Follow me as I build my first SEO site

Grindstone said:
Slap a theme up there, install all in one seo, html on pages & seo friendly images plugins, change your permalinks, start posting content and build some links. You can make it look good later because guess what, no one's seeing your site until you actually SEO it if you go the SEO route.

Less overthinking, more doing.
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It took me a little while to get this through my thick skull, but it's what matters. Themes don't mean shit. I can't count how many people I've talked to making regular income with ugly ass sites.

I finally did the goober tactic to reprogram myself and stuck a note to the monitor asking, "is this making you any money right now?"

Watching this thread, though. One question to OP: is that 500 searches broad? If so, there are TONS of product focused phrases with low competition with several times that amount of traffic potential. Just a thought.
 


@DanWesson, that phrase is pretty much "Im ready to try this out, but need a little push"


Anyways, my original domain was a trademark infringement, and so Im going to get a new domain :P

Couldn't do anything today, school is killing me timewise. But I also need to practice time management, as I honeslty could get a solid 3 hours if I was more efficient. So, starting Monday, thing are going to be VERY different. Anyways plan to put 24 hrs of solid work from Fri-Sun
 
stick2Herbs said:
@DanWesson, that phrase is pretty much "Im ready to try this out, but need a little push"
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My push was unemployment, but time management is a daily hurdle also. Been at it about six months and having a small (read: tiny) trickle of steady income from a few seo sites, but yeah 24 hours in a day isn't enough.

It sounds like you are on the track, just stay focused. It's easy to burn several hours worrying about shit that doesn't matter. I still slap myself around for it every day or so.

Your OP made me lol, so I'm stickin' with it. Keep at it, Herbs...good luck.
 
Do exactly what Grindstone said. I don't know how much time you're spending but dont be like the 9 to 5ers and call it a day.

Good luck
 
stick2Herbs said:
EDIT #2: Im using WP (dur hur newbie platform)
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Like 95% of my sites are built on WP.

DanWesson said:
It took me a little while to get this through my thick skull, but it's what matters. Themes don't mean shit. I can't count how many people I've talked to making regular income with ugly ass sites.
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I have to disagree. I understand where you're coming from, and it really depends on your own business model and goals, but I feel that a nice theme and ease of navigation make for a much more sustainable and profitable site for the long-term.

If you're just churning and burning sites, that's one thing. But I am of the school that prefers to build a solid site that will continue to contribute to my passive income down the road while I am busy running the streets getting into my usual sort of trouble.

When I'm looking at my stats, I try to remind myself that thousands of actual human beings are finding and browsing my sites every day. Not just statistics. Call me old fashioned...but that's important to me. It's also important to take their money. But that lesson is for another day.
 
Hey guys, if anyone is reading this. I apologize for my lack of updates. My past week, and weekend were extremely hectic. I literally had no time to work, except for sunday, in which I was so tired I fell asleep. I don't want my thread clogged with "sorry didnt update kthxbai". But I felt after 10 days an update was due.

I plan to put in a good 2-3 hours today (get a (new) domain, change the hosted domain, and write articles). Tomorrow I intend to put in another few hours of SOLID work.

I know I've been going snail pace, and am literally at step one. But like mentioned in my previous post, I need to practice good time management. And I feel for the past week I have, and simply even with good time management I could not work on my website, due to other commitments.

Anyways, expect a real update tomorrow evening.
 
Ok, little late update, but teh fuck.

What I've done today:

- Bought Domain thats decent for KWs I think
- Spent like 3 hours today on MS paint trying to perfect my header, before realizing holy shit, I should download a Photoshop trial. Now my header is so fucking sexy its amazing:updown:
- Gotten started on writing content

Rest of the night will be spent creating keyword rich (but not spammy) articles, fake review lol.

Tomorrow:

-Upload a ton of SEO plugins
-More content writing
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Didn;t do any work yesterday as I was with my friend. Today I screwed around to much. But got a sold hour and a half of work in writing my review.

I pretty much finished my review and Im surprised its so short, only 700 words. Although its only 700 words, I feel its good, cause it builds a relationship with the reader, informs them, and closes the sale (I think:jester:). Although in the near future, I'm going to make a a subdomain (website.com/randomshit) as I try to rank for other targeting converting keywords. But thats after I rank my site for my original longtails. Anyways once I touch up my bs review it should be 800 words or so.

Tomorrow I plan to touch up my content, and maybe a few other things if I have time.

Also, YAY for talking to myself. :music06:
 
kingofsp said:
I have to disagree. I understand where you're coming from, and it really depends on your own business model and goals, but I feel that a nice theme and ease of navigation make for a much more sustainable and profitable site for the long-term.

If you're just churning and burning sites, that's one thing. But I am of the school that prefers to build a solid site that will continue to contribute to my passive income down the road while I am busy running the streets getting into my usual sort of trouble.

When I'm looking at my stats, I try to remind myself that thousands of actual human beings are finding and browsing my sites every day. Not just statistics. Call me old fashioned...but that's important to me. It's also important to take their money. But that lesson is for another day.
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^ Really good point here. I wasn't saying leave a shitass ugly theme up there forever, only that wasting time playing with shit that doesn't help get your site ranked is worthless at the beginning of a SEO project.

No one is seeing that thing until it ranks page one for the longest of tails anyway, there's plenty of time to make it pretty once you get it indexed and have some good links coming in.

Unless you're targeting "blue widgets that no but the individual owner of this retardedly long URL would ever search for". Then you better have your ducks in a row just in case one of your three visitors a year happen to appear.
 
No offense, but I honestly don't see the point of this case study if:

a) you're not saying what niche/keyword you're going after.
b) you're not showing your site

I understand you'd naturally be worried about competition, but the veteran SEOers have their own projects and the newbs are no threat. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't really see the point. That's the only way I could see people effectively learning about onpage/offpage SEO, LP design, copyrighting strategy, back-linking strategy, etc.. It's kind of like lemon's journal in the newb section - I doubt a single person tried to 'steal' his niche, but it was actually interesting because it was a real site, you could see what he was doing right/wrong, etc..

Just my two cents.
 
I thought I'd just leave this here:

-3 word keyword domain URL. No hyphens.
-10K monthly searches
-Wordpress +all in one seo pack, google sitemaps, seo friendly permalink structures and 1 keyword dense article and a generick theme.

-1 bookmarking package from wickedfire members lalit_burma, 1 package from Red_Virus

In less than 3 weeks I'm in position 7 for the keyword. All white hat.

Don't overthink it : )
 
Hey guys quick question (before I do a formal update either later tonight, or tomorrow).

Im not exactly happy with my keyword density. I mean its not bad (no its pretty bad like .5%)

What if I were to make an invisible keyword? What I mean is, what if I were to put in my keywords to blend in the background? Would that work?

Thanks.

PS. Ill do a more formal reply like mentioned.
 
stick2Herbs said:
What if I were to make an invisible keyword? What I mean is, what if I were to put in my keywords to blend in the background? Would that work?
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For the love of fuck no. don't do that. put your exact keyword in your title tag, h1 tag, meta description, and get an exact match keyword, and you're fine.

Don't analyze keyword density any more, just keep building and tracking. If you're worried about the effects of .5% differences, you already lost the game.

I thought I'd just leave this here:

-3 word keyword domain URL. No hyphens.
-10K monthly searches
-Wordpress +all in one seo pack, google sitemaps, seo friendly permalink structures and 1 keyword dense article and a generick theme.

-1 bookmarking package from wickedfire members lalit_burma, 1 package from Red_Virus

In less than 3 weeks I'm in position 7 for the keyword. All white hat.

Don't overthink it : )
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^^^^Go do that 10 times and you'll get quite the crash course in how to effectively build niche sites^^^^^

In fact, I'm about to case study this exact same topic using nearly the exact same methods. so feel free to follow along with that if you need to as well
 
What type of plugins should I upload?

-All in one SEO
-Google XML SiteMap
-SEO friendly images


If anyone else can recommend any other plugins for SEO or analytical purposes that won't kill my CPU, then please do!! Also obviously Ill be installing some analytical plug ins, just have to find which ones.

Im also having a tough time finding exactly what plugin grindstone meant by html on all pages. If anyone could tell me the exact name, or link it (no dickroll :P) that'd be appreciated.
 
stick2Herbs said:
What type of plugins should I upload?

-All in one SEO
-Google XML SiteMap
-SEO friendly images


If anyone else can recommend any other plugins for SEO or analytical purposes that won't kill my CPU, then please do!! Also obviously Ill be installing some analytical plug ins, just have to find which ones.

Im also having a tough time finding exactly what plugin grindstone meant by html on all pages. If anyone could tell me the exact name, or link it (no dickroll :P) that'd be appreciated.
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I can't edit my post, or maybe Im just stupid:p

Ok downloaded Ultimate Google Analytics Pack. Also, anyone tried this plugin:
Wp Http Compression. WordPress › WP HTTP Compression WordPress Plugins It compresses your files so apparently your page loads faster + it saves bandwidth.

Anyone used it before? Will it effect your seo ability?
 
Update

Ok, little update.

I got my site indexed :jester: Didn't do anything really, just made a site map, and submitted it to google. No backlinks or anything, but I must be doing something right!!

Here are the plugins I installed:

-All In One SEO
-SEO friendly Images
-XML sitemap
-Wp Super Cache
-Robot.txt plugin
-Ultimate Google Analytics

I also adjusted my permalinks.

Now some questions

1. I don't really understand what robot.txt plugin is for. I know its to make it more friendly for crawlbots, but is there anything else to it? Or just activate and let it be?

2. HTML on all pages. Is that a plugin for WP? Im having a tough time finding info about it.

3. Finally, hellblazer said I should post my website. I definitely see the benfit in this. But should I be worried about niche hijacking? Or am I being paranoid.

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Anyways, trying to figure out offsite seo . Backlinks, social bookmarking, articles. Pretty overwhelming. Just trying to read up on it and am going to give it a try.

Any input welcome. (dchuk lol)
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stick2Herbs said:
1. I don't really understand what robot.txt plugin is for. I know its to make it more friendly for crawlbots, but is there anything else to it? Or just activate and let it be?

2. HTML on all pages. Is that a plugin for WP? Im having a tough time finding info about it.

3. Finally, hellblazer said I should post my website. I definitely see the benfit in this. But should I be worried about niche hijacking? Or am I being paranoid.

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Anyways, trying to figure out offsite seo . Backlinks, social bookmarking, articles. Pretty overwhelming. Just trying to read up on it and am going to give it a try.
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1) robots.txt is a smart easy thing to have on your sites. Also allows you to protect certain folder/directories/pages from being indexed in the search engines. Check out this site to get the basics down: Creating and Using a robots.txt File

2) What do you mean? Do you want to have .html in your url extension?

3) you shouldn't worry too much about posting your site, at this stage in the game you don't have much to steal (no offense). Technically people can find out a lot about you if they know of a site you own (what other sites you own based on server ip, whois info, analytics tracking codes, etc.). For the most part, and for the sake of this thread, you should be fine.

You could also just ask a few guys if you could send it their way and ask for advice privately if you're paranoid.

For outbound linking, start by looking at your competition and seeing where there links come from. Your best bet is start off with basic comment backlinks. search for relevant keywords in Google blog search and find articles you can comment on. Tedious, but relatively solid links to start gathering. Leave quality comments when you post.

Depending on your budget, you can also get some social bookmarks by amit (red_virus) here which usually help, plus seanlopez does great work and marxvergel is offering some cool stuff. Hit the guys up and see what they can do for you.

If you can't afford that stuff, get your linkbuilding pants on and start researching. The biggest thing I would recommend is to stay super organized, keep everything recorded in spreadsheets, and study your competition.
 
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