What to Do With These 10 Keywords?

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Hi fellow warriors,

This is going to be long. So bear with me.

Let me elaborate further. I'm actually just getting my feet wet setting up Google Sniper type of sites. So far I have 2 and another one on the way. However, I can't seem to rank for the main keyword. Now this is a moderately searched keyword with less than 10k competition in quotes.

Note: the first two sites are already indexed in Google and these are relatively new sites. I have done no extensive backlinking yet. Still trying to figure out the best way to move forward.

While I was doing my keyword research, I came across about 10 keywords with exact search of at least 1500 per keyword per month with less than 10k competition in quotes.

There is a debate on whether you should look for searches with phrase or exact match. Let's just say I came across 2 guides that practise the exact match searches. So I'm just following along.

Oh and by the way, I used the free version of Market Samurai's keyword tool to drill down further to get these low hanging keywords. However, whether they convert or not is another matter.

I then plug these keywords into Traffic Travis (free version) to check the level of competition. And I think these keywords that I found are low competition ones. I try to find ones where I can get one of the top 5 positions so that I get some of the visitors.

But who am I to say? I'm just a newbie. I'm just trying to move forward. I'm stuck and that's why I'm here asking for help from fellow warriors.

So I got to thinking. I shouldn't leave these keywords on the table. I should do something about it.

Here's a simple calculation for illustration purposes.

10 keywords x 1500 monthly searches = 15000

Assuming I get 1/3 of these monthly searches,

15000/3 = 5000

Assuming that 1% convert into sales,

5000 x 1% = 50 sales

Assuming commission per sale is $20,

50 x $20 = $1000

I'm sure you agree with me that $1000 per month is a lot of money to leave on the table.

So here are 4 options that I came up with and I hope somebody can point me in the right way.

OPTION 1:

Write 10 articles based on the 10 keywords.

Noob question: Should I write traditional keyword based articles or LSI ones? Feedback is greatly appreciated.

Post these articles to my main site.

Do some backlinking. (What type of backlinking? Not too sure...)

Pros: Grow my own site rather than that of someone else's site.

Cons: How do I get these posts to rank for their keywords?

OPTION 2:

Write 10 articles based on the 10 keywords.

Submit these articles to GoArticles with the keywords in anchor text pointing to my main site's landing page.

Noob question: Correct me if I'm wrong. I can get my site to rank for other keywords if I have these other keywords as anchor texts pointing to my site right? Even though I don't have these keywords on my site?

Pros: Piggy back on authority sites to get my articles ranking high in the SERPs. So none or little backlinking to do.

These articles act as backlinks for my site and is therefore pushing my site up the SERPs.

Cons: Building up somebody's site.

I don't have control over my content. One day, the owners of these sites can just delete my account like how Squidoo cleaned up its house recently. And I would have lost my money site.


OPTION 3:

Write 10 articles based on the 10 keywords.

Set up a re-direct domain to point my affiliate link to affiliate site.

Submit these articles to GoArticles with links pointing directly to affiliate site NOT my own site. (Anchor texts may or may not be the keywords. It could be something like Click here...)

Pros: Utilize powerful article directory to push my articles up the SERPs.

I at least used the 10 keywords.

No need for extensive backlinking.

Cons: I'm not helping my main site up the SERPs.


OPTION 4:

Write 10 articles based on the 10 keywords.

Key in these keywords into Google's search engine without the quotes and find the web 2.0 sites ranking in the top 5 positions.

I set up accounts at those sites.

Submit these articles there.

Do some sort of a linkwheel connecting some of these properties together. (A bit hazy on this though.)

Do some backlinking.

Pros: Utilize powerful web 2.0 sites to push my articles or posts up the SERPs.

Utilize powerful web 2.0 sites to push my main site up the SERPs.

A variety of backlinks to my main site.

Cons: Time consuming.

I don't have control over my content. One day, the owners of these sites can just delete my account like how Squidoo cleaned up its house recently. And I would have lost my money site.


Note: As for backlinking, I have an account at The Link Juicer and I intend to add a campaign for my main site and some of these properties. I also use RSSBot and DirectoryBot. And I outsource my social bookmarking.

So as you can see, I'm quite confused on what to do next. Google Sniper sites don't really need to backlink but when you have to, you don't know where to start. Well, at least I don't.

I apologize for this long post but I really do hope that somebody can point me in the right direction.
#backlinks #google sniper #keywords
  • Profile picture of the author 4freedom
    Wow, I impressed you have outline various options. Most people simply do not have any clue, really, so you are a major step a head of the game.

    If it were me, I would create one article per keyword and submit the article to Ezine articles or some other article directory first. Once accepted, I would spend some time and spin each article to at least 50% unique and add one of these unique articles to your site. This build out your site. Build back links to these articles on your site.

    Then go out and submit all of these spun articles to various blogs, articles directories, etc., and link back to your site with one link and perhaps directly to your affiliate offer with another link. Again you win with backlinks and, perhaps, a few sales.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ross Kenny
      It's all about testing and the faster you can test the faster you'll succeed

      A way to jump ahead with your own site is to buy a domain that already
      has age, PR and links = Trust in Google's eyes.. Don't start off with a
      freshly bought domain...

      Here's a guy that knows his stuff when it comes to domains

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      Hope this helps in some way
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      • Profile picture of the author lydia515
        Hi Ross,

        I ask these questions as I thought some other people have tested any one of these options. I'm a bit impatient I guess. I can't wait around and do stuff for 3 months just to see whether my site is converting or not. Then I will lose my focus and I don't want to lose focus at all.

        I thought of just building 100 Google Sniper sites but if I just build and leave, build and leave, I'm leaving money on the table. So I hope somebody can help me in these regards?

        Thanks
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        • Profile picture of the author Ross Kenny
          Check out the domain link i left for you. Worth considering as most of the content can just be put onto your site and it ranks fairly fast for Sniper Sites. Also I would rewrite the content and drive more traffic from Ezine Articles and this will in turn build backlinks to your Sniper Site building up the power.

          I would personally look for more highly searched keywords as 1500 in my eyes is a little low. I've got sites out there in top positions for this amount of search volume and it's only getting 3 visits per day. A lot of the search volume can come from us Internet Marketers quering the Search Engines so try find keywords at least 3k searches per month.. Google tends to get it wrong a lot...

          Hope this helps a little more ...
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  • Profile picture of the author edhan
    I will go for the 10 keywords 10 articles and submitting them to Ezine.

    This will definitely help you to get backlinks to your main site and you can optimize it properly to get the best out of it.

    Indeed you have done quite a bit of research and that is the way to go for success to come. Keep it up and you will see some cash flowing your way.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Another option to consider:

      Write the ten articles based on those ten keywords and put them on your website. Rewrite those ten articles based on the same keywords and put those in the directories, using anchor text back to your website.

      This way you remain in control but you still get backlinks. Technically, you don't even have to rewrite the articles according to some people so that is at your own preference.

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      • Profile picture of the author Terry Kyle
        Hi Lydia,

        I'm responding to your PM invitation here but I'm on holidays so have to keep it quite brief:

        [1] Ranking for any worthwhile keyword on Google takes backlinking; it's only the level of backlinking that varies. I recommend that you also use the free version of SEO Spyglass here to see just how many backlinks your competitors have.

        [2] I would only use Exact Match results and Google's Keyword Tool seems to constantly OVERestimate search volume.

        [3] Rather than worrying about the number of competitors "in quotes", look at how strong the top couple of sites are in terms of backlink volume and quality, targeted anchor text (Spyglass is great in this regard), .gov/.edu links, age. Of course you can target the same backlinks sites of those top sites for yourself too after doing a Spyglass analysis.

        [4] In the longer term, you want your GS sites to rank more than articles (though I use articles a lot as affiliate sales drivers) so I would split your article strategy into three separate types:

        (a) use articles linked directly to CB/CJ vendors through a TLD redirect via tactics WITHIN the article directory (like EZA). Warrior Mario Brown has just released a stunning WSO on EZA internal traffic generation - it's fantastic. This strategy has NOTHING to do with Google ranking and everything to do with maximising EZA's own traffic.

        (b) when you find a keyword that is converting, bombard that keyword with a battery of your own (heavily backlinked) Web 2.0 properties such as Articlesbase, TheFreeLibrary.com, YT video, Metacafe video, GoArticle, Zimbio page, Scribd page etc. This will lock up Page 1 with your properties, increase your revenue on a paying keyword and (eventually) push your competitors off Page 1.

        (c) Use individual articles as 'Keyword Testers/Explorers' so that you can have a batch of articles all exploring the commercial viability of different keywords (could be all in the same niche though doesn't have to be of course). Many of these will probably fail (which is a good thing!) and when one or more prove lucrative, THEN build and backlink a GS site for that particular keyword. A Web 2.0 article costs nothing except backlinking time but committing to another GS site involves more.

        One of my golden rules in backlinking/SEO is 'one page-one keyword' and even though it looks completely unnatural and is counter-intuitive (don't worry I suffer constant inner conflict over this!), I don't vary the anchor text from the exact keyword phrase.

        But Lydia, the way that Google works, you are going to have to backlink and with something like a million+ new sites launched every month, weight of backlinks seems to be necessary to get sites indexed and moving.

        Hope that helps and feel free to PM me for any further clarification.
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        • Profile picture of the author lydia515
          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          Hi Lydia,

          I'm responding to your PM invitation here but I'm on holidays so have to keep it quite brief:
          Thanks for replying back. That just says soo much of your character...

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          [1] Ranking for any worthwhile keyword on Google takes backlinking; it's only the level of backlinking that varies. I recommend that you also use the free version of SEO Spyglass here to see just how many backlinks your competitors have.

          I will check out that tool. Thanks.

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          [2] I would only use Exact Match results and Google's Keyword Tool seems to constantly OVERestimate search volume.
          I'm just starting to use Exact Match results.

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          [3] Rather than worrying about the number of competitors "in quotes", look at how strong the top couple of sites are in terms of backlink volume and quality, targeted anchor text (Spyglass is great in this regard), .gov/.edu links, age. Of course you can target the same backlinks sites of those top sites for yourself too after doing a Spyglass analysis.
          This is what I'm trying to do too. I spy on the top 5 positions to see whether I can penetrate one of these positions by looking at my competitors' strengths. But I'm still learning...

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          [4] In the longer term, you want your GS sites to rank more than articles (though I use articles a lot as affiliate sales drivers) so I would split your article strategy into three separate types:

          (a) use articles linked directly to CB/CJ vendors through a TLD redirect via tactics WITHIN the article directory (like EZA). Warrior Mario Brown has just released a stunning WSO on EZA internal traffic generation - it's fantastic. This strategy has NOTHING to do with Google ranking and everything to do with maximising EZA's own traffic.
          I've purchased some products from Mario Brown and he's great but from what I hear I'll stay away from EZA first.

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          (b) when you find a keyword that is converting, bombard that keyword with a battery of your own (heavily backlinked) Web 2.0 properties such as Articlesbase, TheFreeLibrary.com, YT video, Metacafe video, GoArticle, Zimbio page, Scribd page etc. This will lock up Page 1 with your properties, increase your revenue on a paying keyword and (eventually) push your competitors off Page 1.
          I've tried doing this but found it too overwhelming. And then I gave up. By the way, how do you know the keyword is converting? By setting up a tracking ID using CB's tracking ID code? I'm afraid of using this method because I'm afraid that CB's tracking is off. I mean the more you try to mask your affiliate link, I'd think the more hoops your affiliate link has to go through and then the tracking will go off somewhere. I don't have proof though. I'm just scared. I thought of just using the direct affiliate link but then I won't have a way to properly track my links. Any way to work around this?

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          (c) Use individual articles as 'Keyword Testers/Explorers' so that you can have a batch of articles all exploring the commercial viability of different keywords (could be all in the same niche though doesn't have to be of course). Many of these will probably fail (which is a good thing!) and when one or more prove lucrative, THEN build and backlink a GS site for that particular keyword. A Web 2.0 article costs nothing except backlinking time but committing to another GS site involves more.
          So in this case, you are saying to test the keywords 1st before setting up a GS site? Golden! Why didn't I think of that?

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          One of my golden rules in backlinking/SEO is 'one page-one keyword' and even though it looks completely unnatural and is counter-intuitive (don't worry I suffer constant inner conflict over this!), I don't vary the anchor text from the exact keyword phrase.
          When you say one page-one keyword, do you mean that on your site and your other articles you are focused on keyword density rather than LSI?

          Originally Posted by Terry Kyle View Post

          But Lydia, the way that Google works, you are going to have to backlink and with something like a million+ new sites launched every month, weight of backlinks seems to be necessary to get sites indexed and moving.

          Hope that helps and feel free to PM me for any further clarification.
          Thanks for replying to my thread. I think your reply has helped me clear up some stuff.
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  • Profile picture of the author type-m
    I would write 10 articles. Don't care if it's one keyword based or LSI. I just use my main keyword in the title, in the first 50 words, once in the body and in the last paragraph.
    Usually I don't even have to think if I have used the keyword, they just come naturally.

    Put them all on my website.

    Then build backlinks:

    1. Rewrite the articles or write new ones and submit them to article directories. Link back to your site and to some of your other properties or to affiliate offer. Ping the article urls. (pingomatic[dot]com)
    2. Create web 2.0 properties with rewritten articles. Linkwheel: 2 links on each property: one link to your own site, second to other property. Don't close the wheel, that means property A links to property B which links to C which links to D but D doesn't link back to A. D might link maybe back to C. It means that you have a reciprocal links, but that's over dramatized. It's logical that websites on the same subject link to each other so it's natural to google that some sites may have reciprocal links. It's not natural if everything is linked perfectly that every web page (your properties) get the same amount of links and link sources act like a team.
    Ping all the properties and submit their RSS feeds(most properties have them) to rss aggregators(Find them easily with google).
    3. Use articlevideorobot(dot)com to turn your articles into videos and submit them to video sites using their built in submission tool or tubemogul(dot)com. Link back to your site in the video description area, and use relevant descriptions and tags.
    4. Social bookmark at least some of your properties and/or videos
    5. Find relevant forums(google:keyword+forum, if that doesn't show up use relevant keyword+forum) comment in the forums with your link in the signature.
    6. Google: keyword+keyword luv and keyword+ comment luv. This way you can find do-follow blogs where you can live you comment with back to your site. Comment on the blog and provide value.
    7. Put a related youtube video on your website.

    Important is to realize how Google works and the main thing Google wants is to provide good user experience to their searchers. So if google thinks your website provides good experience to the searcher it will rank it high. That means quality content (on-page SEO) and other webites voting for your websites (backlinks) The more different type of backlinks you have the better. Cause this shows Google that your site is important to larger audience. That's why I included so many different back link sources in my plan. Probably you don't need to do so much promotion.

    That's a lot to do, and of course there's a lot more you could do, but the results can last for years. But to avoid wasting your time in case your niche isn't just converting you can either try the niche out with ppc, which I don't recommend to a newbie or put up a sniper site after another and not worry about the promotion, then when you have bunch of these, look for the ones that have bigger earnings or higher rankings and promote these. If you put up lots of sites, I'm sure some of them do fine. More trial equals more possibility for success.

    P.S. As Google is starting to put more attention to real time search I suggest you create a twitter account for that niche and tweet with your keywords and link to your website or offer. I have seen tweets ranking pretty high on search results lately. On high competitive niches they change all the time and you maybe on the first page of google for only couple of seconds. But as you seem to be in a relatively low competition niche your tweet probably stays there as so called "sleeper" cause no one else is tweeting about the same thing. Just a simple and fast thing you could try

    Wish you great success,

    Marten
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    • Profile picture of the author lydia515
      Wow type-m,

      Thanks for that long reply. That's a lot of stuff to do. I don't mean no disrespect but I can't focus long enough and do soo many things that may take a few months and not see any sort of positive results back. I'm looking for something simple to implement. That's why stuff like GSniper and StevenR's products are what I prefer. It's just that sometimes I get stuck somewhere and I don't know what to do.

      But thanks. Your reply did open my mind up to a whole other possibility out there.

      Lydia
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  • Profile picture of the author type-m
    You're welcome Lydia.

    There are of course softwares that can help you do all that, but not anything you should pay for when starting out. But from the success stories I can tell sniper sites are a good way to go. But I suggest build lots of them. Cause at the beginning there is a "google dance" instead of waiting your site to rank and hope for the best you can build new sites in the meantime. If your first one turn's out to be a loser, there's a chance you got the other ones right.

    Marten
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  • Profile picture of the author type-m
    Another thing: you should make notes of some of the resources I mentioned in my long post, they might become handy in the future. And if you get suck with something you can contact me. I'm not saying I can help you with everything, but there are some subjects where I might be.

    Marten
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    • Profile picture of the author type-m
      Lydia,

      As I don't have enough posts I can't reply to your PM. But they have a 2 week free trial. After that it's $47 or $97 a month. They have two options. They are rather expensive, especially when you are starting out, but I'm sure you can get a great value just from their free trial.

      Take care,

      Marten
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