I hope that everyone is reading all the information provided. We still get people questioning the keyword research because they have always been told that you need to focus on exact match searches. This is not true as proven by BTB and his success as well as what my personal sites have been doing. The site that I shared in this thread is less than a month old and is gaining in traffic even while the forum was down so not all the traffic is coming from here. While the forum was down I made nearly $4 off of that site and I am not doing anything with that site at the moment (you all are keeping me busy). Be sure to read the thread where Greg freely shares how we do the keyword research.
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/white-hat-seo/333317-keyword-research-btb-way.html
You see threads on this forum all the time that say find your own twist on doing something and there are not many that give you the whole thing and answer personal questions for you. Especially when it comes to sales threads. They usually want to sell you more stuff.
If you are unwilling to work or invest in your sites then this is not for you. We are giving you a foundation from which you can build your empire if you work hard enough. I was up at 8 this morning and here it is midnight and I am still on here. If you follow through and use the keyword research at it is explained, you can turn your 50 keywords into hundreds of keywords if not thousands. The site I shared has a list of 290 keywords that I have to work with. Another new site of mine has 500 and yet another in the planning stages has 2300 that I have to sort through and will probably end up around 1500 when I am all done. The possibilities are endless.
The other thing is this, I had 2 of these sites up and running before the Panda. Neither one of them had a negative effect from that. I my world the Google Panda is now as extinct as the dinosaur. Read all the threads on how the panda affected the sites.
In order to make money you sometimes have to think outside the box. Unconventional thinking. Well the keyword research the way we do it is unconventional in thinking and you have to be open to that.
Here is an example
Say we give you a domain name of pumpkins.com and that keyword gets 5 million broad searches a month. Now maybe it only gets 10 exact searches but we don't care and here is why.
Now you have keywords like orange pumpkins, large pumpkins, green pumpkins, pumpkin pie, halloween pumpkins etc. Maybe you never rank for the word pumpkins but you can bet that when you push and link using that keyword you will rank for the longer tail keywords just because of that one word being focused on. Alternately if you start pushing halloween pumpkins you are going to start to ran for hallowee pumpkin carving, halloween pumpkin patterns etc.
Some times your highest search volume is also the hardest in competition and that is why we start at the low end with our keywords. Now if you start with the halloween pumpkins and so on, them by the time you get to the keyword pumpkins, you will have a site chock full of that keyword and thus easier to rank for.
Don't attempt to rank your site like conventional means, you are not a local business, rank your pages. It will be a lot less stressful on you and easier to do. Maybe you have a keyword that can be written about in 5 different ways or plots if you will. Well do this and put them all in the same category as you can also rank your category. If you had a keyword on blue whales I can think of a number of articles focusing on that keyword like size, feeding habits, migration routes, calving etc all focusing on that keyword and all different articles. Using different writers for this will help getting different points of view from the same keyword.
Some of you are already seeing the bigger picture and some are even seeing the benefits of these keywords even though you do not rank for them yet because other long tail keywords are coming into play. I have mentioned it before, I have a site with 50 articles and get traffic from over 350 different keyword phrases and each article focuses on one keyword only.
So once again please read the keyword research thread and ask questions if you don't understand. We do not care about exact matches as this is a different way of doing research. If we were looking for quick money versus long term longevity then we would probably care. These sites are geared towards long term income and stability. It's a crockpot not a microwave.
