Launched my first site today, wish me luck

I wish you much luck. I've recently been getting into the niche blogging sites as well so I look forward to your updates.

@thedog

The first site (in the video game niche) gets 80% of its traffic from search engines, mostly by writing keyword rich articles that are about 800-1200 words each. They are highly in-depth with research, pictures etc..

Nope not the challenge.co, just my own personal challenge to see if I could duplicate the success of the first blog with two others in separate niches... it really comes down to the fact that I am no longer passionate about the game and have different interests/passions that I would love to write about and I know products sell from the two niches.

And yea the competition in the 2 niches I'm going into will be fierce.. that's why I can't rely on just writing keyword dense articles and hoping I get linked to or outrank other sites in search engines..

For traffic generation I'm going to employ a few key strategies that worked well with my first site:

1) Content marketing, writing a post every day (need to write everyday to get visitors in that routine of checking everyday during their morning coffee).. Making these posts as valuable as possible so people get this thought of "I better subscribe to this blog or I might miss something really good"

2) Youtube Videos - I've had great success on youtube, at the beginning it was slow times, getting 1 subscriber every couple days. But I'm sitting at 4,300 subscribers on youtube currently and I only released 1 video/month (over the span of 2 years), but I have a different strategy and posting frequency that I feel might work out better this time.

3) Guest posting - can do wonders if you can find the proper people to network with. On my other blog I spent a day and recorded in a spreadsheet all the blogs where my potential readers would be hanging out or was similar to mine, I then recorded all those sites Alexa ranking and then submitted guest posts to those with a higher Alexa ranking than me.

4) Networking - I plan on this being one of my biggest sources of visitors, just going out there and finding where my potential audience hangs out (Twitter, certain forums etc) and just trying to provide as much help and value as possible... I truly believe if you do your hardest to genuinely help people without asking for anything in return it brings high quality leads and long term visitors to not only come to your site but recommend your posts to others with similar needs.

I do not have an exact.com or [insert keyword here].com site. The first blog was totally a branded name as are both of the sites I'm starting. Given that the two new blogs I'm starting are in highly competitive niches the weighting I'd get from having a keyword within my URL would be so minuscule compared to the amount of backlinks and authority the other sites have.

I just need to focus on a very super niche subset of the market I'm trying to target and build out from there. I honestly don't know how it'll pan out but I feel that having a blog to document my journey helps motivate me and keep me busy so I have results to report back

5) I do write all my own content, and back when I was posting regularly on the blog it would take me about an hour to do "research" in the game, then another 1 1/2 hours to write the post in detail with my findings with pictures/charts etc... I had some guest posters and people I hired for a bit but they would disappear after 1 or 2 good posts from lack of motivation.

Wish you the best of luck. Getting going has been difficult for me so it is nice to see others moving forward! It seems like you have a great work ethic so keep it up and I'm sure good things will happen.