The challenge. Let's bring our A game.
June 28th 2010 20:19
I have a challenge for all you writers who are subscribed to this blog as well as anyone who happens to stumble across it. I have a one article head start as of this post but as you know, I'm fairly lazy and with summer in full swing, odds are I'll spend a few hours a day at the water slides and with all the kids.
This is what I'm doing.
I've chosen a keyword phrase of "cheap motels in X, California". If you put in "cheap motels california" you'll get 7000000 pages or so with Google or Yahoo! but flipping to page 2, you'll immediately see hotel chains. Those sites are too specific and I know when I search for motels I tend to skip sites for a particular franchise like Best Western because those aren't the cheapest.
I'm doing LA first, then San Diego, then maybe San Francisco. This is hundreds of articles I'll be doing plus rewrites. Let's take a look at the strategy here.
Step 1: Submit the article to Associated Content as exclusive.
Step 2: Rewrite that same article 3-5 times. Addresses take up a lot of words so really, there isn't that much to fix up. A paragraph per motel plus intro and closing.
Step 3: Submit rewritten articles to Constant Content and possibly sites like Helium, DailyArticle, Examiner, or whatever you use and prefer. CC is a must though.
Step 4: Move on to next area and repeat.
Here is my first one: Top 5 Cheap Motels in Long Beach California which has about 250k pages of competition. You can do whatever you want and please don't steal what I'm doing and beat me at my own game, that's just not cool. You could do something by region, by demographic, by culture, or whatever you want. "best X for geocaching" is a great niche that should generate massive traffic if you know what you're talking about.
I'm going to keep at this until the end of July and post my results back here. This will be a combo of AC up fronts plus views, anything sold on other sites, packages sold on forums, etc.
Anybody with me?
This is what I'm doing.
I've chosen a keyword phrase of "cheap motels in X, California". If you put in "cheap motels california" you'll get 7000000 pages or so with Google or Yahoo! but flipping to page 2, you'll immediately see hotel chains. Those sites are too specific and I know when I search for motels I tend to skip sites for a particular franchise like Best Western because those aren't the cheapest.
I'm doing LA first, then San Diego, then maybe San Francisco. This is hundreds of articles I'll be doing plus rewrites. Let's take a look at the strategy here.
Step 1: Submit the article to Associated Content as exclusive.
Step 2: Rewrite that same article 3-5 times. Addresses take up a lot of words so really, there isn't that much to fix up. A paragraph per motel plus intro and closing.
Step 3: Submit rewritten articles to Constant Content and possibly sites like Helium, DailyArticle, Examiner, or whatever you use and prefer. CC is a must though.
Step 4: Move on to next area and repeat.
Here is my first one: Top 5 Cheap Motels in Long Beach California which has about 250k pages of competition. You can do whatever you want and please don't steal what I'm doing and beat me at my own game, that's just not cool. You could do something by region, by demographic, by culture, or whatever you want. "best X for geocaching" is a great niche that should generate massive traffic if you know what you're talking about.
I'm going to keep at this until the end of July and post my results back here. This will be a combo of AC up fronts plus views, anything sold on other sites, packages sold on forums, etc.
Anybody with me?
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