How YOU can REALLY reach $100/day + w/Adsense!

[internetmarketer99]

How YOU can REALLY reach $100/day + w/Adsense!

Note: I was inspired to do this post largely by Xfactor's monsterously generous threads.

I've been doing Adsense for a looong time. It's not my only source of revenue, or my biggest. But it IS my favorite (more on that below).

I see a lot of bad information, bad advice, mis-information. The plain truth is that Adsense can be a terrific way to make money, that it can generate substantial income, and that it isn't really all that hard to do - if you do it 'right'.

With this post, I'll lay out an outline that you can use to get to $100/day with Adsense. While the $100 figure is somewhat arbitrary, it does take time & effort, so there's a limit to what you can do, HOWEVER, nearly everything can be outsourced, so once you understand it, there's no reason you couldn't scale it up almost indefinitely.

Adsense is a 'numbers game'. How much you make is directly proportional to how much traffic you generate, what percentage of that traffic clicks on an ad (your CTR), and how much you earn per click.

This approach is based around niche mini-sites. The general idea is to find 'keyword phrase groups' - niches - that you can rank on Page 1 for quickly. You'll create these sites using well-optimized templates that will give you high click-through rates.

HOW THIS PLAN WORKS

There are 3 "Pivot Points" for this plan:

Traffic
Conversions
Revenues

The first Pivot Point is traffic. For this plan, we're going to rely exclusively on organic, or search traffic. We certainly don't want to pay for traffic (PPC), and 'referral' traffic, such as article resource box clicks, is nice but not where we're going to put our efforts.

Given that we're looking just for search traffic, we are going to focus our efforts on finding keywords/phrases that have good search volume and minimal competition. The goal is to achieve Page 1 SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages) for each target keyword.

The second Pivot Point is conversions. Conversions are the percentage of visitors that click on an ad, plain and simple. The higher the conversions, the more we make. Our target is 5% (1 click per 20 visitors) though it isn't unrealistic to expect 10% or higher.

Conversions are largely dependent on our site layout, and this is one of the keys to the plan. There is no shortage of opinions on layouts i.e. static vs. blog, ad placements, # of ad blocks, etc. What I can say is that I've tested many, many different type of layouts. For the sites I'm talking about here, I've found a particular Wordpress theme that gives me demonstrably better CTR (Click-Through Rates) than any other. The theme is called BlueSense (you can get it here: BlueSense: An Adsense Ready SEO Wordpress Theme). It's a free theme.

Finally, the third Pivot Point is revenues. By this I mean revenues per click. While there's no way to know in advance how much we make per click, and it will vary even for the same keywords/phrases, we DO know that some niches/topics/keyword phrases perform better than others.

Obviously we want to target the highest-paying Adsense clicks we can find.

FWIW, I average $1 per click. Some are higher, some are lower, but that's about average (last week I had TWO clicks that were over $8 - each!).

How do you target high-paying clicks? Think high-CPC keywords. While the CPC isn't what's being paid for ads on the Content Network (where you are showing ads), you CAN get a 'relative' idea.

Some of the 'usual suspects':

Financial - investing, Forex, insurance, foreclosures, mortgages, credit, loans, etc.
Health & Fitness - dieting, weight-loss, quit smoking, cures, etc.
School - vocational schools, training, advanced degrees, scholarships & grants, etc.

You don't want to target the 'primary' keywords, of course, but look for related and/or 'secondary' keyword phrases. And that's where the gold is: there are ZILLIONS of these 'secondary' keyword phrases that are there for the taking! Which brings us to...


KEYWORD RESEARCH

This is the single most important aspect of this plan. The goal is to find relatively high-search-volume, low-competition 'keyword phrase groups'. Each group becomes the basis for a site, with a single page devoted to a single keyword/phrase.

This is not nearly as hard as some might imagine. First, you'll want to get yourself a tool that does basic keyword research, but also gives you 'competition' numbers. I'm a fan of Nichebot (you can sign up for a $1 trial at NicheBOT | Keywords | Keyword Phrases that drive Huge Traffic), but there are plenty. MicroNiche Finder (Micro Niche Finder.) is very well-respected. Market Samurai (Niche Marketing Product - Market Samurai) is another good one and offers a free trial.

My criteria for creating a site are that I can find at least 10 thematically-related keyword/phrases the EACH have at least 50 searches per day (1500/month), and competition under 40,000 (phrase-matched, or in quotes).

Realistically, I want search volume over 100/day and competition under 20k. This is not nearly as hard to find as you might think.

BTW, you want to track your SERPS. You can do this with a spreadsheet, but that can be tedious. Traffic Travis (100% Free SEO Software | Traffic Travis) has a free trial, but it's limited to 5 projects, however that should be enough when you're starting out. They also have a 7-day trial of the unlimited version for $5).

RANKING

Note About Ranking: Since we'll be going for organic search traffic, it's important to understand how that works. Where a page is ranked depends on the search term. Assuming your page is properly optimized (on-page optimization - we'll go over that), than where you rank is a function of 'total backlink value'. "Backlink value" is the number of backlinks times the 'rank value' of each backlink. The 'rank value' is Pagerank plus 'Trustrank' of the link itself.

To give you a simplified example: Consider two identical pages. One has 10 PR-1 backlinks. The other has 9 PR-1 backlinks and 1 PR-3 backlink. The second page will rank above the first page. The 'trick' to ranking your page is to get an overall 'total backlink value' higher than the competing pages. If your page has the highest 'total backlink value' than you'll rank first. Second highest will rank second, etc. By optimizing each page, choosing a 'good' domain name, and going after relatively low-competition keyword phrase groups, we'll be able to get those top SERPS listings.

The key therefore is finding high-volume, low-competition keyword phrases, optimizing our pages for them, and building up enough 'backlink value' to get to Page 1 SERPS.

I won't go into a whole backlinking course, but I'll give you a few tips - plus my 'secret weapons'. First, don't worry too much about 'NoFollow' tags - they still count for backlink value, just not as much as if they were 'DoFollow' from higher PR sites. Second, don't worry too much about building backlinks too fast. Unless you're using some automated system to build thousands of backlinks at a clip, this shouldn't be a problem. Remember also that even if you add 100 backlinks in one shot, they are most likely to get indexed much slower over time.

My 'basic' backlinking routine is as follows: When I create a page, I tag it using Onlywire (Bookmark & Share - The Power of the Button | OnlyWire) and submit it separately to StumbleUpon and Digg. I'll also re-write the page somewhat and submit it to Goarticles.

Note on backlinks: where ever possible, I use the targeted keyword phrase as the anchor text, and point it to the appropriate page. Where I can get two backlinks, such as Goarticles, Ezinearticles, etc., I'll use the same anchor text with one link point to the appropriate page, and another pointing to the domain home page.

My Secret Weapons: In addition to the above, I use Comment Kahuna (Comment Kahuna | Free Link Building Software) and Unique Article Wizard (Unique Article Wizard - Submit Unique Content to Hundreds of Websites). Comment Kahuna is free and works well, letting you find as many blogs to add links to as you could want (NOTE: Read the post you're commenting on and make reasonable comments. It's good Karma). UAW is not free, but can get you hundreds of backlinks for any keyword very quickly. I consider it my most valuable paid tool.

You should also be taking advantage of Google's Webmaster Tools. Look at the sites that your backlinks are 'sticking' to and go back to them where possible for other backlinks.

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

Research, research, research! Use your keyword tool(s). When you find something promising, make sure you can uncover at least 5-10 related keyword phrases.

Purchase a domain name that has your 'root' keyword/phrase. This is VERY important!

Now create your content. You want to target ONLY 1 keyword per page. Use that keyword in the title and H1 tags (if you're using Wordpress, put it in the post title - that's your H1 tag).

Launch your site. Each day, focus on one of the pages (bookmarks, Digg, etc.). Whatever other tools you are using, UAW, etc., put in the effort and focus on one of your keyword phrases each day.

TIP: You can get decent articles written for $1.50 - $2.00 or so at Amazon Mechanical Turk (https://requester.mturk.com/mturk/welcome) - just MAKE SURE to check them for plaigerism! (just take a few sentences and search them in quotes).

Track your progress!

If you've been careful in your keyword research, you should start to see results in a week or two. Once your site is up and everything is indexed, spend a few minutes each day adding more backlinks for each site.

If you've picked your topics well, you should start to see good results.

Based on 5% conversions and $1/click average, you should be getting $5 per 100 visitors per site per day, with not too much effort once they're built and indexed. If you build two per week, even with these minimum numbers, you'll hit $100/day in just a matter of months.

Good Luck!

Mark

PS - there's a TON of great information to be had reading Xfactor's terrific thread (6 Months Later: $300 Daily w/Adsense (Lessons Learned))!

[jitterbug978]

Well I read your post and it was very informative but it left me wondering.

I use the google keyword tool and I usually type in 4-5 keyword phrases and then sort by competition. I then base my site around the lower competition words.

Is this wrong? Are the words with lower competition going to make less per click?

Am I an idiot and doing EVERYTHING wrong?

Most of my clicks are below 25 cents. Occasional $1.

[SiteBlaster]

Mark,

Interesting layout. I saved it for an offline re-read. We have some parallels I think.

MSB

[jitterbug978]

So is it dumb for me to be aiming for really low competition keywords if they are just going to be bringing me pennies per click?

Should I redo my SEO to be based on higher competition keywords so i earn more per click?

[SiteBlaster]

No its not dumb.

I do that but I deflect that traffic to my sites that have higher value clicks. When they come to my site I tell them "Hey, you were looking for this but I also found this on another site."

Guess, what it works!

[Ben Roy]

Thanks for the informative post Mark. One question on your target keywords: when you say 50/day or 100/day, are you meaning broad match or exact?

[internetmarketer99]

@jitterbug, within Google's keyword tool you can show a column for "Estimated CPC" - this will give you a rough *relative* idea of that keyword/phrase value. The amount you're seeing is what you'd pay to advertise via Adwords, but you can use it as a relative measure. If it's shows .05, you know it isn't worth targeting. On the other hand, if it shows $1.85, while you won't get that for a click, it's probably worth targeting versus .05.

Also keep in mind that you aren't interested in Advertiser competition, but rather search competition. Having low search competition doesn't mean you'll make less per click at all.

@Ben, search volume is always phrase match. What you are looking for are the searches that your page will be optimized for.

Mark

[blackscorpion]

Thanks for a very beneficial post, I was looking for such a theme.

[Ben Roy]

Alright, phrase then. I asked because in MNF, for instance, Exact is the default search volume measure.

[internetmarketer99]

@blackscorpion,

I've tested probably 20 different Adsense themes, and tested many against static page layouts as well. I consistently get the highest CTR with BlueSense.

One thing I should mention thats very important, and that's the type of site you're creating.

I do a little excercise where I create a profile, or mental image of my potential visitor, and imagine what they're expecting to see.

My best-performing sites are informational, and those are the sites that BlueSense works best for.

As an example, I might create a site around a particular type of vocational school. The person searching those keyword phrases wants to reach an informational site. Not one with a lot of pictures, or a magazine-style layout.

Ideally, if I've optimized for a particular phrase, say "paralegal training course", the person typing that in wants to land on a page taking about how to find, where to find, how much it costs, etc., something along those lines.

BlueSense is beautifully optimized for that searcher profile.

And if I'm really clever, I'll have a page optimized for that phrase, with a mediocre article so that when they land there, they feel like they landed on the 'right' page for their query, read the article, not be completely satisfied, and click on one of the ads which will have been well-optimized for exactly that.

Mark

[ChrisBa]

Just to note - if you are earning over $100 with adsense, try adding cpa offers too - your earnings could skyrocket

[internetmarketer99]

@ChrisBa, that's not necessarily the case. Optimizing for Adsense is much different than optimizing for CPA or affiliate offers.

Mark

[internetmarketer99]

Originally Posted by Ben Roy

Alright, phrase then. I asked because in MNF, for instance, Exact is the default search volume measure.

Ben, it's really just a question of adjusting accordingly. If I'm looking a numbers for exact match, my criteria will be lower than when looking at search volume for phrase match.

Mark

[pearsonbrown]

This post takes me back to the 'good old days' of the Warriors. Lots of excellent content, based upon real experience and no hidden agenda.

Great effort.

Pearson

[Adam Bunch]

This is a fantastic post and one of the best ones I've come across in a good while on here. I think I love you. Thank you so much for the value - you've really inspired me to get going on this and get some sites up. I just had a couple of quick questions:

1. How many articles or pages do you feature on each page and do you just leave them be after you've set them up? (Of course still backlinking them)

2. Do you make any real effort to polish them at all (header, blogroll etc) because I have used the Bluesense theme quite a lot and it's not a real looker (I know that's not the point!)

3. Have you experimented with autoblogging techniques at all with these?

4. If you have like 10 student loan phrases that match the criteria (100+ phrase searches with less than 20000 competition), how do you decide which is the main keyword for the URL and which ones you will just write articles on?

5. Using these techniques is it realistic to aim for around 100 sites generating around $1 each a day?

Thank you so much,

Adam

[Dimebag]

Hi,

Great advice so far, really appreciate it.

With regards to your backlinking method - you say you spend a day on each page with anchor text etc. How many links are you obtaining each day? Are you going all out and using your article submission software for each keyphrase each day? Is this not a bit aggressive to start with?

So roughly how many links do you obtain per page on a typical new site and is each pages backlinking completed in one day?

Thanks

[WG Concepts]

Hi,

This post was extremely informative, especially for a Newbie like me. I actually have someone who works for me, who is an SEO Exec. (6 months in the field of SEO).

Together we are trying to put up a few sites, and work on them to monetize them.
Your post will definitely help.

A problem we have been facing is that we have not been able to to get over 100 uniques per day. No matter what we do, the average stays the same, on all 3 sites.
I do have to rearrange the sites, as the layouts arent too user friendly.
But i still cant understand why our uniques never go above 100.

Along the way, i may have a couple questions..hope you'd be able to answer them.
Thanks

[dv8]

Originally Posted by WG Concepts

A problem we have been facing is that we have not been able to to get over 100 uniques per day. No matter what we do, the average stays the same, on all 3 sites.
I do have to rearrange the sites, as the layouts arent too user friendly.
But i still cant understand why our uniques never go above 100.

Along the way, i may have a couple questions..hope you'd be able to answer them.
Thanks

Maybe I am misunderstanding you, but your problem is traffic. Not website layout.

Did you pick a niche that had enough traffic to make this site worth it?

[happyguy]

thanks. i really gained a lot from your post.

[capone2009]

ya nice report. the only problem is to get good topic ideas.

[rathurosamal]

ohh cool ,
Very interesting report , thank for share with us.

[Travis Clark]

I would like to thank you very much for taking the time to share this information with everyone. I have saved this thread for reference and sure I will be coming back to it time and time again.

Greatly appreciated

[SakeSushi]

Originally Posted by capone2009

ya nice report. the only problem is to get good topic ideas.

as per intermarketer99 states, do your keyword research to get good topic (=

that the part that takes the most time. To me, keyword research is part of seo, takes up 70% of my time in doing so.

[mrrichesinniches]

IM99, great thread. Xfactor inspired a lot of people.

[internetmarketer99]

Originally Posted by Adam Bunch

This is a fantastic post and one of the best ones I've come across in a good while on here. I think I love you. Thank you so much for the value - you've really inspired me to get going on this and get some sites up. I just had a couple of quick questions:

Great questions, Adam.

1. How many articles or pages do you feature on each page and do you just leave them be after you've set them up? (Of course still backlinking them)

If you're using Wordpress, there are two ways you can do this. You can create 'posts' or 'pages'. What I've found works best is to create a 'page' as your main keyword 'target' - the page you're going to try and push up in the SERPS. I'll then use 'posts' to add content over time, always including a link in each 'post' to it's target 'page'. Not only does this boost your on-page SEO, but you avoid diluting our efforts by having 'competing' posts vying for ranking versus focusing all your linking efforts on a single page.

2. Do you make any real effort to polish them at all (header, blogroll etc) because I have used the Bluesense theme quite a lot and it's not a real looker (I know that's not the point!)

That's a great point. In fact, we DON'T WANT a 'looker' as you say.

Here's where 'profiling' comes in handy. Who is our 'target' visitor? What were they trying to accomplish when they entered their search query?

For these types of informational sites, our target visitor is looking for specific information - not a review, product description, etc. What we want is for that target visitor to see our listing in Google (this is where your "meta description" is so important), click on your page, get there, see the answer to their query in the title of the post, and say "yup, that's what I'm looking for".

They should get some good information from the post, but not so much that they're satisfied and move on to something else, but rather still questioning enough to want more and click an ad.

3. Have you experimented with autoblogging techniques at all with these?

My thoughts about autoblogging are that they create too obvious a footprint, that it's too easy for Google to create filters - which they definitely will do - and de-index or at least drop your SERPS ranking.

In my mind, that's part of the "how to get something for nothing" school of thought - trying to 'beat' the system, so to speak, by finding 'easy push-button systems' that have no long-term viability.

I wouldn't risk my Adsense account, let alone put time & effort into something that is guaranteed to have a very limited shelf-life.

4. If you have like 10 student loan phrases that match the criteria (100+ phrase searches with less than 20000 competition), how do you decide which is the main keyword for the URL and which ones you will just write articles on?

I actually look for keyword phrase groups like that. Then each becomes a page that I'm going to promote. In total, they will comprise that niche site.

Ideally, there will be some common-denominator root keyword that I can use in my URL, or at least one that appears in most of the keyword phrases.

5. Using these techniques is it realistic to aim for around 100 sites generating around $1 each a day?

Sure, why not? However in my experience, if you've picked your niches carefully, you're getting appx. that much per click, which would mean only 1 click/day/site. Any ranking efforts should get you better than that.


Mark

[WG Concepts]

Alright, i have done pretty much as you said..and this is what i have come up wth..
Can anyone tell me if these statistics are good enough for the keyword selection??


Search Volume
Estimated CPC
competition



Search Volume Est. CPC Competion
Keyword 1 18100 15.12 135000

keyword 2 50000 27.65 391000

keyword 3 1300 35.61 14000

keyword 4 9900 23.79 825000

keyword 5 14800 28.83 47700

keyword 6 1300 22.64 71400

keyword 7 3600 13.53 25200

keyword 8 390 28.4 49800

keyword 9 6600 62.69 1400000




Would appreciate all inputs..thanks!!

[internetmarketer99]

@WG - what tool are you using? What is the match type for the competition numbers?

Mark

[WG Concepts]

im a total newbie have no idea what you just asked me.
I used keyword tool, to get the CPC (But i think they might be wrong..too high).
Search volume, i also got from Google keyword tool.
Regarding the competition, i used the keyword and did a simple search on google, and on the top right hand corner, the number that came up there, i used as the competition...

Is that the right way to do it??

[internetmarketer99]

@WG - to get a better idea of your competition numbers, take your keyword phrase, put it in quotes, and search. The number you get back will be a rough number you can use for comparison sake. Using that method, for this plan you want to see numbers under 40k.

That said, it will take some time and work to rank well at those numbers. My advice would be to spend some time looking for new/different keyword phrases and keep trying them. You will come across keywords with far lower numbers if you keep at it.

Mark

[WG Concepts]

after putting the key word in "quotes" on google, and then doing the search, the competition numbers are MUCH LOWER...ranging from 194 to 45000.
1 of them is higher...118,000. but the rest are much lower.
Do you think this is good enough?
I really appreciate all the information and guidance.
Thanks once again.

[internetmarketer99]

@WG - looks like you've found some good keywords!

I'd skip the 118k as you probably realize. 194 is terrific is there's reasonable search volume.

Now you just have to begin!

Mark

[WG Concepts]

Thanks...What a thrill!!
Im gonna get started on this tomorrow (its 3am here - India).

As i mentioned before, im sure i will have more questions as time goes on..
looking forward to more valuable inputs from you!
Much appreciated!

WG

[timpears]

Does the PR of the sites that come up in the search not come into the calculation at all, or did I just miss that in your post?

I have been following another persons formula on this research and finding the low hanging fruit that fits the search and competition criteria is just about to send me out of my head. Nothing I look at pans out. I even bought a list of keywords in a WSO recently and even those have strong competition. I am starting to think that there are no low competition key words left.

[international_deal]

Thanks Very much for the valuable information

[internetmarketer99]

@Tim - by itself, PR is irrelevant, however 'total backlink value' is very relevant.

If all other factors were equal (i.e. onpage optimization, domain name, domain age, etc.), than ranking would be in order of total backlink value. Now of course all other factors will never be exactly equal, but if we've selected a good domain name and do the 'basics' for onpage optimization (title, H1 tag, content), then it becomes simply a matter of boosting our total backlink value higher than our competitors.

The value of a backlink is essentially it's Pagerank plus it's Trustrank. If we could somehow total our competitors backlink value, we'd know exactly what we need, but that's difficult.

If you use Traffic Travis (above), it has a very nice feature to show you your competitors total backlink value as PR, high-value links, etc. You can use this as a rough gauge as to whether a keyword phrase is worth the effort or a futile excercise.

You can also use Yahoo Site Explorer to look at the competing page's backlinks (use backlinks to the page you're trying to beat, not the domain).

Often you'll be surprised to see your targets aren't that hard to beat.

Mark

[vema123]

Very nice posting you've got here. Basically I've done almost all the things you've said in your post, except for Comment Kahuna, but I'll do the comment kahuna thing very soon.

By the way, I don't really understand with what you mean with: '... Launch your site. Each day, focus on one of the pages (bookmarks, Digg, etc.)....'
Does it mean that after launching our site, we just submit each page or post to social bookmark sites (Digg, etc..)?

So basically after we do the SEO on page we just make content, and submit to social bookmark sites, and look for more backlinks?

Thank you

[vema123]

[quote]
If you're using Wordpress, there are two ways you can do this. You can create 'posts' or 'pages'. What I've found works best is to create a 'page' as your main keyword 'target' - the page you're going to try and push up in the SERPS. I'll then use 'posts' to add content over time, always including a link in each 'post' to it's target 'page'. Not only does this boost your on-page SEO, but you avoid diluting our efforts by having 'competing' posts vying for ranking versus focusing all your linking efforts on a single page.
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My site is using WP, and I've made 50 posts in it, each lower post links to the upper posts. Am I doing the right thing? I mean, do I also get the SAME impact as the linking technique you're using (..create a 'page'...then use 'posts' to add content over time, always including a link in each 'post' to it's target 'page'...)?

Thank you, Mark

[jitterbug978]

thanks a lot, Im gonna try the comment kahuna thing

[SoundsGood]

Originally Posted by internetmarketer99

Some of the 'usual suspects':

Financial - investing, Forex, insurance, foreclosures, mortgages, credit, loans, etc.
Health & Fitness - dieting, weight-loss, quit smoking, cures, etc.
School - vocational schools, training, advanced degrees, scholarships & grants, etc.

You don't want to target the 'primary' keywords, of course, but look for related and/or 'secondary' keyword phrases.

Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by this? Please use one of your examples, like weight loss or insurance.

Thanks!

[rocketmail009]

Hi. Now how much you're earning? For being over a year in adsense, you should make atleast some $/day... You should Learn, Test and Expertise in this field to make such money...

[internetmarketer99]

[quote=vema123;1005768]

My site is using WP, and I've made 50 posts in it, each lower post links to the upper posts. Am I doing the right thing? I mean, do I also get the SAME impact as the linking technique you're using (..create a 'page'...then use 'posts' to add content over time, always including a link in each 'post' to it's target 'page'...)?

Thank you, Mark

When you do this, you are diluting your ranking 'juice' across multiple pages. The reason to use a 'page' as your target ranking page is to concentrate your ranking efforts to a single page. Use your 'posts' to point to your target 'page'.

Mark

[internetmarketer99]

Originally Posted by vema123

Very nice posting you've got here. Basically I've done almost all the things you've said in your post, except for Comment Kahuna, but I'll do the comment kahuna thing very soon.

By the way, I don't really understand with what you mean with: '... Launch your site. Each day, focus on one of the pages (bookmarks, Digg, etc.)....'
Does it mean that after launching our site, we just submit each page or post to social bookmark sites (Digg, etc..)?

So basically after we do the SEO on page we just make content, and submit to social bookmark sites, and look for more backlinks?

Thank you

When I launch a site, it generally has 10-20 target keyword/phrases, each as a 'target' page (a page I'm trying to rank).

When I launch the site, I'll Digg and SB the home (index) page. Once the site is indexed (as soon as it shows up using "site:domainname.com"), I then begin my ranking efforts.

Each day I'll focus on one page of the site, Digg'ing, SB'ing, etc. The next day I'll move on to the next page, etc.

Mark

[internetmarketer99]

Originally Posted by SoundsGood

Can you explain a bit more about what you mean by this? Please use one of your examples, like weight loss or insurance.

Thanks!

Ok - weight loss.

The primary keyword has millions of competing pages.

"weight loss programs", still millions of competing pages.

"list of weight loss programs" - appx. 300 daily searches, under 30k competing pages.

Mark

[WG Concepts]

Hi, me again.
1 more query. When i do a search in Google Adwords Keyword Tool, do i do a broad match ? i have been using broad match to understand the number of searches for the terms that come up. Is that precise? or do i have to use Phrase, Exact or Negative??

Thanks..
WG

[WG Concepts]

I also notice that the local searc is sometimes higher than the global search? How is that possible?

[internetmarketer99]

@ me again - You want to use either phrase or exact match. Broad match won't give you any real clue to competition. I find phrase match gives me a better picture than exact match, which often misses pages that are optimized for very similar but not exact phrases.

Mark

[sunkee]

Very Very inspiring, I have been using some of this stuff, now gonna try some more of it thank you.

[mrtrance]

Mark,

Awesome information you have presented here on this post. I have a few questions regarding the setup of the site.

Let's say for example my root keyword is "weight loss" and I found 10 keywords with that root keyword in there that have 2000 searches a month and under 40K competing sites. Let's say they are "mens weight loss" "healthy weight loss" "weight loss diet"..etc...up to "keyword10 weight loss."

So based on those keywords which one should I pick for the domain name? Should I pick an 11th keyword that passes criteria to use for the domain name or can I just use something like "weightlossguide.com" where it will have the root keyword, but necessarily any search volume?

Next question is should we setup a broad homepage (www.url.com) that discuss weight loss in general and then have 10 more pages (www.url.com/KW2, www.url.com/KW2, etc..) with each of the 10 keywords (so 11 pages total not including the about, privacy, etc. pages)? Or will the homepage be just one of the 10 keywords we are targeting?

So we setup the Wordpress theme and do pages with each keyword, not posts correct?

So let's say I have 10 pages now (or 11 if we put up a general weight loss content for the homepage), do we also put up posts like you mentioned in your earlier post where you are linking back to each of the keyword pages? Why can't we just put in a link from each page back to the homepage?

Do we need to pick more keywords for the posts or use the same keywords, but have slightly different content?

One last question did you modify the BlueSense theme for your sites? Where are you putting your Adsense code...under your post titles, above them, at the end of the article, right column, left column?

[chrisnyce]

How much easier is it to have a keyword tool such as MNF or Samurai? Does it save significantly more time than just bouncing between the keyword tool and google search?

[internetmarketer99]

@mrtrance - you bring up a good point. I create a homepage that incorporates all of my target keyword phrases, usually a 400-500 word page. I then set WP to display that as the home page.

Each keyword phrase gets it's own page. Beyond that, I add posts regularly, 'rotating' the keyword list.

@chrisnyce - it is FAR easier. While you could do it 'manually', it would eventually become too time-consuming and tedious, at least for me.

Mark