The keywords of your website are the foundation for every penny you will earn from day one. Get them right, and you will be amazed at the revenue they will produce. Get them wrong, and you will be working for nothing, on a site that cannot attract people that want to click ads or purchase products. The main thing to remember here is that it is not always your main keyword that will attract visitors, but also your LSI keywords.

LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing, and Google now puts a lot of faith in the fact that relevant content on a website should contain a good mix of LSI keywords, as well as main keywords. If the spiders see that you include keywords that are associated with your subject, and your main keyword for the page, then your page becomes higher ranked than a page that only optimizes for just one keyword – or the surrounding content is not as closely related. For example, if your blog is about knitting, and you have an article about nail guns, then the likelihood of the nail gun article outranking that of a nail gun blog is very slim – to none. The blog content surrounding the article will not be relevant, and who knows what the Adsense ads would look like.

There are various ways to ensure your LSI is right on the money, and Google itself can help here. When you search for a term, you can check the related terms at the bottom of the results, and you can also use Google’s Wonder Wheel to throw up valid suggestions that can be used around your article and page.

There is not yet a hard and fast rule for LSI, but everyone is sure that Google looks for it, and has said as much in press conferences. The rule of thumb now is to ensure you have it – and have it in spades.

When you try to do too much, you will usually fail. It’s not always your fault, it is just that you might not have access to the best advice from the outset, and that leads you to believe you can create a hundred and one products and services that will solve many problems for people, and actually make more money. If you start by thinking smaller, and try to solve all the smaller problems people face, then you are usually going to have a better result from your chosen niche.

As an example, let us take ebooks that teach how to find niche keywords. This is a very big industry and there are millions of dollars worth of software out there to help people get the best from keywords. If you think about the problems that you have with just one keyword tool, and set about working out how to fix that problem, you could technically offer this out as a product in itself. If you have a keyword tool that gives you the opportunity to search everything you need to know about a keyword or niche, but does not provide data like “which state in America does the keyword get searched most often” then this is a starting block for software. You could get a programmer from Freelance.com to build a fast tool that would take a keyword (found by your regular keyword tools) and deliver the top ten states that are searching for it.

If the tool cost $50 to make, then you could make this back by selling the product to your list at just $5.00 each, or as an ebook and product combo on an internet marketing forum. By going super niche, you are creating a market for the people who have a problem. This is where many people fail – they would try to create a tool that does way too much, and take a long time to build, and therefore would have a higher price tag.

If you are struggling to find a niche on Clickbank or Paydotcom that you can sell on your niche blog, then it is advisable that you have three websites that you regularly subscribe to their RSS feeds. These sites will let you know as soon as a product is launched, and also when a joint venture is being requested by the authors of the products. You may find it very difficult to compete for some keywords relating to Clickbank products, because affiliates are straight away going to be creating sniper sites for page one stardom. Your best bet is getting in either before a product is launched, or on day one of the actual launch itself.

CB Analytics is one of the leading websites that notify you when a product is launched on Clickbank. You can get lots of great information about the gravity of a product etc. so it is well worth signing up and also adding their RSS feed, so you get up to the minute information on new products.

CBEngine is another site in the same style of CB Analytics, and will also allow you to get information on products that re-listed and/or underpromoted. This can offer you some great lead time on getting a ste ranked for that product, and earning some money alongside the big hitters in affiliate marketing.

Another site that deserves a mention is JV Notify Pro, because this site tells you when a product is DUE to be launched. This can often give you up to two months to prepare your sites and marketing. You can also get plenty of sales copy and graphics together in this time. When a product comes up on there, you will of course be amongst hundreds of other people who are already promoting, or actually about to start promoting the same offer – so you must make sure your marketing plan is fast and furious.

WordPress themes are generally free. The creators of themes usually ask that their link remain intact at the footer of the screen on every page so that anybody who likes it can click through, and possibly buy premium themes from the theme developers. More often than not, free themes will have exactly the same features as premium themes, so there’s no real need to pay out silly money on something that works just as good for free. The WordPress site itself has many free themes by enthusiastic developers, and every day new themes are added. The main thing to consider is what type of content you are going to be publishing, so it fits in well with the design.

Magazine type sites, like this one, provide an area for featured content, as well as normal content. Also, you will see video categories, linked from the home page. Featured content is ideal for any posts you create that are monetized. You want to channel as much home page traffic to the featured area of your site as possible, so an attention grabbing image with text is required. Magazine style sites work well for media rich content, but if you just have text based information on your site, with the occasional image, then you may want to look into Journal type themes. These provide you with basic post layouts, that have a large header, and good sized post pages. If you want a graphically rich website, then you need to look more into premium themes, because these will have an animated home page, usually, and large linked areas to featured content.

For the most part, magazine type themes are the ideal solution for most bloggers, as you can add and remove functionality depending on your needs. You do not have to have the video section linked from the home page, and you only need to display the content you want.

Deciding about what your going to blog about and most importantly picking a domain name for your blog is the most important part of starting your blog.  The reason i say this is because you want a domain name that is going to match the content of your blog and also a domain name that is keyword friendly, even better is if you choose a domain name that will have your main keyword within your domain name, this will help the optimisation of your blog and also help with your search engine rankings.

What i do is, first i research the keywords that have less competition for the niche im going to blog about and also has a good amount of monthly searches.  I use Googles free keyword tool:

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Simply enter in a keyword related to your niche as below, for this example i will target a niche blog on “LCD TVs”:

Then you will receive the results, on the match type field select Phrase as i’ve done below.  This will put quotes around the keyword and give more accurate results.

Now what you want to do is go to Google.com and see what competition there is for this keyword.  What you want to do is find a keyword that has less then 50,000 competing websites because the less competition for that keyword the more likely you will rank on page 1 for that keyword.

For example go to Google and do the following with your chosen keyword (The keyword I chose from my list was “best flat screen tv” which has a monthly search volume of 9,900) making sure to put the quote marks around your keyword as I’ve done below:

Now once you have chosen the keyword you want to target, next is to search online to see if there is a domain available that has your main keyword within the domain name.

The ideal domain extensions you want are

1. First option for .com if its available
2. 2^nd option if .com is taken is .org
3. 3^rd option if both .com and .org are taken then get .net

If all 3 extensions are taken then what you can do is add something to the end of the domain for example:

www.bestflatscreentvonline.com

www.bestflatscreentvworld.com

www.bestflatscreentvinfo.com

etc..

Make sure you don’t have any dashes (-) in your domain name and make sure your keyword starts at the beginning.

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