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Once you’ve settled on a good keyword (good amount of traffic, acceptable level of competition & commercial value), you next focus would be on putting up content…not just any kind of content, but great content. The thing is, in order for your page to rank in the search engine results pages, you will need to have written material that is optimized for your target keyword. This is content that is both pleasing to the search engines and your readers.

To acquire content, you can either write your own content, outsource the task to someone else or republish someone else’s content [from websites that allow you to do that].

Writing your own content requires you to do a little research, especially if you are not well versed on your niche. If you are using Market Samurai, you will be able to use the Find Content module to choose preferred sources e.g. blogs, articles, YouTube videos etc. You will be able to do that manually if you didn’t have Market Samurai, however this incredible piece of software also allows you to compare the authority of the content you are considering.Comparing content involves analyzing elements such as the backlinks, page rank and number of times an article has been republished. Article directories allow users to republish other people’s content while at the same time granting recognition to the original author via the biography box and a back link.

You’ll have to remember that when writing an article from source, you never blatantly cut, copy & paste. If you have to use word for word, you need to credit the original author. Another good idea is to always read the information you intend to republish yourself. Attempt to be more knowledgeable in your field and type out your content from memory.

A lot of times when people start out blogging, they tend to use free services such as Blogger or Wordpress. The one downfall of these free services is that you do not control your own content and ran the risk of being shut down for any reason without notice. However, when you own your domain & your own hosting, the risks are significantly less.

When considering domain names, please keep in mind that having your theme keyword in the domain name is a very important on-page SEO factor. Having the theme keyword in the domain name is preferable to having it in just the URL (www.howtoplayscrabble.com is preferable to www.about.com/howtoplayscrabble.html). To help find a suitable domain, you might consider a service such as http://www.domainsbot.com. If the .com domain you are seeking is not available, you might consider a .net or a .org, using hyphens, or adding a suffix or a prefix.

A very good cPanel based hosting service to consider is Hostgator. Hostgator allows you to host unlimited websites with unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. They also offer free domain and hosting transfers. You can check them out here.

I realize that I have not made a blog post in quite a while. I am quite sure you are probably wondering where I disappeared to. Well, if you’ve been following my blog, then you’ll know that I mentioned earlier that the month of August was dedicated to The Thirty Day Challenge.
The Thirty Day Challenge [...]

Today’s post is on finding and promoting affiliate products.
Affiliate products in this instance are used to test the commercial value of the micro-niche you’re interested in. It tells you whether people in that micro-niche are willing to spend their money.While you may very well end up earning commissions from affiliate products, remember that the end [...]

In today’s post, we will talk about Page Rank among other factors. Page Rank is Google’s way of determining a webpage’s importance and it is an important factor in determining where the page will appear in the search results.
Google’s automated robot or Googlebot reviews your website to determine how relevant your site is to its [...]

If you are going to be involved in Internet Marketing,  then you will need to find out what people are searching for, otherwise known as keywords. You will need to understand niches/micro-niches and identifying good keywords.
Just to be on the same page, a market is a group of individuals that:

share a common need
have the ability [...]

As I mentioned in earlier posts, the month of August will be dedicated to the Thirty Day Challenge. Did you notice, however, that August actually has 31 days? Me too. It looked like a good idea at the time. Of course the Thirty Day Challenge sounded way cooler than the Thirty One Day Challenge.
If you [...]

In a prior post, I introduced you to the Thirty Day Challenge.
The Thirty Day Challenge only gets better with every year, just as web applications do. One of the improvements from last year’s challenge is the addition of the Thirty Day Challenge Facebook Application. Check it out below.

Now, am not going to sit here and [...]

I vividly remember the Internet a few years back when your typical home page was Yahoo or MSN or AOL. The advent of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook and advances in web browsers such as tabbed browsing has surely led to a decline in these traditional news sources being the first pages people [...]

What is The Thirty Day Challenge?  In a nutshell… The Thirty Day Challenge is about making your first $1 online. For a full 30 days we are going to be showing you exactly how to start your own Internet business and generate your first income online without spending a dime. That’s [...]

You finally joined Twitter. Now what? This question seems to apply to so many new “Twitterers”. I get excited when I see many of my friends join Twitter but then don’t really hear much from them afterward. Hope this post will be able to get them to enjoy the experience we call Twitter.

Don’t Take Your [...]