My Long-Tail Article Marketing Plan -- Please Read.

This is my latest way to market. I am wondering if it seems ok to you.

1.) Find smal niche
2.) Find all top keywords for niche
3.) Create website. Focus main page around 2-3 MAIN terms for niche. Add content.
4.) Have articles written for ALL top keywords for niche.
5.) Once article are written, place them on site as 'articles'. Each article has keyword in it - content AND title, and each page's file name has keyword in it, etc.
6.) So now site is loaded with keyword-rich pages + articles for all keywords in the niche that target my product.
7.) Once site has been seen by google and cached, submit all articles to article directories. Within AUTHOR box, I put either a.) anchor text link to article on site, or b.) anchor text link to main page of site.


How does this sound?
In #7 - does it make more sense to have a deep link to the article or just to have the link go to the main site?

Thanks!

 

Those seem like good steps. Good luck with your project

 

It sounds like a pretty good plan. For #7, I would personally use the links to point to other pages on my site. Some people like to link to the article on their own site, but I don't see why any visitors would click on such a link to see the same article again. Article directories usually allow 2 or 3 links per article. So just try to put a few related links at the end of each article.

It probably wouldn't be enough to get you rankings unless you are going after less competitive search terms such as the long-tail keywords you mentioned. You would probably also have to do some seo for your main page to build up the authority of your domain.

Another thing to watch out for with this strategy is how fast you expand. Once you get started it is very tempting to keep expanding and expanding and building more sites. Eventually you'd end up with too many sites to manage. Then each time you have to change something on your sites, you may have to do it for each website you own. Each website wouldn't get the attention it needs. So start small and expand slowly.

 

So perhpas for #7 I could link TO the main page and TO the article? TO the article would allow me to get a back link for the long tail phrase?

So --

Lest say my site was on Gorilla Food.

And one article was "Gorilla Protein Supplement".

So I had one page optimized for "Gorilla Protein Supplements" with that article on it.

Then once that page would get indexed, I'd submit it to article directories.

And in the author bio it would say

Bobo Baggins runs a zoo-food website. You can learn more about GORILLA FOOD and GORILLA PROTEIN SUPPLEMENTS at his website. etc. etc.

(uppercase = anchor text)

Make sense?

 

My guess is there is one major flaw in your plan. Your going to end up with a site that is full of duplicate content. I believe this is very bad, although have not seen it myself because I always like the content on my sites to be unique.

Just because your site's article is indexed first does not mean that version of the article will be treated with the most G repect. Indeed I believe G will treat the page with the most juice and on the most authorative domain with the most respect.

I believe the articles on your site need to be unique, so if you wanted to follow your plan, you should get other articles written for submission (that are different from the ones on your site).

 

These seem like steps that most affiliate marketers take so they should work out, what i would advise is after submitting to ezine then submit to all other popular article directories and also to set up pages such as squidoo e.t.c

 

The answer is deep link. I have been using your strategy for months.