My First Journal, Finally I'm taking an action.

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Well Hi,

As some of you may know me, I'm a freelancer web designer.
I've been working mainly with IM's in my life (landing pages etc.),
although I earned pretty good money, I always felt that I can do better,
Because at some points, freelancing (working with clients) starts to annoy you.

Throughout the years of my experience I've pretty much learned how this IM thing works,
and there were a couple of times that I actually was really close to try out something myself, but never did.

so In the last couple of weeks, I started attending to school, and it burns up most of my time,
I'd drop out of it If I could but I have to finish high school at least.
(Yes I'm that young, though my mental abilities and intelligence are way higher than some grown people I have met)
so following that, I started thinking about establishing something of my own,
a few others revenue streams, for the long-run, with less effort than freelancing.


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P.S. I think that you have to know that English isn't my native language so excuse me on any mistakes that will follow.
I was born in Russia, then moved and grew up in Israel, and 4 months ago,
we immigrated to Canada, Montreal.
So regarding languages, I know Hebrew, Russian (Native) and English, French (as a 2nd and 3rd language).
Yes this issue probably pulled me back many times in this market,
as I felt unconfident with my skills.
but how great is outsourcing, so as long as ppl understands me, no worries!

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My Plan Here is to document my steps,
receive tips from you throughout my journey,
keep me motivated, and help others in my situation.


So here is my Journal: (I'll try to update it 3-4 times a week)
Basically I'm planning to start my experience with SEO.
My First aim : build 3-4 small niche sites and monetize them with adsense, by the end of November.


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Day 1 (10/10/2009) -

  • I found an micro niche, which has only 35k search results, and approx. 7000 monthly searches, I figured I'd just go for it, see what happens.
  • I bought a .NET domain with the main keyword I'd like to promote.
  • I opened another directory in my shared hosting for the domain and set up wordpress.
  • I purchased 10 articles (for the beginning) which are super targeted with my niche, almost every headline has my main keyword or really relative one.

Questions
1. How often should I post the articles I bought? I have the option to purchase another 15 articles on the same niche.
2. What must plug-ins should I install with WordPress?
3. Can you suggest me of any high adsense convertible theme?

Balance:
-9.96$ on the domain.
-22.5$ on the articles.
= -32.46$ Negative Balance.
 


WTF is wrong with you douche bags and your "journals"

No one gives a fuck about your daily life progress. Get the fuck off this forum and make some money.
 
WTF is wrong with you douche bags and your "journals"

No one gives a fuck about your daily life progress. Get the fuck off this forum and make some money.


These journals allow other "douche bags" to learn what the other jackasses are doing so that we can improve on it. If you don't like the journals, stay out of the "Newbie Forum" and go play with the big kids. No one made you come in here, and trust me, no one is making you stay in here either.

And on that note, stop bitching about what other poeple are doing and make some fuckin' money of your own. :zzwhip:
 
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Some tips:

1. Sell what's popular.

2. 25 percent planning, 75 execution.

3. Invest in an autoresponder. They work WONDER. (either aweber or getresponse)

4. Use free traffic to start out, like youtube and articles
 
Update - 13/10/2009

- I have my shared web hosting with just host , and they suck, its like the sixth time that I'm trying to upload and install wordpress (and I know how to do that well), after running ok for a whole day, the next day, suddenly there appears some unexpected "(=" or shit, I don't know what's up with this hosting but I'm sure this is something with their servers or I dunno, because I've never had problems like that with wordpress, I'm gonna buy another shared hosting account, probably from ZenSix.

-I got my 5 main keywords (should be enough) that's a really small niche with low competition and approx 7000 monthly searches, I'm planning to buy Red_Virus pack for these keywords to get my site indexted faster (after I'll upload it and set up wordpress ok with ZenSix)

Question:
It's all clear now, I'd probably set up wordpress with my new web hosting tomorrow, and then I'll get things moving.

Balance:
-9.96$ on the domain.
-22.5$ on the articles.
= -32.46$ Negative Balance.
 
Gawd... Another journal...

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I give it a week...
 
Update - 17/10/09

- I solved the problem with my hosting ( this : http://www.wickedfire.com/newbie-qu...ssian-injection-through-filezilla-client.html ) hope it'll be going clear from now on.
- set up wordpress with all in one SEO plug in.
- I'm now looking/working on a template for the website.
- my niche is quite small and I couldn't find a related targeted product to it in big affiliate networks,
so I found one merchant that provides the perfect product for me with a private affiliate program, I applied for it.
- By this weekend I hope to set up the site in 100%, and just keep updating with articles.

Questions:

1. I'm planning to buy red Virus's package to get links to my website with my main keyword,
now should I do this after my site has been on air for about week or two with at least a few articles or it doesn't matter?

2. Would u suggest me to use simple & free wordpress templates and just tweak them a bit? or should I put more effort on
the design and then post a greater value on the website when I'll sell it ?

3. Besides keyword targeting on my website and links with my keyword to my website, what else should I do go higher with SEO ?

Balance:
-9.96$ on the domain.
-22.5$ on the articles.
= -32.46$ Negative Balance.