What is the mimimum articles/content recomended on a blog to test out a keyword

I like to make ten post/articles around 500 words each to start the blog. I use a long tail keyword domain and sticky the post that has my main keyword in it. This is what works for me, but if you are targeting a very low competition keyword you would not even need 10 post.

Well, it doesn't matter really how many articles you have. It's all about PR and backlinks.

I've seen some SEO masters creating sites with 1-5 articles per site.

Just remember to use a keyword in your domain name.

25 articles with 300 words with 25% keyword density will be good for you.

There are so many variables that initially set off red flags that it's almost impossible to answer this question without knowing what niche your promoting. No don't tell me either because it also depends on SEO measures that you have in place, what other marketing aspects do you employ to get your site known to the search engines?

You have a plan that sounds like the blog will be good to go but without the site being ranked, no one will know about it.

So the minimum number of articles to experience conversions is a different number for each and every niche. and to further complicate matters that minimum number is not a guarantee for the next sale. Affiliate marketing is like that; unpredictable.

Are there advantages to doing a one page preseller site over a more content based blog? If so what are the advantages?

This is just from my experience, and im not the most experienced on WF. I found this out through trial and error with my sites.

To me the advantages are:
I like to direct link to my main url and not to sub folders or post when doing backlinks. This allows me to target the main keyword for the homepage and know what my keyword density is on that page. I do not have to worry about the content always changing and what keywords are being targeted on the main page. Just keep in mind my mentality when i do this is a set and forget type.

The other thing I like about doing it this way is, I always know what the visitor is going to see when they hit my site. I usually link back to my main domain through articles. When I write my articles, I write around 80 to 90% of the article to be informative and try to give about 10 to 20% information that pertains to my presell on my main url. I dont try to upsell my product in my articles, but try to kinda upsell my website so to speak. This is a thin line and got me a few articles declined, but now I get accepted with no problems. When I do my resource box on the article, I let the visitor know about the product and the presell page that they are going to.

I try to pre-presell the visitor before they ever get to my site. This has seemed to work better for me.

If I find other articles/post are ranking high for their keywords or if they are just getting a nice amount of traffic I will drop this method and make it into a normal type of blog. My main goal when doing this type of site is to target one easy to rank keyword and get it ranked. If I start ranking for other keywords my game plan changes.

I was thinking isn't more content better due to latent semantic indexing or what haveyou?

I.e. better to have 9 of my keyword targeted articles than 1.

Frequency matter more than number. Post regularly for 10-15 days and ping every 3-4 days. You will start to notice visitors. This is the case with my blogs. Some, show results as quickly as 2 days with 2 keyword rich articles.

I'm still in two minds about whether to have a blog or just have it as a one page presell type deal with direct link at the bottom. So setting up a good quality 1k article and just having it as a static page with direct link at the bottom. I'm just wondering, if the buyer were already interested then is there much point in doing more articles. Not that I'm lazy but more than I was thinking it would be more streamlined this way. I guess that more articles means it looks less like it's JUST to sell the product and so is less likely to wreck the trust with the customer. Anyhow I have 9 optimized keywords so I will be doing 9 articles at least eventually so I spose it's just a sooner or later thing. Think I'll do the 9 articles then an internal link to a product overview then direct link. The forum is screwed up today. Why aren't paragraphs working?