Here’s another of my Mage forum posts that has gotten buried in the threads … I outline my strategy. I’m still following this strategy and it’s working for me   Here goes:

First off, I don’t like cookie cutter sites so I do lots of different things to make mine different. Initially, I just did it to get sites up in a hurry. But it’s not “me” so I’m being more deliberate now. I am still using the mage methodology – just adding a few tweaks here and there on the front end. Greg says each person must find his own mage path and this is the way I operate my business: slowly, deliberately and (I hope) profitably.

For example, when I am creating a new site I will hand pick the current articles as well as the forward dated articles I want to appear — most of the time using PLR – and then manually insert the mage codes. Recently, I started placing the mage code for yahoo answers, or some other excerpted “hint”, right in the middle of an article as a quote to make the PLR article different without re-writing it altogether. I am a writer but I spend too much time writing for others to write all of my own stuff (you know … the plumber with the leaky faucet syndrome). So, I use lots of little tricks that are quickly implemented to make the articles different.

I also add my own paragraph at the front of the article.

After I do that, I turn on the “allow search engine” traffic and use the mage site promotion feature. I keep a watch on my stats to see when the SE bots start crawling. When I know they are crawling (usually takes a week or two) I start maging on the backend. I am not picky about the backend articles … I use posting mage and let ‘er rip.

Oh … almost forgot: another thing I’ve started doing is to edit the WP templates and remove the date. That way when someone comes to the site they will not know when the post was made. The SE’s know, of course, but the human visitor will not know. IMO this makes a big difference as the visitor doesn’t get the impression he is visiting a site that is never updated. If you don’t know how to do this search the Wordpress codex. You’ll learn all sorts of things about tweaking WP.

The bottom line – it might take me 3 days to get a site ready but I would rather do it that way than to just throw one up. Putting up the sites without tweaking may make the most money quickly, but I also am interested in the long term profits from the site so I don’t mind spending the time to do it on the front end.

Well, that’s my current strategy. Hopefully, it is a long-term profitable one. Feel free to duplicate if you’d like!

Linda