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SEO_Mike said:
Psychoul: You're right, there is probably a ton of competition for a lot of those keywords. Usually what I do is test the waters by bidding an amount I am comfortable with and not worrying too much about my placement. Also, you have to look for related keywords that others forgot about or missed. Here's a good example: "compare prices" gets a lot of searches according to WordTracker, yet there aren't that many people competing for it. Only about a page and a half of sponsored listings. Not bad. The downside to that query is it isn't targetted at all.

Targetting the singers or bands - not a bad idea, and one I plan on using myself. Take Jennifer Lopez for example, she is currently touring with Marc Anthony, but if you search "jennifer lopez" there are only 3 advertisers. Should be able to get in on that action pretty cheap. Still not very targetted, but if testing shows that the conversions are there, then it's all good. If it turns out that nothing converts, then it's wasted money. Only time and testing will tell. :D
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Well, my guess is that if you bid on "compare prices" adwords wiill soon increase your bids (if they are not initialy high!) because I do think the CTR will be far from satisfactory. Now I am guessing again (because of the firewall in the office :D ) that "ticket compare prices" phrase would be saturated so blocked road to that way as well.

The way I see it (and probably is wrong since I am not doing any profits :D ) is that if I am in a competitive niche and I "think" that I found an undiscovered area, it actually means that others tried it before, their CTR was low, google increased their bids, they stopped that adgroup and that is the reason why that area seems "undiscovered". Make any sense?

SEO_Mike show me the way! :D :D :D
 


Lots of talk about adwords/PPC but if you all want to really optimize your campaigns a lot better I just tried out there new optimization campaign tool.

Use that its powerful and helpful, it'll give you a very good idea of the price per click you should be paying for each keyword, yup each keyword, it makes things a lot easier, plus it helps you optimize your ads and everything else.

Try it out, I found some extra keywords, and low bids, by optimizing my campaign a bit more with the tool.
 
In addition to my autoblogging, I also want to do some eBay affiliate work. I want to target a microniche with almost no competition for the top 10 search engine results as it will boost my confidence and give me some practice (and hopefully make me a buck or two).

I'm not going to say what microniche I am targeting, but for the sake of illustration let us say that it is Noritake China. The first thing I did was some keyword research at SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool. When I type in noritake china, here are the top two results:

1. noritake china - 24,766 searches a month
2. antique noritake china - 2,233 searches a month

So now I want to buy a domain with either "noritake china" or "antique noritake china" in it. Unfortunately, no combination of noritake china is available to purchase. However, the following domains are available:

1. antique-china.net
2. antiquenoritakechina.com
3. noritakechina1.com (or any other number)

With the first one, I could use a subdomain and have noritake.antique-china.com as the address. Which would be the better choice?

Aequitas, in your blog post on keyword research you say, "When you buy the domain name it should be the keyword your trying to rank for and no other terms mixed in."

I am trying to rank for "noritake china", but I need to include another word or number in order to find an available domain. So which of the possible domain names is the best choice?

Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance. I hope this thread keeps going!
 
Nomara said:
Aequitas, in your blog post on keyword research you say, "When you buy the domain name it should be the keyword your trying to rank for and no other terms mixed in."

I am trying to rank for "noritake china", but I need to include another word or number in order to find an available domain. So which of the possible domain names is the best choice?

Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance. I hope this thread keeps going!
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In a situation like this and this situations does come up a fair bit sometimes, your best bet in buying a domain name is to include one other related term in the domain (Preferably a short term) also make sure its catchy enough that it fits with the other two words you still want to try and hold on to a bit of brandability so maybe the visitors will remember the domain in case they want to come back.
 
Aequitas, would you recommend domains with or w/o hyphens? I've been readings hyphens are good because there's no question what the words are. Like Penisland.com/Pen-island.com/Penis-land.com
 
There will always be debates about this.

Matt cutts says Google likes URLs with hyphens, as words can be seperated at the hyphen. He does not say wether this applies to domain names or only file names though.

(As in penis-land.com/viagra-effects.html)

I think users are quite used to the hyphened domains, non-hyphened might be better for typein traffic.

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egonitron said:
Aequitas, would you recommend domains with or w/o hyphens? I've been readings hyphens are good because there's no question what the words are. Like Penisland.com/Pen-island.com/Penis-land.com
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I use hyphans for a lot of my domains, well the ones I want really bad and nothing else works, so I say yes, I've never had a problem with hypans in the domain name, but as emp said a non-hyphaned domain might be better for some type in traffic but if the domain is more then 12 characters long then type in traffic isn't going to be worth taking into the equation anyway unless its really catchy.

emp said:
There will always be debates about this.

Matt cutts says Google likes URLs with hyphens, as words can be seperated at the hyphen. He does not say wether this applies to domain names or only file names though.

(As in penis-land.com/viagra-effects.html)

I think users are quite used to the hyphened domains, non-hyphened might be better for typein traffic.

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I agree there are lots of debate on it and as for anything other then the actual main domain for hyphens well I've got no clue.
 
well, if you actually imagine a parser, parsing your domains, from a technological point of view, it is pretty obvious.
if your keyword is "penis land"
the parser tries to look up the separate words at first, penis and land

with 'penisland' the entry point is the same, so it looks for a single word called penisland.
which might be something completely different.

I think it depends heavily on your keywords since you cannot rely on the parser splitting your word into possible parts (this depends on the positives it gets from the db)

just try to do an actual search in google and you'll see how it works.
 
OK, as far as I can tell, hyphens have been treating me well for document (file names).
I normally try to get a non-hyphenated domain name, but really I don't think it matters.

With google or any other web search engine being the users first click on them thar intartubes, I think domains can be hyphenated like crazy.

It used to be that hyphenated domains were considered spammy, but that doesn't apply anymore.

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OK, I can't believe I am just ow beginning to dabble in autoblogs.
THat autoblog plugin shared by bambam and Eli (doesn't work right yet) seems to have no feature to give it a MAX number of posts per day?

IS there any such thing?

Thanks,
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OK.. still playing with WP-o-Matic here.
I am trying to figure out how to use the replace feature, anyone have some pointers?

I know regex, so I am trying to use
Code: 
/.*url=(.*)&cid,"$1"
To parse and replace URLs I get from the google news feeds (make them point directly to the url, instead of going via google redirect)

However, as this works as a traditional regex, I am not sure about where to put the replacement string in the interface. Err... the $1, that is.

And.. can this thing replace URL strings anyway?

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OK, my bad. Right now, the plugin is not even storing my regex?
Whats up with that?
Do I need to chmod some file, somewhere?

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Again, - this feels like I am talking to myself - my bad.

Seems the old regex was throwing sonething in the plugin, probably the , or the "

Here now is a regex to replace the google news stuff:

Code: 
 /http...news.*\&amp.url=(.*)\&amp.cid.*\"/
[B] (check "regex")[/B]
$1
[B] (replace with)[/B]
This works fine, but Google escapes special characters in the URLs (? becomes %3F and the like) so unless the receiving server escapes the HTML, you are fucked.

Example:
Code: 
http://www.macreport.net/todaysMarkets.asp%3Fid%3D10435
Should be
Code: 
http://www.macreport.net/todaysMarkets.asp?id=10435
The "add" button for more rules in the plugin does not do anything on my end, or I could add a regex for each of those.

Anyone have an idea?

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Damn, middle of the night and no one answers my regex questions?

This forum has gone downhill for sure. :D

So my regex has evolved (devolved) into this.
Code: 
/http...news.*p;url=(.*)\&..p;.*\"{1}/
But that plugin seems to ignore the {1} I put there and replaces everyhting until the last " being the greedy little regex bitch it is.

Any pointers on how to pull this through?

Oh.. the HTML escaping still applies, too.

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I'm not looking at the Google news feed or anything, so I don't have anything to go off directly, but you can limit its greediness by adding a ? after the .* So...
/http...news.*p;url=(.*)\&..p;.*?\"{1}/

You might need to change the first .* to .*? as well. I can't tell without seeing what you are trying to parse.
 
I'm in. This thread got me pumped up which is great. It's been 3 days now (I think - it's kind of running together and its almost 5am now) 3 days spent getting through this thread - and all the places it spiders out that I didn't understand (most notably Blue Hat SEO Empire ... phew.). The Empire & cycle sites, etc. is way ambitious for me right now so I'm aiming well under that. With all the shit that's stirring in my head I'm not sure I can even come up with a cohesive plan for this challenge - so what do I do - sit back and re-read for another few days or start moving? I think I'm going to do a little of both. I've learned a shit-load so far reading but I'm itching to be doing.

As of tonight I've got one auto-blog started. Promising niche I hope - new TV show ... but very new. Nice Google Trends curve but very recent. Because it's so new I think is going to have to mainly start out as a video blog - there isn't a ton of text/RSS content. I was able to pickup <showname>s.com - <showname>online.com was also available but guessed shorter and/or plural might be better. I could have used some more keyword data for choosing the domain but it isn't there yet. I also picked up a 2nd typo domain of the singular <showname> that I'm 301 redirecting to test type-in traffic.

Hopefully in the next day or two I can get this site running and move on to a WP mU/subdomains (similar to what SEO_Mike has talked about) with niches/keywords I'm more confident I can target. Still need to come up with the niches.

For link-building, I'm inexperienced overall in that area but I'm messing with Eli's rss techniques. I'm out of my comfort zone though in more ways than one.

Since I haven't really done this kind of site before - I'm not sure what to expect monetization-wise - say in the next 2 months - but I'm hoping worst-case I end up with some sites that pay their rent and can be used later to drive links/traffic to real money-makers. I'm not sure if that makes them foundation-sites according to Eli. It's going to take a few more reads until I understand that post.

Fuck that's enough of my rambling. One more drink for me then off to bed! Thanks for all the info shared so far.
 
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