To continue the businessman way of thinking posts, and to give some actual advice rather than fuzzy “way of thinking guidelines”, here is the way to make your first online asset.
What is an asset? It is something that gives you money. That means, that we need to create something that gives us money.
The easiest “something” to create is a blog. What is a blog? A site about a certain topic, with chronological based hierarchy. Or its a web journal, whatever definition you prefer best.
What can we blog about? The answer is, what can you not blog about? You can blog about blogging, you can blog about shitting, you can blog about working, about sleeping, about fucking, anything.
Pick a subject that interests you, something that fascinates you personally. Screw the guides that tell you to do keyword research etc. Keyword research is for optimization, what you need is a kick in the ass to get started!
And no blogspot or wordpress free blog. Pick a cheap hosting plan, I suggest this one. Grab a brandable domain, one that is easy to remember, and work on setting up your blog. Even if the idea alone frightens you, you will learn a lot from working on your own site. Many online moguls started with no computer skills and a crappy website.
And no, I will not write down a step by step guide on everything, there are thousands of guides out there, and the first skill you need to develop is called “Just fucking Google it“.
Install a wordpress blog, set it up right, and pick a theme. And simply start writing. Set up a Google alert on your topic, 4-5 keywords. Check your gmail every day, and write about the current things in the niche. Also, find the other blogs in your niche, read them, and subscribe to their RSS feeds.
Around 10 Google alerts in your gmail every day, and a subscription to 30 blogs are more than enough to keep you filled up with topics. Also join the niche’s largest forum, and put your link in your signature.
Don’t worry about how the site looks, how your writing is, all that will develop over time. Practice makes perfect. You will change your site’s look a dozen times anyway…
Anyway, your goal is to get up at least 30 pages of unique content, ideally 100 of them. As you write the content, whenever you post a page, submit it to social bookmarking sites. Go for Digg, reddit, stumble, delicious, mixx. Create accounts in all of the above, and put the buttons on your browser for easy submission.
Social bookmarking coupled with the Pingcrawl plugin can get you around 20 deeplinks on every post. Those are more links than you really need. And yes, forget the directory submissions. Also, link to other blogs everytime you can, and remember to link to a post, not the homepage, to utilize the trackback.
So, the min 30 pages will get you easily a 500 yahoo linkdomain count from the start. Of course, it will take time for the links to pop up, but they will. Forget about them for now.
Install the NextGen gallery plugin, and start downloading and gathering pictures related to your niche. Upload them to the blog, make a new page, add the tag gallery=1 in ][ and you have a gallery of pics. These will get indexed in Google images, and hopefully bring in some more visitors. Stumble the image page, this is a must.
Then go to youtube, and pick videos related to your niche. Gather up 20+, embed them in a post, with or without your comments, your choice. Social bookmark those two.
This will take a variable amount of time, depending on your web design skills, your writing skills, any set-backs etc. Lets assume that it takes 2 weeks (I have done it in a day. Yup… Nuts, I know)
Now you basically need to forget about your blog, posting occasionaly, every 2-5 days. You are waiting for the next PageRank update basically. As soon as your blog gets PR, you are on for the next phase.
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written by Glowleaf
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November 2nd, 2008 at 7:38 am
A good start. I would say, though, that you want to keep the spiders and your visitors coming back as often as possible. Post to it daily, even if you have to recap a niche-related news item.
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 am
Good hint from Monty. He recently made his blog quite popular, so his advice is solid.
This post does not claim to be a “guide to blogging”. There are better guides elsewhere, I am just drawing an outline.
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November 5th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Really impressive post. Quick question though if you don’t mind – if you a whole blog in a day, do you time stamp the posts for the next month or do you find its better to just post 30 posts all on the same day?
November 5th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Yes, use the scheduled posting to spread even the posts over a period of time. If you write 10 posts in a day for example, set them to post one each day, or every other day.
Whatever you can do to keep the freshness factor of your site high. You will know when you do it right, by using the Google webmaster tools crawl rate page, and can select the “fast crawl” setting.
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