Follow Me, Or Not [Journal]
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sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Yes I got them from Google Images. As for right now, before the site becomes bigger and I start to supply my own images, I'm going to just not worry about it. I'm making sure to monitor my sites email closely just in case I get an email about me using a copyrighted image. I'm sure if someone wants me to take one or more of their images down they'll contact me first since I have an email address right on the homepage. If that happens then I'll take the images down.
sprice
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Day 28
Power was out all night till about 2:30 am so I didn't get anything done. I forgot to post my weekly stats the other day so here they are.
Note: 77 of the unique visitors are from BlackHatWorld... so they really don't count.
Facebook: 220
Twitter: 500
Weekly Unique Visitors: 255
Previous 4 Weeks Unique Visitors: 431
Total Unique Visitors: 652
Total Site Income: $0.97
My Twitter and Facebook stats aren't increasing as fast as I'd like. This week I MUST finish filling in the major blank pages on the site. It's the only thing holding me back from getting serious about traffic generation. I plan on getting a camcorder and starting youtube promotions after I get the blank pages filled. I also have some other things I'd like to start doing, such as getting more interactive with Twitter and Facebook to help increase followers. None of this can move forward tough until I fill the site with basic content first.
Later on I'll have to go back through the pages of content and add pictures/videos etc... but I'll he happy just to have the words there originally.
I can see through my stats that my site is getting more and more traffic, which is good. I have to thank this to TweetAdder.
I'm off work today so I'm hoping to get all of the subpages for the "Workout Programs" category done in the Build Muscle section. I've already completed two of them so far.
Power was out all night till about 2:30 am so I didn't get anything done. I forgot to post my weekly stats the other day so here they are.
Note: 77 of the unique visitors are from BlackHatWorld... so they really don't count.
Facebook: 220
Twitter: 500
Weekly Unique Visitors: 255
Previous 4 Weeks Unique Visitors: 431
Total Unique Visitors: 652
Total Site Income: $0.97
My Twitter and Facebook stats aren't increasing as fast as I'd like. This week I MUST finish filling in the major blank pages on the site. It's the only thing holding me back from getting serious about traffic generation. I plan on getting a camcorder and starting youtube promotions after I get the blank pages filled. I also have some other things I'd like to start doing, such as getting more interactive with Twitter and Facebook to help increase followers. None of this can move forward tough until I fill the site with basic content first.
Later on I'll have to go back through the pages of content and add pictures/videos etc... but I'll he happy just to have the words there originally.
I can see through my stats that my site is getting more and more traffic, which is good. I have to thank this to TweetAdder.
I'm off work today so I'm hoping to get all of the subpages for the "Workout Programs" category done in the Build Muscle section. I've already completed two of them so far.
Flinches101
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- Apr 21, 2012
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Day 28
Power was out all night till about 2:30 am so I didn't get anything done. I forgot to post my weekly stats the other day so here they are.
Note: 77 of the unique visitors are from BlackHatWorld... so they really don't count.
Facebook: 220
Twitter: 500
Weekly Unique Visitors: 255
Previous 4 Weeks Unique Visitors: 431
Total Unique Visitors: 652
Total Site Income: $0.97
My Twitter and Facebook stats aren't increasing as fast as I'd like. This week I MUST finish filling in the major blank pages on the site. It's the only thing holding me back from getting serious about traffic generation. I plan on getting a camcorder and starting youtube promotions after I get the blank pages filled. I also have some other things I'd like to start doing, such as getting more interactive with Twitter and Facebook to help increase followers. None of this can move forward tough until I fill the site with basic content first.
Later on I'll have to go back through the pages of content and add pictures/videos etc... but I'll he happy just to have the words there originally.
I can see through my stats that my site is getting more and more traffic, which is good. I have to thank this to TweetAdder.
I'm off work today so I'm hoping to get all of the subpages for the "Workout Programs" category done in the Build Muscle section. I've already completed two of them so far.
Hey man, You should try Bing PPC network advertising. Buy some vouchers from fiverr to start promoting your site and gain targeted vistors.
I would not recommend adwords cause they never approve sites that have aff links inside them.
sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Thanks for the advice. I tried Adwords before but couldn't get my ads approved like you said. I just signed up for a Bing account and they offer a $50 free voucher for doing so but they haven't sent me the voucher yet... I thought they'd sent it to me instantly.
I got a little money sitting in my Paypal account so I may just go over to Fiverr like you said and buy a voucher and see if this actually works. I guess I'll also need fake CC info for each account though?
Flinches101
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- Apr 21, 2012
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They didn't well i can pm you mine, when i signed for one account but didn't use it.
I'll just pm it to you cause i am really liking this journal.
sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Thanks for the code!
Day 29
Today I...
- Completed two subpages in the "Workout Progams" category.
- Posted a new Facebook post and Twitter Tweet.
After pm'ing Flinches101 for a little bit I might start using a Bing voucher to send traffic to one of my Clickbank affiliate link style sites. I may try to see if I can start making some income on the side from that site if I can get a profitable PPC campaign going.
Flinches101
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- Apr 21, 2012
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It's all about tweaking and testing.
sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Where have I been?
Well I watched the movie Limitless, and in the movie the guys makes a lot of money in the stock market. My only other true passion I've had other than Internet marketing was to be a professional investor. When I was younger it was stocks, and then I got introduced to the forex market and spent about 3 months trying to learn to trade the market and buying a lot of forex books.
After I watched the movie, the investor side of me resparked and I got the idea of trading forex again. So for the past few days I've dabbed in the forex market a little bit. As soon as the markets opened up on Sunday night I was ready to do some demo trading. I spent a few minutes analyzing the charts and immediately got bored. This just justifies the fact that this is what I was meant to do... have an authority site in the Fitness niche.
Since I haven't done anything to the website the past few days I'm ready to hit it hard. I'm a little busy tonight but may get some work done. I'm off work the next two days though.
Here's the stats for the past week.
Facebook: 240
Twitter: 730
Weekly Unique Visitors: 256
Previous 4 Weeks Unique Visitors: 658
Total Unique Visitors: 897
Total Site Income: $0.97
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Also here's a photo of my Facebook reach. Pretty motivating to see. The left side is around 50 and the right side is around 1,000 (for the blue line). The left side was a little over a month ago.
Well I watched the movie Limitless, and in the movie the guys makes a lot of money in the stock market. My only other true passion I've had other than Internet marketing was to be a professional investor. When I was younger it was stocks, and then I got introduced to the forex market and spent about 3 months trying to learn to trade the market and buying a lot of forex books.
After I watched the movie, the investor side of me resparked and I got the idea of trading forex again. So for the past few days I've dabbed in the forex market a little bit. As soon as the markets opened up on Sunday night I was ready to do some demo trading. I spent a few minutes analyzing the charts and immediately got bored. This just justifies the fact that this is what I was meant to do... have an authority site in the Fitness niche.
Since I haven't done anything to the website the past few days I'm ready to hit it hard. I'm a little busy tonight but may get some work done. I'm off work the next two days though.
Here's the stats for the past week.
Facebook: 240
Twitter: 730
Weekly Unique Visitors: 256
Previous 4 Weeks Unique Visitors: 658
Total Unique Visitors: 897
Total Site Income: $0.97
Also here's a photo of my Facebook reach. Pretty motivating to see. The left side is around 50 and the right side is around 1,000 (for the blue line). The left side was a little over a month ago.
sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Day 30
Today I...
The new newsletter section is a great addition to the site because it's an opt-in email. What I've done is found discount codes for different fitness supplement stores online, and I'm offering the discount codes in exchange for signing up to my monthly newsletter. As soon as I put it up I posted a Facebook post and Twitter Tweet about it and had my first subscriber within 30 min. so it must be working.
Tomorrow after work I'm going to develop a sidebar ad to get people to look at my newsletter page so that I can try to get more subscribers.
They say that the money's in the list, so it feels good to finally be building one.
Also the links to the websites on the coupon codes page are affiliate links for the ones that you can be an affiliate for
(There's still more that I need to sign up to... I'll do that tomorrow as well).
Today I...
- Added the sub-page "6 Day Training Splits" under the workout programs section.
- Added a cover photo to my Facebook page.
- Added a new section called "Fitness Male Newsletter" and added it onto the site navigation menu.
The new newsletter section is a great addition to the site because it's an opt-in email. What I've done is found discount codes for different fitness supplement stores online, and I'm offering the discount codes in exchange for signing up to my monthly newsletter. As soon as I put it up I posted a Facebook post and Twitter Tweet about it and had my first subscriber within 30 min. so it must be working.
Tomorrow after work I'm going to develop a sidebar ad to get people to look at my newsletter page so that I can try to get more subscribers.
They say that the money's in the list, so it feels good to finally be building one.
Also the links to the websites on the coupon codes page are affiliate links for the ones that you can be an affiliate for
(There's still more that I need to sign up to... I'll do that tomorrow as well).Flinches101
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- Apr 21, 2012
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Day 30
Today I...
- Added the sub-page "6 Day Training Splits" under the workout programs section.
- Added a cover photo to my Facebook page.
- Added a new section called "Fitness Male Newsletter" and added it onto the site navigation menu.
The new newsletter section is a great addition to the site because it's an opt-in email. What I've done is found discount codes for different fitness supplement stores online, and I'm offering the discount codes in exchange for signing up to my monthly newsletter. As soon as I put it up I posted a Facebook post and Twitter Tweet about it and had my first subscriber within 30 min. so it must be working.
Tomorrow after work I'm going to develop a sidebar ad to get people to look at my newsletter page so that I can try to get more subscribers.
They say that the money's in the list, so it feels good to finally be building one.
Also the links to the websites on the coupon codes page are affiliate links for the ones that you can be an affiliate for
I'm loving the look of the site. I can feel the authority building, Try expanding your traffic sources to PPC, Pinterest, Youtube comment rating, Guest posting on other fitness sites, Yahoo answers etc.
sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Thanks. Yeah I like the way the look and feel is turning out too. I'll be expanding to youtube videos within the next 2-3 weeks... that'll be a big major project for me and should bring in a lot of traffic. I've tried yahoo answers commenting before but didn't get a single visit from it so I stopped using it.
Day 31
Today I...
- Finished the subpages for the "Workout Programs" page in the "Build Muscle, Training" section.
- Added new affiliate links to my email promotion page.
- Added a new celebrity page to the "Gallerys" section.
- Changed the ads on the site.
- Posted 2 new Facebook posts and Twitter tweets.
- Added a new sidebar item promoting my email list promotion.
The sidebar item doesn't look that great. I tried adding a background to separate it from the text/content on the left side but for some reason it isn't working. I tested it out on another wordpress site I had sitting around and it works just fine. Just for some reason on this site I can't get any "<div style>" content that I put in the widget text area to work, whether it be a border or a background color.
So the sidebar promotion needs to be changed but I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to approach that yet. I'm thinking about maybe creating an image with photoshop as kind of an ad to send to the newsletter page, but I really like the idea of having an email box there in the sidebar. The whole "<div style>" not working is really limiting my options on making it look good and still keeping an email box.
We'll see what I come up with, I'm leaving it as is for today.
sprice
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Day 32
The only thing I did today was I started a PPC campaign in Bing. I have $75 worth of vouchers on the account that I will be using up. I didn't spend much time setting it up. I added 3,000 fitness, exercise, bodybuilding, etc... related keywords to the campaign. I have all clicks set at .06 maximum pay. I have all of the traffic being sent to my Newsletter page on my site, which is my opt-in email promotion. It's a test I'm running to see if it's possible for me to turn low cost PPC clicks into email subscribers, website visitors, and cash. We'll see how it goes over the next couple of days.
The only thing I did today was I started a PPC campaign in Bing. I have $75 worth of vouchers on the account that I will be using up. I didn't spend much time setting it up. I added 3,000 fitness, exercise, bodybuilding, etc... related keywords to the campaign. I have all clicks set at .06 maximum pay. I have all of the traffic being sent to my Newsletter page on my site, which is my opt-in email promotion. It's a test I'm running to see if it's possible for me to turn low cost PPC clicks into email subscribers, website visitors, and cash. We'll see how it goes over the next couple of days.
Flinches101
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- Apr 21, 2012
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Good job on taking action, BTW you mentioned you scrapped or got 3,000 fitness related keywords.
May i ask what program you used to retrieve all those keywords?
silvermario
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- Feb 26, 2008
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There is an error in your css, change
Code:
div style="background-color:##BDBDBD;padding-left:1px;padding-right:1px;"to
Code:
div style="background-color:#BDBDBD;padding-left:1px;padding-right:1px;"And good luck with your journey
sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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I simply used Google Keyword Tool to compile the list. Then I put them into Scrapebox and removed the duplicates.
There is an error in your css, change
Code:div style="background-color:##BDBDBD;padding-left:1px;padding-right:1px;"
to
Code:div style="background-color:#BDBDBD;padding-left:1px;padding-right:1px;"
And good luck with your journey
Thank you!! I have no idea how I overlooked something so simple. I was copying and pasting from my "test" site so I don't know how I ended up putting that extra "#" in there. Now I can fool around with the email promotion widget and make it look more "pretty".
Edit: I just put a simple border around it and now it looks MUCH better than before.
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sprice
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- Aug 26, 2011
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Ok guys, so it's been pretty bad in here. I've been missing updates, and going 3-4 days in a row without touching this thread. Basically the past few days I did the same thing I did with Forex. I found something on this site and thought I could monetize it and quickly start making a lot of cash... but it was a really dumb idea.
Ever since I started this thread I've been doing really good at self improving myself. I've stopped buying packs of cigarettes, I watch much less tv, I get a lot more work done (when I do work), etc...
It's time to give myself a good kick in the ass!
Just as I vowed with watching less tv, and vowed to not buy anymore packs of cigs, I now vow to not get distracted by any other means of making money online. From here on out I vow to have 100% dedication to FitnessMale, and only FitnessMale.
I am also going to start getting a LOT more work done on a weekly basis. There've been a few days in the past month where I've really buckled down gotten a lot of work done, and went to bed knowing I really achieved a lot with the website that day. This is going to be a daily occurrence from now on.
So buckle your seatbelts ladies and gentleman, shit's about to get real!
Ever since I started this thread I've been doing really good at self improving myself. I've stopped buying packs of cigarettes, I watch much less tv, I get a lot more work done (when I do work), etc...
It's time to give myself a good kick in the ass!
Just as I vowed with watching less tv, and vowed to not buy anymore packs of cigs, I now vow to not get distracted by any other means of making money online. From here on out I vow to have 100% dedication to FitnessMale, and only FitnessMale.
I am also going to start getting a LOT more work done on a weekly basis. There've been a few days in the past month where I've really buckled down gotten a lot of work done, and went to bed knowing I really achieved a lot with the website that day. This is going to be a daily occurrence from now on.
So buckle your seatbelts ladies and gentleman, shit's about to get real!