Here is a complete run down on how I got this blog listed, using all clean, legal, white hat methods in under 72 hours on Google.

I purchased this domain on 12/1, and by mid day on 12/3 I already had content and traffic directly from Google.com. What is the trick?

1. let Google know you exist. visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/ and sign up your site.
1. upload the confirmation file into the web directory, get verified
2. Install Wordpress, current version 2.0.5 directly from http://www.wordpress.org/
3. Start downloading needed plugings:
1. AddMySite (AMS)
2. Google Sitemaps
3. Google Analyticator
4. DiggClick
5. Jerome’s Keywords
6. Jerome’s Keywords: Related Posts
7. Meta Tag Generator 1.1
8. Sociable
4. Install and activate All plugins
1. Add My Site is a nice collection of links to social websites (requires template modification)
2. Google sitemaps requires write permission to a local directory to store sitemap files
3. Google Analyticator requires a free analytics account.
4. DiggClick is quick and painless, makes people want to digg your articles
5. Possible the key to this whole process is choosing good keywords
6. Once you have these keywords you can create really simple keyword swarms
7. Meta Tag is a nice feature to randomize the meta headers a little for each article
8. More links to those fun social sites
5. Now that you have the blog ready, use it.
1. Write a simple article with instructions on how to do something which has a wide fan base, such as setting up wordpress for seo optimization
2. Add a few more articles and pages to give your blog some body
3. Add even more, don’t forget to use a nice template
6. Digg away, Always digg your articles.
1. By digging your articles it gets them out there very quickly and easy.
2. Try digging in the early AM, there is less articles and more chance for your to get seen, since digg is flushed on a daily basis
7. Don’t forget, to make this worthwhile you need to do two things, either have content people will return back to, or have ads people will click on while at your site. So just drop on some simple ads, banners to other sites of yours or adsense what ever you want to do.

I haven’t listed all of the tricks, there is more customization I did to wordpress to make it more SEO friendly, but this is enough for now to get even a blog novice started.

Enjoy and let me know how things work out for you.

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