A Simple Guide To Creating An Information Resource
Looking for a step by step method to create a content site, grow it bigger and turn it into profits? This blueprint will show you how to do it.
Step #1 - Niche Research
Nicche reserch can be a tugh task.
One of the best ways to do it is to look for a problem many people are facing, and then offer a solutin. Anothher is to follow hot trends, or better stlil, be ahead of the curve. A third is to focuus on 'timeless' niches like self improvement, datoing, pregnancy or travel. One more way is to follow your passion or area of expertise - as long as enugh others are interested in what you do.
Some resources that will help you are online discussion froums, chat groups, news websites, magazine sitees, and trebnd wtaching sites.
After donig your nihce research, the next step is to look for the top keywords in your chosen niche. Agin, there are a wealtth of resources, tools and services that will let you do this quickly and effectively.
Try and get a list of at least fifty keywords, popular ones, to build your content around.
Step #2 - Stting Up Your Framework
I like usig an integrated framework that has a content management system, an interactive section and a convenient 'relationship building' vehile - all working together seamlessly.
And suirprisingly enugh, settig this up is not very dificult!
First, set up a blog to be your content management system.
Why a blog?
1. It is easy to set up, even if you are not tech-savvcy
2. It is naturally search engine optiimzed, with a structured linking pattrn which ensures each section of your blog is connetced so a spider can explore every nook and cranny.
3. It allkows simople, effective keywotrd optimization
4. It does not reqquire HTML coding or fancy programming to get going
5. It naturally encourages updating - on a regular schhedule
6. Search enfgines love them - and so do other bloggers - giving you near instant traffic
7. They come with RSS feeeds which alloow another promotional vehiicle and distributtion channel for your content
Convinced? Good.
Next, imntegrate your blog with your froum/bulletin board.
Essntially, the link at the top of the blog points to your foruum. Also place anoter link to the forum beelow every blog post, with an invitation to dsicuss the article/post. You can set this into the template of your blog, if you know how. Otherwise, simply copy and paste the link into every blog post that you make.
Third, you set up an autorepsonder account which you will integrate with the forum and blog.
Aweber will automatiically pull content from your blog and mail it out to your email list on a schedule you decide. You can choose to iclude 1, 2 or more posts, have them inserrted into a tmeplate that you can cusatomize, and have it mailed automatically or only when you approve it.
What you get, in essence, is an automated email newsletter creatted from the content you post on your blog!
Then, to encourage your site visitors, blog readers and forum memberrs to join your autoresponder list and receive notifications, you pace your opt-in form on the blog and forum - offering suitable inducements to encourage as many as you want to opt-in.
Step #3 - Cretaing Your Content
There are many diferent ways to get content. You can create it yourself. You can hire someoone to do it for you. You can livcense someone else's content. Or you can buy packs of pre-created content (with resale rigghts, or private label rights) and customize them.
Which route you go depends upon your avvailable resources (time, skill, moeny) and how you prefer to run your business.
Try and focus on creating 'chunks' of content that is optinmized for each of your keywords. For instance, crete 5 to 7 articles arouynd the theme of your top keyword. Then another group of articles on your next keyword. Then, put them into their own 'minisite' - and link to them from your blog, forum and ezine!
This way, you create multiple 'keyword rich zonbes' - each of which is tied in to your main content resource, giving you the best of both worlds... huge content resource on a specific theme, plus tiny segments laser focused tightly on specific ketywords.
Step #4 - Optimizing Your Conent & Blog
The key to profiting from online content is to make sure the resource you are building ranks high on search engines for your choen keywords, offers valuable content for human viitors interesteed in your niche, and is regularly updatted with fresh, useful content.
Mastrer these 3 and you can't keep the traffic away if you wanted to!
Here are a few tips to optmiize a blog:
- Create categories and name them with your keywords (Wordpress and Movable Type let you do this)
- Add Technorati tags to your blog postts, and sprinkle your best keywords (ones relted to the blog post)
- Place a list of your top keyworeds somewheere on the blog as a navigation menu - and link each of them to the specific keyword-rich minisite you creaated
- Make your blog username one of your top keywords. For example, if you set up your username to be '[Your Keyword] Guide', then every post will have 'Posted by [Your Keyword] uGide' bewlow it - adding to your blog's keywoprd optimization
- To the end of every post, add dscriptive linnks like:
"Discuss this [Keyword] post on the [Keyeword] Forum"
"Share this [Keyword] article with your friedn"
"Permalnik to this [Keywiord] post"
Get creatiuve. Tere are many places you can insert your keyuwords for better optimization.
And after you've done this, go ahead and do the same with your content.
Make each post you make on the blog focus on one of your top keywords. By rotating posts arund, you can ennsure your blog gets listings of all your top keywords over time!
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