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Hey guys,

So I just recently ran across this forum and have been browsing for a days. I have been interested in the domainnig world for about 6 months now. I figured I would post a journal like a few other members have to try to get some good feedback. Like the title says, you had ur warning :)

First Day/ Plan: I bought two domains that have around 500-700 exact global searches. One has to do with sleeping and the other has to do with hair loss. Both have cpc's above $5.00 but below $6.00. My plan is to develop these sites out with WordPress into "mini"sites with 4 to 5 pages of relevant topics. I then plan to throw AdSense up on them and hopefully watch the cash flow in! Also I am interested into other affiliate marketing but haven't looked into anything other than AdSense.



Day 3: I have built out the hair site with 3 articles posted. I have installed All In One Seo plugin, Google Analytics and I also have a site meter. Yesterday their was 20 unique visitors and today I am at 29.

Plans for the weekend: I have my keyword strategy that I will be targeting ready for the sleep site. I am going to get 4 articles written and finish designing the site.

Research that will be done: I currently understand how important backlinks are but do not fully understand where and how to start. Any suggestions for dummies would be huge. I am also looking for more tools to figure out how my page is ranking. If you know any please share.

That's all for today,

Thanks for reading

-Rick
 


Seems like a solid plan mostly. What is the competition like for those keywords? I don't mean # of pages in google, I mean quality and quantity of backlinks etc - it's important to know what you are competing against.

Backlinks can be done in so many ways. Since your site is still quite new I would use web 2.0 sites (For example a blog on wordpress.com) to make sure your sites dont get sandboxed. You can do blog comments, forum profiles, social bookmarks, there are so many things. Have a look at social bookmarks in the BST section.

For rankings use Rank Checker - a plugin for firefox.
 
sixthcutuan said:
Seems like a solid plan mostly. What is the competition like for those keywords? I don't mean # of pages in google, I mean quality and quantity of backlinks etc - it's important to know what you are competing against.

Backlinks can be done in so many ways. Since your site is still quite new I would use web 2.0 sites (For example a blog on wordpress.com) to make sure your sites dont get sandboxed. You can do blog comments, forum profiles, social bookmarks, there are so many things. Have a look at social bookmarks in the BST section.

For rankings use Rank Checker - a plugin for firefox.
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Thanks for the reply. What would you suggest to find out my competition's backlinks and how to determine the quality.
 
Well ideally if you had the money, I would recommend Seripiq.

If not then use yahoo site explorer to check backlinks but also have a look at majestic seo and ahrefs.

It also good to do these checks:

- Are these sites also built specifically for that keyword or are the top rankings just pages on sites?
- What are the ages of your competitors domains
- Use a free online tool to check their on-page SEO. You should also check yours.
- Is the keyword anywhere in your competitors URL's? Is it in their domain, their page or not at all?
- What is the anchor text of the backlinks? (Harder to do)

The quality of a backlink has many factors but a VERY VERY general (and in many cases poor) scale of how good the quality of a backlink is, is to check the pagerank of the PAGE (not domain) that the backlink is on. Even when you are new to SEO PR0 / PR N/A / PR1 you should not be scared of, unless in very large amounts.
 
sixthcutuan said:
Well ideally if you had the money, I would recommend Seripiq.

If not then use yahoo site explorer to check backlinks but also have a look at majestic seo and ahrefs.

It also good to do these checks:

- Are these sites also built specifically for that keyword or are the top rankings just pages on sites?
- What are the ages of your competitors domains
- Use a free online tool to check their on-page SEO. You should also check yours.
- Is the keyword anywhere in your competitors URL's? Is it in their domain, their page or not at all?
- What is the anchor text of the backlinks? (Harder to do)

The quality of a backlink has many factors but a VERY VERY general (and in many cases poor) scale of how good the quality of a backlink is, is to check the pagerank of the PAGE (not domain) that the backlink is on. Even when you are new to SEO PR0 / PR N/A / PR1 you should not be scared of, unless in very large amounts.
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My domains are exact keyword domains, so would you suggest that I review say the top 5 or top 10 of the competition on Google under that exact phrase and make an excelsheet to review each site?
 
rcriger said:
Thanks for the reply. What would you suggest to find out my competition's backlinks and how to determine the quality.
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Have you checked out Market Samurai?
You can download and use the software free for a specific trial period (something like 7-10 days).
Given your looking at such a specific area you can use it to get the info you're after and then uninstall it!
 
rcriger said:
My domains are exact keyword domains, so would you suggest that I review say the top 5 or top 10 of the competition on Google under that exact phrase and make an excelsheet to review each site?
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Thats what I did before SERPIQ, took an age though. You can sign up with a free account and get a few keywords a day to try. Should be enough for you. Not affiliated, but I am now a loyal user.
 
I agree with using market samurai, especially for sussing out the competition and getting a feel for how much work it'll take to get good SERPs.

What sort of budgeting you planning for this so far? This would greatly determine the amount of effort you'll need to put in yourself vs outsourcing.
 
Update**

Day 7:

I went out of town this weekend with the plan of getting the site done and writing three articles. Little did I know the town had horrible connection and I was unable to get anything done. I was able to browse on WF a little bit and noticed that I could buy ~500 word articles for around 5 bucks. I have been trying to bootleg this as much as possible but 5 bucks for an article just seems worth it.

Question to the readers:

How do you guys feel about buying writing services from BST? Anything to look out for, any recommendations or your general thoughts regarding outsourcing this part of the project?

Once again thanks for reading

-Rick
 
Well i've bought 10 articles for a blog recently. I usually schedule them out to be posted every day or two. I got a few articles from Hemux with cheap rates and no mistakes but with article writing you usually get what you pay for. I think cheaper articles would be fine for you because the general idea with adsense blogs is to not give visitors enough information which makes them click ads.

It's really up to you whether to outsource.
 
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