Don’t know why your not getting visitors to your website or blog? Don’t know where to start? Or don’t know what to write about that can make you money too?

Here is a plan and action steps to getting ideas around a niche, get supercharged traffic - and fast!

BUT to begin with. keyword research is crucial. If you haven’t been getting traffic you may not have been using keywords that people search for (or you haven’t got the meta information the search engines can “read” - and that’s another separate issue to this post). Even then getting traffic can still be elusive.  What you need is articles and postings - but with a twist!

We’re looking for an expanded list of keywords that will give you new ideas for blog posting, articles, and monetizing with a product. The aim is to make money while also increasing traffic, building a wealth of good backlinks (inbound links), and building your ranking (though Alexa Rank is more important than Google Rank) for your websites.

You need to research either a new niche topic, or get ideas for lots of topics around your niche keywords so you are super targeted.

You can start with those around your current website (or consider whether what you have been pursuing is worth any further time). Just a couple of  sites for ideas are Google Trends, Twitter Trends and news etc. Ideally go for a niche on the up.

If you need to monetize a webpage you might then look for a Clickbank product because it specializes in informational products that are easily down-loadable. And they will take payment, pay you up to 75% commission and no hassle. You can’t beat an automated sale to begin with, and its a great marketplace for new marketers who can get an account immediately.

Pick a product that you want your articles to link to and at the same time perhaps capitalize on a trend you will be blogging about (sending a link from each article or post to the squeeze page or sales page).

Because you need to start with thinking of what your subject should be you need to check if there are enough searches to warrant your time given to it first. No point if no-one is looking for it!

Your keywords or keyword phrases must be chosen with care. Long tail 3 words or more is usual and therefore highly targeted. This must be also be the heading for that post or article, so the article title is made up with the keywords in itself and what you want to rank for.

Use the free tool https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal (there are others, I use a paid for one, but I use this to check the Google search traffic numbers to validate and this does the job).

So to pick keywords that are being searched for and to expand and get more ideas try putting some of the keywords it comes up with to save, then also add some of those in the search box, to drill even deeper to get more keywords if it will help. (this is great for getting niche ideas for your subject.

When you have a list take out the top 1/3rd searched ones and go for lower ones in the middle that still gets say 50,000 to 100,000 searches.

You’re going to write around one, or a handful if you can get busy) keyword or keyword phrase to begin with, tightly focusing the content around each single choice.

Your first project may be to write a HUBPAGE (and become a publisher). Register picking a cool Hubpage Username (pick one that you can live with) as you can write many and link them up to each other. The next thingit will ask you to do  is  register an amazon and/or ebay affiliate a/c if the page is deemed commercial,

NOTE - THE TITLE OF THE HUBPAGE will form the permalink tagged on to the end of the URL and so USE THE KEYWORD PHRASE YOU WANT TO RANK FOR as in:
keyword phrase and Page Title - Cevennes Holiday Gites
HUBPAGE example url: http://hubpages.com/hub/cevennes-holiday-gites
The aim is going to be to get many micro blogs such as these (Hubpages is just one type and style that you can make your own) as quickly as possible all linking back to your webpages, to lift your different website pages linked to into top positions.

After this Hubpage, you could choose to write a Squidoo Lens (you’ll work it out - it’s also modular and easy).

Then go Google or other Search box and type in  “/wp-signup.php” There will be loads of blogs, some in your niche, you can sign up to and place an article and a couple of posts.

Also go to: http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit.php and search for Carnivals in your niche suitable for one (or more) of your keyword-specific, unique articles to submit. (if this number of articles seems overwhelming, don’t worry, see “Outsourcing” below)

Write or outsource (see below) a blog article around one chosen keyword or long-tail keyword of 3 words or more. Also write some shorter blurbs too and post on one of these sub-blogs. One of these as an example might then be www.yourtopicofthemoment.blogspot.com. Make sure you limit to your keywords in the article so it looks and reads naturally.  ( or you may be able to use a signature with anchor text link using your keyword) .

VERY IMPORTANT:  Remember that whatever keywords you choose for your articles/posts wherever they are - ever - that you use one of them as a Hyperlink to your website, and have the identical keyword phrase in the first portion of the target landing page so google can see the relevance connecting the two.

Make sure you link each blog article (and hubpages/squidoo pages too) to another, possibly to external too, as well as back to different relevant web pages on your website other than just your home page, to show a natural linking pattern.

This strategy of using other blogging sites where you can sign up for a sub-blog accounts is huge because many of these are Authority sites and some have good page rank (imagine a little is poured over to your site each time building your rank too) and Alexa traffic rank. I would check and write on the higher traffic or ranked ones first.

This will build you excellent backlinks (inbound links) to your website and will earn you top spots in Google and other search engines quickly if you do this with speed.

Doing this quickly is key - so outsourcing some of it makes sense.

If you don’t want to write the articles yourself you can get them so cheap and well written it is well worth outsourcing.

REF: OUTSOURCING:
We can recommend www.articlez.com and at $2 - $6 per item it’s a nobrainer!

These are written by American writers and I’ve been told they are written well and especially work well for blogs. (I’m about to start using them myself) and cost from $2, $4 & $6 from short 100 word post (blurb), 200 word, and up to 350 word articles.

Another recommended site that specializes in good quality articles is www.exquisitewriting.com

This will get momentum and should start to  rocket speed up your traffic.

At the end of all this I hope that you can:

• Spell out yourself a plan;
• Separate it into tasks;
• Do your keyword research thoroughly;
• Use excel to keep your research organized!
• Test the article or post  outsourcing seriously at least for an early trial;
• (because one person can’t do it all in less than probably three weeks non stop);
• Then you should see the traffic build with momentum and supercharge it.
• Use Social Networking but recognize that it can take time and commitment.

Remember: Use your keyword research you do in the early stages to give you an abundant list of ideas to get different angles for your topics around the niche you have chosen.

GOOD LUCK - and let me know if you think this is good stuff and don’t reprint this without organizing a credit to me as I usually charge  quite a bit for coaching and this is for free to you my friend.

Happy writing or outsourcing!
~ Annette ~

PS: Make sure you have Google Analytics installed on your site so you can track (and count) where your traffic is coming from, and the keywords that are working for you. Every few days type your keywords into search and see what page position you’re achieving for your efforts!!

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