Posted March 24, 201113 yr http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/seasonal-websites.jpg While running multiple websites isn’t a strategy I recommend for beginners, it is something experienced publishers and SEO’s can do to diversify their income sources. While some people choose to run websites in different niches, another option is to run seasonal websites. If you are going to run seasonal websites, you want to set up websites that have peak traffic and buying cycles that are at opposite times of the year–say, for example, Department 56 Christmas decorations and swimming pool supplies. Look at the search patterns for those two terms on Google insights. http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/season-insights.jpg Season Website Term Search Traffic Seasonal websites have the advantage of being evergreen and only require updating once a year. You need to decide if you will use a living URL strategy (which I recommend) or add new URL’s. Even if you do use a living URL strategy, consider doing a content audit and removing or updating your weakest content every year BEFORE the prime buying cycle. I would also recommend adding some new content every year. Increasing your content by 10% every year is a solid number. Another variation of running seasonal websites is running one website with distinctly different search seasons. For example, you could have a family travel website with family ski vacations, winter family vacations, spring break family vacations, summer family vacations, and so on. If you can find a way to have enough different terms so something is converting throughout the whole year, you are golden. http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/uploads/family-vacation-data.jpg Seasonal Family Vacation Search Volume So what are the takeaways from this post: Look for ways to diversify your income with multiple sites with different peak search periods.Try to keep the content as evergreen as possible.Revise, update, or remove the weakest content from last year.Try to add some new content every year.http://www.wolf-howl.com/wp-content/banners/text_link_ads_F_468x60.gif Related posts: How to Completely Backup Your WordPress Website Since we’re at thebeginningof the year, it’s a good time...Website Auditor Review Website Auditor is a piece of software from the SEO...How Mobile Friendly is Your Website In late 2010, the New York Times published an article...How to Diagnose and Improve Website Crawling When you are reviewing a website, whether for your own...How Website Owners and Publishers Can Use Foursquare While some people consider Foursquare to be nothing more than... Advertisers: Text Link Ads - New customers can get $100 in free text links.BOTW.org - Get a premier listing in the internet's oldest directory.Ezilon.com Regional Directory - Check to see if your website is listed!Directory Journal - Get permanentdeep links in a search engine friendly directoryGlass Whiteboards - For a professional durable white board with no ghosting, streaking or marker stains, see my Glass Whiteboard ReviewNeed an SEO Audit for your website, look at my SEO Consulting ServicesLink Building- Backlink Build offers 45 PR5+ Backlinks for $295KnowEm - Protect your brand, product or company name with a continually growing list of social media sites.Scribe SEO Review find out how to better optimize your wordpress posts.TigerTech - Great Web Hosting service at a great price.<li>What Motivates You - what makes you want to get up and be successfulThis post originally came from Michael Gray who is an SEO Consultant. Be sure not to miss the Thesis Wordpress Theme review. <br/><br/>Running A Seasonal Website <br/> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?i=yLTyXudnQP0:B19ej-ZW9vk:V_sGLiPBpWU</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?i=yLTyXudnQP0:B19ej-ZW9vk:wF9xT3WuBAs</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?d=dnMXMwOfBR0</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?i=yLTyXudnQP0:B19ej-ZW9vk:aKCwKftKxY0</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?d=7Q72WNTAKBA</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?i=yLTyXudnQP0:B19ej-ZW9vk:D7DqB2pKExk</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?i=yLTyXudnQP0:B19ej-ZW9vk:JEwB19i1-c4</img> http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Wolf-howl?d=yIl2AUoC8zA</img>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Wolf-howl/~4/yLTyXudnQP0 View the full article
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