Beach Wedding Invitations

About This Blog

2011-07-02T10:00:00.000-07:00

Hang on, What happened?

I was looking for wedding invitations...

This blog was created in response to the " imRemarkable " Competition. It's all about detailing my steps to create a viable internet niche business. In case you came here in your search for Beach Wedding Invitations , please go to Beach Wedding Invitations

New Wetpaint Feature

2009-07-16T11:36:00.000-07:00

Wetpaint jsut added a new feature - You can now have a NEWS page - which can pull in up to 5 rss feeds.

( nobody said those couldn't be yours :) - think squidoo lens - hubpage - zimbio etc. )

Click on the ' news' tab on top and you'll be presented with an option to add an rss feed

you can choose between specifuing your own feed or have wetpaint find you keyword related feeds - or a combination of both

Kind Of Fitting - I am now ranking for Beach balls #1#2#3#5

2009-07-15T18:13:00.001-07:00

A little insight joke - Matt ( @MattDetrick ) thought it would be real funny to give me a beach ball at Howies event :)

So fittingly I am now ranking for save a dat beach ball :)

Thanks Matt !!

Day 10- Final Thoughts

2009-07-09T20:32:00.000-07:00

Alright - First off let me try to be funny - I don't care to take another screen shot for a long time :)

Just kidding - after 10 days I am surprised how much I learned about myself, they way I used to look at certain tasks, what is considered possible.

It became more of a personal challenge; how much can I get done; how far can I push myself?

Anyway, I think I mentioned it before here, but what started out as a competition has evolved to a cool little community of like minded individuals. For that I would like to thank everybody. I can only hope after this is over some of us will stay in touch.

Final note on this journal. In the beginning I never put any big consideration how to organize everything. And I am afraid it shows :(

The first 5 or 6 modules in the sidebar are hopefully organized in a somewhat logical way. When it comes to the rss feeds etc. - that's another story - I stopped posting those here a long long time ago. ( just too many )

If someone has any questions on anything - I'll keep on monitoring http://twitter.com/beachweddingz

Also anything I did here is just what I think was right. Doesn't mean I am or was :)

Again Thanks to everybody - truly was an enjoyable experience

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo wikdot 2

2009-07-09T20:17:00.000-07:00

created profile on virb.com to support wikidot blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

after signup filled in the about you section - html allowed

finished profile

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo wikdot 1

2009-07-09T20:11:00.000-07:00

created another blog on 1up.com to support wikidot blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

After sign up - click on profile name - then on post blog

finished blog

Day 10 - Ezinearticle results

2009-07-09T19:36:00.000-07:00

the ezinarticle article :) was approved maybe 6 hrs ago and was maybe bookmarked twice

already ranking on page 2 for the most competitive term I have

Day 10 -submitted new sites to feedagg

2009-07-09T18:49:00.000-07:00

feedagg will only accept the wetpaint and blog.com feed format

can always burn feedburner feed for the others and submit those

Day 10 Submitted new sites to Feedage

2009-07-09T18:32:00.000-07:00

submitted newly created support sites to feedage

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo Squidoo 4

2009-07-09T18:27:00.000-07:00

created another blog on xanga to support squidoo lens blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

I have no idea why xanga won't let me upload an image right now

will try again later

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo Squidoo 3

2009-07-09T18:07:00.000-07:00

created another blog on wetpaint to support squidoo lens blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo squidoo 2

2009-07-09T17:54:00.001-07:00

created another blog on wkidot.com to support squidoo lens blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

link to squidoo and previous blog in ring; no link to main site

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo Squidoo 1

2009-07-09T17:40:00.000-07:00

created another blog on blog.com support squidoo lens blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

this is just like your regular wp login ( you have to go to wp-admin ) and then sign in with your password - after you signed up

finished blogpost

link to product and squidoo lens - no main site link

Day 10 - 25 UAW articles posted and bookmarked

2009-07-09T13:43:00.000-07:00

went through the submission list at UAW and fond 25 articles that have been posted already on various blogs.

now bookmarking

30 accounts / 5/ every 12 hrs /

UAW will only send out 50 articles a day ( that's what's recommended ) - so for the next 10 days or so - I will have to repeat the exercise again . finding the newly posted articles and bookmark them.

Day 10 - UAW posted articles

2009-07-09T13:00:00.001-07:00

articles got approves at Unique article Wizard

potential posting so far to over 70 blogs; doesn't necessarily mean every single one of them published it; but will have already.

just a matter now of finding the one that did and then bookmark those pages.

Day 10 - Ezinearticles approves - bookmarking

2009-07-09T12:20:00.000-07:00

took a little longer than expected - but article got approved

now bookmarking

20 accounts / 3 / day dripped

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo Wetpaint 2

2009-07-09T11:35:00.000-07:00

created another article on zimbio support wetpaint blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

more than other site zimbio lets you define the anchor text and title for the images you upload

finished article

Day 10 - Im remarkable in Cyprus :)

2009-07-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

I have no idea !?!

Day 10 - Rss feeds to Feedagg - tip

2009-07-09T09:35:00.000-07:00

submitted rss feeds of the sites to feedagg.

on the submit screen it's asking you moang other things to put in the keyword tags. Annoying this is : it uses a different syntax than most site ( i.e 2 word keywords have the combined like word1-word2 ; and kw' have to separated by space instead of commas.

you can around that by just putting in one keyword ( kw1 ) and hot submit.

When you click on the generated feed link you will be taken to this page.

After clicking on the add button; feedagg will actually suggest tags from you content. I normally select a lot of them :)

You still have the option to add you own. Probelm solved - right syntax - without the hassle of typing them in.

Day Submitting rss feeds to Feedage - little tip

2009-07-09T09:29:00.001-07:00

submitted new sites from today and yesterday to feedage.

A while back I figured out that they actually have a bulk upload feature

another thing - since all the rss feeds are submitted to multiple places - and those directories scrape each other - 2 of the feeds were already present. Cool

Day 10 - Pinging newly created accounts

2009-07-09T09:15:00.000-07:00

pinging newly created acocunts

and submitting through blog search as well

Day 10 - bookmarking newly created accounts

2009-07-09T09:06:00.000-07:00

bookmarking newly created accounts

20 accounts / frequency 3 every 12 hrs dripped

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo Wetpaint 4

2009-07-09T07:44:00.000-07:00

created another blog on blogger support wetpaint blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

same old same old :)

link : wetpaint-product-previous support site

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo Wetpaint 3

2009-07-09T07:07:00.001-07:00

this site on Xanga was created to support wetpaint blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

in case you never sign up with them :

signup is straight forward - your username will become your site url !!

unlike most sites you can put a link in your images

you can alos upload video and gadgets etc

finished site.

again this one doesn't link to the main site ; just the wetpaint and the previously created vox blog

Day 10 - set : "starfish..." - promo Wetpaint

2009-07-09T05:22:00.000-07:00

this site on Vox was created to support wetpaint blog (1st ring of buffer site for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations ")

just like wetpaint you can specify the image title and tag

again tags are taken from G. wheel

this site does not link directly to the main site

Day 10 - Stats update

2009-07-09T05:06:00.000-07:00

Day 10 !!

just a quick update to show latest visitors and referrers

search terms are getting broader and more diverse

Day 9 - added the last 2 sites for bookmarking

2009-07-08T20:11:00.000-07:00

added the last 2 sites created to the bookmarking project

Day 9 - Pinging to Googles Blog Search

2009-07-08T19:41:00.000-07:00

submitted the 4 new sites to Google Blog Search

(only showing one image - don't wan to bore everybody with basically the identical pic - except for the urls

Day 9 - new search term ranking

2009-07-08T19:15:00.000-07:00

new referrer just 'showed ' up.

term: save the date wedding palm tree
it doesn't get any more specific than that :)

already got 3 hits so far - still being on page 2 of Google.

Day 9 - New Wetpaint site - Starfish...

2009-07-08T18:36:00.000-07:00

created new wetpaint site for kw set

starfish wedding invitations

Wetpaint allows you to optimize your images to a greater degree than most other sites .

after uploading an image :

give it a name - used main keyword

next screen - I used all the related keywords from the Gwheel as tags

and lastly I linked this image to the individual product

I guess people like to click on images :)

finished siet

link to product
direct link to merchant
link to category page
link to squidoo lens

Day 9 - New Squidoo Lens Starfish...

2009-07-08T17:18:00.000-07:00

created squidoo lens for kw set :

starfish wedding invitations

based title and url on keywords

finished lens

first link to category page on main site

( will come back tomorrow and insert link to merchant - counts as an update :) )

further down the page - 3 links to individual products on main site

I actually worked this backwards :)

Should have created this lens before the other ones - I now have to go back and link from the hubpage and the wikipage to this lens

Day 9- Bookmarking newly created accounts

2009-07-08T16:41:00.000-07:00

bookmarking the newly created accounts

20 accounts - 5/day dripped

Day 9 - Create Wiki Page for Starfish wedding inv.

2009-07-08T16:18:00.000-07:00

Created site on wikidot.com for the kw set " starfish wedding invitations"

signup page is pretty straightforward

they will sen a confirmation code in the email

once logged in you get to create a new site

I put my keyword in the site name and web adress

finished result :

http://starfishweddinginvitations.wikidot.com/star-fish-wedding-invitations

Day 9 - New Hubpage for Starfish " done

2009-07-08T14:41:00.000-07:00

New hub:

Starfish wedding invitations

done

Day 9 - New set of Keywords " starfish wedding invitation"

2009-07-08T14:16:00.000-07:00

Looking at the wonder wheel and exploring a couple of ' leads' the term ' starfish wedding invitations' jumped out.

taking a look at the "phrase" competition looks encouraging.

First thing I did was change the category description on the main site - added the term / starfish / - should make perfect sense to Google as well since it thinks both are related . ( according to the 'wheel'

next : building the first ring of buffers.

Day 9 - Varying Anchor Text - Results

2009-07-08T12:21:00.000-07:00

Over the last 2 days I have been changing the anchor text on some of the properties; linking to the main site and some of the ' first ring' buffer sites.

I took those mainly form the related and rising searches on google insight.

here are some results after only a day or two.

1. ' trees wedding invites '

2. ' beach wedding invitations with palm trees

3. ' beach themed invitations '

Day 9 Update to Vox

2009-07-08T09:26:00.000-07:00

Went to Unique article wizard and got another version of the article I submitted yesterday. Used that one to post a new blog entry to my Vox blog.

Tried to show the different links again.

besides pointing to my mains site it also goes direct to merchant and to the blogger blog in the same 'ring'

as a sidenote - vox let's you tag your images you upload - I am alredy getting image search results on the mauns site - so it might be good idea here too.

Day 9 - How to Put Rss Feeds Into Blogger

2009-07-08T07:52:00.000-07:00

Time to update the second Blogger Blog about beach wedding invitations

But instead of writing a new articles etc . decided to pull in the rss feed from one of the zimbio wikizines. ( that already aggregates multiple source )

1. click on customize option ( top )

2. You'll be taken to this screen - clcik on the " Add a Gadget " link

( doesn't matter which one you click )

a new window opens up with multiple choices - hit the " Feed " button

confirmation screen comes up - select how many items you want displayed and double check it's the right feed

you'll be take back to this screen - that gadget box can be moved virtually anywhere.

I left it in the sidebar - that's what the result looks like

Day 9 - Update second Squidoo Lens

2009-07-08T07:25:00.000-07:00

time to update the second squidoo lens about beach wedding invitations

Added more tags

I used the new referrer search terms to my main site to update the tags on the squidoo lens

Day 9 - Stats Update

2009-07-08T05:34:00.000-07:00

Quick Stats update:

first - all the referrers to the main site - it's getting broader by the day.

Hubpage : Beach Wedding Invitations

the newest of them - not much there yet

Hubpage :Tropical Wedding Invitations

second oldest one -starting to get some traffic

Hubpage :Palm Tree wedding Invitations

Oldest one ( 6 or 7 days ) started to rank well in Google - also update a couple of times

Squidoo Lens : Palm Tree Wedding Invitations

moving up int he internal Squidoo ranking

and getting a fair amount of Google traffic

Day 8 - Articles approved - bookmarking

2009-07-07T20:03:00.001-07:00

just got the following approved:

now bookmarking & ping & if available get rss feed for author and submit

http://www.goarticles.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.ideamarketers.com/
http://www.articlebin.com/
http://www.articleammo.com/
http://www.articles4today.com/

Day 8 - Bookmarking new sites

2009-07-07T17:53:00.001-07:00

2 article submissions and 1 press release were just approved.

bookmarking with bookmarkgeneration

40 accounts - 3 /day - every 12 hrs

Day 8 - article submitted to iSnare

2009-07-07T17:30:00.001-07:00

submitted article to isnare.com

I actually paid $10 for credits for their distribution service ( $2 / article )

have credit left for another 4 .

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to articlebase

2009-07-07T17:27:00.000-07:00

submitted UAW article version to articlebase.info

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to articles4today

2009-07-07T17:21:00.001-07:00

submitted UAW article to articles4today.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - Spying on Competition

2009-07-07T15:32:00.001-07:00

Time for some ' competitive intelligence' :)

The 2 sites on spot # 1 and #2 are actually showing up for a lot of related terms as well; so I wanted to take a closer look and their incoming links

went : https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo
and plugged in the first site

important here is to select only the incoming links and only the links that are coming from outside the page.

I am only showing the first couple of results here ( for some reason blogger will not let me import a full screen capture right now )

but basically the whole page looks like that. There are 3 or 4 blogs providing hundreds( thousands of back links to the site )
which probably means their link is those sites sidebar or footer.

The other interesting thing is that the site is being linked to by multiple profiles at " The Knot " which is probably THE authority site when it comes to weddings.

the second site is actually a little different. ALL their links come from maybe 4 or five sites

buzzle and, I assume their sister site 'vegaswedlock and vegaswedlockinvitations'

again probably in the sidebar or footer.

Take away from this :

Aside from the domain age that is difficult to overcome - neither of the sites have any kind of " power links" coming in. ( i.e. .edu or .gov domains ). building enough blogs and posts on them - seems to be the key here

Day 8 - Press release on page 2 after 2 hrs

2009-07-07T14:30:00.001-07:00

this is for the most competitive term I have " beach wedding invitations' as far as domain age goes .

well, the press release hit #14 after less than 2hrs and I haven't even bookmarked it or anything

Day 8 - Press Release to USPRwire

2009-07-07T13:09:00.000-07:00

submitted press release to

usprwire.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - Press Release to Free-Press-Release

2009-07-07T13:06:00.000-07:00

submitted to free-press-release.com

beach wedding invitations

Day 8 - Press Release to clickpress

2009-07-07T13:03:00.000-07:00

submited press release to clickpress.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - Press Release to pressbox.co.uk

2009-07-07T12:49:00.000-07:00

submitted release to pressbox.co.uk

waiting for approval

Day 8 - Press Release to freepressreleases.co.uk

2009-07-07T12:46:00.000-07:00

submitted press release to freepressreleases.co.uk

waiting for approval

Day 8 - Press Release to Sanepr

2009-07-07T12:43:00.000-07:00

submitted press release to sanepr.com
waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to GoArticles

2009-07-07T11:43:00.000-07:00

submitted to Goarticles.com

waiting for approval.

Day 8 - article submitted to articlecirculation

2009-07-07T11:41:00.001-07:00

submitted to articlecirculation.com

waiting for approval ( can take a long time )

Day 8 - article submitted to Articlebiz

2009-07-07T11:39:00.000-07:00

submitted to articlebiz.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to Ideamarketers.com

2009-07-07T11:35:00.000-07:00

submitted article to ideamarketers.com

beach wedding invitations

Day 8 - article submitted to Articledashboard

2009-07-07T11:32:00.000-07:00

submitted to Articledashboards.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to ArticleTrader

2009-07-07T11:31:00.000-07:00

submitted to Articletrader.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to articlebin

2009-07-07T11:29:00.000-07:00

article submitted to Articlebin.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to 4rum info

2009-07-07T11:27:00.000-07:00

article submitted to 4rum.info

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to Article Ammo

2009-07-07T11:22:00.000-07:00

submitted to articleammo.com

waiting for approval

Day 8 - article submitted to articlebase

2009-07-07T11:20:00.000-07:00

submitted article to articlebase.com

Day 8 - article submitted to ezinearticles

2009-07-07T11:18:00.000-07:00

submitted article to Ezinearticles.com

waiting for approval ( I have a platinum status there - should be done by tomorrow )

Day 8 - Articles rewritten and submitted to UAW

2009-07-07T11:10:00.000-07:00

Article submitted to Unique Article Wizard

In preparation for that I took the original article and rewrote

a. the paragraphs and
b. substituted single words

UAW allows the {word1|synonym word1} syntax and basically creates randomly different unique version of the same article.

It will distribute the article to several hundred websites and directories now ( one approved - normally takes a day or so. )

while waiting for the approval - you have already access to the different versions - so I am going to use those to submit to different article directories

Day 8 - Stats Update

2009-07-07T05:32:00.000-07:00

Update on some statistics for the main site:

search terms are getting broader

Day 7 - Bookmarking newly published posts

2009-07-06T21:30:00.000-07:00

Bookmarking the new posts and articles created today

40 accounts, 3 every 12 hrs

Day 7 - New Article On Zimbio

2009-07-06T21:16:00.000-07:00

new article published on zimbio

again - link to merchant,product and category page

Day 7 - Update Squidoo Lens

2009-07-06T21:08:00.000-07:00

Updated squidoo lens ( palm tree wedding invitations )

with kw that referred traffic. Don't forget to republish :)

Day 7 - New Blog Post Blogger

2009-07-06T20:50:00.000-07:00

new blog post on Blogger ( palm tree wedding invitations )

same here:

1 link product
1 to merchant
1 to category page

Day 7 - Updating Hubpage & Stats

2009-07-06T20:39:00.001-07:00

Updating Hubpages ( palm tree wedding invitations )

1. added more tags
2. added rss module ( pulling now Zimbio feed in )

starting to get some traffic

Day 7 - New Blog Post On Wetpaint

2009-07-06T20:23:00.001-07:00

New page on Wetpaint

1 link to category again
1 to product
and 1 to merchant special

Day 7 - New Blog Post Weebly

2009-07-06T19:59:00.000-07:00

posted a new blog post on weebly

1 link to category page and one direct to product.

Day 7 - Linking Structure Diagram

2009-07-06T19:23:00.001-07:00

A quick recap of the linking that was done so far over the last 7 days.

I am using the the ' palm tree wedding invitations ' promotion as the example here.

The main 'site' in this case is the category page.

6 web 2.0 properties were created; all interlinking and all pointing the the category page.

Than each web 2.0 site got it's own ring of ' buffer ' sites. Sometimes I was using other web 2.0 properties for that; sometime profile pages and sometime a mix of both.

I also varied from interlinking those properties and sometimes just having them on their own. ( quite frankly I don't if that helps or not - just experimenting)

Those 'second buffer sites ' do not link to the main site at all. In the diagram above I only showed the sites for ' squidoo and blogger ; but all first ring sites got the same linking .( I left it out to make it less messy )

Every single site is being bookmarked to approx. 30 -60 accounts ( over time ) with slightly varying anchor text.

The diagram also applies to the second kw set ' beach wedding invitations '

Day 7 - More Bookmarking

2009-07-06T18:55:00.000-07:00

Bookmarking the newly created accounts.

40 accounts "dripped" 3 every 12 hrs

Day 7 - New Support Site For blogger Blog 4

2009-07-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

Created new account on montigo.com

this links back to Blogger( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - New Support Site For blogger Blog 3

2009-07-06T18:45:00.001-07:00

Created new account on dixero.com

this links back to Blogger( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - New Support Site For blogger Blog 2

2009-07-06T18:43:00.000-07:00

Created new account on naymz.com

this links back to Blogger( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - New Support Site For blogger Blog 1

2009-07-06T18:40:00.000-07:00

Created new account on yedda.com

this links back to Blogger( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - New Support Site For quizilla Blog 4

2009-07-06T18:31:00.000-07:00

Created new account on motigo.com

this links back to quizilla ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - New Support Site For quizilla Blog 3

2009-07-06T18:28:00.000-07:00

Created new account on dixero.com

this links back to quizilla ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - New Support Site For quizilla Blog 2

2009-07-06T18:25:00.000-07:00

Created new account on naymz.com

this links back to quizilla ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - New Support Site For quizilla Blog 1

2009-07-06T18:20:00.000-07:00

Created new account on yedda.com

this links back to quizilla ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations ')

Day 7 - Squidoo Lens Gaining Traction

2009-07-06T14:43:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of screen shots form the squidoo lens ' palm tree wedding invitations.

( todays stats aren't included - another 2 referrals to merchant )

Looks like Google has sent so far 7 visitors - out of those 5 have clicked through to the merchant link

I'll take it - keywords are no suprise since the lens ranks for all of them either first or second page in Google.

Need to do another update to the lens tonight.

Day 7 - Bookmarking New Accounts

2009-07-06T14:08:00.000-07:00

Bookmarking newly created accounts

submitted to 40 accounts - at a rate of 3 every 12 hrs

Day 7 - New Support Site For Livejournal Blog 4

2009-07-06T11:27:00.000-07:00

Site: naymz.com

created new account to support Livejournal blog ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations )

screen shot of new account

Day 7 - New Support Site For Livejournal Blog 3

2009-07-06T11:24:00.000-07:00

Site: blogher.com

added new linkto support Livejournal blog ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations )

screen shot of new account

details for creating accounts on blogher

Day 7 - New Support Site For Livejournal Blog 2

2009-07-06T11:20:00.001-07:00

Site: montigo.com

Created new property to support Livejournal blog ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations )

screen shot of new account

details for creating accounts on montigo

Day 7 - New Support Site For Livejournal Blog 1

2009-07-06T11:14:00.000-07:00

Site : dixero

Created new property to support Livejournal blog ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations )

screen shot of new account

for details on dixero click here

Summary :set :"beach wedding invitations" - promo Vox

2009-07-06T09:45:00.001-07:00

Dixero

Link for detailed explanation

motigo

Link for detailed explanation

blip.tv

Link for detailed explanation

Blogher

Link for detailed explanation

Day 7 - New Support Site For Vox Blog part 3

2009-07-06T09:11:00.001-07:00

Site : Blogher

will be used to support Vox blog ( kw set: ' beach wedding invitaitons '

Click on Join Us -

after login in create user account

went to public profile

took text snippet from blog and inserted into Bio Box - links allowed

further down you can insert multiple links - including their rss feeds

Next - Create a Post

it's a regular editor - here's what the finished post looks like

Every blog post you publish here will also be linked from your profile page

Here is my resulting profile page now .

text link to Vox blog
Rss feeds pulled in form that blog
link to blog posts on Blogher

Day 7 - New Support Site For Vox Blog part 2

2009-07-06T07:55:00.001-07:00

Site : blip.tv

used to link to Vox blog ( kw set : beach wedding invitations )

First : Sign up page - straight forward

After signing in - go to dashboard and click on 'new blog post'

I reused one of my articles here

that's what the finished blog post looks like .

Link back to the Vox blog - also has rss feed that can be submitted

lastly you can go to ' external links' and pull in additional links inlcuding their rss feed.

Day 7 - New Support Site For Vox Blog

2009-07-06T07:05:00.000-07:00

Another property to build links from to the Vox blog ( kw set : ' beach wedding invitations'

Site: motigo.com

First step is to sign up - email confirmation !

After logging in for the first time - click on my account - top right

Click on create new counter

Fill in details like link,categories etc.

click " create new counter "

Click on " My Counters " left hand side

Result direct link to Vox blog with anchor text.

Now if you have a bunch of websites that allow you display widgets ect. you can actually use the the code the site provides here and have the counter displayed

Day 7 - Stats Update - New Rankings

2009-07-06T04:54:00.001-07:00

Just a quick Stats update.

Pic shows total feed access and spider activity.

These are the search terms that brougth visitors to the site over the last 6 days.

Top term is " palm tree wedding invitations " - it's also the first set of kw I went after . ( its' working )

Looking at the referrer list -a new term show up today : ' palm tree wedding '

4 out of the first 10 results .

Squidoo and hubpage shown are part of the ' first ring ' of buffer sites that were heavily bookmarked and promoted during the last 3-4 days.

Day 6 - New Support Property For Vox Blog

2009-07-05T22:02:00.000-07:00

Always looking for sites that either have rss feeds or let me insert existing rss feeds.Dixero let me do both !

I am using this site as a support site for the Vox blog ( kw set " beach wedding

invitations )

After loggin in click on settings. I put a snippet from the blog in the description box. No html allowed :(

click on " add link

I put the link to the Vox blog here only. You can add multiple links.

that's whatt the resulting profile page looks like. I didn't upload a profile image - but it's possible

Click on tab " Subscribed feeds "

I added the rss feed from the Vox blog.

Back on your home page the rss fe

ed will ow show and it will also be converted into a podcast ( takes a c

ouple of minutes )

You can take that podcast rss

feed now and submit it to various pdcast directories.

Summary:

You get : 1 profile page with link (bookmark)

1 home page with link to insertes rss feed( bookmark - submit rss directories)

1 podcast rss feed ( submit podcast directories )

Day 6 - just a quick thank you

2009-07-05T20:16:00.000-07:00

Looking at the last 6 days - something pretty remarkable is happening ( at least to me ).

What started out as a competition is slowly becoming somewhat of a collaboration. There's definitely a sense of community evolving; good questions are being asked and answered. Our twitter accounts have become more than just a vehicle for updating our progress.

Howie might not be aware of it but there is a lively conversation going on outside of #imremarkable. Intended or not I am certainly grateful for this opportunity to communicate with many like minded individuals . Thanks to everyone.

Day 6 Back To The Begining :)

2009-07-05T19:32:00.000-07:00

This twitter message http://bit.ly/YvOwW made me realize that

a. posted maybe the wrong way the last 6 days

b. didn't do a good job to explain my thought process in the beginning.

Well, maybe I can remedy one of them.

1. After choosing the beach wedding niche from the pdf I looked at the related searches; and the one that stood out was " beach wedding invitations".

I have some experience with affiliate sites that utilize datafeeds and wedding invitations are definitely something people will order over the internet.

2. Competition:

Looking at Googles first page results - there are a lot of established domain names ( one exception - so there is hope)

but again drilling down further - the related results show another term " palm tree wedding invitations "

A lot of individual product pages shown ( btw. this screenshot is kind of stupid :) - since my sites are already ranking for the term after 6 days - jsut pretend there not there - should have done this earlier )

(still a good amount of adwords advertiser shown )

Looking at Googles external Keyword tool.

Not the greatest volume in the world- but at $1.18 aberage cpc obvioulsy a desired term.

Quick math : If I can dominate the first page for this term - I assume I can get anywhere from 300-500 clicks a month.

I emailed the merchant at the average order size is around $100.00 - at 10% commission that works out as follows:

300 clicks - 1% conversion - $30/month
300 clicks - 2% conversion - $60/month
300 clicks - 3 % conversion - $90/month

That's on the low side of 300 clicks - so going forward will try to rank as many properties as possible and track the amount of visitors.

Next would be to track conversions and test maybe different layouts etc.

Final :

$90 / month don't seem a lot but it's for one term only and in time I think the site can rank for many more related terms. Once it has established enoufh authority and we can rank for ' beach wedding invitations' then the whole math changes ( over 22k searches a months )

Hope that cleared things up - and sorry for not being more specific in the beginning

Day 6 - Wetpaint submitted to Linkvana

2009-07-05T18:53:00.000-07:00

Submitted4 more blogposts to Linkvana this time for wetpaint ( palm tree wedding invitations ) - it's basically a one way link network. Posts have to be approved manually - should be done tomorrow.

The reason I chose the weebly and wetpaint property - those are the only 2 that haven't shown up in any of the various searches. Trying to put some extra ' oomph ' ( not sure if that's a word ) behind them.

Day 6 - Weebly submitted to Linkvana

2009-07-05T18:36:00.000-07:00

scheduled 4 post to be make through Linkvana for weebly blog 'palm tree wedding invitations'

Day 6 - Submitted Site to Neurolinker

2009-07-05T18:12:00.000-07:00

Installed Neurolinker
plugin

The google and msnbc links will be replaced with related links once the site is approved.

It's basically a 3 way link network