The first thing I do is decide on the topic I want to write about.  Then I go to PLR Article Directory and find a PLR article that is about the same topic.  I copy it into a blank document and then I rewrite it sentence by sentence.

Next I do some keyword research to decide what the title and targeted keywords will be.  I use the Google Adwords tool for this.

Here’s an example:

Today I decided to write an article for website I contribute to (and make residual income from)  about weddings so that I could use links to point back to my wedding website and wedding squidoo lens.  (I promote a variety of products on these sites, so it’s really about making money on down the road.)

I went to the PLR Directory website and began looking for wedding related articles that I could rewrite.  Also, if you don’t want to do the rewriting yourself, I highly recommend using Human Rewriter.  They have excellent service, the articles come out great and they are cheap! I came across one about wedding gifts that was about 400 words long that looked like it would be easy to rewrite, so I opened a new document and rewrote it in about 10 minutes.

Then I went to the Google Adwords keyword tool and entered in wedding gifts to find a good term for my title and main keyword.  I like to select the “exact search” option so that I can get a realisitic idea of how many searches are actually being made for this term.  I saw a lot of interesting terms, but I was looking for one that had a good number of searches and that I thought I could rank on the first page of google with.

After trying a couple of differnt terms, I decided that I could do well with the keyword “engagement gift ideas”.  It has around 5,400 exact searches per month, but how did I know that I could probably make it to the first page of google with this term?

The answer is that I use a plugin for firefox called SEO for Firefox.  It is free and easy to download and install.  I simply to to “tools” in my browser, and then options and then I turn it on.  Then I begin to search for phrases in google.

The first thing I noticed about “engagement gift ideas” was that it only returned about 9,100 search results when I searched for it in quotes.  This is a very good sign.  Anything under 10,000 is going to be pretty easy to rank for.

Next I turned on my SEO for Firefox tool and checked the page rank for the top ten google results.  What I found was that even though the first two results had page ranks of 5 and 6, the remainder of the ten had page ranks which were very low – 0 to 3.  This lets me know that with a few backlinks and the right web address, I could probably get my article on to the first page.

The more my articles are read, the more traffic will go to my sites and Squidoo lenses.

Then I simply went back to my article and titled it with my keyword, insuring that the keyword would be a part of the web addresss.  Then I made sure that my keyword was used two other times in the article and I published it.

There you go.  My super secret method.

I’ll let you know where the engagement gift article ranks when it goes live and gets ranked.

P.S. I dare you to try to beat me at my own game with this keyword!

P.S.S. I’ll be camping for 6 days with 80,000 other hippies, so don’t get your panties in a wad if I can’t answer your questions or approve your comments right away.

UPDATE: I checked the article this morning (it only went live last night)  and it’s number 7 on page ONE of google!  WoooHoo!!!

UPDATE AGAIN: As of today 7-22-09, the article is at position 2 on page one of google! It works!

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