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You might think that getting a high traffic blog is nearly impossible. Well it’s not. I have not been through this method completely myself, as it would take some time to perfect and I would try a few different sites due to the amount of time you need to test fully.

Tools

EverProfits Toolbar unfortunately, it only runs on Internet Explorer at this point.

SearchStatus plugin for FireFox

RankChecker plugin for FireFox

Here we go…

Find a niche that has a high amount of searches but does NOT have a ton of competition. This is key, we are looking for something that is not saturated. You can analyze the competition easily with the EverProfits Toolbar It’s really useful for analyzing competition quickly, not just on the pure amount of sites for a keyword, but also analyzing PageRank and backlinks on the fly. SearchStatus is nice for analyzing specific websites with the keyword or niche you’re looking to target. Stuff like “Make Money” “Weight Loss” and others are obviously not going to be good targets. There’s something beyond that though, they’re called micro niches. If you wanted to target “Weight Loss” you could do it with a high search keyword or niche that is more specific.

Well, how do we find these niches/keywords? We could use the Google Adwords tool, Keyword Elite, Market Samurai or one of the other keyword research tools. I wouldn’t recommend using Keyword Elite for this kind of thing though since it doesn’t really show search volume. Market Samurai or the Adwords tool would be more suitable. Also, do a lot of research on these niches. You want to be able to continuously blog about this niche, and if there’s not a lot of information or you just aren’t familiar with the niche you’ll fail straight off. Do not limit yourself to one site, because one or two will be a bust, no doubt.

Domains

You want your keyword in your domain for sure. Google seems to love it when the keyword is straight in the domain. Of course, when choosing a domain you still want it to be short, at about 2 or 3 words. Just try and get the best keyword you can for your micro niche. The domain IS important. Please do a lot of research before committing to a domain

Next…

Don’t go off topic. Stick to your niche completely, don’t go off topic. Optimize SEO around your niche. Get backlinks from similar sites, do everything I mentioned in my previous article: http://technologyinsanity.com/seo/get-more-traffic-seo-tutorial-guide/. If you keep it up for a year or 6 months even, you should really start to see traffic coming in, depending on how well you executed your niche, and built backlinks. You can check your rank periodically with RankChecker.

Finally

It should be pretty obvious why this site isn’t a high traffic site. I’m not really doing anything in terms of research, targeting, sticking to a niche, etc. This is just a personal blog, I’m not really looking to monetize it to be honest. This guide was just put together from various books I’ve read on SEO and Adwords in the past. Like I said, I have not tried it since it takes quite some time and work to gain respect from the various search engines. I prefer Adwords and Google Sniping for marketing, which is somewhat similar to this, but I would expect you to target a niche that you could blog about. Google sniping is actually a bit different. This could actually provide a more long term marketing website. I’m fairly certain this is the formula that top websites use, but not 100%, and I’m sure something similar to this has already been published. Have fun with it though.

I applied for Affiliate.com or CPA Empire on Thursday. The next day I had a denied email sitting in my inbox. Okay, so I went ahead and contacted them via email to find out why, other than the  generic message they sent. A few hours later I decided why not just call them, so I did. No one was there so I left a message. Anyway I expected them to contact me back on Monday, I had nothing in my inbox, nor any phone calls from them.

So I decided I would email them again, using a different support contact email. (other than Help _at_ affiliate.com) It’s now Tuesday, and I STILL haven’t heard a peep from Affiliate.com. I heard they were a reputable company, wouldn’t a reputable company contact you back after two emails and one phone call to at least explain why they denied my application? Another thing I don’t like is that they didn’t even call me before sending out the denied email.

I have zero respect for affiliate.com at this point. If all they can do is send out generated emails, then they’re not worth my time anyway. I have to say, my ClickBooth application process was around 1000X better in terms of actually contacting a human being.

Stay away from them if you want to actually have support. I’m sure they denied me because this website isn’t high traffic but I was VERY specific in the application that I would be doing PPC campaigns and other SEO methods to promote the offers.

I am not upset at the denial, just the blatant lack of support and communication.

I went through GoDaddy at first, probably because they’re the most advertised and everyone knows about them. They charge an arm and a leg for domain privacy. Not only that, but registering the domain itself really isn’t that cheap.

Then I moved on to NameCheap where I have ExtremeTechie and a few others. I thought that was a great deal, only about $10 for a domain and free whoisguard. I was pretty satisfied with it. Yet again, after more research I found there was an even cheaper domain service. I’m speaking of Internet.bs. My first order I bought 3 domains for only $15! Two .com’s and one .net. They all came with whois protection for free.

I will now be using Internet.bs as my main place to buy domains. Everything went really smooth, and it works just as well as namecheap or GoDaddy. I actually can’t stand GoDaddy anymore, I’ll never buy another domain from them. I may use NameCheap again though. They are a good domain provider, no doubt about it. Internet.bs just goes above only charging $5 or less sometimes for domains WITH whois protection. I don’t think any provider can really beat those prices.

You may wonder why I need so many domains, I need them for landing pages in my PPC campaigns.

Well my captcha isn’t working as well as it should. I’m getting 8 spam comments a day or more. I’m going to implement a new policy where all older posts have comments closed. Spam comments have gone up on pages that have PR, or are ranked high for some weird keyword in google.

Like I said, no worries I’ll just close off comments on old posts. These comments seem to be done manually so BadBehavior isn’t catching them.

I see some are cloaking their spam attempts by writing an almost genuine comment, and putting their link as some .edu profile page where it says “buy viagra here” Common tactic, I’ve seen it all before.