Typically, you do need to sign up for a membership, but this just takes a few minutes and is well worth the effort. Spend a little extra time on filling out your personal profile and professional biography. This is very important because this is how your articles will ultimately be linked back to you and your included website’s URL. If you can get five articles written a day, so much the better. These articles do not have to be all that long, but between 500–700 words is a good amount to shoot for. Having several hundred articles with relevant content on multiple article sites, all with corresponding biographies with your website’s URL will get you spidered by Google and the other search engines.
7. Configure your site to have an ongoing blog area and contribute a new blog each and every day. Make the content pertinent and relevant to your website’s keywords and overall theme of your site. This will add ongoing content to your site each day.
8. Configure your site to have an ongoing forum area that you and others can contribute to each and every day. Make the content pertinent and relevant to your website’s keywords and overall theme of your site. This will add ongoing content to your site each day.
9. Remember that content wins over pretty images. Keep in mind that Google, and other search engines, will spider your relevant text, but big images, videos, and Flash objects will be (for the most part) ignored. You need to take a look at your website as if you were a google-bot, and ensure that your web pages (home page especially), are full of a lot of pertinent copy. And don’t be afraid to have a longer than normal home page, one that you need to scroll down to see everything. Have numerous links to other areas of your site as well.
10. Become a great communicator. Network with other similar minded website owners. Thinking in terms of competition will not work well for you over time. Look for ways that you can collaborate together to promote an idea or project together.
