My noob strategy...input/advice much appreciated!

I think you'll be lucky to reach top spot just with articles 95% of the time. You'll need to backlink to your article to give it some juice with google particularly.

Rich

Yes. I do agree that you need to do your homework in research before undertaking those tasks you have mentioned. It will be pointless if your choices are not what people are looking for.

Also, if it is a hot niche, then you will find yourself competing with highly optimized sites and gaining reward with it will be extremely slow.

Therefore a good keywords research on niche you want will come as an important part for your success. For me, I will not choose one that is already highly competitive. I rather have the niche that is in the mid range so I can fully optimize the sales. Thereafter, you can do what you have said about writing articles constantly to direct your sale page.

Hope this helps.

I understand how you feel.


But think about it this way...and simplify it in your mind:

The old man walks into the restaurant and
tells the waiter he wants a cheeseburger with fries.

The waiter takes the order and gives
the old man the cheeseburger and fries.

The old man pays and is happy because
he got what he wanted.


The old man is the group of prospects in your niche.
The cheeseburger and fries is the product.
The waiter is you.


Now hit the REWIND button in our restaurant example...

The old man walks into the restaurant and you (the waiter)
approach him.

But before you even take his order
you bring out a salad with anchovies
for the old man when he sits down at the booth
BEFORE even taking his order and actually finding
out what he wants first.

Does this make any sense doing it this way?

Of course not.

Find the market first. THEN find the product.

In other words...

Find out what they want first (keyword research)
and THEN GIVE IT TO THEM!

You're on the right track!


P.S. Yes, you CAN rank on the first page
by submitting only articles. I have
many first page rankings without ANY
backlinking to many of my articles.
However, don't think you don't need to.
I'm just saying it's DEFINITELY possible
in my experience. It just really depends
on the keyword and "what mood Google
is in at the moment" (I'm serious).


Listen, there is not ONLY ONE RIGHT WAY TO DO SOMETHING in IM.

You can do whatever you want (not being cute).

There are no hard and fast rules here.

Yes, you can find a product first
because generally a product is created
only because there already IS a market for it,
so I can see where IM'ers would say to find
product first; however, whichever way makes
the most sense in your brain is the way to go.

So much of IM stuff is subjective. This is one of them.

Nonetheless, I hope my restaurant example
opened your eyes to which way makes the
most sense to me.