#cakes is tha shizz

LexusLF-A.net: This site was started when I heard about Lexus’ development of their next supercar, the LF-A. It’s what you’d call a mini niche site, which will only be updated once or twice a week. The goal is to eventually rank for the word Lexus LF-A when it comes closer to the launch date of the vehicle.

NissanGT-R.org: The Nissan GT-R is very near and dear to my heart. It is my dream car, and has been so for 7 years. With that said, NissanGT-R.org is my baby. I try and update her everyday, and keep things fresh. If you don’t check out any of my sites, at least check this baby out.

FactoryJDM.com: This is my big site, my tier 1 site. It’s going to be an information portal for everything that has to do with Japanese cars. I’m going to write about whatever I want, whenever I want. In its first day I posted 3 times, and I have 2 posts lined up for tomorrow. I plan to flood this site with unique content, and I hope to get it ranking soon. The domain has been registered for over a year (just renewed it) so hopefully it will do well in the SERPs.

See the trend? All car sites. Cars are my passion, I’ve loved them since I knew about them. I plan on launched a few more sites, but I’m not quite sure what I’ll do yet. In the mean time, please check out the sites. A simple copy and paste is all you’ll need; I didn’t link to them because I want to keep them as separate as possible. Hope you like them, and please leave feedback about them here. I need all of the suggestions I can get to make them successful.

So what’s going on? Why is a site that has been developed losing to a site that hasn’t been touched? Well there is only one reason I can come up with, and its because I threw something at the wall and it sticked. There are a few other factors as well though. Coupon’s domain is much older than the newly registered BSG domain. And come on, www.coupon.nu is going to rank a lot better than www.buyshotglasses.com. 

Moral of the story? Time to through money at coupon and see what happens. I plan on getting some social bookmarking done, content generation (mini blog), and more backlinks. 

Other News

LexusLF-A and NissanGT-R have been launched. They are both just mini niche blogs that will only be updated every now and then. Last week they had a total of 16 uniques each, with 7 of those uniques being me most likely. They have zero backlinks, I’m just focusing on creating content for the sites and worry about backlinks later.

I also built another phpbay site: BeachSandals. Thats the first link it has ever seen, so obviously Google doesn’t know about it yet. Time will tell if the site converts or not.

And that it for today. Time to get back to work.

So now, I, James Hume, will focus on a certain system. And I plan to figure out that system tomorrow, or at least by monday. But I’m sure you’ve figured out which way I’m leaning just be reading the title: I’m thinking quality, old fashioned sites. That’s right, actually writing good content, building legitimate links, having a unique design, and all that good stuff.

It’s just that I need to focus on one thing and stick with it and make it work. I’m 100% confident in my abilities to get something to work. I just get frustrated, and move onto something else. So, hopefully by monday I’ll have made up my mind. I’ll declare which direction I want to go, and I’ll need your help keeping me focused.

Now excuse me while I go launch a new affiliate campaign, do some link building for BSG, and figure out how to build another 1000 splogs. 

I was recently on the phone with a friend of mine at Wickedfire, and we were discussing the issues I was having with BuyShotGlasses (lets call it BSG for the remainder of this post). I built a pretty decent site, however I was having problems getting some links for the thing. Building links has always been a weakness for me. But after talking things over with him, and blasting out a few PMs to some other guys, I was on the right track.

I think BSG has the potential to become a $1/day earner, and thats it. $2 per day is really pushing it. Why are the earnings predictions so low? Because of the potential traffic. While I picked a niche that was (should) be easy to rank in, there is a reason why its easy to rank in. There isn’t a lot of search volume for the niche. The collective daily search volume for my 3 main keywords is around 250 searches. 

Depending on how BSG does in the rankings will decide how much of those 250 searchers see my site. Then I have to convert them into customers. Mind you, most of those searches will come off the main keyword ’shot glasses’. So my overall goal with BSG is to get 100 unique visitors per day. If I achieve this, I will be satisfied. After that, I want to optimize the traffic as well as possible using multiple revenue streams: affiliate marketing, eBay partner network (EPN), Adsense (more like Adcents haha), and private ad sales. Those are listed in order of importance, with affiliate marketing and EPN being a toss up for first place. I feel that my site is targeted enough to do well with affiliate marketing.

Now lets talk about SEO. I’ve learned a lot about SEO in the past few weeks. Previously, all I have done to BSG is do your basic on page SEO, and do some social networking submissions to gain backlinks. Where did that get me?

• Top 5 for ‘buy shot glasses’

Great, that list is small. And I ranked for a keyword that doesn’t even bring in traffic. Hell, the only reason I ranked is because of my domain most likely. So what am I doing differently?

• Fresh Content - I built a nice static site, however Google likes new content. I built a blog awhile back and updated it daily for two months. I did nothing in terms of SEO. It was consistently getting 150 uniques per day. So obviously new content allows you to rank for even more keywords. And that means more traffic.
• Sitemap - Oops, forget to build one of these. Since I’ll be adding new content daily, I want Google (Yahoo and MSN as well) to find it.
• Link Injecting - But in a totally non-blackhat way. I’m just posting around on sites that allow me to inject a link to a site. Simple as that.
• Some Blackhat - Okay, I’m going to need a few paragraphs to explain this tactic, lets get rid of these bullets:

I’m talking mild blackhat. I won’t be spamming in order to get thousands of backlinks. What I’m going to do is build a network. I’ll have 3 layers of sites:

• Layer 1: Money Site(s) - In this case, BSG will be the money site. This layer needs to be as white hat as possible. That means 100% unique content, information that needs to be updated daily, and nothing that will risk people thinking its spammy in any shape or form. 
• Layer 2: Link Juice Sites - I’ll be purchasing around 5 domains that are in the same niche as BSG. The content will be ghost written; I don’t want to waste time making it seem professional, and I don’t want it to be flagged as duplicate content either. The ONLY outbound links coming from these sites will be pointing at BSG. And eventually, they will become 301 redirects to BSG passing all of there link juice to it.
• Layer 3: Spam Sites - Its all about numbers here. For the purpose of this small network, I will be creating around 7-10 sites for each link juice site. The spam sites will link to the link juice sites. These sites will have duplicate content, and they will be constructed on other peoples servers: think squidoo lenses, wordpress.com, blogger, etc.

This technique and similar techniques have been discussed numerous amounts of times all over the internet. I’m going to try it with BSG, however I’m going to be watering it down. I want some longevity out of this network, therefore its not going to be 100% spammy. I want all of the sites to be quality, and hopefully boost up BSG’s rankings.

I’m going to start off on layer 2 once I have BSG ready. Its currently getting some directory submissions done. This project has transformed from just another site to an experiment that I’m using to learn about SEO. Sadly, she doesn’t rank anywhere for ’shot glasses’ anymore however I hope to get in the Top 20 when I’m finished with layer 2. When layer 3 comes by and fails to push BSG to the Top 20, I’m going to do some serious evaluations on what went wrong.

Wish me luck, I’ll keep everybody posted on how it goes. Keep in mind that this is just an experiment. And if you like what your reading, I’d appreciate any comments you have.

The domain JamesHume.com was taken by some 75-year old chap. My goal with this site is to quickly out rank him (which shouldn’t be to hard) and hopefully acquire his domain. The design is from Adii over at Premium News Themes. The customizations came from Digit over at Talkfreelance. 

Thats all for now, expect a video blog update in the near future. Thanks for checking us out!