First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).

Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work.

If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:

• create a giant list of resources,
• write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
• find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
• write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially

When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”

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Firstly, What Is An Authority?

I would define an authority as someone who is looked to for knowledge about a particular niche.  They are people that are trusted to give an unbiased opinion on certain topics.

They have the knowledge, but they are also looked at as people that are honest.  In other words, they are people that are trusted to deliver the goods.

Why You Should Be An Authority

There are two simple reasons for this.  To make money and to help people out.  It is two simple reasons, but two very good reasons.  There is nothing better than making money online and helping people out at the same time.

We can break it down even further.  In order to, run a successful online business, you need to obviously start making money online, but you also need to maintain that.  Being an authority is a great way to do that.

One of the problems that people have is that they make some money and just can’t sustain it going forward.  If you’re an authority and you keep delivering, it is easy to maintain your income online because it is an ongoing process.

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1. Make easy money online naming domains. The original idea comes from Dane Carson’s blog. While you can earn money as a contributor for services such as PickyDomains.Com, here is a better idea. Go to Google or any other search engine, find sucky domain names and contact their owners directly, offering them your services. The key to success is to make it 100% risk free. Inform your prospective clients that you’ll accept money only if they like your domain name. If you come up with one approved domain name a day and charge what PickyDomain charges, you can make $1500 a month. Another twist – come up with cool domain names, like SiteToRemember.Com or ItsMe.Com, register them yourself and sell them on the aftermarket.

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1. Write and submit your articles to the article directories.

2. Leave comments on other people’s blogs with a backlink to your site.

3. Answer people’s questions on Yahoo! Answers’ homepage.

4. Post in forums and have a link to your site in your signature.

5. Write a press release and submit it to PRWeb (The Online Visibility Company)

6. Advertise your website in the appropriate category websites’ Free Ads.

7. Give an unbiased testimonial on a product/service that you have used in exchange for a backlink to your site.

8. Start a blog and submit it to the 100′s of free blog directories.

9. Manually submit your website to the major search engines.

10. Optimize each page of your website for a particular keyword or search phrase.

11. Add a link in your email signature to your website. It’s a free and easy way to get a little more traffic.

12. Make a custom 404 error page for your website redirecting people to your home page.

13. Use PPC search engine advertising.

14. Add a “bookmark this site” link to your webpages.

15. Have a tell-a-friend form on your site.

16. Send articles to ezine publishers that includes a link to your website.

17. Hold a crazy content and make it go viral.

18. Give away a freebie (ebook, report, e-course) to keep people coming back to your site.

19. Add an RSS feed to your blog.

20. Submit your site to any related niche directories on the net

Although there is no such thing as a general duplicate content penalty it is difficult to get high rankings for a web page whose content can also be found on other web pages. If you want to avoid problems with duplicate content, the following tips and illustrations will help you.

What is duplicate content and what do search engines do about it?

• Duplicate content is if two or more different web pages contain the same or nearly the same content.
• Duplicate content can occur within a single website and across many different websites.
• Web pages can be considered duplicate even if they are not 100% identical.
• Search engines want to list only one version of duplicate content on their search result pages.

Search engines want to return as many different options as possible in their result lists. That’s why they filter all duplicates in the search results and display only one version.

How do search engines determine which web page will be used for the search results?

• When search engines find a web page, they compare it to previously found web pages to determine whether it is a duplicate or not:
• Web pages that are hosted by known spam sites will be removed from the list:
• The remaining web pages will be sorted based on the number and the quality of their inbound links:
• The web page with the best inbound links will be chosen for the search results

How to avoid duplicate content on your own websites

• Hide duplicate content from search engines
  If you offer different versions of your website content (regular view, mobile view, print view, etc.) then search engines might pick the wrong variation for the search results. Add a noindex meta tag to your duplicate content versions so that search engines don’t index the duplicate content (you can use IBP’s website optimization editor to do it).
• Require backlinks if you syndicate your web page content
  If you syndicate your content to third parties, search engines might favor the version published by one of your partners. Require a back link from your partners to the original document on your own website so that search engines can find out from which web page the content comes. Duplicate content can cause problems with your search engine rankings. If you follow the tips above, search engine spiders should index your web pages correctly. Also make sure that the web page content that search engine spiders index on your website has been optimized so that search engines can give your web pages the best possible rankings in the search results.

The words that are used in the links to your website have an effect on the search engine rankings of your website for these keywords. For example, if very many websites use the word "blue widget" to link to your website, it is likely that your website will get a high ranking on Google for the keyword "blue widget".

How many keywords does Google consider?

It’s absolutely certain that Google considers the words in the links to your site. The question is, how many words or characters does Google count in a link? Is there an optimal length for text links? Blogger Shaun Anderson did a test to find the answer.

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Designing and publishing your first web site can seem a daunting prospect to the uninitiated, not just because of the technical aspects involved, but because of the many different options too – it’s often hard to know where to even start. This mini-report gives you an introduction to the process of planning, designing and publishing your site in the hope that it will help you overcome that initial inertia – to get you off the starting blocks. The first thing you need, when starting an online site is objectives.

Objectives

Nothing will hinder you more than if you set out not knowing exactly what it is you are trying to achieve – clear, concise objectives will keep you focused, across all aspects of the site creation process. Indeed, you ought to be continually referring back to these objectives as your site development progresses. Objectives might include "selling a product" or "building a mailing list" or "communicating your brand" or perhaps simply "providing information about you, or your business". Whatever your objective is, online, write this down and pin it to the wall where you can refer back to it on an ongoing basis.

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