The Honest Way

This is a sort of follow on from my last post Honest Assistance, where I talked about helping out your other sites with backlinks to specific posts or keyword anchored text links to give the site or blog some keyword authority to help them climb up the SERPs.

This post is going to be short and to the point as I don’t have a lot of spare time just lately and I have a lot of sites that are all screaming out for my attention!

The whole point is to help out two of my sister sites in the difficult and highly competitive make money niche to gain a little more keyword authority on the long tail keywords they are targeting at the moment.

One is my Money Hints site which is still fairly new but has a domain age of around 5 years so it has plenty of antiquity but no page rank. So I’ll just give it a leg up with its foray into the home make money long tail keyword arena.

Next up is the subdomain to this site, Make Money The Honest Way, which is also targeting a similar long tail keyword in the work from home make money category.

It always helps when the post and the site that the links are coming from are in the same niche, as it gives additional weight to the link juice being given out. So being in the make money niche and having that in the title of this post is a good way of passing around some of this site’s authority to sites that need it!

Terry Didcott - Freedom Writer
The Honest Way

          

This is something of an experiment for me and I always enjoy putting a new website together because I just like to make things! So when I picked up this idea from Grizzly’s blog How to Make Money Online for Beginners, I decided to spin it a bit and see what happens!

Grizzly’s idea was firmly focused on creating a free blog to do this, which I have followed, but I wanted to add to the idea by creating a complimentary website, which I have now done. It’s still young and in need of a lot more content, which I’ll be adding to over time, but it’s ready to hit the airwaves and now is a good time to start promoting it.

The idea uses the taboo keywords “payday loans”.

Why are they taboo?

The search engines associate them with spammers who once created a ton of crappy sites with the sole purpose of trying to generate clicks with adsense ads using these high paying keywords. Now this practice has been stamped on, but any new sites starting up targeting payday loans are scrutinized closely. So it’s playing with fire, but that just adds to the excitement and makes it more of a challenge to get a site up high in the serps for these keywords.

There is a lot of competition in this particular niche and I’m going up against a lot of other sites. Google shows up over two million of them - but I happen to know that there are really around eight hundred, of which there are probably around a hundred serious contenders.

So the challenge is to creatively SEO the site and see if I can’t push my way up through those hundred and get into the top twenty, at least. The higher, the better of course, but that will take a little time because the site is brand new and is unlikely to attract any page rank for a couple of months at least. So in the meantime, I’ll be adding to it’s content and procuring some back-links, mainly from article marketing, forums and blogs.

The first article, entitled How Much Do You Know About PayDay Loans? is already up there at GoArticles and has caused Google to spider the site and index it within a couple of days. Good first promotional push.

Next is to blog about it in my three PR3 blogs, the first of which is this one and the other two will be shorter posts with a link to the site to give it some link juice.

Here is the url: PayDay Loans

Then we’ll see what happens…

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

I’ve hit upon a rather neat idea for putting together a sales page for a product or ebook that I want to sell myself (as opposed to an affiliate product). Don’t know how successful it will be yet, but it might be a useful aid to anyone wanting to create their own sales page without much HTML knowledge.

It all depends on whether you host your own website or blog in the first place – blog being the operative word in this case. The reason I mention this is that it’s relatively easy to set up a blog template for just about any kind of blog. With Wordpress there are hundreds of templates to choose from to get the look and feel that you want.

So I thought to myself, why not use a Wordpress template to make your sales page? It’s easy to set up as a subdomain or sub folder if you prefer on your main site. So I thought I’d give it a go.

For my proposed sales page, I only needed a simple, single column blog template. I quickly found one that I liked. I already had my own graphic header, so it was fairly easy to add that to the stylesheet.css file, replacing the template’s own header graphic. All I have to do now is finish writing all my sales copy, add the paypal button and publish it as a post.

And viola, instant sales page!

Ok, a little HTML and CSS knowledge is useful to customise the template to make it more unique and fit the type of product you’re going to sell, like changing the colour scheme maybe, or getting rid of unnecessary icons and links, but I think it’ll work!

The one I’m in the process of putting together right at this moment is at:

Free Traffic Explosion

See what you think – could you use this information to build one for yourself?

Maybe.

Am I going to annoy a few professional website builders by giving this little secret away?

Probably not as there is really no substitute for a professionally made sales page, but when you’re just starting out and on a tight budget, going the DIY route is often the only option.

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

          

Hi all,

The new series of articles covering how to build a website from the ground up is growing nicely. We’re up to article number 6 now and there’s still lots more to cover. The associated website that we’re building in real time to go along with the series is starting to take shape in that there is a homepage, site map and a style sheet, all of which are growing as the series moves forward with more HTML and CSS code being added.

In order to keep each phase of the website build in sync with the articles, the site’s files are being kept in its own tutorial folder. The actual website, Organic Sanity itself is being updated in real time, but anyone coming in at the beginning will still see the website grow from nothing by viewing the tutorial pages on their browser instead of opening the root index.php file.

Clear as mud?

Well, don’t worry. The articles are written in basic, plain English so anyone should be able to follow them and see how changes and additions in code make a web page change appearance right before their eyes!

So if you want to learn from the ground up but don’t want to plough though some stuffy manuals, then have a look at our tailor-made articles instead. You’ll be glad you did!

See you again soon…

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY