Post rough drafts of content on your website

Ask for critiques, and get it indexed early

[MichaelCrawford]

If you run a content site with articles like I do, don't feel like your articles have to be completely polished and ready for public consumption before you post them on your site. It's better not to.

I usually post my rough drafts the very first day I write them, and submit them to Google's URL Submission Form [google.com]. That way, by the time I do get the article finished, one of the drafts will have already been crawled by the time I post my final draft, and most likely the most important keywords will have been in the first draft anyway.

I had one article shoot to #1 in google for a competitive and popular keyword a month after I posted its first draft - but I didn't finish the article until a couple weeks later, as it was pretty long and needed a lot of polishing.

Another advantage is that as soon as you have anything worth reading, but maybe not before it's ready for public consumption, you can ask your friends and family to critique it. How is your grammar? Are you clear? Do you make your case convincingly?

After posting the next draft, email all your internet friends. Cast your net in ever widening circles with each draft.

Once your article has anything substantial in it - but certainly before it's complete, you can link it from the rest of your website. Put a note at the top asking for help, that you need suggestions as to how to improve it. Ask readers to submit links that could be included.

And importantly, come right out and ask for links!

[birdstuff]

I never put ANYTHING on my sites that contains errors or is incomplete. I believe that doing so reflects poorly on the overall quality of your site(s). Just my opinion...

[MichaelCrawford]

How much did you make last month?

$1800 March
$2100 April
$3000 projected for may

$3200 best month so far - September 2003

I find that my readers are overwhelmingly enthusiastic to help me with my articles, and as a result, I'm able to do a far better job than I could do on my own.

I don't feel it reflects poorly on me, and I don't think any of my fans do either.

This is important: your new pages won't appear in an update until at least a Month after your FINAL draft the way you propose. With mine, the appear a month after my FIRST draft.

[Atomic]

Why the rush? Imagine the irony if you spelled your targeted keywords incorrectly. I'm not sure that your monthly income is all you should care about. Your fans may not care but then again perhaps a few do but don't speak out because they are embarrassed for you.

What I still don't understand is why the rush to publish. If you hold back on your next article until it's finished you'll have one minor lapse and then your pace will be as it was.

[birdstuff]

How much did you make last month?

$26K, about half of which was from AdSense. My new pages are typically spidered, indexed and well-ranked within 24-72 hours, depending on the linking path to the new page.