I mostly do 2 links per 300 words, seems a shame to waste it, but now and then I mix it up.

To get rid of date, time etc you need to go in to the single post stylesheet in your appearance editor. Then near to where it has the code for your post title you will see some code for the date etc. Make sure you copy the whole page of code first then play around deleting different bits until you get it right. For the home page you need to do the same on the index code page.

There are a ton of themes, this one, suffusion, is free and about as flexible as you can possibly find, I would play around with that. You can hard code certain elements in themes as well, just by adding content, images etc in to the theme as we discussed for deleting time, date etc.

Hope that helps.

Thanks for all your help Dave

If you want to rank then it makes it easier if it is on the post title, at least short term. I would go for “Buy White Socks Cheap”, “Blue Socks For Sale Best Price” etc, may as well get 2 terms plus your main term in there.

It depends how far you want to take it if you do that for each color etc. But use some buying terms in the post in H2¡s etc, backlink each post for all terms and in a year or so the whole site will rank for anything regardless off it you used the actual buying term or not. (maybe 2 years)

For example

Cheap blue socks
Compare Red Socks
Where can you buy socks for hamsters
etc

OK. For longtails that you get traffic for you may find that simply adding the text in to the existing post is enough to rank higher, or that and some links for the term. You may not need to write a post. But if it gets good traffic then write a new post, interlink the two and you should get a double listing.

You may also double up on the buying keywords so you can write “Best Price XXX For Sale”. You can also simply put a number of the buying keywords in H2′s in the post. That is often enough to rank for them if you backlink for the post title terms and the H2′s too.

It really does depend on how tough the term enough. For moderate keyword difficulty that should be more than enough.

The site layout is just as it is. You write the content then it is up to you if you display recent posts etc.

To be honest it is why I don’t do niche sites about 1 product. Much better to have a general site about all the protein powders and mix up the brand you write about. It looks less spammy then when you gradually intersperse the site with buying terms for each brand.

Backlinking?

Just suck it up, it is boring. You simply write your content with the links you want to rank for in it. If it is for protein powders then you have a brilliant foundation. You can write a million different articles about how your training went each day. How your bench press max improved, how you managed to do a pre-exhaust routine off a set of 15 leg extensions with your max weight followed by s set of 20 deep breath squats while going to full depth and thanking God the power rack was there to save you.

And all thanks to XXX protein powder you had begun.

Just got either get creative or write the same thing over and over in different ways.

Does that help?

Sorry if that post was all over the place

De Nada.

That is good going for a few months Sarge, nice one. Glad it helped, and thanks for the feedback.

I recently built a site in July to test your suggestions in this post about buying keyword post titles. Well it works! I was able to increase my Amazon earnings in Sept. by $200. Thanks again for the information you share on this site. Its much appreciated.

But she is getting a bit cheeky now. After all I have taught her and now she is beginning to make more on her Amazon account than our combined one, maybe she should have written the Amazon post not me! She is selling tons every day, and a lot is from her various hubpages accounts so it can be done and is a great testing ground.

Um, just kidding my dear, loves ya. (just on case she reads this), although she has the right idea, less blog reading and more work.