Admin Dashboards is an open-source project created to promote the work of freelancers and small agencies in front of big sharks, using content submitted by developers, a blazing fast site and best SEO practices to promote the content in first pages in all major search engines (Google, Bing & the gang) with $0 costs.
The motivation
If you are a freelancer or a small startup, and you have in your portfolio an admin dashboard product, trying to promote it and sell it, can be challenging without a serious budget. The first page in Google for the keyword “admin dashboards” is full of well-positioned companies like ColorLib, WrapBootstrap, and other companies at the same level.
The plan
To get Google's attention, we need to pass this simple checklist:
- A fast, well-structured website
- Specific content
- No bullshit or spam
- Good referrals
Implementation
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The domain name admin-dashboards.com, match 100% the keyword we are targeting, .. and it was free!.
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The speed. I was testing a few SSGs (Hugo, Gridsome, Jekkyl, Gatbsy) but the winner was Ghost a free and open source blogging platform written in JavaScript and distributed under the MIT License, designed to simplify the process of online publishing for individual bloggers as well as online publications coded in Node.js, Ember.js.
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The website structure:
- Categories are keywords related to the main website keyword
admin dashboard. The winners (selected by the search volumes) are:
react dashboard - 2.9k mo searchesvue dashboard - 1k mo searchesangular dashboards - 2.9k mo searchesflask dashboard - 0.7k mo searches- Products. Each dashboard will be listed in two places: as an item in the mother category, and as a single page, in the root of the website. See the website files structure bellow, for more information
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The content: the information for each product will be curated to provide only relevant information to the audience.
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The referrals The Github repository was created to follow the domain signature. github.com/admin-dashboards. Also, the products, with a little bit of traction from the audience, will have a correspondent project on Github, on address github.com/admin-dashboards/killer-dashboard. Google loves this kind of s**t, and will rank the project better than others, because the information (keyword, content) is consistent, across multiple domains.
## Site structure
<root>
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|---/react-dashboards #category, with paginated items
|---/vue-dashboards #category, with paginated items
|---/flask-dashboards #category, with paginated items
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| # bellow are products, listed directly in website root,
| # using a SEO friendly URL
| # If we have an admin dashboard named Killer Dashboard,
| # coded by Alien Agency in React, the URL is
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| # react-dashboard-killer-dashboard-by-alien-agency
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/react-dashboard-killer-dashboard-by-alien-agency
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/flask-dashboard-black-creative-tim
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/react-dashboard-shards-lite
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/flask-dashboard-black-creative-tim
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