self taught newbs AM journal

dkin69 · 07-09-2005, 12:15 AM

Due to all of the journals which have been started and discontinued I have been inspired to record my experiences here for all to see.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/affiliate-talk/105177-self-taught-newbs-am-journal.html

A little background check on me, I am 20 years old turning 21 on July 27th, I dropped out of highscool when I was 16 to take care of my mother, at 17 we bought our first computer and were introduced to the internet.

Since I began surfing I was always trying to earn money online, failure after failure I finally discovered HTML, intrigued by this I began reading tutorials and newsletters aimed toward html, after a few months I was creating not to bad static web pages, at one point I had a webpage selling tools from amazon.com this site had over 400 pages which were ALL html, no php, mysql or ssi if I wanted to change the menu I did it 400 times.

As you can tell I started slow, I recently did a little freelance work and made some extra money, in these projects I discovered php and mysql, once again I began reading, buying books and reading more, now I have a few websites, one which is getting about 500 000 page views a month, I am earning about $20 a month from ads from this site but am currently having it optimized.

Now I have started a gaming website, it will mainly be a review website, I have a great content writer I found at elance, he was charging me $2 a review but I thought that was not even worth his time so I pay him $5 per review, prolly soon to be $10 (as soon as my site starts earning)

So the status of this new site is, the main layout is basically complete, CSS work is about 50% I only have 2 reviews so far because all my content will be unique, I will be trying to write a few articles over the next week or so.

So this is the beginning, I hope in a few months I will be able to post articles like rfung, but for now I will update this journal so all newbies have a reference point.

Thank you for reading please check back every few days.

Dylan

dkin69 · 07-10-2005, 03:37 AM

Today I added another 4 reviews, hopefully the site will be ready to send to google soon

.

will update shortly

EbookLover · 07-11-2005, 12:30 AM

I'm glad you started this thread. Interesting.

Are you saying that I can go to elance and hire a writer to sit there and write reviews for products I sell on a website...even though he's never actually bought or used the product before? What about testimonials? Is that also something that these free lancers get into, too?

Do people generally do this for new forums, too?

dkin69 · 07-11-2005, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by zquest

I'm glad you started this thread. Interesting.
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=105177

Are you saying that I can go to elance and hire a writer to sit there and write reviews for products I sell on a website...even though he's never actually bought or used the product before? What about testimonials? Is that also something that these free lancers get into, too?

Do people generally do this for new forums, too?

Im not to sure about testimonials or forums but there is a section to hire "content writers" most are very expensive but there are a few affordable writers that do good work.

In my case my content writer rents each game I have him review so he can give a nice 1000 or so word review.

EbookLover · 07-11-2005, 08:43 AM

Originally Posted by dkin69

In my case my content writer rents each game I have him review so he can give a nice 1000 or so word review.

That's odd. And he only wanted $2.00 per reveiw? It costs more than $2.00 to rent a game in my neck of the woods. And to boot, 1K words is a lot for no profit (or even a loss).
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=105177

Be careful when hiring content writers, especialy those unrealistically cheap ones. Always check up on the work they produce for you. It will save your a lot of trouble and possibly your financial future. See the link to another forum's thread here...

http://www.namepros.com/website-development/103655-do-you-hire-ghost-content-writers.html

Everyone who hires content writers should visit that thread.

Cheap doesn't always mean "great deal!". It could mean unavoidaable trouble for you in the future which can cost you your whole financial well-being for the rest of your life.

dkin69 · 07-12-2005, 01:08 AM

Yes I have had him sign a contract and I check all the work online. The only reason he was so cheap is because he is right out of school and has made no money on elance yet, therefore no feedback

dkin69 · 07-13-2005, 11:37 PM

I have hired a second content writer, they are both currently writing reviews for me, I also just added videos to my website.

Its coming along very nicely.

dkin69 · 07-20-2005, 10:37 AM

The site is just about complete, I only have about 10 articles on it.

I just finished mod_rewriting the entire thing so hopefully googe will just eat it up.

Will let you know.

EbookLover · 07-20-2005, 02:04 PM

What is mod_rewriting?

dkin69 · 07-21-2005, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by zquest

What is mod_rewriting?

Mod rewrite is when you change a dynamic url to a static url through your .HTACCESS

like so

to change

widgets.com/widget1.php
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to

widgets.com/widget1.html

I would do this

RewriteRule widget1.html$ /widget.php

or for a dynamic url such as

widgets.com/widget1.php?color=blue

to

widgets.com/widget1/color/blue.html

RewriteRule widget1/color/(.*)\.html$ /widget1.php?color=$1

$1 takes the place of the variable and is input where you see "(.*)\"
then simply change your links to the html version and get ready for the search engines to eat it up.

Hope this helped.

Dylan

dkin69 · 07-22-2005, 11:05 AM

Search engines have started showing up, got 126 hits from Inktomi today, this is where the fun begins.

dkin69 · 07-26-2005, 06:11 PM

pretty much done the site, added another 5 reviews and now have 46 games, now my main focus is to add mucho content.

will update soon.

dkin69 · 08-02-2005, 12:02 AM

purchased a pinnacle product the other day so I am now recording gameplay and posting it on my site. If anyone would like info on how to do this pm me.

dkin69 · 08-08-2005, 07:21 AM

I apologize for not updating, I was recently in a car accident and am recovering now.

Will update soon.

dkin69 · 08-14-2005, 08:40 AM

Mainly focusing on adding content lately, have been recording alot of video and adding alot of games, for some reason I am not satisfied with my template so I will be revamping the layout of the site, try to make it tighter and rid it of all the whitespace.

dkin69 · 08-18-2005, 01:30 AM

Just got 540 hits from google and now have over 900 pages in yahoo. Will let everyone know what happens.

EbookLover · 08-18-2005, 02:54 AM

How did you get that many pages indexed in Google nad yahoo so quickly?

I mean, I'm assuming the whole site was started around the same date as your first post to the thread.

dkin69 · 08-19-2005, 08:23 PM

I only have one link in, but I noticed someone from DMOZ came to my site the other day, that may have something to do with it, I submitted to google about a week before I started this thread, approx. 3 days before I started the site, that way I wouldnt have to wait, I dont recommend this unless you know you will have content on your pages when they get there.

Also all pages are se friendly so when they take one they take many more than one

.

Just noticed I received 250 hits from msn bot today.

Woohooo.

Dylan

dkin69 · 08-25-2005, 12:36 AM

Just noticed 650 hits from msn bot today, no real traffic from search engines just yet, hopefully it will show soon.

Dylan

dkin69 · 09-10-2005, 11:31 PM

Just visited google and noticed that I now have about 500 pages indexed, things just keep getting better and better for this site.

RJ · 09-11-2005, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by dkin69

Just visited google and noticed that I now have about 500 pages indexed, things just keep getting better and better for this site.

Nice to hear, Dylan. How many pages are on your site total?

dkin69 · 09-11-2005, 11:53 AM

Im not sure, it is all dynamic, is there an online utility that will count my pages for me???

dkin69 · 09-13-2005, 12:12 AM

slight set back, my web host just upgraded servers now none of my mod rewrites are working so when a link is clicked it just refreshes the current page with a new url.

Been like this for a few days as far as I know, will update everyone when I find out more about whats going on.

Dylan

dkin69 · 09-13-2005, 09:59 AM

ok, were back up and running.

dkin69 · 09-22-2005, 09:16 PM

Added 13 link partners in the past couple of days, so 13 more links to my site, most pages are pr 1-3 not great but it will get google coming to my site more frequently.

These are my search engine result numbers

Altavista Google Inktomi Yahoo!
181 497 0 179

not bad for the first few months.

Will update when there is more news.

07-09-2005, 12:15 AM	THREAD STARTER #1 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	self taught newbs AM journal Due to all of the journals which have been started and discontinued I have been inspired to record my experiences here for all to see. ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/affiliate-talk/105177-self-taught-newbs-am-journal.html A little background check on me, I am 20 years old turning 21 on July 27th, I dropped out of highscool when I was 16 to take care of my mother, at 17 we bought our first computer and were introduced to the internet. Since I began surfing I was always trying to earn money online, failure after failure I finally discovered HTML, intrigued by this I began reading tutorials and newsletters aimed toward html, after a few months I was creating not to bad static web pages, at one point I had a webpage selling tools from amazon.com this site had over 400 pages which were ALL html, no php, mysql or ssi if I wanted to change the menu I did it 400 times. As you can tell I started slow, I recently did a little freelance work and made some extra money, in these projects I discovered php and mysql, once again I began reading, buying books and reading more, now I have a few websites, one which is getting about 500 000 page views a month, I am earning about $20 a month from ads from this site but am currently having it optimized. Now I have started a gaming website, it will mainly be a review website, I have a great content writer I found at elance, he was charging me $2 a review but I thought that was not even worth his time so I pay him $5 per review, prolly soon to be $10 (as soon as my site starts earning) So the status of this new site is, the main layout is basically complete, CSS work is about 50% I only have 2 reviews so far because all my content will be unique, I will be trying to write a few articles over the next week or so. So this is the beginning, I hope in a few months I will be able to post articles like rfung, but for now I will update this journal so all newbies have a reference point. Thank you for reading please check back every few days. Dylan

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07-10-2005, 03:37 AM	THREAD STARTER #2 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Today I added another 4 reviews, hopefully the site will be ready to send to google soon . will update shortly

07-11-2005, 12:30 AM	#3 (permalink)
EbookLover Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,438	I'm glad you started this thread. Interesting. Are you saying that I can go to elance and hire a writer to sit there and write reviews for products I sell on a website...even though he's never actually bought or used the product before? What about testimonials? Is that also something that these free lancers get into, too? Do people generally do this for new forums, too?

07-12-2005, 01:08 AM	THREAD STARTER #6 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Yes I have had him sign a contract and I check all the work online. The only reason he was so cheap is because he is right out of school and has made no money on elance yet, therefore no feedback

07-13-2005, 11:37 PM	THREAD STARTER #7 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	I have hired a second content writer, they are both currently writing reviews for me, I also just added videos to my website. Its coming along very nicely.

07-20-2005, 10:37 AM	THREAD STARTER #8 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	The site is just about complete, I only have about 10 articles on it. I just finished mod_rewriting the entire thing so hopefully googe will just eat it up. Will let you know.

07-20-2005, 02:04 PM	#9 (permalink)
EbookLover Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,438	What is mod_rewriting?

07-22-2005, 11:05 AM	THREAD STARTER #11 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Search engines have started showing up, got 126 hits from Inktomi today, this is where the fun begins.

07-26-2005, 06:11 PM	THREAD STARTER #12 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	pretty much done the site, added another 5 reviews and now have 46 games, now my main focus is to add mucho content. will update soon.

08-02-2005, 12:02 AM	THREAD STARTER #13 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	purchased a pinnacle product the other day so I am now recording gameplay and posting it on my site. If anyone would like info on how to do this pm me.

08-08-2005, 07:21 AM	THREAD STARTER #14 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	I apologize for not updating, I was recently in a car accident and am recovering now. Will update soon.

08-14-2005, 08:40 AM	THREAD STARTER #15 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Mainly focusing on adding content lately, have been recording alot of video and adding alot of games, for some reason I am not satisfied with my template so I will be revamping the layout of the site, try to make it tighter and rid it of all the whitespace.

08-18-2005, 01:30 AM	THREAD STARTER #16 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Just got 540 hits from google and now have over 900 pages in yahoo. Will let everyone know what happens.

08-18-2005, 02:54 AM	#17 (permalink)
EbookLover Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,438	How did you get that many pages indexed in Google nad yahoo so quickly? I mean, I'm assuming the whole site was started around the same date as your first post to the thread.

08-19-2005, 08:23 PM	THREAD STARTER #18 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	I only have one link in, but I noticed someone from DMOZ came to my site the other day, that may have something to do with it, I submitted to google about a week before I started this thread, approx. 3 days before I started the site, that way I wouldnt have to wait, I dont recommend this unless you know you will have content on your pages when they get there. Also all pages are se friendly so when they take one they take many more than one . Just noticed I received 250 hits from msn bot today. Woohooo. Dylan

08-25-2005, 12:36 AM	THREAD STARTER #19 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Just noticed 650 hits from msn bot today, no real traffic from search engines just yet, hopefully it will show soon. Dylan

09-10-2005, 11:31 PM	THREAD STARTER #20 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Just visited google and noticed that I now have about 500 pages indexed, things just keep getting better and better for this site.

09-11-2005, 11:53 AM	THREAD STARTER #22 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Im not sure, it is all dynamic, is there an online utility that will count my pages for me???

09-13-2005, 12:12 AM	THREAD STARTER #23 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	slight set back, my web host just upgraded servers now none of my mod rewrites are working so when a link is clicked it just refreshes the current page with a new url. Been like this for a few days as far as I know, will update everyone when I find out more about whats going on. Dylan

09-13-2005, 09:59 AM	THREAD STARTER #24 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	ok, were back up and running.

09-22-2005, 09:16 PM	THREAD STARTER #25 (permalink)
dkin69 NamePros Regular Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 358	Added 13 link partners in the past couple of days, so 13 more links to my site, most pages are pr 1-3 not great but it will get google coming to my site more frequently. These are my search engine result numbers Altavista Google Inktomi Yahoo! 181 497 0 179 not bad for the first few months. Will update when there is more news.

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