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Posts Tagged ‘niche blog’

First I have to give props where props are due. I ran into WikidPad via other users at Wakoopa. I played around with it a bit and then forgot about it. Then I ran into this post about using WikidPad to organize your keywords.

And something clicked. I had been using a folder with various reports and text files in it to store the information about the blogs I’ve been building. But it was a mess. I tried mind maps and they became overwhelming in the end. So I gave WikidPad a try. I just started with keywords.

To get started, I needed a WordPress theme that had extra page templates without sidebars. This was hard to track down and I have created themes in the past, but I didn’t feel like it this time. These special pages will be the landing pages for my PPC campaigns.

I found the Super Affiliate WordPress Theme from Profit Blogger. It takes some gymnastics to get it, but the theme saves you time and it’s free.

I will be using a page as my homepage on the blog, not the traditional home page. This way I have total control over where people go from the home page.

Let’s face it, most of us so not have time to keep a constant flow of posts going to a network of blogs. I am getting better at writing my own content, but I do this part time. The most posts I have published in one day was five and that took some work. Throw a post in that needs a bit of research and editing and posting gets harder.

I figured I would use my assets with experiment of building a niche Ebay blog. I had a domain with a PageRank of 4 that I used to sell Ebay software and ebooks from. It had been banned by Google about 4 years ago and I have been just sitting on the domain, waiting. I had no use for it other than it also held my main email address. I figured Google would give me a break sometime.