Brainstorm It! Phase
Monday, July 02, 2007
Back to working on the Brainstorm It! Phase. Yosemite is looking like the demand numbers are in there. Really been another two weeks? Dang.
I am struck by how dang wordy all this Site Build It! stuff is. Especially when you come back to reread this stuff you realize just how long and wordy it is, how you really have to sit down and read every word. I feel some little frustration at how difficult it is to find the actual instructions. I feel no guilt however for not reading every word when one has already read the first five chapters of the Site Build It! Action Guide at least three times in a recliner in the living room kicking back.
Back to Chapter 2 then.
Did I mention how ridiculous all those resizing windows are? Quit it! And what about standards compliant pages? Opening in a new window is a wonderful old school “gee whiz, I won’t lose my other page” but really, the back button works just swell.
Actually, I sort of had to backtrack because I used such low demand original site concepts including longboard skateboard, new music artist and bass lake. Forget those for now, the really niche stuff maybe later. Using Google and Wordtracker.
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
Overture, now Yahoo, is fast fading, supposedly, I guess. Always loved that tool because it had numbers, Wordtracker does too so, oh well.
So in narrowing my choices I checked out the list I made with all the areas of expertise I have (did I mention you should make this list?) and also added new themes as they came into my head, Yellowstone Park and Buffalo, both dear to my heart. Yellowstone made the list and so did Buffalo, bison, wild buffalo, bison meat, white buffalo.
So I am honing three themes, Yosemite, Yellowstone and Buffalo.
OK. Gotten the Site Build It! Action Guide Chapter 2 Master Keyword Lists for all three concepts. Now I do the supply gig. I am running into the bison buffalo issue, not really an issue, but the two words are obviously or probably going to be on one site but are analyzed as if two separate themes. Whoops did the demand for all keywords before I did the Supply using the Brainstorm It! Tool.
That’s it for today. Three concepts, the tools are pretty cool, narrowing down the site theme. I still really want to do Yosemite National Park because I can sell space to local advertisers as I live in North Fork California which is very close to Yosemite, but then again, you don’t have to live somewhere to sell them space. Duh.