I'm In Love With SEO

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Peter Liu

I am doing rather bad in keyword research.
By the way, which keyword research tool are you using?

I use the SEO Book Tool and I've started playing with Micro Niche Finder as well (very good keyword research software).

[Tony X]

Yea, the Micro Niche Finder is an awesome tool

[Shellaine]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Dashbord>Settings>Publishing and click on advanced to add your own domain to the blog.

First you need to point the DNS settings from GoDaddy (or wherever you register domains) to ghs.google.com I believe.

OR you could always pay $10 and set it up immediately through Blogger in that same Publishing page.

This is very information because i have never known about his until now . So you can basically use Blogger.com to host your website..

Great Info!

Many thanks and more power to you..

I have one question though... Can you use this for your Adsense campaign? without getting any type of penalty?

Thanks A Lot,
Shellaine

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Shellaine

This is very information because i have never known about his until now . So you can basically use Blogger.com to host your website..

Great Info!

Many thanks and more power to you..

I have one question though... Can you use this for your Adsense campaign? without getting any type of penalty?

Thanks A Lot,
Shellaine

Yeah definitely, use it for Adsense as well.

[KevL]

Great post - and couldn't agree more!

Finding keywords like this is a real buzz, I found one the other day like this, great feeling. I always try to find these keywords, you can always find keywords that are better in terms of supply & demand, but to find them on this kind of scale with serious search numbers is rare.

Keyword research is the most important step of SEO in my opinion.

Thanks


Kev

[stevesd24]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

I use the SEO Book Tool and I've started playing with Micro Niche Finder as well (very good keyword research software).

hey daniel

did you know that micro niche finder is based on the Google Keyword tool?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by stevesd24

hey daniel

did you know that micro niche finder is based on the Google Keyword tool?

Yup, but it digs deeper and goes beyond it on many aspects, which is why I use it in conjuction with the SEO Book Tool.

The best of both worlds, google estimates + meta crawler results.

[tonyd13]

FYI Everyone - I'm going through this exercise myself as a test and found that there is a known issue with Blogger when transferring domains from another registrar. Even if you do everything correctly you might still get a 404 error when accessing the site via the registered domain. The solution is to purchase the domain you want through blogger and not whoever you usually use.

This happened to me and I'm now forced to do a HTTP forward of the domain to the blog which I'm sure will effect my results. Anyone care to comment on how much it will effect it?

Daniel, you mentioned above that you are looking for ways to backlink naturally, any progress you can share with us?

I'll update this thread next week with the results even with the HTTP forward.

Thanks for the great post btw.

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by tonyd13

Daniel, you mentioned above that you are looking for ways to backlink naturally, any progress you can share with us?

I'll update this thread next week with the results even with the HTTP forward.

Thanks for the great post btw.

I believe Angela V. Edwards is running a $5/month membership as a WSO in which she will send you 30 high PR sites each month where you can add backlinks. DO FOLLOW backlinks of course.

You have to do it manually, but those backlinks are well worth it.

[cmac2250]

can that backlink site only be used for one site or multiple sites?

and do you have adsense or any monetization?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by cmac2250

can that backlink site only be used for one site or multiple sites?

and do you have adsense or any monetization?

Can you please be more specific?

If you mean the backlink package Angela V. Edwards sends, you can add multiple backlinks in all those sites, it's just that in some you need to have more than 1 account.

In terms of monetization I use both adsense and affiliate links for niche related affiliate programs.

[magnum3]

good for you

[rajsidhux]

I've been following this thread closely and wanted to let as many warriors as possible know that over the past few months I have been carrying out some extensive keyword research with regards to numbers and results received from various tools. I have used tools such as googles free keyword tool, word tracker, SEO Books keyword tool, Keyword Elite, Keyword Analyzer and Micro Niche Finder.

I wanted to start a new post in which I will be revealing my findings, including the exact long tail keyword phrases, the numbers etc... and just want to 'piggy back' off this great thread to see if there was any interest in seeing such a post. I've got some reall good stuff to reveal!!

[AndyBlackSEO]

Originally Posted by steve m

can some one please explain to me what the "do in the key word search" the quotation marks, ?

Yes, by encasing your search phrase in quotation marks, Google will only return pages that have that exact phrase somewhere within that page or it's header content.

You can go one further to find the 'real' competition by using things like intitle:"search phrase" or allintitle:"searchphrases" you can even use inurl:"search phrase"

Andy

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by rajsidhux

I've been following this thread closely and wanted to let as many warriors as possible know that over the past few months I have been carrying out some extensive keyword research with regards to numbers and results received from various tools. I have used tools such as googles free keyword tool, word tracker, SEO Books keyword tool, Keyword Elite, Keyword Analyzer and Micro Niche Finder.

I wanted to start a new post in which I will be revealing my findings, including the exact long tail keyword phrases, the numbers etc... and just want to 'piggy back' off this great thread to see if there was any interest in seeing such a post. I've got some reall good stuff to reveal!!

That would be interesting, you should post it.

[MarioSotojr]

Pretty cool I'm gonna implement this in my marketing
thank you

[Gabri]

Very good info. I am going to try that too. Can you do the same thing with a wordpress blog?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Gabri

Very good info. I am going to try that too. Can you do the same thing with a wordpress blog?

Yes and it could possibly work even better, make sure you use the All In One SEO Pack plugin.

[hmigroupllc]

I have to agree that hyphenated domain names are not bad for search engines. The problem with them lies with humans. They cause many errors for direct targeted traffic that are finding your domain by typing in the URL. They likely end up at someone elses domain.

I have used both hyphenated and "longword" domain names, and I prefer to simply combine short, long tail keywords into an unhyphenated domain name. Customers remember it better, and make fewer mistakes looking for it.

I definitely agree that you can get set up cheaply using a blog though the cheapest I find domain names for in reliable registrars is 9.95 per year, and a host that is good for a single domain is 4.95 per month.

So that is an annual cost of approximately $70.

Using the social bookmarks and is, in fact, the fastest way I found to raise your blog up in the ranking for your selected 2 or 3 primary key words.

But adding your RSS feeds to it, boosts my traffic by at least 10% or more.

So, those are my thoughts, I know it works. Great thread.

[Andrew Leatherland]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

There is one site that has over 80 backlinks, so I'm trying to compete with that one. The good news is that my site is much better optimized for SEO than that one, so I'm looking forward to beating it.

HI Daniel,

When I saw this my initial question was how do you do that?

Is this done through the tool in your google account to identify how many sites are pointing to your site.

Thanks

Andrew

[tpw]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Myths Dispelled:

1. Hyphenated domains are crap for SEO.
2. Keywords need to have commercial value (This proves ANYTHING can be monetized).
3. Making fast cash is not possible.
4. Out ranking authority sites is hard (My 1 week old PR0 blog is out ranking PR8 websites for that keyword).
5. Mass instant backlinks don't work.

I have never heard anyone say ever that "Hyphenated domains are crap for SEO."

I have never heard that, and I have certainly never said that. BUT, what I have said is that Hyphenated Domains are not generally recommended, because when the human remembers your domain name and types it from memory, the human will forget to type in the hyphens in 95% of cases. And when the domain they don't expect to come up comes up, few of those people will do a search to figure out what they got wrong.

p.s. I have been able to do the same with many niche topics. The only alteration I offer in this strategy is to buy the domain, and put a Wordpress Blog on it.

I refuse to point a domain at a Blogger blog, because the Blogger team (Google staff) can decide your blog is spammy and delete it.

I refuse to let a third-party have that much control over my future success.

[tpw]

Originally Posted by Andrew Leatherland

Is this done through the tool in your google account to identify how many sites are pointing to your site.

You can use either your Google Analytics account, or you can use a research tool such as the one provided by SEO Digger.

[Hafsoh]

Great job man! But keeping up the work because sometimes, websites show up top in search results briefly after being launched, but then seem to drop dramatically out of the rankings after a couple of days, hope that wont happen ...

[Andrew Leatherland]

I've been following this for the last couple of days and it prompted me to revisit one of my sites which has been really useful.

As part of this I accidentally stumbled on a series of long tailed keywords on the same subject which I think I can find something related for in Clickbank. Each of the keywords seem to have high searches (whilst I accept there might be some questions over accuracy - but they are comparable), combined with extremely low competing sites.

My question is do I create a blog for each keyword and optimize it for that keyword alone or do I create one blog and write several articles around each keyword? Is one method likely to perform better than the other?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Andrew Leatherland

I've been following this for the last couple of days and it prompted me to revisit one of my sites which has been really useful.

As part of this I accidentally stumbled on a series of long tailed keywords on the same subject which I think I can find something related for in Clickbank. Each of the keywords seem to have high searches (whilst I accept there might be some questions over accuracy - but they are comparable), combined with extremely low competing sites.

My question is do I create a blog for each keyword and optimize it for that keyword alone or do I create one blog and write several articles around each keyword? Is one method likely to perform better than the other?

Andrew, for a short term type of results I would suggest different blogs with articles on the same keywords.

However, if you are going to continue blogging on a constant basis I would suggest 1 single niche blog for long term results.

[Jared Alberghini]

Daniel,

So, I guess you'se are one of the select few who "get's it".

.jrd

[beckyrubecca]

Thanks for sharing! good work.

[techinik]

Very useful info .

[morecontacts]

Thank you for sharing that with us Daniel!

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Jared Alberghini

Daniel,

So, I guess you'se are one of the select few who "get's it".

.jrd

Hey Jared,

Well I don't know about that, all I know is that what I'm doing is working and extremely well.

By the way, whatever happened to that viral project you were working on?

- Dan

[geyser]

I've never thought that in 2-3 hours you can earn loads of money,
you proved that there is a quicker way in earning quick money..

[FranMurray]

I agree with Alex Sol. There are 1,000's of keywords that have Low Competition.

(This is not a plug, there is no link here) I have been using Market Samurai, and I have found many keywords like this.

Where my mistake lays, is that I am not sure if I am using the right AdSense Blocks etc... for my site.

Personally, my goal is to have 25 to 50 sites making $5 to $10 a day. (Using Adsense and affiliate products, before I move into making my own product)

Great Post and Thanks for Sharing Daniel.

Fran

[Andrew Leatherland]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Andrew, for a short term type of results I would suggest different blogs with articles on the same keywords.

However, if you are going to continue blogging on a constant basis I would suggest 1 single niche blog for long term results.

Thanks Daniel,

I did a bit of research into my subject area today around my keywords today. In 30 minutes I came up with 35 blog article ideas.

That raised it's own question. I tried to do some research on a site map to submit to Google. I've seen different suggestions about what a sitemap really is. Assuming it's simply a list of all the pages in my blog (which I'm hoping to do in Blogger while I build my confidence), would you (or anyone for that matter) recommend I create, say 10 entires and enter a sitemap to google and then enter a new sitemap each time I create a new entry.

Or have I got this whole sitemap thing totally wrong.

Thanks

Andrew

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by Andrew Leatherland

Thanks Daniel,

I did a bit of research into my subject area today around my keywords today. In 30 minutes I came up with 35 blog article ideas.

That raised it's own question. I tried to do some research on a site map to submit to Google. I've seen different suggestions about what a sitemap really is. Assuming it's simply a list of all the pages in my blog (which I'm hoping to do in Blogger while I build my confidence), would you (or anyone for that matter) recommend I create, say 10 entires and enter a sitemap to google and then enter a new sitemap each time I create a new entry.

Or have I got this whole sitemap thing totally wrong.

Thanks

Andrew

Blogger automatically generates a sitemap type file, it can be found in www .yourbloggerblog.com/atom.xml

You can submit that if you wish.

Or, if you were to use Wordpress grab the "Google XML Sitemaps" plugin by Arne Brachhold.

[multimastery]

Hey Congratulations Daniel! If what you're doing work it works! There is no doubt that keyword research is a very Powerful highly underused money-saving results-driven strategy.

[adservant]

I was wondering if buying additional key word rich domains would help generate more traffic to my site? According to this post it sounds like it but not sure. If you do recommend buying them how would you promote them?

As an example lets say my sites name is "example.com" and I want to buy additional domains that are keyword rich and set them up as permenant forwards. So I would buy ezample.com, common-examples.com, instance.com, case.com, etc (words that are synonyms, mis spellings and or phrases with "-" to example). I would attempt to capture mis-spelling typed into the browser. I am not sure if the Search engines would recognize these additional domains and help me rank better for these other words? Your input is appreciated...

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by adservant

I was wondering if buying additional key word rich domains would help generate more traffic to my site? According to this post it sounds like it but not sure. If you do recommend buying them how would you promote them?

As an example lets say my sites name is "example.com" and I want to buy additional domains that are keyword rich and set them up as permenant forwards. So I would buy ezample.com, common-examples.com, instance.com, case.com, etc (words that are synonyms, mis spellings and or phrases with "-" to example). I would attempt to capture mis-spelling typed into the browser. I am not sure if the Search engines would recognize these additional domains and help me rank better for these other words? Your input is appreciated...

That does work, but actually USING the domains and powering them up with related articles for example is far more powerful than just redirecting.

[lienadla]

Thanks for sharing, I've taken note of this to try in the future.

[rafaelapolinario]

Awesome, Daniel. 7 sales in one day? Incredible. The power of SEO.

Cheers,
Rafael

[sonia431]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the great post! I was reading page 1 of this thread and when I type in top 10 banks in the us or top baby boy names in seo book tool, it returns 4-5 daily searches.

Am I missing something?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by sonia431

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the great post! I was reading page 1 of this thread and when I type in top 10 banks in the us or top baby boy names in seo book tool, it returns 4-5 daily searches.

Am I missing something?

I think you are misunderstanding keyword research, check this thread out: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ion-101-a.html

That will do the trick.

[Michael Franklin]

Hey Daniel,

Awesome post! You really gave us a lot to run with...Thanks! Just 2 quick questions....

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

Then I used a social bookmarking submission automated software (BIG Mike's SocialBot) to get backlinks to all the pages of my blog (every blog post is considered a page and so are the comments for each post).

So do you set up the blog so that there is no more than ONE blog post per page in the blogger layout settings?

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

So I went to Clickbank grabbed a related product and spread my affiliate link all over the blog.

Do you put your affiliate links within the keyword phrases of your blog post or are you putting your affiliate links as separate banners/text links in between posts or on the sidebar?

Thanks for all of your excellent input!

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by MidwestMike

Hey Daniel,

Awesome post! You really gave us a lot to run with...Thanks! Just 2 quick questions....

So do you set up the blog so that there is no more than ONE blog post per page in the blogger layout settings?

Do you put your affiliate links within the keyword phrases of your blog post or are you putting your affiliate links as separate banners/text links in between posts or on the sidebar?

Thanks for all of your excellent input!

You can have several posts in the main page, considering each post will get it's own page anyway.

The affiliate link has nothing to do with SEO. You want to place it or spread it so that visitors are inclined to click on it, simple.

Originally Posted by jkill

Hi Daniel,

Great thread and thanks for taking your time to help others here.

I'm one of those guys that messed up when using adwords suggestion tool for seo purposes.

I'm wondering though, how did you search for the above keywords? For "top 10 banks in the us" i'm barely seeing any results in seobook and wordtracker. Do you have a wordtrackker account or you using the free online keyword tool.

This thread was started on October 2008.

Of course the keyword results have changed.

[fortony]

Does .net .biz etc. instead of .com really matter with Google?? Everything else being equal, I've read elsewhere it does not affect your search rankings (although it obviously might have other effects).

From a search engine standpoint, you would think it doesn't since it is their job to give you the most relevant info regardless.

[artsub]

Yeah! Cool discussion there,
Nice Posts & very usefull,
Rock on Guyz!
Good Luck to all of U ;-

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by jkill

True true. Do you use this tool for your keyword search?

Free Keyword Suggestion Tool From Wordtracker

Is it worth the monthly membership with wordtracker? Will you get better mroe accurate results with the membership?

Thanks

It's good for finding keywords, it digs for related terms a lot. It's probably the best non-Google database alternative. Meaning it takes its results from the metacrawlers.

As for Google database, the best is Micro Niche Finder in my opinion.

[UKTim29]

How many sales a day do you get now from it?

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by UKTim29

How many sales a day do you get now from it?

None, but it served its purpose back then (5 months ago). It was probably a trend.

Either way, it is still the fastest way to make money online in the short term.

[Michael Franklin]

Originally Posted by Daniel Molano

The affiliate link has nothing to do with SEO. You want to place it or spread it so that visitors are inclined to click on it, simple.

Actually, when I asked about affiliate links, what I meant to ask was...What are the best ways to place your affiliate link so that readers will click them?

In other words, do you hyperlink keywords in each post to your affiliate product? Or, do you setup links/banners between posts?

I know you said to spread them so visitors are inclined to click on them, but what do you find to be the optimal way to post your affiliate links on your blog to make money?

Thanks for all of your input!

[Daniel Molano]

Originally Posted by MidwestMike

Actually, when I asked about affiliate links, what I meant to ask was...What are the best ways to place your affiliate link so that readers will click them?

In other words, do you hyperlink keywords in each post to your affiliate product? Or, do you setup links/banners between posts?

I know you said to spread them so visitors are inclined to click on them, but what do you find to be the optimal way to post your affiliate links on your blog to make money?

Thanks for all of your input!

Try both. If they don't come with a tracking ID then set it up (Clickbank has that option).

Give the posts and banners different tracking IDs, that way you will know which one performs better.

There is no such thing as "THE best method/system". You need to test, tweak and track to see what performs better for you, your site and the niche you are on.