My 4 Hour Workweek

Many of us are familiar with the niche site keyword research process, and if you’re not, I’ve written about it in some detail before.

You know the drill: Find a keyword, research its competition, find a related domain name (exactly matching the keyword if possible), and hope that your SEO efforts allow you to rank highly for that keyword. It’s not an exact science, but the process is fairly standard.

For authority sites, it can be a bit different.  Although you might begin targeting one keyword, your ultimate goal is to dominate many keywords.  This is complicated by the fact that SEO and keyword research may not be your primary focus as it would be for a micro-niche site.

Today I’m going to share with you my keyword research strategy, the exact keywords I’m targeting, and how my authority site currently ranks for those keywords.

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Content strategy is all over the internet.  It seems like bloggers collectively have written enough words on the topic to wrap the globe 10,000 times.

Rather than spew some of the same content creation “theory” that you likely already know (although I’ll be honest – there will be a bit of theory sprinkled in here), I’m just going to dive into telling you exactly what I’m doing for my authority site, and why I think it’s going to be effective.  

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I’ve been waiting for this moment a long time, and today, it’s finally here.  Over the past couple of months (in several income reports), I’ve hinted at a new authority site that has become my primary focus.

It’s in a competitive niche and won’t be easy to break through, but I’m up to the challenge.  I wasn’t originally going to share all the details of this site on this blog, however I received an e-mail a few months ago asking if I would be interested in an authority site duel.

I happily accepted, and here are all the details.

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Another month has come and gone, and I’m feeling good.  For me, August was a month of focus.

I didn’t allow myself to become distracted by the many “shiny objects” you find in the internet marketing realm.  I stuck to my plan and worked primarily on one site – the authority site that will be revealed during September.

Everything else (in terms of income) was pretty stable in August.  No big swings in any one area, but I think good things are around the corner for sure (I’m always optimistic, aren’t I?).

Let’s dive right into August.

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For most people (myself included), internet marketing begins as a side project. You work on your websites and whatnot on weekends and after you get home from your “9 to 5″ job.  At first, you don’t earn a lot, but if you stick with it, you slowly but surely begin generating real income.

Some people hit it big very quickly and others fade out just as quickly as they faded in.  If you stick with it, you will eventually reach a point where you have to begin treating your internet marketing activities as a real business.

Today, I’m going to show you exactly how to do that.

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We’ve all seen infographics – typically, they are larger images that cover a specific topic, and provide various information in a creative and visually-appealing way.

They’re interesting to look at, and the good ones tend to go viral.  If you’re not a Photoshop enthusiast and don’t really have a creative bone in your body, you might feel like creating an infographic is a bit of a stretch.  Here’s the solution I found, and why I’m excited to start creating infographics.

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