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Blogging & RSS InformationHow to Build a Niche Site With a Blog
by:
Linda J Bruton
Building niche sites is all the rage these days.
The basic strategy is really simple. Find a niche market that isn't oversaturated. Develop a list of related keywords folk are searching on. Then write an article optimized for each one of your keywords. Once you have your articles, transfer
them to your site. Monitize your site with affiliate links and Adsense.
For this kind of niche site to be effective and do money, it is imperative that you get free traffic, and a lot of it. And that's exactly wherever
a diary can be your better friend.
At its really simplest, a diary is simply a structure. It's the bones of a web site. A diary is a simple way to publish and display your content online. Most of us think of blogs as a chronicle of news events, or statement
on news and items of interest. Or personal diaries.
Few folk finish to think that you can build any kind of website with a blog. In reality, a diary can be used really effectively to build a niche site. The fact of the matter is, a diary is the easiest way to publish your niche site content. But the biggest reason to use a diary is that it can driving traffic to your site a lot quicker
than a statically-built site. A niche site built with a diary is a really powerful strategy.
First, choose your niche and research your keywords. Write your 1st article based on one of those keywords, simply as you would-be once
building a regular site. Then set up your diary and publish that article. Your niche site is now live.
To do your site structure the most effective, be sure to choose a diary that allows the use of Categories, such as Word Press or Mobile Type. Use your 10 most important keywords as the name of your Categories. Then file all your secondary keyword articles under those Categories.
Why is this so important? If you support building your site with keyword-rich articles, eventually you could have hundreds of pages. Each of those pages wish have a link to your 10 Categories. And each of those links wish use the anchor text of your most important keywords. As a result of all those internal keyword-rich links, your site wish end up ranking really well in the search engines for your Category names.
Now it's time to set up your traffic strategy. This is wherever
a diary can actually shine. There are many a special RSS/blog directories that are hungry for feeds. By submitting your new diary to these directories, you can start deed traffic all but immediately. Quite often these feeds wish result in a lot more traffic than all the major search engines combined. This is why it does so more sense to build your niche site as a blog. You can have double
the traffic, and get it more quicker
than with a static site.
Here is a list of several of the top RSS/blog directories you should submit your site to:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
Once you've submitted your site to the directories, you can get it indexed by Yahoo all but at once by adding your RSS feed to your MyYahoo page. If you don't have a MyYahoo page, simply go to http://www.yahoo.com. Now click on the MyYahoo link at the top and set up your free account. Once you have your account set up, click on Add Content, then add the URL of your diary RSS feed into the Find Content box.
When you go back to your MyYahoo page, your diary plus your 1st post should be shown. If you go look at your web stats for your site, you'll find that the Yahoo spider has already ready-made a visit! Your new site should be indexed in Yahoo in simply a couple of days. This is a strategy that several marketers were commerce for $50 simply a few months ago. And it works like a charm.
Every time you add a post, you can alert the RSS/blog directories by "pinging" them. There is a extraordinary site at http://www.pingomatic.com that does this really easy. You simply have to type in your diary URL and Pingomatic wish send your ping to Yahoo and simply about 15 different large directories. That wish bring the spiders back to your site all but immediately!
During the 1st month, I would-be suggest that you write and add a new article every day. Blogs that are oft updated get the most traffic. And you'll find that the major search engines wish spider your site every day. At the end of a month, you'll have a 30-article niche site that is already deed a lot of traffic. If you've monetized your site with Adsense and related affiliate programs, you should as well be fashioning money already.
Once you've started building your niche sites with a blog, you'll ne'er
go back to doing it the old way again!
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For more tips and ideas on how to do money blogging, be sure to visit my "Why Marketers Should Blog" weblog at (what else)
http://www.WhyMarketersShouldBlog.com
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