ToddTaylor
06-26-2007, 04:37 PM
Hello All,
I was talking to Sydney earlier today and outlined an idea I had which could take care of some of the issues that I see people are posting about here in the forum. It seems that several of you are worried about getting your sites indexed by the search engines and while this is a legitimate concern, it's hardly your most pressing issue.
Ken McCarthy, of the System Seminar, has for many years used a simple equation that is the backbone for everything he does both on and offline. The formula? traffic + conversion = sales. A compelling offer combined with getting that offer before enough eyes generally results in a positive cashflow. Sydney, in this AGWP course, is showing you how to do both of these things. But I want to specifically focus on one part of that equation, which is the traffic side of things. How do we get more people to your sites so that you can earn more money?
I have a proposal, but it's going to take the effort of the community to make it work properly. So, here goes:
We know that google views the web universe categorically based on the structure of www.dmoz.org. Every site falls under at least one of the sixteen top level dmoz categories. Those categories are Arts, Business, Computers, Games, Health, Home, Kids and Teens, News, Recreation, Reference, Regional, Science, Shopping, Society, Sports, and World. Each category has sub-categories where your site is most likely to find a home. Or your site could fit into several sub-categories of several top level topics.
So, the idea is this: create an independent network of 16 blogs, each themed to one of the top levels of dmoz categories. Each blog should receive an article at least once each week pertaining to a sub-category of it's main dmoz category. For instance maybe an aticle on pets for the recreation blog, an article on motorcycles the next week for that same recreation blog, and so forth and so on.
Now once the blogs are built and are receiving appropriately themed content then the fun begins. Whenever you build a new site, you get to post some original content on each blog that thematically is related to the topic of your site. So if your new site is about training puppies how do you know which blogs you get to post to? That's simple! Go to dmoz and type in puppy training. You'll see that you now have five categories you could post in. One of the categories, recreation, is duplicated so we'll remove the duplicate and you still have four categories. So, you would be able to post some original content linking back to your site from four different blogs.
The purpose of doing this is to give you indexing and to give you links and to do it in a way that Google really loves.
So, how does this involve you? Well, members of this group are going to create these blogs. We need sixteen members to volunteer to create a wordpress blog based on one of the top level dmoz categories. We need members of this group to commit to providing content for these blogs on a weekly basis. You would as a member of this group be able to post one article per site per week. For example, if you had that puppy training site, you would be able to post once to each of the four blogs you matched up with per week. And over a four week period you would gain four very strong links back to your money site. :) I'm sure we could figure out a way that you could add additional posts in the future, but that's not really the point of the blogs. And the cool thing is if this works properly (everyone doing what they should) then there is no reason that a second set of blogs couldn't be built for this same purpose at some point down the road.
There is obviously other things that will have to be addressed but I think this is a good overview of the idea. If you would like to participate in such a project you need to say so. Like I said, we'll need 16 people to host a blog, we'll need others to help provide content for these blogs, etc. A true team effort for the good of everyone on the team. Are you going to be allowed to use the blogs if you don't contribute? Probably. But it would be nice if you would pitch in.
Let's hear your ideas and thoughts!
Todd
I was talking to Sydney earlier today and outlined an idea I had which could take care of some of the issues that I see people are posting about here in the forum. It seems that several of you are worried about getting your sites indexed by the search engines and while this is a legitimate concern, it's hardly your most pressing issue.
Ken McCarthy, of the System Seminar, has for many years used a simple equation that is the backbone for everything he does both on and offline. The formula? traffic + conversion = sales. A compelling offer combined with getting that offer before enough eyes generally results in a positive cashflow. Sydney, in this AGWP course, is showing you how to do both of these things. But I want to specifically focus on one part of that equation, which is the traffic side of things. How do we get more people to your sites so that you can earn more money?
I have a proposal, but it's going to take the effort of the community to make it work properly. So, here goes:
We know that google views the web universe categorically based on the structure of www.dmoz.org. Every site falls under at least one of the sixteen top level dmoz categories. Those categories are Arts, Business, Computers, Games, Health, Home, Kids and Teens, News, Recreation, Reference, Regional, Science, Shopping, Society, Sports, and World. Each category has sub-categories where your site is most likely to find a home. Or your site could fit into several sub-categories of several top level topics.
So, the idea is this: create an independent network of 16 blogs, each themed to one of the top levels of dmoz categories. Each blog should receive an article at least once each week pertaining to a sub-category of it's main dmoz category. For instance maybe an aticle on pets for the recreation blog, an article on motorcycles the next week for that same recreation blog, and so forth and so on.
Now once the blogs are built and are receiving appropriately themed content then the fun begins. Whenever you build a new site, you get to post some original content on each blog that thematically is related to the topic of your site. So if your new site is about training puppies how do you know which blogs you get to post to? That's simple! Go to dmoz and type in puppy training. You'll see that you now have five categories you could post in. One of the categories, recreation, is duplicated so we'll remove the duplicate and you still have four categories. So, you would be able to post some original content linking back to your site from four different blogs.
The purpose of doing this is to give you indexing and to give you links and to do it in a way that Google really loves.
So, how does this involve you? Well, members of this group are going to create these blogs. We need sixteen members to volunteer to create a wordpress blog based on one of the top level dmoz categories. We need members of this group to commit to providing content for these blogs on a weekly basis. You would as a member of this group be able to post one article per site per week. For example, if you had that puppy training site, you would be able to post once to each of the four blogs you matched up with per week. And over a four week period you would gain four very strong links back to your money site. :) I'm sure we could figure out a way that you could add additional posts in the future, but that's not really the point of the blogs. And the cool thing is if this works properly (everyone doing what they should) then there is no reason that a second set of blogs couldn't be built for this same purpose at some point down the road.
There is obviously other things that will have to be addressed but I think this is a good overview of the idea. If you would like to participate in such a project you need to say so. Like I said, we'll need 16 people to host a blog, we'll need others to help provide content for these blogs, etc. A true team effort for the good of everyone on the team. Are you going to be allowed to use the blogs if you don't contribute? Probably. But it would be nice if you would pitch in.
Let's hear your ideas and thoughts!
Todd