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What should I do with my 'fail' project

by lukedidit
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So, I kind of screwed up. I built a whole website, based on a board match keyword in the keyword tool. It was not until later I learned that the default was useless and you needed to highlight 'exact' match.

Still, screw it, I brushed myself down and got back up. Its all about learning right?

Well anyhow in the process I ended with a site that I am not sure what to do with. So I thought I would see what my fellow warriors think:

Its an Amazon affiliate site as you can see, perhaps with Valentines coming up I could push it out there somehow?

One point - I don't really want to spend to much. Its current only been a $10 investment (not including my time) $5 on a logo (thanks fiverr) and $5 on 700 facebook likes (thanks fiverr) - lame, I know!
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  • Profile picture of the author Awesomo
    actually, why not promote it? It will be valentine day's in 1 month and there might be a market for this
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    • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
      Originally Posted by Awesomo View Post

      actually, why not promote it? It will be valentine day's in 1 month and there might be a market for this
      Coolio, thanks Awesomo - what promotion option do I have? What do reckon?

      This can be a warrior forum project - how to resurrect a keyword fail?
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      • Profile picture of the author NeilC
        Originally Posted by lukedidit View Post

        Coolio, thanks Awesomo - what promotion option do I have? What do reckon?

        This can be a warrior forum project - how to resurrect a keyword fail?
        There are plenty of Promotion options including:

        Natural search - seo/backlinks
        Paid traffic - ppc, cpm, ppv, media buys, classified ads
        Social media - Facebook, FB fan pages, Twitter

        You could even look at off-line promotion as well.
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        • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
          Originally Posted by NeilC View Post

          There are plenty of Promotion options including:

          Natural search - seo/backlinks
          Paid traffic - ppc, cpm, ppv, media buys, classified ads
          Social media - Facebook, FB fan pages, Twitter

          You could even look at off-line promotion as well.
          "Paid traffic - ppc, cpm, ppv, media buys, classified ads"

          Is there any free introductory offers I could get in on?
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        • Profile picture of the author Awesomo
          Originally Posted by NeilC View Post

          There are plenty of Promotion options including:

          Natural search - seo/backlinks
          Paid traffic - ppc, cpm, ppv, media buys, classified ads
          Social media - Facebook, FB fan pages, Twitter

          You could even look at off-line promotion as well.
          Neil, you are fast!

          Luke, yup as what Neil suggested. You can also try social bookmarking...
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  • Profile picture of the author NeilC
    Creating websites based on an exact match domain is just one strategy that can help your site get ranked more easily for that one main keyword/phrase, so it's certainly not the end of the road for your site.

    Just research some better keywords and create optimised content to help you get ranked for many more terms, then just promote your site, build links etc to build up your traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author James.N
      Originally Posted by NeilC View Post

      Creating websites based on an exact match domain is just one strategy that can help your site get ranked more easily for that one main keyword/phrase, so it's certainly not the end of the road for your site.

      Just research some better keywords and create optimised content to help you get ranked for many more terms, then just promote your site, build links etc to build up your traffic.
      Exactly, you're only looking at the domain. You can still rank other pages for different keywords. Do more keyword research using your new "exact" knowledge and create some new pages on that same site targeting those keywords.
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      • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
        Originally Posted by quadxnet View Post

        Exactly, you're only looking at the domain. You can still rank other pages for different keywords. Do more keyword research using your new "exact" knowledge and create some new pages on that same site targeting those keywords.
        I see:

        So if for example 'valentines gifts' has a big trend around the start of Feb - then put up some good content around .com/valentines-gifts and then anchor text 'valentines gifts' to the content?

        Blast out it to social media, articles sites, web 2.0 sites?
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      • Profile picture of the author johnharvard
        Individual pages on your site can still rank highly now that you now where you went wrong. The age of the site helps with the page rank so at least that is going for you with a site that isn't brand new.
        I have several 'fail' sites but the right way to look at it is to call them 'learn' sites instead.
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      • Profile picture of the author keyon
        I didn't think using high-traffic, broad match terms in a domain is necessarily bad, is it? If I'm building a site for the long term -- wouldn't I be better off to use broad match keywords in the name (if they are available) and then target long-tail terms for the content and inbound links?
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  • Profile picture of the author RHert
    Neil's right. Putting content on your site will help get it ranked, just make sure it's keyword rich and focused.
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  • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
    OK - I am going to keep updating this thread and make it a public experiment and learning experience for us all.

    Tonight I will start doing some serious keyword research.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by lukedidit View Post

    So, I kind of screwed up. I built a whole website, based on a board match keyword in the keyword tool. It was not until later I learned that the default was useless and you needed to highlight 'exact' match.
    It's really a nice looking site. Valentine's day is coming up. Promote it. So it doesn't get as many searches per month as you would like. Promote on social networks and get some social bookmarks.

    You could also get a new domain ... gifts something or other and have a "gifts for your boyfriend section, gifts for your girlfriend section, gifts for your husband/wife, etc. Or just gifts for him and her. Actually ... I like that. Gifts for him or her and use the content you already have for him.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kari1
    Luke your site has hardly ANY backlinks at all, that is one problem You can optimize your site for the very closely related keyword [gift ideas for boyfriend] which is 9K exact local match

    But your site is dead in the water without backlinks, it has potential though.
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    • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
      Originally Posted by Kari1 View Post

      Luke your site has hardly ANY backlinks at all, that is one problem You can optimize your site for the very closely related keyword [gift ideas for boyfriend] which is 9K exact local match

      But your site is dead in the water without backlinks, it has potential though.
      I plan to start on that tonight, just back from work sorting out the kids and stuff, my time is a little later.

      I will do some research on other keywords and then come up with an SEO plan. I have scrapebox so I could try and get some related backlinks that way.

      Other then that I will use socialmonkee for social booking marketing and perhaps put some spun content on the article sites and do a blast of backlinks against them?

      Any other suggestions?
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      • Profile picture of the author Kari1
        Scrapebox and SB's are a good start, why haven't you used them yet??? Also you can do some link exchanges and buy some High PR backlink lists for manual commenting, I buy mine from Faceblogger on here, also check out www.bcsme.com for thorough backlinking advice, one of my favorite sites to reference.
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        • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
          Post your link in or Sig file here on the warrior forum. Some where down the line some one may click on your link and head over to check out. Cant hurt.
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  • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
    Got a few PM's recommending I remove the link for now or everyone will jump on the niche!!
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