UndeadCircus
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- Mar 19, 2009
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Hello everyone,
I hope you're ready for another journey thread, because this is going to be another one. And even if you aren't, I hope that you'll at least pop in here, see what I'm doing wrong, and at least have the decency to tell me about it haha. Anyway, I spent a lot of time the last day or so reading through http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...complete-noobs-journey-world-mns-adsense.html that thread. It really helped to kickstart my attitude when it came to making some money, and it has been one of the most invaluable reading tools I've come across so far in sparking that little fire inside me to go ahead and try it out. If I had the money, I'd donate to that guy just for the invaluable information and guidance he's offered from that thread alone. MNS websites seem to be getting a pretty crappy rap lately throughout the forums, but honestly, they're websites. If you offer good information relevant to your readers, I don't see how Google could hate you for it.
So anyway. I plan to outline every single service I have used or plan to use in this thread with links to those services as well. I will update this first post with all of those links so that nobody has to search throughout the thread to find them. I will not begin my journey in this first post, however I just want to announce my intent and provide the links to the resources I will be using. If I add any new MNS websites to my journey, I will create a new post with all of the details (except the critical details, of course, which I'm sure you'll understand). I will try and make one major update every couple of days as I see progress happening, but don't expect that I've abandoned the project all together if I don't post a major update for awhile. I have a pretty busy life as it is, and it's gotten a lot busier lately with me and my wife going to see a fertility specialist, which the worst part of that is we have to travel out of town to do it. The appointments aren't cheap either. So, needless to say, my budget for these MNS sites will be EXTREMELY limited, and will have the added fuel to succeed with the cost of our doctor visits coming up, because the extra money will DEFINITELY come in handy!
What you can gather from that is, I'll be approaching this project in a very slow, but hopefully steady pace, from a complete newbie's perspective, since SEO optimization and MNS websites are all brand new to me. I've been in the IM world for a number of years, but have never actually pushed anything SEO/MNS related, so I've never really done much in the way of keyword research or competition scouting. This is going to be a journey not only for me, but for all of you to read as well. I'm not doing this to get people to thank and rep me over and over. I'm mainly doing this to keep track of my progress and to provide and obtain valuable feedback where appropriate. I know it was a great motivation piece for dealsopoly, and I can only hope that I'll have the same motivation from my thread.
How are my websites setup?
I plan to use Wordpress for ALL of my MNS websites. I will also be using the following plugins:
- All in One SEO Pack
- Contact Form 7
- Google XML Sitemaps
The theme I am using is the ProSense theme, which can be found here: http://thewrongadvices.com/2007/05/18/prosense-an-adsense-ready-seo-wordpress-theme/
I modified the theme tremendously so that the pixels line up right. I'm a huge stickler when it comes to website's presentation (I've been a web designer and PHP programmer for over 8 years now) so I have a keen eye when it comes to trying to improve Wordpress themes or make them look just right. So I guess you can say the theme I am using is a modified version of the ProSense theme, but it's ProSense regardless.
I will also be setting up my Wordpress sites like this:
- Three static pages (one for my main keyword and one for two secondary keywords)
- The static pages all have an article on them with at least 500 words with a keyword density of at least 1% (meaning the keyword mentioned at least 5 times)
- An About page, a Contact Us page, a Blog page and a Privacy Policy page
- 7 static pages in total
- The Wordpress site is setup so that the very first page is a static page, which is my main keyword
- The blog page will be a list of all regular "Posts," which will centered around all of my keywords at once as well as provide some "filler" articles
- All of my content is 100% unique, either written by myself or bought (more info on that in the section below)
So, without making this post any longer than it needs to be, here are the services I will be using for this project as well as the prices and a short little "nickname" next to each one so that I don't have to spell it all out in detail when making new posts.
FIVERR GIGS
Nickname: Insurgo Package
URL: http://fiverr.com/insurgo/create-45-high-pr-links-to-your-website
Cost: $5.00
Nickname: Vapsjee Package
URL: http://fiverr.com/vapsjee/write-an-...000-article-directories-for-quality-backlinks
Cost: $5.00
Nickname: Topdown Package
URL: http://fiverr.com/topdown/create-a-super-edu-link-pyramid
Cost: $5.00
BHW GIGS
Nickname: SERP 2.0
URL: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...g-only-28-proven-results-dominate-google.html
Cost: $34.00
Nickname: G-Garlic
URL: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...quality-work-proven-results-beat-penguin.html
Cost: $33.00
Nickname: Extremeboy
URL: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ing-starting-2-only-linklicious-crawling.html
Cost: $2.00
MISC GIGS
Nickname: iWriter
URL: http://iwriter.com
Cost: $3.00 per 500 word article
FREE GIGS
Nickname: IMT Tool
URL: http://imtalk.org/cmps_index.php?pageid=IMT-Website-Submitter
Cost: $0.00
Nickname: BulkPing Tool
URL: http://bulkping.com/free-rss-submit-online/
Cost: $0.00
Total Investment Costs: $82.00 per MNS (plus the cost of articles if I won't write them myself)
If I use another service at any time, I will be sure to post that link in this first post. I will also be sure to keep track of which packages above I used for each website so that you can all be sure you know exactly what I've done to each website and when I did it.
So anyway. I guess that's about it for now. This post has been extremely long and quite frankly, may be TL;DR for most of you. If that's the case, I don't blame you. BUT, for those of you wanting to follow my journey, I wanted to make sure you all had the information at hand for everything I am doing or plan to do.
See you in the next post!
I hope you're ready for another journey thread, because this is going to be another one. And even if you aren't, I hope that you'll at least pop in here, see what I'm doing wrong, and at least have the decency to tell me about it haha. Anyway, I spent a lot of time the last day or so reading through http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...complete-noobs-journey-world-mns-adsense.html that thread. It really helped to kickstart my attitude when it came to making some money, and it has been one of the most invaluable reading tools I've come across so far in sparking that little fire inside me to go ahead and try it out. If I had the money, I'd donate to that guy just for the invaluable information and guidance he's offered from that thread alone. MNS websites seem to be getting a pretty crappy rap lately throughout the forums, but honestly, they're websites. If you offer good information relevant to your readers, I don't see how Google could hate you for it.
So anyway. I plan to outline every single service I have used or plan to use in this thread with links to those services as well. I will update this first post with all of those links so that nobody has to search throughout the thread to find them. I will not begin my journey in this first post, however I just want to announce my intent and provide the links to the resources I will be using. If I add any new MNS websites to my journey, I will create a new post with all of the details (except the critical details, of course, which I'm sure you'll understand). I will try and make one major update every couple of days as I see progress happening, but don't expect that I've abandoned the project all together if I don't post a major update for awhile. I have a pretty busy life as it is, and it's gotten a lot busier lately with me and my wife going to see a fertility specialist, which the worst part of that is we have to travel out of town to do it. The appointments aren't cheap either. So, needless to say, my budget for these MNS sites will be EXTREMELY limited, and will have the added fuel to succeed with the cost of our doctor visits coming up, because the extra money will DEFINITELY come in handy!
What you can gather from that is, I'll be approaching this project in a very slow, but hopefully steady pace, from a complete newbie's perspective, since SEO optimization and MNS websites are all brand new to me. I've been in the IM world for a number of years, but have never actually pushed anything SEO/MNS related, so I've never really done much in the way of keyword research or competition scouting. This is going to be a journey not only for me, but for all of you to read as well. I'm not doing this to get people to thank and rep me over and over. I'm mainly doing this to keep track of my progress and to provide and obtain valuable feedback where appropriate. I know it was a great motivation piece for dealsopoly, and I can only hope that I'll have the same motivation from my thread.
How are my websites setup?
I plan to use Wordpress for ALL of my MNS websites. I will also be using the following plugins:
- All in One SEO Pack
- Contact Form 7
- Google XML Sitemaps
The theme I am using is the ProSense theme, which can be found here: http://thewrongadvices.com/2007/05/18/prosense-an-adsense-ready-seo-wordpress-theme/
I modified the theme tremendously so that the pixels line up right. I'm a huge stickler when it comes to website's presentation (I've been a web designer and PHP programmer for over 8 years now) so I have a keen eye when it comes to trying to improve Wordpress themes or make them look just right. So I guess you can say the theme I am using is a modified version of the ProSense theme, but it's ProSense regardless.
I will also be setting up my Wordpress sites like this:
- Three static pages (one for my main keyword and one for two secondary keywords)
- The static pages all have an article on them with at least 500 words with a keyword density of at least 1% (meaning the keyword mentioned at least 5 times)
- An About page, a Contact Us page, a Blog page and a Privacy Policy page
- 7 static pages in total
- The Wordpress site is setup so that the very first page is a static page, which is my main keyword
- The blog page will be a list of all regular "Posts," which will centered around all of my keywords at once as well as provide some "filler" articles
- All of my content is 100% unique, either written by myself or bought (more info on that in the section below)
So, without making this post any longer than it needs to be, here are the services I will be using for this project as well as the prices and a short little "nickname" next to each one so that I don't have to spell it all out in detail when making new posts.
FIVERR GIGS
Nickname: Insurgo Package
URL: http://fiverr.com/insurgo/create-45-high-pr-links-to-your-website
Cost: $5.00
Nickname: Vapsjee Package
URL: http://fiverr.com/vapsjee/write-an-...000-article-directories-for-quality-backlinks
Cost: $5.00
Nickname: Topdown Package
URL: http://fiverr.com/topdown/create-a-super-edu-link-pyramid
Cost: $5.00
BHW GIGS
Nickname: SERP 2.0
URL: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...g-only-28-proven-results-dominate-google.html
Cost: $34.00
Nickname: G-Garlic
URL: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...quality-work-proven-results-beat-penguin.html
Cost: $33.00
Nickname: Extremeboy
URL: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackh...ing-starting-2-only-linklicious-crawling.html
Cost: $2.00
MISC GIGS
Nickname: iWriter
URL: http://iwriter.com
Cost: $3.00 per 500 word article
FREE GIGS
Nickname: IMT Tool
URL: http://imtalk.org/cmps_index.php?pageid=IMT-Website-Submitter
Cost: $0.00
Nickname: BulkPing Tool
URL: http://bulkping.com/free-rss-submit-online/
Cost: $0.00
Total Investment Costs: $82.00 per MNS (plus the cost of articles if I won't write them myself)
If I use another service at any time, I will be sure to post that link in this first post. I will also be sure to keep track of which packages above I used for each website so that you can all be sure you know exactly what I've done to each website and when I did it.
So anyway. I guess that's about it for now. This post has been extremely long and quite frankly, may be TL;DR for most of you. If that's the case, I don't blame you. BUT, for those of you wanting to follow my journey, I wanted to make sure you all had the information at hand for everything I am doing or plan to do.
See you in the next post!
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I'm looking forward to the project myself. It's been a long time since I've started something and it actually kept me from falling asleep as night because I couldn't stop thinking about ways to improve it. 
