Great advice as usual. It sounds like from the letter you received that this person is building an authority site so 13 articles definitely is not enough to get any significant amount of traffic unless they are targeting the right low hanging keywords with acceptable amounts of competition (under 30,000 or lower websites when you check “phrase” match in Google). With the proper keyword tools you’ve recommended such as Keyword Elite or the ever popular Market Samurai, it’s not that hard to discover these but that also makes it easier for savvier marketers to identify them and take advantage

I guess with all the hype that’s promoted by our fellow internet marketers, it’s easy to look for an easy solution rather than doing what you recommend, which is to consistently take action and put up good relevant content and point links at it. I admit that I’ve been distracted and still am at times by the shiny object but nothing gives me the results as much as doing what you say..and doing it consistently!

There is one question I do have about the freshness part. I understand by getting people to comment on a blog post such as this (which basically is what you had us do when you emailed a link to this post..right?) will add fresh content to older stuff. What do you suggest with static pages on a website? Should we add more content to it or just pointing more links to it would be enough?

Thanks for your advice

Mark

oh, what dose HTML(you can use these tags) and all that HTML stuff mean? and how do I use

Great post

The reality is that success takes work, patience, and perseverance. While the hare is darting around from place to place, the slow, plodding turtle reaches the finish line first.

I have a question. You said, “Create some feeder/utilty sites so you have your own places to put keyword rich links.” Could you shed more light what type of things you have on these type of sites?

Thanks!
Charles

If I keep chipping away at it maybe a couple of years down the road it will pay me dividends. Planning for the future is as important as planning for today!