thehobbster's Thread of Questions!
- SEO |
Foremost, thank you guys for sharing this wonderful information. I've been involved with Adsense for about a year and have been studying SEO for the past month.
I feel that if I do keyword research and then decide on a site to work on, then I will definitely burn out and quit working on it. So I've chosen a broad topic of my own interest and from there I am targeting micro-niches within. I think it's a safe balance, to keep my interest and let me still maximize profit. I will eventually end up with an authority super-site. This blog will be my long-term project. I will monetize it with the Adsense and Amazon Affiliate programs for now.
I recognize that with the topic for my blog not being the best keywords as far as money goes, that I'd like to also experiment with two other options: a single micro-niche site, and a forum (of which I've done before successfully.) Right now though I want to focus on my super-site.
Anyways, I have a lot of random questions that I want to house within one thread:
1. Interlinking - Wordpress has navigation bars. Every blog post will automatically have links back to the home page, table of contents, about, etc. Are those "frames" for lack of a better word, or will Google consider those as backlinks (although weak since they are from the same site). I'm trying to determine whether I need to add more interlinking or if this is sufficient. Too much seems like spam and self-promotion and detracts from the content. I realize content is king!
2. White Hat SEO - This is what I'm interested in for my super-site. But I'm not sure what falls within that umbrella. Is submitting to article directories White Hat? I don't want to do anything to compromise my adsense account. What all is legit white hat that I can get away with? I'm not stuffing my keywords or link exchanges or buying traffic. It's all only been on-page SEO at this point. But I'm still only building content and I'm prepping my mind for off-page SEO. Thus this question.
3. Exit Points - I've been setting up my blog so that it ONLY interlinks at this point. I haven't linked out to any other site yet. The only exit points is to close the window, type a new address, go to your own bookmarks, or click an ad. I'm trying to funnel traffic. The only exit links I plan on having is to Amazon products to make commission there. I will have one page and one page only to list other blogs and web pages I enjoy. Is this a smart strategy? Or am I missing some other aspect of sharing links all over the place? Again, I feel like it detracts from content and gives extra exit points. I want people clicking on ads!
4. Original Content - Everything on my blog is original content. I'm up to 40 posts and some follow the 3-500 word rule, some are 1000 words, etc. I'm just making original posts. I'm writing as many as I can then scheduling them at one a week until October, then dripping them at two a week. This will allow me to take the time to also do some off-page SEO stuff to each one. I guess this point goes back to the white hat seo stuff. What can I legally do without compromising my adsense account? Should I rewrite each one and submit to article directories? How many can I submit to before I'm doing something Google will frown upon? Does each one need to be rewritten, or can I do one rewrite and put that same one up on each different article directory?
5. Social Bookmarking - I recognize doing a few of these would be legal. But what about grabbing one of those bots that'll bookmark each one of my posts to 100 different social bookmarking sites. How does Google view this?
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I know some of these questions have been beat to death. But I'm also noticing a lot of people simply repeating info and basically spamming to get their signatures indexed. For instance, I know one myth is that your domain name needs to include your keyword. StevePavlina's site doesn't have any keyword in his, yet he makes six figures. Google doesn't index domains, they index pages. So I'm asking for true clarification on some of these questions that have so much gray area. They are tricky ones.
Thanks for your time. I'll return in a few days to respond. I have a strange shift at work! See you guys soon.
I feel that if I do keyword research and then decide on a site to work on, then I will definitely burn out and quit working on it. So I've chosen a broad topic of my own interest and from there I am targeting micro-niches within. I think it's a safe balance, to keep my interest and let me still maximize profit. I will eventually end up with an authority super-site. This blog will be my long-term project. I will monetize it with the Adsense and Amazon Affiliate programs for now.
I recognize that with the topic for my blog not being the best keywords as far as money goes, that I'd like to also experiment with two other options: a single micro-niche site, and a forum (of which I've done before successfully.) Right now though I want to focus on my super-site.
Anyways, I have a lot of random questions that I want to house within one thread:
1. Interlinking - Wordpress has navigation bars. Every blog post will automatically have links back to the home page, table of contents, about, etc. Are those "frames" for lack of a better word, or will Google consider those as backlinks (although weak since they are from the same site). I'm trying to determine whether I need to add more interlinking or if this is sufficient. Too much seems like spam and self-promotion and detracts from the content. I realize content is king!
2. White Hat SEO - This is what I'm interested in for my super-site. But I'm not sure what falls within that umbrella. Is submitting to article directories White Hat? I don't want to do anything to compromise my adsense account. What all is legit white hat that I can get away with? I'm not stuffing my keywords or link exchanges or buying traffic. It's all only been on-page SEO at this point. But I'm still only building content and I'm prepping my mind for off-page SEO. Thus this question.
3. Exit Points - I've been setting up my blog so that it ONLY interlinks at this point. I haven't linked out to any other site yet. The only exit points is to close the window, type a new address, go to your own bookmarks, or click an ad. I'm trying to funnel traffic. The only exit links I plan on having is to Amazon products to make commission there. I will have one page and one page only to list other blogs and web pages I enjoy. Is this a smart strategy? Or am I missing some other aspect of sharing links all over the place? Again, I feel like it detracts from content and gives extra exit points. I want people clicking on ads!
4. Original Content - Everything on my blog is original content. I'm up to 40 posts and some follow the 3-500 word rule, some are 1000 words, etc. I'm just making original posts. I'm writing as many as I can then scheduling them at one a week until October, then dripping them at two a week. This will allow me to take the time to also do some off-page SEO stuff to each one. I guess this point goes back to the white hat seo stuff. What can I legally do without compromising my adsense account? Should I rewrite each one and submit to article directories? How many can I submit to before I'm doing something Google will frown upon? Does each one need to be rewritten, or can I do one rewrite and put that same one up on each different article directory?
5. Social Bookmarking - I recognize doing a few of these would be legal. But what about grabbing one of those bots that'll bookmark each one of my posts to 100 different social bookmarking sites. How does Google view this?
_
I know some of these questions have been beat to death. But I'm also noticing a lot of people simply repeating info and basically spamming to get their signatures indexed. For instance, I know one myth is that your domain name needs to include your keyword. StevePavlina's site doesn't have any keyword in his, yet he makes six figures. Google doesn't index domains, they index pages. So I'm asking for true clarification on some of these questions that have so much gray area. They are tricky ones.
Thanks for your time. I'll return in a few days to respond. I have a strange shift at work! See you guys soon.