Hi Guys,

I’ve joined this forum a few weeks ago already and have just been blown away so far at how little I actually know of SEO and SEM. I initially heard of Kurt at the Warrior Forum when I purchased his Thinklinks packages. This has broadened my thinking, and set the stage for me to be left speechless on this forum.

All this reading has kind of left me in a state of mental paralysis, and I’m kind of keen to get going on a certain plan. I thought it best to post here on the Goals thread to get some feedback from you guys on what my best step forward is.

A quick backround
I have (what I would consider) currently 4 gold sites. These are sites with unique original content, consisting of mostly articles and some videos. They cover a variety of different topics including Home Decorating, Gifts, Government Auctions and Travel Packages. These sites are monetized with a mix of Clickbank and Amazon products and Adsense. They have decent traffic (nothing extraordinary) and have been going for about a year each.

On top of that I have a fulltime write based in the Philippines. She does a relatively good job and I consider her a good resource in the whole process. Originally my intention was for her to write articles, submit on Ezine, spin content using Article Marketing Automation and postings on Linkvana. This was before I arrived here. My thinking now is that there is a better way to utilise all this content that she can create for me and really stretch it to the max using some of the Tuelz.

My Plan

Now here’s my plan (subject to change on your input). Creating Silver Properties. I’ve created a fair bit of Squidoo lenses, hubpages and the like in the past and doubt this will be a real issue. I therefore don’t really see a problem to create these. I’m going to start with one of my gold sites, create 10 silver properties around it, gather their RSS feeds and submit to RSS directories using RSSBOt. The content on here is going to be of a good quality. Any idea how often I should post new content to the lenses and my other silver properties..? If frequency is an issue, should I use some automation method to take some time out of the process...?

Tin Sites

Now this is where I get a little lost. I definitely see the whole idea of building a ‘blog farm’ all with links pointing back to my sites (especially silver sites). Kurt, looking at your link diagram structure, it appears that it would make alot of sense to focus on the linear-open circuit and focussed linking patterns as these look less risky and doesn’t resemble the usual link wheel concept.
My questions really relates to the process of automation and using RSS in particular. Access to content as far as I’m concerned is not really a problem. Spinning this is not a problem either. The issue comes in as to how I can automate this process as far as possible. I’ve seen Kelvin’s thread on Blogbot, and it would appear that this is a good piece of software to use in building WPMU sites and posting to them content spun by Tuelz....? That leaves me still with the whole concept of the other platforms such as blogger, livejournal, etc. Any software recommended for this...?

Swiftly on to RSS. I see the whole idea behind an RSS blackhole. This makes sense. My only question on this is, if there is a way to use the RSS blackholes to populate my blog network with content. The issue being as my feeds are updated by the RSS blackhole, it moves down over time and contributes to the whole link decay problem. Is there a way to circumvent this and use the blackhole as content...?

I’ve asked a few questions here and some, perhaps, is not supposed to be on this particular thread. Apologies if that’s the case. I would love some feedback though and I’m keen to get started.

Thanks
Wiehahn