. Keyword research is one of the hardest part of this process, so you have to take your time, this will at least take a hole day…

How I find my keywords and the tool I use…

pt>I told you last time that step 7 was to find keywords for our niche and to build my site around those keywords. Keyword research is one of the hardest part of this process. It takes time, specially if you don’t have a good keyword research tool.

Luckly I have in my opinion one of the greatest and smartest keyword tool out there. It is called Keyword Elite by Brad Callen.

This is what I did using this tool:

1. Create a keyword list: Typed my main keyword in to project 1 to pull out keywords. You can tell the program to pull out keywords from all the big search engines. But I just wanted keywords from ask.com and wordtracker. You can also tell how many keywords you want to return. You can choose up to 10 000 keywords. But I prefer just to get 200 keywords and digg further with this keywords.
2. Analyze pay per click listings: I then highlight my keywords and send them to project 2 in keyword elite. It will find competing websites, search’s per month, number of adword ads, cost of pay per click for adwords and other search engine pay per click such as Yahoo and Miva.

The tool can do much more then that, things like, Analyze Keyword Competition, Spy on Adwords Competition and much much more….It is better to see it in action then me telling you with words..

Click here and go to KeywordElite.com to watch video demonstrations of each project at the site.

As for choosing keywords after keyword elite analysis your keywords I look at the number of searches, results and adword ads. I go for keywords that have more than 450 searches per month and under 300K results. And the keyword should have a good amount of adword ads.

I forgot to tell. You should watch the exact match results. You do that by putting your keyword between two hypens, like this; “affiliate marketing”.

After I have researched and found my 40 keywords I put them on a spredsheet and save them to my niche folder.

Thats how I find my keyword..

Also I wrote a post to the blog I had buid. This is important, you have to add  content regularly to your blog, actually one post every day. The search engines will see that your blog is frequently updated and they will start to visit your blog frequently and you will get ranking for many keywords.

Outsourcing, hiring writers

Now that I have found my 40 profitable keywords it is time for the next process of my affiliate business. The next step would be to write articles of this 40 keywords. I am going to use this articles for the categories of my site.

Writing articles can be hard and time consuming and I have to work smart and effectively not just hard. This is the reason why I will outsource my articles to some professional article writer. I am going to start 10 articles.

This is what I am going to do. I am going to take 10 keywords out of my keyword list and hire an writer to write 10 articles around this keywords.

You can find professional writers at places like: www.elance.com and www.getafreelancer.com….

I am doing this because the professional writer will write better articles than me. I have to have killer articles. And as I said I want to work smart. In the meantime I will work with other aspects of my business.

I am going to work with my site actually. I am going to design my site and start the categories for my site. I am going to try out a new web desig tool that I got recommended by my mentor. I will tell about it when I have tried it out.

Make Categories to my site and Site Building

I been contacting some article writers to write my 10 articles. In the meantime while I am waiting for a answer, I will continiue with my business.

Some great thing I have been learning from my mentor Franck Silvestre is to have an organized site. It will help you rank better in the search engines and it is much easier for your visitors to follow your site.

I have been watching through my keywords and been trying to find good categories for my site. Your categories names should be your keywords with the more searches and the more competetive ones. Then under this categories you should have your articles with the long tail keywords as the title.

This is what I will be doing, trying to structure my site the right way…..

For building my site I will use designdashboard. I got that recommended by my mentor. It would be easier to build the site with designdashboard because you almost just point and click.

I have never built a website like this before, only landing pages, so it will be challenging and fun. Now I can outsource my site building to but I prefer to do it my self because I will know what to do and I will know my site better.

Maybe I will outsource it if I can’t manage to do it my self. I will play around with the design dashboard in the weekend…..

Site building process is moving on…

This is what I have been doing lately…

I have been thinking of categories for my site and I have made my mind for some categories and been writing them down. The categories have been choosed according to my 40 keywords. I have been choosing the keyword with alot of searches and the ones with most competition.

I have bought the designdashboard by Marlon Sanders, I told you about last time and have been trying it out. Marlon is one of the best Internet Marketing guru around and I wasn’t surprised when I saw how great the designdashboard was.

You do everything step by step. You start with creating a graphic header and he show you step by step on how to do it. He has videos that shows you from scratch how to build a header. I would recommend the tool and you should go and see for your self

Click here: Designdashboard.com and go to the site and see what I mean….

I will continue to work with my site this week. I am waiting to hear from my article writer to see how it goes. I have been giving the 10 keywords for the articles.

So that is what I have been doing in the weekend, I have design the header for my site and started to work on my first page.

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