First attempt

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TenDesires

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I've been reading about IM for quite a while and I just wanted to make a first attempt. I kept reading about it and figured reading won't get me anywhere.

I think my first attempt sucks badly, and I'm almost ashamed of it, but I'd like your feedback.

What I did what:

1) Used Market Samurai to find a niche; I looked more into niches I could get to page 1 more than they are profitable. Because right now I think I'm so far away from making any money that it's better I just learn some SEO first, from practice. Prove to myself I can get a website to first page in a short enough amount of time.

2) Registered a .info with exact keyword name. Made 6 posts, Blogger website, created Amazon Aff. links, added Adsense.

3) Made guests posts to other blogs including the link to my website to create some backlinks. Submitted to online directories, pingers, etc.

Is this going to get me anywhere? Even 1 euro a month would be progress.

If you feel a kind and helping mood, leave me a PM and I will tell you the website, advice on what I'm doing wrong would be awesome; I don't want to post it here it will look like I'm advertising it.
 


This method can definitely work, but you will need to stay focused. Getting a site to the front page of Google can take a lot of time. Update constantly and get those backlinks constantly!

Oh, and I would ditch the .info domain. It doesn't seem very professional, since it is so cheap and, for some reason, search engines seem to hate it. Get a .com, . net or .org instead. And make sure your on-site SEO is done correctly.
 
The best advice I can give is to focus on the journey and not the destination. Too many people jump in and are focused on making obscene amounts of money and when that doesn't happen within a couple of months they get burnt out and quit. You first focus should be solely on learning how to rank because no traffic = no money.

SEO can and will take you a substantial amount of time and you will have some high moments and some low moments. Make sure to document everything that you do with your site and what results occurred after you made those changes. Once you build up a decent amount of data you can begin to make some assumptions about what does and what doesn't work. It's at this point that you can start testing specific things and really pinpoint a good strategy.

The best thing that you can do it just keep working at it - Trial and error then learning. If you follow this process then you will eventually figure out what works to get traffic then you can start learning to monetize it.

Oh, and don't be too upset if you do something and it causes your site to slide backwards, it just means that you learned what not to do.
 
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Looking good buddy! I'm pretty much in the same boat as you at the moment. Would love to hear your progress, so be sure to keep us updated!
 
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Looking good buddy! I'm pretty much in the same boat as you at the moment. Would love to hear your progress, so be sure to keep us updated!
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I searched for all related blogs/sites and made comments and included my website.

Advertised it on Twitter, Reddit, and other social sites.

Submitted to online directories (I will wait till my website is a better more decent for DMOZ, though, because they don't approve websites that are only based on affiliate links)

I got some traffic and even clicks, but I'm not on first page on Google yet.

The keyword is not competitive, I should get there eventually. I have exact keyword domain name but it's .info (heard it's not as good as org com net )

Make a new post every day, trying to make legit posts, not only excuses for an Affiliate link.
 
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