mattgatten

Send me your login details and I'll upload it for you. You will also need to create your db and the user for that db. After that, you have to use cPanel to add the user to the db with full privileges. After that you just go to your site and WP starts the install process. I can have WP installed in about 3 minutes. I can even have several installations of WP installed in the same DB in about the same amount of time. hahaha

Anyone need their WP installed, PM me. Anyone want to donate some money to my cause? hahahahaha Just kidding. Free help with the server for anyone in this thread.

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mediastar100

Hey Matt

Nice one on the help. Im slogging away at this... content is now up. Ive made changes to the pages on the site - tweaking content and tags - any ideas on how i can get g to revisit my site.

It cached it on 26th May but i cant find it anywhere in the search results pages?

Any comments appreciated!

My noob site so far: www.glittergraffix.info

Cheers

Dave

mediastar100

sorry should read Glitter Graphics - FREE!


Thanks

Dave

mattgatten

Did you install Google Analytics? Ever since I installed, they've been to my site almost daily.

I also submitted hit Technorati, Del.icio.us, and stumbled my site too.

I just got finished adding about 24 pages to my blog. Check it out guys and let me know if it 'works'. Basically I added pages for each 'generation' of Honda Accords. Then I added a page of Ebay links with the 'generation pages' as the parents. That way, when the page links show up on the right side of the site, you see the generations then the particular years under them. The 'generation pages' also have links to the individual 'year' pages for some good internal link action.

Am I on the right track here? I also published all the ebay pages on different days of the month.

We'll see.

Would buying 100 directory submissions from Red_Virus be worth it at this point? << Please answer this time. Not getting a lot of answers lately. hahahaha

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JamesH

Shitttt, just deleted style.css on my site by accident and I didn't have a backup. So a 2 hour delay is now in order. Just what I need. And its fucking hard trying to make a custom contact script when I have no idea what I'm doing with PHP haha. I might just hire someone to do it.

mattgatten

why a two hour delay. Just upload the css from the install package you have. Easy, easy. Was is a theme you downloaded or one of the default ones?

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Hire me or just ask. I am fairly fluent with PHP. Dude, that's why we're here!

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JamesH

It was something I made myself. But everything is back up now. I had a copy of the file that was half way done on my hard drive, and I knew exactly what I had to do, so it was straight forward. I'll send you a PM detailing what I need about the contact form.

JamesH

Paid a friend of mine $20 to do the contact script. I'm now finalizing the sales content, and working on the ads to find some employees. Let me know if you're interested in a small part time job

mattgatten

Ok guys, I am about to pay Red_Virus for 100 Social Bookmarking DoFollow links. However, I suck at this since it's my first time.

Can you guys have a look at my site and point me in the right direction for writing a description? 250 words or less. How do you guys usually write a description?

Maybe if someone can just help me get started. I don't want to waste my money on this with some bad verbiage.

Thanks in advance,
Matt

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CCLIND

Hey Matt, still offering help on that WordPress install? DB already set up as well as the ftp client.

erect

Matt >> I just noticed your question from above about the directories and now you are in a buying mindset because nobody answered. I say what I do below as an informed webmaster as I have done submissions (manually & paid) and own a directory.

I would suggest against it for 2 reasons.
1> directory submissions should be a good compliment to a link building campaign, not a replacement for one. They really are not that effective for a site that was just launched.
2> by the time the links get approved and indexed, it will be after the 30 days of this noob event.

If you want to do directories, I suggest getting a deal where 25+ links go to 4 different target urls. Build hubpages, squidoo, etc pages that link to your site and get the directory links pointed there.

This helps you out because the free pages get all the link power (not much) that 25 directory links give to it. It then gives some "honda accord" content and passes links to your multiple deeper pages in the site. This would work MUCH BETTER than 100 crappy links pointing to 1 page with the same anchor text ... that smells of spam.

If anyone participating in this thread wants a link in a directory, PM me and I'll give you a free featured one. But don't expect too much from it :]

About your site ....

- Work on your title tags. Remember they are the name of your page and the <H1> text. Across your site they really need to do a better job containing your keywords.

- Work related keywords into your body for both similar but not exact search phrases and the LSI factor. For instance your "least expensive hybrid" article should contain long-tailed keywords related to a main word.

Those keywords above were scraped from google suggest which just places the most popularly typed next word after "honda hybrid". I built that tool the other day that will does this for you, it's built for a programmer but humans could use it too.

As for your main keyword phrase ...

GREAT JOB on the "Make Model Year Part" section on your site. Drop a paragraph above the ebay links talking about car repair, car parts, etc with the "Year Make Model" strategically placed throughout. You might get some searches for "1996 honda accord camber kit" if you play your cards right. Fix title tags here too.

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Yeah, PM me the details. I'll get you hooked up.

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CCLIND

Matt, just PM'ed

CCLIND

Any thoughts welcome please. My 1st thought was a database/directory for this domain, just for the volume of pages, not sure about it now though. Being a financial geared name it is pretty competitive, but I have found some long tails with low searches. Being financial related could also branch off and do different sub-domains: bank loans, home loans, car loans, credit cards, financial aid, student loans, refi and so on, What say you?

erect

You, my friend, chose a very difficult niche to jump into. I'm not sure really what direction to point you into. If you are shooting for organic results, you are going to have a ton of competition. For a directory / DB site I would point you out here, but you've got a long way to go to fill in the blanks if you want every branch in the directory.

Since this is WF, I might suggest some PPC. Use those subdomains you were talking about and make some landing pages. I'm sure someone could point you in the direction of a $100 yahoo or MSN voucher (MSN would be good for finance related ... I think). Should be an easy way to make the $1 required to keep the domain.

You wouldn't have to pay much to get started ($30 for Yahoo) & I'm sure that the guys here can help with the brainstorming for keywords to bid on.

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OK, after much thought about what to do about that Kontera trademark I have decided the following. I'm going to build the slick little script on another domain and just avoid any legal shit alltogether.

What to do with ContentLinks.org - Links & Content meta-search engine? Well I still want to play ball here so I pumped out a quick meta-search engine on the domain and will use it down the road to push some link juice to the script. Perhaps I can just rank well for the phrase "content links" and never worry about the trademark.

Steps I took to build the site:
1. wrote the script. This script consists of 4 parts

• XML search results are scraped from 2 search engines on each page load, reordered & then delivered to the screen
• scrape some recent blogs on the search phrase for fresh content
• scrape google suggest for "Related Searches" available for each search term
• Drops adsense up top with a header of "Sponsored Results"

2. Entered the words "content" and "links" into the google adwords tool. Each word returned 150 of the most popular searches related to that word. I downloaded the csv, combined the 2 & sorted by cpc. I took those words that I just got and seeded the site with them (see links on front page).

Thanks to the .htaccess rewrite and an sql backend, every page is static (location) and totally indexable by google, yahoo, etc. The end result of this little site will be a fully automated, 300-400 page site that's really nothing more than a big scraper site that was given some words to work with.

Now to get some pages indexed ...

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Hey - any thoughts on using a scraper for adding pages to glitter grafix?

Im thinking I need to cut down on the time spent building pages and increase volume.

After I have a good number of pages i can tweek and submit to SE

Any Thoughts?

Cheers

Dave

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Funky Bunch

I'm likin' this thread. If its not too late I'd like to take a shot at TRANSFORMERS2009.COM

emp

Sit down and work.

Seriously.

Right now, you have 3 frigging pages.
You need content? No shit, sherlock!

Make a template - I mean build the HTML you need around the content.
Make it clean and nice, put a BIIIG comment where you need to put your content - something like

<!-- CONTENT GOES HEEERE -->

Then, get content.

Enter the content into your template.. done.

You can easily do 10 pages + a day.

So if you work for one week, you will have 70+ pages

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mediastar100

Cheers Emp,

Needed that kick up the ass - struggling to find the motivation to write about glittery grafix - its harder than it sounds!

And yes my sites colour scheme is suited to the Myspace audience but its giving me a bloody sore head looking at it!!

I'll keep slogging on - dont think im close to pulling $1 yet!

Arrrrgh!!

mattgatten

CCLIND, I just read your PM. I think the problem you are having with the WP getting connected to your DB might be a simple thing.

I'm posting a generalized solution here for everyone to see because I'm pretty sure more than one person might have this problem. It's regarding cPanel and the MySQL portion of the app.

When you get an account on cPanel your username is also the account name. They way cPanel handles everything else is based on that, even the databases. Here's an example.

Say my username for cPanel is: accordman

Say I create a DB named: wordpress
Then I create a user named: admin (and add it to the db).

Here is what the credentials would look like for the username and db name.

db name: accordman_wordpress
db username: accordman_admin

Always let it default to 'localhost' for the hostname
Password doesn't get the prefix.

There you go, hope that helps.

Matt

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BlueMendicant

Ok, so I've been working on content for Automatic Monster

Over the next 10 days I'll be posting the lyrics for a song of theirs, including a way to listen and purchase a $.99 mp3 from amazon. I know 4&#37; of $.99 is nothing, so I'm also going to try and push physical products, such as their CD. Would it be worth it trying to find a ringtone program? (I know crowded market...not a good place for a newbie like myself...)

I'm working on some better content, but I'm about to head on vacation for the next four days, so hopefully a few automatic lyric posts won't hurt anything.

Thoughts?

mattgatten

CCLIND, you have a blog and a PM now. Let me know if you need anything else. I would have had it completed sooner but my boss walked up to talk to me while I was working on it! hahahaha

Anyone else need help? Let me know.

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CCLIND

Thanks Matt, gonna have to wait till after work to get to it though.

blueRAP

Don't give up on me yet Mike! I'll admit to being a bit lazy due to just not knowing what to do, but now I'm saying 'fuck it' and will either pay for an LP or try my efforts with Wordpress and just pick an offer and roll with it. Will post progress (or lack of).

mattgatten

No sweat. If you upload a custom template, you'll have to change permissions on the included PHP files to be 'writeable' by WP. I think 755 on those files will suffice. Just a little FYI.

Thanks,
Matt

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emp

Nope, you don't HAVE to give permission.

Only thing that will happen is that you won't be able to use the online editor.
And even then, WP will let you know all nicety-like.

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The only reason I suggested it was so folks who may not know much about servers and wordpress and file uploads could use the built in functionality of the app.

Guys, changing those permissions is completely optional. If you want to use them and WP is giving you errors and you are having trouble setting the permissions, shoot me a PM.

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Narsticle: I reformatted the title tags and the H1 tags in the posts. I'll be adding some content to the tops of each page real soon. Also, I cleaned up the page links on the front to show only the generations (but describe the years involved) which take you to the page to select the year models. Also, long, descriptive, anchor text in those. I didn't want uses scrolling most of my pages if I can help it.

Everyone: Have a look, if you don't mind and let me know if I'm on the right track.

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JamesH

Alright, I think I'm pretty much ready to launch Editorialize - Daily updates for your blog. I hired an awesome writer, pretty much done with the content (couple more proof reads/edits) and the software is ready to go. Any comments before I start advertising?

ChrisBa

Great thread guys, just go out of the hospital and want to get back to this stuff. This thread has been giving me the motivation. Now just need to get back to the research and find out where to start again.

BlueMendicant

Does anybody have a decent blog and ping list?

mattgatten

Registered at 5 or 6 forums when this started. Made small talk and asked some questions for a while. Now I've gone back, added the site to my signatures and all is going smooth. Created a squidoo lens about the cars and as soon as it shows up on my list, I'm going to be joining a lot of car groups over there.

I have some Never Blue Ads up in strategic locations and I'm thinking about pulling the one set of YPN ads off the page for now. We'll see how it goes.

Probably going to start hitting up Yahoo groups, myBlogLog, and Google groups. Woohoo. Are we having fun yet?

I see this as growing a bamboo tree. You water and fertilize (all the grunt work) for a length of time then after a while it suddenly springs. It's not what you did most recently that made it successful its all the effort you put into it by doing the 'right things' early on that pay the most dividends later.

Am I right?

Mike (and the rest of high level mentors), am I missing anything yet? I've got more 'generational' content going on those parent pages. If I can get that done by morning, I'll be happy.

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mattgatten

Did a little looking in google.

Stats:
link:www dot hondaaccordcar dot com - 3
link: hondaaccordcar.com - 1
site: www dot hondaaccordcar dot com- 4
site: hondaaccordcar.com - 35

Google Analytics:
Since 22 May when I installed analytics

Visits: 285
Visitors: 248
Pageviews: 601
Pages/Visit: 2.11
Bounce Rate: 77.19%
Avg Time on Site: 1.35
New Visits: 87.02%

Believe it or not, only 22% came from WF.
I'm also getting 2.11% from google(organic) and 46 visits came from direct.

Ok, I think I'm done here for the day. hahahahaha

Thanks guys,
Matt

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Mike

Wordpress has a good list: Update Services « WordPress Codex

Sounds like everyone is doing well. Got a PM from newbie2008 (ProdamiPhone.com) that he got his first sale! Congrats!

I'm sorry I haven't been very active in this thread lately, been wicked busy. I'll take some time tonight to catch up and answer questions.

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Here is one I posted a while back:

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

I use it on all of my blogs. Not sure how well it looks, but its the largest list I've seen.

mediastar100

guys,

do me a favour and look at one of the pages within my site. Im having trouble with NB banners. Fore some reason only one ad box is appearing on all the pages within the site there should be two NB ad placements. Its not showing for me ???

Cheers
Dave

JamesH

I see 2 small rectangle banners and 1 large square banner

mediastar100

on which page?

there should be two 300x250 NB ads on every page except the home page

JamesH

Where is the navigation? The links in the middle "Most Popular Glitter Graphics Today:" don't work for me so all I see is the home page.

mediastar100

SHIT! the idea is force users to use the adsense as a dummy nav bar.

the only links into the site are via the most popular.

Worried about them not click through - what happens when u click on the most popular link?

JamesH

No, your idea will work. Its just that I'm not a dumbass so I didn't click your adsense. Your target audience should be dumb enough to click your adsense all day

But as far as the Most popular links go, I click it and nothing happens at all. Viewing your source code, you are linking to files located on your hard drive, not a web server. Upload those page, then link to them via www.glitterwhatver.com/thepageyouwanttolinkto.

Get it?

mediastar100

Cheers James,

Thank you for flagging that up.

I've made the change now so all the most popular pages should be up there now

Got it (i think!)

Dave

JamesH

Works on my end, plus I see the two 300x250 NB ads.

mediastar100

excellent - cheers mate!

mediastar100

Im thinking a good way to drive traffic would be to use something like FriendBlaster (Myspace Adder) since im basically focussing on this audience - anyone got any experience of this software? Im using the free trial version at the minute.

Lavish

Update

Okay so far I'm starting to get the hang of writing up content. It is short but if you notice the discrepancy and technical aspects of my first post compared to my latest you'll see what I mean.

I've updated my ping list and I also head to PingMyBlog.com and ping from there after I make a new post.

I have so far had 8 amazon referrals for no sales.

Apparently I've had 80 page views, with 68% of them from WF and the rest direct hits. I don't know how they find it?

My idea with this is to grow it organically via Google search.

My current ping list is:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
ishinao.net
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
Blogbot
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com
http://ping.bitacoras.com
Yahoo!
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se
Datashed.net - Resources and Information. This website is for sale!
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://thingamablog.sourceforge.net/ping.php
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
Blogdigger - Add Feed Form
http://www.blogoole.com/ping
http://www.blogoon.net/ping
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://www.blogroots.com/tbpopuli.blog?id=1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
cPanel®
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/knapps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC
cPanel®
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

Thanks.

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Lavish, direct hits are people typing in the URL manually. Its most likely just you at this stage (If I'm not mistaken... Its late...)

Lavish

James, it must be late for you over there I've blocked my IP address from the logs so it can't be that...

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