Coolerchoice a success story
I started cooler choice late September 2008, i tried to cheat a little being new to blogging so i bought a domain with a PR 6,but that did not work at first it had PR6 then it went down to PRO and no traffic so by October i had to start afresh.
Anyhow lesson number 1 do not buy expired domains because they all go back to 0 PR,so rather than do it all wrong i made a list of things to do, heres my list:
1: choose a niche
2.see what other blogs are writing about and see what other blogs are in same niche
3.write about something you know a little about
4.get keywords right, i always keep away from all keywords that are used to much, i used Google adwords keyword tool and use all keywords between 10000 and 25000 hits a month this way better chance of getting seen on Google because less competition
5:Join as many social bookmarking sites as possible, Digg, technorati,stumbleuponTwitter here are a few popular ones but there are many more
6:Post relevant comments to other blogs in same niche, example if your writing about the environment reply to posts on environmental blogs and add your site in comment
7: This is the most important one, ask other site owners for a back link, always be polite and explain what sort of site you have got, usually if its in the same niche they will say yes, heres a tip add a link back to thier site on your site before asking.
8:Add to directoroies under same catagary as your site
9:Try not to spam every high ranking site with comments and links, always stick to the same niche as your own site, because this can damage your PR in Google.
10: Add comments and posts to forums here is a good one PR10 Google Forum
So i stuck to the above list, and i add my posts everyday to relevant social bokmarking sites, i got back links from some websites in the same niche and between October 2008 and January 2009, CoolerChoice got a Google PR of 3 out of 10 so i carried on doing the same routene , and in April 2009 Coolerchoice went up to a PR 5 and now gets around 3000 hits per day.
I am at this moment working on a whole network of blogs in differant niches, i hope they pay off in the long run, please feel free to visit my sites and comment on this post, thankyou for reading;
Nice tips, I currently only get traffic from reddit & digg on my new blog, will try the posting of comments on same-niche blogs&related.
Thanks for the info! Peter
Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future. Thanks
Thank you for sharing. I feel that any information that can help us is valuable and worth sharing. I appreciate the fact that you took the time. Thanks again!
Are there any other sites you might recommend that will assist us in getting better rankings? I am really trying to grow my business through blogging.
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i received your letter,but i still dont know how can you help me to get the pr 5 blogger
HI,i received your letter,but i still dont know how can you help me to get the pr 5 blogger
I disagree 1 out of 20 niche sites do well and that is with a lot of work. I have tested this extensively if it where easy to do everyone would be rich. The above tactics don’t result in a pr 5 blog or site as pages are ranked pr is built up over a series of years not 1-2 years.
Like a few others above, I have to disagree about buying an expired domain being a really bad idea.
I have bought lots of these and around 50% of the time the domain keeps its PR and traffic.
The benefits of buying expired domains WAY outweigh the downsides of buying brand new domains and having to build them up from scratch!
That’s just my (experienced!) opinion.
Chris
Well I may have to start being more Social and see if I can get more people visiting my site like you suggest.
Thankyou for sharing what is working for you,
Michael
many are enlightened from this post. thanks
Thank you for posting this! The tips are pretty basic – things that I have been doing all along, but lost the patience in staying longer. Maybe i should try harder next time around.
I thing your post very useful. thanks for sharing
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