Making a decent PR such as a 3 or higher eludes some SEO professionals in some cases because their niche just isn't wide enough for traffic and backlinks really to support them. However, in the PC market, it was quite easy to make a PR3 through rigorous article writing and link trading with other sites. Oh and by the way, to really acquire the most out of this tutorial, you need to have decent blogging software such as WordPress or Joomla.
First of all, the website was called PCEverything which at the height of its "career" or activeness was getting thousands of unique hits everyday. But with my design business picking up, I had no choice but to stop my active marketing and focus more on my job. However, that is all beside the point. In just 2 months, I was able to acquire a PR of 3 quite easily. There are a few things that you must take into consideration no matter what market you are into.
1) Who am I writing/working for? What I mean who is the audience likely to be?
2) Is this market big with major competitors?
3)Does this market have specific tools that can help me?
Those are some generic questions that should be asked no matter what you are attempting to market.In this tutorial, I am assuming are you at least adept in SEO (onpage optimization, keywords etc).
In my case it was quite a broad audience and looked a little like this:
1) Millions of people
2) Very big competitors (IGN, Gamespot, Gamespy, you get the point)
3) Yes, one site was N4G
Bookmarking Sites
When I first started the first thing I did, was put in place a simple easy design that allowed the user to view vital information quickly and efficiently. For example, I had "Latest Headlines", "Recently Popular"," Featured Article", and "Feeds" all at the top of the page and is instantly viewable.
With this, I was quite easily able to convert visitors from other sites that linked here into residents who view more than one article.
However, that wasn't the main source of the quick success. Every time I created an article (about 5-10 a day) I would submit them to many social sites like Digg, Reddit, N4G, twitter, stumbleupon, Facebook, Myspace, Instablogs, Affiliate Sites, and some others. This of course took time to accomplish, one article would sometimes take a couple hours to "complete" but had the potential of bringing in thousands of visitors in just a couple hours which frequently happened.
By simply doing that, I instantly introduced thousands of people to my new site and had many returning visitors with a bounce rate of only about 30-40%.
Google News
This is really a great way to get a few extra hits. By applying for Google news, you will appear in their news source that thousands of people read daily. It is really a resource that many overlook when they are trying to get their information out to people.
Taylor_Flatt
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