Lemons884 Journal- Will this noob succeed?

- Yep add an image per post helps 'SEO' wise if done properly; I suggest you grab this plugin (SEO Friendly Images - Wordpress Plugins) to help you out a bit.

- Reviews keep them legit as much as possible; I mean my review on blog comment demon (http://thenexus.tk/blog-comment-demon-review/) is pretty negative, I gave it 1/5, yet people still buy it from my links!

Thanks- I'll definetely be looking into doing more reviews. The more content I get the better I'm off in hte longrun.

And the plugin I just installed, I think I have almost 10 plugins now ...its like giving my site steroids.
 


Day 10

Day 10 Summary:

-Added 2 articles
-Added one post to my blog
-Signed up for Amazon and Ebay affiliate program. I plan to create an e-store with exercise equipment and other fitness related items. I am also gonna create an exercise directory for my site so I can bring in more content.
-^^hopefully 1 will accept me. For some reason I always get turned down.
-Plan to add review category (along with the exercise directory) soon. Probably some time tonight or tommorow.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-Should I buy 6packnow.com if it becomes available? The domain for that site expires July 15.......so what if I could buy my competition?

Future Projections
-I will drop below 190 pounds. I have been jogging 6 miles everyday.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78
 
Problems with Amazon Store

I'm trying to add a store to my website. I have been accepted by Amazon Associates.

I designed the store to have basically every fitness item alive and was given this code for the Inline frame:

<iframe src="6packnow.net Store - Exercise Equipment" width="90%" height="4000" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

I have no idea how to use it in Wordpress. I googled forever. Anyone know how to do this? I think I have version 2.7.1 of wordpress
 
Just throw the iframe code into the html of a post or any of your template files and it will show up.
 
Just throw the iframe code into the html of a post or any of your template files and it will show up.

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.
 
Day 11

Day 11 Summary:

-Added 2 articles
-Nothing else, I'm taking a break today.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-Just the store on my site is messed up. I posted the question on post #63 in this thread.

Future Projections
-More visitors. I need to get backlinks and start building traffic. I'm finding this to be difficult.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78
 
answers

look for answers next to questions

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.

I like Joomla

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

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) welcome to the world


Current Assets
Negative $18.38
 
Day 12

Day 12 Summary:

-Added 2 articles today and I have 2 scheduled for tommorow and the next day after that.
-Added a post to the my blog section.
-Started up an exercise directory and added 2 posts to that. Also monetized the posts with Amazon banners. It fits very well into the post.
-55 visitors yesterday, I'm slowly gaining visitors.
-Added 2 links to wikipedia on my site......see how long that lasts.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-Should I link my site to others that are like my site and ping with them or is that a bad idea because of competition?

Future Projections
-Eventually more backlinks. My site actually has good amount of information on it.
-Social Marketing may help my site get visitors (twitter, myspace, facebook, digg, etc)

Current Assets
Negative $101.78
 
Do the twitter thing.
Follow a bunch of people in the same niche.

Twitter around, build some rep and followers.

Make a short tweet on every new article. (take almost no time)

::emp::

It does drive
 
Day 13

Day 13 Summary:

-Taking a break for one day

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-None

Future Projections
-None

Current Assets
Negative $101.78
 
Lemons - I just wanted to say I've enjoyed reading this.

Carry on - I'm going to journal stuff too - but less frequently.
 
Day 14

Day 14 Summary:

-Added 2 posts to the articles section.
-Added 3 videos and 1 post to the exericse directory
-Added a backlink to wikipedia
-Gained 67 visitors yesterday thanks to 2 backlinks from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is awesome.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-How should I go about social marketing? Won't most people assume its a scam and not add me as a "friend".

Future Projections
-More visitors, can't wait to hit 100.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78
 
Day 14 Summary:

-Added 2 posts to the articles section.
-Added 3 videos and 1 post to the exericse directory
-Added a backlink to wikipedia
-Gained 67 visitors yesterday thanks to 2 backlinks from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is awesome.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-How should I go about social marketing? Won't most people assume its a scam and not add me as a "friend".

Future Projections
-More visitors, can't wait to hit 100.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78

Just out of curiosity how did you go about adding the wikipedia links? How long have they been up?
 
I came in to this thread expecting a car crash, but you seem to be on the right road. Props for the effort.

I just keep an open mind and do as I am told because, as a noob, you can't be ignorant and close-minded. I listen to those who are actually making money online. The people in this forum are serious and there advice cannot be taken with a stubborn mind.

Just out of curiosity how did you go about adding the wikipedia links? How long have they been up?

I just edited external links. They have been up for 3 days I'm surprised there still there to be honest.
 
Day 14 Summary:

-Added a backlink to wikipedia
-Gained 67 visitors yesterday thanks to 2 backlinks from Wikipedia. Wikipedia is awesome.

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.
 
Day 15

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.

eh at least my site is getting visitors. I added a cool plugin today.

Day 15 Summary:

-Added 2 posts to the articles section.
-Added 1 posts to the my blog section
-Added 1 posts to the exercise directory
-My site now has 49 pages of content. I'm averaging about 3.2 posts a day now.

-Got the following backlinks:
-Added an awesome plugin! Its called All-in-one Bookmarking Button. Pretty tight; it already added the marker to everyone of my posts. That should help spread my site around a bit.
-First comment on my blog; too bad it was spam I just took the guys link off.

Questions Still Lingering in my brain:

-For social marketing am I actually suppose to get friends and pitch the product or is just the link important and that was the purpose?

Future Projections
-Visitors will start rolling in? I can't wait to finnally hit 100.

Current Assets
Negative $101.78
 
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.