Also, If you are going for a keyword, do you go for the monthly search or for last month search on adword keyword tool.

You are right most peoples give up writing 70 hubs. Report back after 100 hubs.

Best!

Ben

Yea, most people aren’t willing to sacrifice the time it takes to do this stuff. That’s why that most people will fail — even with the best instruction in the world. Look at Grizz, how many readers does he have? Thousands. He has over 5k people who monitor his feed. Of his personal “students” that I know — people who actively do what he’s been teaching the past two years, I count a half a dozen who are making any decent money online, and only a couple who are doing like 7k a month+. Now maybe there are a few more that aren’t saying anything (I can understand why), but it’s clear that out of the hundreds of thousands of people who have visited his blog, only the slightest fraction of a fraction ever implement what he says.

why? Because people don’t want to work at it.

You need to be careful. PR and SERP position really don’t have much to do with each other. You can be a PR 7 and still get your ass whooped by a PR 0. Now, I know, PR is usually a good indicator of the quality and amount of backlinks — but not always. I know for sure some of my hubpages ended up with PR 3 with like a couple backlinks and the domain authority of hubpages.

PR also changes. What you really should be looking for is TrustRank, not PageRank. TrustRank (or “authority status”) is what really counts. If you are going up against a site with authority status, you are going to have a hell of a fight. I’ve got a couple sites with this, and anything you post is considered gold by Google. You can even steal other people’s content and Google will give you ranking while giving the person with lower PR/trust the duplicate penalty.

That page you are talking about either has a lot of domain authority + trust rank. But given time the sites that are more focused should beat it out, with backlinks. LSI phrases alone won’t get you ranking up high — they just help. Some SEO’s feel that google gives a SEO bonus to sites that have a lot of LSI words. If you write a 500 word article, you don’t want to mention your keyword like 10 times — that kind of stuffing might actually hurt you. But if you mention a lot of LSI words, it let’s google know that your site is highly focused around a topic. You also get a lot more focused longtail traffic.

There is no firm rule. If I was going for niche site, I would actually want to try and target around 3k exact matches, maybe 2k. If there is absolutely no competition, then 1k. It also depends on the CPC. If you find a CPC with 3000 people that pays .10 a click, and you find a domain with 300 people a month with a dollar a click, they are the same, right? But you will find some niches have higher CTR (depends on your writing and content) while some have really low CTR.

I think you are over analyzing things, mate. Do you want to know how to make money? It’s not by asking me these questions, it’s by getting out there and making as many sites as possible and seeing how the cards fold. A lot of people want to find the perfect forumula to make money. There is no such thing. If you make 200 hubs in a month — you WILL make money. If you make 100 niche blogs in a month, you WILL make money. All this other stuff I’m talking about is just icing on the cake. LSI, writing for adsense, etc — it all comes down to just doing something.

Good luck!

Thanks for the linking structure ideas. I am very interested in learning more on lsi. I find that once I have a page that is doing well in google that the other phrases on the page also do well. BUT, conversely, if the page isn’t doing great than none of the lsi phrases are either. Does that make sense?

Like I typed in curling iron for girls and this site was on page 1:
ww.4tnz.com/content/does-zac-use-curling-iron (didn’t know if you wanted an external link so I deliberately modified it) and there is no phrase on the page curling iron for girls but the homepage has good pr. So it is beating out pages that may have that exact phrase on the page.

Soo, if you don’t have high page rank, what is best way to get those lsi phrases high up?

Also do you have a blog that documents your niche site or self-hosted blogs/sites? I am wondering if you do a lot of longtail adsense generally and if you just have to wait longer to get them ranked on page 1 or if they only have 300 searches a month anyway wouldn’t they do well pretty quickly?

This is what I would do. Add build backlinks to ezines, then link ezines to infobarrel, then link the infobarrels to your hubs (the safest way since it’s 4 tiers).

Or, if you don’t care about trying to hide so much, then link ezines to your hubages, then link ezines to your info barrels. It depends.

For now, I’d say just throw both ezines and backlinks directory at your infobarrrels, then send infobarrels to hubs. Once you get a system up you can play around with it.

LSI phrases are key. I’m actually going to write a post about “how to write for adsense” that talks about this. You should ALWAYS aim to add 5-10 LSI’s on each article; this will ensure you get more targeted longtail traffic — traffic that will CLICK, since it’s related to your main topic. I’m getting most of my visitors from LSI’s. Also, proper use of LSI will give you a SEO boost as well.

Cheers