Lemons884 Journal- Will this noob succeed?

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lemons884

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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
 
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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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Day 1

^^^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
 
lemons884 said:
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.
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What did you for the other 23 hours 45 minutes?

Good luck.
 
aeisn said:
When you first are starting out even basic stuff can take awhile. Cut him some slack.
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
TylerDurden said:
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.
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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.

Bofu2U said:
Fuck man, this noob's from Maryland too.
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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.
 
lemons884 said:
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 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.
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BaltCo for life son, PM me some contact info and messenger info.
 
lemons884 said:
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.
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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 :)
 
stmadeveloper said:
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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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Day 2

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
 
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