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I guess what I'm getting at is focusing on the main theme of your site being "nature" is just far too broad.
I'm agreeable to zeroing in on a specific topic for awhile.
For educational purposes, perhaps we should explain why "nature" is too broad?
Hmm... Perhaps the question is, why would 25 pages on one nature topic be better than 25 pages on 25 nature topics, assuming all pages were made by the same process?
Not arguing, have no point here, don't know the answer myself, just trying to help readers understand why we're doing what we're doing.
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I like #2. It's big. It's ambitious. I like that.
My whole approach to all of this is quite ambitious, maybe too ambitious.
Anyway, I have the software for a nature forum network already installed on the site. An unlimited number of full featured, fully independent nature forums, all within my domain.
But I need more traffic to launch it. Maybe three times my current traffic, something like that? Not sure, time will tell. Anyway, that's my automated content strategy.
I have an automated link building strategy underway too, but it needs more of my time to really work.
Too many irons in the fire....
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As for #3, what product or products do you have in mind to promote? That may influence what we focus on first.
Truthfully, have no clue. I've been putting that whole topic off until I have more traffic to work with. Honestly, if I could make it with Adsense only, that would be my preference. But not sure that's the best plan.
However, I have one little tool to share. Here's a search tool that searches only leading affiliate program networks.
http://webmaster-engine.com/tools/se...irectories.cgi
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I'm a little confused about #4... The hosting services. I'm just not putting the dots together between where someone would visit a nature site and the next logical step is getting them signed up for web hosting. Please help me to understand this.
Ok. First, I didn't create the nature site to promote hosting services. Just trying to make full use of whatever traffic I have.
It's kind like you and the sushi bar. What does sushi have to do with Facebook? Just about everybody is on Facebook now, or should be.
Hosting services are kinda like food, everybody needs them, even nature lovers.
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Getting to your newsletter... I think you need to give away something here to get signups.
Yes, you're right. I have 120 full screen Florida nature videos on the site, perhaps I can rework that in to a signup hook. Good idea, good point, will do. Thanks!
Here's what's working best for me now. I've got a full page multimedia ad for the nature newsletter running on the signup confirm page for my ezine service.
I can't really put a big fancy newsletter signup form, with multimedia hooks and bonus offered explained, on the top left of every article on the site.
Thus, I was considering focusing my list building efforts on creating a series of SEO optimized squeeze pages, where I can really present a compelling offer.
What I pictured was, optimize a squeeze page for some keyword, get it ranked well, and then do another one, and another etc.
I realize there is a duplicate content on one site penalty, so I was considering presenting the signup form content via javascript, so the engines wouldn't see it. The engines would only see the unique optimized SEO paragraphs.
Did I explain that well enough? Opinions?
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The advantage you have over someone else that I might work with is someone who we attract in one of your niches, may have an interest in some of your other niches and there is more reason for them to stick around. I think that's a plus.
Agreed, yes, you get it. Nature-Talk is the very broad theme within which an infinite number of related topics can be addressed.
The point for me is, only one site to build links to.
And, now I have my worked mapped out for the entire rest of my life. Everyday I get up, and know what to do. No more delays, decisions, distractions etc.
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For the social media marketing, Facebook is almost a must. It's such a popular tool today. Like it or hate it, you're doing yourself a disservice by not using it.
I really do agree here as well, and am willing to try Facebook, assuming I'm still allowed to hate Twitter. :)
If you have an unlimited amount of free time available to be our tutor :) we might want to start a new thread about Facebook. I could surely use a Facebook 101 course.
Or perhaps it would be more efficient and reasonable for us to create a list of sites which are already providing such Facebook tutorials.
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What I like best about it is the viral potential of it.
I hear you, yes, too powerful to ignore.
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Twitter, like I said, I hate, but it does get results. I've seen it. It's dumb. It's such a stupid thing. But I have been able to drive traffic to a website through Twitter. I almost wish it wasn't true.
I have my fingers in my ears, and I'm singing a stupid song very loudly. :)
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I like to think that my skill is with online marketing as a whole. I just have a passion for SEO. I think of it like a puzzle that I must solve.
A puzzle to solve, yes, that expresses it well. Your mindset is a good complement to mine, thus this thread has value to me. Hope you're getting something out of it as well.
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Alright, so you would need to pick a few niches to focus on at this point and we can go from there.
Ok, will do. Might take me a bit. While I'm working on that, perhaps you might consider my squeeze page theories?
Um, apologies to the original poster, whose thread we have hijacked. Hopefully his confidence will be assisted by the education you are providing here.