Lesson 3: The Power of The Long-Tail Keywords
by Anik Singal on April 19th, 2008 | Blogging | 121 Comments »
It’s that time again, time for us to push forward and learn the REAL power of blogs.
Before we do that - if you have not started yet - start now, already over 200 students have submitted their blogs to us!
Lesson 1 - How to install your wordpress blog…
Lesson 2 - How to prepare your blog for the search engines…
Next order of business - I’ve made THREE videos for you today, please take the next 20-30 minutes, close your door, turn off your phone and go through them all (and do Assignment #3).
The 3 videos below are:
1. Why Blogs? AND What Videos Are Coming This Week…
2. PROOF - The Power of the Long-Tail (My own stats)
3. Assignment #3 - How to write for the long-tail keywords…
So a big question we’ve heard is “Why blogs? or “What’s the difference between a blog and a website…” - I decided to make a little video to explain better - I also talk about all the neat videos we have planned for you THIS week (before the big day April 29).
Video #1 - What’s Coming Next & Why Blogs?
Click Below To Start Playing…
Video #2 - MY OWN PROOF - Blogs & Long Tail Keywords
This is a blog I started on February 19, 2008 and have done a total of 58 posts on - no more than 20 minutes a day. I have done NO marketing (except two things that I will show you on Wednesday).
NO - this is NOT a gazillion million visitors - but look at how AMAZING of a start I have, ALL because of long-tail keywords & blogs…
Click Video To Start Playing…
(Video Will Open In A New Window)
Video #3 - Assignment #3 - Finding Long Tail Keywords…
This is quick video that will show you a quick way to find long-tail keywords. Your first assignment is to write your FIRST post using a long-tail keyword you find…
Click Video To Start Playing…
(Video Will Open In A New Window)
LEAVE A COMMENT with a link to the new post you make. We wanna see!
Tags: Blogging, long tail keywords, seo
Nice vid today man, thanks!
//Linus Rylander
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Anik and Rosalind,
You two are awesome for sharing your information with us newbies and wannabes. Thanks for the clear step-by-step instructions.
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Thanks again! I love this video series, can’t wait for more. I’m still in the baby stages of monetizing, but I can only imagine how much what you’ve shared so far is worth!
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Hi Rosalind and Anik,
Here is the title for my first post, “Fontaine d’eau auto-nettoyante” on blog http://www.vise-eaupureblog.com. you will notice it’s in french as i target the market in Quebec
although I intend to have the blog as well as the website bilingual. I presume this could be cover in future assignment
Feel free to comment.Looking forward for the next assignment
Pierre
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http://callofthedog.wordpress.com/
my first post. There is also an About page.
Thanks, Jay
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Hey Anik these videos are completely awesome. Thank you so much for your simple Assignment step by step instructions!
I have my blog built and set up. Not very much traffic yet though and any criticism you could give would be greatly appreciated.
After what you’ve shown me I now know how I could set up a blog very simply, concisely and efficiently. With the right Niche market I’m sure I could really bank with what your teaching.
http://www.GogReview.com/
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Hi Ros & Anik,
Your videos are highly commendable.I am not new to wordpress and blogging so most of this stuff is not new…however if you are already giving out such good information, I am definitely keen to see what you have lined up for later on!Wish both of you the very best on this venture.
Regards,
Alex.
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Ali reply on April 20, 2008 8:32 am:
Welcome to our team Alex
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I have spent a fair amount of money - to first simply understand the difference between a blog and a website.
I subscribed to Sherman Hu - I did not get what I was after. In fact, after I heard this video, I unsubscribed to his paid service - just $9.95 – not too much of money, but then I did not get what I was after.
In fact, I have even bought a revolution theme by Brian Gardner and I posted a question about the difference between blogging and a site 3 weeks back and I have not got an answer. Sure, that’s a site where people know a lot more than me – but then I would have upgraded to a more expensive pacakge.
For the first time I have understood the difference between a blog and a site.
You have really come down to the beginners level Anik and this is going to see your sales explode.
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http://shortsweetlovepoem.com/mothers-day-2008-gift/
Thanks to you two I think I may be back on track with my blog. Here is the link to the long tail keyword post that I just made.
Thanks again, Justin
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Hey Guy,
Great videos and they worked perfectly!
(No hang-ups and not one error alert)
Bill
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OK the only thing I had trouble with was finding the content to match the words but here it is.
http://cliffnotebooks.com/cliff-hanger-of-the-day/
Enjoy.
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Anik & Ros - here’s my post based on “motivation and goal setting” (my long tail keyword). Tried my best at incorporating these keywords along with a few others I found within Google’s keyword research tool. Thanks for all your information!
http://essential-business-resources.com/motivation-and-goal-setting/
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and another cos I’m on a roll now
http://cliffnotebooks.com/cliff-notes-lord-of-the-flies-william-golding-1954/
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Ali reply on April 20, 2008 8:30 am:
nice blog Kathy
keep going
Ali
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stormwhistle reply on April 20, 2008 11:14 pm:
Neat and tidy looking blog. Good job
Stormwhistle
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Hey Guys… And “Gals” … (OH Boy, don’t want to forget
)
them they’ll hurt me… hehehe
I just found a great YouTube video about an automatic one
click plugin tool… check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QM53JmERTQ&feature=related
Now I’m off to find this one.
Bill
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Bill reply on April 20, 2008 3:56 am:
Update on that plugin…
After I did some further research — It’s not for the
newbie — and might mess you up if you don’t know how
to tweak it.
As for the FF extension/add-on it’s only version 1.0
and has only 2 reviews and only 300 downloads.
So I would recommend “NOT” getting this one until you
have more experience.
Bill
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Hello Rosalind an Anik
I finished Assignment #3 and I would like to find out what you think of it. Your tutorials are awesome. Can’t wait for Assignmet #4. My blog is http://completelyweddings.com/myblog/
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Kathy reply on April 20, 2008 3:16 am:
That is a great blog well done.
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Justin reply on April 21, 2008 7:42 am:
Hi Pacita,
Like your theme. You seem to be off to a fast start.
Good luck,
Justin
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Hi Again Anik & Rosalind,
Well, another great job by you guys!
I figured out how to change the appearance of my blog and finished assignment #3 and even put up a post! (All quite an accomplishment for me!)
The thing is all kinds of adsense ads appeared–they keep changing and a lot of them have nothing to do with what my blog is about. I DO want to monetize (kind of the purpose behind all this)! I also did not have an adsense account, yet the ads were on there(???) So anyway I signed up for an account but don’t understand why ads would be there before they have given me one.?????
My site is http://www.doctoryourhome.com/myblog
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MikeinYVR reply on April 20, 2008 9:40 am:
Hi Karta,
Nice job on your start! I noticed if I went to the second page of your blog, (the seperate page on Loans) Google Adwords is listing ads that are directly relevant to your content. Now why it’s not listing relevant ads on your start page is a mystery. I can only think that your blog is new and as you ad more content, Google will catch up. Anyone else with suggestions?
Cheers,
Mike in Vancouver Canada
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Stefani reply on April 20, 2008 9:43 am:
Hi Karla,
If you use themes to update your site (like I did) they may be pre-designed into the template and will actually have the designer’s Adsense account info in there. You need to replace their info with yours in the theme files. If you let me know which theme you used, I can check their files to see which ones you need to change and where. I had one theme that clearly labeled the adsense php files, and another where they were inside the other files. I also know on some themes, you can stop the adsense or limit it to certain pages, again it depends on the theme and how it was written.
Hope this helps!
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Karla reply on April 20, 2008 4:42 pm:
Hi Stefani,
Thanks for your help—the template is called Prosense. I like the layout (maybe don’t love the color, but it’s ok)!
What you said makes sense, I don’t know too much technical stuff at this point but I didn’t have an adsense account even set up yet. I set one up right away but don’t have it ready to go at this point. I’m stuck at figuring out how to set up a sitemap—I am working on it but it seems pretty complex to me. I tried downloading a plug-in but haven’t figured it out. Also Google said if you have a rss feed it could be used as a sitemap but I can’t figure that out either! The template does have an rss.
So what do you think of that mess???? LOL I guess.
Thanks! Karla
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Bryant reply on April 20, 2008 8:56 pm:
Karla, Stefani is right about the adsense on your homepage. That isn’t yours (even though you have an account now) and you aren’t going to be paid if someone clicks through. I’d change the account info to yours before I did anything else.
Also as far as sitemaps go… Google toolbox lists a tool for creating them. Check out this page and the link is on the left. It requires Python which is probably installed by default but not all host install it so that might be a problem. That site also has info on how to setup and use the tool or create a sitemap manually.
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html
Stefani reply on April 20, 2008 10:52 pm:
Karla,
Hey! I’ve used prosense before, there are 7 files that start with “adsense” in their names. To get to these files, go to (on the old version) presentation, themes, and then theme files. You can then select each file and edit it on Wordpress, it will say “google ad client = pub and then a long number, you will replace their long number with your long google ad id number. On WP 2.5 you click on “design” and then “theme editor” to get to the list of files you need to put your id into.
Also, with most themes, you will find a webpage listed on the bottom of the page to the designer’s page. I got a lot of good info about how to make changes to the theme from the designer’s page (also, adsense now comes in blue and green, I believe). Hope this helps!
Hi Guys..
this is my assigment for this day, I hope you’ll like it
http://athekra.net/windows-xp-installation/
thanks Bill for that video that was helpfull
regards.
Ali
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Nice vids Anik! I would love to have such a great traffic to my site too.
Boo hoo… I am using Blogger by Google. Not very familiar with Wordpress. Is it difficult to use? I tried once, but gave up and switch to Blogger instead.
What about migrating my blog to Wordpress? Will I be able to keep my domain since I bought it from Blogger?
Anyone can help?
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Johnnie reply on April 20, 2008 3:00 pm:
Great news Carson. Yes, you can import your blogger blog over to wordpress with 1 simple click of the Import button.
I read about it in the documentation section on WP first, and it was easy. Launch your WP Blog, go to Manage,go to import, enter info, grant access and Bam, it was done. Of course it had a different look,and some of the widgets didn’t transfer, but all the comment including pictures did. Here are the two links if you want to see
http://strategic-alliances.blogspot.com and now http://ourblog.iknowpeople.net
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Have these videos are really helpful! I don’t use wordpress… but I’m still gaining lots of useful tips.
My blog has been set up for a few months now… I’m experiencing a couple of hassles with a mapping that occurred a couple of weeks ago… but I’m continually learning and enjoying it.
I’d appreciate any comments and any feedback…
thank you once again for your energy in providing all this information for us
Jeanne
http://aspirationsplus.typepad.com/uydayg
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Hey Ros,
On that SEO Video… I could use a little more info on the
setting up of the main page. (All in One SEO)
I filled it out the way I thought it should be and then
went and updated 2 post, (Per the video) and there wasn’t
a single thing changed… in fact the blog post title never
showed, just the name of my blog it’s self.
I also put up a blank .htaccess file, hoping WP would write
whatever it wants in it, but no JOY! So the /%postname%/
still doesn’t work.
Along that same line; I found a website that will make
.htaccess for you, but not sure how to fill in the blanks
to match what WP wants.
http://www.htaccesseditor.com/en.shtml
Bill
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Ali reply on April 20, 2008 8:27 am:
Bill,
tell me the URL for your blog and I will create .htaccess file for you
Ali
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Stefani reply on April 20, 2008 9:37 am:
Hey Bill,
I had a few issues getting things to change for me to. First, on the .htaccess file, I realized when I was getting error after error, I didn’t change the permissions to 666. Use your FTP software, log on to your server, find the .htaccess file, right click it, and look for “File Attributes” (mine is the last on the list). Click it, then set permissions to 666.
Also, I don’t know about the newer version of Wordpress, but on my older version, not only do I have to update the post, but on the bottom of the page there is a tab for “All in one SEO” and I have to click the little plus sign to open it, and then fill in the details down there as well. I did a couple of posts before I realized that little box was there.
If all else fails, I would re-check the permissions on your other files. I kept changing my theme, and then realized that I hadn’t been changing permissions on each of my new themes, so things weren’t working quite as well as they should.
After all that trial and error, my page seems to be working properly now.
Hope that helps!
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Ali reply on April 20, 2008 1:37 pm:
Hi Bill,
if your problem still with you follow my instruction:
1- download this file form this link
http://www.4shared.com/file/44751836/80fbd77f/htaccess.html
2- Upload that file ( which is .htaccess ) to your website where WP installed using FTP software or cPanel.
3- after you upload it give that file 666 permission.
4- go to your WP administration Panel under settings - Permalinks - choose Custom Structure and type /%postname%/ after that save it
It should work!
actuality what I did is create a .htaccess file for you that accept mod_rewrite that’s it.
Hope that helps
Ali
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Bill reply on April 20, 2008 8:49 pm:
Thanks Guys,
Good News/Bad News….
After rebooting and coming back to the blog, the SEO now
works.
Ali — Thanks my Friend for the file.
But sadly no JOY! — Yes I had both my blank file and
this new file set to 666, (even tried 766 and 777).
I put it in the main blog folder, not in a sub-folder.
I think now I need to check with my hosting company and
see if MOD_Rewrite is turned on.
What do you think?
Bill
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Ali reply on April 21, 2008 12:53 am:
Hi Bill,
If SEO plug-ins working fine that’s OK, but you have to take with your hosting company
God luck Bill, and let me know if you have any update
Ali
Bill reply on April 21, 2008 5:21 pm:
Hey Ali and Everyone,
Just got a support ticket back from my hosting co.
They say that the MOD_Rewrite ‘is’ turned on and don’t
know why that tweak isn’t working… they again asked
for more information.
Gave them the complete run down and all pathways, now
all I can do is wait for them to check it out.
Sure is irritating
Ali — We had another guy back on Lesson 2 with the same
missing .htaccess file, so I pointed him over here to
your link.
Bill
Online Marketing Fundamentals reply on April 25, 2008 7:13 am:
Hey Bill
I had a similar problem, and even though the hosting company said everything was OK - mod rewrite etc - it made NO difference.
It seems it is a “common” problem with WP 2.5 worse luck.
Whatever was going on… it seemed that WP would simply NOT create or write to an .htaccess file… and even when I put the right one there… it still wouldn’t work!
So… as I was NOT able to use the “pretty” permalinks option - i.e /%postname%/ - I had NO option but to move the whole domain to another host which I knew it worked on.
The “alternative” is to try the /index.php/%postname%/ pathlink structure - that will probably work…
Except it looks like… well, it doesn’t look good!
Cheers
Stephen Spry
Bill reply on April 27, 2008 10:21 pm:
HEY Ali,
BIG FYI UPDATE on that .htaccess file,
WE got it working!
The only problem was in the last line:
***RewriteRule . /foo/index.php [L]***
I had to change the “FOO” to “BLOG” (where my
WP was installed) and it worked!
Thanks again my friend,
Bill
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Hi again,
finished Assignment #3
and here is my blog
http://athekra.net
I don’t change my theme yet because I am planning to do something awesome.
Here what I did to my blog but don’t follow me
I register me domain with google and create a sitemap to my blog and i want from you guys to search about google webmaster tools it’s very handy tools try it
sorry for my English it’s my second Language
if you need any support please post it here and we will help you.
thanks
Ali
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First 3 assignments complete, I am intrigued at where this is going but its a bit of fun as well.
I will post my long tail post shortly
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If you find that the permissions are not “sticking” using FTP, go into your C-panel and file manager to change them. This is often the case with WP 2.5. For some reason, aft changing permissions using your FTP program, they have not saved, but they do when using C-Panel.
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Ali reply on April 20, 2008 1:08 pm:
You are right Kathy,
I always use the cPanel to edit, edit or even delete files/folder from my website. You Know why?!. becuase our company don’t allow as to use FTP software :), Nice trick
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HI Great post this really gives newbies an idea how SEO works and the importance of SEO to online success
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Anik & Rosalind,
Here’s my long tail lesson….
http://augies-place.com/blog/live-a-longer-life-by-learning/
Now I’m thinking I would like to change the template but I wonder how much will be lost, if anything. Do all the plug-ins remain if I do make the change?
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Ali reply on April 20, 2008 2:11 pm:
Nice post Augie,
If you mean you want to change yor theme that’s OK all plug-ins it will work with all thwmes
and keep learning for ypur long life
regards,
Ali
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Hi Anik & Rosalind,
Here’s my blog with the long tail keyword in the title.
http://www.awakenedentrepreneur.com
Enjoying this so much.
Best - Helen
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I’m trying to find the web post, where do I go to get this?
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Kathy reply on April 21, 2008 6:52 am:
Hi Stephen, what are you looking for?
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Hi all
I started my new world press blog I hope you all like it
Eric
Thanks for all the great videos and ideas
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Hi Anik and Ros,
Lesson #3 was so easy I did it again.
http://shortsweetlovepoem.com/romantic-ideas-for-her/
For some reason I didn’t understand how long-tail keywords could work in my posts. You’re explanation of a little here and a little there, Anik, go a lot further thatn my method of doing nothing proactive. Enough rambling though. I look forward to the next lesson.
Learning a lot, Justin
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Visit http://www.internetpokeracademy.com
I was able to utilize a high demand 4 word keyword and I also figured out how to put an aweber opt-in form on the post which really excited me.
Travis
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Justin reply on April 21, 2008 7:06 am:
Hey Travis,
Just to let you know. When I clicked your link I was unable to find your site. Same thing when I clicked on your name. May be a problem there to look into.
Just letting you know,
Justin
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Anik, Roz, and Fellow Students,
Not as advanced as some of you… but I picked out a 4-word tail.
Click to see it
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I start my students out with Typepad, and then introduce them to WordPress. Your videos are great, but my people are still in the beginning stages and want to do it all themselves. I will watch a few more times and then send you my best students. Do you have an affiliate program?
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Here is my new long key word post for assignment 3. Check it out!
http://captainscruiseblog.com/luxury-greece-cruise/luxury-cruise-greece/
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Kathy reply on April 21, 2008 6:49 am:
Hi Kyle, that’s awesome. If you’ve added the blog stats plug in it would be interesting to check the stats on that having both bases covered, and I’m presuming that would be a sought after long key word too.
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Hi Anik and Rosalind,
Compliments on a great training series. You’re an inspiration to us all.
I have created my blog and put up the first post. The blog relates to my website promotion niche and can be found at:
http://your-traffic-booster.com/blog/
You are all welcome to leave constructive comments
Ray
PS. Hope you are going to show us how to change the header graphics soon, since we are “going live”
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Hey guys… another great lesson. I’ve been using NicheBot for keyword research but I’m still learning HOW to use it successfully. Following your vid on using Google’s keyword tool I got a quick list lightning fast. Couldn’t stop there so I built several lists for different categories in my blog… now I got a bunch of topics to write on. Thanks
Bryant
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Using long tail keywords in your post’s title is essential to better ranking in the search engines. For example, the results below are because I used the keywords in the title!
A topic that I have been searching for recently is
wordpress membership plugins
And while I found LOTS of information, most of it was either out of date (referred to stuff no longer available) or not really useful (:
Google lists over 220,000 results for those keywords, so it was an effort to even get through the first 50-100 or so sites to find out what I wanted (which means it is going to be hard for everyone else too!)
So - after three days of agonising research, I decided to write a post (on April 1) summarising my results of looking for wordpress membership plugins
That post has actually generated at least 96 new visits for 67 keyword phrases to my site (to 20th April) along with another 8 visits from a teaser post on another blog of mine.
It is currently positioned on Google at #16 for those long tail keywords - and #1 for the key PHRASE “wordpress membership plugins” (which is when people search for something with “quote marks around the phrase”).
With a little bit of careful keyword anchor text in links to the post — as I did in the link above
— I can push it up the ranking even further… and get even more visitors to my site.
Notice when you check that post, I am using it as link bait to get people to check out a couple of other things I am promoting!
Some food for thought.
Cheers
Stephen Spry
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Thanks for the great idea! I love having a way of coming up with ideas for entires!
Here is the first of my two blogs homework assignment three.
http://www.LittleAbbysAdventures.com the keywords were Teacup Pomeranian Puppies
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Hello Everbody,
I’m a charter member of Blog Classroom this is best learning I ever got since I became a member.But I had one problem which is call procrastination, I did not do anything with the program.But 3 weeks ago I decided I wanted to take control of my life so I got busy a created a wordpress blog an I’m steal have lot to learn.Please check out blog.
http://www.moneyprofitstrategies.com
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Justin reply on April 21, 2008 6:42 am:
Hi Mike, I just checked out your blog and you offer good suggestions. I think the last post would have been a great place to promot a professional e-mail service to your subscribers that still don’t have an account set up with any one. Your goal should be to make more money from your affiliate links than from adsense. Keep going though as you are off to a good start.
Find your long-tail keywored that you want to use in your post then check your affiliate networks for suitable merchants. Picking a good merchant can be time consuming though. Rosalind spells it all out in her book. Check it out.
Regards,
Justin
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Here’s one of mine. Canceling service with 1and1 web hosting.
http://www.vacation-rental-wonderland.com/owner-advice/website-hosting/how-to-cancel-service-with-1and1-website-hosting/
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I know this may be a stupid question but do you have to have cpanel and set your blog up the way she did in the video , or can you just go straight to wordpress and do it. Sorry but I am totally knew to the world of blogging.
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Kathy reply on April 21, 2008 6:46 am:
Hi Shannon, I’ve played with Wordpress for a while and the whole cpanel thing totally opened it up for me once and for all. I know it feels like a steep climb to learn it, cos it was for me, but believe me, after a few years of trying, it is totally worth it.
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Kathy reply on April 21, 2008 6:47 am:
not a few years to learn cpanel that read badly, a few years of trying WITHOUT cpanel.
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Justin reply on April 21, 2008 6:50 am:
Shannon,
Rosalind installed WordPress on her website. WordPress comes with CPanel. The reason for having your own site rather than a site hosted by another is that you gain professionalism. Web hosting is fairly cheap. If you don’t already have it you can get set up for as little as three months to try it out. I suggest that you buy a year or two worth of hosting at a time because it is cheaper in the long run.
Good Luck,
Justin
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Online Marketing Fundamentals reply on April 22, 2008 7:34 am:
Hey Justin… I’m not trying to be picky, but you’ve said a couple of times here that “wordpress comes with cpanel” which can be misinterpreted by some…
It’s actually cPanel first… It’s the main server management program… and cPanel comes with Fantastico… then Fantastico comes with Wordpress.
It’s an important distinction and better aids in the understanding of what goes where
Stephen
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Justin reply on April 22, 2008 8:07 am:
Ok, that’s a good observation. Thanks
Justin
Bryant reply on April 22, 2008 1:43 am:
You can use a hosted service like Google’s Blogger or WordPress but ultimately you will have to move it to your own hosted domain if you want to be successful. Its best to start with a fresh blog on your domain. Then you will build traffic to your site not Google’s.
I think Ros recommends Bluehost and that is really all you will need to get started. CPanel makes installing WordPress very simple. With your own blog you will be able to experiment with loads of plugins and themes to really get it to do what you want. So as you learn how to use it you can customize it. Pretty soon you will be a pro.
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ok my other blog has homework assignment 3 which the keyword was “Womens fashion t shirts”
http://www.thestylishmom.com
I did notice in playing with the google tool that some if the keyword strings did not have any paid advertisers. So would it be more beneficial to choose those keywords since in theory they should have less competition? Or is is better to choose keywords that are popular?
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Claudia reply on April 21, 2008 5:04 am:
oh and I almost forgot… Ros I put that screen shot back up for you to see about my wordpress 2.3.3 having the keyword boxes. Take a peak please so I can delete it. lol
thanks!
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Justin reply on April 21, 2008 6:59 am:
Hi Claudia,
Great site. You are on the right track with your keyword search looking for keywords without advertising as these are over-looked keywords. They might be so for a reason though. To the right of advertising is the search volumes. If there is any, or more search volume than advertising competition than go ahead and use that keyword in your post.
If I am having trouble finding keywords with little advertising I choose one with less advertising than most and start my search over again using that keyword. Eventually I come up with an appropriate keyword that has search volume and few competing advertisers.
Hope this helps,
Justin
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Claudia reply on April 21, 2008 3:38 pm:
Thank you for the compliment Justin. Also thanks for the great tip. I didn’t think to go in and re add the keyword phrase to go a step deeper. I love it when the ligh bulbs go off. lol
Hugs! C
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Hi there, I’m glad we had the extra day to complete this assignment. Anyway my post has been completed with my long tail keyword being “free eBay templates”. Check it out here: http://expandintoauctions.com.au/blog/free-ebay-templates-that-are-easy-to-use-and-look-good/
I have a question about Google Analytics: does it also track the times you visit your own site?
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Hey Ros and Annik-
Thanks for the guidance and videos. It’s been a great help and if you get a chance please take a look at the blog and give some feedback-
Thanks
Cameron
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http://www-corporatecredit.com/myblog/
Hey Guys-
Thanks again for the help here is the link to the blog- Please share any advice you may have-
Keep up the great work!!
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Just posted up a post and included a link to an Amazon search to monetize for the long-tail phrase.
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[...] your wordpress blog… Lesson 2 - How to prepare your blog for the search engines… Lesson 3 - Generating Traffic Through SEO (Long-Tail [...]
Here’s my post with the long tail keyword: http://homefitnessbody.com/blog/2008/04/21/the-american-council-on-exercise/
You are both doing a great job. I’m looking forward to the April 29th date.
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My Blog,
http://yourfishtankguru.com/Talk/
It also has a traditional website, but what I have been learning is great
I was also influenced by Rosiland’s ebook
Also is it better to own a domain or just have something from wordperss or something like blogger?
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Online Marketing Fundamentals reply on April 22, 2008 7:25 am:
Hi James
Short answer - better to have your own domain - because that means the content is yours and you can move it wherever you want. If you have content on a remote blog like wordpress or blogger and do something naughty… well, that’s the end of you and your content the moment you get killed!
Long answer - have BOTH, along with LOTS of hubpages, squidoo lenses, and a few other “remote blogs” and point them all at your main domain, an some random cross linking between each other using keyword anchor text in the links…
While it means extra work… the extra content you write, and cross linking and indexing etc going on is well worth it in the long term.
Just don’t copy, word for word, the content onto all of these sites… or you’ll get into trouble with the big “g”.
And don’t forget some good old article submission once a week too… pointing again to your main domain.
AND… don’t make all these links to your site go to the home page - some “deep linking” to internal pages is also necessary.
Cheers
Stephen Spry
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James reply on April 22, 2008 8:28 pm:
Well I do for the fish site, that has been earning some cash of course I want it to earn more.
I do have a Squidoo lens on the same topic.
But if I wanted to start a new niche site and really hesitant on buying a domain.
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Online Marketing Fundamentals reply on April 23, 2008 6:45 am:
Hesitant? Why? Domain $10. Hosting under $10 a month, or $20 a month with room for 20 domains and Autoresponder etc if you use UMC. That’s it - nothing more to spend!
It can’t be the expense that’s holding you back
Yeah… I KNOW you’re only a college student… but seriously, $20 a month is within the budget of anyone! If not - cut down on the fags, booze and parties a little 
But hang on… it seems you’ve already got you own hosting… so what’s the problem with your host - they appear to have add-on domains even in the basic plan!
Because until you own your OWN site, you can’t build an asset!
While YOUR content resides on other people’s sites… it’s just not really yours. If ANYTHING happens to those sites which results in your content being scrapped, then you’ve just wasted all your time building it there.
These remote sites are to build links, get indexed for different variations of your keywords, to send traffic back to your main site, and boost the PR there.
Meanwhile… back at the ranch… do the research into the niche you’re thinking about. If you reckon it looks promising… then just give it a go! It’s only going to cost $10 and some time….
The expense ain’t gonna kill ya, but procrastination will!
Cheers
Stephen
P.S. I too had LOTS of fish when I was at uni - hundreds of tropicals - mainly swords and guppies! Great therapy… until I had to move them at the end of the year and take them home… but that’s another story!
BTW - where are all the pics on your fish site??? I want to see lots of pics!!!
Hi this is my assignment and my new blog.
http://newzodiactattoodesigns.com/myblog/check-our-new-zodiac-tattoo-designs/
Somehow i seem to have a problem with themes.If i upload i don’t get the images. And one of themes i uploaded but the page was too short,so i had to do with the default.
I decided i was wasting too much time and continued with the default.
Can anybody tell me what it is that I am not doing right.
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Anthony reply on April 22, 2008 2:41 pm:
Hi Mariane,
Cool site with tattoos. As for your issue with the themes, did you make sure that your FTP program uploaded the images as BINARY not ASCII. In addition, please reply with a link re: the theme you wanted to use. I’m having issues with my new theme, but its more related to the customization of it.
I’ll be glad to test out the theme on my updated install WP 2.5… You did install Wordpress 2.5, right?
Warm Regards,
Anthony
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Ok I found the keywords I want to focus on:
best water bottle
Hai
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Hi guys,
Just caught up a bit and updated my hybrid blog with “Mercury Mariner Hybrid” long tail. I look forward to the 29th and upcoming videos. Great so far.
http://www.hybrid-answers.com/buying-a-mercury-mariner-hybrid
-Anthony
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Hello All. Just wanted to say that I have learned alot from your videos.Thanks.
Here is my assignment:
http://nightnurse123.com/category/sleep-disorders/obstructive-sleep-apnea/
Cheryl
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Great lesson on the power of long tail keywords.
Here’s my post: http://www.daveylee.com/blog/how-to-find-the-top-traffic-exchanges-today/
Looking forward to the next lesson…
Dave
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Here’s my long tail keyword post.
http://multischemesforincome.com/
Happy Earth Day everyone!
My post has a free gift from David Bach for Earth Day Only April 22 Today.
Go Green!
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sorry here is the direct link
http://multischemesforincome.com/when-is-earth-day-2008-today-april-22nd/
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Hi Anik and Rosalind,
I didn’t know how to add keywords at all never mind how to research for the long-tailed ones. Thank you. You’ve given so much info in these videos I can’t wait to see your new Blog Classroom when you launch. Will you be covering anything about how to get things in the sidebar? Or for that matter, get the sidebar? (mine disappeared).
I just made a post to my blog at
http://naturalgardening.shraco.com/blog
I know you have so many responding so I’ll understand if you don’t get time to look at it.
Thanks
Alexis
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Anthony reply on April 23, 2008 3:21 am:
HI Alexis,
I can’t view your WP install. Error in the head file. Please check. http://naturalgardening.shraco.com/blog/
-Anthony
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Online Marketing Fundamentals reply on April 23, 2008 6:48 am:
Oooops!
Upload the ORIGINAL header.php file back to your theme directory on the server to fix this (hopefully)
And then be verrry verrry careful when editing php files in the futuse LOL
Stephen
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Hi All,
Got my site up with one post. Site is http://www.hawaii4newbies.com/myblog/ Two things are wrong (other than it’s still a very plain site). I thought my site would be hawaii4newbiesdotcom without the /myblog/ . If I enter just the .com version I get an index page.
Also, when I bring up the site, there’s clickable links under the Navigation titles on the right side, one of which goes directly to my dashboard. The only “Page” I’ve made active is my about me page titled “meet the guy who writes this” Other than the Categories and Archives there shouldn’t be anything else active. Anyone interested in bringing up my site and see if the Blogroll and Meta links are actually there.
Thanks
Gene
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Bill reply on April 23, 2008 12:23 am:
Gene,
Your default ‘home page’ is the index.html ‘in’ the .com
address.
If you want it to go directly to your blog, then you would
have to put “ALL” the WP pages and folders into your root
folder and delete the index page and the ‘myblog’ folder.
Now your blog would be your home page at the .com address.
Bill
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Online Marketing Fundamentals reply on April 23, 2008 6:52 am:
In the Setup/Options tab in WordPress Admin… under the General sub-tab…
There’s a place there where you specify the directory you want your blog to be in (if different to where WP is installed)
If you’ve accidentally pointed it to the sub-directory “blog” then just change the directory in that field! In your case, just put http://www.hawaii4newbies.com and click SAVE
As Bill suggested… if there IS an index.html file in the root directory, kill it!
Stephen
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gene reply on April 23, 2008 5:56 pm:
Thanks, Bill and Stephen,
Is that index.html file in the .htaccess? I couldn’t find the .htaccess when going through the lesson with Rosalind. Just followed along and put everything in the blog folder as instructed. I may have overloaded my b–t when I took on WP.org. Some of the instructions in their Help would make a CalTech grad wince.
As long as my post comes up on a page that says Hawaii4newbies.com, I guess I’ll be happy.
But I do want to get ride of that index file ’cause if somebody just types in hawaii4newbiesdotcom, they’ll get that index page. Can I just go in to the files and zap it?
Is there a service that will take me in hand and re-establish my blog site?
Thanks again for your help.
Gene
Online Marketing Fundamentals reply on April 23, 2008 6:24 pm:
Gene
You’ll need some hand holding for this… please shoot me an email - grab my contact details from this page at
http://onlinemarketingfundamentals.com/about/
Cheers
Stephen
Hello all,
Just added a post to my site http://www.traveldealstolove.com/why-select-destination-weddings-and-honeymoons/
using the long tail keywords of “destination weddings and honeymoons”.
Thanks
Lynn
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I have been creating a new blog for my site http://hitchcoversplugs.com/. The blog is located at http://hitchcoversplugs.com/hitchblog/. Was wondering if you had a recommendation of how to link to the blog from the website? Thanks!
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I loved your vids, and the homework is great way to get people going. we share a similair blog top making money online, my blog is at profitideas4you.com/moneyideas
thanks for the great info
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I don’t know where Jewel’s posts went that I read about 45 minutes ago, but I want to thank her for sticking with it over the 2.3.3 in Fantastico at BlueHost. Thanks to the answers she received, even though it took forever for me to figure it all out - I now have 2.5 wordpress.
The best assistance was received from the answer by Darwin that said “I ran into the same thing with Blue Host, I wen to their Forums and found out, that for the 2.5 they don’t use Fantastico they use Simple Scripts, which is in Cpanel also.
You need to sign up with Simple Scripts, it’s free and you just have to enter your email and they send you a password, you do all this in Cpanel, hope that helps.”
I got on the phone with Bluehost and they said to go into fantastico and Remove my wordpress (which was fine because I hadn’t posted anything yet - which he was concerned about) and then went to Simple Scripts and got Wordpress 2.5 there. This was after I added Winzip to my computer to upgrade direct from the Wordpress site and that did not work. This was way easier.
Their tech support said that Simple Scripts stays updated better than Fantastico it is just that it is their program so people don’t know as much about it.
Also, he said you can’t have fantastico and simple scripts both on your computer as they are not compatible.
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Hey Anik & Rosalind,
Another great job by you guys! I have been able to identify some long-tail keywords and look forward to start using them once I start posting on a more regular basis.
- Rick
http://www.GolfSwingImprovements.com/golfblog
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Hi im actually a blogspot user, and it’s nice to go thru yr site to learn using wordpress.
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I really enjoyed your vid today. I heard about long tail keywords a while ago but I never tried to use the technique. I think that I may be sold on this one now. Here is my long tail keyword article: My Top Three European Affiliate Marketing Programs
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I did a “long-tailed-keword post on the Keyword “Computer Security Habits” http://wolfhalton.info/2008/04/27/computer-security-habits/
I hope you like it!
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I haven’t changed the attributes for my site from 777 to 666 yet but my permalink is customised. (I’m afraid of my links cracking up to be honest!)
My long tail KW is ‘low dose birth control’ and the link for today’s post is:
http://contraceptivereviewer.com/low-dose-birth-control-the-new-generation-oral-contraceptive/ but now I’m wondering if the domain I registered with ‘contraceptive’ in the title is a poor choice.
Should the title of the post ONLY contain the long tailed KW and nothing else?
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I love the images on everyone’s sites- are you going to show us how to do this Ros? I have managed to get videos into my site but no pics yet. Images really do make all the difference to a site, even if it’s only a pic. of me so visitors know who they are relating to.
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This was so much fun and it is so easy once you know what to do. Thank you for this valuable information!
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Greetings,
I’m lagging behind a bit but I have managed to get a blog up and running (kind of) and have posted my first page. I’m learning so much! I wish that I had more time to devote to this! My blog leaves something to be desired because I don’t understand all the sidebar stuff, etc. but I sure hope that you have a chance to take a look at it.
Regards,
Sally
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Greets
So far so good, im kind of lagged behind since im not using a generic template, i still got so much editing to do ><!
Thank you for all your informations
and check out my blog!
http://www.ibeblogging.com
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Anik and Rosalind,
Just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos. Although I’ve already had a site up (run by Wordpress) I’ve learned a few tips already in the first couple of videos.
What’s so good about your videos?
The MAIN benefit of your instructions are “They are step-by-step” and take the user by the hand and tell them to do 1, then 2, etc. I’m part of another forum and many of the people there are screaming that the information is good, but there is no step-by-step.
Keep the good info. coming. I’m moving forward onto your 2 tricks to bringing blog traffic. Hey, maybe you could review my site, it’s here:
http://www.comicbookcollecting.net
Patrick Whitson
The Comic Collector
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Hi
Very nice and informative.
hkpatt
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Well, I’ve belatedly done this. I decided that it’s Money Week on my blog, so I looked for keywords related to money and debt. I chose “struggling with money” as my long tail keyword phrase; you can see the results here.
It was really surprisingly easy to work it in. I already had a post I wanted to write about money; I just gave it the title and looked for places where I could throw in the phrase. It was fun!
I look forward to reporting back here on how it affects my traffic. Normally I get between about 25-50 hits a day; it’s really about 30 with spikes on days that have memes like Sunday Salon attached. My current goals are to get more regular, recurring visitors, and to reach an average of 100 hits a day.
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Dear Anil and Rosalind,
I cannot thank you enough for all your tips.
I have been blogging for a while right now. My blogs
are all on blogger. I am using your tips to find a solution with these blogs.
Thank you very, very much for all the tips.
I am working on buying a domain and host for hosting
my wordpress blog.
Thanks
Latha
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This is very helpful information from bothof you. Thank you for all this great work you have done. Sorry I am so late in getting my homework done, but here it is. I guess I am a bit of a perfectionist, so it is a pretty big blog, http://itmh.org. By the way, this is a converted website, so it does work.
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I have been posting to my blog at http://www.golfclubshome.com/blog/ for some time now. How imperative is it to update WordPress when they have an update? Thank you!
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