lemons884

Well I'm creating too many threads everyday with all my problems. So instead I decided to just start a journal instead. Then my progress can be easy for you guys to. Tommorow will start day 1. I'll try to keep all journal posts like this -->

Here some recap so far:

-Own the Domain www.6packnow.net on godaddy for 2 years. Cost $18.38
-Learned that Godaddy hosting sucks and need to buy something like Hostgator. I hope to buy this hosting as early as tommorow.
-Learned that Wordpress is Awesome since everyone on here suggests it. When I get my hosting I'm gonna get Wordpress on it since everyone on this site loves that program as well. I'm keeping open ears to all advice.
-Wasted the last 3 days of my life trying to get a shitty site together with shitty duplicated content cuz I jumped into shit.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:
-Will Google approve my new adsense account?
-Is Clickbank any good? They have awesome vendors to be affiliates for but I keep getting the old "clickbank sucks" without any real explanation...

Future Projections
-Wednesday I graduate High School. Yippee. Graduating with 3.52 Cumulative GPA.
-I have Air Force Basic Training August 4th so that gives me 2 months to get a good start on this money making project.
-My summer is looking like this. Morning=breakfast/workout, Rest of the day=Affiliate Marketing (or at least trying lol)

Current Assets
Negative $18.38

pileofcrap

Wordpress makes things very easy and simple. Hostgator also has an autoinstall feature in their cPanel within another app called Fantastico.

Lots of people seem to use ClickBank. And Adsense, it's a chance. Just try it and see what happens. If all else you can always try YPN, Adbrite, ect...

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xRAVExHEAVENx

I only use AdSense as basically filler space for a lot of shit and it makes a little here and there but nothing to be really happy about.
I have heard of a lot of people on here using ClickBank. I don't use it but I haven't heard any terrible horror stories.

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bprimeelite

If I am trying to sell products I usually don't want "adcents" on my website. You have to look at the traffic you are driving and if you want to lose them for a few cents or if you want to keep them around for a few more pages to try to sell them on your product or the clickbank product you are selling.

Despoil

lol this should be interesting love the current assets. If you're going to go with the click bank route. I've heard that you can tell if a product is going to be successful or not in $100 or less in PPC. If the offer doesn't convert - it just doesn't convert. After you've found a successfully product that you can at least break even with on click bank - buy it yourself and do your best to duplicate it / improve it and push your own product.

lemons884

^^^thanks for following along so far.

Day 1 Summary:

-Today I purchased my hostgator hosting for one year. Cost $83.40. I looked at it and was very confused.....I should learn it in about a week or 2.
-I cancelled my Godaddy hosting.
-I installed Wordpress using Fastistico and I'm not sure how to use wordpress yet....I actually can't even find the files and how to do everything damnit and I was just getting used to godaddy hosting.
-Downloaded FileZillia Client and set it up with my website 6packnow.net.
-I think I am currently under DNS Progration or something like that because I am unable to edit my site- it keeps redirecting to this offer I forwarded with Godaddy a few days ago. (I know this because I try to log in to my admin area of Wordpress at 6packnow.net/wp-admin)
-Since I am unable to work on my site for now because of DNS Progration I guess I will just write up some content and articles for my site to be uploaded later on.
-I'm following the videos on How To Blog - Why You Should Use WordPress | Become A Blogger They have been very useful so far! I'm on video 6 in the middle.
-FTP means File Transfer Protocal- just finally starting to understand all this.
-Google Adsense has yet to approve me. If I do get it I will make sure the Ads don't interfere with my site.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:
-So basically with FTP Client I can work on my site and have it uploaded automatically into my hosting without having to login?
-How long does DNS Progration take?

Future Projections
-I graduate tommorow.
-My bank account customer service will again put me on hold for 25 minutes and never answer
-I will see an eye doctor within the next 5 years.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

Yaxxx

What did you for the other 23 hours 45 minutes?

Good luck.

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aeisn

When you first are starting out even basic stuff can take awhile. Cut him some slack.

lemons884

yeah lol that took me like 4 hours. Thanks.

I was just staring at the Hostgator Cpanel for like 20 minutes clicking threw every ICON reading the help files on everything I'm doing.

I'll be writing up content tonight I'm taking a break I can't be inside all day everyday- I work out and be active. I can't wait till I can get Wordpress working and start posting up articles and posts. I'm gonna blog about my own fitness goals since I already weightlift and run daily since I'm getting ready for basic training.

Yaxxx

I'm not taking the piss, all I'm saying is the stuff he mentioned is pretty basic stuff which you don't need IM experience for. EG: Purchasing hosting, cancelling hosting, downloading and installing. But fair enough, cPanel would be slightly difficult getting to grips with when starting out.

A tip for it though, and a lot of things, some stuff you just gotta learn as you go along. I don't know what everything is in cPanel 'cos I don't need to. If I do, a quick google search will suffice. E.G: Adding a subdomain, just a quick google search. "how to add a subdomain in cpanel". Or, "How to install fantastico with cpanel".

Good luck though, srsly.

Also -- I prefer namecheap over GD. Free whois and I think overall it has a much cleaner interface (use coupon code INTERFACE for a buck off).

Peaaace.

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Yo Momma.

TylerDurden

If you already installed wordpress using fantastico there really is nothing else you need to know (for now.) Go to yourdomainname.com/wp-admin and login. Then play around with WP, it's all basically self explanatory...and don't worry you can't break anything by messing around with it.

Bofu2U

Fuck man, this noob's from Maryland too.

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lemons884

See thats one of the issues I'm having is that

yourdomainname.com/wp-admin

Doesn't work yet. For some reason my domain redirects to this offer I used to forward and mask on godaddy and it won't change even though I cancelled Godaddy hosting and got rid of forwarding and masking. Maybe it will take a couple days to take effect. Until then I can't work on my site I'm just gonna write up content to upload later.

Yeah! St. Mary's County. The country hick side of Maryland we gettin' technological up in here. Crab Cakes and Football thats how we do it in Maryland.

Bofu2U

BaltCo for life son, PM me some contact info and messenger info.

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stmadeveloper

Your new host has different nameservers than you had hosting at godaddy. Have you changed them?

Hostgator gave you a welcome mail with nameservers something like ns1.welcomehostingserver.com and ns2.welcomehostingserver.com

You have to log into godaddy, select your domain and change the nameservers to point to them.

If you've already done that it can take a while. It's another reason to use namecheap because it's fast as lightning compared to godaddy

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lemons884

Good thing I read some stuff- did that right after I got my host. Then it must take a while then- the help junk said it would take 24-72 hours.

jryan21

if you are waiting for DNS to propagate, you can set the blog_url to the IP/~username; there should ba a paragraph in the 'help junk' that shows you how to access the site without the domain. When your domain works again, you can change it back.

pileofcrap

Propagation can take 24-72 hours but I usually see results in 12 hours or less. While you're waiting go look for some free wordpress themes using google.

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amanda11

You're a n00b, so take your time to learn the basics (FTP, CPANEL etc)

Then learn some copywriting -- either that, or have ready-made review templates (check out the ebook download thread, they might have some templates there)

GL.

lemons884

Day 2 Summary:

-Chose a Wordpress theme and used FileZilla to get it uploaded to my host. The theme looks like this: WordPress › LightWord Free WordPress Themes
-Google did not approve my adsense account. Eh...who needs them anyhow.
-Still Writing up Content because I'm in DNS Propagation
-Gonna get a virus scanner on my PC to be safe now that I have accounts all of the place on the internet.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-So I was reading about e-mail marketing and was wandering instead of posting up all my articles- would I be better off just having a blog of my own fitness goals and such and have a subscription type of service for my articles instead? Then I could use the articles my vendor provided for me (this was the duplicated content that was originally on my site, and I had the link to my clickbank products at the bottom in the "about the author" section). And keep the orginally written articles by me on my site. This would keep my Subscribers around for 63 weeks. (I have 63 letters)

Future Projections
-I graduate High School today. It will be awesome.
-I probably will not make a sale in my first 2 months. But I bet I can start getting a decent amount of visitors if I get the content up (actualy not duplicated content this time around)

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

stan100

Hey man, your page looks a lot better from before. 1 thing,

You stole the whole thing from http://www.yoursixpackquest.com

Your images still link to them. I was wondering if the image of the guy running was yours or not so I checked the image location. Your images are still directly hotlinked there.

Hell, your ordering link still points to them.

lemons884

Thats one of the problems I'm having its not suppose to being doing that. I had my site redirect and mask to my affiliate site while I was working on my site before but its not changing yet. Once the DNS progation updates it should go to my wordpress site.

pileofcrap

Are you sure you updated your name servers properly? I know they say to wait 24-72 hours but in my opinion they should have already updated.

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lemons884

Wow.....I must have not updated the name servers right. I wen't back to check and it had my old name servers. Don't know how that happened but I just changed it to the Hostgator nameservers (the 2 that I got with my welcome email).

jryan21

also check your email, I'm not sure about hostgator, but you might have to confirm thru email before the changes are applied.

pileofcrap

Godaddy might make you, yeah. I haven't used them in a while.

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lemons884

Yeah!

I went to 6packnow.net/wp-admin and its up. I will start my work tommorow I need to sleep.

lemons884

Day 3 Summary:

-My website is now up and functional www.6packnow.net
-I have 2 posts, 6 pages, and 3 categories (my blog, articles, success stories)
-I decided not to use e-mail marketing and an autoresponder (at least not right now).
-I plan to make a post everyday and add an articles everyday.
-I have a form up on the Success Stories page (wander if it works?)
-Wordpress is FUCKING AWESOME. So easy to use. I have also added the SEO plugin as well.
-I have 11 visitors this month lol.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-Why did I give up on this Forum around when I joined? (Oct 2008)
-Is there any other plugins and widgets I need to know about?
-How do I get my website to redirect to the about page in wordpress?

Future Projections
-I will continue to add posts to the "My blog" section and the "Articles" Section. I think I should add 1 post a day to the blog section and 2 posts a day to the articles section.
-Get some backlinks for my website and start spreading the word around the internet.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

sleepylee

How do I get my website to redirect to the about page in wordpress?
Settings->Reading->Front Page Displays->Static Page.

Also check out Settings->Permalinks. Not essential but helpful for SEO and it looks so much better.

Personally I'd have shorter posts, too. The one that's currently on your frontpage could probably be split up into shorter entries. Saves work, stops scaring off readers, and probably better SEO benefits, too. Up to you.

EDIT: You put this in one post Then this in another The posts are right next to one another. If you're actually trying to get readers then I'd sort that.

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lemons884

Thanks for the help. I'll keep the posts the way they are. The articles are usually long. My blog entries will be kept short.

lemons884

Day 4 Summary:

-40 website visits yesterday.
-Added 1 post to the blog, and 2 posts to the articles blog.
-I'm thinking about using bidvertiser ads in the middle of my articles. I gotta do something to monetize right now.
-I'm in the No Excuses 3 contest. That should help alot. I hope the affiliate program accepts me. There suppose to call me but I'm out of minutes on my phone and don't have a house phone.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-Can I just add as many articles as I can or should I keep doing what I am doing? (2 articles a day)
-Anything else I can do? Seriously, I only worked on my site for like 10 minutes today? (this doesn't seem right)

Future Projections
-Nothing bad can happen so everything I do everyday will just be progress.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

JamesH

You aren't doing enough bro. Who says you only need to work on 1 site? Get some more domains and start working. Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks, then run with it.

TylerL

Write dozens of articles and add them using scheduled posts. Problem solved and you have a lot of time to grab more domains and do the same

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aeisn

Do not not not put ads on sites promoting affiliate offers, you want the traffic to convert for your offer, not someone elses. My advice is to make a ton of scheduled posts in one day, and then spend the rest of your time on marketing.

lemons884

wow I didn't know I could schedule posts. I will have to find this feature because I have 73 articles already done. Is there a reason for not putting up all your articles up at once? (like maybe its bad SEO)

Maybe having no ads is a good idea as well.

I'll have to read up on marketing, PPC, and such because my knowledge base of the advertising portion of my site is blank. Bad thing is I am dry on money but I do have $25 in Google Adwords that came with my hosting so I'll have to use that wisely.

Skeletor

Uhhh the primary reason that you put them up spaced out is so that readers will return to your blog and read your new content/posts. Most people are not going to sit down visit your website and read 75 posts straight... However, if you update every few days then they will visit your site, read a few new posts, and then do that again next week.

I know that it benefits you for SEO to update periodically because google just likes to see you update things or some shit. I am not sure if there is any real disadvantage to putting them up all at once though...

Bofu2U

Not always true. I've actually seen conversions go up on certain sites because the users think I'm monetizing rather than with affiliate offers, so they click through to the offer without thinking twice.

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bizzykehl

sure you did.

BradleyT2p2

Your categories suck.

Get rid of your current lame blogroll.

To snippet a wordpress article just put <!--more--> wherever you want the snippet to end.

Your article URLs should be changed. If someone links to your site example.com/archives/38 gives them no clue what the page is about. A much better url would be example.com/archives/the-muscle-fiber-types You should be able to do that with all in one seo pack.

jbartinla

This thread would be a better e-book than every single e-book out there for rookies.

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Sharksfan

I kind of have to second that.

lemons884

Thanks. I decided to just manually add articles everyday for now. I don't wanna do scheduled posts just yet because I wanna research and get the right keywords. If I schedule posts now, and fine out I used a bad keyword, then I will have to go back and edit one by one which will take forever.

Thanks....but I don't know how to do any of that I'm looking for it because the "help" section didn't help much.....And whats a snippet? Is that like when the article is too big and the reader can click "read more"

I agree lol this has helped me alot. Just think if I keep this journal up 2 years......because that is the plan right now

lemons884

Day 5 Summary:

-Got rid of my current blog role.
-Downloaded Contact Form 7 for Wordpress. Its a plugin.
-My form for the success stories page is now functional and today I am going on a forum asking if anyone wants to submit there story so I should be able to add some pages today and tommorow.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-How to I change my sits URLS to stop looking like this?
example.com/archives/38

I can't figure it out. I want "38" to be the post title.

-Its time for me to start getting backlinks. Where should I start and is there a way to start for free?

Future Projections
-People will either be happy to submit there success stories or call me a spammer for posting my link. Who knows. I have nearly 6000 posts on that forum and an active member so I shouldn't have any issues.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

aeisn

Just c/p the code below into your .htaccess

lemons884

My .htaaccess file is already set just like that.

Donace

in setting go to permalinks, go to custom and type in ' /%postname%/ ' it will use the name then in the urls

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lemons884

Thanks alot! It works now.

interwebmarketr

I don't know how you're tracking your visitors, but if you're not already doing so I'd recommend using something like Google Analytics or Statcounter to see where your visits are coming from, what keywords they used to find you, etc.

It's been a while since I've done SEO and driving organic traffic (and I was never really great at it to begin with) but the only real advice I can give is to keep working at it every day and start building more sites. It might be a while before you see those first conversions so stick with it. Good luck bro.

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allco

hahaha... RIGHT ON!

You've got something right there that tons of others don't; Determination, persistence, desire, strive AND you've picked the perfect place to do this.

I smell a success story. Good luck!

/cheerleading

lemons884

I'm trying to get this but I'm having some difficulty. I have my visitors counted up just don't know where there coming from specifically

"Google Analytics is not active. You must enter your UA String for it to work." When I click the link it just stays at this page....

Hostgator gives me really good traffic details but it doesn't tell me what keywords people use though I do know how they got to my site (like from what link)

Its easier for me because even if I don't make any money I'm still happy to be the owner of my site and I like running it- Addictive hobby.

Day 6 Summary:

-Added one post to my blog
-Added 2 articles to the articles blog category and have 2 scheduled for tommorow. I read some SEO tips and I'm choosing better keywords.
-Yesterday nobody on this forum I was on wanted to submit there success stories.....I guess they thought I was just trying to spam or something. I can't just take peoples stories either........
-Tried downloading the Google Analytics Plugin but I'm having issues with the UA String. (btw it seems you can't have too many plugins)

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-Anyway to get backlinks for free?

Future Projections
-Somebody will eventually submit a success story. Success Stories will really help out my site and spread the word about it.
-Thinking of adding an exercise directory to my site as well.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78