Hello, I'm Dan Thies. I've been writing about, teaching, and practicing search engine optimization for over 12 years.
In spite of what you may have heard, SEO is very simple. If you don't believe that, then you really need to read my book! It's only 100 pages long, and it's free.
Plan B Week 5: Sourcing & Creating News
Sourcing News & Creating Your News Machine
If you missed the first week, go read and watch Plan B: Starting Your Own Information Business first – then week 2, week 3, and week 4.
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Every Friday for the next 12 weeks, I'll release a new module. Watch the videos. Do the missions. You can discuss it with the rest of the group right here – and let me know what you think in the comments below.
P.S. Dear Video Haters: Just like we do in the SEO Braintrust, all Plan B training modules will be released in a PDF as well as video… so if you prefer, you can download the printable PDF of this week's module. You can also download the video (Size: 6.1MB, MP4, iPod/iPhone/iPad compatible) and watch it offline.
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Hi, Dan thanks for the week 5 video, it is really a very useful series and aggregates all the scattered knowledge on the very topic. Following your advice I have set a SEO blog, where I intend to share seo tips and industry news. I have chosen this topic because I have a full time seo job at my company and I think it will be easy for me to manage a blog on this topic. Kindly check out my blog and tell me how I am doing so far: http://sem-seo-resources.com I biggest challenge I feel is to get traffic on blog. I hope you will cover that topic too in coming weeks. Thanks once again for sharing this information.
Hi Dan, First of all I should thank you for the great info in seo fast start and plan B course, as before when I was part of Stompernet member, it is always great learning from you, a question for you:
I have a website and and not yet got many traffic as the seo, off page has not completed, specially the link building, I have just finished the link building in your seo fast start, and will try to implement them soon, my question is that if I want to use a better domain name for my site(the current one has many hyphens in it, and I have already have bought a more keyword rich one recently)if I change and upload all my contents to the new domain, will my content which are more than 20 pages of my own unique content will be seen by Google as a duplicate or you think I will be safe to go ahead, please advise, thank you.
Vadood.
@mohsin one comment. Your blog name doesn't look good to me. I think '-' should not be used. Also why not you try other market and use your SEO skills. Might be some other hobby. SEO market to me seems very crowded. The first few videos of this PLAN was to find an Angle. Might be within SEO you can target angle. e.g. for a particular thing. e.g. SEO for blogs or small businesses.
Dan. The week 5 info is the best yet. I recently set up my own blog and this is what the doctor ordered. At the very least it puts all the research down and positions me as the "answer" as you call it. I wasn't even vaguely as organized an hour ago. I had run into a bunch of stuff over the past week Thanks for the info, keep up the good work. Eric
Hey Dan, when is the next week's edition up? Can't wait!
Hey Dan,
Man, you've really gotten GOOD at distilling this information down to the most important & actionable pieces.
Really, I just wanted to post to let you know how much I appreciate what you're doing.
The quality of this training is on par with some of the best paid courses out there.
Hi Dan
Your job with this course is excellent, I have been waiting for Plan B Week 6, but it don´t arrive to my inbox, do you give up? or I am missing something?, please, let us know what's going on.
David Uribe
What happened? Where did plan B go?
Hi Dan!
I was wondering, what happened to the Plan B training series?
It's been a while…
Andy
Hi Dan, Did I miss a memo? Did this series end prematurely, or did it move somewhere I have not found? Thanks, Brad
"I was wondering, what happened to the Plan B training series?
It's been a while…"
Good question.
Hi Dan,
I've been wondering what happened to Plan B also. will there be any more installments?
I was enjoying it as well and wondering what happened.
Dan, I think you should post the last video for the Plan B fail.
I wasn't able to attend the webinar. Any chance you will put it up?
Thanks. -Eric
Hi Dan, I was working through your Plan B videos and found that they were outstanding, the best I have ever seen on the SEO topic.
When can we expect the rest of the videos?
Cheers, Peter
Many thanks for your awesome system Dan. I have reached out to many talented people I know asking them to submit blog articles and with some success too.
I also started reading your SEO book and love it.
Thanks for your "community versions"!
Chris