My Seo Notes

I’m a BANS user (build a niche store) and I have about 4 stores.  All my stores had very little content which I didn’t think I needed since my niche was pretty small (under 5000 results)….boy was I wrong.

My best BANS store got slapped by google for being a thin affiliate and rightly so.  Before my slap I was getting about 100 uniques a day and now I get 0.

What I missed about BANS was that it should have been treated like any other informative website with great original content…not a ton of content, but at least 4-5 articles worth.

After the content is in place then you can sprinkle in store page links.  Anyway, lesson learned.

I’m always looking to save time when I do anything related to internet marketing and finding a prospective niche usually takes the most of it.

I know how to search for a niche, but the process is time consuming.  First I need to find a hungry crowd, then it’s off to google to analyze competition for my niche phrases and then I need to see who has really optimized for my niche (and niche phrases)….annoying…time comsuming…..not anymore.

I purchased Micro Niche Finder after reading about it on the BANS forum (under traffic).  It was only 67 bucks and does all the grunt work (of course you need to think of a niche and make sure your target group is a hungry one…collectors…new mothers…must have items).

Micro Niche Finder will tell me how many searches there are for a niche phrase every month, how many sites have that exact phrase and if they are optimizing for the phrase.  Micro Niche Finder also checks how many anchored backlinks your competitor is using (or if they have any really).

Anyway, I reccomend anything that saves time.

This document is intended for starting a new BANS store, but can be used for almost any type of site or product.

1. Think of a niche. The niche should be a subset of a family (like garmin nuvi gps or even better…garmin nuvi 200 gps).
2. Enter the niche into ebay and check for at least 40 auctions with a few bids.
3. Enter the niche term in terrapeak and look for a sell through of at least 50%.
   
4. Research Niche in wordtracker. Look for at least 30-50 searches a day.
5. Run the same niche phrase through seobook keyword tool.
   
6. Search for niche phrase in google using quotes. Result should be 5,000 or less. For complete niche domination results should be 1000 or less.
   
7. Search for niche phrase in google using allintitle:”my niche phrase”. Results should be 500 or less.
8. Search for niche phrase in google using allinanchor:”my niche phrase”. Results should be 500 or less.
   

Promotion:

1. Directory Submission via DigiXmass.
   
2. Directory Submission via http://directoryrate.com/free-directory-list.php?sort=p.
   
3. Write 3 articles (or more) for the niche using instant article wizard. Submit articles to Article Marketer.
   
4. Make a Lens, Hubpage, and Qassia for each article.
   
5. Social Bookmark the site. Be sure to give a non spammy description.
6. Run the site through this meta/title checker http://www.instantposition.com/seotest.php and make sure I get 38-40 points

I write about an article a day and submit them to all the Article Directories via Article Marketer.  I then post those articles to my respective blog, website, hubpage and squidoo lens. This is obviously a lot of duplicate content, so I started getting a bit worried until I got the official word from Google. I feel better now

Google wants to serve up unique results and does a great job of picking a version of your content to show if your sites includes duplication. If you don’t want to worry about sorting through duplication on your site, you can let us worry about it instead.

Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be penalized. If duplicate pages are detected, one version will be returned in the search results to ensure variety for searchers.

Duplicate content doesn’t cause your site to be placed in the supplemental index. Duplication may indirectly influence this however, if links to your pages are split among the various versions, causing lower per-page PageRank.

Heads up!  If you’re spinning articles you might want to stop.  I’ve just learned that a lot of the major article directories are banning resource boxes, urls and accounts on spinned articles.  I’m not sure how they can tell, but they can.

I’ve never spun any article, so I don’t really care…

Write a 400 word article once a day and have it submitted to the most amount of article directories possible. Article Marketing can provide massive amounts of backlinks (which will raise your SERP) for your chosen keyword phrase.

Article Directories will allow you 2 links back to your site with whatever anchor text you want. Here is an example of how your link should be:

We offer the <a href=”http://www.mywebsite.com”>Best Seo Services</a> in St. Louis

If you want to submit your articles to 5000+ directories automatically then use the service I use…Article Marketer. I’ve got 6 articles with them and I’m very happy. If you have any questions about Article Marketer shoot me a comment.

Choose a niche with low competition. How do you do that? Well here’s my technique.

1. Type your niche phrase into google with quotes (like “my niche phrase”).
2. Results of 20,000 or less should be a piece of cake to dominate.
3. Now, find you’re true competition (people optimizing for your phrase) by typing your phrase into a google search like this: allintitle:”my niche phrase”. Results of 5000 or less almost guarantees you a page 1 result with even modest SEO for that phrase.
4. Two other google commands that may be useful are - allinurl and allinanchor. Again, look for anything less than 5000.

Submit your site to stumbleupon.com or get the stumbleupon addin for firefox if you want to stumble sites quickly. You’ll be happily surprised with the constant trickle of traffic as people randomly discover your site.

Submit your site/blog to all the major Social Networks even if they are nofollow. You can submit your site semi-automatic via socialposter. When you submit your site or blog make sure it’s very descriptive and not spammy.

Why should you do this? Well, if your submission is accepted AND kept (ie - not deleted for being spam) you’ll be securing lots and lots of high Page Rank backlinks!

The other great part of social networks is that they are crawled constantly by all the bots, so it’s a very easy way to get a site indexed almost in a matter of minutes.

If you join WA (wealthy affiliate) be sure to read all posts from a guy named “C”…totally amazing info.

I used his suggestions on creating adcopies that sell and I must say it worked!   I spent $1.00 (2 clicks) and sold a 97.00 clickbank product…amazing.