No more fucking reading, analysis, or collecting tools. Its time to build.
Whether or not this succeeds is not critical to me. But if there's one theme I've seen of advice to newbs on here over and over again, its take fucking action. To that end, I've finally worked up the courage to ask for some help from WF. Here's a simplified diagram and explanation of what I've got in mind:
(note: children of B2-B16 are hidden)
A is an exact match .com relating pretty well to the niche
searches: 1,600/month Allintitle comp.: 1,200
B pages: categories - 16 high search volume, reasonable competition keywords that have the same search intent as their level C children
C pages: ~400 pages - each target a long tail keyword for the niche
search volume: miniscule-300 (GKT) per month, skewed towards the lower end
allintitle competition: each has less than 10 competing pages (in some cases zero)
So put another way, I did a bunch of keyword research to find over 400 long tail keywords with micro allintitle: competition. Lots of low hanging fruit. I then segmented the keywords into categories for which I'll target higher volume and competition terms.
The pages themselves are basically landing pages with articles at the bottom. No top or side navigation bars - its all designed around pre-selling a product that solves their problem and getting the click through. All links will be on the footer of the page and are strictly intended for spider consuption - in fact, I'll probably style it to make it hideous and unreadable. Design is 99% complete: psd sliced, HTML & CSS have been coded. Just the footer remains - which relates to my architecture question below.
Content - I'm hoping I'll be be able to simply produce one article for the B level pages and spin a unique version of it for each child. At the end of each article will be a 2nd call to action button before the footer.
Traffic - Because of the miniscule Allintitle competitions, I'm hoping I can get first page rankings quickly when the C pages are published. I'll be doing mass article distributions and building link wheels and for the B pages. I haven't read enough on what's best to build links to the parts of the link wheel yet - I see lots of talk about DFB, SB, and SEN. I don't really know shit about any of these but will be learning and investing in whatever is needed and reasonable.
Questions:
Architecture - How to maximize on-page SEO?
I don't care about the site being navigable. This is click through or bust. This isn't a good niche for list building. The keywords all basically mean the same thing so I don't really see the point in trying to provide more content for the user.
Is it adviseable for each C page to link to every B page and A?
How how should I handle linking between C1 and C18 which are all children of B1?
a. not interlink C pages at all?
b. one way wheel?
c. two way wheel?
d. only link C pages back to their B parent?
e. link to all siblings?
d. it doesn't really matter?
Content management/Testing
Since the segments are tight, it would be nice to be able to change an image, anchor text, headline, etc. on all children of a particular B level page by making one change instead of having to go into each page individually.
Can someone recommend a simple CMS for what I'm trying to accomplish?
Should this thing just be set up on WP and then modified to remove commenting, dates, move the navigation to the bottom, etc? I'd have no idea how to do that, but I'll figure it out if its the best solution.
Getting Indexed
Should I ping each page as it publishes or ping the sitemap or both? If I end up using WP, pinging isn't necessary right?
Thanks
Whether or not this succeeds is not critical to me. But if there's one theme I've seen of advice to newbs on here over and over again, its take fucking action. To that end, I've finally worked up the courage to ask for some help from WF. Here's a simplified diagram and explanation of what I've got in mind:
(note: children of B2-B16 are hidden)
A is an exact match .com relating pretty well to the niche
searches: 1,600/month Allintitle comp.: 1,200
B pages: categories - 16 high search volume, reasonable competition keywords that have the same search intent as their level C children
C pages: ~400 pages - each target a long tail keyword for the niche
search volume: miniscule-300 (GKT) per month, skewed towards the lower end
allintitle competition: each has less than 10 competing pages (in some cases zero)
So put another way, I did a bunch of keyword research to find over 400 long tail keywords with micro allintitle: competition. Lots of low hanging fruit. I then segmented the keywords into categories for which I'll target higher volume and competition terms.
The pages themselves are basically landing pages with articles at the bottom. No top or side navigation bars - its all designed around pre-selling a product that solves their problem and getting the click through. All links will be on the footer of the page and are strictly intended for spider consuption - in fact, I'll probably style it to make it hideous and unreadable. Design is 99% complete: psd sliced, HTML & CSS have been coded. Just the footer remains - which relates to my architecture question below.
Content - I'm hoping I'll be be able to simply produce one article for the B level pages and spin a unique version of it for each child. At the end of each article will be a 2nd call to action button before the footer.
Traffic - Because of the miniscule Allintitle competitions, I'm hoping I can get first page rankings quickly when the C pages are published. I'll be doing mass article distributions and building link wheels and for the B pages. I haven't read enough on what's best to build links to the parts of the link wheel yet - I see lots of talk about DFB, SB, and SEN. I don't really know shit about any of these but will be learning and investing in whatever is needed and reasonable.
Questions:
Architecture - How to maximize on-page SEO?
I don't care about the site being navigable. This is click through or bust. This isn't a good niche for list building. The keywords all basically mean the same thing so I don't really see the point in trying to provide more content for the user.
Is it adviseable for each C page to link to every B page and A?
How how should I handle linking between C1 and C18 which are all children of B1?
a. not interlink C pages at all?
b. one way wheel?
c. two way wheel?
d. only link C pages back to their B parent?
e. link to all siblings?
d. it doesn't really matter?
Content management/Testing
Since the segments are tight, it would be nice to be able to change an image, anchor text, headline, etc. on all children of a particular B level page by making one change instead of having to go into each page individually.
Can someone recommend a simple CMS for what I'm trying to accomplish?
Should this thing just be set up on WP and then modified to remove commenting, dates, move the navigation to the bottom, etc? I'd have no idea how to do that, but I'll figure it out if its the best solution.
Getting Indexed
Should I ping each page as it publishes or ping the sitemap or both? If I end up using WP, pinging isn't necessary right?
Thanks
