Bangari Content Studios: December 2011

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Michael Robson Web Designer and Kevin Leland of Bangari: Gallery Site Design Dialog

Hi Kevin,
So what you're looking at is setting up a forum for your blog?
I like the modern Web 2.0 interface look of the forum example. It looks, feels and is structured well.

From a designers point of view, this is my frank opinion of your blog:

Your website could do with a facelift and restructuring of links. The link navigation looks rather cluttered and there is no distinction between the main and sub links.
Author names are mixed up with the site navigation links. You may want to start by drawing a flow chart and then work on building up.

SEO wise, looks like the blog is tops (indexing and ranking)
There may be a small tweak needed: I noticed the Meta Descriptions missing from your pages.
Hope you read that post I left on your website re the indexing of Bing/Yahoo. LOL just realised on your post above that from the link you provied, you are already using the webmaster service.

Regards,
Michael.

Thanks Michael!

A flowchart would be a great idea. This is a co-authored blog, with a co-op philosophy and revenue distribution. I want the first and last name of all our editors and authors front and center. Putting them on the front page and then at the top of each piece of content they produce, linked back to an index of their works on Bangari along with links to work they have posted outside of Bangari is first priority.

I'm working hard on all the on-page linking, before I go off-page, and officially start the link-building campaign. I've done my homework, and know how to get some awesome, top quality back links --including Wikipedia! muhuhuhahaha...But you are correct sir, we need a makeover. I really like your designs. I noticed that you could use a lot more contextual back links on your site. We could help you with that, and you could help us with our design. I wish we had cash to offer, but we are all poor folk! Trying to get this thing airborn on brains, talent and elbow grease!

The forum:

We have a place where we "talk shop" about launching Bangari, and other projects that we have collaborated on, on a google blogger blog:

Bangari Content Studios

The thing is, this site isn't connected to my wordpress domain, and either way, I want to start transplanting some of the content that's on this site to a better forum format, on my Wordpress account, either on the free blog they gave me a sign up or as a page on the paid for .com Bangari domain on WordPress, or both...

I like to keep all these discussions online instead of in email, because in email it is a big waste of keyword-rich word count. There are other advantages too. So, what can we do to set up something like this Web 2.0 Interface looking forum you have in mind?

I would be glad to help you with anything 'design' related. This is because I am strictly a front end designer. My strengths lie in Photoshop, Flash etc. If there is anything you require, with regards to these elements, let me know and I would be glad to help. I'm not interested in cash, all I want, like any other business owner, is to come up tops on Google results. If you can help me with this or point me in the right path, I would be glad to experiment myself.

For the kind of website you wish to produce, you may need the services of a scripting professional. I do know of a well reputed company in India, which I outsource all my scripting work to. They charge around US$10 an hour and I have got several sites done through them. Let me know if you are interested and I can put you on to them. The example forum you showed me would be a piece of cake to them. I would be glad to refer that website and get a quote for you if you like.

It would be awesome if you can get onto Wikipedia. Being an SEO expert you would know how you will surge up the Google results if you get on there. However, I understand how hard it is to get on there.
I get what you mean about having a blog as a subdomain and how this holds more weight with SEO versus having a separate blog hosted with Blogger. Again, I have no technical know-how as to how to do the content transfer. I can however get advice on this and get back to you.

Excellent news Michael! I think Natasha made a great match here! To make this relationship "pay-off" (other than cash) we have a ton of work to do.

I'll get you signed up at Bangari. We need "artists" like yourself, as much as we need writers and SEOers. Working together, we can build something worthwhile, co-op style, labor for labor. When and if the economy turns around, then I can see it being a great source of income.

For my part: get me a Google doc, with your "bio" and pic. Include lots of links to sample sites. They will get some free promotion... I'll also need some content from you. This can be what's called "resource content." That means, it isn't directly promotional, and it isn't about the services you provide. We need content on anything "technical." It could even be about WiFi in cars and televisions. How do you feel about writing?

For your part: Let's hold off on the scripting work for now. However, I'll put it on the "wish list" How many hours/$$$ should I budget for that project? What I would really like, and have no clue how to do, would be a few "slide shows" of our content, like Factoidz does. That would be right in your field of expertise, right? I want one on the main page, and later, it would be great to have one on each member's page, showcasing their individual work.

Bangari's SEO philosophy is "Your name is our keyword!" -Individual talent first, collaborative talent second, quality content third.

Pages vs. Posts

I found the problem at last Petal! You need to post your new content as "posts" not "pages." We have enough pages for now, and those are more for indexing along with the bios, and giving instructions about the site. When we post new articles as "posts" (on the dashboard, click the icon that looks like a thumbtack.) we get a "related articles" section, and a place to put tags. On my editor, I even see a place to select "public domain" photos to place in my articles.

So, from now on, we just use "posts" unless the content is specifically for a new "page" for our site, like the up-coming "How to Speak Bangari: Glossary of Terms" Try it, it's a breeze...The WordPress robot even picks the tags from out of your article, automatically.

When you select "related articles" that's great for business. Those bloggers get a "pingback" and then usually come see who pasted their article into their post. We get commenters, followers, team members, clients, i.e; traffic and back-links from it. Be courteous and respond to comments, and go to their site and offer up some contextual word count.

Not to change the subject, but, do any of you look at the stats at Bangari? Can you access that feature? Are traffic numbers are climbing, and a min of 60 per day seems to be the new average.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Michael Robson Web Designer and Kevin Leland of Bangari: Gallery Site Design Dialog

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Posting and Linking

Hi all, here is another email with food for thought!

What you did with that last post, is exactly what I envisioned...Get out of my head! Haha...Seriously, awesome job!

I added that blurb to draw a directory of Ketubah Artists, and other Judaica art. This is a great niche that I think we will dominate, thanks to you!!! Listen, just please be patient. The more I research, the more I see that it could take a few months, even after we start drawing 10,000 page views per day, to start taking in some real money in passive revenue. I have no idea what the stats will be as far as how much content we will sell per visitor...we need bigger traffic numbers before we'll figure out that ratio.

Over the last few days we are racking up over 100 page views per day...18/hour...we need to shoot for 10x more. That will happen as we post all this content we have created. You seem to be the resident "Master Poster!" -You got me beat! Now we need to figure out a fair stipend in Bangari Bucks for posting. Just the way we did on your Hand Painted Ketubah Post.< (link to your post)

Let's have a discussion here, and get it nailed down!
Kevin
Now that our traffic stats are climbing, we need to post regularly. With Amazon product placement, you got us covered with potential passive revenue. I think the traffic is going to start getting us contract work soon.

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Pandas Don't Like Duplicate Content

I keep coming back to the thing about people just taking content from our site and using it, we can't spent our time checking up to see if it's stolen. Maybe the articles could be just examples of subjects we can write about, or include a list of possible articles on BCG.

It doesn't do anyone any good to copy our stuff from Bangari, and post it elsewhere as their own. It's a waste of their time, and it doesn't hurt us if they do it. It actually helps us, because it will push their site lower in ranking on the same topic they steal content from us. First of all, even the content farms won't allow it. They check content for originality before they post it. If they find that it was posted at Bangari first, they won't allow it to be posted on their site. That is another reason why I like the idea of posting SPVs on Factoidz. It's a free "test" of our content spinning robot. If they accept it, it means our spun out versions are unique enough to pass robot inspection, so they are good enough for SEO purposes.

If "scraper" sites post copies of our content, it's because they don't know enough about the Internet and SEO and intellectual property. As part of my "list building" that is: finding sites to get backlinks from, and clients to sell content to, I will find time to check the Web for plagiarized content. When I find them, I can "educate them" as to why they can't gain rank or make money as a scraper site. Then I can offer to sell them unique content once I've made them understand that duplicate content is useless. If we can't sell them content, at least we can sell them a robot so they can make their collection of stolen content unique on their own!

I'll forward you a copy of an email I sent to C. L. Summers. This is a good example of the kind of "education" I would give to the plagiarists, to get them to be with us instead of against us.

I'm glad you liked the review. I'll post reviews in other places, including the ones you suggested. I want to give you some important advice before you make a mistake in your promotion efforts: DO NOT post duplicate content!

The last thing that you want to do is post the review I wrote for Amazon, word for word, on other sites. The search bots recognize duplicate content. They penalize the sites that post it, and devalue the links from those sites to the site/product you are trying to promote. So, where you have the right idea about the importance of link building, our efforts will be in vain unless the content we post is at least 70% unique.
What we need to do is take the review I wrote, and flat spin it. We need to build a "Kama Sutra Celibacy Review" RSA file in Google Docs that we can draw spun articles from, and use those articles for the linking campaign. Are you familiar with how to format content for the robot spinner? We can teach you, it's easy. It helps hone your writing skills too. Some folks enjoy the process, others hate it! It's essential in order to get the 0-8 backlinks per day that you need in order to get your site growing steady in rank. Check out Alexa.com. This is a free analytics site that does a great job at showing how your site is doing relative to others on the Web, and shows you where your backlinks are coming from.

The other great thing about Alexa.com, is that if you research other sites that are similar to yours, you can see where they are getting their quality backlinks from, and this will show you what sites to target for your own backlink campaign. They list the backlinks in order of quality, the highest quality in first position. Your promotional content needs to appeal to the robots as well as humans. The Best Spinner robot is a great tool to use to create that content in a way that it will still relay the same information to the humans but in the eyes of the robots, the content will be unique. It's worth it just to use it to measure the percentage of uniqueness of the content we're spinning. If you decide to buy one, use the affiliate link on Bangari (or just click the hyperlink in the previous sentence). We get an affiliate commission on each subscription, and that money is paid out to the content producers who help spin and post the content that will help you sell a lot of books!

Two other important things to understand about linkbuilding:

1) After you get one link backlink from a site, additional ones do not count towards your "webutation" (Web reputation). These additional backlinks from the same site still help generate traffic, but they don't carry any weight for ranking.

2) You can only get 0-8 original links per day. This way it looks "natural." More than 100 in a month will look phony and cause Google to put the site in the "Sandbox" -meaning it won't count those links at all toward your rank for up to a year.

It's a team effort. Our group at Bangari should try to buy each others books, and write reviews for each other, and use the Bangari platform to spin and post these reviews and related content and collectively promote each others intellectual property and domains. The articles we produce for this purpose will be posted all over the Internet, including on our own private sites and our "co-op" site, Bangari. Here it can collect passive revenue from AdSense and Affiliate revenue which will help fund our collective efforts through the Bangari Bucks payment system, and buy us some neat bells and whistles for the site.
I'll get started building the RSA file out of the review I wrote. I'll share the doc with you, and you can help me build it as I show you how to format text for the robot spinner. See you there!

Writing and Making Money on Bangari

If you are still unsure about how Bangari works, then these email excerts could help you:

Writing
I wanted to write a post requesting that people write and spin articles here on Bangari, and then post them here first, and then post the SPVs on the content farms. I don't understand why they wouldn't do that unless it's that they don't understand the concept of "Project Exodus"

Lacking the advantages of capital and cash flow advantage we have the advantage of 'collective effort.' We have all pitched in a good amount of content 'for stock.' I think we have a good reservoir as of now. So I would say the most important part of 'what's next' is "posting!" We have to keep adding to the RSA files including all the ones we did for Billy for those fifty different companies, and from them squeeze out SPVs, clean those articles up, and post them on Bangari and all over the Internet. Some can go on the content farms, some on our own sites, and some on different sites linked back to Bangari.

There are other advantages to contributing to the start up efforts, and the body of content that we need 'in stock' and as samples to draw paying clients. We will be 'managers' of those clients' projects, and those managers will receive 10% commission on all the content we sell from that inventory.

Thanks a lot to everyone who has been contributing, and to those who want to but can't right now, we can't wait to see you back in the loop!

Conclusion: Bangari Writers Start Writing!
That means follow the set up article instructions for Project Exodus - Copy your articles from Content farms, spin them, post them on BCG (if you need help doing this contact Petal).

Making Money!

P:Stop paying people! Seriously how can anyone expect money when they know it's a co-op and we haven't sold anything!

K: I feel uncomfortable asking people to do things in hopes of it making money down the road. I wish I could at least offer a little money "upfront", like what Factoidz pays... But I'll heed your advice. If investing work now for a good payment later scares away some potential contributors, so be it

If they want to hold out until there is paying work, then when we get a paying contract, the people who invested their time "speculatively" will get first dibs on it. those folks will also manage that production like Sally did on Billy's project, and will make extra money, 10% I think, on what they write, and also 10% on the word count produced by the other contributors. That amounted to $500 for Sally just on the Work we did for Increase Visibility.

The "advance system" is just an add-on to the Bangari Bucks system. Some of the founders haven't been involved as much as others. I'm sure that month to month it will be like this. Some have told me that they are still interested, and wish they could contribute more, but have had certain problems that are preventing them...Namely, poverty. We are all in the same boat pretty much. So the advances are similar to an "activity bonus" at Factoidz. It gives the folks who are able to devote their time to the "start up" efforts required to get this site built up to the point that it generates decent revenue regularly a little money for their current efforts.

We need to "talk up" article spinning. Maybe mine some content from discussions on Bangari Blog and make articles out of them to post on BCG. I'm starting to carefully recruit...and hopefully, some will be able to afford a robot. Even if we slowly grow our team by five people a month, and four buy a robot, that's $200 in revenue to pass out in advances to those who have been contributing to the site. And of course there is nothing wrong with selling robots to people who just want to produce for their own sites.

Simultaneously, we have to monetize...So far that is a huge aggravation! I'm at the point where I have to call a "happiness engineer" at WordPress to find out why I can't get any HTML code to appear like it is supposed to on the site, when it comes to banners and such. I never had this trouble with Blogger. But like I said before, you don't want to post advertising like Adsense until you have a good flow of natural traffic. But it's past time to get other affiliates on there besides Jon Ledger. We also have to work on list his other products besides "The Best Spinner."

So that leaves us to try to do something that I know from experience is pretty tough (but not impossible) to do, especially in a down economy. That is, start a business on 100% elbow grease and 0% capital! I'm doing some things in the 'real world' that hopefully can get me some real money. I'd like to have at least $500 to pay out in 'advances' by January, and another $500 to spend on a professional Web designer to overhaul our properties -and I'd like to spend a little on the Alexa site optimization package, and other analytics. I could work wonders with a $500 / month budget for subscriptions and other bells and whistles for Bangari.

So far everything is on track. Of course I wish it was steaming down that track a little faster, but without capital, slow progress is to be expected.

Conclusion: Kevin does, has and will continue to pay for your hard work - Start Writing!