Site is Officially Launched
Well I officially went live yesterday. I had this site in development for about a week and figured I better get it out before I let it fall to the side. I have 2 objectives from this site.
- I see all these "how to make money on the internet" sites and I want to give it a try myself.
- A place to write down all that stuff I'm working on or thinking about. Hopefully get some good comments over time that will be help me out.
Making Money On the Internet
Okay, I am going to write an article at least once a week on what I'm doing here. It will recap what I have done and how well it worked. Right now I have officially made $0 from advertising and I have paid out $10 for registering my domain name and the first month of server space. I will be paying $7/month from now on. My first goal is to recover my initial cost ($10) and achieve recurring $7 a month. This sounds like a pathetic goal, but thats what I want. If I can do that by the new year I will be happy. This is what I have done so far.
- Purchased a domain.
- Developed a "blog" style web site that allows me to create pages. People can view them and if they want to add comments they have to create a user account. There is also a rating that can be given to an article, but I'm not doing anything with it yet. I also used my own crude page counter.
- Written around 15 articles. Most of them are finance and investing, but I have added ones around my other interests as well (travel, music, and computers).
- Added my URL to Google and signed up for Google Adsense. I added the google adsense to my pages, but they still aren't showing up yet. I think you have to wait until your site is indexed before they do.
- I placed text ads and one large picture block ad on every page.
I also have some "to-do" items that I want to try. If you know how they work or advice, let me know.
- Add a site map to google for my site.
- Find some different ad companies.
- Improve the layout and look of the page.
- I currently show summaries on the main page. Perhaps in true blog style I should just lay out the entire article.
- Register with different search engines and blogs sites.
- Add a page a day of good content.
- Figure out methods to get more traffic and have higher google rankings. I'm going to try the "add good content frequently" strategy right now, tinker with the meta tags and such in my page, and follow any advice listed by the search engines.
A Place to Write Stuff Down
This is the "Add a page a day of good content" I mentioned above. I have an interest in finance and investing along with other hobbies. I keep little spreadsheets and notes laying around, but nothing in any formal matter. This will be my venue for that. Accessible from anywhere with a computer I will no longer have an excuse.
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