Hi EverybodyI just joined the forum 10 days ago. I have been reading alot of the posts. You're right...it can be totally overwhelming with the volume of great info here.
So far, I have installed Fatbomb, BBX2 and Zon on one domain.
* I found that I can only get Fatbomb search results from 'All The Web', 'Alta Vista', and 'Pheeds'. None of the other engines seem to be working.
* Also can't get any search results from buyitbomb_zon4.cgi
Any suggestions for the above?
Anyways, this post is to inform you about my goals, plans, current resources, etc.
I am fairly new to IM (about 1 year). Right now, I have one site that is around 10 months old, as well as 3-4 other sites around the same age which I did some work on. When I started these sites, my keyword selection was pretty poor and they haven't done much.
My main site has 10-15 hand written articles plus some product reviews. It's monetized with adsense and is currently earning about $1.00 per day. I have only recently added new articles based on better keywords + lsi keywords (started this about a month ago). The site is starting to do better and has 12 keywords on pages 2&3 and another 14 or so on pages 3-15 for a moderately competitive niche. At least I am now able to see better how things work and how everything works together...niche research-content-linking.
My main promotion method has been using Peter Drew's Linking Loophole software. I also have around 5 Ezine articles, 1 Squidoo, 1 Blogger, 1 Live Journal, 1 Wordpress.com. I have one set of Social Bookmark accounts on around 20 sites (the better sites on SocialBot). I also use RSSBot to submit feeds from all of the resources that I build.
I know it's not alot, and I can see that I will have to be building tons more of these types of resources now that I'm here.
I have one reseller account that has multiple IP's to host domains on. I have around 10-12 domains that were not particularly well chosen name-wise.
Financially, I don't have alot of money and have not made much in IM so far. I have started to do some SEO jobs for the place that I work my day job at, and have picked up another 2 small local businesses. This will help somewhat to support my IM efforts, but of course I really want to get my own stuff working.
Technically, I am not at all a 'techie', but I am usually able to figure things out eventually. Have not had any experience dealing with scripts, ht access, SSI until coming here. I'd say that I've learned quite a bit in the last 10 days here.
I would say that my main bottleneck right now is in content creation. I am optimistic that using ideas and methods presented here will help alot in that regard.
I guess that, so far, I've been having difficulty scaling everything up, from content creation to link building. Again, there are alot of great ideas here that I hope to use.
My goal is to build a huge network of tin-silver-gold sites, and to make enough money to live on for a start.
I probably need some guidance on my plan. I figure that I will first try to build a directory/hub site using Fatbomb, plr, Article_Ideas and rss feeds. It will be a directory related to my current main site. I also think it would be a good idea to do the '100 tips' idea for content, and start building more tin-silver sites. I would also like to start on a few more niches, making better choices.
Well that's about all I can think of for now. I'm looking forward to implementing more and more as I go along and continue to learn.
Any feedback is most welcome. Btw, is this forum still active? There doesn't seem to be alot of recent activity. Maybe everybody is too busy building!
Thanks alot for reading.
Calvin