WF Winter 2007 Case Study

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Ok BITCHES, I've beat most of you to the punch. I've had a "seasonal" site up for several months already making some minor cake. This threads getting out control.

So where do i drop my url? And what's the deal with the private section?
 
Alright Jon. Read about what you said with seasonal sites, so I won't use a different topic. I'm in, and I'll have my domain and site setup either tonight or tomorrow night. Please don't leave me out of the party.
 
I've been trying arbitrage for about a month. I'm just about breaking even between Adsense income vs. Adwords spending. The dollar amounts are very small.

Google Adwords seems very fickle in the amount of impressions they will give you day-to-day for the same bid price. (Content side only) Somedays it is in the tens of thousands and others it is in the hundreds. I’m hoping this case study will free me from Google’s seemingly random decision making.

I'm almost done putting together my WordPress based site. For other WordPress newbie's I found this theme to be easy to work with. blog.txt · plaintxt.org
 
I'm in, but I would like to use a site I've been sitting on for a while. It's a reinforcement of what I'm learning type thing.

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Ignore the current logo. I swapped my wp install with another site I started, but decided not to use.
 
I'll participate in the case study.

I have a site set up and have a ton of unique content ready that I hired someone from elance to write last year.

I will be on vacation from 02/26-03/05 but will catch up afterwards.
 
I don't vacation and I don't sleep. I have 2 sites that I'm going to use for this initially and then add more in later. I've been meaning to devote more time to niche sites anyway. Checking stats on arbi too much without doing much else is starting to etch on my nerves anyway.
 
Another SEO tip for those using WP, this came from I believe Rob, but im not sure and im to lazy to do a search.

Replace the <title> tag in your header. php file to....

Code: 
<title><?php if (is_home () ) { bloginfo('name'); } elseif ( is_category() ) { single_cat_title(); echo " - "; bloginfo('name'); } elseif (is_single() || is_page() ) { single_post_title(); } elseif (is_search() ) { bloginfo('name'); echo " search results: "; echo wp_specialchars($s); } else { wp_title('',true); } ?> </title>

Embeds title of post into the title tags of that page.... for WP SEO purposes its a great little snippet of code.....
 
okay JON maybe you can help me out...I know about sitemap plugins, adjusting the title tag, google analytics, adsense plugins and so forth, but I'm looking to wait to see exactly what you say to do when this all starts. So I'm just leaving the site stock until you start this. Is that cool or what? I want see the method you suggest from the ground up, but all these add-on comments and suggestions without your saying makes me wonder. I don't want to add-on or install anything because It may be certain plugins or layout ideas you'll suggest when this all starts.

Anyway let me know either way. But I'd rather leave it vanilla and go step by step as the Case study requires..

I got the site up but I was basically leaving it with nothing until this started...You know the 'Hello World' Post
 
jerxs said:
Embeds title of post into the title tags of that page.... for WP SEO purposes its a great little snippet of code.....
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I'm glad you brought that up - I use similar code, but I prefer « as a separator.

For those who prefer to use a plugin for this, I think the Optimal Title Plugin accomplishes pretty much the same thing. I haven't used it, but I've seen positive reviews.
 
OK I'm up and running. Not bad for a few hours heads up.

Site: Snow Boarding Land

I still need to create a logo and add adsense, affiliate links, and a few more social bookmark plugins. I already have a number of plugins / tweaks installed. If you want, I can write out a detailed journal of the setup options and plugins I install. I have wordpress installs that are almost perfect for SEO & usability almost down to a science.

Jon, let me know how you want to do this. I made a welcome post but that's about it. I wanted to check how all this is going to be organized before I started doing anything major.

Also, is all this going to be talked about out in the open here in this thread or is there someplace for us to do this in private? If in the open, can we please delete all the worthless posts in this thread and make sure nothing but on topic and helpful posts are added from now on? This thread is already almost untrackable because of the fluff in it. I would like this to turn into something productive and not another post count pad like so many other threads here turn into.

thanks
Jeremy
 
JeremyL: I think it would be great if you would share your WordPress setup guide. I was going to do something similar, but instead I'll just add to whatever you share.

BTW, your contact form fields aren't lined up quite right. I had the same problem when I upgraded my blogs to 2.1 and I found this patch did the trick.
 
Lee. said:
okay JON maybe you can help me out...I know about sitemap plugins, adjusting the title tag, google analytics, adsense plugins and so forth, but I'm looking to wait to see exactly what you say to do when this all starts. So I'm just leaving the site stock until you start this. Is that cool or what? I want see the method you suggest from the ground up, but all these add-on comments and suggestions without your saying makes me wonder. I don't want to add-on or install anything because It may be certain plugins or layout ideas you'll suggest when this all starts.

Anyway let me know either way. But I'd rather leave it vanilla and go step by step as the Case study requires..

I got the site up but I was basically leaving it with nothing until this started...You know the 'Hello World' Post
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i don't think that you will get a cookie cutter method to make money online.

if i were you, i would start digging into all the suggestions that people here make, because all together this is so much knowledge combined, that you probably miss something later on.

i don't think, that it is jon's intention to provide you a simple blueprint on how to build your site step by step. i am expecting something more general, like an explanation of the concepts, the general theory and the one or other view behind the curtains of some succesful projects. how we do it in detail will then be very much depending on us ourselves and on us as a community. we will have to find the means and tools to realize the given goals.

that is just my expectation, but i would be bored to death i would be given a step-by-step guide to get a profitable site. if it would work that way, i would hire ten people and let them produce these sites 24by7. but i guess we all know, that it doesn't work that way.
 
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