As I have written on my About page, I have a couple of blogs, forums and niche sites already up and running at the time but i allways have my eyes open for new ideas and markets.

A few days ago I started a brand new niche blog and I thought that you might be interested in how i do that, so I decided to share with you the techniques that I use.

About the site:
The site is built on wordpress with a free theme that i have customised a little to be able to add some affiliate banners, I have also added a few posts that contains the keywords that I am going to target.
I have some plans about monetisation but I will not focus on that until I have some decent traffic.
There are two plugins that I use and really would recommend you to use, Google XML Sitemaps and All in One SEO Pack.

When the content is in place and the blog/site is ready to launch, i do the following.

1. create a sitemap.xml using the Google XML Sitemaps plugin
2. add it to Google
3. add tracking code for Google Webmaster tools and add the sitemap.xml
4. add tracking code for Google Analytics
5. create a few backlinks, I usually try to use some of my other sites and Squidoo to get some backlinks to begin with, the more backlinks you have the faster your site will be indexed by Google and your site will show in the search engines.

When this is done you have to wait for Google to index you webpage, in this case it took about three days witch I think is quite fast.

Keyword volume:
At the moment I will not reveal the sitename or my keywords, but i´ll let you know the search volumes for my keywords.

keyword 1 27.100
keyword 2 6600
keyword 3 5400

When a keyword gets within the 250 rank in on Google I will let you know.

The site is in Swedish wich can make the keyword volume look small, but I think that it will be enough. Time will tell if I am right.

The competition:
There are a few competitors, but none of them has a site that is solely about this niche product, so I think that I will have a fairly good chance.
Even if they have high pagerank and are respected sites they are not primarily targeting the keywords that I intend to rank as #1 at google.

Whats next:
From now on I will use the Free Fire Fox Rank Checker plugin from SEOBook.com to keep track of how well I rank on my keyword SEOBook and Google Analytics to keep track of my traffic.

The number one goal right now is to climb in the Google search result pages, I am going to take action and present the actions and results in detail here on the blog.

Thanks for reading
If there is a certain part of the process that you are interested in, please let me know and I will explain more deeply.

Next week I will write a follow-up and give you some marketing advice.
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