Once you have decided what niche you are going to dominate, you need a solid and workable method of picking the keywords and putting together the content for your site. People’s common misconceptions are that keywords are pretty easy to find, because all they need to do is find a keyword that has tons of traffic, and then fill their blog with content about that keyword. Wrong. They are also under the impression that content can be automatically generated from other websites, and never be penalized by The Big G. Wrong.

The two most crucial aspects of blog design and developing are keywords and content. You can find keywords that have loads of searches – but what if 100 million other sites are using the same keywords? You can also buy an autoblogging plugin which add articles to your blog every hour, that other people have written. But what about Google’s policy on using unique content? The best way to get ahead, is to use a niche keyword tool and an article spinner.

Niche Keyword Tools

To find your keywords, it would be better to use a piece of software like Micro Niche Finder or even an online solution like Wordstream. These will deliver hundreds of keywords based on the niche you are interested in. For example, once you enter a niche like “dog grooming” the software will toddle off and dig up any related keywords to that niche. You then take these keywords and put them into a competition analysis tool.

Competition Analysis Tools

Market Samurai is a superb tool, and comes with free keyword research tools built-in, and you need never upgrade to the paid version. You will be able to find out the competition levels for your keywords very easily with this tool. Traffic Travis is very handy for finding out the competition for your keywords. It is also free.

In Part 3 : Content is King! Learn about Article Spinners and Content…

Before we get into the details of Adsense blogging – what exactly IS blogging?

The term ‘blogging’ was coined in the late 90′s, and evolved from bulletin boards where people could discuss topics not totally dissimilar to forums. You could say these were the first generation of Web 2.0 sites, being updated daily with unique content, and being totally collaborative content. Personal homepages became increasingly popular on the internet, and some of the first web logs, online diaries, and journals began to gather steam, such as Blogger and Open Diary. From here, the blogs began to evolve into huge Multi User or personal CMS websites.

Two Common Pitfalls

The most popular form of blogging nowadays is Adsense blogging, using WordPress sites to host your content, which is based on a keyword that has a high Adsense value. You then build an SEO campaign around this keyword, and send as much traffic to the blog as possible, and of course the relative traffic will click ads that are relevant to them.

As easy as this may sound to people wishing to make a living online, there can be pitfalls. The biggest pitfall of all is picking the wrong keywords to target, thus ensuring you are never ranked on Google or Bing etc., or getting traffic. The next pitfall, once you climb out of the niche selection hole, is content. It can be very difficult to structure content around a keyword if you have no experience, because a piece of content should be designed in such a way that Google sees not only your main keyword, but also related words and phrases – which are called LSI keywords. LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing, and is now crucial in any content production, because Google relies heavily on its inclusion on your website.

Tomorrow we will look at tools that can help you with the above aspects of blog design.

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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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