I’m starting to get it. It’s pretty tough to admit stupidity but things are starting to make more sense. Of all the shit ebooks, products and memberships it took 4 free websites to help make things clearer. Hey, whatever it takes I guess.

See, what I used to do was take the PLR articles and rewrite them. But I wouldn’t really change the keyword phrases. When the articles are originally written they pretty much take the top 40 keyword phrases and generate the content. That’s great and all but it’s not focused enough to make a difference in the search engines. Particularly for the broad niches that are chosen. Anyway, I’d build a dinky site either with XSP or a blog and just post up my article that was rewritten. I thought that because I was giving Google what they wanted; fresh original content that somehow I would be rewarded. But it was partly a waste of time. Those top 40 keyword phrase articles that I posted will never be found in the search engines.  They are still too general. I can be such a dumbass.

PLRPro gives you two sets of keyword phrase lists with their article packs. One is the 40 that they used to write the articles, which is most always the top 40 search terms for that niche. The other is all the keywords they found using whatever tool they use to scrape keywords. I pretty much dismissed the full keyword list because it seemed it was geared more for Adwords. That was my bad. I should have used it to generate long tail keyword articles. Hell, they may even suggest doing so in their training.  Whatever. But now I use nichebot to generate the long tail phrases when I re-write because, well the service kicks ass and gives me the data I need.

So last week I read over Courney Tuttle’s website as well as Grizzly’s. I decided to create some focused Blogger blog sites like Grizzly talks about. I decided to do the keyword sniping like Court discussed. I took one keyword phrase and simply hammered it with 10 articles. I furled, spurled, tumbled, squidooed, technoratied and stumbled the effer. I dropped two articles on Go Articles and EzineArticles.

I stole time at work and did the majority of the article rewriting. I have gotten to where I can rewrite PLR in about 5-10 minutes per article. I don’t try to compete with the literary greats. I simply ramble. Nobody reads that shit anyway. I found a couple of templates that I use for Blogger. It takes about 2 minutes to set up the blog. I posted five articles and have been dropping the remainder every day or so.

It seems to be working. I did two of these laser focused article sites last week and they are now getting traffic. Can’t say that the sites are ranked #1 for each phrase I target, but they are getting there. They’ve even made a couple of bucks in Adsense.

Yea I know you 9 folks who read this blog note that I’ve always been building blogs or XSP sites. The difference is that now I think after all this time I have a better handle of how to build them. It’s not enough to simply post up a great article or one that was rewritten. I finally realize that you really, really have to consider what keyword you are targeting. Duh.

Griz had a post on his site about building blogs for money or people. I think there is a lot to that and is one of my failings. If you are building a blog for people, you really have to take your time to create great and timely content. You want people to come visit. Hopefully you get enough visitors where you can sell advertising. It is time consuming and you can really only have a few of these sites to do well. At least if you are the one creating the content solely.

On the other hand you can build blogs to make money. Simply give the user the means to click out of your site via Adsense or an affiliate link to buy something. I don’t think these sites needs to be particularly great. I think they are simply a portal to get people to a place to spend their money on your behalf. You still need a lot of these site to do well. And it’s doable as long as you don’t try to make each one an A-list site.

I believed that every site had to be some great work of art and science and if I did, the money would eventually come in. I was trying to mash the authoritative site with the PLR site. Like I could be an authority if I simply rewrote some crap PLR. That’s stupid. I didn’t spend anytime doing the things that mattered the most like targeting the right keyword phrases. Keyword sniping. It’s what I’m doing now.

I know people are cringing. When they read the above they hear “spam”. The fact is spam makes money. I want to make money. I still believe to succeed long term you have to write content that Google will index and keep indexed. So in that regard I will always post original content. I’m just not going to try to make every site an authority site. And I will continue to sling sites into the Internet.