Day 1

First Things First
So the first day, planning. I’ve been reading all over the world about blue hat seo, blogs, forums, irc, etc. etc. Now it’s time to start envisioning. Where do I start? Well as most of my projects I started at my desired goal and tried to work backwards.

The Goal
Unlike a lot of SEO gurus, my goal isn’t affiliate marketing. I actually have a site that I have been working on for a few months that is not only niche but is localized. There is a lot of secrecy in the “underground” of seo world for obvious reasons (google, competitors, etc) so I wont tell the niche nor the area instead, I will refer to them as “keyword niche” and “area“. So, back to the goal, I want my site to rank very high for keyword niche area. My site doesn’t sell anything, but if I can generate traffic I can leverage local establishments to pay for advertising and services. So that’s the goal! Since I know my goal I have to decide on a strategy. And, I like Eli’s Empire tactic so that’s the one I am going to use.

The Land
As Eli refers to it, you have to have land. So I purchased a server ( Debian for those who care ) which puts my current accumulated land at:

1. Dedicated Server
2. 2 Shared Hosting Accounts from a Provider
3. 2 Shared Hosting Account from a Provider

Now I need to set up & configure my newly acquired dedicated server with:

• php
• apache
• mysql
• dns

Alright, done. Now I can use my new server. Well what should I put on it? That’s a good question…

The First Black Hat? Gray Hat? Who the hell knows Site
So I have this nice beefy server and nothing on it. I don’t want to build anything too black hat, and I don’t want to spend a lot of time developing because this is my first attempt, and I’m never that good

So I am taking the SERP domination tactic ( again explained by Eli ) and breaking down my area niche site into a smaller subsection. The Movies & Pictures from YouTube and Flickr using their APIs querying on the niche keyword area that my main site is targeting. It took me around 5 hours to write this, so that I can redeploy it with a different area if so desired in the future. The sites works like this, it shows default videos/pictures with the query and paginates through them (thousands of pages already). Then, each picture/video is it’s own url.. even more pages. Now here is the part which expotentiolly grows the site, each video and picture returns a tag from the API and each tag is it’s own link so /videos/tag/ which starts the whole process again but with the query now “Area + Tag”.

I don’t want to link straight from this site to my target site, because I don’t know what’s going to happen. It might get banned, penalized, etc. No need to risk, instead I have an unrelated site that is a 6yr old domain with only a pr2 - never done much with it. So I will point to that site, and I will watch to see how this site affects it.

Alright now, I am going to throw a couple of adsense ads on it. Put some tracking on it, and bam. It’s on the new server.

Now I rush over to wordpress and register 3 blogs under 3 different accounts all area+keyword.wordpress.com and write a legit blog about the area + keyword. Then in the links category I link to the other blogs, and to the new site I just created.

All in all this took me about 10 hours. Been a busy day, tomorrow I am going to take a step back and put a bigger plan into action.