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I think you guys have the wrong idea about long tail. Try this if you want to rank fast.

by nest28
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In my other threads I've explain how to build authority sites using long tail keywords but I think you guys may have the wrong idea of what I mean by long tail.

Example

Site about "acne" here is what some people consider long tail:

To me these are keywords that will have competition.

acne treatment reviews

back acne treatment

acne scare treatment


Some may even consider these as good ideas:

How to get rid of acne

What causes acne

The problem with these questions are that they are common which means there is sure to be plenty of sites with articles based on this exact phrase.

These are the phrases I would go after :


What are some homemade remedies to get rid of acne scars?

Can I use acne scar medicine along with my regular acne treatment?

I have acne on my face and back, how can i get rid of it easily without using much money?


How can I tell the difference between teenage acne and adult acne?

What acne wash or natural remedy worked for you?


I recently gave this same advice to a wf member just yesterday.

I told her hey you could make a site about acne as seen above and further explain a site like this could be monetized using not only adsense but also amazon and click bank products.


step 1
I would use a stand alone squeeze page to sell "acne no more" e-book from click bank

step 2

Use adsense on all other pages.

step 3

Have a products page using amazon where they could buy Clearasil or some kind of acne products.

This method takes a lot of content to be truly effective but I guarantee you'll make money from a site like this.



A better way would to go after high paying keywords because you would only need about 2000 visitors a month to make anywhere from 100.00 to 200.00 a month.


You may not even need that much content with the second approach. 50 posts may do it or 75 I don't know because there are to many variables to consider.

There was something else I wanted to say but forgot what .

Edit: I remember now I was going to say I also make comments on my own blog that are related to the post itself.

Example: post title "how to get rid of acne fast"

I would post comments like "I got rid of acne quickly" or "what's the fastest way to get rid of acne".

These comments sometimes bring in extra traffic through google search
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  • Profile picture of the author Beats4Legends
    A lot of those very, very long keywords have literally no traffic, though. Planning is more important than anything when it comes to Google, you gotta make sure you're not wasting your time or your efforts, money etc

    As for me? In my experience I have always gone for the biggest keyword in the entire market as my main goal. If the goal is for a site about "how to sell music", the biggest keyword is "sell music" for that market as I can see, so I title my site "sellmusicfast.com".

    It helps tremendously.

    Additionally, I would say taking over smaller keywords is good, but to make sure each keyword targeted gets absolutely minimum of 1,000 searches per month.

    Taking those small keywords first means you get traffic faster, then it makes it easier to get bigger keywords.

    Once you have your small keywords, you can use your mailing list/auto responder to promote pages with share features all over.

    That way social signals is built on auto pilot
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by Beats4Legends View Post

      A lot of those very, very long keywords have literally no traffic, though. Planning is more important than anything when it comes to Google, you gotta make sure you're not wasting your time or your efforts, money etc

      As for me? In my experience I have always gone for the biggest keyword in the entire market as my main goal. If the goal is for a site about "how to sell music", the biggest keyword is "sell music" for that market as I can see, so I title my site "sellmusicfast.com".

      It helps tremendously.

      Additionally, I would say taking over smaller keywords is good, but to make sure each keyword targeted gets absolutely minimum of 1,000 searches per month.

      Taking those small keywords first means you get traffic faster, then it makes it easier to get bigger keywords.

      Once you have your small keywords, you can use your mailing list/auto responder to promote pages with share features all over.

      That way social signals is built on auto pilot
      I understand where you are coming from , I offer this as a alternative to the more common approach. These phrases have searches just not a lot but you build a site with a hundred such phrases and you will defiantly see traffic.

      Also later on down the road you can always go after the 2 and 3 word phrase with good exact search counts if that's what you like.

      I myself have done ok with sites like these, little backlinking is required which means I save a lot of money and effort trying to backlink for a more competitive term.

      Edit: If this was a waste of time I don't think there would be a ask.com or yahoo answers etc .
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    • Profile picture of the author jwmann2
      The cool thing with continuing to add original and fresh content is the you will eventually begin to rank for keywords and phrases that you had no intentions of ranking for. And that's good because it's free traffic at the end of the day. It's all about visibility.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I have to agree that targeting the toughest keywords is a good idea.

    It doesn't matter If you ever rank for the keyword auto insurance (example), what matters is you build content that specifically targets the root keyword, then do the proper internal linking from the longtail keywords that OP is talking about.

    Example:
    • auto insurance
      • find cheap auto insurance
      • low cost car insurance in Florida
      • auto insurance quotes
      • etc...

    This way, a year from now when the site is loaded with themed content/keywords + good internal linking from pages that are already ranking good in the SERPs for their longtail keywords, you'll have an easier time breaking into the top SERPs for your root keyword (auto insurance). That root keyword also shows Google that your site covers the entire subject.

    The keyword auto insurance is an example, maybe a bit extreme as far as competition, still the concept should help with plenty of root keywords.
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I have to agree that targeting the toughest keywords is a good idea.

      It doesn't matter If you ever rank for the keyword auto insurance (example), what matters is you build content that specifically targets the root keyword, then do the proper internal linking from the longtail keywords that OP is talking about.

      Example:
      • auto insurance
        • find cheap auto insurance
        • low cost car insurance in Florida
        • auto insurance quotes
        • etc...

      This way, a year from now when the site is loaded with themed content/keywords + good internal linking from pages that are already ranking good in the SERPs for their longtail keywords, you'll have an easier time breaking into the top SERPs for your root keyword (auto insurance). That root keyword also shows Google that your site covers the entire subject.

      The keyword auto insurance is an example, maybe a bit extreme as far as competition, still the concept should help with plenty of root keywords.
      In a way it's like building a site in reverse, going after every single longtail phrase first to get quick rankings/money than focus on the high exact search count later.

      You have 2 options one is build a site with a nice amount of content let's say hundred articles you could stop there and you could probably make 100 to 200 monthly.

      Option 2

      Like Yukon has stated after your site has gained authority you could than go after the keywords in your niche that have high searches.



      I like to do less work, so I stick to the first option. 20 such sites would be a little over 2 grand a month.

      Or you could go all out and stick with the second option and make the same amount if not more with one site.
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      • Profile picture of the author jayeye
        Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

        In a way it's like building a site in reverse, going after every single longtail phrase first to get quick rankings/money than focus on the high exact search count later.

        You have 2 options one is build a site with a nice amount of content let's say hundred articles you could stop there and you could probably make 100 to 200 monthly.

        Option 2

        Like Yukon has stated after your site has gained authority you could than go after the keywords in your niche that have high searches.

        Interesting ideas, guys.
        Thanks.
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by mrehan View Post

          It seems good in the long run, but imagine the time for writing or paying for content for 20 sites . 20 sites X 100 pages. A lot of time and/or money!
          I spend exactly 400 dollars for each site and make that money back within a few months. I admit it can be expensive but at the moment this method is the only way I know how to make money fast with adsense without backlinks.

          Originally Posted by AndikaBo View Post

          Thank you for sharing.. i just wanted to staRT GOING FOR LONG TAIL KEYWORDS your post helps me a lot.
          Glad I could help.
          Originally Posted by markowe View Post

          Of course no one searches for that EXACT question phrase, but you start getting a ton of searches for similar/related phrases Nest's way. having said that, I combine that with Yukon's approach. That can be seriously powerful.
          Exactly this is what I'm trying to tell people, you will receive traffic from people searching for different variations of your posts. In the long run all these articles add up and before you know you have a site that is making money rite away.

          Originally Posted by wolfmmiii View Post

          You seriously need to get out of the "push-button" mentality.

          Folks....Internet Marketing is work.

          And to answer the question somewhat:

          1 article/hr * 8 hrs/day = 8 articles/day * 5 days/wk = 40 articles per week.

          If you need 2000 articles (100/site * 20 sites), it would take you approximately a year. And that's if you spend an hr per article.

          If you do it the way you are supposed to (like very other legit business on the planet) and stick to things you actually know something about, you can crank out 2-3 articles per hour, reducing the total time spent to just a few months.

          I'll say it again - IM is "work", folks.
          I agree so many marketers rather build thin sites that offer no real value.
          Originally Posted by The Real Slim Shaddy View Post

          I think you forgot to give credits to original author of this content
          I am the original author but can I ask you what's up with this thread

          Should be title get your adsense account banned fast

          Originally Posted by wolfmmiii View Post

          In this thread, at least, he is referencing another thread so it's not clear where he is leaching from if that is the case.
          The thread I'm referring to is also mine.
          Originally Posted by Cade21 View Post

          This fragment is unintelligible. What are you talking about? Are you trying to putdown, Nest, who has been extremely helpful to all of us? Please expand and clarify.
          Thank you very much my friend, I've had a couple people take cheap shots at me for whatever the reason and other members take up for me before I can take up for myself . I really appreciate everybody on the forum that has my back and you know I got yours.
          Originally Posted by Warrior Machine View Post

          I didn't have idea about this. I found your article really fresh and informative. Bookmarked this page for farther use.
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    • Profile picture of the author The Expert
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I have to agree that targeting the toughest keywords is a good idea.

      It doesn't matter If you ever rank for the keyword auto insurance (example), what matters is you build content that specifically targets the root keyword, then do the proper internal linking from the longtail keywords that OP is talking about.

      Example:
      • auto insurance
        • find cheap auto insurance
        • low cost car insurance in Florida
        • auto insurance quotes
        • etc...

      This way, a year from now when the site is loaded with themed content/keywords + good internal linking from pages that are already ranking good in the SERPs for their longtail keywords, you'll have an easier time breaking into the top SERPs for your root keyword (auto insurance). That root keyword also shows Google that your site covers the entire subject.

      The keyword auto insurance is an example, maybe a bit extreme as far as competition, still the concept should help with plenty of root keywords.
      Doesn't good internal linking when there are hundreds of pages involved require a tool like SEO Smartlinks? That's a wordpress plugin and if I remember correctly, Nest uses blogger. Does blogger have something similar to auto-generate internal links?
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by The Expert View Post

        Doesn't good internal linking when there are hundreds of pages involved require a tool like SEO Smartlinks? That's a wordpress plugin and if I remember correctly, Nest uses blogger. Does blogger have something similar to auto-generate internal links?
        On my own themes I run some custom WP php code that changes the on-page navigation links (page title anchor-text) based on the WP-post that your reading. So basically what I do is build pages in series (Silo/category).

        I build a series of pages all directly related to the Silo/category keyword, then I manually add additional exact match keyword anchor-text internal links in strategic on-page areas.

        Their are a few things you can do with on-page SEO that will tweak the SERP results (sitelinks, jump-links, etc...) that not only improve SEO, they also help boost SERP CTR.

        I've never used that plugin (SEO Smartlinks) so I'm not sure how the plugin is building the internal links.
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          On my own themes I run some custom WP php code that changes the on-page navigation links (page title anchor-text) based on the WP-post that your reading. So basically what I do is build pages in series (Silo/category).

          I build a series of pages all directly related to the Silo/category keyword, then I manually add additional exact match keyword anchor-text internal links in strategic on-page areas.

          Their are a few things you can do with on-page SEO that will tweak the SERP results (sitelinks, jump-links, etc...) that not only improve SEO, they also help boost SERP CTR.

          I've never used that plugin (SEO Smartlinks) so I'm not sure how the plugin is building the internal links.

          Hey Yukon I tried to get your attention on the silo structure thread but maybe you can answer my question here.

          How would I silo structure this site on blogger, the search label urls are no follow so I' not sure if google will recognize the fact that I've done some internal linking. my ultrasound technician
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  • Profile picture of the author Beats4Legends
    Yeah for sure, but I always like the idea of having just a few sites, each of them being authorities in their market. I can see where you're coming from, just make sure to do research on the keywords. Anything less than 1,000 searches a month is usually pennies
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by Beats4Legends View Post

      Yeah for sure, but I always like the idea of having just a few sites, each of them being authorities in their market. I can see where you're coming from, just make sure to do research on the keywords. Anything less than 1,000 searches a month is usually pennies
      I'm actually able to go off gut feeling when it comes to making sites. I've never had a site that didn't earn at least 100.00 from this method usually more. 20 sites is not that bad , I've heard of people having hundreds.


      I may even make 10 sites and build them out to have hundreds of pages, and than maybe later on down the line I'll go after keywords with higher search terms.
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  • Profile picture of the author lovboa
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    Nest,

    I think your method is really cool and thank you for extensively sharing with everyone here.

    This is something that I may try out for my new site. I think going after about 50-60 of these super long tails and then targeting some bigger keywords later on.
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    • Profile picture of the author mrehan
      It seems good in the long run, but imagine the time for writing or paying for content for 20 sites . 20 sites X 100 pages. A lot of time and/or money!
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      • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
        Originally Posted by mrehan View Post

        It seems good in the long run, but imagine the time for writing or paying for content for 20 sites . 20 sites X 100 pages. A lot of time and/or money!
        You seriously need to get out of the "push-button" mentality.

        Folks....Internet Marketing is work.

        And to answer the question somewhat:

        1 article/hr * 8 hrs/day = 8 articles/day * 5 days/wk = 40 articles per week.

        If you need 2000 articles (100/site * 20 sites), it would take you approximately a year. And that's if you spend an hr per article.

        If you do it the way you are supposed to (like very other legit business on the planet) and stick to things you actually know something about, you can crank out 2-3 articles per hour, reducing the total time spent to just a few months.

        I'll say it again - IM is "work", folks.
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    Thank you for sharing.. i just wanted to staRT GOING FOR LONG TAIL KEYWORDS your post helps me a lot.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    Of course no one searches for that EXACT question phrase, but you start getting a ton of searches for similar/related phrases Nest's way. having said that, I combine that with Yukon's approach. That can be seriously powerful.
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  • Profile picture of the author James-
    Listen to Yukon here guys.

    If you like the idea of writing 100 posts on long tail acne bits and bobs. Make sure you have a great internal linking structure with anchor text as 'acne treatments' back to your homepage or something. A term that gets a lot of searches and is hard to rank for.

    After 100 pages linking back to that, you will find you will be ranking well for the term without even building backlinks to it just from the sheer authority you have built up.
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    I think you forgot to give credits to original author of this content
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    • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
      Originally Posted by The Real Slim Shaddy View Post

      I think you forgot to give credits to original author of this content
      What are you talking about?
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      • Profile picture of the author The Real Slim Shaddy
        Originally Posted by wolfmmiii View Post

        What are you talking about?


        he is leeching it is not his article
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          he is leeching it is not his article
          This fragment is unintelligible. What are you talking about? Are you trying to putdown, Nest, who has been extremely helpful to all of us? Please expand and clarify.
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    In this thread, at least, he is referencing another thread so it's not clear where he is leaching from if that is the case.
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  • Profile picture of the author lutherlars
    I think the problem that some people have with this and the other big thread, is the profound realization that to make a quality site that they can be proud to own and operate, it takes time and can not be done with the push of a button. A lot of lazy IMers should spend more time writing quality content and learning from this guy than putting him down when he has made more money from his sites than they have from there own. He is opening up to us and we all should be learning as much as we can instead of bad mouthing him for his help! Just because a few of you do not wanna here that it takes time to make money on the internet, does not mean that the rest of us don't!
    Rant over, I have my own question for Nest. When you publish an article based on long tail searches, how long roughly does it take you to start seeing traffic to that article? I personally have started adopting this approach and am ranking almost immediately for "said" phrases" but am ranking anywhere from 5th to 8th page on Google. Over time do do you bookmark these articles to bring up their rank? Or do you just let them raise naturally over time? Cheers and thanks so much for your ongoing willingness to share your methods with the majority of us who appreciate them!
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by lutherlars View Post

      I think the problem that some people have with this and the other big thread, is the profound realization that to make a quality site that they can be proud to own and operate, it takes time and can not be done with the push of a button. A lot of lazy IMers should spend more time writing quality content and learning from this guy than putting him down when he has made more money from his sites than they have from there own. He is opening up to us and we all should be learning as much as we can instead of bad mouthing him for his help! Just because a few of you do not wanna here that it takes time to make money on the internet, does not mean that the rest of us don't!
      Rant over, I have my own question for Nest. When you publish an article based on long tail searches, how long roughly does it take you to start seeing traffic to that article? I personally have started adopting this approach and am ranking almost immediately for "said" phrases" but am ranking anywhere from 5th to 8th page on Google. Over time do do you bookmark these articles to bring up their rank? Or do you just let them raise naturally over time? Cheers and thanks so much for your ongoing willingness to share your methods with the majority of us who appreciate them!
      It can be difficult at times to know which phrases to go after. If you were to search for something like "how to become a ultrasound technician" you will see the entire first page if full of exact match domains and articles based on that search query.

      Now try "how many hours a week does a ultrasound technician work" and you'll see yahoo answers is your only competition. Actually that phrase does have articles, yahoo answers,wiki etc on the front page but I still get traffic from this phrase.

      When you go after these phrases make sure it's not a popular question and see what the first page results look like before making a post.

      Here's real example from my old site



      I've gotten plenty of traffic from a article I had on my site with the title "Can You Become An Ultrasound Technician With a G.E.D?"


      Can You Become An Ultrasound Technician With a G.E.D? - Ultrasound Technician


      Also please don't for get to use your analytic's info to make articles. If you see visitors coming to your site over and over again using the same search query than make a article on it.

      Edit: Thanks for everything you said I'm glad to see there are people who want to learn something new.


      Let me further explain I made a new ultrasound site with only 4 articles and they all rank on page 1/2 depending the different variations the term is searched.

      For example- How many hours does a ultrasound technician work



      here is how analytic's people reached that article


      Do ultrasound techs work 8 hour shifts

      how many hours do ultrasound technicians work in hospital

      do ultrasound techs work 12 hr shifts

      As you can see there are plenty of ways to ask the exact same questions. Where your article will place in the serps just depends on how the question is asked.


      Example I might be in 4 placed if the questioned is asked like this do ultrasound techs work 12 hr shifts but than I might be in 2 place if the question is asked like this how many hours do ultrasound technicians work in hospital .
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  • Profile picture of the author brittlesnc
    Another great thread Nest, keep up the great posting! And I really appreciated all your help Friday with the ton of questions I had...

    Even if this method isn't for some people there's no denying that Nest is providing some good info...and you don't have to necessarily copy his method/strategy but incorporate it into your own strategy...the more content you have out there and the more traffic you get chances are the better you'll do (not always but in most cases).

    And with the longer tail traffic he's talking about, the searches might not be there for individual long tail phrases but when you add them together it's pretty decent traffic not to mention depending on the phrases the conversions are better than with some shorter less specific phrases which I feel is just as important.
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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    Thanx Britt, if you have any other questions feel free to contact me. I have a lot of free time on my hands until may.
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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    I call myself doing a little research on building sites using only long tail keywords and looks whats in the number one spot lol.

    google search
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    • Profile picture of the author Rafay Zafar
      The most amazing fact referenced in the video and post is that 20% of all search queries in google are unique i.e. they were not present in google's database before. This number was actually quoted by a google engineer in 2007 and i would imagine that with google suggest, they have reduced the number of absolute unique queries over time. here is an infographic from seo book that discusses how google has killed the long tail
      Google Longtail Infographic: How Google Killed the Long Tail of Search Keywords

      At the bottom it mentions that today around 16% or about 1 in 6 of all search queries are absolutely unique! Remember these are just the never seen before queries. There are billions of other obscure long tail search queries that have a volume of less than 3-5 per month and arent shown by any keyword tool.

      The best way to target for longtail traffic is to write naturally and accommodate 10-20 related keyword variations broadly on a single page instead of repeating 1-2 exact phrases over and over again to hit a certain keyword density. Then build back links with those 10-20 keywords as anchor text
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      • Profile picture of the author dakar
        Nest. Thanks alot man for the great info that you've presented (again)!

        I just started writing about 4 articles per day for my new site that I'm trying to get traffic to.

        Once google sees that you post new articles each day, how often do you find that google crawls your site and indexes the new articles? Since my site has been static for the last 6 months, I find that its crawling and updating my home page once every week and 1/2.
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by dakar View Post

          Nest. Thanks alot man for the great info that you've presented (again)!

          I just started writing about 4 articles per day for my new site that I'm trying to get traffic to.

          Once google sees that you post new articles each day, how often do you find that google crawls your site and indexes the new articles? Since my site has been static for the last 6 months, I find that its crawling and updating my home page once every week and 1/2.
          My ultrasound site use to get index immediately after I post a article.
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          • Profile picture of the author dakar
            Nice. Hopefully my site will get to that point once I start updating it every day.
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  • Profile picture of the author nest28
    I never bothered with internal linking in the past but that's something I regret not doing. With blogger everything has to be done manually so I recommend sticking with wordpress.


    I'm so use to blogger doing things manually doesn't bother me like it would most imers.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

    Hey Yukon I tried to get your attention on the silo structure thread but maybe you can answer my question here.

    How would I silo structure this site on blogger, the search label urls are no follow so I' not sure if google will recognize the fact that I've done some internal linking. my ultrasound technician
    It's been a long time since I've worked with blogspot code, you might try searching Google for some custom code that shows all the page titles inside a category.

    Also, manually build links in each post/content with related exact anchor-text. Try & keep the links pointing at pages inside the same category.

    Here is what your links look like now on one of your internal pages.

    How To Become An Cardiovascular Technologist - Ultrasound Technician

    I've tried to reply to this thread 3 times, forum keeps messing up.
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    • Profile picture of the author Fernando1954
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Also, manually build links in each post/content with related exact anchor-text. Try & keep the links pointing at pages inside the same category.
      Yukon how many links out from each page to related posts in the category do you do.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rafay Zafar
    It is actually very easy to do silo on wordpress. However you will need to get a few plugins and a special theme that allows adding content to category pages.

    1) add content to category pages. many theme frameworks nowadays allow you to do that. I definitely know that studipress, thesis and clickbump have this feature
    2) get related posts under each category page and individual posts filed under that category
    3) use dynamic widgets. You will have to create a separate menu for each category and then add it as a widget in the sidebar. then use dynamic widgets plugin to control the appearance of the sidebar navigation links so that only the links to the category page and posts under that category appear in the sidebar for that category page and the articles posted in that category. you can also do the same thing with footer links using different anchors but i regard most footer links as spam/over seo.

    Although i do implement silo structure on my sites, i dont find anything special about it. you might jump a few spots but unless you have a site with 1000+ well categorized pages, it wont make any significant difference. I suggest people concentrate on producing good content and useful apps and getting good back-links.
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  • Profile picture of the author domainarama
    If you want links in Blogger you can use the freebie at zemanta(dot)com It links both internally and externally. It also works on the WP platform.

    In the Blogger platform you can make the links even sexier by using the free legal hack at hxxp://www(.)bloggerplugins(.)org/2009/08/related-posts-thumbnails-blogger-widget.html

    edit: zemanta(dot)com has a new feature which makes it even more sexy than its past incarnation. If you click in the right place it links with images as well as words. I hope Goog doesn't consider this a no-no. I doubt it will, but what do I know?
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  • Profile picture of the author zoobie
    Never tried this before but it may works
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    • Profile picture of the author nest28
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      It's been a long time since I've worked with blogspot code, you might try searching Google for some custom code that shows all the page titles inside a category.

      Also, manually build links in each post/content with related exact anchor-text. Try & keep the links pointing at pages inside the same category.

      Here is what your links look like now on one of your internal pages.

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      I've tried to reply to this thread 3 times, forum keeps messing up.
      Thanks a lot Yukon I really appreciate it.
      Originally Posted by domainarama View Post

      If you want links in Blogger you can use the freebie at zemanta(dot)com It links both internally and externally. It also works on the WP platform.

      In the Blogger platform you can make the links even sexier by using the free legal hack at hxxp://www(.)bloggerplugins(.)org/2009/08/related-posts-thumbnails-blogger-widget.html
      Thanks I had forgotten all about this site. My sites did well before but with a silo structure I think they'll do extremely well.
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      • Profile picture of the author mraffiliate
        What advice can you give someone who has never applied for an adsense account? I would like to have one but not sure how many pages of content I need and how old my site should be before applying?
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        • Profile picture of the author nest28
          Originally Posted by mraffiliate View Post

          What advice can you give someone who has never applied for an adsense account? I would like to have one but not sure how many pages of content I need and how old my site should be before applying?
          Create a blogspot blog and apply for an adsense account a couple days later , you should get accepted.
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          • Profile picture of the author mraffiliate
            Originally Posted by nest28 View Post

            Create a blogspot blog and apply for an adsense account a couple days later , you should get accepted.
            Thanks for the info
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  • Profile picture of the author owenlee
    thanks for the tips...this is something which is really unique and different from most of the gurus...will be testing it out and see if it works on my niche
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  • Profile picture of the author boxoun
    Great tips. To the guy that said he only targets 1k searches. That's just bad advice. When you plan a site and have Target pages, the rest of the content should be created whether there are any searches or the competition is tough. Target your main keywords but create a site with visitors in mind not the competition or exact searches.
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