Awesome progress dude! How many articles / words you got up roughly now?
Congrats Greg and thanks for the update. I am certainly following this thread.
Do you mind sharing how much content (# words # posts) is published on the site right now?
I'm at 156 articles right now with 7 scheduled to go... word count has to be in the range of 110,000 - 120,000. I'm really not sure about word count though.
Good to see this thread getting updated.
I have a couple of questions
Do you write all you articles in the wordpress editor? Since I am writing them mine in Google docs, I think it's faster, but I have to copy, format and add pictures before i post.
When writing that many articles, do you post "fluff" content. Like a video with short description, infographics, pictures etc. ?
I usually use notepad if I am using Dragon and MS Word if I am typing... I like to use them because I do edit what I write before I post but when I add images I do that inside of WP itself.
There is zero fluff in my articles per se... to me this is a business so I treat it fairly responsibly. I do add in images, most of the time, as that is part of SEO (I share how I use them
here) and I have no videos on this site but am going to do some as there are a bunch competitng with me in Google so I'll have some made and rank them.
A few infographics might be a good idea but I would have to outsource that as I have zero skills there... that is artistic and there are no artistic bones in my body.
Can you give us an estimate on how many articles / words of content you've got currently on your site? I lost track during reading
Peek up just a little in this post for an estimate.
I believe that Greg said earlier in the thread that he is using Dragon NaturallySpeaking and is dictating a lot of his content. I just started trying to dictate. My only tip if you are going to try it - this has been my experience - is to make sure you have clearly defined the purpose and keyword of each page you intend to dictate before you start. The first time I tried dictating I did it on a lark while driving and it was crap. But the next time I had a plan for several pages in a silo, each focused on a keyword and with a specific goal in mind. The results were much better. It still needs clean-up by hand, but I think as I get more accustomed to it I will be able to pump out more content by dictating while driving. Multi-tasking rules.
Dragon takes a little time to get acclimated to us, or us to it, and does take some training for sure. In general, my Dragon content is a little conversational as opposed to informational so it is a little easier for me. I do use it while in the car but I almost never drive so it is easier for me to concentrate... I imagine that driving it would be much harder.
Dragon is almost a natural fit for me as my typical approach when I write is to write how I talk so what you see here in writing is how I usually converse. A few guys on BHW know me IRL and would tell you the same... I'm a little verbose, a bit annoying and my NY/NJ accent can ruin a person's hearing but I do stay on topic and avoid tangents like the Road Runner avoided anything Acme.
Next Steps in my process:
1) I'll be making sure all those Web 2.0s are indexed and then adding links inside of them. I will also be adding content to those sites that is KW happy but without links out to my site. I want to have between 3 - 5 articles on each after all is said and done with just one out bound link on each Web 2.0 (NOT EACH ARTICLE).
2) Put some videos together. Although that was not part of my initial plan, I follow the business practice that
each step you take is predicated on the success of your previous step and the steps of your competition. If you do not know follow business principle you may be missing out on some success in your life. I actually taught a seminar on that to a group a few years ago and one guy in particular (uneducated, got his
GED from classes I taught so he is no Rhodes Scholar) took that to heart and now has a successful canoe/kayak rental business using much of that principle. I've yet to decide whether to outsource them or put them together myself as I want to do this entire process with as little outside help as possible so that anyone can do it with little to no cash.
3) Build out some more authority/parasite pages. Those kinds of pages give your site authority backlinking and for a long term site I find them very beneficial to the whole backlinking infrastructure. I use them on all of my sites to get backlinks and do not care if they are do or no follow as they are not in place for your typical link juice. I do a little better job explaining my thoughts on that
here.
4) Ease up on the content to the site for the next month or so... I'll add but slow down some. Why? It is the Holidays and the internet slows down... people use it less in general and it would be natural if I did the same for the site. I don't think that is a major factor in G's eyes on a site but even if it is a .01 factor I want to slip that in.
