Friday, July 6, 2007

So far...

OK, so far I have:

A website with 773 content pages. Then I have 25 "Site Index" pages that each link to 30 content pages. Then I have one index.html which looks hand-made and points to the site index pages while giving a little intro and having some affiliate vertical banners and a big ugly picture adsense banner at the top (this page is to look like a legit site while linking thru to the site indexes, not to make adsense money from). This page is my primary link from other blogs, etc. The hierarchy should work to pass the most PR to the content pages. Each content page is optimized with:

1 big ugly graphical banner with an Adsense horizontal Links unit RIGHT under it

The title of the "article" in h1 style

Two big rectangles of Adsense text links one on top of the other, as shown in PBM

To the right of each of those rectangles is also 2 vertical affiliate banners, for the affiliate program that covers my subject matter. One goes to a big "all-included" mega site, and the other 3 links are each for individual products, chosen at random by my site generator software

The title of the article in h1 style again, followed by the generated article

6 text links (3 on top of 3) to other sites with high PR in google for the subject matter, chosen at random by my site generator

A block of adsense text at the bottom for final capitalization

Each page also has some code to make it very difficult to use the Back button. It's not entirely prevented, but the user has to do some fast triple clicking to go back a page.

All meaning that if someone lands here, I have an excellent chance of their taking an adsense-link to escape. Everyone wins. The adwords user gets targeted traffic through my targeted-page-adsense ads, I get the adsense commission OR the affiliate commission if they click out through my affiliate banners, and the program to which I am an affiliate gains targeted traffic that easily converts and pays them and me.

One thing about my affiliate program - I picked one that pays 50%, but also credits me for any return purchases by that user. The products are of a nature that would cause tons of repeat business, possibly for years or more, and I stand to gain 50% of every sale ever again generated from any person who goes through my affiliate link ONCE. How cool is THAT?

I've put together one blog that I am working on getting moving. It pulls niche-related articles (which all appear to be very good, to my surprise) and posts them (ok I have to do a tiny bit of work - the articles are mailed to my post email, go into draft mode, and I make the couple of alterations needed to make it right for the blog and hit Publish). Every now and then I slip a post with a link to my index (or even content pages) into this blog. I say "every now and then", but I JUST started this blog, so that's what I WILL be doing, to say it more truthfully.

Each day I pingoat this blog.

I plan to open a few more over the next few weeks. No need to rush my first site, and I'm really more interested in waiting until I can buy a new domain to use. The one I'm using is on a subdomain off a domain I'm using for something else, and IF google should unlist my content site, I don't want to lose the main one!

Finally, I've gone to Google Blog search and posted kudos to as many niche-related blogs as I can find, adding a little link to my index or even my blog as my signature.

Hopefully I'll see the spider hit my pages before long, and from there I can begin to see how my SEO works out.

I'll continue to post as I continue to work on this. I WANT this to progress slowly at first, as my adsense earnings are so meager right now, that if they explode overnight granddaddy google may come knocking down my door.

And I REALLY want to keep my adsense account :)

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