Step 4 - “H” Is For Hell Day
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Step 4 - ‘H’ is for Hell Day. Welcome Back to the 6 Step Niche Site System. If you are new to this site, we are learning, step-by-step (and for FREE) how to make small and profitable niche sites with WordPress. Be sure to start at the beginning and work your way through all the steps at your own pace. This information isn’t going anywhere and will be ready when YOU are ready.
By this point in my WordPress niche site system, you have researched keywords for your niche blog, your have installed WordPress on your site, you have created content and prepared your site for the world.
YOU are doing awesome!
This brings us to Step 4 - which I not-so-affectionately call “Hell Day”. My apologies if that nickname is offensive to anyone, but hey, it is what it is =)
Hell Day is promotion day. It is the day you get out there and tell the world about your site. Other than making the niche site itself, Hell Day is THE most important step in this niche site system. Even the very best niche website won’t earn diddly if no one sees it.
Hell Day is about two things - exposing your niche site and creating optimized back links TO your niche site. HOW your site is linked to is uber important. If you want to rank for the phrase wordpress niche sites, each time a quality link TO your site is created using that phrase as the anchor text is helping your site move up in the Google rankings for that search term. While that is a VERY over-simple explanation, it is plenty good enough for the sake of this niche site tutorial. Your goal today, Hell Day, is to generate exposure and back links.
How I Generate Exposure and Back Links for My Niche Sites
This step is going to be very much my personal way of doing this. I have a system I use for Hell Day and it works GREAT for me. Thing is, I use a distribution service that is not free. However, this service is probably one of the BEST purchases I have made for my niche site business efforts.
1) Distributes UNIQUE versions of my articles all over the internet.
2) Allows me to have unique bio boxes on each unique article - meaning that I can change up the anchor text that links back to my niche site (this is HUGE)
3) Allows me to decide how many unique articles are distributed each day and does it all for me on auto-pilot. Thats right, no hand submitting, no email confirmation stuff… nothing. I submit my content in the form necessary on Hell Day and the system does it all for me from then on out. As of right this moment, I have hundreds of unique articles being distributed each day. How much time does it take me? Not even a second.
4 ) Allows me to HAVE unique versions of my articles to use for other promotion methods (uhhh… think - Squidoo? HubPages? Yeah, now you’re getting it!). Any time I want to create a web page or the like to promote my niche site, I simply go get a unique version of my Hell Day article.
I love this system - and have yet to find anything else like it. So, for the sake of this step, I will need to outline the Hell Day steps I take. You can tweak it as you need and make it work in your own way.
First thing I do on Hell Day for a new niche site is to go into my distribution system and submit my articles in the required format. I also submit a resource/bio box file that is full of unique versions of my article bio box - and each contain optimized anchor text leading to the niche site I am promoting. I set up the system to distribute as I desire - then I am off to Squidoo
Squidoo? Say What?
Yes Squidoo. Squidoo.com is one powerful site that is free to use and pays YOU to use it. On Squidoo, you can make a free one-page web site that focuses in on a subject. On that web page you can have links to your niche site, to your affiliate products, RSS feeds for your niche site, and SO much more. Many of you know about Squidoo, so I won’t beat a dead horse here talking about it. However, if you are new to the whole Squidoo concept, read Squidoo Profit System or All About Squidoo - this one also has information on Free Traffic for Broke Marketers =)
So, I get a unique version of my article from my service and take it with me to Squidoo where I set up at least one lens to promote my niche site. Most of the time I will have more than just the unique article on it - I will add other content - maybe link out directly from the lens to my affiliate product - add video, etc. However, one thing I ALWAYS have on every Squidoo lens for my niche blog is the RSS feed for the niche blog itself. Read this if you don’t know how to add a RSS feed to a squidoo lens
After creating my lens, I am always sure to promote the lens itself. Always promote any web content you make that is designed to promote your niche blog. Always. The better the Page Rank from your lens, the better the link TO your niche blog. Read this if you are having problems with your Squidoo lens.
That is kinda why I call this Hell Day - it feels at times like an endless circle of bookmarking and linking…but it is so worth it.
Other sites you can create free pages like Squidoo are:
HubPages.com
WebOn.com
WebJam.com
When you read the WordPress Guide I love so much, you learned tons of free ways to really promote and optimize your niche site, so I won’t over-kill on the idea - and certainly won’t give Marks secrets and hard work away!
Other than my article distribution service, the only two other article directories I mess with are EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com. Honestly, between my unique articles that go out each day, my Squidoo lenses, and those two article directories, I have a nice little niche blog promotion network going… and that is plenty enough for my starter niche sites. If you need more traffic generation ideas, read this about improving blog traffic from my blog.
So on Hell Day, I am out there writing articles, making lenses, bookmarking and pinging, making HubPages (sometimes), and any other niche-related things I can think of (like forums, etc).
I also do something else that helps my lenses or articles, or even my niche sites get indexed - and another back link.
Blogger Blogs for Niche Site Promotion
When I started with niche blog sites, all were on Blogger. It was a great starting point - but it is just that - a starting point. The goal with a niche site system is to OWN your content - on Blogger you do not own it and it could all be taken away at the whim of the BlogSpot powers that be.
However, I still have a few free Blogger blogs that I use for one main purpose - to talk about lenses I create, articles I write, and niche sites I bring online. Those little posts on my Blogger blogs get indexed quickly, and the well optimized links in the posts bring the spiders to whatever I am talking about. I can also use the RSS feed for THAT free blog on my Squidoo lenses, too (hint hint).
I did a test for Squidoo lenses seeing how long it would take to get a new lens indexed if ALL you did was blog about it. You can read that Google/Squidoo test information through the links below. It is quite interesting =)
How Long Will It Take For Google To Find My New Squidoo Lens?
How Long It TOOK For Google To Index My New Squidoo Lens
Make a free blog or two - they sure can come in handy =)
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Hello, thanks for the helpful tips! I was wondering what you like about your article distributing service compared to article marketer.
Ron
I have just started using UAW and it’s the best thing that I can suggest for ANY article marketer. If you’re blogging, you just make an article, and it sends your original to your blog, and you get hundreds, sometimes thousands of unique, human written versions of the same article sent out to other sites.
My blog and article have gone from almost non-existent to 6 out of the top 10 on Google for my chosen keywords in less than 3 days!
I’ll be recommending this product for a long time. I’ve never used the “article marketer” you mentioned Ron, but I do know that I’ve never seen this method of making unique articles. It’s not “article spinning” and it’s very easy to do. (But I’m not allowed to say what it is, it’s all part of the member agreement.)
All the best of success in your blogging adventures!
Thanks PotPieGirl
Dave
I have a question for you concerning Unique Article Wizard.
This is a membership site that costs $67 per month…if you’ve got nothing but $0s in your clickbank account, what do you do?
There’s no way you can get THAT MANY backlinks writing your own articles…how about some realitstic tips for those who can’t fork over that kind of money each month.