7 Day Plan to Creating a Niche Blog

by TCrosby

Posted: 13 years ago 12 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I was outlining a 7 day plan to launching a niche blog in MS word, and thought I would share it here. At some point I am going to flesh this out and probably make a report out of it, but for now it's here for you all.

Day 1:

Choose your Niche
- Bookmark information sources
- Bookmark Affiliate products
- Find material for writing/compiling a free report
Keyword Research
- Identify several primary keywords that are you primary, long term goal to dominate
- Identify 5-15 secondary keywords that you can rank for with blog posts, articles, etc
Buy a domain targeting primary keywords
Buy hosting
Sign up for Aweber
Niche Research
- Read, bookmark, read, bookmark
- Compile sources that can be used in your writing

Day 2:

Install wordpress
- Install a theme
- Install Plugins
  - Akismet, and/or other antispam
  - Contact Form 7
  - All in One SEO Pack
  - WP Sucher Cache
  - Google XML Sitemaps
  - Broken Link Checker
  - Pretty Links
  - Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
  - Thank me Later
  - Comment Reply Notification
  - Onlywire Multisubmit
  - Digg Digg, Socialize, Sexy Bookmarks, or Social Bookmarking Plugin of your choice
- Setup a proper ping list (google it)
- Permalink structure
- About page
- Contact page
More Niche Research

Day 3:

Create a free report, or hire someone to make one
Write your autoresponder series
Niche Research

Day 4:

Create a Facebook page, put a "Likebox" on your blog
Create a twitter account, install a twitter feed plugin on your blog
Register at article directories
- ezineartes
- goarticles
- articledashboard
- articlealley
- articlebase
Create a youtube account
Create Social Bookmarking accounts (for onlywire and/or SocialPoster.com)
Find and Register at forums related to your niche

Day 5:

Write a blog post
Spin your blog post into a shorter article, submit to directories
Make a powerpoint/voiceover video out of your post, submit it
Facebook your post, Tweet your post
Post on forums (link to blog in signature

**Check out fiverr.com, clickfive.com, look into some "quick splash" link building strategies to put your blog on the map

Day 6:

Write a blog post, article, video, facebook/tweet
Forum posting, Facebook interactions, twitter interactions
Write or pay someone to write a press release

Day 7 and On:

Continue writing posts, articles, videos, social networking
Several special types of posts to write in the future:
- Interview experts in Niche
- Top Lists (X ways to do this, Y cures to this)
- Review of Products
- News in niche
- Always use titles that are "shareable" (retweeting, fb sharing, etc)

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Shirlyn 13 years ago

hi, thank you so much for really useful days for writing a niche blog post and I think these steps would work enough to retrieve targeted niche traffic for a website.
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kalindu 13 years ago

thanks a lot, this helps a lot ..
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richard_s_smith

13 years ago

good stuff tcrosby, thanks! whats your methodology for finding/researching your niches, do you just search randomly or do you have a similar outline for just choosing your niche youve found to speed up the niche finding process

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TCrosby

13 years ago

Originally Posted by richard_s_smith

Google Trends
Yahoo Answers
43things.com
Yellowpages (physical big ass old yellowpages books)
Plain old searching through clickbank
Sear Ezinearticles by categories, most viewed, or other criteria
Online store categories (walmart, target, sears)
Observe your surroundings (what do use each day? What do you do?

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Caleb D Miller 13 years ago

Good plan.

Start as soon as you can and document everything. Write down what seems to be effective and what doesn't.

Follow through with that plan. It's only 7 days.
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60MinuteAffiliate 13 years ago

that's a good 7 day plan, the only thing that I'd say it would ultimately depend if someone were a full time marketer or a spare time marketer to fit all those daily tasks in. Some days may overwhelm people who can only throw 1 hour a day at it.

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colleen
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cpalounger

13 years ago

Would this strategy be considered aggressive? Is it aimed on getting your site ranked or your posts?

I am wondering if the average niche blogger who creates an opimized blog as above and then creates backlinks using directories and sqidoo pages, hubpages, wiki's and the like to create authority to thier blog posts will have success as well right.

I hope this is the case, as I have many niches for which I want to take part in and I think as a part time marketer ( at this point in time) these tasks would be tough to do.

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TCrosby

13 years ago

Originally Posted by cpalounger

This is definitely agressive, in terms of the amount of time being put in per day. You could do these same things over 2-3 weeks and be fine, but I was trying to put together for creating a complete niche authority blog in a single week.

Ideally, you will get both individual posts, and the home page ranked well as time progresses. It is important the posts are well titled based on keywords. For every post, spin it to make an article, submit to a handful or directories. Make a powerpoint video out of it, submit that to youtube. Thereby making backlinks out of content you already have (the post). In addition to facebooking, tweeting, social bookmarking, and forums, your posts will gather linkjuice and authority.

The big thing is that after these 7 days, your job is a breeze. You just have two tasks to do regularly:
You really only have two tasks to do regularly:
1. Write a blog post, write a shorter article version of it, make a video powerpoint of it, facebook share the post, tweet the post.
2. Forum market

Number 1 can be done as little as once or twice a week, or as much as every day.
Forum marketing can be done in 5 minutes a day.

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bmarketer 13 years ago

This is a really well thought out plan for a week, with all the steps needed to have a niche blog up and running. It is very good for a lot of people who get overwhelmed with all the work that is involved in order to have a successful blog that is profitable. Thanks for sharing this
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Wayne-JJ 13 years ago

Sounds like a good plan. Just curious, are you using paid tools for your keyword research?
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- TCrosby 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Wayne-JJ
  
  Sounds like a good plan. Just curious, are you using paid tools for your keyword research?
  
  I've never found the need for paid keyword research software.
  
  Spend money on hosting -> bluehost or hostgator
  Autoresponder -> Aweber or getresponse
  Domain -> Name.com
  Popup Domination plugin
  TubeMogul would be helpful
  
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Azlan 13 years ago

really.. really a good and well detailed plan... thanks for sharing...

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