No Excuses - Part 2 - Page 2 - WickedFire - Affiliate Marketing Forum

abhorrent · 07-08-2008, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Ady2k

Damnit, I cant seem to fix this problem with my wordpress. The posts dont seem to wanna break. Ive tried using <br> and <p>, but none of these work. Anyone care to point me to a solution to this?

Ultra Green Tea Review

Try turning off the crappy Visual Editor. Even if you post in HTML mode if the visual editor is on and you go back in to edit the post, It seems to break or just strip some tags completely.

edit: From your dashboard. Users > your user name > uncheck "Use the visual editor when writing"

Vingold · 07-08-2008, 04:48 PM

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This would be a blog/affiliate dating review site based on a fictional woman called 'Jackie Logan'. I've read that dating/ringtones/diet products etc are saturated markets really hard to break into, but it seems that doesn't put people off and I guess because of that I'll probably learn a lot from trying it out. At this stage, I just want to learn as much as possible.

This is an exceptional idea and I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it.

I'm enjoying this thread.

janwonders · 07-08-2008, 06:15 PM

Thanks for the tips. I've now looked through Flickr and found a couple of girls that could be suitable, but then noticed all the pics seem to have 'some rights reserved'. This states that You are free:
to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work to make derivative works
Under the following conditions:
Attribution. You must give the original author credit.
Attribute this work:The page you came from contained embedded licensing metadata, including how the creator wishes to be attributed for re-use. You can use the HTML here to cite the work. Doing so will also include metadata on your page so that others can find the original work as well. Non-Commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one.
For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights.

OK - pretty boring - so what do you guys suggest?
• Should I be including an attribution to the original author somewhere on the site?
• Go out and take photos myself?
• Seek out a volunteer to pose for the pics
• Approach a number of the Flickr girls asking if they'd like their pics to be included in a dating blog?
• Or should I just ignore all the rules and go ahead and use them anyway?

I'm not expecting this site to be making me millions so maybe I shouldn't be getting too hung up on it, but I'm interested to know what other people do, I can use photoshop for the basics, but I've never sussed out to change hair or edit people to look realistic and it's not something I want to learn right now.

How many would you say I should have (I mean of the actual girl) before getting started? 10, 20 or more?
Getting pics of food, venues, etc will be easy, it's just choosing the character that's tricky.

Other than that, I've started taking notes on what sort of content I'm going to include. I've got a few affiliate offers approved and I've uploaded and made some amendments to the wordpress prosense theme. I find choosing a theme to be one of the hardest things to do, so for now I've just gone for a basic theme with adsense. But come to think of it, that was maybe a bad idea because if I'm promoting dating offers, I maybe shouldn't have adsense on my site - what do you think?

Abhorrent, I like your dogsrule site - it looks very professional.

I'm going to be away for a week from tomorrow, so I won't get to post or update the site, but I will have my notebook with me and I plan to get stuck in when I return.

moomycow · 07-08-2008, 08:54 PM

Quick update: I've noticed that the few users I've had visit (still at c. 40/day) are searching for bands that I haven't reviewed. So, I've hacked up my search results page, and if no results are found, it now searches YouTube via their API and attempts to find at three videos that match what the user searched for. It then displays these videos with "How do these do, now buy a bloody ringtone"-type text.

I'm still looking at options to drive traffic, and have made tentative steps to get other music blogs to link to me. Ringtones are hugely popular amongst schoolkids in the UK, and I'm looking at using Facebook to target some kiddy-friendly ads that offer the latest free videos to watch... and doesn't mention them being surrounded by "RINGTONE! RINGTONE! RINGTONE!" ads.

Any other advice on traffic would be most appreciated, thanks guys.

radio · 07-08-2008, 09:25 PM

I just spent the day working on a stupid script - hard to say if it was worth it. But I learned a good deal so whatever. Will be implementing it on my site here shortly.

Mike · 07-09-2008, 01:07 AM

Wow! Everyone's busy as bees. Great to see there is a lot of sharing of ideas and information.

Some quick pointers: even if you struggle with HTML / PHP / ASP / whatever, keep at it. I'm no programmer, but I understand enough to make changes to scripts and write some really simple ones. Even that little bit of knowledge has helped immensely. Like most of you, I learn by doing. So, everyday I push my coding abilities as far as I can. I try to do as much of the script writing as possible. If I get stuck, I hire someone to finish it.

Which brings me to my second point, make sure you put a value on your time. It's one thing to try and learn new things, it's another thing to beat your head against the wall when you don't need to. If you can't afford to hire someone, then trade services. Sex for coding usually works if you're a female... Errrr... Just kidding, but content for code is often a good trade. I know a lot of coders that can write some complex code, but can't write good sales copy to save their lives.

Anyhow, always make it a habit to look for ways around your limitations. We are all handicapped. Just in different ways. My handicaps: not a good copywriter, poor coder, and horrible graphic artist. No big deal, there are people out there that I can either hire or trade services with. My point is this: you have all the skills you need, the ones you don't have - others do. Network with each other. Go to Affiliate Summit and shake hands with people. Talk on the phone. However you want to do it, it doesn't matter, just do it. (Nike paid me for that

)

Okay, enough "Rah Rah" pep talk. Let's get into advertising / marketing.

Ever hear of the Four P's of Marketing? In case you missed Marketing 101, here they are (ripped from Wikipedia):

Product: The product aspects of marketing deal with the specifications of the actual goods or services, and how it relates to the end-user's needs and wants. The scope of a product generally includes supporting elements such as warranties, guarantees, and support.
Pricing: This refers to the process of setting a price for a product, including discounts. The price need not be monetary - it can simply be what is exchanged for the product or services, e.g. time, energy, psychology or attention.
Promotion: This includes advertising, sales promotion, publicity, and personal selling, branding and refers to the various methods of promoting the product, brand, or company.
Placement (or distribution): refers to how the product gets to the customer; for example, point of sale placement or retailing. This fourth P has also sometimes been called Place, referring to the channel by which a product or services is sold (e.g. online vs. retail), which geographic region or industry, to which segment (young adults, families, business people), etc. also referring to how the environment in which the product is sold in can affect sales.

Here's how you can relate the 4 P's to Internet Marketing:

Product - what product or service are you pushing? How does it relate to your website's demographic? Is is incentivizable? If so, should you incentivize it?
Pricing - Pricing can affect how well the item converts. Often new internet marketers (notice I didn't call you n00bs) want to push the item that has the highest payout. But if it has a high payout, does it have a high cost to the consumer? Either through a long, multi page offer (time cost) or through an actual purchase (monetary cost)
Promotion - Pretty self explanatory. How are you going to promote your site? SEO, PPC, YouTube, social networks, banner ads, CPM ads, etc... Also, what type of promotion would be best suited for your audience? Video, banner, text? Are you going to focus on branding your site, or just pushing a product?
Placement - an extension of promotion. What's your demographic? What sites do they visit? Do the sites they frequent have lots of flash, music, etc or are the sites fairly static (no moving images, no music)? What times of day are they most likely to buy? What kind of language do they respond to? "Hip hoppers" are more likely to respond to slang than a white collar executive.

Lot's of questions, but you need to be asking yourself questions all the time. The more questions you ask, the more you will learn. The more you learn, the better you can narrow down on you target audience. The better you target that audience, the more you make. The more you make...you get the idea.

Homework assignment: Write out a list of at least 10 questions. Things you need to know about your site, niche, audience. Then go research and find the answers. Then look at your site again, and apply that knowledge. There will be things you'll want to change (most likely). Don't take the easy way out and say "Yeah, yeah, I already know all the answers", because, if you do know all the answers, share them with me. I certainly don't, and I know that I would be much richer if I did.

Last, share at least one of your questions with the class and what you learned through your research AND how it applied to your site.

That will be all. Go forth and discover.

Oops, almost forgot, Google's Adplanner kicks ass at helping you figure out what your potential demographic is by studying your competitors demographics.

whathell · 07-09-2008, 09:29 AM

great post seo_mike, im learn a lot here

anyway, lately im focus building install joomla service. It's take time to make the website, i hope i can done by tomorrow

so how about everyone else ?

puroz · 07-09-2008, 02:45 PM

I wonder. Any one have an opinion on the various Ebay php scrips. Is phpbay pro(50$) worth it over mcjiffy or phpbay lite ? Im trying to get a classy look going and im pretty clueless when it comes to php(trying to learn php actualy).

radio · 07-09-2008, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by puroz

I wonder. Any one have an opinion on the various Ebay php scrips. Is phpbay pro(50$) worth it over mcjiffy or phpbay lite ? Im trying to get a classy look going and im pretty clueless when it comes to php(trying to learn php actualy).

Go phpBay Pro and don't look back if you have the coin. Looks sweet, integrates well, targeted searches, nice templates w/ column view.

UPDATE:

Going to try and make a sick home page for epnStore today/tonight.

Lingo · 07-09-2008, 05:12 PM

I it a good idea to direct link to an offer just to test if it will convert before i build a landing page?

jryan54 · 07-09-2008, 07:55 PM

Quick question for all you wordpress geeks out there. Is there a way to order the categories that I create. I know I can swap it around in mysql but wondered if there was a simple way to change the order they appear on my main page directly through the wordpress gui.

abhorrent · 07-09-2008, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by jryan54

Quick question for all you wordpress geeks out there. Is there a way to order the categories that I create. I know I can swap it around in mysql but wondered if there was a simple way to change the order they appear on my main page directly through the wordpress gui.

This plug-in will let you order by Category Name, Category ID, Category Slug or Post count.

There is also This One but I've never used it so...

You can also do...

Code:

<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name'); ?>

In the template if you want and can switch "name for ID or Count.

A plug-in is gonna be the way to go really.

radio · 07-10-2008, 12:01 AM

here's what I worked on tonight. epnStore - need to integrate it into a theme and I'll make the registration and login look the same. wonder if ebay would complain about it. i'll be adding some links across the bottom for contact, terms, etc. Feedback appreciated.

puroz · 07-10-2008, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by radio

here's what I worked on tonight. epnStore - need to integrate it into a theme and I'll make the registration and login look the same. wonder if ebay would complain about it. i'll be adding some links across the bottom for contact, terms, etc. Feedback appreciated.

Looks like a winner to me. How are you going to monetize it ?

radio · 07-10-2008, 09:33 AM

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Originally Posted by puroz

Looks like a winner to me. How are you going to monetize it ?

I'll have my ebay aff link at the base of every page, might incorporate adsense into the themes, perhaps they all get a page peel similar to this - but that gets a bit invasive. perhaps it's something to generate backlinks where I can update the footer and bam - as many backlinks as there are stores. maybe i have "featured" stores on the epnstore homepage for a subscription fee.

Open to ideas of monetizing and design. Thanks!

puroz · 07-10-2008, 02:36 PM

Well, Ive finally found the project to do for this contest. At first i was going to make my RSS feed compiled site but that sounds to risky for now. I had a tutorial site planed as well but it would take to much time writing up tons of content on a subject that im a beginner on(lol).

So finally i will use 1 of my old blogger blogs that has pretty much 0 organic trafic and only a few backlinks and move it over to my hosted sites. Redesign it put some ebaystore action on it and just completely redo it and use it as a guinee pig for things to come.

puroz · 07-11-2008, 01:23 PM

So i have a General site up now with lots of ebay and some content. Gaming Equipment » Pro Gaming Equipment. Any feedback on what i should change or add would be appreciated.

radio · 07-11-2008, 01:56 PM

I would suggest adding a hover color in your phpBay admin panel and then doing this: phpBay: enlarge clickable zone | Rule One Blog (spamming my blog since it has the file download). Consider splitting your content - paragraph, auctions, rest of entry.

Check out one of the cheap logo designers on here for $10 get a screaming header logo - you need a sharp and clean logo / header for that category and your current one isn't cutting it.

Lose the bloggy feeling by removing the dates, get comments out of there... if you're trying to be a 'shop' vs. a blog (have to do that by editing the theme).

Check this tutorial for good ideas - you don't have to follow it exactly, but he explains why you're taking out the comments and date - if you can't figure it out on your theme - use the limauorange for the time being... or better, delve into the code and figure it out.

radio · 07-11-2008, 09:04 PM

Spending my Friday night working on the site. Have gone through and removed most indications of Wordpress. People setting up "stores" don't need the latest Wordpress news to distract them - get in there and generate some content!

I'm going to write up a very basic tutorial on how to publish a store and make that the Dashboard body - how to best use categories and pages. Going to make a page explaining the process in more detail (signing up for epnStore / EPN, writing content, publishing, etc.) for those who need a bit more info before pulling the trigger.

Have an idea of a great group to market this to - basically it will be a signature on my posts in their forums "Save up to 75% on your listing fees! - Click here for details." - can you guess the market? HA! Wait, my math is wrong - they could earn more than just a fraction of their listing fee... heh - even better!

SEO_Mike: I see your homework assignment, I'll spend a bit of time with it this weekend.

jdubsf · 07-14-2008, 06:09 PM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

jdubsf - do you have hosting? If so, I need your nameservers

thanks seo mike,

please forward nameservers to:
ns987.hostgator.com
ns988.hostgator.com

cheers

JamesH · 07-14-2008, 07:27 PM

Alright I'm back in this bisch. I gave up my NE2 domain because I realized I have a portfolio of my own that I can use. So I choose to work with Lexus LF-A.

So I spent the day building a custom header, posting some info (and putting some in the queue), setting up some plugins, and doing some research. For now I'm keeping it simple and working on building the site. Once I get some content I'll worry about link building and monetization.

JamesH · 07-14-2008, 07:41 PM

Shit, can't edit the post. I'd like to add a few more statements.

The aim with this site is to build a quality website. My previous sites have all been shit that I wouldn't like to show off. With this site, I want to be able to show it off when people ask me, "so what do you do?".

Also, there aren't very many people searching for Lexus LF-A right now, some tools show that its getting 20 searches a day. However, I hope that closer to launch time the traffic will explode, and my site will be there ready to take there money

I'll also be using this site as the basic framework for a few more websites, with another domain of mine (NissanGT-R.org) and a few more I hope to acquire soon.

JamesH · 07-17-2008, 02:43 PM

So Lexus LF-A and Nissan GT-R are up and running. Content is ready for the next week on both sites. The Lexus site will only be updated once a week because there just isn't that much to post about. The GT-R site will be updated 3-5 times a week. They both currently have a week worth of posts in the queue. I'm now going to start link building by commenting on blogs and posting on forums with the link in my signature. After a good bit of those, I'll hire somebody to do some social bookmarking and continue my own blog and forum link building. I'm also going to experiment with article marketing to hopefully gain some backlinks. I'm then going to hit up Digg, and try something I read on a blog. It involves getting a bunch of people on Digg to be your friend, so you're getting all of these links to your Digg profile. So then you Digg your own sites and pass the link juice on to your own sites. Sounded like it could help a bit. Well its time to get back to work, peace.

MattDunbar · 07-18-2008, 05:50 PM

I'm interested in PRINTABLESHEETMUSIC.INFO.

I will post my name servers you're still accepting new people.

moomycow · 07-18-2008, 07:53 PM

*Homework*

I asked myself many questions, most of them rather vague: how can I direct more traffic to my site? What are my site visitors looking for? What can I do to reduce my bounce rate and improve my pages/visit ratio?

In the end, I concentrated on upping traffic and keeping people on site. I chose to start arguments on various blogs about how crap a few up and coming bands are, and this is now causing people to comment on my blog. I'm still in the low 100s of unique visitors visiting my site per day, but it's growing gradually.

IndomitableD · 07-20-2008, 12:21 AM

Ready to look at the bones of
<a href="http://DeskAndDrawers.info/">DeskandDrawers</a>

Is it sick I felt a need to complete the underwear and pajamas pages before file cabinets, chairs, credenzas and important things like that?

IndomitableD · 07-20-2008, 12:22 AM

Good lawd. I can't even do a freakin' link. What a noob!

JerseyGirl · 07-21-2008, 09:04 PM

Just posting an update. After a month of development (in advance of this forum) my site has been up and running for 6 days. Today will be my first day of 1000+ hits, completely organic traffic. Tomorrow or the next day I'll introduce PPC for the first time.

puroz · 07-21-2008, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by JerseyGirl

Just posting an update. After a month of development (in advance of this forum) my site has been up and running for 6 days. Today will be my first day of 1000+ hits, completely organic traffic. Tomorrow or the next day I'll introduce PPC for the first time.

wow nice. I get nowhere close to that. I think i get 10 - 20 a day so far.

fm1234 · 07-22-2008, 06:46 PM

Jersey Girl

If you're getting 1,000 organic hits a day after just six days online, why bother with PPC?

Frank

JerseyGirl · 07-24-2008, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by fm1234

Jersey Girl

If you're getting 1,000 organic hits a day after just six days online, why bother with PPC?

Frank

Click through percentage is still pretty marginal and the organic hits I'm getting, while broadly targeted, aren't specific enough to someone ready to buy/ submit something.

janwonders · 07-24-2008, 05:54 PM

I posted some ads on Gumtree & Kijiji, 'Seeking reviews of online dating sites' - I received loads of feedback - mostly from men and mostly negative, which is disappointing but informative. One in particular was very helpful, which has brought me onto another site-plan:

Jackie's blog posts will be backdated to begin in January '08 - new year, new life etc etc
In February she will date a guy that she has a lot of fun with but no 'spark'
They keep in touch, become good friends and in June, the guy starts contributing to the site from a male perspective.

So I've decided to split the site into 4 sections. The main blog section of Jackie's pursuit into online dating. The male blog perspective of online dating which will feature more stories than daily updates. An article section relating to online dating (safety etc) and then plain old site reviews, based on Jackie's findings along the way.

I'm happy writing the articles & basic site reviews based on info from other websites but as I have no wish to try out internet dating myself, I've decided to recruit a blogger for that part. I've advertised on Craigslist and Getafreelancer and have already had a few applicants. I'm also advertising for someone to be the face of the site because I'm not happy with using flickr images or photoshopped.

Once the site is looking half decent and filled with affiliate links I will build a blog farm using datapresser to support it. I am so impressed with datapresser and once I get the hang of writing madlibs I think it will be an amazing tool.

Question for you; one blogger applicant sounds quite promising but would like to write from a polyamorous point of view (I'd never heard this word before!) basically she has a fiance of 9 years but they both date other people through the internet. Do you think this would work for this site or should I stick with a single girl seeking single guys?

MattDunbar · 07-25-2008, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

I know a lot of coders that can write some complex code, but can't write good sales copy to save their lives.

I'm one of those people, I can write, not to top notch quality though. So if you're looking for someone to do code in exchange for some content I'm more than willing to work with you. Send me a PM if you're interested.

ZygoteSix · 07-29-2008, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by janwonders

Question for you; one blogger applicant sounds quite promising but would like to write from a polyamorous point of view (I'd never heard this word before!) basically she has a fiance of 9 years but they both date other people through the internet. Do you think this would work for this site or should I stick with a single girl seeking single guys?

I have a female friend who is polyamorous, so maybe I can lend a hand here. She was married for 3 years, and would date other guys (openly, not on the sly) and so would her husband. She slept with the guys she dated, and her husband slept with the women he dated. This blew my mind at first, but then I got a better understanding of it after spending some time living on their couch (long story). Basically, to be polyamorous is to accept that you're in love with your husband/wife/fiancee/etc, but that you still have certain, shall we say, carnal needs that require you to go out and chase tail. Poetic, isn't it?

That being said, I think it might hurt your blog to have the main "character" be polyamorous, just because so few people know what it is/what it means (yourself included), and the idea of anything other than the 1950s-Leave-It-To-Beaver famalial unit would probably scare most average people. It seems like a strange concept to them, or worse, seems like the person they're reading about is cheating on their partner, because they have no other way to associate the experience. (Finally, all the years I spent studying psychology in college pay off.)

I'd kindly ask the blogger if she'd be willing to write, but leave out the part about her fiancee and being polyamorous. Just ask her to write her experiences, truthfully, without that bit of backstory.

BTW, I really like the idea for your blog. I've been following this thread since it started, and your idea inspired me to post (My first post on WickedFire, even though I've been coming here for what, a year? Hah, go figure.)

SEO_Mike - is there going to be a No Excuses 3? I was waist-deep in about a half dozen projects when this one started and I didn't have the time to devote to it... I wouldn't have been able to do anything during the 30 day limit. But I'd definitely get down with the next one, now that my schedule is back to "normal".

ChrisBa · 08-01-2008, 11:42 AM

So where's all the updates? to be honest i'm kind of disappointed there aren't more!

JamesH · 08-01-2008, 12:39 PM

You shouldn't be disappointed waiting for responses, you should be working on your projects.

ChrisBa · 08-05-2008, 01:06 PM

I am working on my projects, while at the same time I am disappointed that no one is providing updates

janwonders · 08-05-2008, 04:38 PM

Thanks for your comments Zygotesix, yeah I agree that polyamorous blogger would be a bad angle for the main character of the site. Your experience sounded pretty eye-opening! You said she was married for three years, do you mean they split up after that? Not that it matters really. I guess I'm sceptical about a polyamorous relationship lasting the test of time.

Well I think I've got my main blogger now so I'm just waiting for her to provide me with the first ten posts and I'll see how Jackie Logan progresses from there.

I've written quite a lot of pages & posts for the site, some of which are scheduled for the next few weeks. These are to boost the site content and will run in addition to the main blog diary. I've also got a voluntary blogger providing a couple of posts each week about online dating from a vegan perspective so that could be interesting.

Still not decided on the character pics but I might rope in one of my friends if I can't get anything else soon.

I've added lots of affiliate links and changed out most of the adsense blocks for actual aff links.

I have a couple of questions. I don't really understanding pinging and trackbacks. I've so far had 8 comments posted on one blog post, clearly from other blogs who are looking for a link. Seven of these were caught by akismet spam. Should I delete them or allow them? Do they bring any benefit to my site or can they cause damage?

The other thing I don't fully understand is tags. How many tags is appropriate for each post? What I've been doing is putting the main search term for the post (Eg. Vegan Dating) into Wordze then I take every single keyword generated from that search and use them as tags for the post. This means I now have 772 tags across the site. Is that excessive or good for SEO?

I'm also a bit disappointed in the lack of updates on this thread but I'm also disappointed in myself. I guess its a busy time of year for people, what with holidays & socialising in the sun

janwonders · 08-05-2008, 06:05 PM

Another Question: Should I be filling my post content with relevant aff links or is it better SEO to leave links out of the text and just have the banners around the posts instead?

Thanks

filthy123 · 08-06-2008, 02:39 AM

I'd like to take part in this as well! I'm also a noob so I'm keen to learn alot from this!

I currently have a domain, it's spyware news

I was thinking of aggregating the top threats from a whole bunch of anti-spyware vendors' sites and stick some product reviews on it, then monetize it somehow.

any ideas?

also, it seems that it displays a directory listing when i put the www in but shows the blank html without the www?

filthy123 · 08-06-2008, 02:54 AM

ok nevermind...seems to be working now

janwonders · 08-07-2008, 06:09 AM

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Originally Posted by janwonders

The other thing I don't fully understand is tags. How many tags is appropriate for each post? What I've been doing is putting the main search term for the post (Eg. Vegan Dating) into Wordze then I take every single keyword generated from that search and use them as tags for the post. This means I now have 772 tags across the site. Is that excessive or good for SEO?

OK, so Seocracy helped me out here. I had WAAAAAAY to many tags. I've now spent an hour cleaning them up and have cut down from 49 pages to 6, which is much more managable and sensible. Having so many was going to be bad for SEO and would send a warning sign to google. This makes total sense now and I'm sure it was a total newbish question.

As far as pinging goes, I realise it is good for me to ping other posts, but I'm just not clear if I should be accepting all comments & pings to my blog, can it harm the site if they are spammy?

Mike · 08-12-2008, 02:49 AM

Holy shit everyone! I'm sorry about disappearing on you. Like many of you, I've been up to my eyeballs in projects. I've gotten so busy, I haven't even been on WF much lately. Maybe 15 minutes or less every other day.

Anyhow, if anybody wants a free domain, just go pick one out from the list I posted, then PM me your Godaddy information for the push and it's yours. For those of you that will inevitably ask about sending some sort of payment, don't. Just pay it forward someday.

This will be my gift to you.

puroz · 08-16-2008, 04:02 PM

Hey i have question if anyone can help. At the PHPBay: Start to Finish Tutorial : eurekadiary.com tutorial at the end it has a section to turn the search into an automatic ebay search. I tried copy pasting that code every which way and it just will not find anything. All it does is make a blank page with "your results" at the top. Im using the standart limauorange search.php file and the tutorial is very unlcear on where to paste it.

erect · 08-16-2008, 05:41 PM

Hey everyone and congrats on another successful no excuses season. Any chance to get a poll "who has the best chance for cash" so we can vote or a profit leader board of the current season up at the top of this post? We can make this event similar to a game show or whatever. This would generate more energy forum wide as there are some pretty damn big names on this board who have totally ignored both of Mike's threads.

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Originally Posted by janwonders

Thanks Radio, I'll get building. Any suggestions of where to find a good 'character' image? For pics I've been using Stock.Xchng which is fine for actual things but I always feel that any images of people found there, are likely to lose the site credibility very quickly if anyone was digging for further info. Then again, it maybe would'nt matter too much.

Ingenious idea Jan. Love the idea for your blog as it could potentially be something exclusively for guys or neutral gender, depending on which direction you take it. So sex and the city meets the temple of poon.

links building suggestions:
1. comments at places like youporn & torrent sites ... hit the guys with your kinky story when they are looking to fap.

2. celeb/cosmetics/beauty sites are for advertising to female gender. Also, lots of chics read digg so your blog would be dripping with linkbait. Using the polyamorous angle ... "Woman sleeps with dozens of men in 2009, says it's necessary for a healthy marriage" or whatever, I'm not good at that stuff but your site would be perfect for it.

face of the site suggestions: If you are pretty presentable, camp out in front of a modeling agency or shake joint (in a non-stalker type way) looking for some hottie yet girl next door types.

Regardless which of the two locations you get this person, they are probably looking for some publicity and your blog *could* serve as a launching platform for their career. Another benefit is that this person is local, getting some pictures made & delivered should be trivial

Quote:

Originally Posted by radio

Here's the site: EPN Store

It's Wordpress MU where I've swapped out the default theme and have a modified theme limauorange as the default.

The idea is that I offer free hosting for EPN Stores. I have a couple of my own links to eBay w/in the theme, but there's no swapping of Campaign IDs. I'll probably put up some adsense as well.

Things to do:

Add additional themes - probably add a few limauorange themes w/ different colors to start.
Custom home page
I want to get phpBay Lite (or another similar plugin) to be automatically installed in the mu-plugins directory
I want to remove all indications of Wordpress (will help with another project I'm working on).
I want to send out a newsletter to subscribers w/ EPN Store tips and encourage them to build content into their stores.

I'm working on a couple other sites - a phpBay Pro site, a blog for n00bs, and a b2b site. We'll see where I'm at in 30 days!

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What does this mean? Did I miss some more shit (i.e. post limit)?

Hot damn, and we have a winner!!

great idea radio, best long term potential I have seen in a while for a site on autopilot. By tying this into wpmu, you have really opened the door for quite a bit. Making it very user friendly and finding clients will be your only obsticle.

The only real suggestion I might have is to make sure and set up each account on subdomains, not subfolders. This will make each user get their own "link juice" so all these sites won't suck yours off. Many pages inside digg rank well in google because people added just a few direct links. This is an example of people leeching off the authority from the mother site.

This would be perfect for wildcard subdomains as there would be no manual setup on your part for each account.

phplist is a pretty easy to use newsletter, but honestly I would just stick with rss feeds until you get pretty popular. Nothing sucks more than composing a newsletter that 3 people are going to read.

About that phpbay / phplite plugin thing .... I'm assuming you are talking about a method to pull ebay listings from auctions so you can present it on people's pages using their app id & keywords. If this is the case, I would just dig in with the ebay developer's api. It's going to be far more customizable and won't take much massaging to get to work with wpmu.

Funky Bunch · 08-16-2008, 08:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by puroz

Hey i have question if anyone can help. At the PHPBay: Start to Finish Tutorial : eurekadiary.com tutorial at the end it has a section to turn the search into an automatic ebay search. I tried copy pasting that code every which way and it just will not find anything. All it does is make a blank page with "your results" at the top. Im using the standart limauorange search.php file and the tutorial is very unlcear on where to paste it.

I believe the part you need to replace is everything between "<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>" and "<?php endif; ?>" So you'd delete those 2 lines and everything between them, and put the search code in its place.

If you prefer you can just delete everything in your search.php file, and copy and paste everything below into it.

Code:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
    <div class="middle">

    <p align="center">Your search for '<strong><font color="#FF0000"><? echo $_GET["s"] ?></font></strong>' returned the following results:</p>
<p>
<?
function phpBaySearch($term) {
    $kw = trim(urldecode($term));
    # set the number of results to return here.
    $num = 20;
    $cat = "";
    $excl = "";
    if ($kw) {
      # turn error reporting off in case of a server timeout when connecting to ebay
      # if you are having troubles, set error_reporting to (1)
      error_reporting(0);
      include(ABSPATH . "wp-content/plugins/phpBay/ebay.php");
      $ebay = new ebay();

    # set the number of auction listings to display
    if (intval($num) > 0) {
      $ebay->eb_frpp = intval($num);
    } else {
    # if number of auction listings to display is not set, then default to 10
      $ebay->eb_frpp = 10;
    }

    # if there are words to exclude in the search, assign them here.  ie "word1 word2 word3"
    if ($excl > "") {$ebay->eb_exclude = $excl;}

    # Set all global options that are stored in the phpBay Pro Admin Panel
    $ebay->eb_saaff = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_aff_type"));
    $ebay->eb_pid = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_ebay_pid"));
    if ($cid > "") {$ebay->eb_custom_cid = "_" . urlencode($cid);}
    $ebay->eb_cid = urlencode(get_option("PB_ebay_cid"));
    $ebay->site_url = get_bloginfo("wpurl") . "/";
    $ebay->encode = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_encode"));
    $ebay->url_prefix = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_url_prefix"));
    $ebay->eb_salic = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_salic"));
    $ebay->eb_saatc = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_saatc"));
    $ebay->mod_rewrite = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_mod_rewrite"));
    $ebay->eb_aff_text = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_aff_text"));

    # Set Country Code Information
    $ebay->eb_siteId = get_option("PB_eb_siteId");
    if ($PB_eb_siteId == "") {$PB_eb_siteId = "0";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "0") {$ebay->eb_language = "en-US";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "15") {$ebay->eb_language = "en-AU";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "16") {$ebay->eb_language = "de-AT";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "123") {$ebay->eb_language = "nl-BE";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "2") {$ebay->eb_language = "en-CA";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "71") {$ebay->eb_language = "fr-FR";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "77") {$ebay->eb_language = "de-DE";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "201") {$ebay->eb_language = "";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "203") {$ebay->eb_language = "en-IN";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "205") {$ebay->eb_language = "";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "101") {$ebay->eb_language = "it-IT";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "146") {$ebay->eb_language = "nl-NL";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "212") {$ebay->eb_language = "";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "216") {$ebay->eb_language = "";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "186") {$ebay->eb_language = "es-ES";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "193") {$ebay->eb_language = "de-CH";}
    if ($ebay->eb_siteId == "3") {$ebay->eb_language = "en-GB";}

    $PB_sort_order = get_option("PB_sort_order");
    if ($PB_sort_order == "1") {$ebay->eb_fsop = "1";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "1";}
    if ($PB_sort_order == "2") {$ebay->eb_fsop = "2";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "2";}
    if ($PB_sort_order == "3") {$ebay->eb_fsop = "3";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "1";}
    if ($PB_sort_order == "4") {$ebay->eb_fsop = "3";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "2";}

    $PB_eb_fcl = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_fcl"));
    $PB_eb_fts = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_fts"));
    $PB_eb_saprclo = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_saprclo"));
    $PB_eb_saprchi = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_saprchi"));
    $PB_eb_sabdlo = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_sabdlo"));
    $PB_eb_sabdhi = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_sabdhi"));
    $PB_eb_fspt = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_fspt"));
    $PB_eb_fpos = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_fpos"));
    $PB_eb_sadis = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_sadis"));
    $PB_eb_sasl_cb = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_sasl_cb"));
    $PB_eb_sasl = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_sasl"));
    $PB_eb_fbfmt = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_fbfmt"));

    # search items with free shipping
    $ebay->eb_ffsh = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_eb_ffsh"));

    # ebay logo
    $ebay->logo = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_logo"));

    # sort drop down
    $ebay->sort_by = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_sort"));

    # alternating rows
    $ebay->row_alter = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_row"));
    $ebay->row_odd = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_row_odd"));
    $ebay->row_even = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_row_even"));
    $ebay->row_hover_cb = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_row_hover_cb"));
    $ebay->row_hover = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_row_hover"));

    # columns
    $PB_columns_cb = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_columns_cb"));
    if ($PB_columns_cb > "0") {$ebay->columns = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_columns"));}

    # buy it now items
    if ($PB_eb_fbfmt == "1") {$ebay->eb_fbfmt = "1"; $ebay->eb_sabfmts = "2";}

    # items with photo only (if set to 4)
    if ($PB_eb_fcl == "4") {$ebay->eb_fcl = "4";} else {$ebay->eb_fcl = "3";}

    # search titles and descriptions (if set to 2)
    if ($PB_eb_fts == "2") {$ebay->eb_fts = "2";} else {$ebay->eb_fts = "";}

    # items by min/max bid price
    if ($PB_eb_saprclo > "") {$ebay->eb_saprclo = urlencode($PB_eb_saprclo);} else {$ebay->eb_saprclo = "";}
    if ($PB_eb_saprchi > "") {$ebay->eb_saprchi = urlencode($PB_eb_saprchi);} else {$ebay->eb_saprchi = "";}

    # items by min/max number of bids
    if ($PB_eb_sabdlo > "") {$ebay->eb_sabdlo = urlencode($PB_eb_sabdlo);$ebay->eb_fbd = "1";} else {$ebay->eb_sabdlo = "";}
    if ($PB_eb_sabdhi > "") {$ebay->eb_sabdhi = urlencode($PB_eb_sabdhi);} else {$ebay->eb_sabdhi = "";}

    # list items by zip code
    if ($PB_eb_fspt == "1") {
      $ebay->eb_fspt = urlencode($PB_eb_fspt);
      $ebay->eb_fpos = urlencode($PB_eb_fpos);
      $ebay->eb_sadis = urlencode($PB_eb_sadis);
    }

    # list tiems by specific seller id
    if (($PB_eb_sasl_cb == "1") && ($PB_eb_sasl > "")) {$ebay->eb_sasl = urlencode($PB_eb_sasl);$ebay->eb_fss = "1";} else {$ebay->eb_sasl = "";}

    # search items with free shipping
    if ($PB_eb_ffsh == "1") {$ebay->eb_ffsh = "1";}

    # pagination form
    $ebay->paginate = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_paginate_cb"));
    $ebay->paginate_per_page = unhtmlentities(get_option("PB_paginate"));
    $ebay->page = 1;
    # each instance of the paging javascript must be unique
    $js = $ebay->jsText($kw);
    $js = str_replace("-", "", $js);
    $js = "pagenum_" . $js;
    if ($_POST["$js"] > "") {$ebay->page = intval($_POST["$js"]);}

    # sort order form
    $ebay->sort_by_value = 1;
    if ($ebay->sort_by == 1) {
      $js = $ebay->jsText($kw);
      $js = str_replace("-", "", $js);
      $js = "sortnum_" . $js;
      if ($_POST["$js"] > "") {$ebay->sort_by_value = intval($_POST["$js"]);}
      if ($ebay->sort_by_value == 1) {$ebay->eb_fsop = "1";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "1";}
      if ($ebay->sort_by_value == 2) {$ebay->eb_fsop = "2";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "2";}
      if ($ebay->sort_by_value == 3) {$ebay->eb_fsop = "3";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "1";}
      if ($ebay->sort_by_value == 4) {$ebay->eb_fsop = "3";$ebay->eb_fsoo = "2";}
    }

      # call the main ebay function, receive the listings in html and replace the phpbay tags with the content
      $ebay->listings($kw, $cat);
      $text = $ebay->html;
    }
  echo $text;
}
phpBaySearch($_GET["s"]);
?>
</p>
    </div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

puroz · 08-21-2008, 04:50 PM

Thanks, i guess i had it right after all. The code must be bugged. It doesn't display any results after it announces what the search was for.

coglethorpe · 08-21-2008, 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by janwonders

Jackie Logan is pursuing Online Dating.

That reminds me of "lonelygirl15" on YouTube, which had a lot of followers on YouTube, even after it was revealed that it was all made up. That sort of thing could really take off if done properly. Haha - get the readers to get updates via an aweber list and hit them with offers in the emails.

ChrisBa · 09-02-2008, 09:08 PM

did anyone have any luck this time around??

radio · 09-02-2008, 09:24 PM

The biggest issue I ran into was making it easy for the end user. My site had like 30 steps - all small, but I needed to make it more automatic. It still has some potential, but figuring out how to monetize it is a bit of an issue as well. I'm keeping it for playing with, but got distracted with some other stuff. Seeing shit through and focusing is where I need to improve. I'm too scatter-brained. I did some facebook ads for a project and feel pretty comfortable with those - now I just need to do it in a fashion that generates revenue vs. the awareness campaign I was running.

07-08-2008, 06:15 PM	#53 (permalink)
janwonders ...a lot to learn Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UK Posts: 120 iTrader: 16 / 100%	Thanks for the tips. I've now looked through Flickr and found a couple of girls that could be suitable, but then noticed all the pics seem to have 'some rights reserved'. This states that You are free: to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work to make derivative works Under the following conditions: Attribution. You must give the original author credit. Attribute this work:The page you came from contained embedded licensing metadata, including how the creator wishes to be attributed for re-use. You can use the HTML here to cite the work. Doing so will also include metadata on your page so that others can find the original work as well. Non-Commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Share Alike. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a licence identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights. OK - pretty boring - so what do you guys suggest? • Should I be including an attribution to the original author somewhere on the site? • Go out and take photos myself? • Seek out a volunteer to pose for the pics • Approach a number of the Flickr girls asking if they'd like their pics to be included in a dating blog? • Or should I just ignore all the rules and go ahead and use them anyway? I'm not expecting this site to be making me millions so maybe I shouldn't be getting too hung up on it, but I'm interested to know what other people do, I can use photoshop for the basics, but I've never sussed out to change hair or edit people to look realistic and it's not something I want to learn right now. How many would you say I should have (I mean of the actual girl) before getting started? 10, 20 or more? Getting pics of food, venues, etc will be easy, it's just choosing the character that's tricky. Other than that, I've started taking notes on what sort of content I'm going to include. I've got a few affiliate offers approved and I've uploaded and made some amendments to the wordpress prosense theme. I find choosing a theme to be one of the hardest things to do, so for now I've just gone for a basic theme with adsense. But come to think of it, that was maybe a bad idea because if I'm promoting dating offers, I maybe shouldn't have adsense on my site - what do you think? Abhorrent, I like your dogsrule site - it looks very professional. I'm going to be away for a week from tomorrow, so I won't get to post or update the site, but I will have my notebook with me and I plan to get stuck in when I return. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-08-2008, 08:54 PM	#54 (permalink)
moomycow Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 165 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Quick update: I've noticed that the few users I've had visit (still at c. 40/day) are searching for bands that I haven't reviewed. So, I've hacked up my search results page, and if no results are found, it now searches YouTube via their API and attempts to find at three videos that match what the user searched for. It then displays these videos with "How do these do, now buy a bloody ringtone"-type text. I'm still looking at options to drive traffic, and have made tentative steps to get other music blogs to link to me. Ringtones are hugely popular amongst schoolkids in the UK, and I'm looking at using Facebook to target some kiddy-friendly ads that offer the latest free videos to watch... and doesn't mention them being surrounded by "RINGTONE! RINGTONE! RINGTONE!" ads. Any other advice on traffic would be most appreciated, thanks guys. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-08-2008, 09:25 PM	#55 (permalink)
radio Unconsciously competent. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,540 iTrader: 25 / 100%	I just spent the day working on a stupid script - hard to say if it was worth it. But I learned a good deal so whatever. Will be implementing it on my site here shortly. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ auction2post : Retail Affiliate Content Generator for Wordpress Targeted Niche Specific Content Creation using eBay API! Get auction2post - the only eBay Wordpress plugin with the flexibility to monetize other income sources! I'm not a member of ePN... so what! Get the plugin bb_wolfe calls "the best Wordpress plugin out there, bar none!" Amazing WP plugin developer Refrozen calls auction2post "pimp!"

07-09-2008, 01:07 AM	#56 (permalink)
Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: On the firing line Posts: 6,093 iTrader: 30 / 100%	Wow! Everyone's busy as bees. Great to see there is a lot of sharing of ideas and information. Some quick pointers: even if you struggle with HTML / PHP / ASP / whatever, keep at it. I'm no programmer, but I understand enough to make changes to scripts and write some really simple ones. Even that little bit of knowledge has helped immensely. Like most of you, I learn by doing. So, everyday I push my coding abilities as far as I can. I try to do as much of the script writing as possible. If I get stuck, I hire someone to finish it. Which brings me to my second point, make sure you put a value on your time. It's one thing to try and learn new things, it's another thing to beat your head against the wall when you don't need to. If you can't afford to hire someone, then trade services. Sex for coding usually works if you're a female... Errrr... Just kidding, but content for code is often a good trade. I know a lot of coders that can write some complex code, but can't write good sales copy to save their lives. Anyhow, always make it a habit to look for ways around your limitations. We are all handicapped. Just in different ways. My handicaps: not a good copywriter, poor coder, and horrible graphic artist. No big deal, there are people out there that I can either hire or trade services with. My point is this: you have all the skills you need, the ones you don't have - others do. Network with each other. Go to Affiliate Summit and shake hands with people. Talk on the phone. However you want to do it, it doesn't matter, just do it. (Nike paid me for that ) Okay, enough "Rah Rah" pep talk. Let's get into advertising / marketing. Ever hear of the Four P's of Marketing? In case you missed Marketing 101, here they are (ripped from Wikipedia): Product: The product aspects of marketing deal with the specifications of the actual goods or services, and how it relates to the end-user's needs and wants. The scope of a product generally includes supporting elements such as warranties, guarantees, and support. Pricing: This refers to the process of setting a price for a product, including discounts. The price need not be monetary - it can simply be what is exchanged for the product or services, e.g. time, energy, psychology or attention. Promotion: This includes advertising, sales promotion, publicity, and personal selling, branding and refers to the various methods of promoting the product, brand, or company. Placement (or distribution): refers to how the product gets to the customer; for example, point of sale placement or retailing. This fourth P has also sometimes been called Place, referring to the channel by which a product or services is sold (e.g. online vs. retail), which geographic region or industry, to which segment (young adults, families, business people), etc. also referring to how the environment in which the product is sold in can affect sales. Here's how you can relate the 4 P's to Internet Marketing: Product - what product or service are you pushing? How does it relate to your website's demographic? Is is incentivizable? If so, should you incentivize it? Pricing - Pricing can affect how well the item converts. Often new internet marketers (notice I didn't call you n00bs) want to push the item that has the highest payout. But if it has a high payout, does it have a high cost to the consumer? Either through a long, multi page offer (time cost) or through an actual purchase (monetary cost) Promotion - Pretty self explanatory. How are you going to promote your site? SEO, PPC, YouTube, social networks, banner ads, CPM ads, etc... Also, what type of promotion would be best suited for your audience? Video, banner, text? Are you going to focus on branding your site, or just pushing a product? Placement - an extension of promotion. What's your demographic? What sites do they visit? Do the sites they frequent have lots of flash, music, etc or are the sites fairly static (no moving images, no music)? What times of day are they most likely to buy? What kind of language do they respond to? "Hip hoppers" are more likely to respond to slang than a white collar executive. Lot's of questions, but you need to be asking yourself questions all the time. The more questions you ask, the more you will learn. The more you learn, the better you can narrow down on you target audience. The better you target that audience, the more you make. The more you make...you get the idea. Homework assignment: Write out a list of at least 10 questions. Things you need to know about your site, niche, audience. Then go research and find the answers. Then look at your site again, and apply that knowledge. There will be things you'll want to change (most likely). Don't take the easy way out and say "Yeah, yeah, I already know all the answers", because, if you do know all the answers, share them with me. I certainly don't, and I know that I would be much richer if I did. Last, share at least one of your questions with the class and what you learned through your research AND how it applied to your site. That will be all. Go forth and discover. Oops, almost forgot, Google's Adplanner kicks ass at helping you figure out what your potential demographic is by studying your competitors demographics. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE SerpIQ - It's delicious.

07-09-2008, 09:29 AM	#57 (permalink)
whathell Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 28 iTrader: 0 / 0%	great post seo_mike, im learn a lot here anyway, lately im focus building install joomla service. It's take time to make the website, i hope i can done by tomorrow so how about everyone else ? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-09-2008, 02:45 PM	#58 (permalink)
puroz IM Phoenix. Burn baby Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 253 iTrader: 15 / 100%	I wonder. Any one have an opinion on the various Ebay php scrips. Is phpbay pro(50$) worth it over mcjiffy or phpbay lite ? Im trying to get a classy look going and im pretty clueless when it comes to php(trying to learn php actualy). Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________

07-09-2008, 05:12 PM	#60 (permalink)
Lingo Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 56 iTrader: 0 / 0%	I it a good idea to direct link to an offer just to test if it will convert before i build a landing page? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-09-2008, 07:55 PM	#61 (permalink)
jryan54 Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 98 iTrader: 2 / 100%	Quick question for all you wordpress geeks out there. Is there a way to order the categories that I create. I know I can swap it around in mysql but wondered if there was a simple way to change the order they appear on my main page directly through the wordpress gui. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-10-2008, 12:01 AM	#63 (permalink)
radio Unconsciously competent. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,540 iTrader: 25 / 100%	here's what I worked on tonight. epnStore - need to integrate it into a theme and I'll make the registration and login look the same. wonder if ebay would complain about it. i'll be adding some links across the bottom for contact, terms, etc. Feedback appreciated. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ auction2post : Retail Affiliate Content Generator for Wordpress Targeted Niche Specific Content Creation using eBay API! Get auction2post - the only eBay Wordpress plugin with the flexibility to monetize other income sources! I'm not a member of ePN... so what! Get the plugin bb_wolfe calls "the best Wordpress plugin out there, bar none!" Amazing WP plugin developer Refrozen calls auction2post "pimp!"

07-10-2008, 02:36 PM	#66 (permalink)
puroz IM Phoenix. Burn baby Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 253 iTrader: 15 / 100%	Well, Ive finally found the project to do for this contest. At first i was going to make my RSS feed compiled site but that sounds to risky for now. I had a tutorial site planed as well but it would take to much time writing up tons of content on a subject that im a beginner on(lol). So finally i will use 1 of my old blogger blogs that has pretty much 0 organic trafic and only a few backlinks and move it over to my hosted sites. Redesign it put some ebaystore action on it and just completely redo it and use it as a guinee pig for things to come. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________

07-11-2008, 01:23 PM	#67 (permalink)
puroz IM Phoenix. Burn baby Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 253 iTrader: 15 / 100%	So i have a General site up now with lots of ebay and some content. Gaming Equipment » Pro Gaming Equipment. Any feedback on what i should change or add would be appreciated. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________

07-11-2008, 01:56 PM	#68 (permalink)
radio Unconsciously competent. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,540 iTrader: 25 / 100%	I would suggest adding a hover color in your phpBay admin panel and then doing this: phpBay: enlarge clickable zone \| Rule One Blog (spamming my blog since it has the file download). Consider splitting your content - paragraph, auctions, rest of entry. Check out one of the cheap logo designers on here for $10 get a screaming header logo - you need a sharp and clean logo / header for that category and your current one isn't cutting it. Lose the bloggy feeling by removing the dates, get comments out of there... if you're trying to be a 'shop' vs. a blog (have to do that by editing the theme). Check this tutorial for good ideas - you don't have to follow it exactly, but he explains why you're taking out the comments and date - if you can't figure it out on your theme - use the limauorange for the time being... or better, delve into the code and figure it out. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ auction2post : Retail Affiliate Content Generator for Wordpress Targeted Niche Specific Content Creation using eBay API! Get auction2post - the only eBay Wordpress plugin with the flexibility to monetize other income sources! I'm not a member of ePN... so what! Get the plugin bb_wolfe calls "the best Wordpress plugin out there, bar none!" Amazing WP plugin developer Refrozen calls auction2post "pimp!"

07-11-2008, 09:04 PM	#69 (permalink)
radio Unconsciously competent. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,540 iTrader: 25 / 100%	Spending my Friday night working on the site. Have gone through and removed most indications of Wordpress. People setting up "stores" don't need the latest Wordpress news to distract them - get in there and generate some content! I'm going to write up a very basic tutorial on how to publish a store and make that the Dashboard body - how to best use categories and pages. Going to make a page explaining the process in more detail (signing up for epnStore / EPN, writing content, publishing, etc.) for those who need a bit more info before pulling the trigger. Have an idea of a great group to market this to - basically it will be a signature on my posts in their forums "Save up to 75% on your listing fees! - Click here for details." - can you guess the market? HA! Wait, my math is wrong - they could earn more than just a fraction of their listing fee... heh - even better! SEO_Mike: I see your homework assignment, I'll spend a bit of time with it this weekend. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ auction2post : Retail Affiliate Content Generator for Wordpress Targeted Niche Specific Content Creation using eBay API! Get auction2post - the only eBay Wordpress plugin with the flexibility to monetize other income sources! I'm not a member of ePN... so what! Get the plugin bb_wolfe calls "the best Wordpress plugin out there, bar none!" Amazing WP plugin developer Refrozen calls auction2post "pimp!"

07-14-2008, 07:27 PM	#71 (permalink)
JamesH Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,511 iTrader: 13 / 100%	Alright I'm back in this bisch. I gave up my NE2 domain because I realized I have a portfolio of my own that I can use. So I choose to work with Lexus LF-A. So I spent the day building a custom header, posting some info (and putting some in the queue), setting up some plugins, and doing some research. For now I'm keeping it simple and working on building the site. Once I get some content I'll worry about link building and monetization. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-14-2008, 07:41 PM	#72 (permalink)
JamesH Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,511 iTrader: 13 / 100%	Shit, can't edit the post. I'd like to add a few more statements. The aim with this site is to build a quality website. My previous sites have all been shit that I wouldn't like to show off. With this site, I want to be able to show it off when people ask me, "so what do you do?". Also, there aren't very many people searching for Lexus LF-A right now, some tools show that its getting 20 searches a day. However, I hope that closer to launch time the traffic will explode, and my site will be there ready to take there money I'll also be using this site as the basic framework for a few more websites, with another domain of mine (NissanGT-R.org) and a few more I hope to acquire soon. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-17-2008, 02:43 PM	#73 (permalink)
JamesH Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,511 iTrader: 13 / 100%	So Lexus LF-A and Nissan GT-R are up and running. Content is ready for the next week on both sites. The Lexus site will only be updated once a week because there just isn't that much to post about. The GT-R site will be updated 3-5 times a week. They both currently have a week worth of posts in the queue. I'm now going to start link building by commenting on blogs and posting on forums with the link in my signature. After a good bit of those, I'll hire somebody to do some social bookmarking and continue my own blog and forum link building. I'm also going to experiment with article marketing to hopefully gain some backlinks. I'm then going to hit up Digg, and try something I read on a blog. It involves getting a bunch of people on Digg to be your friend, so you're getting all of these links to your Digg profile. So then you Digg your own sites and pass the link juice on to your own sites. Sounded like it could help a bit. Well its time to get back to work, peace. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-18-2008, 05:50 PM	#74 (permalink)
MattDunbar Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 139 iTrader: 0 / 50%	I'm interested in PRINTABLESHEETMUSIC.INFO. I will post my name servers you're still accepting new people. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-18-2008, 07:53 PM	#75 (permalink)
moomycow Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 165 iTrader: 7 / 100%	Homework I asked myself many questions, most of them rather vague: how can I direct more traffic to my site? What are my site visitors looking for? What can I do to reduce my bounce rate and improve my pages/visit ratio? In the end, I concentrated on upping traffic and keeping people on site. I chose to start arguments on various blogs about how crap a few up and coming bands are, and this is now causing people to comment on my blog. I'm still in the low 100s of unique visitors visiting my site per day, but it's growing gradually. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-20-2008, 12:21 AM	#76 (permalink)
IndomitableD Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: eastern PA Posts: 6 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Ready to look at the bones of <a href="http://DeskAndDrawers.info/">DeskandDrawers</a> Is it sick I felt a need to complete the underwear and pajamas pages before file cabinets, chairs, credenzas and important things like that? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-20-2008, 12:22 AM	#77 (permalink)
IndomitableD Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: eastern PA Posts: 6 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Good lawd. I can't even do a freakin' link. What a noob! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-21-2008, 09:04 PM	#78 (permalink)
JerseyGirl Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 61 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Just posting an update. After a month of development (in advance of this forum) my site has been up and running for 6 days. Today will be my first day of 1000+ hits, completely organic traffic. Tomorrow or the next day I'll introduce PPC for the first time. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-22-2008, 06:46 PM	#80 (permalink)
fm1234 WF Mega Premium Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,414 iTrader: 10 / 100%	Jersey Girl If you're getting 1,000 organic hits a day after just six days online, why bother with PPC? Frank Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

07-24-2008, 05:54 PM	#82 (permalink)
janwonders ...a lot to learn Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UK Posts: 120 iTrader: 16 / 100%	I posted some ads on Gumtree & Kijiji, 'Seeking reviews of online dating sites' - I received loads of feedback - mostly from men and mostly negative, which is disappointing but informative. One in particular was very helpful, which has brought me onto another site-plan: Jackie's blog posts will be backdated to begin in January '08 - new year, new life etc etc In February she will date a guy that she has a lot of fun with but no 'spark' They keep in touch, become good friends and in June, the guy starts contributing to the site from a male perspective. So I've decided to split the site into 4 sections. The main blog section of Jackie's pursuit into online dating. The male blog perspective of online dating which will feature more stories than daily updates. An article section relating to online dating (safety etc) and then plain old site reviews, based on Jackie's findings along the way. I'm happy writing the articles & basic site reviews based on info from other websites but as I have no wish to try out internet dating myself, I've decided to recruit a blogger for that part. I've advertised on Craigslist and Getafreelancer and have already had a few applicants. I'm also advertising for someone to be the face of the site because I'm not happy with using flickr images or photoshopped. Once the site is looking half decent and filled with affiliate links I will build a blog farm using datapresser to support it. I am so impressed with datapresser and once I get the hang of writing madlibs I think it will be an amazing tool. Question for you; one blogger applicant sounds quite promising but would like to write from a polyamorous point of view (I'd never heard this word before!) basically she has a fiance of 9 years but they both date other people through the internet. Do you think this would work for this site or should I stick with a single girl seeking single guys? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-01-2008, 11:42 AM	#85 (permalink)
ChrisBa Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 159 iTrader: 2 / 100%	So where's all the updates? to be honest i'm kind of disappointed there aren't more! Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-01-2008, 12:39 PM	#86 (permalink)
JamesH Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,511 iTrader: 13 / 100%	You shouldn't be disappointed waiting for responses, you should be working on your projects. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-05-2008, 01:06 PM	#87 (permalink)
ChrisBa Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 159 iTrader: 2 / 100%	I am working on my projects, while at the same time I am disappointed that no one is providing updates Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-05-2008, 04:38 PM	#88 (permalink)
janwonders ...a lot to learn Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UK Posts: 120 iTrader: 16 / 100%	Thanks for your comments Zygotesix, yeah I agree that polyamorous blogger would be a bad angle for the main character of the site. Your experience sounded pretty eye-opening! You said she was married for three years, do you mean they split up after that? Not that it matters really. I guess I'm sceptical about a polyamorous relationship lasting the test of time. Well I think I've got my main blogger now so I'm just waiting for her to provide me with the first ten posts and I'll see how Jackie Logan progresses from there. I've written quite a lot of pages & posts for the site, some of which are scheduled for the next few weeks. These are to boost the site content and will run in addition to the main blog diary. I've also got a voluntary blogger providing a couple of posts each week about online dating from a vegan perspective so that could be interesting. Still not decided on the character pics but I might rope in one of my friends if I can't get anything else soon. I've added lots of affiliate links and changed out most of the adsense blocks for actual aff links. I have a couple of questions. I don't really understanding pinging and trackbacks. I've so far had 8 comments posted on one blog post, clearly from other blogs who are looking for a link. Seven of these were caught by akismet spam. Should I delete them or allow them? Do they bring any benefit to my site or can they cause damage? The other thing I don't fully understand is tags. How many tags is appropriate for each post? What I've been doing is putting the main search term for the post (Eg. Vegan Dating) into Wordze then I take every single keyword generated from that search and use them as tags for the post. This means I now have 772 tags across the site. Is that excessive or good for SEO? I'm also a bit disappointed in the lack of updates on this thread but I'm also disappointed in myself. I guess its a busy time of year for people, what with holidays & socialising in the sun Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-05-2008, 06:05 PM	#89 (permalink)
janwonders ...a lot to learn Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UK Posts: 120 iTrader: 16 / 100%	Another Question: Should I be filling my post content with relevant aff links or is it better SEO to leave links out of the text and just have the banners around the posts instead? Thanks Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-06-2008, 02:39 AM	#90 (permalink)
filthy123 (>ﾟ∀ﾟ)> Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 97 iTrader: 1 / 100%	I'd like to take part in this as well! I'm also a noob so I'm keen to learn alot from this! I currently have a domain, it's spyware news I was thinking of aggregating the top threats from a whole bunch of anti-spyware vendors' sites and stick some product reviews on it, then monetize it somehow. any ideas? also, it seems that it displays a directory listing when i put the www in but shows the blank html without the www? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-06-2008, 02:54 AM	#91 (permalink)
filthy123 (>ﾟ∀ﾟ)> Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 97 iTrader: 1 / 100%	ok nevermind...seems to be working now Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

08-12-2008, 02:49 AM	#93 (permalink)
Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: On the firing line Posts: 6,093 iTrader: 30 / 100%	Holy shit everyone! I'm sorry about disappearing on you. Like many of you, I've been up to my eyeballs in projects. I've gotten so busy, I haven't even been on WF much lately. Maybe 15 minutes or less every other day. Anyhow, if anybody wants a free domain, just go pick one out from the list I posted, then PM me your Godaddy information for the push and it's yours. For those of you that will inevitably ask about sending some sort of payment, don't. Just pay it forward someday. This will be my gift to you. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE SerpIQ - It's delicious.

08-16-2008, 04:02 PM	#94 (permalink)
puroz IM Phoenix. Burn baby Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 253 iTrader: 15 / 100%	Hey i have question if anyone can help. At the PHPBay: Start to Finish Tutorial : eurekadiary.com tutorial at the end it has a section to turn the search into an automatic ebay search. I tried copy pasting that code every which way and it just will not find anything. All it does is make a blank page with "your results" at the top. Im using the standart limauorange search.php file and the tutorial is very unlcear on where to paste it. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________

08-21-2008, 04:50 PM	#97 (permalink)
puroz IM Phoenix. Burn baby Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 253 iTrader: 15 / 100%	Thanks, i guess i had it right after all. The code must be bugged. It doesn't display any results after it announces what the search was for. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________

09-02-2008, 09:08 PM	#99 (permalink)
ChrisBa Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 159 iTrader: 2 / 100%	did anyone have any luck this time around?? Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter

09-02-2008, 09:24 PM	#100 (permalink)
radio Unconsciously competent. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,540 iTrader: 25 / 100%	The biggest issue I ran into was making it easy for the end user. My site had like 30 steps - all small, but I needed to make it more automatic. It still has some potential, but figuring out how to monetize it is a bit of an issue as well. I'm keeping it for playing with, but got distracted with some other stuff. Seeing shit through and focusing is where I need to improve. I'm too scatter-brained. I did some facebook ads for a project and feel pretty comfortable with those - now I just need to do it in a fashion that generates revenue vs. the awareness campaign I was running. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter __________________ auction2post : Retail Affiliate Content Generator for Wordpress Targeted Niche Specific Content Creation using eBay API! Get auction2post - the only eBay Wordpress plugin with the flexibility to monetize other income sources! I'm not a member of ePN... so what! Get the plugin bb_wolfe calls "the best Wordpress plugin out there, bar none!" Amazing WP plugin developer Refrozen calls auction2post "pimp!"