Hello BlackHatWorld. Few days ago I started my own ( wordpress ) website. It's more a news website rather than a blog and has a specific niche. Anyway here's my plan: Target a Long-Tail Keyword per day. I'm hoping to get multiple rank 1s on low-search volume keywords. Write a HQ article per day. Write at least one news article per day. For this I've subscribed to multiple RSS feeds and followed multiple twitter accounts so it shouldn't be too hard to stay up to date. Build Backlinks. This seems to be hardest part. As far as I can tell it will require a lot of testing to see what works and what not. Try to learn more about SEO as I go. I will only do whitehat SEO because I'll be using adsense. Hopefully I'll start seeing some results with the next month so I'll stay motivated. Anyway this is my plan. I'll try to keep you guys updated as much as I can. Any criticism is appreciated. Short-term Goals ​Reach rank one on a Long-Tail low search volume keyword (< 100). Reach 2nd-3rd page ( so I can work from there ) on a low search volume keyword (< 1000) Reach 10,000 UVs a month
Day 1 I got lazy today and I didn't do much. However I managed to rank on the 5th page of a ~100 monthly searches keyword, so I guess that's something? Keyword # Monthly Searches My Position 1 3500 90 2 100 57 Earnings $0
Hey Nice, Take actions and you will surely get that. Feel free to add me on Skype not that Pro but maybe we can help each other. Cheers
Same boat as you OP, but if you're into news site you should post at least 30-50 articles per day. That's the hard part, easy part is you can apply to Google News and traffic will start to flood your site. But that will come in months, once you're established as a new site.
I'm not qualified enough to give you advice however I can give you the content I read. ( can't post links so you'll have to google them ) First thing I read was Moz's beginner guide. It wasn't great but I think it is a nice place to start. Now I mainly read articles on backlinko ( really good content ) and Matthew Woodward's website. Sometimes I've found that Quicksprout can have decent content. I also lurk the Whitehat SEO section here regularly. I've seen SearchEngineLand suggested here but I've yet to read content from them. I think it is an ok reading list, but it's nice to get you started.
