Lemons884 Journal- Will this noob succeed?

[lemons884]

Hey lemons, just wanted to say as a beginner that I'm (also) really enjoying this. Keep it up!

I know this might just be me being retarded, but I didn't even see your article posts. I clicked "Articles" on your top-bar, and I only saw the sell for the product. I just figured you didn't have any. I found it later, but maybe you should make them easier to click on.

Thanks; guess I have to just add a link to the articles category for those who missed it.

I think I should just add a link to every article in the articles category on the articles page as well so people can navigate easier as well.

 

[darrynb]

How are you tracking visitors? The numbers are probably a little skewed since you're posting the link on here, no?

I started off with a get fit blog too at the beginning of the year. Wasn't doing it to monetize, it was more to keep myself accountable and get a feel for the online world (plus losing 20lbs and actually getting the six pack helped too!). It helped me big time and what I learned helped me with the sites I'm doing today. Keep it up! I still add to it every now and then. It ranks pretty well with google, maybe I'll overhaul it to promote an offer.

 

[shesowicked]

Last time I checked Wikipedia backlinks do not help from an SEO perspective - they are set to NOFOLLOW.

However, they obviously still help drive visitors.

A link is still a link.

@lemons - try to balance no follow and do follow links - keep your lb efforts in a constant manner...

subscribed to this thread.. goodluck to Thread Starter

 

[lemons884]

Day 16

Day 15 Summary:

-Broke 100! Yesterday I had 118 visitors. Alot are coming from my wikipedia backlinks
-First visitor from a keyword. Someone searched "famous ectomorph athletes" and my website is on the bottom of the first page of Google for that keyword.
-Still no sales (this could be a LONG time) however someone did click my store yesterday; I'm having this tracked. Looks like they put some stuff in the cart and then didn't checkout.
-This dude Mike keeps commenting on my page and putting his link. I keep editing it.......
-Added 2 articles
-Over 50 pages of content now.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None for today

Future Projections
-More content and more visitors. Next goal is 200 visitors in 1 day. You gotta take it 1 step at a time. Content --> Traffic --> Presell --> Monetize.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

 

[lemons884]

Added another post to the exercise directory and a backlink to wikipedia. Also re-added another link. Someone took it off :/ for whatever reason- my sites not spam it actually has good information. Hate wikipedia editors.....

 

[Despoil]

Might want to consider looking at your presell some more. On my SEO site I was seeing 1 in 20 visitors converted (although I wasn't selling products) and even think thats considered low. Theres so many products in your store, you're the expert - promote a product in your store through your articles.

 

[lemons884]

Day 17

^^^Definetely need to work on preselling- Gonna work on some review pages today. This is yesterdays summary:

Day 17 Summary:

-Only 40 visitors yesterday.......looks like my wikipedia links got taken off.
-Not much else today; the usual

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None for today

Future Projections
-I'm eventually gonna buy some backlinks.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

 

[tjdaz]

I'm no expert, but looking at your site it is hard to see your links. I was actually looking for an affiliate link and had trouble finding it. The overall layout looks great, but you may want to consider making the links more visible and stand out from the page encouraging people to click through to them aside from the store.

Great thread though, your site has come along quite well. I'm sure you'll be seeing sales with more work. Good luck bro.

 

[lemons884]

Day 18

I'm no expert, but looking at your site it is hard to see your links. I was actually looking for an affiliate link and had trouble finding it. The overall layout looks great, but you may want to consider making the links more visible and stand out from the page encouraging people to click through to them aside from the store.

Great thread though, your site has come along quite well. I'm sure you'll be seeing sales with more work. Good luck bro.

Thanks for the comment. My links are gray in a white background that seems to be the only issue with my theme. I'm trying to change it to red but don't know how to edit the CSS style sheet and when I did attempt it didn't work. But for now I think its fine- I'll fix it in the future.

Day 18 Summary:

-Added one post to my blog
-Added three articles to the articles category
-Added one post to exercise category
-Added a disclaimer page
-Added a review page and category
-Added my first 5/5 star review

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None

Future Projections
-More Reviews. The more reviews I add to the 1-2-3-4 star reviews, then the more important my 5 star reviews will looks and those are the main products I'm trying to sell. My readers will see the best stars and will consider them more highly.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

 

[lemons884]

Day 19

Day 19 Summary:

-Added one post to my blog
-Added two articles to the articles category
-Added two articles to be scheduled tommorow
-79 visitors yesterday and thats with all my wikipedia links gone.


Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None

Future Projections
-I have two articles scheduled for tommorow so tommorow I can focus on writing some product reviews.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

 

[Drover]

• Vince (Vince Delmonte) | MySpace.com
• Vince Delmonte (lemons884) on Twitter

WTF, man? You're pushing a gay porn site?

 

[lemons884]

[/LIST]WTF, man? You're pushing a gay porn site?

lol no. Vince Delmonte is the author of the fitness e-books I'm trying to sell. I just created all those pages and junk so I can link my site to it.

Decided to add bidvertiser ads at the bottom of my homepage. It won't do any harm and I'm almost near $10 anyhow. (I used to have a site 2 years ago that failed)

 

[lemons884]

Day 20

Day 20 Summary:

-Added one post to my blog
-Added three reviews today
-49 visitors yesterday
-My bidvertiser ad on my home page received its first click and I earned $0.13 . WOOOOOOOOOOO I'm gonna be CEO'in soon.
-Used Yahoo Answers and got about 13 backlinks to that.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None

Future Projections
-More Reviews
-Eventually cashing out $10 to paypal from bidvertiser assumming all my clicks aren't fraud for whatever reason and I get kicked off like Google Adsense 3 years ago.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

 

[aeisn]

Day 20 Summary:

-Added one post to my blog
-Added three reviews today
-49 visitors yesterday
-My bidvertiser ad on my home page received its first click and I earned $0.13 . WOOOOOOOOOOO I'm gonna be CEO'in soon.
-Used Yahoo Answers and got about 13 backlinks to that.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None

Future Projections
-More Reviews
-Eventually cashing out $10 to paypal from bidvertiser assumming all my clicks aren't fraud for whatever reason and I get kicked off like Google Adsense 3 years ago.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

Just FYI yahoo answers is nofollow. Still a fine traffic source though.

 

[Despoil]

Day 20 Summary:

-Added one post to my blog
-Added three reviews today
-49 visitors yesterday
-My bidvertiser ad on my home page received its first click and I earned $0.13 . WOOOOOOOOOOO I'm gonna be CEO'in soon.
-Used Yahoo Answers and got about 13 backlinks to that.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None

Future Projections
-More Reviews
-Eventually cashing out $10 to paypal from bidvertiser assumming all my clicks aren't fraud for whatever reason and I get kicked off like Google Adsense 3 years ago.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

Haha nice job man! Get to update your current assets finally!

 

[lemons884]

Haha nice job man! Get to update your current assets finally!

A friend of mine bought some hostgator hosting under me; but for some reason I don't think hostgator counted it? Or maybe it hasn't processed yet idk.

Anyhow someone commented on one of my 5 star reviews:

The best information i have found exactly here. Keep going Thank you

Comments are always encouraging. Would be more encouraging if she actually bought the product lol

 

[BradleyT2p2]

Comments are always encouraging. Would be more encouraging if she actually bought the product lol

Usually people leaving those kinds of comments are trying to get a link back to their site through their username. That comment can be spammed on 1000 blogs.

 

[lemons884]

Usually people leaving those kinds of comments are trying to get a link back to their site through their username. That comment can be spammed on 1000 blogs.

Thanks- A few people have done that but this one didn't. There was no link attached to the username or post.

I'll always edit the ones who do that by taking the link off and leaving the comment.

I wander if there is a way I could automatically have no linking in my comments?

 

[lemons884]

Day 21

Day 21 Summary:

-Added one post to my blog
-Added two articles
-Added one review
-Added one exercise
-61 visitors yesterday
-Emailed Hostgator asking where the hell is my commission. (had a friend sign up under my link)
-Spammed the shit outta yahoo answers even though its nofollow

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-Is there a way to stop people from linking there shit in comments on my blog?
-Are Flicr Comments dofollow?

Future Projections

-I will update my current assets in the next 2 weeks

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

 

[monkeyman]

Well that works but it looks crappy.....See for yourself

Store | 6packnow.net

Scrolling is gonna be a turnoff unless I do something different.

I tried editing the iframe code to turn scrolling off, tried shrinking it....Nothing works. This is the best I could get it for now.

Seems to me that you need those scrolling bars with your current iframe width. You could hide your scrolling bars with this (I think):

iframe {
    overflow: hidden;
}

But then you have to adjust the height and width too...

My links are gray in a white background that seems to be the only issue with my theme. I'm trying to change it to red but don't know how to edit the CSS style sheet and when I did attempt it didn't work.

Try to change this in your css.

Find this line:

.sidebar-box ul li a,.sidebar-box .recentcomments{display:block;border-bottom:1px solid #EEE;color:#9D9793;width:170px;padding:8px;line-height:14px;}

And change color:#9D9793; to color:red;

Like this:

.sidebar-box ul li a,.sidebar-box .recentcomments{display:block;border-bottom:1px solid #EEE;color:red;width:170px;padding:8px;line-height:14px;}

And if you like to change the hover effect, you could change the color in this line:

.sidebar-box ul li a:hover,.sidebar-box .recentcomments a:hover{color:#AAA;}

I hope this helps... and good luck!