It’s been quite awhile since I got my first Squidoo lens finished. I haven’t really kept up with any updates with that site, but it looks like that very first lens is not “featured” there right now.
Check out my new lenses:
I know a lot of people don’t show any real life examples of their niche site work due to concerns about copycats. The truth is, I don’t really worry yet because I’m still not making any money. Maybe I’ll change my mind some day, but for now here are the two new sites.
Now, I had no clue those were topics I wanted to try out until I did some keyword research with the Google Adwords keyword tool. I didn’t use any fancy keyword research tools (more on that later.) Instead, I just started doing some very basic keyword searches such as “how to buy” “where to buy” etc just to get some ideas. I narrowed the focus down by searching for terms I thought would be relatively easy to rank for.I checked out the Google results for each term with the SEO Quake plugin for Chrome. Basically what I was looking for was low pagerank sites that were in the top 10. I also looked for sites that had less than a thousand links and looked at some of the sites to get a feel for the quality. I also used an LSI tool to get some ideas for the most common keywords and phrases for the top 10 results. I got a free tool to work on 1 site but since it didn’t work later I’m not going to link to it yet unless I determine the issue was on my end only.
How did I come up with the content?
Well, if you think about it, both article titles are essentially steps. Where to Buy Silver in Canada is simply a Squidoo lens with a listing of around 10 places in Canada to buy silver. The cool thing about the Squidoo module I used was that I am able to allow readers to add their own content to keep the page fresh. For now I’m testing about not requiring my approval for readers to post ideas. If it becomes a problem then I’ll consider moderating those types of posts. I did the same for the guestbook. Otherwise this fun adventure would just seem too much like work. How to Buy a Domain Name is basically 2 lists of steps. There was already an existing (incomplete) lens with that title, so I added “easily’ to the end. For both articles I did research by simply searching Google and getting some ideas from multiple sites. No copying and pasting at all, just some basic ideas that I put into my own words and expanded upon. In fact, I took a lot of ideas and set them aside. After all, the whole point of creating new content like that truly is to make the best page on the topic so that we can rightfully rank at the top.
Hopefully these lens will get indexed soon. As much as I’d like to make money, I want to see some real traffic for testing purposes more than anything else right now.
As time passes, I will probably decide against posting tons of links to my Squidoo Pages. But never fear, you can always get my recent ones here
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