… we shall see!

AJC

PS I actually want to use the domain name RepeatUntilRich.com on one of my two sites (did I mention having a ‘content site’ directing traffic to the BeBiz ’sales site?)

Just my two cents, but I don’t think you need to match your keyword exactly. Is that BeBiz’ recommendation to match the KW?

I think being in the ballpark is good enough rather having to match. You can market your way into high rankings for your chosen keywords through some pretty simple tricks with your website setup and backlinks.

Heck Courtney Tuttle (whose site I linked in the other comment thread) doesn’t even use a KW phrase for his domain name. He uses his name and has marketed the site as Court’s Internet Marketing School. Up until very recently he was ranked number one on google for Internet Marketing.

Court has been pushed back down in Google’s rankings as of late, which has been a big topic of discussion on his site. The best answer so far is that he received a manual “slap” from one of the Google engineers for some of his recent content concerning keyword targeting. It covered a lot of good “how to’s.”

-Jeff
I’m Minding My Own Business, are you minding yours?

Naturally, I won’t be advertising/ selling any products via my (now three) blogs … violates my personal code of ethics (but, don’t let that stop any of my readers who want a ‘commercial’ blog!).

The only other piece I might offer is stepping away from the wordpress.com domain names. WordPress.com can shut you down if they think you’re getting too close to “advertising” on one of their URLs and you can’t sell a WordPress.com URL if your efforts take off and you want to sell the business.

A good “used” or “pre-owned” domain name can be found through Go Daddy’s auction links. Some are more expensive than others. So far I’ve been playing with the cheap ones, which are nothing more than domains that someone either let expire or forgot to renew.

Pre-existing URLs have the added benefits of already being aged a bit which can help you climb through Google’s rankings a bit faster and may already have some existing daily traffic and backlinks. These are all points that will help with the search engine marketing which is what helps get your web site in front of viewers for free.

Good Luck
-Jeff
I’m Minding My Own Business, are you minding yours?

I do a similar review as you reference above, however, I look for the highest CPC and High or Very High advertiser competition because I’m trying to find the most lucrative Adsense ads from a publisher’s point of view.

As another consideration, do you think it might be beneficial in your situation to look for keywords related to your content that have:

1. High search volumes – means lots of people are looking for it.
2. Low numbers of competing websites (ie. that contain “my keyword phrase”) – means the direct competition is not too numerically superior.
3. High CPC – This means Google charges a lot for ads related to this KW, but also pays ad publishers more as well.
4. High or Very High Advertiser Competition – This means advertisers are fighting to advertise on the best web sites related to the KW.

My thought here is that with numbers 1 and 2 you could probably dominate the search engine pretty quickly for that keyword. And with 3 and 4 you could use Adsense to create some revenue streams that are relevant to your topic.

The only possible downside you might have using Adsense on the site is possibly bringing in the paying competition. However, with a good number 1 and 2 marketing effort you’d wind up being the big dog for the KW and be able to generate traffic necessary to drive your on site products.

I’m just thinking out loud here…what do you think?
-Jeff
I’m Minding My Own Business, are you minding yours?