Now we want to do some deeper research of our broad terms. Select a main keyword term for your niche from your previous searches. Open a notepad file and save it using the main keyword term you have selected for your niche.

SEOBook.com

Use Keyword suggestion Tool to find more related keywords for main keyword term. Export results into a “Research” XL Spreadsheet or notepad file.

Good Keywords 2 Software

Use Good Keywords 2 find more related keywords for your keyword terms. Export results into “Research”

Choose 5 keyword phases as niche topics from these lists and save them in the notepad file you created for your niche site main keyword term above.

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When starting to create niche sites it pays to create a folder in your documents folder labeled “My Niche Sites”. Whenever you start a niche site project, create another folder within this folder and call it the name of your niche.

Store all the research, documents and site pages for the niche within this folder.

Google.com

Start with a broad niche search term. Look at total number of results listings, how many pages are shown, and how may sponsored links are shown. Adwords sponsored links mean that the niche is probably profitable. Take note of likely niche keyword phrases. Do 3 types of searches:

1. BROAD = keyword phrase
2. EXACT = “keyword phrase”
3. RELATED = ~keyword phrase

SEOBook.com

Use Keyword suggestion Tool to find more related keywords. Record likely niche keyword phrases.

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If you have a Google Adwords Account…

ADWORDS Sandbox = keyword phrase
Check for keyword phases with no competition with searches, or low competition with medium searches. Record likely niche keyword phrases. The video for this technique is on the Instruction Site here.

When selecting a Niche start with broad terms then ‘drill’ down to more narrow sub-niches. Eg.
Pets >> Dogs >> Breeds >> Labradors >> Breeding >> Puppies >> etc.

Future-proof your niche by thinking inclusively, instead of exclusively. What I mean by this is ask your self; “Can this niche be developed into a ‘hub’ (collection of niche related sites) or included in a ‘portal’ site (gateway to many niche sites)”.
“Pets” is an easy example of how to see to do this but don’t try it yet as it is highly competitive. Remember you want to be a big fish in a small pond - not a small fish in a big pond.

Kudos to Justin for the new MDB Instruction layout for Million Dollar Blueprint members.

There has always been a wealth of material to refer to but the new step by step lesson layout makes it easy to progress methodically through the program.

The lessons are screen capture video showing how to do each task. I suggest you watch the video all the way through first and take notes. Then watch it again, pausing the video to do each task, then resume the video for the next task. This way you will complete each step for the lesson.

I will be going through the lessons and taking notes to post on this blog so you can use it as a written guide. I will categorize the posts according to section of the MDB.

Feel free to ask questions in the comment section of each lesson post.

There is no doubt in my mind that the Internet has been revolutionary in changing the way we see and do things. It has been instrumental in the way we perceive the world and how we interact with it. Where else can you have information at your finger-tips, shop without leaving the house, and earn money from home. For many, the Internet community is their second family.

A down-side of this is that our attention spans have become minute. We are all looking for a quick fix and if we don’t find it on the first site we click the next and so on.

As Internet Marketers we want people to come and visit; but more importantly we want them to stop and browse. The longer a person stays on your site, the more likely they are to act, whether it is to buy, sign-up for a newsletter, join your affiliate program or whatever you want the visitor to do. The traffic we accomplish through SEO; the Browsing we accomplish through thoughtful web design.

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SEO is all about using words to get listed in the search engines but once you have achieved front page, top listing status, it is people who will be coming to your site.

Humans are visual creatures by nature. We respond to colours and images on a visual and emotional level.

Words capture our imagination. Pictures capture our attention.

With that in mind you may consider inserting pictures into your blog posts and on your websites.

One of my students asked me the other day how I get pictures into my work from home blog. I thought this question was important enough to blog about.

The actual mechanics of inserting pictures into a wordpress blog is relatively simple.
While in composer mode you place the cursor where you want to put the image and then use the image button.

A dialogue box appears…

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As you continue to add content to your work-from-home blog and start on new blogs or web sites you’ll find yourself adding a variety of links such as Ad scripts, text-links and navigation links to your sites and pages.

Whenever possible text links are going to be done using keyword anchor text - This is when you use your chosen keywords as the clickable text for the link.

Inserting Links into Posts:

To insert a link to a blog post it’s simply a matter of typing in your chosen keywords, high-lighting those words and clicking the link button on the post editor toolbar. see previous post Inserting My Projects Links

However, you will need to know how to create your own anchor text using the correct format in notepad ,for when you don’t have an html editor - don’t be concerned - it’s really easy.

Using Work From Home you would put the surrounding code in …

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I have added a page outlining the steps required to setup a Wordpress Blog on your own domain hosting account.

The page is called Wordpress Basics and you will find a link to it in the pages menu on the sidebar to the right.

Although it all seems confusing when you install WordPress for the first time, the more you do it the easier it becomes. I find that if I map out steps to follow I get faster at doing something; so I hope you will find the instructions to be of some benefit to you also.

Feel free to copy the page and add it to your own work from home blog to help your students when you eventually have some.

What is FTP?

FTP allows transfer of files between two computers which are on the Internet. FTP lets users upload and download files from another computer system on the Internet, or on a local network. You must be familiar with how to download and upload files and how to use FTP in the Million Dollar Blueprint. If you have never used FTP before, don’t worry, it’s as simple and moving files around on your PC.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is the best way of sending files from one computer to another over the internet and is the simplest and most secure way to exchange files. FTP is in common use for downloading data and programs from servers, and for uploading Web sites. FTP is commonly used to transfer web pages from the creator’s computer to the server where the web site is situated.

Whether you know it or not, you most likely use FTP all the time. The most common use for FTP is to download files from the Internet.

First you need to download and install an FTP Client. There are a number of free FTP Programs available on the web. I use SmartFTP myself. You can download the Trial version and if you are using it for personal use you don’t have to upgrade when the trial runs out.

There are other Free to download FTP Client Programs like CoffeeCup and FileZilla

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Apparently the error is happening because the new wordpress database doesn’t use categories.

The quick fix for this is to change the permalink structure to /%postname% only.

This should stop the annoying database error messages

26 Jan 2008

Well this hasn’t fixed the issue so I’ll just have to put up with those annoying data error messages whenever I post

As you progress through the Million Dollar Blueprint program you will set up a number of website projects

To display links to these website you will add these to the sidebar by inserting code above the ‘Links’ block of your work from home blog as I have done to the right.

A quick way to create a list of your projects is to use your post composer. Type in the name of your site in the visual editor and add the URL using the link button as described here.

Your list will look like this

Now click on the “code” tab of your composer and add the following code tags:

1. At the top of the list add <h3>My Projects< /h3> (no spaces within the < > tags) to add the heading
2. At the end of each link code add the break code < br> (no spaces) so each link sits on it’s own line
   It will now look something like this:
   
   

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