First of all, I hope everyone has had a Merry Christmas, Hanukah season, Annual Materialistic Gift Consumption Day (trademark pending), Turkey Day Phase II, or whatever you want to call this time of year.
Secondly, as I continue to formulate my plans for world domination this blog, I’ve decided to try a little experiment with a key word combination.
Like many of us living in the blogosphere (remember, I live here), I read Courtney Tuttle’s keyword sniping article with some interest. NB - I found the link to Courtney’s article from Blogger Unleashed’s niche blogging article.
So, just for fun, I thought I’d try to find a keyword combination that seemed to meet Courtney’s three main criteria:
1) Over 200 queries/day
2) Less than 1 million existing pages
3) They have some kind of value to an advertiser
I used the free version of WordTracker to do some quick searching. I tried to come up with something that I knew a little bit about. Amazingly enough, after a few keyword searches, I came up with one that I wanted to try:
Beef Stroganoff
So, it’s a bit unexciting, and not necessarily that healthy for you to eat, but WTF. Beef Stroganoff it is.
So, being a bit cheap (plus too lazy to fully read Court’s excellent article), I took a simple approach to creating a new web page for this experiment: I used Squidoo. It’s cheap, relatively easy to use, and it’s designed for linking. My goal here is not to make money (although if some worked its way into my wallet, I wouldn’t say no). My goal is just to test the basic premise of Court’s idea as simply as possible just to see if I can get to Google’s first page of search results. Plus it’s a way to track some recipes - I do have a hankering for the stuff.
Here’s the link to The Beef Stroganoff Pantry at Squidoo - please have a look.
The monetization aspects would basically revolve around selling cookbooks, I guess. Although I was surprised to find out that you can buy Beef Stroganoff mixes at Amazon.com. That was a bit frightening at first, but if anyone could sell this, Amazon.com could.
So, that’s the new experiment. I’ll let you know how it goes.
P.S. Beef Stroganoff Land, the premier family entertainment center for beef dishes, opens in 25 years. Life memberships on sale soon!
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