Virtual Real Estate 2012. The Big Picture. Tips to Building 5-Figure/M Sites

by LMC
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Been a while since I posted something nice... so here are some tips I'm following in 2012 with VRE

Things have been changing across the front of virtual real estate much these days, mainly due to algorithm changes by Google, three years ago we could develop 100 sites in 3 months and have them all in the #1 spot in 4-6 weeks, but much has changed.

What has changed?


The measurement of value.

Google has not changed, every year, every update they do... consistently stands in line with Google's business mission. Straight from their page:

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Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

The key term in their statement was useful.

A few years ago Google measured value and a specific pages usefulness by quantitative approaches.However, since people and society are viewing information use in a different matter, Google is adjusting with society. Now, it's not just quantitative data that determines your site success, but also qualitative.

The web has produced a quantitative measurement of qualitative results. All these facebook likes, google +1's, and social media factors make it possible.

Google is measure the big picture now, and you need to adapt especially if you plan on lasting long through the years.

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When you build a site now.
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You want to remember.... what value am I going to deliver?

Value can simply be in the way that you showcase your content to the visitor, if the visitor is coming in on a "buying keyword", show them their different options and price comparisons... make shopping simple for them.

All in while you will receive your sale for doing so... and since you are presenting true value, you will be safe in the eyes of the big G.

Deliver 1,000 word articles, not 400 word articles. Get technical and detailed in your content. Become a point of reference so you can receive natural linking.

Give true value... and post your links in Wikipedia on your toughest keywords.

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When backlinking to sites... Think diversity

If you overload your site with 20,000 profile links it is going to go nowhere.

Every anchor text keyword you use to do backlinking should have a different mix of linking to it so it's not patterned.

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When monetizing....

Slow it down, don't monetize till you are in prime positions and are receiving good traffic. Take it slow, let your site site for 3-6 months with out any monetizing, just backlinking, moving in position and traffic.

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If anyone has specific questions I will pop by and try to answer.





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  • Profile picture of the author Craig McPherson
    Another great post from you LMC, they always are.
    I was wondering where you had gone too.

    I agree about the backlinking too.
    My last 4 sites I have put backlinks on wordpress, tumblr, multiply and blogger and then backlinked those sites. 3 of the 4 got first page in 7-9 days. I will continue this for another 2 weeks and then start backlinking the site with a variety of anchor text and from different venues (blog commenting, 2.0, forum)

    Once again, great post mate
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Agreed. You always offer informative stuff without the fluff. Must be the New Yawka in ya (I'm from the Bronx btw). Thanks for the update.
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  • Profile picture of the author Osman_M
    Thats awesome content! Quick questions, its says under your profile name that you have 520+ sites......what sort of hosting are you using for these sites? Dedicated servers...?
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    Osman,

    I have shared hosting, dedicated hosting, as well as specific multiple c class ip hosting.
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    • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
      You know I think adding value is key. Its always good to make the internet a better place and doing so makes loyal readers, customers.

      But I don't believe Google is as capable of judging content and value as what we make it out to be. I think it has come a long way where it can now ascertain a site is spammy by picking up certain patterns such as the recent ads above the fold change, but I don't believe it is able to really understand what is good content is when it sees it.
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  • Profile picture of the author LMC
    No it can't interpret what good content is, but it can interpret the statistics surrounding the content and make assumptions based on that.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benc102
    Hi All,

    Great post by great people, what advice can you give people like me just starting out in IM, who enjoys working hard. What are the most possible ways to start making money, as I have read about CPA, etc.
    Will be grateful, if people like LMC can shed more light, on where, how to get started with a low budget, as couldn't post a new topic.
    Thank you for your patience to assist.
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  • Originally Posted by LMC View Post


    Deliver 1,000 word articles, not 400 word articles.
    Very true indeed. I always make my articles a minimum of at least 750 words, but push for 1,000 or more.
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    • Profile picture of the author adamcm
      Good post! I focus my efforts on product based websites and already follow your rule about moniterizing the site after you get it ranking and such. I normally do a post, and then save what I want to look like as a draft and wait until I feel comfortable throwing a bunch of products to my visitors.

      One thing you mentioned that I thought was interesting in terms of value was providing users with different price comparisons. I am curious how you would do that? Is that manually?
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      • Profile picture of the author Kay King
        About 6-8 months ago I had plans to build more VRE - I have some old domains that are good and had plans for some of the sites.

        I had a gut feeling that led me to hold off - there were too many things pointing to changes at google and i wasn't sure what I wanted to do. I had some very smart business people I write for who were moving to 1000-1200 word (or more) articles and I wondered what they knew that I didn't.

        Since January I've been revamping the plans for about 3 dozen new sites along the lines you mention above. My "feeling" may have been nothing more than gas - but I'm sure glad I put the sites off for a few months. Otherwise I might have been redoing all those sites right now.

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        • Profile picture of the author Lucy Writes
          I love your posts, LMC! I always learn something new and valuable from them. Thanks!

          I've been focusing on 1,000 + word articles on my sites since the beginning of the year, and I've noticed a difference in my rankings. I started several new sites earlier in the year using 1,000 + word posts, and they did very well, so I went back and re-vamped a lot of my older sites that only had 400 and 500 word posts, and made the posts longer. Those sites are also doing better in the rankings now.

          I think you're right on about usefulness and being a point of reference for your niche. That's what's going to get you attention on Google, and 500 word articles, in most cases, won't be able to contain enough information to be a good point of reference. Original, well-written content is important, too, as you want people to stay on your site, read what is there, and find it useful enough that they come back, and even refer their friends to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author halo3
    so how do you decide how much to write ? i have seen websites with only few 100 words appear on the first page as oppose to the websites that published fat articles that eneded up on the 3 4 5 th page... (i think the matter has more then LSI keywords to it..)

    penny for your thoughts?
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  • Profile picture of the author reclark
    Just a quick thank you. I'm so new I'm not sure what is going on some days. Posts like this are so important to people like me. So, Thank You.
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