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ok, my silly traffic gimmicks are over. I'm going to do Proper SEO for easier keywords.

My question is if I do 5-6 simple keywords with only a couple thousand monthly traffic... would that be easier than ranking for 1 hard one with like 150k month traffic?

I don't want to do what everyone teaches or says to do. that is.. maximizing the competition and keyword traffic on one keyword.

instead I figured this..

lets say I want 2000 people on my page every day.

Thats 60,000 people a month

If I rank well for 10 keywords of 6,000 people per month... that would get me what I want.

I just dont know if it would be worth doing that as far as time is concerned.

If no one with massive experience lets me know I'll just try it out anyways for a few months and see what happens.
 


Using random figures from serpiq to give you an idea of what I mean.

Say a 6k term had a competition score of 28/100 - this would be very easy to rank, just make a new page, write an article and get a few links on it. Should be near or on the first page within a week.

A 60k term with a comp score of 70/100 - this would be very hard to rank and would take a very long period of time. The 6k term would be like a drop in the ocean.

So my answer is that if the 6k keywords you are looking at are like my example above then yes, it would be easier to rank for them. Throw up a page, do steady backlinking and you're good to go.

If you're targeting all the keywords for a single page however, I find the more diverse the anchor text of links, the less well that page does for all of the keywords in the deeps.
 
Is it basically, generally true that easy keywords usually have no competition because they don't convert? So 60,000 visitors from easy keywords will perhaps not convert nearly so well as 60,000 visitors from difficult keywords?
 
bleh
good luck finding easy 6ks that convert.

I think you are coming up with your numbers to fit what you want to happen, not looking at your numbers / options and sayings HMMMMMM
Is this worth going after?
Do I have the resources to go after it?
When can I expect to see profits here?
How can I maximize said profits?
 
sixthcutuan said:
Using random figures from serpiq to give you an idea of what I mean.

Say a 6k term had a competition score of 28/100 - this would be very easy to rank, just make a new page, write an article and get a few links on it. Should be near or on the first page within a week.

A 60k term with a comp score of 70/100 - this would be very hard to rank and would take a very long period of time. The 6k term would be like a drop in the ocean.

So my answer is that if the 6k keywords you are looking at are like my example above then yes, it would be easier to rank for them. Throw up a page, do steady backlinking and you're good to go.

If you're targeting all the keywords for a single page however, I find the more diverse the anchor text of links, the less well that page does for all of the keywords in the deeps.
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Thanks man, now I don't feel like I'm in the dark about it anymore.
 
secretagentdad said:
bleh
good luck finding easy 6ks that convert.

I think you are coming up with your numbers to fit what you want to happen, not looking at your numbers / options and sayings HMMMMMM
Is this worth going after?
Do I have the resources to go after it?
When can I expect to see profits here?
How can I maximize said profits?
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I can't really be sure if its worth going after because I haven't done it before.

Generally speaking, what kinds of keywords convert well? I'm assuming long tail keywords are keywords containing very competitive keywords but reduce the competition by adding a long 'tail'?

Thats one other idea I off the top of my head. I'm trying to think outside the box here.

Resources for going after easy keywords? Well, I've got 500 bucks I can spend on articles for ranking but I don't wanna use cash until I find something I can scale really hard.

I'm not sure exactly when I can expect a profit. I've got my auto responder set and I'm just waiting for the sales part of the thing to be sent on letter 4-5 to see what happens. Hopefully a sale gets made. Right now there's about 18 people who've received email 3.

As far as maximizing profits I'm waiting to see what's performing the best so that I can push that hardcore.

Reddit was sending me more traffic than I'm used to but thats temporary. While it was going well it brought in 7 people per about 40 visits.

close to 17% opt-in rate for my 2nd run. idk how good that is or if it even matters. I'm still waiting to see how well the auto-responder sequence makes sales.
 
Dont dump your money into seo, unless you have lots of time and money to burn, or are targeting exclusively low hanging fruit. There is not shortage of 6000 terms out there to compete on, the problem is the profitable ones over 1-2k are pretty darn rare and far between. With your budget its probably not a great idea to go after anything that an exact domain, a few thousand words and a few links cant grab in a month or so.
 
secretagentdad said:
Dont dump your money into seo, unless you have lots of time and money to burn, or are targeting exclusively low hanging fruit. There is not shortage of 6000 terms out there to compete on, the problem is the profitable ones over 1-2k are pretty darn rare and far between. With your budget its probably not a great idea to go after anything that an exact domain, a few thousand words and a few links cant grab in a month or so.
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so with my budget I might as well spend a month optimizing each low competition keyword. Is that what you mean?
 
I was including time as part of your budget. The big issue you will encounter is 6000 search type money terms, are not something you can just throw a emd up and rank the next week for.

Your options assuming you want to start seeing pay offs in the near future are local seo, PPC, service selling, or microniche type stuff where you can rank in a week or 2.
 
secretagentdad said:
I was including time as part of your budget. The big issue you will encounter is 6000 search type money terms, are not something you can just throw a emd up and rank the next week for.

Your options assuming you want to start seeing pay offs in the near future are local seo, PPC, service selling, or microniche type stuff where you can rank in a week or 2.
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ok I'm checkin it out now
 
First off I want to congratulate you on sticking with this journal for so long, good job!

One thing I noticed though, is that it seems you spend a lot of time planning and doing all kinds of things besides the ones that are actually going to matter most (ie. make money). This is an assumption I'm making which could be completely untrue, but it's quite common actually, I think most of us do this at one point or another.

What I would advise is that you stop reading so many books, and stop over complicating things by creating elaborate strategies. The only book I would suggest is "Eat That Frog", which is a short quick read and will help you get that daily focus you're looking for. The main idea is to identify 1-3 things that would make your day a success if completed and attack them first thing in the morning.

I also think if you're trying to determine a way to make money fastest, it would be to leverage your coding/design/marketing skills to create a product/service and sell it. There aren't many other approaches that will get cash in the bank faster.

Below are two extensions that help increase productivity

- Leechblock for firefox and block distractions
- RescueTime extension for firefox/chrome to see where you waste most time.


Good Luck! (and don't forget, content+traffic = money, so that's what you have to get)
 
HustlinHard said:
First off I want to congratulate you on sticking with this journal for so long, good job!

One thing I noticed though, is that it seems you spend a lot of time planning and doing all kinds of things besides the ones that are actually going to matter most (ie. make money). This is an assumption I'm making which could be completely untrue, but it's quite common actually, I think most of us do this at one point or another.

What I would advise is that you stop reading so many books, and stop over complicating things by creating elaborate strategies. The only book I would suggest is "Eat That Frog", which is a short quick read and will help you get that daily focus you're looking for. The main idea is to identify 1-3 things that would make your day a success if completed and attack them first thing in the morning.

I also think if you're trying to determine a way to make money fastest, it would be to leverage your coding/design/marketing skills to create a product/service and sell it. There aren't many other approaches that will get cash in the bank faster.

Below are two extensions that help increase productivity

- Leechblock for firefox and block distractions
- RescueTime extension for firefox/chrome to see where you waste most time.


Good Luck! (and don't forget, content+traffic = money, so that's what you have to get)
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wow man! Yea!! thanks for the advice. I downloaded the time resuce extension for my browser. I only use chrome so yea.

Yes I have a hard time bucking down and muscling through the stuff I actually need to do. It much more exciting learning and planning.

Recently though I have implemented a strategy, I just have not done a good job of driving traffic to it.
 
For anyone who uses Chrome instead of firefox the chrome version of leechblock is called "Stayfocused"

It'll block websites that are counter productive and allow only a certain amount of time per day on certain sites before blocking them.
 
reaching the sales emails now. Not sure how to understand the reports in Aweber. Ermm.... theres like 23 people confirmed in the list. I not sure if thats a good amount of people to measure how effective the sequence is.

omg I really hope this produces at least one sale. ugh. havn't gotten any order form impressions from the previous emails at all.

ok, this is feedback. I'm sure there is like a million variables I should tweak to make this better, if only I knew which ones those were.

I'll have to make some educated guesses when this run is over.
 
It looks like my emails really suck!

Figured out how to check where the emails stop getting opened. The sales email is email #6. The opens drops from 18 to 8 after email 3. Then 4 at the 4th email and another 4 at the 5th email and now 0 at the 6th email.

Got the data. now I've got to figure out what's going on and improve it.
 
Gotta use some common sense. My ebook looks tacky. I spent like what.. 2 days writing it? I hardly even edited it. Ha. Its probably packed with gramatical errors. Thats enough to make many people lose respect for me and just fall out of the funnel.

The affiliate vendor provides an interview that looks legit.

I'm going to rewrite the original lead copy to fit this interview and then offer that first instead of my ebook.
 
Wow, I cannot believe that you are still active in this journal. This is a great way to help others to learn.
 
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