Thursday, December 11, 2008
Day 10 of the 14-Day Challenge
My keyword research is complete for now. I may do additional keyword research in the future, but I've done all I feel necessary to nail down the site architecture enough to get the site up.
Frankly, I feel that doing more right now would serve mainly as a way of giving myself more time to talk myself out of the whole idea. The monetization research proves out nicely. Clearly, my site topic of getting web traffic is a profitable area.
What still concerns me is the competitiveness of it. No way will I be able to walk in and score quickly for the most competitive of those keywords. I have plenty of long-tail keywords (less competitive keywords, for those of you who don't speak the lingo) to work with, though.
And going head-to-head with others who make their living off of knowing how to get traffic will be a major test for me.
I've always been able to get good rankings for sites without putting a whole lot of work into off-page search engine optimization. I've done enough to get decent results, but I've usually been able to get some results, even for sites that I basically set up and left to fare for themselves.
Yesterday I was having serious reservations about tackling this. But I've come to see it in a different way today.
This will be my master's thesis in SEO. Building traffic to a site run by other professional traffic builders should either prove to myself that I don't have to doubt my abilities, or at least be a tremendous learning opportunity.
So I continue to move forward.
Tomorrow, I finalize the blueprint for the site and decide on the domain name. And I stay within my challenge by not paying anything for the domain name. It comes as part of the SiteBuildIt! package I already have.
Four days left!
Jeff
P.S. I noticed today on SiteBuildIt's site that they are running a special for Christmas. You can buy one SiteBuildIt site and get a second one free. It's a great deal. Start one site for yourself and give another one as a Christmas gift. Or get both for yourself and build the second one once you have the first one up.
My keyword research is complete for now. I may do additional keyword research in the future, but I've done all I feel necessary to nail down the site architecture enough to get the site up.
Frankly, I feel that doing more right now would serve mainly as a way of giving myself more time to talk myself out of the whole idea. The monetization research proves out nicely. Clearly, my site topic of getting web traffic is a profitable area.
What still concerns me is the competitiveness of it. No way will I be able to walk in and score quickly for the most competitive of those keywords. I have plenty of long-tail keywords (less competitive keywords, for those of you who don't speak the lingo) to work with, though.
And going head-to-head with others who make their living off of knowing how to get traffic will be a major test for me.
I've always been able to get good rankings for sites without putting a whole lot of work into off-page search engine optimization. I've done enough to get decent results, but I've usually been able to get some results, even for sites that I basically set up and left to fare for themselves.
Yesterday I was having serious reservations about tackling this. But I've come to see it in a different way today.
This will be my master's thesis in SEO. Building traffic to a site run by other professional traffic builders should either prove to myself that I don't have to doubt my abilities, or at least be a tremendous learning opportunity.
So I continue to move forward.
Tomorrow, I finalize the blueprint for the site and decide on the domain name. And I stay within my challenge by not paying anything for the domain name. It comes as part of the SiteBuildIt! package I already have.
Four days left!
Jeff
P.S. I noticed today on SiteBuildIt's site that they are running a special for Christmas. You can buy one SiteBuildIt site and get a second one free. It's a great deal. Start one site for yourself and give another one as a Christmas gift. Or get both for yourself and build the second one once you have the first one up.
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