Paying $25 for someone to rid my information overload
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Warriors,
I'm falling victim to information overload once again. There's so many things I need to do I have no idea where to start. So I'd like to ask for some help and guidance on these next steps that I'm about to take. I will send $25USD through Paypal to the Warrior who can give me the best advice. The help I've gotten from this forum has been so invaluable to me, I feel that $25 is the least I could give.
What I Want To Do: I plan on investing $200-300 into a single website of mine which is in a not so competitive, desperate health niche. I know it's against the conventional standard of building a lot of websites and seeing which ones flourish, but I see a lot of potential in this website/niche.
My goal: To completely dominate this niche and generate as much authority as possible.
What I've Done So Far: Some research: my main targeted keyword gets 4400 exact searches a month. The top search queries are PR0-3 and have 20-500 backlinks, with the majority being in the lower end. Most of them are not even properly optimized for the keyword. The current site ranked #1 gets about 150 visitors/day (according to spyfu.com).
I did a backlink analysis using SEO spyglass on one of the websites that seems to be dominating the niche (and currently #1 for my main keyword) Surprisingly, it is PR0, brand new, with 424 backlinks. After looking through the backlinks, however, I've noticed that a good 80-90% of them were extremely relevant (niche specific). A little less than half of these were sitewide links throughout 10 or so niche-specific websites. The rest of them were in-context blog posts on relevant blogs. Another 100 or so came from a site called http://www.renaissancefaire.ca/insert-keyword-here, and I have no idea what kind of website this is.
Other websites that are dominating this niche are following a similar backlinking pattern, with an emphasis on relevant blog posts, some on relevant sites and others on not-so-relevant sites underneath a health category. (Linkvana, perhaps?) Most of these backlinks, however, were PR0.
As of right now, my website is ranked in the middle of the 3rd page, which is surprising because I really haven't done much in terms of backlinking. Just a little social bookmarking, profile links, and a lot of blog commenting. The majority of my backlinks actually come from blog comments (more than 70% I'd say, as seen through SEO spyglass). So I feel that I should be able to get on the first page relatively easily. However, I don't know how I'm going to beat the competition when they have so many high quality relevant backlinks.
What I Need: First off, I need to know what steps I should take to beat the competition.
I also need some more content on my website, I only have about 8 pages worth so far and if I hope to generate authority then I think it only makes sense to add a lot of content. The article writers I've hired in the past have been simply terrible, even though their sales letters and testimonials say otherwise. So because of that, I've always been hesitant on hiring one and thus never really got into article marketing, nor learned much about it and how it could potentially help boost my SERPs. Any input on this would be great.
I also need to redesign my website a little bit. Currently it's a Wordpress blog using a rather bland theme. There's a lot of text and I honestly don't think it converts well at all. I'd like to spend some money on a website redesign, optimized for conversions (clickthroughs to my affiliate page), with custom graphics and a section for opt in.
My main concern is taking the wrong steps and investing too much into something that won't give much of a return. Also, I'm a lazy guy and would prefer to outsource most of the work. I hate manual labor.
So what I really want right now is to gain momentum. I want to generate a list of reliable services/workers that can help my business for the long term. Ideally, I would like someone to point me in the right direction for
1) Getting the highest quality targeted traffic (either through SEO or article marketing)
2) Generating the most authority in my niche and
3) Optimizing my site for highest conversions
..given the details I have been able to compile about my niche so far.
Here is a list of software that I currently own/use:
-Senuke
-RSSBot
-SocialBot
-DirectoryBot
-Traffic Travis Pro
-Free versions of SEO spyglass and RankTracker
Any feedback would be greatly helpful. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I really do appreciate it.
I'm falling victim to information overload once again. There's so many things I need to do I have no idea where to start. So I'd like to ask for some help and guidance on these next steps that I'm about to take. I will send $25USD through Paypal to the Warrior who can give me the best advice. The help I've gotten from this forum has been so invaluable to me, I feel that $25 is the least I could give.
What I Want To Do: I plan on investing $200-300 into a single website of mine which is in a not so competitive, desperate health niche. I know it's against the conventional standard of building a lot of websites and seeing which ones flourish, but I see a lot of potential in this website/niche.
My goal: To completely dominate this niche and generate as much authority as possible.
What I've Done So Far: Some research: my main targeted keyword gets 4400 exact searches a month. The top search queries are PR0-3 and have 20-500 backlinks, with the majority being in the lower end. Most of them are not even properly optimized for the keyword. The current site ranked #1 gets about 150 visitors/day (according to spyfu.com).
I did a backlink analysis using SEO spyglass on one of the websites that seems to be dominating the niche (and currently #1 for my main keyword) Surprisingly, it is PR0, brand new, with 424 backlinks. After looking through the backlinks, however, I've noticed that a good 80-90% of them were extremely relevant (niche specific). A little less than half of these were sitewide links throughout 10 or so niche-specific websites. The rest of them were in-context blog posts on relevant blogs. Another 100 or so came from a site called http://www.renaissancefaire.ca/insert-keyword-here, and I have no idea what kind of website this is.
Other websites that are dominating this niche are following a similar backlinking pattern, with an emphasis on relevant blog posts, some on relevant sites and others on not-so-relevant sites underneath a health category. (Linkvana, perhaps?) Most of these backlinks, however, were PR0.
As of right now, my website is ranked in the middle of the 3rd page, which is surprising because I really haven't done much in terms of backlinking. Just a little social bookmarking, profile links, and a lot of blog commenting. The majority of my backlinks actually come from blog comments (more than 70% I'd say, as seen through SEO spyglass). So I feel that I should be able to get on the first page relatively easily. However, I don't know how I'm going to beat the competition when they have so many high quality relevant backlinks.
What I Need: First off, I need to know what steps I should take to beat the competition.
I also need some more content on my website, I only have about 8 pages worth so far and if I hope to generate authority then I think it only makes sense to add a lot of content. The article writers I've hired in the past have been simply terrible, even though their sales letters and testimonials say otherwise. So because of that, I've always been hesitant on hiring one and thus never really got into article marketing, nor learned much about it and how it could potentially help boost my SERPs. Any input on this would be great.
I also need to redesign my website a little bit. Currently it's a Wordpress blog using a rather bland theme. There's a lot of text and I honestly don't think it converts well at all. I'd like to spend some money on a website redesign, optimized for conversions (clickthroughs to my affiliate page), with custom graphics and a section for opt in.
My main concern is taking the wrong steps and investing too much into something that won't give much of a return. Also, I'm a lazy guy and would prefer to outsource most of the work. I hate manual labor.
So what I really want right now is to gain momentum. I want to generate a list of reliable services/workers that can help my business for the long term. Ideally, I would like someone to point me in the right direction for
1) Getting the highest quality targeted traffic (either through SEO or article marketing)
2) Generating the most authority in my niche and
3) Optimizing my site for highest conversions
..given the details I have been able to compile about my niche so far.
Here is a list of software that I currently own/use:
-Senuke
-RSSBot
-SocialBot
-DirectoryBot
-Traffic Travis Pro
-Free versions of SEO spyglass and RankTracker
Any feedback would be greatly helpful. Thanks for taking the time to read this. I really do appreciate it.
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